The simplest explanation of the plot would be to call it a retelling of the Prince and the Pauper plot. Only instead of physically exchanging places with each other the characters manage to perform a bit of Freaky Friday magic on themselves and teleport their souls into each other's bodies. A simple enough plot that is complicated by the intelligence of one of the boys participating (unwittingly) in the exchange. What follows the Switch is a series of plots that thrust both boys into hitherto unknown territory, which they manage to navigate relatively unscathed, at east mentally. Horowitz began writing for television in the 1980s, contributing to the children’s anthology series Dramarama, and also writing five episodes of the third season for the popular fantasy series Robin of Sherwood. I'm going to leave it there as this is the first book review I've written and I'm not sure if I should spoil anything else.

In January 2022, Horowitz indicated that he hopes to start writing a fourteenth novel sometime later in the year. The first novel, Stormbreaker, was released in the United Kingdom in the year 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer. Taking a more horror slanted angle, this book was initially released in 2005 on the 1st of June in the United States by Anthony Horowitz. Combining both fantasy and horror, it was to set-up ‘The Power of Five’ series creating an overall arc and tone for the books. Having a graphic-novel adaptation as well in 2010, its popularity has continued to endure since it was first published. WHERE SEAGULLS DARE – Diamond Brothers – Read the first Chapter Now! | News". Anthony Horowitz. 26 April 2020 . Retrieved 13 April 2021. The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with Trigger Mortis in 2015, followed by Forever and a Day in 2018, and a third and final novel With a Mind to Kill in May 2022.In 'The Switch', Tad Spencer is a spoiled brat who leads a life of luxury thanks to his father's highly successful beauty business. Instead of appreciating everything he has, he is constantly unsatisfied. One night, he goes to bed angry because his parents refused his request to go to a theme park. He wishes to be someone else, only to wake up as a completely different person.. In October 2014, the estate of Ian Fleming commissioned Horowitz to write a James Bond novel, Trigger Mortis, which was released in 2015. It was followed by a second novel, Forever and A Day, which came out on 31 May 2018. [40] A third novel entitled With a Mind to Kill was announced in May 2021 and will be released in May 2022. [41] Horowitz is the only author in recent years to have been invited by Ian Fleming Publications to write successive, official James Bond novels.

Cullen, Helen (5 July 2020). "Author Anthony Horowitz and his wife, Jill Green, on their rollercoaster courtship". The Sunday Times . Retrieved 23 October 2023. The Adventure of the Seven Christmas Cards (2020; published in three parts in the Daily Mail, December 21–23) In 1991, The Diamond Brothers, a six-part television series written and directed by Horowitz himself, was broadcast on ITV. The series is based on the book South by South East, which Horowitz claimed he wrote after he had written the television series, effectively making South by South East a novelisation of the television series rather than the novel acting as the primary source of inspiration. Both McLinden and Dale reprised their respective film roles, which makes the television series act as a sequel to Just Ask for Diamond. Horowitz devised the 2009 ITV crime drama Collision and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael A. Walker. Horowitz was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family, and in his early years lived an upper middle class lifestyle. [2] [3] [4] An overweight and unhappy child, Horowitz enjoyed reading books from his father's library. As a child, Horowitz used to go to Instow, where his nanny took him boating on the River Torridge. He also had a stuffed monkey named Benjamin (which was later eaten by his dog). [5]Anthony Horowitz, author of The Killing Joke, answers our questions". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 . Retrieved 12 October 2006. He escapes three years later, at nineteen years old, and joins Scorpia where he is hesitant to kill. He meets John Rider, Alex’s father, a fellow Scorpia recruit who becomes his friend and mentor. What is the 12 Alex Rider book? Having produced work for both film and television now, his career is only growing from strength-to-strength as it progresses. Knowing his audience he’s managed to find his niche and work on it effectively, as he continues to create material of a high standard. This will carry on in the years to come as he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Stormbreaker This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately.

His association with murder mysteries began with the adaptation of several Hercule Poirot stories for ITV's popular Agatha Christie's Poirot series during the 1990s. Often his work has a comic edge, such as with the comic murder anthology Murder Most Horrid (BBC Two, 1991) and the comedy-drama The Last Englishman (1995), starring Jim Broadbent. Anthony Horowitz: 'Labour has done all it can to demonise our". Independent.co.uk. 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Find sources: "Anthony Horowitz"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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During the 1980’s Anthony Horowitz started creating work for film as well as television, as he begun to expand upon his output. Writing for children’s shows such as ‘Dramarama’ and ‘Robin of Sherwood’ he started to create a name for himself within the field. It was then later on that he wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film ‘Stormbreaker’, whilst he’s also set to write the new Tintin film coming out too. Winning a number of awards throughout the years, Horowitz is not without his fair share of critical acclaim either. Expanding upon the mediums and formats he writes within, such as comic-books as well, this looks set to continue in the years to come. Creating more work all the time, his appeal is growing both critically as well as commercially, as he gains more success. In 2016, Horowitz's adult novel Magpie Murders was published. Having previously spoken about the book in 2005, it was initially described as being about "a whodunit writer who is murdered while he's writing his latest whodunit". [42] Horowitz finally expected to finish it in late 2015, [43] and it was finally published in October 2016. [44] A follow-up novel, Moonflower Murders, was released in 2020. A third and final novel in the series is expected to be released as well, with Horowitz expressing hope that he'll start writing it sometime in 2023. [45]

Horowitz, Anthony, 1955–". Library of Congress . Retrieved 1 May 2015. (Anthony Horowitz) CIP data sheet (b. April 5, 1955) Purdon, Fiona (14 November 2008). "Anthony Horowitz has lost his role models for Alex Rider". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the original on 30 December 2012 . Retrieved 6 December 2008.

In 1988, Groosham Grange was published. Its central character is a thirteen-year-old "witch", David Eliot, gifted as the seventh son of a seventh son. This book went on to win the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award. [23] Some similarities were made between this book and J K Rowling's newer Harry Potter series, but Horowitz did not choose to take action because of this. [24]