Robert Muchamore
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| Robert Muchamore | |
| Born: | December 26, 1972 London, England |
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| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Genres: | Spy, Adventure, Thriller |
| Website: | [1] |
Robert Muchamore (born 1972) is the English author of the CHERUB series of books for children. He has recently quit his job as a London based private investigator to become a full-time writer. The reason for this being the rather comic out-burst, which the author later admitted to fans on his official CHERUB forums, where he threw a box of antiseptic wipes at his boss. He has actually written approximately 11 books.
The books follow the life of James Adams (formerly James Choke), a member of CHERUB - a top-secret division of British Intelligence. The organization recruits children (usually orphans) and trains them as spies. Once they are qualified as agents, they are sent all over the world to bring down criminal organizations, their success being based on the fact that criminals are highly unlikely to suspect that their child's new school friend is hacking into their computer, planting bugs in their house, and tracking every movement they make.
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[edit] The CHERUB Books
Books in the CHERUB series includes so far:
- CHERUB: The Recruit (2004)
- CHERUB: Class A (2004) (also known as The Dealer in USA)
- CHERUB: Maximum Security (2005)
- CHERUB: The Killing (2005)
- CHERUB: Divine Madness (2006)
- CHERUB: Man Vs. Beast (2006)
- CHERUB: The Fall (2007)
- CHERUB: Mad Dogs (October 2007)
A mistake by Hodder, the publisher of the series in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, has meant that 345 early copies of Man Vs Beast were released about 1-2 months early.
March 2007 saw the release of The Fall in the UK. After "The Fall", Robert Muchamore announced that book 8, CHERUB: Mad Dogs will be released in October 2007 by Hodder. After Mad Dogs, Robert Muchamore announced he was going to name book 9 The Sleepwalker, but that title didn't stick. Robert Muchamore is planning to create in total 12 CHERUB books based around James, but may extend the series around another character.[1]
[edit] The CHERUB Publishers
The series is published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Simon & Schuster, Inc. in the US. The Recruit was published in Germany by Bertelsmann in August 2005 and in Russia by Egmont in late 2005. The book will be published in Thailand in 2006. Currently the Book "Top Secret 2, Heiße Ware" (=German version of Class A) Has been published. In France, the books are published by Castermann, with 100 Jours En Enfer (The Recruit) having recently been published.
[edit] CHERUB Awards
The first novel, CHERUB: The Recruit has won the 2005 Red House Children's book of the year award. The CHERUB series has also won about 10 other major book awards.
[edit] CHERUB, The Film
January 2007 - Production company Jigsaw buy the rights to the film. The script is now in production and they're looking for a director.
If successful, the film will be in cinemas by 2008-2009.
[edit] Henderson's Boys
This is a series that Robert has just started writing and only has one complete book at the moment. This series is suspected to be published by Hodder Children's Books, same as the CHERUB series. The new series will follow the original CHERUB in WWII when it was founded by Charles Henderson and show what it was originally like.
[edit] Home
This is the only other book written by Robert Muchamore. It was deemed too violent to be ever published by a Children's publisher and eventually a publisher was never found. It was about child warfare in jungles.
