My Life in Books

By: The Telegraph
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  • The authors you love. The books that shaped them.

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  • Ruth Jones

    Ruth Jones
    Nov 15 2018
    Ruth Jones is best known for playing Nessa in Gavin and Stacey - the BBC TV comedy she co-wrote with James Corden - and also for starring in and writing the comedy series Stella, set in her native South Wales.Earlier this year she also wrote her first novel, Never Greener, which tells the story of a rekindled affair. It sparked a 10-way publishers bidding war and was immediately propelled to the top of the bestseller charts upon its release.Ruth lives in South Wales with her husband David, but she travelled to the Telegraph offices in London to talk to Laura Powell about love, marriage and what it was really like writing Gavin and Stacey with James Corden. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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    48 mins
  • Jojo Moyes

    Jojo Moyes
    Nov 8 2018
    Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and grew up in London and went on to work as a minicab controller, braille typer and brochure writer for Club 18-30, before settling on journalism. She worked as a journalist for ten years, including a year at South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and nine at The Independent, before leaving to becoming a full-time novelist in 2002 around the publication of her first book, Sheltering Rain was published. Since then she has written a further eleven novels, including Me Before You which has sold more than eight million copies and was turned into a film starring Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games), with the screenplay written by Moyes. Her latest novel, Still Me, is the third in the trilogy following the character Louisa Clark, who first appeared in Me Before You. Moyes joined The Telegraph's Laura Powell to talk about the struggle to get her first novel published, the making of Me Before You, turning to therapy after leaving journalism - and her secret writing weapon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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    39 mins
  • Sebastian Faulks

    Sebastian Faulks
    Nov 1 2018
    Sebastian Faulks began his writing career as a journalist - including a stint at the Daily Telegraph - before publishing his first novel, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, in 1989. He’s gone on to write over a dozen more novels, including Charlotte Gray, Engleby, and Human Traces -- but is perhaps best known for Birdsong, a war novel and family saga which moves between the trenches of World War One and late-1970s England, and which consistently appears on surveys of the nation’s favourite books.His latest work, Paris Echo, is set in contemporary France, and follows two outsiders as they navigate the city - their steps echoed by testimonials from women who lived there under German occupation during the Second World War. He joined Laura Powell to talk about inspiration, journalism, Paris - and his life in books.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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    39 mins

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