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About Jeffrey Published in 97 countries and in more than 33 languages, Jeffrey Archer is a global publishing phenomenon, with international sales passing 275 million copies, and over 25,000 5* reviews on Amazon. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty-one times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). With a writing career spanning 44 years, Jeffrey has produced 42 works. Starting in 2020, he is publishing four new William Warwick novels, one set of short stories and three updated works for children. Jeffrey has been married for 54 years to Dame Mary Archer, who was Chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is the current Chair of the Science Museum Group. They have two sons, William and James, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and divide their time between homes in London, Cambridge and Mallorca. Addressing 7,500 fans at the 2018 Jaipur Literary Festival 2
International sales passing 275 million “A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas” WASHINGTON POST “Archer is a master entertainer.” TIME “If there was a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win” DAILY TELEGRAP H “Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius” SUNDAY TELEGRAP H “Probably the greatest storyteller of our age” MAIL ON SUNDAY 3
William Warwick 8 NOVEL S “This is not a detective story, but a story about the life of a detective.” In the New York times bestselling series, the reader is introduced to William Warwick with the words, this is not a detective story, but a story about the life of a detective. From William’s early days in the 1980s, when he becomes a constable on the beat in London, through to the present day, covering the political and social changes of the time, we follow William’s rise through the ranks. Will he make it, or will his arch enemy Miles Faulkner, who dogs every step of his career, prevent him becoming Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police? Only one of them can triumph. Published in over 30 languages, and sold in over 100 countries Nothing Ventured 4.5* BASED ON 8,168 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK “…thoroughly gripping tale. Archer reinforces his position as a master storyteller.” P UBLISHERS WEEKLY “...you simply cannot put the book down until you have read it all. A definite must read.” READER REVIEW 4
Turn A Blind Eye April 2021 William Warwick Collection - 3 Turn a Blind Eye is the third instalment in the gripping Meanwhile, notorious drug baron Assem Rashidi story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by goes on trial, defended by Mr Booth Watson QC, the master storyteller and #1 New York Times while William’s father Sir Julian and sister Grace bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles. lead the prosecution case. And William’s wife Beth, now a new mother to twins, makes a surprising new Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William friend in Christina Faulkner—the ex-wife of William’s Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, former rival, criminal financier Miles - who has not to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: only turned over a new leaf, but has also a new- corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police found source of income when Faulkner dies suddenly Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst of a heart attack and she stands to be sole inheritor and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following of his estate. Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation As the undercover officers start to draw the threads risks being compromised when Nicky falls for together, William realizes that the corruption may go Summers. deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye. Over My Dead Body Nov 2021 William Warwick Collection - 4 An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer – a rollercoaster thriller which takes detective William Warwick to the cold case unit, where he chases someone who thinks they’ve got away with murder. William Warwick Collection | Books 5 – 8 2022 - 2025 William Warwick Collection 5 – 8 JEFFREY ARCHER William Warwick Book 5: William will be a superintendent protecting the royal family and ambassadors. To be written in 2021, and published in 2022. W ILLI A M WA RW ICK COLLECTION William Warwick Book 6: William will be a chief superintendent working on 5-8 counter espionage. To be written in 2021-2, and published in 2022-2023. William Warwick Books 7 & 8: These will be written in 2022-23. 5
“A saga from which, once started, it’s impossible to detach.” L A REP UBBLICA “A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas. . . Unsurpassed skill… making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next.” THE WASHINGTON POST Hidden In Plain Sight 2020 William Warwick Collection - 2 Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating As William’s team closes the net around a criminal network like novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer. never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight... William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but With Jeffrey Archer’s trademark twists and turns, Hidden in his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, Plain Sight is the extraordinary sequel to Nothing Ventured, the have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately first novel featuring William Warwick. tasked with apprehending Assem Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancée Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar. 6
“…thoroughly gripping tale. Archer reinforces his position as a master storyteller.” P UBLISHERS WEEKLY “A clever, multi-layered series of crimes that segue subtly and succinctly.” READER REVIEW Nothing Ventured 2019 William Warwick Collection - 1 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk. This is not a detective story, this is a story of a detective... While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and William Warwick has always wanted to be a policeman, and his brilliant lawyer, Mr Booth Watson QC, who are willing to decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of him. a barrister like Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner’s wife, Christina, befriends William, will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. but whose side is she really on? After graduating from university, William begins a career that Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand-new series will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the inspired by Jeffrey Archer’s number one Sunday Times watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his bestselling The Clifton Chronicles: telling the story of the life of first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s William Warwick – as a family man and a detective who battles arts and antiquities squad. against a powerful criminal nemesis. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s assistant at the gallery whom he falls hopelessly in love with, most enduring legacies. even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light. 7
