three of Grantchester. 2020 saw Higson compete on Richard Osman's House of Games. alongside Chizzy Akudolu, Kate Williams and Tom Allen. Higson has also starred in Lobby Land, a radio sitcom on BBC Radio 4, as Tom Shriver MP. Books Higson published many novels through the early to mid-1990s which take a slightly dystopian look at everyday life and have a considerably more adult tone than his other work, with characters on the margins of society finding themselves spiralling out of control. This has led Time Out to describe him as "The missing link between Dick Emery and Bret Easton Ellis". Higson wrote a series of five Young Bond novels, aimed at younger readers and concentrating on the James Bond's school-days at Eton starting with SilverFin, released in 2005, and ending with By Royal Command (2008). Higson had been at school with Jonathan Evans, former Director General of MI5. Higson wrote a post-apocalyptic, zombie-horror series of books for young adults. The eponymous first book in the series, titled The Enemy, was released in 2009. At a school event at Abingdon School on 14 September 2011, Charlie told children: "Originally it was going to be three books and then my publisher, Puffin, said make it five, and now we're up to it being seven." The seventh novel, The End, was published in 2015. In 2018 Higson wrote a Fighting Fantasy gamebook titled The Gates of Death, which was published by Scholastic books as part of their campaign to relaunch the Fighting Fantasy franchise. He is a long term FF enthusiast, having attended Fighting Fantasy Fest 2 in London the previous year and also made a cameo appearance in the Ian Livingstone gamebook Blood of the Zombies. Personal life Higson lives in London with his wife and three sons. Filmography Film Television Bibliography Novels King of the Ants (1992) Happy Now (1993) Full Whack (1995), Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen (1996) Monstroso (2010) The Enemy The Enemy novels The Enemy (2009) The Dead (2010) The Fear (2011) The Sacrifice (2012) The Fallen (2013) The Hunted (2014) The End (2015) ASIN B00Z8PHRKS The Enemy short story Geeks vs. Zombies (2012) (This companion book in the series, released by Disney Hyperion, portrays an exclusive scene from The Fear, on World Book Day.) Young Bond SilverFin (2005), Blood Fever (2006), Double or Die (2007), Hurricane Gold (2007), By Royal Command (2008), SilverFin: The Graphic Novel