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The weekly review of books and publishing also interviews adventurer John Ridgeway and comedian Ruby Wax.

Reporter Jill Cochrane is at the Penguin bookshop in Covent Garden where she speaks to John Ridgeway about his book The Road to Elizabeth. The adventurer tells Jill of how he travelled to Peru to search out an old friend only to discover that he and his wife had been killed in an uprising and that his orphaned child was living in the Andes. He tells the story in his book of how he then adopted this child.

Henry Kelly reports from Manhattan where he interviews novelist Freda Bright. She talks about the inspiration behind her latest book, Infidelities. Henry then runs through the US Top Ten of paperback fiction. Thriller author Craig Thomas chats to Henry about his particular brand of high-tech espionage stories and how he researches them.

Henry also reports from the bedroom of comedian Ruby Wax, who discusses the authors she likes to read such as Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut. Henry concludes this week's programme by presenting the UK Top Ten paperback 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 Henry Kelly and reporter Jill Cochrane interviewed prominent authors, sought out celebrities for the latest books they'd read and ran through the weekly book charts.


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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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