Talented Author: Mr Tony Lee

GMS are excited to announce the visit of a popular author, who is coming in to speak to speak to Years 7 and 8 on 18th November.

For the second time the librarians have invited Mr  Lee to address the lower years. All of Yr 7 and Yr 8 will hear the author, the very talented Mr Tony Lee, talk in the main hall.  He is a  New York Times Best Selling Author of comics, screenplays and audio drama – including both the Tenth and Eleventh Doctor Who series. In 2011 his graphic novel Hope Falls was optioned for film through Future Films, with Tony writing the screenplay. In the same year his graphic novel Danger Academy was announced as being developed into a television series in the USA.  His film The Mild Bunch is at present being shot with DLT Entertainment and his web series GODFather was released in 2014. In 2016 it was announced that Tony Lee would take on script writing duties for a futuristic take on the Robin Hood legend backed by Hollywood producers responsible for such films as 300.

Mr Lee hated reading as a child until he discovered comic books and now passionately believes children should be allowed to access reading by any means that works for them.

His talk, going by past experience, is not a talk at all really, he throws ideas out to the children and weaves a plot from it. He also tells a short story that is guaranteed to make students jump out of their seats.

The title of his talk is ‘Change the Channel’ and the message is that in the same way you can change the channel on the TV if you don’t like what you see, you can also change your book with the same ease of choice. Mr Lee is not an author who brings books along to sell, but the library has many of his books. He will be available to talk to the students at both lunch and break.

Many thanks to Annette Fisher and Sam Joyce, Librarians at Great Marlow School for writing this for the website.