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Whispering Skull on the timetable as author meets hundreds of young fans in Hitchin

Published: 3:23 PM October 4, 2014    Updated: 8:03 PM November 1, 2020
Author Jonathan Stroud visits Hitchin Boys School and signs for Harry Gates

Author Jonathan Stroud visits Hitchin Boys School and signs for Harry Gates - Credit: Archant

Hundreds of eager Hitchin Boys’ School pupils had questions galore when author Jonathan Stroud, creator of the Bartimeaus series and the Lockwood & Co books, popped in to visit on Thursday.

The fantasy fiction author, born in Bedford and now living in St Albans, has just published the latest Lockwood & Co tale, The Whispering Skull, and signed copies as well as chatting to fans from Year 7 and Year 8 at the Grammar School Walk School.

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