Clifton Chronicles 7 NOVEL S “At the age of seventy, I set out to write a seven-book events of the twentieth century to the present day, and series on the life of Harry Clifton.“ Jeffrey Archer. along the way, meet a cast of characters to keep you turning the pages. Among them is Lady Virginia who Harry was born in the back streets of Bristol in 1920, won marries Giles Barrington, and tries to ruin all their lives, a scholarship to Oxford, but leaves university to fight in and very nearly succeeds. the Second World War. After the war, he falls in love with Emma, the sister of his closest friend, Giles Barrington, The Clifton Chronicles is a multi-generational saga that and starts a career as a novelist. takes you from England to America. The series has hit the top of the best seller lists around the world, and has over The 7 book series follow his triumphs and disasters fifty thousand five star reviews on Amazon. against a backdrop of the key political and historical No. 1 on the New York Times, Sunday Times & Der Speigel bestsellers list and No. 1 in 11 countries including Australia, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, India, Ireland & Denmark 8
Global sales in excess of 15 million since 2011 This Was A Man 4.7* BASED ON 6,277 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK “The ability to tell a story is a great, and unusual, gift… it is not something that can be taught or acquired… Jeffrey Archer is, first and foremost, a storyteller.” THE TIMES “I was reading the book on tour and found I was bunking off from my own signing sessions to get back to the story… I was utterly hooked. It was an absurdly enjoyable read” ANTHONY HOROWIT Z, DAILY TELEGRAP H 9
Only Time Will Tell 2011 Clifton Chronicles Series - 1 4.46* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, ambitious work in four decades as an international when Harry must decide whether to take his place at bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s Oxford, or join the fight against Hitler’s Germany. life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one In Jeffrey Archer’s masterful hands, you will be taken tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth on a journey that you won’t want to end, even after about how his father really died and if, in fact, he you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, even was his father. because you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could ever have anticipated. The first in the series, Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable characters from the devastation of the The Sins Of The Father 2012 Clifton Chronicles Series - 2 4.55* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for having decided she’ll do whatever it takes to find first-degree murder. He stands accused of killing the man she was to marry – unwilling to believe that his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan he died at sea. The only proof she has is a letter. A lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless letter that has remained unopened on a mantelpiece Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a in Bristol for over a year. lighter sentence. After Tom is tried, found guilty and sentenced, Jelks disappears, and the only way for Jeffrey Archer continues the saga of The Clifton Tom to prove his innocence would be to reveal his Chronicles with this epic second novel in the true identity – something that he has sworn never to series, The Sins of the Father. Family loyalties are do in order to protect the woman he loves. stretched to their limits as secrets unravel, and the story moves from the backstreets of Bristol to the Meanwhile, the young woman in question travels boardrooms of Manhattan. to New York, leaving their son behind in England, Best Kept Secret 2013 Clifton Chronicles Series - 3 4.51* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who uncle’s fate. should inherit the Barrington title and family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor’s In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of and a new generation of the Clifton family march Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from to America to promote his latest novel, while his school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that was found abandoned in her father’s office on the is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. night he was killed. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and Best Kept Secret, the third book in Jeffrey Archer’s is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select gripping family saga The Clifton Chronicles, will to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, answer all these questions, but once again, pose so Harry and Emma’s son, who ultimately influences his many more. 10
Be Careful What You Wish For 2014 Clifton Chronicles Series - 4 4.62* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez in Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton Chronicles, opens with intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has family firm just as the company plans to build its been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, latest luxury liner, the MV Buckingham. Back in Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? London, Harry and Emma’s adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade Academy of Art where When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman she falls in love with a fellow student, Clive Bingham, of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton who asks her to marry him. Mightier Than The Sword 2015 Clifton Chronicles Series - 5 4.59* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like exploding during the MV Buckingham’s maiden to work for Stalin. voyage across the Atlantic – but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits Jeffrey Archer’s compelling Clifton Chronicles his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been continue in this, his most accomplished novel to elected as the new president of English PEN, and date. With all the trademark twists and turns that immediately launches a campaign for the release of have made him one of the world’s most popular a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who’s imprisoned authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the in Siberia. Babakov’s crime? Writing a book called Barrington families continues. Cometh The Hour 2016 Clifton Chronicles Series - 6 4.63* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy and can see note, which has devastating consequences for Harry no way out of her financial problems, until she is and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and his wife Lady introduced to the hapless Cyrus T Grant III. Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly – all of which went to number one on the Sunday in love with him, or is she a spy? Times bestseller list, showcases Jeffrey Archer’s extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists. This Was A Man 2017 Clifton Chronicles Series - 7 4.66* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk This Was a Man is the seventh and final, captivating Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, instalment of the Clifton Chronicles from master while his wife Emma completes her ten years as storyteller Jeffrey Archer. This Was a Man opens Chair of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives an with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin Farthings Kaufman bank after Hakim Bishara resigns from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in for personal reasons. The ending will not fail to a larger game? surprise. 11
Kane and Abel TRILOGY The story of two men, Abel Rosnowski and William Lowell White House. In a thrilling twist the FBI have six days, Kane, both born on the same day, one with everything, 13 hours and 37 minutes to stop the plot to kill the first one with nothing. They meet only once, and it changes woman president of the United States. their whole life. Kane and Abel has topped the best seller lists around In this multi-generational saga, Abel’s daughter the world, and has been read by over a hundred million Flroentyna, marries Kane’s son, Richard, when the story people since it was first published in 1979. moves on to Washington, the Senate and finally to the Global sales in excess of 37,000,000 since 1980 Kane and Abel 4.7* BASED ON 4,164 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK Kane and Abel is 20th top selling Novel of all time and 35th on Goodreads bestsellers of all time. Now on its 134th reprint. WIKIP EDIA | GOODREADS “That classic of modern literature…” THE TIMES 12
Kane and Abel 1977 Kane and Abel Trilogy - 1 4.7* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk They had only one thing in common . . . William Kane and Abel is the marvellous story, spanning Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of sixty years of two powerful men linked by an all- a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save . . immigrant – two men born on the same day on . and finally destroy . . . each other. opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross only once in their ruthless struggle to build a fortune. “Probably the greatest storyteller of our age” Mail On Sunday The Prodigal Daughter 1982 Kane and Abel Trilogy - 2 4.4* avg. ratings | amazon.co.uk Hers was the ultimate ambition . . . The titanic battle A woman gifted with beauty and spirit, but above between two men obsessed with destroying each all with indomitable will, she sets out in pursuit of other follows on to the next generation. Florentyna an ambition that dwarfs both Kane and Abel, as she Rosnovski, Abel’s daughter, inherits all of her battles for the highest office in the world. father’s drive, but none of his wealth. ‘...A riveting read following the fortunes of the two main families with several twists and turns.” The Times Shall We Tell The President? 1983 Kane and Abel Trilogy - 3 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk 6 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes to go . . . At the end At 8.30 five people know all the details. By 9.30 of The Prodigal Daughter, Florentyna Kane is elected four of them are dead. FBI agent Mark Andrews President – the first woman President of the United alone knows when. He also knows that a senator is States. At 7.30 one evening the FBI learn of a plot to involved. He has six days to learn where – and how. kill her – the 1572nd such threat of the year. Six days to prevent certain death of the President. “The only difference between this book and The Day of the Jackal, is that Archer is a better writer” Chicago Tribune 13
Standalone Novels A Prisoner Of Birth 4.65* BASED ON 3,244 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK “Outstanding…white-knuckle suspense and witty denouements.” “There is no arguing with Archer’s inventiveness, his drive and his easy, effervescent style.” DAILY EXP RESS “[ Jeffrey] is foremost a storyteller with the innate, almost intuitive, manner of weaving believable characters, relatable dialogue, and most importantly, outstanding plots.” READER REVIEW 14
“…A surprise last-sentence kicker that points to the present political movement. The result is a fun, fast- paced novel.” P UBLISHERS WEEKLY “The plain storytelling is unimprovable. Few literary writers could do his job better.” SUNDAY TIMES “Few are more famous than Archer for keeping the pages turning.” TIMES LITERARY REVIEW “A fast moving intrigue…a cracking good read. This is the first novel I’ve read by Jeffrey Archer, and it won’t be the last.” MAIL ON SUNDAY 15
