Paddington Bear to star in TV cook show in new Michael Bond book

Paddington’s Finest Hour, a new title in the 90-year-old author’s much-loved series, brings fresh misadventures for the much loved children’s hero

Michael Bond has written a new Paddington book, the latest to feature the marmalade sandwich-munching, duffle-coated ursine icon from “darkest Peru” in a series stretching back nearly 60 years.

Paddington’s Finest Hour, which will be published in the UK and the US in April 2017, and in Australia in March, finds our hero in trouble once more, suffering a run-in with the police, starring in a TV cookery programme and even bestowing one of his celebrated hard stares upon a hypnotist on stage.

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