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‘Pointless' friend Richard tries his hand at MURDER
Let's Talk
|October 2020
Television producer and presenter Richard Osman has two books published this autumn. Rachel Banham takes an early look at his debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club.
TO MANY OF US, he is Alexander Armstrong’s ‘Pointless’ friend on the hit BBC One quiz show of the same name. To others, he is the presenter of BBC Two’s Richard Osman’s House of Games. Now, Richard Osman is a novelist too.
His book, The Thursday Murder Club, has been described as “his first and, so far, best novel”.
A lifelong reader of crime fiction, Richard wrote The Thursday Murder Club in secret for 18 months before he decided it was ready to be shared.
In The Thursday Murder Club Newsletter, which readers can subscribe to via publisher Penguin’s website, Richard recalls how the idea for the book came to him when he was visiting a relative who lives in a retirement community in the heart of the British countryside.
“This place had it all: green fields, gleaming lakes, ancient woodland and a state of the art gym and swimming pool. We were having lunch on the restaurant terrace and I looked down at my phone and saw that I had no reception,” Richard writes.
“So there I was, sitting in this beautiful place with no mobile reception, and I suddenly thought, ‘Well this would be an amazing place for a murder.’
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