Lady Carnarvon's Official Podcast
Oct 7, 2026 · 34 min · 11 segments
It seems a fitting tribute to share this podcast which reflects on the last fifty years of Jeffrey's fabulous story telling. We recorded this on the 29th September and had such a joyful morning…
Jeffrey ArcherGuest
Fiona CarnarvonHost
But we were discussing, because I remember actually when your books first came out, and the first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, and I've loved the titles you've given your books, Geoffrey.
I think they're really good fun, and I'm immediately drawn to them, because they're different.
I spend a lot of time working on a title, but maybe the best one I ever had, the Americans said no.
And it was a phrase that I thought everybody knew, but they said, no, no one in America has ever heard that.
And I thought In the Lap of the Gods was a wonderful title and they stopped it.
And the Italians have their own opinions, so they can sometimes be very different.
When you started with Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, that came out of a very challenging period in your own life.
And I remember you saying that it's more autobiographical, which is often where the first fictional novel is.
And having eventually persuaded a publisher to say yes, did it take off quite quickly when it was published? Was it that overnight success, having gone to...
But we were discussing, because I remember actually when your books first came out, and the first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, and I've loved the titles you've given your books, Geoffrey.
I think they're really good fun, and I'm immediately drawn to them, because they're different.
I spend a lot of time working on a title, but maybe the best one I ever had, the Americans said no.
And it was a phrase that I thought everybody knew, but they said, no, no one in America has ever heard that.
And I thought In the Lap of the Gods was a wonderful title and they stopped it.
And the Italians have their own opinions, so they can sometimes be very different.
When you started with Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, that came out of a very challenging period in your own life.
And I remember you saying that it's more autobiographical, which is often where the first fictional novel is.
And having eventually persuaded a publisher to say yes, did it take off quite quickly when it was published? Was it that overnight success, having gone to...
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