Heads You Win 2018 Standalone novels 3.6* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no Alexander’s future. During an epic tale of fate and ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is fortune, spanning two continents and thirty years, we destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father follow his triumphs and defeats as he struggles as an is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he immigrant to conquer his new world. As this unique and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they story unfolds, Alexander comes to realize where his hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted destiny lies, and accepts that he must face the past with an irreversible choice: should they board a he left behind in Russia. container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin . . . In a single moment, a double twist decides Paths Of Glory 2009 Standalone novels 4.46* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Inspired by a true story, Paths of Glory bring to life But what if one man had such a dream, and when one of history’s enduringly enigmatic figures. Some he’d fulfilled it, there was no proof that he had people have dreams that are so outrageous that if achieved his ambition? Paths of Glory is the story of they were to achieve them, their place in history such a man. But not until you’ve turned the last page would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, of Jeffrey Archer’s extraordinary novel, will you be Percy Fawcett, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, able to decide if mountaineer George Mallory should Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such be added to this list of legends, because if he were, individuals. another name would have to be removed. A Prisoner Of Birth 2008 Standalone novels 4.65* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson is sentenced to twenty-two years and is sent to the day before, or the day after, he would not have Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in the been arrested and charged with the murder of his land, from which no inmate has ever escaped. best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses But everyone has underestimated Danny’s are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and determination to seek revenge and Beth’s relentless the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, quest to win justice. who is going to believe his side of the story? Danny The Gospel According To Judas 2008 Standalone novels 3.8* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Pope Benedict XVI recently referred to the continuing written by the son of Judas, is a highly readable and ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result gripping account of the stories of Jesus and Judas, of an intense collaboration between one of the which will open a whole new debate among secular world’s most popular storytellers and one of the and religious readers. The project is as bold as it is world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light simple: Archer has written a story for twenty-first- on the events leading up to the great betrayal. This century readers, while Moloney has ensured the book, presented in gospel style with two-colour text, result is credible to a first-century Christian or Jew. ribbon marker and gilded edges, and ostensibly 16
False Impression 2006 Standalone novels 4.44* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all her new status to escape from America, only to be the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to connection between her and the possible motive for Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when her death –a priceless Van Gogh painting. It’s a young she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. woman, who was in the North Tower when the first Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives plane crashed into the building, who has the courage and that of others to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait and determination to take on both sides of the law with Bandaged Ear? and avenge the old lady’s death. Anna Petrescu is Sons Of Fortune 2002 Standalone novels 4.43* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk United in their rivalry, Sons of Fortune is the classic in Vietnam. He returns a war hero, he finishes tale of two brothers engaged in a power struggle from school and becomes a successful banker. Fletcher, international bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer. In the meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and late 1940s in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins is distinguishes himself as a criminal defence lawyer parted at birth. Nat Cartwright goes home with his before he is elected to the Senate. Even when Nat parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. and Fletcher fall in love with the same girl they still But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher don’t meet. Andrew Davenport, the only son of a multi- millionaire and his society wife. They continue on their separate paths until one has to defend the other for a murder he did not commit. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow But the final confrontation comes when Nat and up unaware of each other’s existence. Nat leaves Fletcher are selected to stand against each other for college at the University of Connecticut to serve governor of the state. The Eleventh Commandment 1998 Standalone novels 4.45* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Connor Fitzgerald is the professional’s professional. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Holder of the Medal of Honor. Devoted family man. Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally The CIA’s most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight formidable foe: a new Russian President, determined years, he has been leading a double life. And only to force a military confrontation between the two days from his retirement, he comes across an enemy superpowers. even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss. 17
The Fourth Estate 1996 Standalone novels 4.23* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The world’s most powerful newspaper barons – The other was the scion of a well-known family, which of them will triumph? At first glance, Richard groomed for a public role, a rebel who didn’t care if Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little anyone approved of what he got up to. One craved in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, wealth, recognition, status. The other quickly who emerged from the most backward corner of a discovered that real power comes from anonymity. Europe ravaged by a bitter war. The other was raised But they did have one thing in common. Both of in a mansion on the far side of the world while the them were gamblers. Both were prepared to risk war was just another piece of news. everything in their battle to control the biggest newspaper empire in the world. One was a hustler, a thief, ready to change even his identity, if it would gain him a momentary advantage. Honour Among Thieves 1993 Standalone novels 4.46* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate And Saddam is planning a revenge so diabolical that America? the United States will be left with no choice but to retaliate . . . The time, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. “A fast moving intrigue…a cracking good read. This is the first novel I’ve read by Jeffrey Archer, and it won’t be the last” Mail On Sunday As The Crow Flies 1991 Standalone novels 4.57* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Charlie Trumper’s earliest memory is of hearing But in Jeffrey Archer’s expert hands it becomes an his grandfather’s sales patter from behind his epic journey through the triumphs and disasters costermonger’s barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, of the century, as Charlie follows a thread of young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in love, ambition and revenge to fulfil the dream his his footsteps – his burning ambition is to own a shop grandfather inspired. that will sell everything: ‘The Biggest Barrow in the World’. Charlie’s progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies. 18
