Hi everybody, Andy here.
Just before we started this week's show,
wanted to introduce our very special guest who was live at the Soho Theatre with us a couple of weeks ago when we recorded this.
He is none other than the mighty Richard Osman.
You might know him from Pointless, you might know him from Richard Osman's House of Games, his appearances on QI,
his appearances on every other brilliant British comedy panel show ever made,
and he is also the author of a series of books called The Thursday Murder Club.
And if you have read a book in the last few years,
there is a pretty good chance that it was one of The Thursday Murder Club novels because they are absolutely titanic.
They have broken so many records they have sold millions of copies.
The first three in the series are called The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice and The Bullet That Missed.
They're about a gang of retired sleuths who live in a retirement village in Kent.
They like going through case notes of old murders and then they find crimes start happening a little closer to home.
They're being simultaneously gripping and thrilling and they are page turners.
You have to keep reading, you have to find out what comes next and also being heartwarming and joyful and very human.
The characters are beautifully drawn.
There is a reason they have sold so many millions of copies around the world and that's because they're really good.
We are all huge fans of them and the next in the series is called The Last Devil to Die,
very exciting title, and it is out soon.
It's out on the 14th of September.