Alex Rider Pack Award-winning author Pack by Anthony Horowitz (author)

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..

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1. Emmadaisy22
   on 8 February 2016

   This series of books is absolutely spectacular and I love it so much. It’s all about a 14 year old spy called Alex Rider who embarks on dangerous missions, making close friends and bitter enemies along the way. I love all the brilliant gadgets invented by Smithers – they are so creative and something most people could never think of in their wildest dreams. I would definitely rate this series 5 stars.

   5 out of 5

2. sparklesheep02
   on 8 March 2014

   LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THESE BOOKS!

   All of these books are written with great care and with fine detail. I love the missions they are written so well it feels like i’m there with Alex along side him…

   nearly dying… scary!

   BUT COMPLETELY AMAZING!!!

   5 out of 5

3. AngelofDeath
   on 7 March 2014

   Alex Rider is about a fourteen year old whose uncle’s sudden death leads him to discover that his uncle actually worked for the MI6. The MI6 pressurize him to continue his uncle’s work. He refuses but is threatened that his housekeeper jack starbright would be deported as her visa has expired. He goes undercover as a student to Sayle enterprises where he spies on Herod Sayle…

   5 out of 5

4. Spidergirl
   on 6 March 2014

   The collection looks good but the books are okish

   3 out of 5

5. Athena14
   on 5 March 2014

   Very good, very exciting.

6. surfinswimmer2014
   on 4 March 2014

   These are probably some of my favourite books ever, But Russian Roulette was the best, seeing as Yassen is quite a shady character. I like the way all ths books follow through, starting with Stormbreaker. Anthony Horowitz was written other series too, which I loved

7. A-boy
   on 4 March 2014

   Loved this series so much!!!! Alex Rider is an amazing series of books by Anthony Horowitz! The series is based on this teenage spy named Alex Rider! Perfect for ages 11-17 I would say! I don’t want to spoil it for you so I will only say an bit from the first book! There is a point in the first couple of chapters where he is stuck in a car that is being crushed and destroyed!!!!!! Pretty Cool!!!

   5 out of 5