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The 'grande dame of blockbusters', Barbara Taylor Bradford, dies at 91

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November 26, 2024

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the best-selling author of novels including A Woman of Substance, has died aged 91, her publisher has confirmed.

- Lucy Knight

The 'grande dame of blockbusters', Barbara Taylor Bradford, dies at 91

The novelist died peacefully at her home on Sunday after a short illness, "surrounded by loved ones to the very end".

Described as "the grande dame of blockbusters", Taylor Bradford published her 40th novel in 2023, the third in her House of Falconer series. Sales of her books through her lifetime reached more than 91m copies and were published in more than 40 languages and in 90 countries.

Lynne Drew, Taylor Bradford's long-term publisher and editor at HarperCollins, said working with the writer "was a huge privilege but also a huge amount of fun. Perennially curious, interested in everyone and extraordinarily driven, she loved writing, and the conversations we had about her characters were unfailingly the best hours of my week".

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