Author Archives: Jemima Hunt

Read our Q&A with screenwriter & script consultant Henry Fitzherbert – Find out about his rom-com success & how to turn a script around. ‘The biggest challenge is to find a story worth telling. To find something that can punch … Continue reading →

We’re delighted to welcome scriptwriter Henry Fitzherbert to The Writers’ Practice. Henry will be advising on screenplays. Former film critic, Henry got his break co-writing boarding school comedy horror, Slaughterhouse Rulez, starring Simon Pegg.

To celebrate the publication of More Than Likely, the creators of some of British television’s most beloved comedies reflect on their long and successful careers. Together they scripted The Likely Lads, which became one of BBC Two’s first hits.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson publisher Alan Samson has acquired world rights excluding the USA and Canada to the funniest memoir you will read this year: More Than Likely will be published on 19th September.

Congratulations to Phil Miller on winning a 2019 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship towards completing his new novel, Spook School. Fantastic news!

Don’t miss the exciting CrimeFest programme – including Ben Lyle discussing his Wiggins spy thrillers, The Irregular & The Red Ribbon.  

Great to see HB Lyle’s second Wiggins spy thriller, The Red Ribbon, selected in the FT’s 2018 Books of the Year by their thriller reviewer Adam LeBor.