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Richard Osman, co-host of 'Pointless' and author of 'The Thursday Murder Club'

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'Before my dad left there was normality and then there was the trauma of him going and a lot of children deal with that by inventing a narrative that isn't quite true or quite right' - Richard Osman

It's a time of the year when the book charts are crowded by celebrity releases, many of them hastily written and of dubious literary value. What a pleasant surprise, then, to read Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, which is testament to the fact that just because someone has a degree of fame - Osman is the witty co-host of Pointless, a comedy game show which is broadcast every afternoon on ITV - it doesn't mean they're necessarily chancing their arm as authors.

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