– What was the biggest challenge during the write up process of such series full of interesting characters?
Some five years ago I decided to set myself a challenge and write a seven-part series called The Clifton Chronicles, based on two families living in Bristol, which is in the West Country, and because I’m from that part of the world myself, it has some autobiographical elements to the story. – Do you remember the first time you decide to develop the plot around the Clifton family? – Part of the fun of writing a novel with many different twists and turns is that the readers can expect the same ingredients next time, but I’m not telling you what they are in my new book, MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. What kind of surprises and turns the readers may find in the fourth part of Clifton Chronicles? Archer, Be Careful What You Wish For is one of the best books worldwide for 2014. Archer, well known member of British Parliament, cancer survivor, former prisoner and one of the best writers on the planet. It’s a great honor for Land of Books to welcome Mr. His books were sold in over 270 million copies around the world. The well known British author will turn 75 in April. The next chapter of the series, Mightier than the Sword, will be on the market in few days time – on February 24. It was the fourth part of his Clifton Chronicles. In the case of Archer himself, I find him guilty as charged: this is a truly terrible novel.Jeffrey Archer’s last book Be Careful What You Wish For was released year ago. Archer's writing has a forensic bent, and as the characters take turns to present their version of events they often sound as if they're in the dock. What is the appeal for Archer's legions of fans? His books really are Enid Blyton for grown-ups, and in this book, set mostly in the 1930s, the frequent references to prices in pennies make it seem even more of a pocket-money world.
Why does there have to be a merry old sage who knows everything and everyone? He is like an avatar of the novelist himself. Revisiting the same events from the viewpoint of different characters makes for a repetitive plot, while its suffocatingly neat coincidences deprive the book of air. Harry Clifton is a poor boy who, by dint of a beautiful voice, wins a place at a posh school, but the path to great fortune is strewn with obstacles – obstacles overcome with about as much tension as old knicker elastic.
Here the cliché is that Jeffrey Archer writes terrible novels. I t's good to test a cliché with the litmus paper of experience.
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