Richard Osman
- 54 years old
- English
- Writer, executive producer, presenter and celebrity
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Osman's novel announced as W H Smith Book of the Year
Richard Osman's debut crime novel The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has been named W H Smith's Book of the Year for 2020.
Ruth Comerford, The Bookseller, 5th November 2020Osman tells politicians to 'suck it up' on panel shows
The Pointless host has responded to claims that shows like Have I Got News For You are too left-wing, but he insisted that's simply down to who's in power.
The List, 21st September 2020Meet the author: Richard Osman
Genial giant and quiz show host Richard Osman stumbled on the idea for his debut novel while visiting the mum of a friend in her retirement village.
The Sunday Post, 19th September 2020The Thursday Murder Club tops e-book chart
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has charted top of the Bookstat e-book top 10 in its second week on sale, rising from third to score an across-formats double, after its hardback claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.
Kiera O'Brien, The Bookseller, 17th September 2020Thursday Murder Club hits charts top spot for 2nd week
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has renewed its membership to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 34,485 copies in its first full week on sale.
Kiera O'Brien, The Bookseller, 15th September 2020Richard Osman to write two more Thursday Murder Clubs
Richard Osman, whose first novel The Thursday Murder Club this week becomes the fastest selling adult crime debut since BookScan records began, has signed a deal with Viking for two more books in the series.
Mark Chandler, The Bookseller, 8th September 2020Osman is fastest out of the gate in books' bumper week
The Thursday Murder Club shifted just over 45,000 copies in three days on sale.
Tom Tivnan, The Bookseller, 8th September 2020Richard Osman: 'I wish I were cooler but I'm not'
We've come to expect the unexpected from Richard Osman, the affable frontman on quiz shows Pointless and House of Games. Both are arguably two of the most inventive in their genre of the last decade, throwing, as they do, convention forcefully to the wind. True to form, Osman's latest project sees him remoulding again, but this time it's himself - from TV personality to crime novelist. Written in secret over 18 months, The Thursday Murder Club bears Osman's offbeat hallmark in that it's unusually set in a retirement village.
Rebecca Thomas, BBC, 27th August 2020Osman: Spielberg making film of his debut novel
Richard Osman has revealed that legendary director Steven Spielberg has bought the film rights to his debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, about four English pensioner sleuths.
Patrick McLennan, Radio Times, 27th August 2020BBC axe Insert Name Here
Bosses say they have no plans to make any more episodes of the programme, which has run for four series.
Chortle, 26th February 2020