I thought this would be a good location to set one of the key scenes in my book, as it’s quite spooky and weird. There was also the recreation of a WWI trench and a recreation of wartime London during the blitz, including a bomb shelter and a cityscape of London in flames. It would make them feel safe and remind them of cosier, safer times. I thought it would be great for the kids in my book to sleep inside this ‘house within a house’.
One of the fun things about the museum was that there was a recreation of a house during wartime, called The 1940s house. So, to get the details right, when I was writing the second book in the series, The Dead, I visited the museum several times to photograph the exhibits and really get a good feel for the place. The kids help each other out and help themselves to some weapons. He’s odd, and hard to like, but he’s the sort of strong leader they need to get them out of the mess they’re in. These new kids are led by a scary, and autistic, military obsessive who calls himself general Jordan Horden. In the story a group of kids come into London from the south, escaping from their boarding school, and they meet up with another group of kids who are living inside the Museum. I figured it was a good place for some of the kids in my books to go to hide out, because they could arm themselves very effectively from the weapons kept there (there’s even a secret vault in the basement filled with ammunition). I loved looking at the old uniforms and weapons, the re-creations of battles, and all the tanks and vehicles they had on display. The Imperial War Museum, south of the River Thames in Lambeth, was somewhere that, as a normal, red-blooded, boy, I always enjoyed visiting. I wanted to make it so that someone reading the books could retrace the footsteps of the characters and see the places exactly as described. I knew these places well, but went back to them all to do research, walked around a lot, and, via Twitter, managed to get access to see some of the areas that are normally hidden from the public. Between them these places cover most of central London and create a good geographical network. I wanted to include as many of the places I’d loved to visit. It’s about various gangs of kids scattered around different locations in London and I wanted to use locations that had meant a lot to me when I was a kid coming up to visit London.
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I wanted to set my ‘zombie’ series The Enemy, in as real and recognisable a world as I could. Please give a warm welcome to Charlie, folks! Thea was a fan of The Enemy and The Dead (books 1 and 2 in the series), so we’re very happy to host Charlie as he takes a zombirific tour of London – our stop is the Imperial War Museum. We are delighted to be a stop on Charlie Higson’s “Guide to London” blog tour to celebrate the release of The Fallen, the latest book in his YA zombie series.
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