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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!

David will be signing copies of Super Sleuth in Belfast and Dublin this November! See below for details and timings and get your tickets now!*

Eason O’Connell Street, Dublin – Tuesday 19^th November, 4:00pm

TICKETS HERE

Waterstones Fountain Street, Belfast – Wednesday 20th November, 4.30pm

TICKETS HERE

*Please see retailer websites for individual event details and T&C’s.

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!

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

Tickets here

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

*SUNDAY 10^TH 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.

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 24^th 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!

The highly anticipated David Walliams Book Show is coming Down Under this September-October!
Get ready for an unforgettable live show filled with hilarious stories, interactive fun, and exclusive insights from the beloved children’s author and comedian. Perfect for kids and families!
Secure your tickets here

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!

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!

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 November – Part 2 – Chapter 4, pages 140-143

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

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

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

Saturday 18th November – Part 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 

David will be signing copies of The Blunders in Belfast and Dublin this November! See below for details and timings and get your tickets now!

Eason O’Connell Street, Dublin – Friday 17^th November, 3:30pm

TICKETS HERE

[SOLD OUT] Waterstones Fountain Street, Belfast – Thursday 16^th November, 4.30pm

We are delighted to announce a series of fantastic events for The Blunders with David Walliams this October – tickets on sale now!

[SOLD OUT] THURSDAY 12^TH OCTOBER 5PM – WATERSTONES KINGSTON UPON THAMES

Waterstones, Unit S9, The Bentall Centre, Wood Street, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1TR

[SOLD OUT] FRIDAY 13^TH OCTOBER, 4:45PM – WATERSTONES LINCOLN

Waterstones, 297A High Street LINCOLN LN2 1AF

[SOLD OUT] SATURDAY 14^TH OCTOBER 10:30AM – ARC STOCKON ARTS CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DRAKE BOOKSHOP

Dovecot St, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1LL

[FINAL TICKETS REMAIN] SATURDAY 14^TH OCTOBER 3PM – WATERSTONES EMERSON CHAMBERS, NEWCASTLE

Waterstones, Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, Newcastle NE1 7JF

[SOLD OUT] SUNDAY 15^TH OCTOBER 10AM – WATERSTONES NEWTON MEARNS

Waterstones, 38 Avenue Centre, NEWTON MEARNS G77 6EY

[GOOD AVAILABILITY] SUNDAY 15^TH OCTOBER 3PM – THE TOM FLEMING CENTRE FOR PERFMORMING ARTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TOPPINGS & CO EDINBURGH

The Tom Fleming Centre For Performing Arts, 3 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh EH4 2HS

[SOLD OUT] MONDAY 16^TH OCTOBER 10AM – WATERSTONES DUNDEE

Waterstones, 35 Commercial Street  DUNDEE DD1 3DG

[SOLD OUT] MONDAY 16^TH OCTOBER 2:30PM – WATERSTONES ABERDEEN

Waterstones, Bon Accord Centre ABERDEEN AB25 1HZ

Thanks for taking the time to enter this competition, we hope you are enjoying reading The Blunders!

Simply CLICK HERE to enter, good luck!

Hello there readers, thank you for visiting our page!

Below you can read an exclusive digital chapter sampler, featuring ‘The Legend of the Wolfwere’ story, from David Walliams’ brand-new book ‘The World’s Worst Monsters!’

Please turn your mobile device horizontally on its side for an optimized reading experience!

Enjoyed what you’ve read so far? Then don’t forget to order your copy of the full book HERE!

Be the first to discover one of ten thrilling stories from David Walliams’ brand new book ‘The World’s Worst Monsters’, by winning one of our exclusive chapter samplers!

All you have to do is upload your questions for David HERE, for a chance to get them answered by the author himself ! PLUS, 5 lucky winners will receive a spooktacular chapter sampler of ‘The Legend of The Wolfwere’ story, from David’s brand new book ‘The World’s Worst Monsters’, before the book is released on the 6th July!

Whether your question is about ‘The World’s Worst Monsters’, one of David’s other books, or something you have always wanted to ask, don’t forget to submit yours HERE before 23:59pm on 28th June!

Ts & Cs Apply

If you want to dress up as your favourite Walliams character this World Book Day, then check out these supertastic last-minute costume ideas, and follow our simple and creative guides!

Create a truly out-of-this-world outfit with our brand-new Spaceboy guide!

Make your own super-cute Marmalade the Orange Panda ears here:

Become the adorable Geronimo for the day with this easy guide!:

This Gangsta Granny costume will have you looking 80 years old quicker than you can say ‘international jewel thief’!

Do your friends want to dress up as a group? Try The Midnight Gang costume here!

Have a fantastic World Book Day!

Get ready for World Book Day this year, with our simple and fun Grannysaurus dress up guides!

Click here to download your free activity pack, including colouring, decorations, and the templates to make your very own dino-mate mask, or disco dino hat! A brilliant and easy way to inspire the whole family for World Book Day this year!