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The weekly books programme also features romantic author Judith Krantz and a report on children's books.
Anne Robinson introduces us to highlights of the programme ahead and reporter Richard Barber visits Bel-Air to talk to Judith Krantz. She discusses how she left her career as a journalist to start writing romantic novels as well as the involvement of her husband in advising her and his opinion on the alleged raunchiness of the books.
Following a look at the week's UK Top Ten Non-Fiction Hardback Chart, Anne then goes to visit the home of Irish novelist Maeve Binchy. She talks about the style of her novels and her new interconnected book of short stories, Silver Wedding.
Anne then meets horror author Clive Barker at Pinewood Studios. He discusses how he prefers to make his horror stories fantastical and shares his thoughts on his new novel, The Great and Secret Show, which he describes as a modern Romeo and Juliet.
Anne then speaks to Brough Girling of the Children's Book Foundation about the huge range of publishing available to children and how to encourage children to read more. The programme and series concludes with a look at that week's UK Top Ten Paperback Fiction Chart.
The Write Stuff was a weekly round-up of the world of books, authors and publishing and was a contribution from Ulster Television to the ITV network's daytime schedules. Each week, presenter Anne Robinson and reporter Richard Barber interviewed prominent authors, sought out celebrities for the latest books they'd read and ran through the weekly book charts.