RHLSTP Book Club 146 - Jenny Colgan

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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RHLSTP Book Club #146 - Close Knit - Richard talks to best selling author Jenny Colgan about what it's like to make a million pounds for your first book, the incredible staying power of the term chick-lit, why she wanted to write a book about a knitting circle, how the book doesn’t have that much knitting in it, taking a flying lesson as research, but why you don’t need to worry too much about research when you’re writing, the snobbery surrounding popular fiction and why it’s a much more complex discipline than some imagine, the effect of lockdown on the young and the staying power of schoolday anxieties. Also writing for Doctor Who and why men should read Jenny’s funny and fabulous books. Also why writers shouldn’t assume they will be an overnight sensation (but it is possible).

Buy Close Knit here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/close-knit-the-brilliant-new-feel-good-love-story-from-the-global-bestseller-jenny-colgan/7666800

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1:13.9	See you again. Welcome to another Rahalisper Book Club.
1:16.1	We're back at the podcast rooms.
1:17.5	I'm delighted to be joined by Jenny Colgan.
1:20.4	I've been reading our recent book, Close Knits.
1:23.9	Recently come out in paperback.
1:26.4	Lovely to have you here, Jenny.
1:28.3	Very nice.
1:29.0	Can't believe we haven't had you on before.
1:32.0	And I shouldn't really have authors like you on this podcast.
1:37.6	Why is that?
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