A Matter Of Honour 1988 Standalone novels 4.4* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father’s will, Against his mother’s advice, Adam opens the aware that the contents can only be meagre. The letter, and immediately realises his life can never Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a be the same again. The contents leave him with no letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can choice but to follow a course his father would have only bring further disgrace to the family name. described as a matter of honour. First Among Equals 1984 Standalone novels 4.38* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Playing for the highest stakes of all . . . power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the highest stakes In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal – at Westminster. Over three decades they share the the office of Prime Minister turbulent passions and upheavals of the race for “We haven’t had a better novel about Parliament since Anthony Trollope.” The Scotsman Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less 1976 Standalone novels 4.58* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk One million dollars – that’s what Harvey Metcalfe, But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with They band together and shadow him from the empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Overnight, four men – the heir to an earldom, a Ascot and the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost Oxford don – find themselves penniless. – not a penny more, not a penny less. “Marvellously plotted, with just the right amount of romance, wit and savoir faire.” Publishers Weekly 19
Short Stories 92 Individual Stories To Cut A Long Story Short 4.5* BASED ON 314 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK “Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining, Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories.” THE TIMES “Cunning plots, silken style. Archer plays a cat and mouse game with the reader.” NEW YORK TIMES “The peerless master of the page turner.” DAILY MAIL 20
Amalgamated collections The Collected Short Stories 1997 Amalgamated collection of short stories 4.4* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The Collected Short Stories brings together three of figure in another vehicle. An offhand remark is taken Jeffrey Archer’s classic collections of short stories: A seriously by a Chinese sculptor in one tale, while a Quiver Full of Arrows, A Twist in the Tale and Twelve British diplomat unexpectedly becomes the owner of Red Herrings. a priceless work of art in another Over three of the stories, discover a hauntingly Every reader will have their own favourites: the written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates choices run from an imprisoned man who is certain at Oxford in the thirties: a tale of bitter rivalry that that his supposed murder victim is very much alive, ends in a memorable love story. to a female driver pursued relentlessly by a menacing The New Collected Short Stories 2014 Amalgamated collection of short stories 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The New Collected Short Stories brings together the creative financial talents of a member of Her three of Jeffrey Archer’s classic collections of short Majesty’s diplomatic service – but for a good cause. stories: To Cut a Long Story Short, Cat O’ Nine Tales In ‘Caste-Off’, Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while and And Thereby Hangs a Tale, showcasing the waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi, and in master storyteller’s skill as never before. ‘Don’t Drink The Water’, a company chairman tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg – Every reader will have their own favourites: the with unexpected consequences . . . choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from The stories held in these pages are irresistible: the quirks of the legal profession – and those who ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to deliciously unexpected conclusions. The Short, The Long And The Tall 2020 Amalgamated collection of short stories In The Short, The Long and The Tall the master during the 1930s, and another young woman who storyteller joins forces with renowned illustrator Paul thumbs a lift and has an encounter she will never Cox, to re-imagine twenty of Jeffrey Archer’s most forget. Discover the haunting story about four men popular and feted short stories alongside beautifully whose characters are tested to the point of death. rendered watercolour illustrations. Finally, a short parable about how pointless war is, and how decent people are caught up in the crossfire Find out what happens to the hapless young of their leaders’ ambitions. This will be a must-buy detective from Naples who travels to an Italian for dedicated fans of both the author and illustrator’s hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in work. For the first time, his readers have chosen their love; and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery 20 of their favourite original short stories and here of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life they are, gathered in an illustrated collection. forever. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university 21
