The pop star turned vicar and radio host on his new career as crime novelist, missing the clergy and why his books speak to the anxiety of uncertain times
fter being a pop star in his 20s , Richard Coles became an Anglican vicar and then a broadcaster (notably as a co-presenter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4’s, featuring the country vicar and occasional sleuth Canon Daniel Clement, is out now in paperback; a third mystery follows this summer. He lives in East Sussex with his two dachshunds Pongo and Daisy.It’s been quite a do.
I could probably write anywhere, pretty much. Noise-cancelling headphones are one of the great inventions of civilisationNo one rips your shirt off if you’ve written a bestselling crime novel, I find. Well, they haven’t yet. And they literally do rip your shirt off if you had a No 1 record. But it’s enormously gratifying to have a hit in your 60s when the last one you had was in your 20s. That’s lovely and feels like vindication, I suppose.– not by me, so in my mind I’m casting it now.
Yes – I wonder what that’s about? I suppose that sounds like a jack of all trades. But I’m more struck really by the continuities than the discontinuities between them. Having said that, I think my CV looks like the work of a fantasist, actually. But it did happen and I don’t know why. Curiosity, tirelessness, restlessness, a sense of some appetite that needed to be satisfied.Well, I would like to be a painter, but I can’t paint.
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