Robert Muchamore alert. Signing POSTPONED

(For immediate release)

Release BEGINS:

Robert Muchamore, the bestselling author of the CHERUB and Henderson Boys books, has been incapacited by agents hostile to CHERUB, and will - sadly - no longer be able to travel to Abingdon for the scheduled booksigning at 6pm on March 3rd.

This event has had to be POSTPONED.

It will be rearranged at a future date. More information will be released as Robert's condition becomes clearer. You can follow updates on Robert's Twitter feed.
The suspicion at the moment is a toxic substance, which has left Robert with severe flu-like symptoms - and no voice. How enemy agents managed to slip through Robert's rebust security systems is, at the present time, a mystery, but new wood flooring recently installed in the author's house is the current prime suspect.

More information as we get it. We have set up a special email address http://www.blogger.com/cherub@mostly-books.co.uk for enquiries about Robert's health, and any information you may have for this audacious attack.

Release ENDS

An Amazing Day

Our "Amazing Books for Boys" event took place on Saturday - and an amazing day it was too. We'll write up the individual events in more detail over on the Amazing Blog for Boys shortly, but for now here are some highlights. First up was Trapped By Monsters:

From left, Sam Enthoven, Joe Craig, David Melling, Tommy Donbavand, Andy Briggs and Ali Sparkes. Hard to believe that at least two of these authors had never met before - their show was superb:

The strain of having been locked for the past weeks in a cave was really showing. The authors were under a great deal of stress - forced to compete in a nightmare gameshow to avoid being eaten. Kids were selected at random from the audience for to take part in unspeakably awful activities. Here we see children turned into mummies using specially re-used toilet paper... ...whilst at the back a frightening monster took form as the event progressed. Finally, released from the horrific spectacle, the authors were allowed into the main foyer of the theatre to sign books!

There were Trapped By Monsters trading cards - and even Trapped By Monsters cakes! No sooner had they departed, the stage was transformed into a dojo ready for the appearance of Young Samurai author Chris Bradford and Team Taurus - the brilliant Oxford School of Martial Arts Display Team. Fog crept out onto the stage, and the packed audience was treated to an incredible display of carefully choreographed martial arts, readings and audio-visual displays: Chris doesn't just do readings - he brings them to life, acting out the fight sequences from the Young Samurai books: This was the official launch event for Way of The Sword, the sequel to the award-winning Young Samurai.

After the performance, Chris signed copies and had pictures taken with young fans.

Finally, Robert Muchamore came onto the stage, and talked about CHERUB, Henderson's Boys - including the latest Eagle Day. Robert had fans travel from as far afield as Reading and Milton Keynes to hear him speak. He talked about how he started writing, how the books have developed - and took many questions from fans who had a scary amount of knowledge about his books. It was a great performance - and a storming end to the event. Robert then signed books, chatted to fans and patiently had photographs taken by everyone - including the event organisers. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day (including Yaxkis and Will above), everyone who came to be entertained - but mostly thanks to all the authors and performers who made it such a memorable day. We have a week to recover - and then this Saturday it's the return of the Children's Food Festival for us...

3 days to go...

It's three days to go until our Amazing Books for Boys event, and I'm extremely nervous. It's not just because it's the biggest event we've ever done, it's just that there are some extremely intimidating authors coming to Abingdon on Saturday, and I'm sure that between them Robert Muchamore (ex-private investigator and now mega-selling CHERUB author), Chris Bradford (black belt samurai-swordsman) and the six authors from Trapped By Monsters could make life unpleasant for me if I screw up. Having said all that, I think we've got all our bases covered. He said confidently... There's more author interviews and videos over on the Amazing Blog for Boys - and for anyone in Oxfordshire on Saturday afternoon, we should still have tickets available on the door for any of the events - but do call the shop on 01235 525880 to check (alternatively email us at books@mostly-books.co.uk). In other news, we had a great day on Saturday with the Young Enterprise teams, and on Monday we did two school's events with Matthew Skelton...who risked life and limb in front of 100 school children when he dared to mention he wasn't entirely enamoured with 'Twilight' (he did get pelted with stuff, it wasn't pretty). Pictures to follow...

Sun, storytime...and Robert Muchamore

Ah, wot a lovely day. Sun was out, we had people in the garden enjoying cake, children in the shop enjoying storytime (although not so much raucous laughter this week as we didn't do Peek-A-Poo...). I was rushing around like a mad buffoon getting stuff done off my to-do list, trying not to injure any small children. We really need a bigger shop... It's been half-term this week, so we've been busy doing lots of planning for the various events we have coming up in the next six weeks. I think it's fair to say that we're very excited about Robert Muchamore coming to Abingdon on June 20th as part of the Amazing Books for Boys event. I've just posted a piece over on the 'Amazing' blog about the CHERUB author, so click here to find out much more about Mr Muchamore (sorry, that's bad copy...but it's late).

Amazing Blog for Boys

Ahead of our event in June, the Amazing Blog for Boys is now up. Not content with running one blog, we've now got two. Trying to resist Twitter at the moment however. Down that way madness lies methinks (plus the kids don't dig it apparently)...