Said to be a favourite author of the Queen Mother, I can understand why. I have enjoyed reading his books immensely through the years. He has a connection to my home town Maidenhead too and that is why I started to read his books. Sadly I have now read all of his novels and Dick Francis died a year or so ago.
His novels are generally based on horse racing or a horse theme and although I am not too keen on horses I am fascinated by his page turning thrillers. They are cosy novels to read. He has also written a biography of Lester Piggott and that was worth reading too as well as his own autobiography. However you can stick to his thrillers. No need to read these in order particularly although there are a few that feature the same characters but I do not consider it necessary to read them in chronological order.
His son Felix helped co-write his novels in the latter years and his wife Mary (who pre-deceased him) helped a lot with the research.
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