Terry Deary

Author profile

born

March 04, 1946 in Sunderland, England, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.terry-deary.com/

genre

Children's Books, History, Humor

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A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below...more

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Books by Terry Deary

Average rating: 3.93 · 10,531 ratings · 654 reviews · 278 distinct works

	The Groovy Greeks by Terry Deary (Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Awesome Egyptians by Terry Deary (Author), Peter Hepplewhite (Co-Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Rotten Romans by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Terrible Tudors by Terry Deary (Author), Neil Tonge (Co-Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Vicious Vikings by Terry Deary (Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Measly Middle Ages by Terry Deary (Author), Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Cut-throat Celts by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Frightful First World War by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Woeful Second World War 4.09 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 1384 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Fire Thief (Fire Thief Trilogy, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Series by Terry Deary

Fire Thief Trilogy (3 books)
by Terry Deary

3.68 avg rating — 673 ratings

Horrible Histories Collections (9 books)
by Terry Deary

3.94 avg rating — 493 ratings

Horrible Histories Handbooks (11 books)
by Terry Deary

4.03 avg rating — 411 ratings

Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides (6 books)
by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator)

3.70 avg rating — 210 ratings

Terry Deary's Terribly True Stories (10 books)
by Terry Deary

3.80 avg rating — 92 ratings

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