Original collections A Quiver Full Of Arrows 1980 Collection of short stories 4.31* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Quiver Full of Arrows is a collection of twelve exciting An insurance claims adviser has a most surprising short stories from bestselling author, Jeffrey Archer. encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks. Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty This marvellous collection of twelve stories ends – with an unexpected outcome. A casual remark is with a hauntingly written, atmospheric account of taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and the British two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s, a tale of Ambassador becomes the owner of a priceless work bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story. of art. A Twist In The Tale 1989 Collection of short stories 4.41* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The expected never happens . . . a man calls Consider also: a wine-tasting with a bizarre unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man difference, a game of sex with a sexy stranger, a leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, violent row in a golf clubhouse bar, a rivalry founded he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving on eating cornflakes . . . just some of the openings in unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man this cunningly constructed, fast-moving, entertaining is arrested and charged . . . Has he achieved ‘The set of stories from the bestselling author. Perfect Murder’? A tantalising opening to A Twist in the Tale, a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. Twelve Red Herrings 1994 Collection of short stories 4.2* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed Twelve Red Herrings is the third collection of murder victim is very much alive . . . a female driver irresistible short stories from master storyteller, is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in Jeffrey Archer. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn another vehicle . . . a young artist gets the biggest characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, break of her career . . . a restless beauty manages each of the twelve tales ends with a delightfully the perfect birthday celebration . . . an escaped Iraqi unexpected turn of events. on Saddam Hussein’s death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland . . . How will they react? How would you? 22
To Cut a Long Story Short 2000 Collection of short stories 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story the quirks of the legal profession – and those who Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar – to variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all the creative financial talents of a member of Her with that trademark twist in the tale. Majesty’s diplomatic service – but for a good cause. The last story, The Grass is Always Greener, is Every reader will have their own favourites: the possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will choices run from love at first sight across the train haunt you for the rest of your life. tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from Cat O’ Nine Tales 2006 Collection of short stories 4.4* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Cat O’ Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible They feature the mad, the bad and the dangerous short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey to know, as well as more poignant and telling Archer, illustrated by the internationally acclaimed characters. As a collection they artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth. confirm Jeffrey Archer’s position as a master These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously storyteller. plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer’s trademark deliciously unexpected conclusions. And Thereby Hangs A Tale 2010 Collection of short stories 4.3* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk From Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling author of the And in ‘A Good Eye’ a priceless Renaissance oil Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, comes his painting remains in the same family for generations captivating sixth collection of short stories, And until its current owner is faced with a difficult Hereby Hangs a Tale, full of magnificent characters choice... and shocking plot twists. In ‘High Heels’ discover what happens in a loss adjuster’s memorable first Jeffrey demonstrates his natural aptitude for short case where his wife has to explain why a pair of stories which are stylish, witty and entertaining. His designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames, mastery of characterisation and suspense, combined while on the streets of Delhi in ‘Caste-Off’ a man and with a gift for the unexpected, jaw-dropping plot woman fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to twist, show him at the height of his powers and turn green. demonstrate why he is one of world’s bestselling authors. Tell Tale 2017 Collection of short stories 4.2* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Follow the stories of the woman who dares to Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short challenge the men at her Ivy League university during stories for readers to return to time and again. Find the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs out what happens to the hapless young detective a lift and has the encounter of a lifetime. From the from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to master of the short story, the refreshingly original solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy whose stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes described by the Mail on Sunday as ‘probably the his life forever. greatest storyteller of our age’. 23
The Prison Diaries TRILOGY | NON-FICTION A Prison Diary, Heaven, Vol III 4.5* BASED ON 1727 REVIEWS ON AMA ZON.CO.UK “Gruesome, touching, sharply written . . . they are the best thing Archer has written in years” SUNDAY TELEGRAP H “Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys, by being such an assiduous recorder of his fellow inmates’ secrets.” MAIL ON SUNDAY “The finest thing he has ever written…. Riveting.” INDEP ENDENT ON SUNDAY 24
