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James Patterson

June 2024

  • Did he see it coming? … Mauna Loa erupts on Hawaii in 2022.

    The nuclear volcano’s about to blow! Can Michael Crichton score an explosive hit from beyond the grave?

    From Jurassic Park to Westworld, he was king of the sciency disaster novel. But Crichton died before finishing Eruption. Who could possibly complete it? Fellow thriller legend James Patterson explains why he took up the baton

February 2023

  • Julia Donaldson

    Julia Donaldson ends James Patterson’s reign as UK libraries’ most borrowed author

    Data shows that Patterson’s 14-year run as readers’ overall favourite has given way to the Gruffalo author

December 2022

  • James Patterson

    James Patterson to complete unfinished Michael Crichton book

    Late author’s estate has shared a manuscript with the bestselling novelist centered on a volcanic eruption in Hawaii

June 2022

  • Author James Patterson at an event to promote his joint novel with former President Bill Clinton.

    James Patterson apologizes for saying white male authors face ‘racism’

  • Richard Osman.

    Murdering the competition: Richard Osman thriller tops UK library loans

March 2022

  • A young woman tips her cowboy hat so you can't see her face

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson; Reputation by Sarah Vaughan; Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura; Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson; Hot Water by Christopher Fowler

December 2021

  • Hillary Clinton promotes her crime novel State of Terror on US TV.

    From Bill Clinton to Robert Peston: celebrity crime fiction on trial

    After you’ve written your memoir, publishers these days want anyone famous to write crime novels. We put 10 of the most well-known in the dock

August 2021

  • Dolly Parton and James Patterson

    Dolly Parton to publish her first novel in 2022

    The country music superstar has teamed up with the novelist James Patterson to write Run, Rose, Run, which will be published in March

April 2021

  • James Patterson<br>Bestselling author James Patterson photographed at his second home in the Hudson River Valley, New York. Credit: Chris Sorensen / Redux / eyevine For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

    ‘Bill and I got pretty friendly’: James Patterson on writing with Clinton and clashing with Trump

    His plot-driven thrillers have seen him sell more books than Tolkien, and he has even co-written fiction with the former president. But it’s readers of the future he wants to enthral

May 2020

  • James Patterson and Bill Clinton, who published The President is Missing together in 2018.

    Bill Clinton writing second thriller with James Patterson

    Pair behind The President is Missing writing novel about kidnapping of a former president’s daughter

January 2020

  • Never go back … Lee Child.

    Books blog
    Lee Child letting go of his creation is a tale told by other bestsellers

    The Jack Reacher author says he will hand on his character to his brother – following other writers who have surrendered their stories

October 2018

  • James Patterson.

    James Patterson says saving libraries is down to readers

    Speaking during Libraries Week, the thriller writer, who has donated large sums to fund reading in schools, says ‘it really starts with the people’

July 2018

  • Author James Patterson for Review Profile

    James Patterson remains UK libraries' most borrowed author for 11th year

    While readers in east England prefer romance, and those in the south-west want their books to be by Roald Dahl, figures show the US thriller king has kept his throne

June 2018

  • Digested Read

    Digested read
    The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – digested read

    ‘I’m President Jonathan Duncan, a war hero and not a draft-dodger. Everything Bill Clinton would like to have been’
  • ‘This novel is missing several things’: Bill Clinton and his co-author, James Patterson, at GlenArbor golf club, Bedford Hills, New York.

    The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – review

    A terrorist and a president vie for supremacy in Bill Clinton’s daft fiction debut

    • Book of the day
      The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson review – a presidential thriller

    • Books blog
      Bill Clinton and James Patterson are co-authors – but who did the writing?

    • The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson review – Guns! Girls! Guff!

March 2018

  • “Thanks to Alan Cumming, who brings to the character droves of personality and panache, Reinhardt is a new kind of TV sleuth”.

    What Alan Cumming's role as a gay lead means for mainstream TV

    In Instinct, the actor plays a spy-author-professor-detective whose sexuality is both irrelevant and groundbreaking

August 2017

  • The creator of Harry Potter, JK Rowling

    JK Rowling's return to Harry Potter makes her world's richest author in 2017

    As her wizarding world returns to the stage and screen, Rowling’s $95m pushes James Patterson into second place with $87m
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