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Stephen Leather in Manchester Evening News
Hot 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,...
read moreStephen Leather Featured In The Guardian – February 2011
Kindle gives thriller writer a plot for success – at 71p a shot Original story from The Guardian, February 26, 2011 Self-publishing has traditionally been a surefire route to obscurity and dismal sales. Now a British thriller writer who sells his novels as ebooks for as little as 70p is proving the naysayers wrong. Not only does Stephen Leather, Britain’s leading “independent” writer, estimate he has occupied the number one spot on Amazon.co.uk’s Kindle ebook bestseller lists for “90% of the last three...
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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...
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Writer 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...
read moreStephen Leather Featured in The Bookseller Magazine
Stephen 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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read moreJeremy Duns and Stephen Leather in Industry News Corp Article
British Writers Not Only Write About, But Also Act Like Children Originally Posted in Industry News Corp, January 8, 2013 British writers are known for creating some of the best children’s literature on the planet. Although many are not aware of their origin, books like Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty, Treasure Island, and the Chronicles of Narnia all have British origins. Hands down, Britain has turned out some of the greatest writers in history. However, it was not until recent that I learned about a few modern British writers who act...
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