A Prison Diary, Hell, Vol I 2002 The Prison Diaries Trilogy 4.4* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk The sun is shining through the bars of my window This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not on what must be a glorious summer day. I’ve been Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain. On incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting and a half hours and will not be let out again until seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty- confinement. two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me London, which houses some of Britain’s most violent who has been charged with shoplifting - his first criminals. offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to Hell, the first volume in Archer’s The Prison Diaries, anyone. is the author’s daily record of the time he spent there. A Prison Diary, Purgatory, Vol II 2003 The Prison Diaries Trilogy 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey only the daily degradations of a dangerously over- Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for stretched prison service, but the spirit and courage perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, of his fellow inmates . . . a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory is an extraordinary establishment in Norfolk. work of non-fiction, where Jeffrey Archer reveals what life is like inside the walls of Britain’s prisons. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not A Prison Diary, Heaven, Vol III 2004 The Prison Diaries Trilogy 4.5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk “It’s all an act. I am hopelessly unhappy, dejected The final volume of Jeffrey Archer’s prison diaries, A and broken. I smile when I am at my lowest, I laugh Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of when I see no humour, I help others when I need help his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on myself. I am alone. If I were to show any sign, even parole in July 2003. for a moment, of what I’m going through, I would have to read the details in some tabloid the following It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time day. Everything I do is only a phone call away from a he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events friendly journalist with an open cheque book. I don’t that led to his incarceration there – it also throws know where I have found the strength to maintain this light on a system that is close to breaking point. Told facade and never break down in anyone’s presence.“ with humour, compassion and honesty, it closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike. 25
Children’s Books Discover the Magical World of Willy and Randolph UP DATED EDITIONS REL AUNCHING IN 2021 TO BE P UBLISHED IN OVER 10 L ANGUAGES THE CHILDREN’S SERIES WILL BE EXPANDED IN 2022 26
Willy And The Killer Kipper 1981 Children’s books 5* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk When the world’s largest submarine, The Neptune is Internationally bestselling author Jeffrey lost somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Archer’s delightful story for young readers, Willy and Randolph the Bear must save all the accompanied by Anupama Ajinkya Apte’s trapped sailors – with some help from the Rightaway fun illustrations, will win the author many Bird, Sybil Seagull, and Boris the Blue Whale. Which new fans! means defeating Konrad the Killer Kipper and his gang of a hundred horrible herrings who have captured The Neptune because he wants to eat the sailors. Can Willy and his friends win against them? “The illustrations are outstanding.” Willy Visits The Square World 1980 Children’s books 4.8* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk When Yo-Yo the Cat is kidnapped, Willy and cats are Grumpfuzz’s favourite breakfast. Can Willy Randolph the Bear must fly through space to rescue and his friends save Yo-Yo? her from the Square World to which she has been taken – with some help from the Fuzzines, the wise Internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer’s Big Whoosh, the Glowsnake and the Upsidedown delightful story for young readers, accompanied by Bird. Which means defeating Grumpfuzz and Anupama Ajinkya Apte’s fun illustrations, will win the his Thieving Bird who have captured Yo-Yo because author many new fans! “This is a book my son absolutely adored and I would read it to him every night before bed.” By Royal Appointment 1980 Children’s books 4.7* avg. rating | amazon.co.uk King Benefactor and Queen Echo of Littleland agree Internationally bestselling author Jeffrey to have a race to decide which is the fastest car in the Archer’s delightful story for young readers, country. All the seven cars in the kingdom turn up for accompanied by Priya Kuriyan’s fun the race: the Speedy Car, the Greedy Car, the Flashy illustrations, will win the author many Car, the Trendy Car, the Shabby Car, the Silly Car new fans! and the Little Square Car. Which car will win the race? And which car will win everyone’s hearts? “Bought this for my sister, she loves it.” 27
Film and TV 3 Major TV series based on the original books “That classic of modern literature…” KANE AND ABEL | THE TIMES “Marvellously plotted, with just the right amount of romance, wit and savoir faire.” NOT A P ENNY MORE, NOT A P ENNY LESS | P UBLISHERS WEEKLY “We haven’t had a better novel about Parliament since Anthony Trollope.” FIRST AMONG EQUAL S | THE SCOTSMAN 28
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less 1990 Television Series Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less was made into Each man - an Oxford professor, a Harley Street a TV mini-series by the BBC in 1990, starring Ed physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat - Begley Jr., Brian Protheroe, Maryam d’Abo, Jenny deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to Agutter, and Edward Asner. get back “Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less”. “Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. First Among Equals 1987 Television Series Fact meets fiction in this 10-part adaptation of The first-rate ensemble cast features two-time Jeffrey Archer’s international bestseller. First Among Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton, Equals follows four politicians from their first day in In the Bedroom), James Faulkner (The Bank Job), Parliament through more than 20 years in office, as David Robb, Jeremy Child, and Joanna David. each jockeys to become prime minister. The dialogue Nominated for three BAFTA awards, the mini-series crackles with dry wit, and the plot involves plenty of aired on public television in 1987. Complete U.K. sex and scandals, some of it straight out of Archer’s broadcast edition. 10 episodes. personal experience as a former MP. Kane and Abel 1985 Television Series Kane and Abel was made into a TV series in 1985 The series also received a Primetime Emmy by Embassy Television, starring Sam Neil as William nomination for Outstanding Editing for a Mini-series Lowell Kane and Peter Strauss as Abel Rosnovski. or a Special - Single Camera Production for Mel The following year, Peter Strauss was nominated for Friedman (editor), James Galloway (editor), and Les a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in Green. a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Kane & Abel). 29
