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Wilbur Smith

November 2021

  • Wilbur Smith in London in 2013

    Bestselling author Wilbur Smith dies aged 88

    The Zambian-born writer published 49 books and sold more than 140 million copies worldwide

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

November 2017

  • Christopher Bollen.

    Bad sex award won by Christopher Bollen's phallic 'billiard rack'

    Passage from novel The Destroyers singled out by judges of dubious honour for ‘going overboard in its attempts to describe the familiar in new terms’

January 2016

  • Oliver Burkeman

    Oliver Burkeman column
    All-day podcasts and brick-sized books. Or, why 2015 was the year the long form fought back

    Oliver Burkeman
    In this era of digital culture, we savour lengthy works – ironically, I have technology to thank for my favourite of the year. Plus, these are inauspicious times in the US for moderate Republicans.

December 2015

  • Wilbur Smith at his home in West London

    Books blog
    Wilbur Smith: a writer's memorable quotes you may want to forget

    The bestselling novelist has given an interview in which he gives spectacularly short shrift to his nearest and less than dearest

October 2015

  • Anne-Marie Duff

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: October 2015

  • Wilbur Smith sitting on a sofa, leaning with his elbows on his legs

    This much I know
    Wilbur Smith: ‘Poor Cecil the lion was going downhill fast – that dentist probably did his pride a favour’

January 2013

  • Wilbur Smith

    Portrait of the artist
    Wilbur Smith, author – portrait of the artist

    'You only need to look at Fifty Shades of Grey to see I'm not the only person who likes raunch'

December 2012

  • Wilbur Smith

    Pass notes
    Wilbur Smith: is this the book deal of the century?

    HarperCollins has offered the author £15m to provide plot outlines – and he won't necessarily be writing up the novels. Nice work if you can get it

March 2012

  • Cut the Rope Experiments Android

    Apps blog
    Apps Rush: Peppa Pig, Cut the Rope, Nokia Creative Studio, Wilbur Smith, Hugmail, Neil Lennon and more

    Stuart Dredge: What's new on the app stores on Monday 19 March 2012

September 2007

  • Books blog
    Send Wilbur Smith into action today

    The master of manly adventures should turn away from historical fiction and square up to the new South Africa.

March 2003

  • I lost my heart in ...
    I lost my heart in... The Seychelles

  • This much I know
    This much I know

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