Lee Child Most Successful UK Kindle Author Originally Posted in The Bookseller, January 3, 2012 Lee Child is the most successful British Kindle book author worldwide, followed by Stephen Leather and Ken Follett, according to Amazon UK. The company has released a list of the top-10 bestselling UK-born Kindle e-book authors, based on purchases from 1st January 2011 onwards in the US, UK, France, Spain and Italy. Self-publishing author Kerry Wilkinson, who has just been signed up by Pan Macmillan in a six-book deal, is number 10 on the bestselling Kindle list. Leather also published most of his books using the Kindle Publishing Direct tool. After Child, Leather and Follet,...
Read MoreWriter Going To Jail Originally published on the BBC, February 2004 As Stephen Leather’s latest novel, Hard Landing, is set in a prison, he was testing his material on possibly the toughest audience of all. As part of a national tour of HM’s establishments, Stephen gave a reading from his new book at Durham prison. This is not a first for writing and books: there’s a great deal of interest in reading and creative writing in Britain’s prisons and the outside world occasionally gets a glimpse of the inside. Writers and theatre groups occasionally hold workshops in prisons. BBC Radio 4’s monthly show, Book Club, broadcast its programme about...
Read MoreHot On The Trail Of Terror Originally published in the Manchester Evening News, February 15, 2007 STEPHEN Leather is an author with his feet firmly planted in the all-too-scary real world. His internationally popular thrillers have headline-grabbing backdrops – terrorist threats, hostage situations and prisons. It’s heavy stuff. And with a past career in journalism and a research stint in Belmarsh Prison (where fellow writer Jeffrey Archer was a recent guest), you could say that Leather is tough as old boots. His latest, and 18th, novel, Hot Blood, continues to follow cop Dan `Spider’ Shepherd as he tries to rescue a former colleague who is kidnapped in...
Read MoreStephen Leather Original Published in The Bookseller Magazine, August 5, 2012 Stephen Leather is one of a growing band of authors that have risen to prominence thanks to the e-book. In fact, Leather was the first UK……….Read Full Article HERE
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