Michael Robotham

And bookshops are tight spaces.

They can't have every Jack Reacher on the shelf, every Michael Robotham on the shelf.

They choose the ones that they know have the quickest turnover.

So there are other forces involved.

He then took up ghostwriting celebrity autobiographies before getting his big break in crime writing and he's been thrilling audiences around the world ever since.

Michael Robotham, welcome to The Year That Made Me.

Thank you, Julian.

Pleasure to be here.

All you've done is put them on a page.

I mean, I told you what to put, type thing, you know.

And others were incredibly fulsome in their praise and said, I could not have written this without the help of, you know, Michael Robotham.

So...

In this fictional version, a 600-page novel, he has five more decades of life.

He's involved in both public life, in literary life, and it all sort of hinges on a decision that he makes in the first couple of pages, Michael Robotham.

So in order to write this alternative history, he sort of has to establish the man, doesn't he, the figure, and to take us into this world.

I mean, how well does he do that as the book opens?

You are right, actually, because that belongs to you and you alone.

I know what Miles looks like to me and then to someone else.

So you own that.

No one can tell you it's wrong.

And that's my grandpa, my beloved.

That smell is to me so comforting.

And I haven't put that in deliberately and I didn't even notice and someone pointed it out to me and I'm like, wow.

So I'm using it as a comfort thing for my character and it's obviously because it was for me.

Yeah.

Michael Robotham.

Yeah.

He

please don't um i meant metaphorically it's you're fine um katie who is your all-time favorite author that you haven't met yet

oh my god there's so many that i've not met all-time favorite yeah There's a male thriller author called Michael Robotham who consistently...

Just say that again.

Michael Robotham.

Robotham.

Is that how you say it? Yeah.