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      • Lessons
        • Year 1/2 Lessons
        • Sarah McIntyre - The New Neighbours
        • Oliver Jeffers - Here We Are
        • Alex T Smith - Foxy & Egg
        • Mini Grey - The Last Wolf
        • Mini Grey - Toys In Space
        • Mini Grey - Hermelin
        • Year 3/4 Lessons
        • Philip Reeve - Oliver and The Seawigs
        • Philip Reeve - Pugs of The Frozen North
        • Jacqueline Wilson - Lizzie Zipmouth
        • Michael Morpurgo - Pinocchio
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Fox & The Ghost King
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Dancing Bear
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        • Jamia Wilson - Young, Gifted and Black
        • Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
        • Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker
        • Michael Morpurgo - Arthur High King of Britain
        • Cressida Cowell - How To Train A Dragon
        • Michael Morpurgo - The Wreck of Zanzibar
        • Jacqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum
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        • Alastair Chisholm
        • Alexander Gordon Smith
        • Alex T Smith
        • Ali Sparkes
        • Annabelle Sami
        • Anne Cassidy
        • Andy Griffths
        • Andy Jones
        • Andy Mulligan
        • Andy Riley
        • Andy Seed
        • Anthony Horowitz
        • Anthony McGowan
        • Ben Lyttleton
        • Caryl Hart
        • Cath Howe
        • Catherine Johnson
        • Cressida Cowell
        • Christoper Edge
        • Dan Freedman
        • Em Lynas
        • Emily Lockhart
        • Emma Carroll
        • Emma Yarlett
        • Fleur Hitchcock
        • Frederick Forsyth
        • Geraldine McCaughrean
        • Gill Lewis
        • Gillian Cross
        • Guy Bass
        • Henry Winkler
        • Holly Bourne
        • Holly Webb
        • Isabel Thomas
        • Jacqueline Wilson
        • Jamia Wilson
        • John Kane
        • Joseph Coelho
        • Joshua Seigal
        • Julian Clary
        • Karen McCombie
        • Kate Pankhurst
        • Kieran Larwood
        • Lauren Child
        • Matt Goodfellow
        • Maz Evans
        • Michaela Morgan
        • Michael Morpurgo
        • Mini Grey
        • Nick Butterworth
        • Oliver Jeffers
        • Pete Johnson
        • Phil Earle
        • Philip Reeve
        • Rhian Tracey
        • Robert Muchamore
        • Roger Stevens
        • Roma Agrawal & Katie Hickey
        • Sally Gardner
        • Sally Nicholls
        • Sarah McIntyre
        • Sarah Rubin
        • Sibéal Pounder
        • Sophie McKenzie
        • Steve Cole
        • Steven Lenton
        • Stewart & Riddell
        • Sufiya Ahmed
        • Suzy Senior
        • Teri Terry
        • Tony Ross
        • Vashti Hardy
        • Zaro Weil
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        • Live events co ordinator and author and publisher liaison - Caroline Horn ReadingZone
        • Additional project development support - Phil Hedger CEO - LEO Academy Trust
        • Literacy resource development - Nadine Williamson Director of Literacy - LEO Academy Trust
        • Literacy resource development - Christopher Perrott Vice Principle (Curriculum) - Cheam Common Junior Academy
        • Literacy resource development - Isabella Adams Cheam Park Farm Primary School
        • Website design and construction - John Laker AdEPT Education
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Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth has packed a tremendous amount of action into his life and frequently draws on his experiences to bring his fiction to life. At the age of 19, he became the youngest pilot in the Royal Air Force, but then decided to follow a journalistic career, as 'it was the only job that might enable me to travel and keep more or less my own hours.' After three years as a provincial reporter, he joined Reuters and spent the next four years in Europe.

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Frederick Forsyth
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Frederick Forsyth Interview

Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth has packed a tremendous amount of action into his life and frequently draws on his experiences to bring his fiction to life. At the age of 19, he became the youngest pilot in the Royal Air Force, but then decided to follow a journalistic career, as 'it was the only job that might enable me to travel and keep more or less my own hours.' After three years as a provincial reporter, he joined Reuters and spent the next four years in Europe.

In 1965, he joined the BBC and was sent to the former Republic of Biafra to cover the war in Nigeria. What he saw of this brutal conflict affected him so much that he resigned, turned freelance and vanished into the thick of the conflict, only later emerging to publish the highly controversial 'The Biafra Story'.

In 1969, he decided to use his experience as a Reuters reporter in France as the basis for a thriller 'The Day of the Jackal' established him as one of the world's leading thriller writers. To date it has sold 10 million copies and was made into a major film in 1973.

Frederick's love of investigative journalism is evident in the considerable amount of preparation and research that he puts into a project, travelling the world and at one point risking his own life, posing as a South African interested in buying arms.

"I prefer to find out the truth about things" Forsyth says. "Rather than make things up, I like to focus on the details." He continues to write highly successful thrillers, which are of continued interest to filmmakers.

Frederick Forsyth is married and lives in Buckinghamshire. His interests include swimming, scuba-diving, game-fishing, travelling and reading. He was awarded a CBE in 1997.

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