Frank Cottrell-Boyce "Framed", he made the shortlist for both the Carnegie and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. He adapted it as a screenplay for a 2009 BBC television film. He made the Carnegie shortlist again for "Cosmic" (2008). In 2011, he was commissioned to write a sequel to the Ian Fleming children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which was published in October 2011 as "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again" In addition to "Coronation Street", he wrote many episodes of the soap opera "Brookside", as well as its spin-off "Damon and Debbie". He wrote and staged his first original theatre production "Proper
Bang the Drum Slowly Harris writing the screenplay. "Bang the Drum Slowly" was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated" and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the "Los Angeles Times". The last line of the novel, "From here on in I rag nobody", was ranked number 95 on "American Book Review"′s "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" in 2008. Harris played baseball as a boy and often wrote about the game and was known for writing realistically about the sport in his novels. For this novel, Harris chose