Reverend Richard Coles
Thursday 3 July 2025
Interviewer: Stewart Collins
Stewart Collins is the Literary Director of the Kent House Series. As well as having written for the stage and national publications, Stewart has been the artistic director of numerous performance and literary festivals and founder of both Stoke on Trent and Petworth Literary Festivals.
As an interviewer he has chaired over a hundred literary conversations, notably with Clare Balding, David Suchet, Hugh Bonneville, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Palin, Nick Hornby, Victoria Hislop and William Boyd.
A Death on Location
Publication date 5 June 2025
The Reverend Richard Coles will need little introduction, being very much one of our national treasures, not only a former pop star with ‘80s band The Communards, but also a much loved broadcaster and ordained Anglican priest. A Death on Location is Richard’s fourth foray into the world of the murder mystery, his previous three all having made it to No1 in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List. His other books include a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller the Madness of Grief, written after the death of his partner, David Coles.
Having appeared on both Celebrity Masterchef and Strictly Come Dancing (he was voted off in week 2!) and with over half a million followers on X, his appearances on BBC Radio as well as TV panel shows such as Have I Got News for You and QI make him very much one of a kind…
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His latest book, A Death on Location, takes place In the Spring of 1990. We return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location.
As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a murder interrupts filming on set, and it's an ingenious one . . .
Can Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo, even when things are so sticky between them?
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