He probably doesn’t need any extra help to get his children’s books flying off the shelves.After all, comedian turned author David Walliams has already notched up sales of £100million.But the publication of his latest story yesterday could hardly have had a more remarkable timing.For it is called The Beast Of Buckingham Palace. Of course, the storyline has nothing to do with the current scandals that have led Prince Andrew to step back from public life.Instead, it is a futuristic fantasy set in 2120. London has fallen into ruins and sickly 12-year-old Prince Alfred has to save Buckingham Palace from a menacing griffin.And it could lead to the writer's annual earnings topping £18million for the first time, according to The Bookseller. His new novel, The Beast of Buckingham Palace (left), is coming out today. It is tipped to be the Christmas number one, following in the footsteps of 2016's The Midnight Gang (right) and 2017's Bad DadWalliams is reported to have already earned £13million in 2019, a 9 per cent rise against the same period in 2019. The Beast Of Buckingham Palace is expected to become Walliams’s third Christmas number one bestseller – following his 2016 offering The Midnight Gang and 2017’s Bad Dad – adding substantially to his estimated £25million fortune.Around £10million of this is believed to have come from his books, with authors typically getting ten per cent royalties, according to The Bookseller. Passing the £100million mark in sales, according to figures this week from publishing industry data provider Nielsen BookScan, has put the 48-year-old Britain’s Got Talent judge in an exclusive club of children’s authors. Share this article Share He joins the likes of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, Gruffalo writer Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson, who penned the Tracy Beaker stories.Since he first tried his hand at children’s literature in 2008, the former Little Britain star has written, including seven picture books and four short story collections, which between them have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Walliams, who has a six-year-old son from his marriage to model Lara Stone that ended in 2015, secured his first two-book publishing deal with HarperCollins at the end of 2007.The news was met with scepticism in the industry as he was regarded as the latest in a procession of celebrity authors.However, Walliams’s style has been compared to that of Roald Dahl – and the recruitment of Dahl’s illustrator Quentin Blake for his first book, The Boy In The Dress, helped him gain the respect of critics.‘Maybe people were scared that I had come from doing a very adult comedy or perhaps parents were worried about the theme,’ Walliams said.The Boy In The Dress has sold nearly a million copies. His second book Mr Stink, again illustrated by Blake, won the People’s Book Prize in 2009.In 2011, Gangsta Granny topped the children’s fiction list, selling more than 1.3million copies in paperback alone in the UK.Willia
He probably doesn’t need any extra help to get his children’s books flying off the shelves.After all, comedian turned author David Walliams has already notched up sales of £100million.But the publication of his latest story yesterday could hardly have had a more remarkable timing.For it is called The Beast Of Buckingham Palace. Of course, the storyline has nothing to do with the current scandals that have led Prince Andrew to step back from public life.Instead, it is a futuristic fantasy set in 2120. London has fallen into ruins and sickly 12-year-old Prince Alfred has to save Buckingham Palace from a menacing griffin.And it could lead to the writer's annual earnings topping £18million for the first time, according to The Bookseller. His new novel, The Beast of Buckingham Palace (left), is coming out today. It is tipped to be the Christmas number one, following in the footsteps of 2016's The Midnight Gang (right) and 2017's Bad DadWalliams is reported to have already earned £13million in 2019, a 9 per cent rise against the same period in 2019. The Beast Of Buckingham Palace is expected to become Walliams’s third Christmas number one bestseller – following his 2016 offering The Midnight Gang and 2017’s Bad Dad – adding substantially to his estimated £25million fortune.Around £10million of this is believed to have come from his books, with authors typically getting ten per cent royalties, according to The Bookseller. Passing the £100million mark in sales, according to figures this week from publishing industry data provider Nielsen BookScan, has put the 48-year-old Britain’s Got Talent judge in an exclusive club of children’s authors. Share this article Share He joins the likes of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, Gruffalo writer Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson, who penned the Tracy Beaker stories.Since he first tried his hand at children’s literature in 2008, the former Little Britain star has written, including seven picture books and four short story collections, which between them have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Walliams, who has a six-year-old son from his marriage to model Lara Stone that ended in 2015, secured his first two-book publishing deal with HarperCollins at the end of 2007.The news was met with scepticism in the industry as he was regarded as the latest in a procession of celebrity authors.However, Walliams’s style has been compared to that of Roald Dahl – and the recruitment of Dahl’s illustrator Quentin Blake for his first book, The Boy In The Dress, helped him gain the respect of critics.‘Maybe people were scared that I had come from doing a very adult comedy or perhaps parents were worried about the theme,’ Walliams said.The Boy In The Dress has sold nearly a million copies. His second book Mr Stink, again illustrated by Blake, won the People’s Book Prize in 2009.In 2011, Gangsta Granny topped the children’s fiction list, selling more than 1.3million copies in paperback alone in the UK.Willia
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