The Dreaded Lurgie ebook | Jamie Rix | 9781908285096

From the creator of Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids and The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury comes this darkly comic novel. Ideal for anyone who loves witches!

This was the first novel ever written by Jamie Rix.

The nation’s youth is under attack! Children everywhere are falling prey to the Dreaded Lurgie, an evil epidemic with sinister symptoms. It’s horrible, but it’s happening…the Dreaded Lurgie makes you old! Frank and Arthur know that something must be done. They are also convinced that the spread of the Lurgie is down to witchy Ma McCracken, infamous child-hater and their next-door neighbour. An antidote must be found to both these blights, or the nation’s playgrounds will lie deserted… forever.

"A madcap and devilish story by Jamie Rix... which manages to be both funny and frightening at the same time." (The Times)

Jamie Rix is a children’s author, an animation writer and director, and a producer of television comedy.

He is the son of Brian Rix and Elspet Gray and started out as a comedy producer for BBC Radio Light Entertainment, producing amongst other shows; The Michael Bentine Show, In One Ear, The Wow Show and Radio Active. For the last 25 years he has produced comedy on TV. Shows such as Not Going Out, Smith & Jones, Colin’s Sandwich, Faith In The Future, KYTV, and My Hero.

He also writes children's books, including The Incredible Luck of Alfie Pluck (shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2010); 120 cautionary tales for the Grizzly Tales series (the original book, Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids, was a Smarties Prize winner); The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury; Johnny Casanova The Unstoppable Sex Machine; Giddy Goat and many others.

He writes, co-produces and co-directs Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids which is an award-winning animated series (two British Animation Awards and five times BAFTA nominated) that started on CiTV and is now shown daily on Nicktoons, and in 2008 his adaptation of The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury won the Best Children’s Drama at the BAFTA Awards.