The master storyteller is back. His latest book, only time will tell, is already topping bestseller lists around the globe

'Lord Jeffrey Archer', the name is an enigma of sorts. A newspaper once famously quoted that, "If ever there was to be a Nobel Prize to be given for storytelling, Jeffrey Archer would win." His first of the five books in The Clifton Chronicles, Only Time Will Tell has smashed records and has become an international best seller in a day.

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Yet the troublesome past of the master storyteller is equally intriguing as compared to his literary acumen. Disowned by his political party on allegations of perjury, jailed for four years or his chant of Long Live Kurdistan being mistranslated into "Bastard Devilish Kurdistan". Love him or hate him, you can't deny the fact that he is arguably the best storyteller of the 21st century.
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What is your new book, 'Only time will tell' all about?
It's about a boy born in the backstreets of Bristol in England. Son of a docker, so the family assumed he will be a docker. But he discovers at the age of seven, that he has an amazing talent, a beautiful singing voice and his whole life changes. He wins a scholarship to Oxford and it goes from 1920 to 1940 and in 1940 he goes to Oxford but a war breaks out. He has to decide then whether he would go to war or complete his degree. This is the first of Clifton Chronicles; there will be five of them. That one goes from 1900 to 1920; the whole five go from 1920 to 2020 and follow the life of Harry Clifton for a hundred years.

Was Harry Clifton, the protagonist in your new book inspired by anyone in your life?
I think it's autobiographical, there's a lot of me in Harry and lot of mother in Massey, and also Giles is based on a friend of mine. You use and rely on people you know.