Horne in print
Two-book deal for comic Alex
Alex Horne has signed a two-book publishing deal, based on this year’s and last year’s Edinburgh shows.The comic will write one title based on his 2007’s Birdwatching, and a follow-up on Wordwatching, which he is currently performing at the Pleasance.
The first book will be published by Virgin in January and titled Birdwatchingwatching, It is the story of a year of competitive ornithology Horne undertook to try to bond with his ‘birder’ Dad, each trying to log the most species seen.
Horne says: ‘It’s the story of birdwatching told from an outsider’s point of view. It ceebrates the eccentricities of two very different species: man and bird. After all, birdwatching is basically an enormous game of hide-and-seek, where the human does the hiding and the seeking and the birds don’t really know you’re playing a game.’
Birdwatchingwatching will be subtited One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds.
Book two, Wordwatching, about his quest to get a new word into the dictionary, follows in autumn 2009.
The deal was struck between Ed Faulkner at Virgin Books and James Taylor at Avalon Management.
Published: 8 Aug 2008
