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Lucinda Riley, actress who was inspired by illness and financial ruin to turn her hand to writing bestselling bodice-rippers – obituary
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Brian Beacom TALKING to Peter May on a Zoom video call soon brings about a feeling that I don’t wish him well at all. Not quite wanting the Glasgow-born writer murdered you understand, buried, like the victim in his latest book beneath a street pipeline, his remains allowed to quietly rot until exhumed by escaping tree roots. Yet, nevertheless. how can I ignore the fact that he was also once a journalist on the Evening Times, and used the Glasgow paper as a springboard to a career in best-seller writing, with almost 30 novels to his name? How can I push aside the fact that while most my working life is spent dialling 0141 numbers, he’s spent the past 20 years researching stories in China, London, the Outer Hebrides – or indeed wherever takes his fancy? How can I possibly like a writer whose name on his book covers is the same point size as the title?
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Barack Obama shares a yearly reading list
What goes into compiling one of these list of recommended reads? “I always try to choose books that will grab the reader’s attention, but I also try to look for new voices or voices that may not have got the attention they deserve. In the end though, my choices are always about encouraging other people to read books that I have loved.”
As a reader, Moriarty is a fan of book lists. “Book club lists are really online versions of word of mouth. There is nothing better than being recommended a book by someone and discovering a new author. There is no greater joy than reading something really fantastic, something that allows you to disappear for a few hours. It’s good for our soul and our sanity!” And that’s the case now more than ever. As lockdown restricts what we can do in our free time, reading has become even more of a staple and as our demand for books has increased, so too has our demand for recommendations. The sheer volume