Our season of the stars continues with a genuine literary legend. It's Ken Follett! Ken is one of the world’s most successful authors, selling over 188 million copies of his books. He's the creator of Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Never and his latest The Armour of Light. He recently launched an online course on Writing Bestselling Fiction with BBC Maestro. We talked to him about his formative reads, relishing Proust, creating believable villains and his appearance in the Alan Rickman Diaries.
Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked
BOOKS
Anthony Trollope - The Warden
Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club
Ken Follett - The Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett - World Without End
Ken Follett - Column of Fire
Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die
John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle
DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
DH Lawrence - Collected Poems
Mary McCarthy - The Group
Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles
Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Ash Carter and Sam Kashner - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
Alan Rickman - Diaries
Ken Follett - Never
Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands
John Buchan - The 39 Steps
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Agatha Christie - Complete Poirot
Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared
Marcel Proust - 75 Folios
Marcel Proust - Swann in Love
Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm
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