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Barbara Taylor Bradford

November 2021

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford in a red top and a red jacket

    This much I know
    Barbara Taylor Bradford: ‘My mother told me: “Keep your head down and don’t flirt at work”

    The author, aged 88, on her first job working with Keith Waterhouse, giving advice to Sean Connery and her 56-year marriage

December 2019

  • ‘I’m wearing my public face …’ Barbara Taylor Bradford, photographed at the Dorchester hotel.

    Barbara Taylor Bradford on love, tragedy and ambition: ‘I’ve always had a backbone of steel’

    The novelist writes about strong, independent women. But her own resilience was tested when her husband died earlier this year

November 2019

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford.

    Barbara Taylor Bradford writing prequel to A Woman of Substance

    Novelist says she returned to the story that made her name 40 years ago as she struggled to cope after her husband’s death

December 2017

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford at home in New York

    This much I know
    Barbara Taylor Bradford: ‘A novel is a monumental lie – with the ring of truth about it'

    The novelist, 84, tells Sarah Hughes about the discipline of writing, sexy books, glass ceilings, human nature and shopping for shoes

October 2014

  • Cathy Cassidy leads a protest against the closure of Liverpool's libraries

    Writers join fight to save Liverpool’s libraries

    Authors including Cathy Cassidy, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Caitlin Moran are protesting the possible closure of 11 of 18 of Liverpool’s libraries, writes Alison Flood

March 2014

  • Women walk past a billboard of a model on International Women's Day

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Women in literature with Barbara Taylor Bradford and Sheila Heti – books podcast

    We examine the role of women in writing with the publisher Lynne Drew, the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford and the Canadian writer Sheila Heti

February 2014

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    The Q&A
    Q&A: Barbara Taylor Bradford

    'My least appealing habit? Correcting people'

June 2013

  • Andy Murray

    Observer TV reviews
    Rewind TV: Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet; Secrets from the Workhouse; Hannibal; India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman – review

    The rebranding of sulky-drawers Murray got off to an unpromising start, while a timely reminder of workhouse inhumanities made powerful viewing, writes Barbara Ellen

March 2013

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    My family values
    Barbara Taylor Bradford: My family values

    The writer tells Angela Wintle about how her mother's inspirational influence and her father's gift for storytelling shaped her career

March 2011

  • What's in your basket?
    What's in your basket, Barbara Taylor Bradford?

    John Briffa is mostly impressed by the novelist's diet – although the tinned custard isn't a winner…

September 2009

  • barbara taylor bradford

    What I see in the mirror
    Barbara Taylor Bradford: What I see in the mirror

    'I don't believe it's wrong to try to make yourself look nice, even if you're an older woman'

February 2009

  • Barbara Taylor Bradford. Photograph: Larry Marano/Getty Images

    Barbara Taylor Bradford sends message of support to Yorkshire journalists

    'I'm rooting for you,' best-selling author tells journalists at Yorkshire Post Newspapers as they give notice of further industrial action. By Oliver Luft

November 2008

  • My space
    My space

    The bestselling writer Barbara Taylor Bradford talks drinks and décor in the library of her New York apartment

October 2007

  • Why I Write
    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Winning 10 shillings in a story competition as a 10-year-old gave her the bug. Compulsion, and a talent for lying, keeps her at her desk.

October 2006

  • You can never be too rich

    She's sold 75 million blockbusters, and is worth more than £100 million. Now 67, she still works a 10-hour day. Immodestly wealthy Barbara Taylor Bradford tells Rachel Cooke how her Yorkshire work ethic paid off.

August 2003

  • Writer loses fight to block soap opera

    Barbara Taylor Bradford, the best-selling author, lost her legal challenge yesterday in India's supreme court to stop the broadcast of a Bollywood soap opera which she claimed was based on her books.

July 2003

  • Taylor Bradford loses Indian plagiarism case

    A court in Calcutta yesterday dismissed a claim by the author Barbara Taylor Bradford that an Indian television series was a rip-off of her bestselling novel A Woman of Substance.

December 2000

  • Talking dirty

    "I think women also want to read about likeable men. They certainly want to marry likeable men. But we are all tempted by the bastards"
    Barbara Taylor Bradford on the enduring appeal of Heathcliff, Times

November 2000

  • First class female

    She's one of the world's most popular novelists, and now she's even on a stamp. So why does Barbara Taylor Bradford still polish her own furniture? Simon Hattenstone finds out.

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