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Terry Deary

Born

in Sunderland, England, The United Kingdom

March 04, 1946

Website

http://www.terry-deary.com/

Genre

Children's, History, Humor and Comedy

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A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 79,429 ratings · 5,239 reviews · 814 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Groovy Greeks (Horrible Histories, #4) 4.06 avg rating — 4,109 ratings — published 1996 — 57 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 Rotten Romans (Horrible Histories, #5) by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 3,939 ratings — published 1994 — 54 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 Awesome Egyptians (Horrible Histories, #2) by Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 3,705 ratings — published 1994 — 54 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 Vicious Vikings (Horrible Histories, #9) by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 3,166 ratings — published 1994 — 52 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 Terrible Tudors (Horrible Histories, #14) by Terry Deary, Neil Tonge, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 2,917 ratings — published 1993 — 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
	The Woeful Second World War (Horrible Histories, #22) 4.15 avg rating — 2,745 ratings — published 1999 — 32 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 Frightful First World War (Horrible Histories, #21) by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 2,751 ratings — published 1998 — 40 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 Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories, #11) by Terry Deary, Martin Brown (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 2,691 ratings — published 1996 — 45 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 Vile Victorians (Horrible Histories, #18) 3.97 avg rating — 2,311 ratings — published 1994 — 24 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 Cut-Throat Celts (Horrible Histories, #7) 3.97 avg rating — 2,287 ratings — published 1997 — 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

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Series by Terry Deary

Fire Thief Trilogy (3 books)
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3.73 avg rating — 4,762 ratings

Horrible Histories Handbooks (8 books)
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4.07 avg rating — 2,767 ratings

Horrible Histories Collections (12 books)
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4.10 avg rating — 1,630 ratings

Terry Deary's Terribly True Stories (12 books)
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3.71 avg rating — 811 ratings

Dangerous Days (4 books)
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3.61 avg rating — 616 ratings

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Quotes by Terry Deary (?)

“I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.”
― Terry Deary

tags: establishment, history, villain

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“The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.”
― Terry Deary

tags: history, politicians

15 likes

“(The ‘Declaration of Independence’ begins: ‘All men are created equal’. What they really meant was ‘All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female’!)”
― Terry Deary, USA

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