How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps
John Bird
Humble Pie
Gordon Ramsay
Jack and Jill
Lucy Cavendish
Kung Fu Trip
Benjamin Zephaniah
Last Night Another Soldier
Andy McNab
Life’s New Hurdles
Colin Jackson
Life’s Too Short
Val McDermid, Editor
Lily
Adèle Geras
The Little One
Lynda La Plante
Love is Blind
Kathy Lette
Men at Work
Mike Gayle
Money Magic
Alvin Hall
One Good Turn
Chris Ryan
The Perfect Holiday
Cathy Kelly
The Perfect Murder
Peter James
Quantum of Tweed: The Man with the Nissan Micra
Conn Iggulden
Raw Voices: True Stories of Hardship and Hope
Vanessa Feltz
Reading My Arse!
Ricky Tomlinson
Rules for Dating a Romantic Hero
Harriet Evans
A Sea Change
Veronica Henry
Star Sullivan
Maeve Binchy
Strangers on the 16:02
Priya Basil
Survive the Worst and Aim for the Best
Kerry Katona
The 10 Keys to Success
John Bird
Tackling Life
Charlie Oatway
Today Everything Changes
AndyMcNab
Traitors of the Tower
Alison Weir
Trouble on the Heath
Terry Jones
Twenty Tales from the War Zone
John Simpson
We Won the Lottery
Danny Buckland
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Simon Kernick
Praise for Jeffrey Archer’s novels
‘If there was a Nobel prize for storytelling, Archer would win’
Daily Telegraph
‘Probably the greatest storyteller of our age’
Mail on Sunday
‘The man’s a genius . . . the strength and excitement of the idea carries all before it’
Evening Standard
‘A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas’
Washington Post
‘Archer has a gift for storytelling that can only be described as genius’
Daily Telegraph
‘Back in top form . . . Archer’s imagination at its most sublime . . . an entertaining, pacey page-turner’
Sunday Times
‘Few are more famous than Archer for keeping the pages turning . . . an extravagant romp – possibly his best’
The Times
Praise for Jeffrey Archer’s short stories
‘Jeffrey Archer plays a subtle cat-and-mouse game with the reader in twelve original short stories that end, more often than not, with our collective whiskers twitching in surprise’
New York Times
‘Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories’
The Times
‘Archer hits the bull’s eye with an exemplary collection’
Daily Mail
‘The economy and precision of Archer’s prose never fails to delight. The criminal doesn’t always get away with his crime and justice doesn’t always prevail, but the reader wins with each and every story’
Publishers Weekly
‘Outstanding . . . white-knuckle suspense . . . [An] enjoyable, suspense-filled rival to Roald Dahl’
Daily Express
Four Warned
JEFFREY ARCHER, whose novels and short stories include Kane and Abel, A Prisoner of Birth and Cat O’ Nine Tales, has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 270 million copies.
He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (fifteen times), short stories (three times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
The author is married with two sons and lives in London and Cambridge.
www.jeffreyarcher.com
Facebook.com/JeffreyArcherAuthor
@Jeffrey_Archer
Also by JEFFREY ARCHER
NOVELS
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Shall We Tell the President?
Kane and Abel The Prodigal Daughter
First Among Equals A Matter of Honour
As the Crow Flies Honour Among Thieves
The Fourth Estate The Eleventh Commandment
Sons of Fortune False Impression
The Gospel According to Judas
(with the assistance of Professor Francis J. Moloney)
A Prisoner of Birth Paths of Glory
Only Time Will Tell The Sins of the Father
Best Kept Secret
SHORT STORIES
A Quiver Full of Arrows A Twist in the Tale
Twelve Red Herrings The Collected Short Stories
To Cut a Long Story Short Cat O’ Nine Tales
And Thereby Hangs a Tale
PLAYS
Beyond Reasonable Doubt Exclusive The Accused
PRISON DIARIES
Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell
Volume Two – Wayland: Purgatory
Volume Three – North Sea Camp: Heaven
SCREENPLAYS
Mallory: Walking Off the Map False Impression
‘Never Stop on the Motorway’
first published 1994 in Twelve Red Herrings by HarperCollins Publishers
First published by Pan Books 2004
‘The Queen’s Birthday Telegram’
first published 2010 by Macmillan in And Thereby Hangs a Tale
First published by Pan Books 2010
‘Stuck on You’ first published 2010 by Macmillan in And Thereby Hangs a Tale
First published by Pan Books 2010
‘Don’t Drink the Water’ first published 2007 in Cat O’ Nine Tales by Macmillan
First published by Pan Books 2007
This electronic edition published 2013 by Pan Macmillan
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ISBN 978-1-4472-5249-8
Copyright © Jeffrey Archer 1994, 2007, 2010
This collection copyright © Jeffrey Archer 2014
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