LOLS FOR HOLS!

Join us from now until Christmas for brilliant adventures to add to your Christmas list, plus free chapters to read, and a cracking Christmas competition!

Furry Festive Treats!

Marmalade
A gorgeously endearing story of family love and finding your place in the world. A special story to share with someone special.

Robodog

He’s part dog, part machine and TOTALLY AWESOME! When the city of Bedlam is under attack, the town needs a superhero to defeat the supervillains! But who can help? Robodog of course!

Astrochimp

A cosmic comic adventure! David’s first brilliant full-colour graphic novel takes Chump on a once in a lifetime mission into space! With a chimpanzee at the controls of a spaceship, what could possibly go wrong! With comedy, chaos, pineapple and even giant fruit flies! Illustrated in brilliant vibrant colour by Adam Stower.

Super Sleuth

David’s first ever murder mystery! Dilly loves a good murder. Not a REAL murder. A made-up murder. One you would find in a murder-mystery novel. Dilly and her dog assistant Watson, find themselves on a luxury ocean liner bound for London. A thousand passengers. A thousand miles of ocean around them. It’s the perfect place for a murder… OR TWO!

David Walliams Annual 2025

David’s official Annual! It’s stuffed with LOLs, spectacular stories, puzzling puzzles, colouring, amazing stories – there’s everything you need to know about The World of David Walliams! Test your knowledge at the end with the MEGA QUIZ!

Little Monsters Rule!
Head to Monster School for snowball fights and scare lessons! An adorable tale to read with your mischievous little ones!

Read Chapter One of Gangsta Granny!

Ben is bored beyond BELIEF when he’s got to stay at his Grandma’s house. She’s the boringest Grandma EVER! All she wants to do is play Scrabble and eat cabbage soup. Disgusting! But there are 2 things Ben doesn’t know about his Grandma. She was once an international jewel thief. And all her life she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels…

Are you ready to join the heist? Read Chapter One here!

Read Chapter One of Awful Auntie!

Do you have an awful auntie? One that never allows you to stay up to watch your favourite TV programme? Or an aunt that makes you eat up every last spoonful of her revolting rhubarb crumble Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at NOTHING to take it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret, and a slightly spooky weapon, up her sleeve to help her get it back!

Aunt Alberta is the most awful aunt who ever lived. Are you ready to meet her? Join the hilarious HOOT of an adventure! Read Chapter One here!

Read Chapter One of Demon Dentist!

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug, a live spider, HUNDREDS of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Make your appointment if you dare…

Read Chapter One here!

Read Mr Stink!

It all starts when Chloe makes friends with Mr Stink. Yes, he smells a bit. But when it looks like he might be driven out of town, Chloe decides to hide him in the garden shed. Now Chloe’s got to make sure no one finds out her secret. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than she first thought.

Read Chapter One here!

Read Ratburger!

Things are not looking good for Zoe, her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery – mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt’s Burgers is after her pet rat! But what does he want to do with the rat?!

Read Chapter One here!

Browse the whole LOLs FOR HOLs collection here to tick off your Christmas list!

WALLOWEEN!

Join us all October for a fiendishly good WALLOWEEN! We’ll be sharing David’s ghoully good reads, activity packs, free chapters, competitions and everything you need for a fang-tastic Halloween!

FURRY FIENDS!

Get your claws into these fiendishly good stories that will make you HOWL with laughter and squeal with delight! Head to Monster School with the Little Monsters for mischief and scare lessons! And a monstrously funny quest in FING! But what is a Fing?!

Download the free Little Monsters activity pack here for colouring sheets, party hats and masks for your Halloween parties!

Watch David read an extract of Little Monsters here.

Read Little Monsters

Read Little Monsters Rules

Read Chapter 1 of FING – come and meet The Meeks! Read and download here.

Watch David read an extract of Fing here.

Read Fing

SPACE SPOOKS!

Launch yourself into space for spook-tastic laughs! Join a cinematic adventure in SPACEBOY, with action, mystery, laughs, and a secret that could change the course of HISTORY! And strap in for a history-making mission in ASTROCHIMP! What could possibly go wrong with a chimpanzee at the controls of a spacecraft?!

Watch a hilarious space Q&A with David and Adam Stower here

Download the Astrochimp activity pack here

Read SPACEBOY

Read ASTROCHIMP

MYSTERY AND MAYHEM

Join The Blunders for family laughs! The most blunderful and wonderful family you’ll ever meet! When their home is crumbling down, will they be able to save it before it’s too late? Plus, this October, David’s first ever murder mystery is coming in SUPER SLEUTH! Get on board The Masquerade where passengers are being MURDERED! Can Dilly and her dog assistant Watson solve the mystery before they’re next?! Available for pre-order now!

Download the free Blunders activity pack here

Listen to Chapter 1 and 2 read by David here

Read Chapter 3 and 4 of The Blunders here

Download the BRAND NEW Super Sleuth activity sheets here

Read THE BLUNDERS

Preorder SUPER SLEUTH

MARVELLOUS MONSTERS!

Read one of The World’s Worst Monsters short stories now! Read the Creature from The Black Pond here

Download the fangtastic Little Monsters activity pack here for colouring, drawing, masks and a wordsearch!

Read the whole collection of The World’s Worst Monsters here

Read Chapter 1 of The Ice Monster here

Read The Ice Monster here

Bake Megamonster cupcakes here!

Read Megamonster here

DRESS-UP GUIDES!

Download the full David Walliams dress-up guide here! From Gangsta Granny, The World’s Worst Monsters and the brand new Super Sleuth costume guides, and furry fiends inbetween! Easy at-home DIY costumes for all ages and characters!

Explore all of David’s fang-tastic reading for this spooky season here!