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The Accused 2000 Plays The Accused is a tense courtroom drama with a The choice will keep you on the edge of your seats, difference. The audience will act as the jury, as if they and at the end of the trial you will be invited to were in the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey. deliver your verdict of guilty or not guilty. Once you You will have to decide…Did Dr Sherwood murder his have made that decision the play will continue – with wife? Was Jennifer Mitchell his mistress? Which of one of two different endings, depending on your his alibis should you believe? verdict. Only then will you finally discover the truth. Exclusive 1989 Plays Jeffrey’s second play, which he wrote in 1989, ran at ‘Exclusive’ was Jeffrey’s second play. It is the story the Strand Theatre for 100 performances. of a old hack journalist at the end of his career, who sends in a story so late that he knows it will just make A Fleet Street drama, performed in London with the first edition, but the proprietor of the newspaper, Paul Scofield, Eileen Atkins, Alec McCowen, Jeffry and his wife in particular, will be absolutely livid Wickham, and Steven Pacey in the cast. Michael when they read it over the breakfast table the Rudman was the director. following morning…all hell breaks loose. Beyond Reasonable Doubt 1987 Plays Jeffrey wrote his first play in 1987, following the After a tense and gripping courtroom scene, Act I General Election of that year. ends just as we are about to hear the jury’s verdict. It ran at the Queen’s Theatre in London’s West End Act II takes us back in time to the fateful night of for over 600 performances, with Frank Finlay and Lady Metcalfe’s death and ends with a surprising Wendy Craig in the lead roles. twist. Accused of the wilful murder of his terminally ill wife, Sir David Metcalf finds himself locked in legal combat with his old rival, Anthony Blair-Booth QC. 31
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LITERARY REP RESENTATION For rights and general publishing enquiries, please contact Alan Mitchell at Mitchell Rights Management: +44 (0) 7779 723 450 enquiries@mitchellrightsmanagement.com FILM & T V Joel Gotler Joel@IPGLM.com 1-310-402-5154 THEATRE RIGHTS William Archer william@jeffreyarcher.co.uk +44 (0) 20 7735 0077 P RESS CONTACT Ruth Cairns, Featherstone Cairns ruth@featherstonecairns.com +44 (0) 7960 870 867 33
P RAISE - UK “Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as Genius.” “Archer is a master entertainer.” DAILY TELEGRAP H “Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original short stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise.” MAIL ON SUNDAY “…this is compelling stuff, well worth reading – and deserving of some serious attention.” MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS “Perfect….at the top of his game.” EVENING STANDARD “The plain storytelling is unimprovable. Few literary writers could do his job better.” SUNDAY TIMES 34
P RAISE - UK “Archer’s mystery shows him at his peak. He is every bit Somerset Maugham’s match as a storyteller.” DAILY MAIL “Few are more famous than Archer for keeping the pages turning.” TIME S LITERARY REVIEW “...this is another action-packed tale full of Archer’s signature vertiginous twists and razor-sharp intrigue.” THE L ADY “[ Jeffrey] has always had the knack of producing page- turners… It is quite captivating… and just as you sit on the end of your seat expecting all the loose ends to be tied into a neat little bow, Archer drops a bombshell...” SP ECTATOR 35
P RAISE - USA “One of the top ten storytellers in the world.” LOS ANGELES TIMES “Archer is a master entertainer.” TIME MAGA ZINE “There isn’t a better story-teller alive.” L ARRY KING “A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas. . . Unsurpassed skill… making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next.” THE WASHINGTON POST “Archer reinforces his position as a master storyteller.” NOTHING VENT URED | P UBLISHERS WEEKLY “A dynamite commercial novel… Archer brings it off with panache.” A P RISONER OF BIRTH | THE WASHINGTON POST “The ultimate novel of rivalry” KANE & ABEL | DAN BROWN 36
P RAISE- EUROP E “Jeffrey Archer unfolds a saga full of secrets, twists, betrayals, friendships, romances, separation and reunions […] In a word like in a hundred : an excellent gift idea for anyone who loves family saga” BLOG DE MISS ALFIE FRANCE “We have here a wonderful novel, in the strict sense of the word. A great story from beginning to end by this incredible writer that is Jeffrey Archer. It’s smart, funny, thrilling. And remarquably well-written. Why go without it ?” BERNARD POIRET TE, EUROP E 1 FRANCE “Hatreds worthy of a Shakespearian drama. In short, everything is combined to make this reading totally addictive. A real page-turner!” VERSION FEMINA FRANCE “Over a period of thirty years and on two continents, Jeffrey Archer’s great novel unfolds a story of unique suspense and drama – a story that cannot be forgotten again.” HEADS YOU WIN | TIP P GERMANY 37
P RAISE - EUROP E “Great new saga full of destiny.” THE CLIF TON SAGA | FÜR SIE GERMANY “Archer is a brilliant narrator” ONLY TIME WILL TELL / THE CLIF TON SAGA | WELT WOCHE GERMANY “And once again Jeffrey Archer proves that he belongs in the ranks of the great story tellers.” BEST KEPT SECRET | ECHO ZUM SONNTAG GERMANY “In the truest sense of the word, explosive [...]. Jeffrey Archer proves his talent for storytelling and suspense” MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD | HELLWEGEN ANZEIGER, UNNAER ZEIT UNG GERMANY “A truly epic drama based on the timeless Romeo and Juliet motif.” THE P RODIGAL DAUGHTER | MARKUS WERNER, P IRANHA GERMANY 38
P RAISE- EUROP E “Jeffrey Archer presents another masterpiece!” THE FOURTH ESTATE | ECHO ZUM SONNTAG GERMANY “Archer, a masterful narrator, once again wrote a great epic, an absolute page turner.” “In this gigantic epic, Jeffrey Archer describes his hero’s journey over several decades, from bitter poverty to the world of the rich and powerful” AS THE CROW FLIES | MAINHAT TAN KURIER, ECHO ZUM SONNTAG GERMANY “Jeffrey Archer. He’s the king of English bestseller.” “A millions copies saga. Jeffrey Archer is a true storyteller.” ONLY TIME WILL TELL | L A REP UBBLICA , IO DONNA, IL SECOLO XIX ITALY 39
“If there was a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win.” DA ILY T ELEGRAP H
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