Summer 2012
Thrillingly, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” continues to break records, playing in cinemas all over the world – proving, if proof were needed, that you don’t have to be twenty-five to go to the...
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I’ve done a lot of events these past months, mostly talking about how my novel “These Foolish Things” mutated into the movie “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”. This has led to discussions about the...
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Winter, again, 2013
Just to say that the films connected to “Heartbreak Hotel” (see my previous posting) are now up and running on my website, just click on to Courses for Divorces and learn how to change a plug and make...
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Summer 2013
The Hay Festival was a hoot. Suddenly the sun came out, the town was heaving with people and 1200 of them came to my event, which Peter Florence chaired with his usual style. It was even televised by...
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Heartbreak Hotel is just out in paperback, and has also been chosen for the W H Smith/Richard and Judy Book Club, which is great – do have a look at their website as there’s lots of extra stuff about...
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The most thrilling news this autumn is that my daughter Lottie’s novel, “Kiss Me First”, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. This covers both fiction and non-fiction, and is voted...
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The thrilling news is that “Tulip Fever” is going to be filmed at last….fifteen years after it was destroyed by Gordon Brown in his tax clampdown. I really thought it would never happen, so it’s...
View ArticleWINTER/SPRING 2015
Well, the film of “Tulip Fever” is now pretty well completed and it should be released this autumn. It looks pretty wonderful, from what I’ve seen. Sixteen years in the making, but I think it’s worth...
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My new novel “Something To Hide” has just been published and I’ve been loitering in the newsagents, furtively leafing through the papers to see if there are any reviews. The Times liked it “as long as...
View ArticleSPRING 2016
I keep delaying this blog in case I’ve heard something about the release date for the film of ‘Tulip Fever’. Well, I still haven’t. Hopefully it will be sometime this spring, which I can’t help...
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The paperback of my latest novel, “Something To Hide,” is in the shops now – do buy it! – and I’m adapting it for BBC Films. It’s complicated, as it takes place in Beijing, Texas, a fictitious African...
View ArticleSpring 2017
It’s been ages since my last posting, but that’s partly because I still hadn’t been given a release date for “Tulip Fever”. Thank God we seem to have one, at last – the end of August. This is...
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Autumn 2017
With Tulip Fever’s imminent release in the UK, here’s a piece I wrote for the Hollywood Reporter (the film has already been released in the USA and other territories). At the time of writing (Sept 8)...
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Autumn 2017
With Tulip Fever’s imminent release in the UK, here’s a piece I wrote for the Hollywood Reporter (the film has already been released in the USA and other territories). At the time of writing (Sept 8)...
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Rather thrillingly – very thrillingly – I’ve been given an OBE (“for services to literature and drama”). It actually made the front page of our local paper here in Wales, the Powys County Times,...
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Much to my astonishment, ‘Tulip Fever’ is apparently coming to cinemas on 7 December. This whole twenty-year-old saga (see previous postings) might be coming to an end at last. It has been both bizarre...
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The paperback of my latest novel, “Something To Hide,” is in the shops now – do buy it! – and I’m adapting it for BBC Films. It’s complicated, as it takes place in Beijing, Texas, a fictitious African...
View ArticleSpring 2017
It’s been ages since my last posting, but that’s partly because I still hadn’t been given a release date for “Tulip Fever”. Thank God we seem to have one, at last – the end of August. This is...
View ArticleWINTER 2019
I’ve just got proof copies of my new novel The Carer– nice and early as it’s not published until July. I described it in my last posting – basically it’s a comedy about class, and death, and family...
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