Maeve Binchy / Clive Barker

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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.


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The Write Stuff

Take a trip back in time to the literary landscape of the 1980s, full of spy and romantic blockbusters, in this series made for Channel 4 and presented by Henry Kelly and Anne Robinson.
Think Top of the Pops for the book world. For two series, this Channel 4 look at the world of 1980s literature, made by Green Apple/UTV, gave viewers the chart countdown for both fiction and non-fiction interspersed with interviews with the top authors of the day. Hosted by Henry Kelly for the first series and Anne Robinson for the second, The Write Stuff visited authors both in the UK and the USA to gain insights into their crafts or even just for juicy details on stars being covered by biographers. Lovers of books will find much to fascinate them here, with bestselling authors of yesteryear interviewed in their prime, from Jeffrey Archer to Clive Barker and from Ruby Wax to Jackie Collins. How many of the titles featured have lasted the course of popular and critical acclaim? Indulge yourself in this literary series to find out.

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Barbara Taylor Bradford / Jack Higgins

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Noel Barber / Joss Ackland

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Craig Thomas / Ruby Wax

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Sally Beauman / Ned Sherrin

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Rosemary Conley / Griff Rhys Jones

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Mary Higgins Clark / Willy Russell

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PD James / Ruth Madoc

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Jilly Cooper / Walter Coblenz

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Gerald Seymour / Neil Tennant

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Jackie Collins / Ben Elton

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Danielle Steel / Ken Kercheval

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Evan Hunter / Douglas Fairbanks Jr

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Ruth Rendell / Frederick Forsyth

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Margaret Forster / James Herbert

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Jeffrey Archer / Jonathan Kellerman

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Dick Francis / Leon Uris

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Maeve Binchy / Clive Barker

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