100 million copies sold. Two Tom Cruise movies and a wildly successful Amazon Prime TV series. Jack Reacher is one of those fictional characters that everyone has heard about. So what's it like to take responsibility for the future of the character? Our guest this week Andrew Child has done just that, taking over from his brother Lee to write Reacher's 26th adventure, Better Off Dead. The brothers collaborated on the direction of the novel, but as Andrew explains to us, he's now responsible for the words on the page. It's a far-ranging and fascinating interview.
Also this week, Adrian and Rebecca reflect on more upheaval in UK publishing with the announcement that the Costa Book Award is coming to an end, and the call from a former head of Blackwells for publishers to finally have an honest conversation with retailers about the price of books in the UK given the huge rise in production costs in recent months.
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