{"id":113333,"date":"2019-10-30T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T00:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=113333"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:14:22","slug":"david-walliams-announces-new-book-the-beast-of-buckingham-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/david-walliams-announces-new-book-the-beast-of-buckingham-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walliams announces new book &#8211; The Beast of Buckingham Palace!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Walliams&#8217; new book, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-beast-of-buckingham-palace-david-walliams\/book\/9780008385644.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_announcement_david_walliams\">The Beast of Buckingham Palace<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, has been announced and it sounds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) incredibly awesome, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>b) quite a bit different from his previous work!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-beast-of-buckingham-palace-david-walliams\/book\/9780008385644.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_announcement_david_walliams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beast-3D-packshot_no-roundel-1-673x1024-197x300.png\" alt=\"The Beast of Buckingham Palace\" class=\"wp-image-113337\" width=\"319\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beast-3D-packshot_no-roundel-1-673x1024-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Beast-3D-packshot_no-roundel-1-673x1024.png 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids (and booksellers) everywhere have been waiting anxiously for news about the next Walliams book, and <em>The Beast of Buckingham Palace<\/em> is pretty much guaranteed to be one of the most requested Christmas presents of the year. Though the book is to be published on the 21st of November, details have been kept strictly under wraps &#8211; until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At last, we have a title, a cover and a description! Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been released by HarperCollins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>The year is 2120. London is in ruins, the people are hungry and darkness has fallen across the world. Prince Alfred, a sickly boy of 12, has never known life outside Buckingham Palace. But evil forces are at work, and soon Alfred must do battle with the King of the Beasts \u2013 the Griffin.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Walliams says that this new book represents something of a different direction for his writing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"attachment_113346\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113346\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-113346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/x887.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.ue_Ys-PuzN-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Walliams\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/x887.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.ue_Ys-PuzN-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/x887.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.ue_Ys-PuzN.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-113346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Walliams<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis book is a real departure for me. It is a science-fiction fantasy adventure set in London 100 in the future. I hope my readers will love coming on this magical journey with me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>David Walliams is one of the most popular and fastest growing children\u2019s book authors in the world. His junior fiction novels have been published in 53 languages and his sales numbers just keep going up, year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Beast of Buckingham Palace<\/em> is set in the future and will introduce readers to a world of fantastical creatures and magical adventure. It also promises to deliver a truly \u201cMachiavellian\u201d villain. An audiobook edition is due to be released next year and is rumoured to have a \u201cstar-studded\u201d cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Beast of Buckingham Palace<\/em> will be released on the 21st of November &#8211; click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-beast-of-buckingham-palace-david-walliams\/book\/9780008385644.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_announcement_david_walliams\">here<\/a><\/strong> to pre-order your copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beast of Buckingham Palace will be here very soon &#8211; here&#8217;s everything you need to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":113357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1563,7394,10597],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DavidWalliams-Social-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113333"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114124,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113333\/revisions\/114124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}