![]() He has, he tells me several times, a “business brain”, so he doesn’t seem like a man who would waste his time on something that might not end up a hit. Osman, 50, who is best known as the creator and co-presenter of the BBC quiz show Pointless, has spent years coming up with winning television formats such as Deal or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats. There are lots of other superlatives and records – first debut novel to be No 1 at Christmas fastest selling adult crime debut since records began – which mean that the release of its sequel, The Man Who Died Twice, today is a kind of one-man Christmas for publishing and booksellers. The crime novel, about a group of four elderly amateur sleuths in a retirement village, has sold 1.4 million copies since it was published in September last year and is the third best-selling hardback novel of all time in the UK, after Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Then he showed it to a few trusted friends and asked them: “is this a proper book?” ![]() He had always wanted to write a crime novel and being, as he admits, “quite a goal-oriented person”, once he had the idea, he sat down, lit a candle and wrote 1,000 words a day – in secret – until he had 100,000 words. Richard Osman didn’t tell anyone he was writing The Thursday Murder Club. ![]()
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