Robert Muchamore

Born

in North London, The United Kingdom

December 26, 1972

Website

http://www.muchamore.com

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Genre

Young Adult

Influences

Alex Rider, Jason Steed, Jimmy Coates, Young James Bond, Cody Banks

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Robert Muchamore was born in Islington, London in 1972. He still lives there, and worked as a private investigator up until 2005 and the critically-accepted release of Maximum Security.

The Hunger Games phenomenon is part of the huge YA / Children's book explosion that has grown, thanks to the British Rat pack of YA authors, Anthony Horowitz, Robert Muchamore, Joe Craig and Charlie Higson. We owe much of the hunger games sucess to authors like Robert.

Robert was inspired to create the CHERUB series by his nephews' complaints about the lack of anything for them to read. CHERUB: The Recruit was Robert's first book and won the Red House Children's Book Award 2005 in the Older Readers Category.

Following the last book in the CHERUB series, it wa ...more

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Robert Muchamore’s books

Average rating: 4.21 · 186,768 ratings · 6,539 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Recruit (Cherub, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 24,903 ratings — published 2004 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maximum Security (Cherub, #3) 4.25 avg rating — 17,485 ratings — published 2005 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Class A (Cherub, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 17,598 ratings — published 2004 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing (Cherub, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 13,881 ratings — published 2005 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad Dogs (Cherub, #8) 4.26 avg rating — 11,901 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Divine Madness (Cherub, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 11,976 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man vs. Beast (Cherub, #6) 4.14 avg rating — 11,438 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall (Cherub, #7) 4.20 avg rating — 10,936 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The General (Cherub, #10) 4.28 avg rating — 9,967 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleepwalker (Cherub, #9) 4.15 avg rating — 9,764 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert Muchamore

CHERUB (17 books)
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Robert Muchamore

4.22 avg rating — 169,002 ratings

Henderson's Boys (7 books)
by

Robert Muchamore

4.18 avg rating — 15,213 ratings

CHERUB 2 (5 books)
by

Robert Muchamore

4.30 avg rating — 10,628 ratings

Rock War (5 books)
by

Robert Muchamore

4.17 avg rating — 1,841 ratings

Cherub: The Graphic Novels (2 books)
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Robert Muchamore,

David Combet (Illustrator)

Baptiste Payen (Illustrator)

3.92 avg rating — 464 ratings

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Quotes by Robert Muchamore

“Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.”
― Robert Muchamore, Shadow Wave

tags: cherub, chocolate, james-adams, robert-muchamore, shadow-wave, violence

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“I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse.”
― Robert Muchamore, The Recruit

tags: bruce-norris, cherub-the-recruit, robert-muchamore

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“This is tough but CHERUB's are tougher”
― Robert Muchamore, The Recruit

tags: basic-training, cherub, robert-muchamore

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Polls

What's it gonna be?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

2 votes, 40.0%

Gone by Michael Grant

1 vote, 20.0%

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

1 vote, 20.0%

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

1 vote, 20.0%

TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow

0 votes, 0.0%

The Recruit by Robert Muchamore

0 votes, 0.0%

The Assault by Brian Falkner

0 votes, 0.0%

Super Human by Michael Carroll

0 votes, 0.0%

The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

0 votes, 0.0%

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes

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