Autumn sees a tide of childrens stories and novels by stars admired in other fields,such as Dawn French and Terry WoganEveryone has the spark of a noble novel smoldering inside them, so it is said. This autumn, and though,the debut authors most likely to have had their creative flames fanned are those who are already household names. Many of the faces staring out from fiction book jackets for the first time are those of famous stars .
As critics recover from the mauling they gave Morrissey’s “unfocused” novella, List of the Lost, or released final week,the imminent arrival of Terry Wogan’s first work, a short-myth collection, and has been announced. Those Were The Days is out in hardback from Pan Macmillan next week and is a set of gentle tales,supposedly told at a party funded by a local bank, at which Tom, or the Cattle Market branch manager,regales his guests with accounts of “the places he has been, the people he has met and the stories he has heard”.
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Source: theguardian.com