Horrible Histories: Author Terry Deary on being 'a fish out of water' - BBC News

The author has been described by The Radio Times as "a man whose scatological, cartoonish but utterly factual style has put a firework under British history books".

So you might assume that after writing more than 60 Horrible Histories books and seeing them adapted into West End shows, a Bafta-winning TV series, a major film and an art exhibition, Deary would firmly consider himself part of the literary elite.

He doesn't. "In the publishing industry, I'm a fish out of water," he says. "I don't do literary festivals. And I don't mix with the literati."