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Dick Francis

March 2020

  • Portrait of Donna Tartt in 1993

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: Which thrillers and crime fiction will keep my teenager hooked?

    From Agatha Christie to Anthony Horowitz, writer Peter Swanson recommends the best of classic and modern

April 2018

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    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about horses – Jane Smiley picks her favourites

    Childhood classics, colourful racers and memoirs of horse whisperers … the novelist and horse lover gallops through the best riding reads

June 2012

  • Newmarket races

    10 of the best
    John Mullan's 10 of the best: horse races

    From Hyde Park to Epsom, it's a close-run thing

December 2010

  • this sporting life/richard harris

    Sportblog
    David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league

    Frank Keating: This Sporting Life has just reached its half-century and it remains the best novel written by a former sportsman or woman
  • Dick Francis

    Shortcuts
    How Dick Francis helped me through adolescence

  • Dick Francis

    Books blog
    The thrilling world of Dick Francis

  • Dick Francis

    Scars of Devon Loch's Grand National never healed for Dick Francis

  • Dick Francis, author.

    Champion jockey and king of fiction Dick Francis dies at 89

  • Dick Francis

    Author Dick Francis dies aged 89

  • Dick Francis

    Dick Francis obituary

January 2010

  • Tesco sets up film studio to adapt hit novels

    Chain will base movies on books by authors including Jackie Collins, Philip Pullman and Dick Francis

September 2009

  • Dodgier than fiction

    Dick Francis, Felix Francis

    Dick Francis and Felix Francis: Horse racing may have a reputation for villainy, but today it's other sports leading the crooked way

August 2009

  • Dick Francis

    Dick Francis – a family business

    When Dick Francis turned his hand from horses to writing bestselling thrillers, he enlisted the help of his family – and now his son Felix is co-author.

September 2008

  • Silks

  • Digested read
    Silks by Dick Francis and Felix Francis

June 2008

  • Books blog
    When Dick Francis's son joined the family stable

    It's all very well writing in the name of your father, but it's refreshing when the progeny of literary stardom show a little independence

November 2007

  • Race fixing is Dick Francis plot, court hears jockey tell police

    The jockey Kieren Fallon told arresting officers he had never deliberately lost a race and said the idea of doing it was like a plot from a Dick Francis novel, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

September 2006

  • Digested read
    Under Orders by Dick Francis

    "I'm going to make the killers come after me by telling everyone that I know who did it," I told the rear admiral. "Be careful," said Charles, grimly. "Everyone knows you can't be intimidated because of your prosthetic arm, so they might go for your nearest and dearest instead."

April 2006

  • Stuart Jeffries

    Whip hand

    Stuart Jeffries

    Stuart Jeffries: After Dick Francis took a tumble in the final seconds of the Grand National in 1956 he stopped racing and became a writer. Now, after a six-year break, he's writing again.

July 2003

  • Why I love...

    ...Dick Francis.
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