Young Bond author Charlie Higson previews his new trilogy

When flesh-eating zombies walk the Earth, where will the survivors find refuge? The answer, according to comedian and writer Charlie Higson, is Waitrose in Holloway Road - reports TheCNJ.

The Tufnell Park-based star of hit comedy series The Fast Show and author of the hugely successful Young Bond books has decided to make his local supermarket a stronghold against the living dead in his latest children�s book.

Mr Higson went behind the scenes of the luxury food store last Thursday to ensure the accuracy of his story about a group of children holed up in the shop in the wake of a plague.

He explained: �Everyone over the age of 14 has been wiped out except for a few bands of marauding adults who are trying to eat the children. There is also a rival gang of kids who live in the Morrisons down the road. It�s 28 Days Later for kids.�

His three boys, aged 15, 13 and nine, helped him to write the book � each night he would read them the new chapters and they would tell him what they thought, including advice on teenage slang.

�They�re my test audience,� he said. �The age group is great to write for � they�re really open and honest and they�ll speak their minds. The violence isn�t a problem for kids. The more the better.

�I�ve said to my 13-year-old that I want a session with some of his more outspoken friends.�

The book, yet to have a title, is the first in a trilogy. It will be published next year.

Mr Higson�s last book in the Young Bond series, By Royal Command, was released this week.

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