Discussing Jeffrey Archer's works

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Chennai had the honour of hosting Jeffrey Archer, the master story teller, who gave us Kane and Able, The Prodigal Daughter, Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less, A Quiver Full of Arrows and many such intriguing novels.

He was in the city to promote his latest book, A Prisoner of Birth at Landmark in Nungambakkam recently.
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Over 34 years, Archer has published 15 novels, 11 short story collections and a few plays and picture books.

Jeffery Archer, proudly declares that he’s an excellent story teller, who knows how to make the readers laugh and applaud as well.

Talking about his latest book, Archer informed that he had written 17 drafts of A Prisoner of Birth before finalising the story.

It eventually took 1000 hours to complete. He usually started writing at 6 am and continued to work for two hours and then had a two-hour break and so on.

He always wrote his books by hand for he didn’t know how to use any machinery and intends to continue writing all his books in future too. Archer has been promoting his book in India for the past 12 days.

Speaking about the genius R K Narayan, he said that Narayan took ordinary people and places and turned them into giants. He had a piece of advice for all budding writers. ‘Write about what you know best,’ he said.

His first book was Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less got turned down by publishers, 18 of them. ‘That’s the only record I have that’s longer than J K Rowling’s,’ he quipped.

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