The write stuff

How Richard Osman became a literary sensation

- RICHARD MCCLURE, SEAN MARLAND, NICK CANNON

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Fans of Pointless were devastated a few weeks ago when Richard Osman announced that he was leaving the popular quiz show after 13 years working alongside Alexander Armstrong.

The 51-year-old revealed he would be concentrating on his burgeoning writing career after his debut crime novel The Thursday Murder Club became an international bestseller.

The mystery, about a group of a four elderly amateur sleuths in a retirement village, is now the third highest-selling hardback novel ever in the UK, with Steven Spielberg's production company snatching up the film rights.