Writers

Description

The terrible, but true lives of the famous writers - as you've never heard them before! The author of "Horrible Histories" describes the lives of the of famous writers through the Roman horror king Seneca, whose own death is as nasty as his bloodthirsty plays. Bede, the Anglo-Saxon monk who tells of bloody battles and ghastly plagues. And Charles Dickens, who shocks Victorian readers with his stories of cruel teachers and gruesome workhouses.