Stayed tuned for more Walloween fun every week!

SUPER SLEUTH ON TOUR!

We’re delighted to announce a thrilling UK signings and events tour with David Walliams for his first ever hilarious murder mystery, SUPER SLEUTH! Tickets are available now – get on board for thrills, spills and laughs galore!

FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 4:30PM – Caper Books, Oxford

Tickets here

[SOLD OUT] SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 10:30AM – Birmingham, Waterstones

*SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2PM – Wrexham, William Aston Hall. In partnership with Linghams and Booka Bookshop

Tickets here

*Book and Ticket event with Meet and Greet opportunity. Please see retailer websites for individual event details and T&C’s.

Be the FIRST to read SUPER SLEUTH!

Would you like to be the FIRST EVER person to read SUPER SLEUTH? 

We’re giving a copy of David’s hilarious new murder mystery to 5 of David’s loyal readers to read BEFORE it’s out on the 24th October! We’re also giving each lucky winner a brilliant A3 print of The Masquerade ship!

Here’s what you can expect in SUPER SLEUTH

 A mega mystery case to crack!

A cunning cast of characters

Laughs GALORE

Comical chaos on a transatlantic cruise

And brilliant illustrations from Adam Stower!

All you have to do is make sure you’re signed up to David’s VIP Book Club newsletter! Enter here before midnight on 6th October!

World Book Day 2024 with David Walliams!

Celebrate World Book Day 2024 on 7th March with David Walliams!

David will be sharing brand new videos with his very own reading and writing tips, along with sneak peeks into his inspiration behind some of your favourite stories and characters! Tune into The World of David Walliams Facebook page and VIP Book Club to catch all of David’s World Book Day fun!

PLUS, David will be setting YOU fun challenges to do either at home or in the classroom, to get you inspired for World Book Day on 7th March and BEYOND! There will be brilliant prizes up for grabs so make sure to enter!

Enter David’s Character Challenge here and download the free activity sheet for your story writing here!

Watch David’s video on The World of David Walliams Facebook page here to get inspiration!

Brand new official World of David Walliams merchandise!

Shop the brand new World of David Walliams merchandise – now live on the official shop!

Expect to find hoodies, t shirts and cosy homeware with some of your favourite characters, including old fan favourites and new faces! PLUS board and games and more Walliam-tastic fun!

Make sure to follow us on social media and sign up to The World of David Walliams VIP Book Club newsletter to be get exclusive discounts and new merchandise news!

Shop the full range now!

Blundertime Slumbertime!

Escape the cold, get cosy with your family, and listen to a whole chapter of THE BLUNDERS this week!

Did you know?*

• Only 25% of children (aged 0-17) read every day for fun?

• Only 26% of children aged 8-13 read everyday when read to by parents at home less than weekly?

• And 73% of children aged 8-13 read everyday when their parents also read to them daily?

To get families of all ages and reading abilities reading together this winter, every evening from Monday 13th November to Sunday 19th November, we’ll be sharing audio extracts of David’s brand-new number one bestselling book and audiobook, THE BLUNDERS, narrated BRILLIANTLY by David himself! A WHOLE week of blunderful fun for ALL ages! 

Tune in now to see what the most blundersome family in history get up to in The Blunders!

Monday 13th November Part 1 – Chapter 4, pages 134-139

Tuesday 14th NovemberPart 2 – Chapter 4, pages 140-143

Wednesday 15th NovemberPart 3 – Chapter 4, pages 143-147

Thursday 16th November – Part 4 – Chapter 4, pages 148-153

Friday 17th NovemberPart 5 – Chapter 4, pages 154-158

Saturday 18th NovemberPart 6 – Chapter 4, pages 159 – 165

Sunday 19th November Part 7 – Chapter 4, pages 166 – 170

You can get your copy now ready to read along. Now a number one bestselling book and all-star cast audiobook! 

Hardback: https://amzn.to/3PY5Fqo  

Audible: https://bit.ly/3QgUs3k 

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Sk3yiu  

Apple Books: https://apple.co/466EAGI  

Amazing audio facts about The Blunders audiobook! 

There’s an all-star cast! Featuring voices from Harry Enfield, Catherine Tate, Lizzie Waterworth, Adam Longworth and, of course, David Walliams! 

• There’s BUCKETFULS of blundersome audio effects and musical delights, bringing to life the chaotic blunders in every single chapter! 

• There’s even a hidden snippet of Mozart’s The Magic Flute featured somewhere in the full audiobook, see if you can listen out for it! 

*Research from our partners in Farshore, launched as part of the Dads Make Reading Magic campaign which found that only 25% of children read daily for pleasure. They also found the more parents read with their children, the more likely they are to read daily… for fun! You can read more about the research here Home – Dads Make Stories Magic 

THE WORLD’S WORST MONSTERS SUMMER EVENTS!

We are delighted to announce a series of thrilling events for The World’s Worst Monsters with David Walliams this summer! Tickets on sale now!

Book Signing Events

[SOLD OUT] Waterstones, York – Thursday 13th July, 4PM

Waterstones, Leeds – Friday 14th July, 4PM

Tickets here

Waterstones, Manchester Arndale – Saturday 15th July, 10:30AM

Tickets here

[SOLD OUT] Book Bean and Ice Cream, Kirkham – Saturday 15th July, 4PM

[SOLD OUT] Waterstones, Liverpool – Sunday 16th July, 11AM

Special Event & Meet and Greet*

[SOLD OUT] Chester Racecourse in partnership with Linghams and Booka Bookshop, Chester – Sunday 16th July, 6:00PM

Monster dress-up is STRONGLY encouraged!

These are set to sell out fast, so grab them quickly – we can’t wait to see you!

*Please note, there will be no book signing at this event.