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Published: 2nd July 2025
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The Blunders
By (Author) David Walliams
Illustrated by Adam Stower
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
2nd July 2025
7th November 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Siblings
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
823.92
Paperback
400
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 33mm
460g
Million-copy bestseller David Walliams funniest book yet a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history. This paperback edition includes a hilarious NEW STORY.
Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people.
This family of upper-class twits lives in a crumbling country house named Blunder Hall. When their home comes under threat, they must embark on a series of comic misadventures to save it.
Absurd and hilarious, The Blunders is David Walliams funniest book yet. A laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history.
David Walliams was most recently Childrens number one bestseller with The Worlds Worst Monsters (TCM Chart, 22 August 2023).
Filled with laugh-out-loud incidents and riotous mishaps, The Blunders follows the hilarious escapades of the titular upper-class family in their crumbling stately home Waterstones, Best Books of the Year
PRAISE FOR DAVID WALLIAMS:
His books are a breath of wonderful fresh air Sun
Walliams understands something crucial about children and stories Metro
A great comic tale Walliams is a natural wit Evening Standard
Well written, funny, touching Observer
A passionate celebration of individuality Telegraph
Charming, funny The Times
David Walliams is a literary phenomenon whose books have sold more than fifty-four million copies worldwide and have been translated into fifty-five languages. Adam Stower is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, including collaborating with David Walliams on several of his books for children. Adam was born in England, grew up in Switzerland and has loved drawing ever since he was old enough to hold a crayon. He went to art school in Norwich, and Brighton too, where he still lives beside the sea with his wife and a cat called Murray.