My Life in Books

Ruth Jones is best known for playing Nessa in Gavin and Stacey - the BBC TV comedy she co-wrote with James Corden - and also for starring in and writing the comedy series Stella, set in her native Sou...

Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and grew up in London and went on to work as a minicab controller, braille typer and brochure writer for Club 18-30, before settling on journalism. She worked as a journali...

Sebastian Faulks began his writing career as a journalist - including a stint at the Daily Telegraph - before publishing his first novel, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, in 1989. He’s gone on to write over...

Growing up, Marian Keyes never thought of herself as a writer - and came to her profession almost by accident in the early 1990s.  She has since become one of Ireland’s most successful novelists - wit...

Born in London in 1954, Louis de Bernières published his first book in 1990 and since then has written two volumes of poetry, numerous works of short fiction and eight novels.He’s best known for Capta...

Discover the literary secrets of some of the UK's best-known authors, including Marian Keyes, Sebastian Faulks, Louis de Bernières and Jojo Moyes. Each sits down in conversation with the Telegrap...