North & South

STAR CROSSED

, children’s book author and judge: Arthur returned to Australia to run Walliams’ book tour for HarperCollins at the end of 2017 after working with him in 2015. “I got on very well with him and he trusted me to make things work efficiently and not kill him by asking him to do too much (that can happen). Even then, he would sometimes be up at 5am for live TV and not in bed until after 11 or midnight

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