The books series also features model Marie Helvin and US author Barbara Gordon.

Anne Robinson introduces us to highlights of the programme ahead and reporter Richard Barber visits Central Park in New York to talk to author Barbara Gordon about her new book, Jennifer Fever. She discusses the book's subject - an analysis of how older men of late middle age have traditionally been attracted to young twentysomething women, something she calls the 'Jennifer Effect'. She also talks about the jilted older women left behind as being the Janets of the world who might find new strength afterwards.

Anne reveals the week's UK Top Ten Non-Fiction Hardback Chart and then visits the garden of successful crime author Ruth Rendell. She discusses the recurring character of Inspector Wexford and how she softened his characteristics a little when she realised that she would be writing him as an ongoing figure in her books. She also talks about the books she writes under the name of Barbara Vine and how they differ from Ruth Rendell books as being softer and more feminine.

Anne then visits the home of Frederick Forsyth to talk about how he got into writing after being a foreign correspondent and his knack of putting real life people into his books such as Charles de Gaulle in The Day of the Jackal. He shares how he finds the process of writing to be daunting and how he has now settled down to life on a farm.

Model Marie Helvin is the week's celebrity reviewer and she chooses to talk about a biography of Marlene Dietrich. Anne then concludes the programme with a look at the 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.