Our season of the stars continues with a genuine literary legend. It's Ken Follett! Ken is one of the world’s most successful authors, selling over 188 million copies of his books. He's the creator of Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Never and his latest The Armour of Light. He recently launched an online course on Writing Bestselling Fiction with BBC Maestro. We talked to him about his formative reads, relishing Proust, creating believable villains and his appearance in the Alan Rickman Diaries.Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSAnthony Trollope - The WardenKen Follett - The Pillars of the EarthThomas Harris - The Silence of the LambsCharles Dickens - Oliver TwistRichard Osman - Thursday Murder ClubKen Follett - The Eye of the NeedleKen Follett - World Without EndKen Follett - Column of FireIan Fleming - Live and Let DieJohn Steinbeck - Tortilla FlatJRR Tolkien - Lord of the RingsMarcel Proust - Remembrance of Things PastLucy Ellmann - Ducks, NewburyportKarl Ove Knausgaard - My StruggleDH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's LoverDH Lawrence - Collected PoemsMary McCarthy - The GroupElizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet ChroniclesEdward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia WoolfAsh Carter and Sam Kashner  - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't EverythingWilliam Shakespeare - HamletAlan Rickman - DiariesKen Follett - NeverErskine Childers - The Riddle of the SandsJohn Buchan - The 39 StepsBret Easton Ellis - American PsychoIrvine Welsh - TrainspottingAgatha Christie - Complete PoirotLisa Jewell - The Night She DisappearedMarcel Proust - 75 FoliosMarcel Proust - Swann in LoveAnthony Trollope - Orley Farm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.