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5 October 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nJeffrey Archer has died aged 86.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nJeffrey Archer has passed away<\/p>\n\nThe bestselling author and former Conservative politician – who sold over 300 million books across his five-decade writing career – passed away “suddenly and peacefully at home” on Monday (05.10.26), according to his publisher.<\/p>\n\nHarperCollins said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that HarperCollins announces that bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, died suddenly and peacefully at home today, aged 86, between writing sessions.<\/p>\n\n“Jeffrey Archer was one of the bestselling authors of the last half-century whose new book, Adam and Eve, which the author had always planned to be his final novel, is published globally by HarperCollins tomorrow, 6 October.”<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n\nThey added that his career “is the stuff of publishing legend”, recalling how his first novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less – which was published in 1976 – sparked a career which saw him spend “a total of 14 years and five months on the Sunday Times bestseller lists and 5 [and a half] years on the New York Times bestseller lists”.<\/p>\n\nThey continued: “His readers meant everything to him, and just yesterday he met and signed books for hundreds of fans at a sold out event at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.<\/p>\n\n\u201cA member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is survived by his wife who he was infinitely proud of, Dame Mary Archer, their two sons, James and William, two granddaughters and three grandsons (one of whom just finished a school biography on him).<\/p>\n\n\u201cThey all celebrated Jeffrey and Mary\u2019s 60th wedding anniversary this year with many friends at The Old Vicarage in Grantchester.<\/p>\n\n“The family have asked for privacy at this time, and to share how much he was loved and how proud they are of him.”<\/p>\n\nHis final book, Adam and Eve, will be released this month.<\/p>\n\nKate Elton, HarperCollins UK CEO and Archer’s editor, added: \u201cIt has been one of the great privileges of my publishing life to have been Jeffrey Archer\u2019s editor.<\/p>\n\n\u201cHe was the master storyteller and an editor\u2019s dream \u2013 phenomenally hard-working, utterly committed to completing draft after draft to get every word as perfect as possible, and a true champion of the \u2018team\u2019 nature of great publishing.<\/p>\n\n\u201cWhen he set out to write Adam and Eve he told me from the very beginning that it would be his final novel \u2013 he was so excited about the scale of it and told me that if he could pull it off it would equal anything he\u2019d previously written, on which basis he couldn\u2019t imagine embarking on any future novels.<\/p>\n\n\u201cHe did indeed pull it off \u2013 and he was utterly thrilled by the early reader reactions.”<\/p>\n\nArcher, a former Conservative MP, was made a life peer in 1992, but in 2001 he was imprisoned for lying and cheating in a 1987 libel case against the Daily Star newspaper, for which he had been awarded \u00a3500,000 in damages.<\/p>\n\nHe was sentenced to four years in jail for perjury and perverting the course of justice, but was released in 2003 and remained in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 October 2026 Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86. 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Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86.<\/p>\n
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Jeffrey Archer has passed away<\/p>\n
\nThe bestselling author and former Conservative politician – who sold over 300 million books across his five-decade writing career – passed away “suddenly and peacefully at home” on Monday (05.10.26), according to his publisher.<\/p>\n
\nHarperCollins said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that HarperCollins announces that bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, died suddenly and peacefully at home today, aged 86, between writing sessions.<\/p>\n
\n“Jeffrey Archer was one of the bestselling authors of the last half-century whose new book, Adam and Eve, which the author had always planned to be his final novel, is published globally by HarperCollins tomorrow, 6 October.”<\/p>\n
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\nThey added that his career “is the stuff of publishing legend”, recalling how his first novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less – which was published in 1976 – sparked a career which saw him spend “a total of 14 years and five months on the Sunday Times bestseller lists and 5 [and a half] years on the New York Times bestseller lists”.<\/p>\n
\nThey continued: “His readers meant everything to him, and just yesterday he met and signed books for hundreds of fans at a sold out event at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cA member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is survived by his wife who he was infinitely proud of, Dame Mary Archer, their two sons, James and William, two granddaughters and three grandsons (one of whom just finished a school biography on him).<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThey all celebrated Jeffrey and Mary\u2019s 60th wedding anniversary this year with many friends at The Old Vicarage in Grantchester.<\/p>\n
\n“The family have asked for privacy at this time, and to share how much he was loved and how proud they are of him.”<\/p>\n
\nHis final book, Adam and Eve, will be released this month.<\/p>\n
\nKate Elton, HarperCollins UK CEO and Archer’s editor, added: \u201cIt has been one of the great privileges of my publishing life to have been Jeffrey Archer\u2019s editor.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe was the master storyteller and an editor\u2019s dream \u2013 phenomenally hard-working, utterly committed to completing draft after draft to get every word as perfect as possible, and a true champion of the \u2018team\u2019 nature of great publishing.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhen he set out to write Adam and Eve he told me from the very beginning that it would be his final novel \u2013 he was so excited about the scale of it and told me that if he could pull it off it would equal anything he\u2019d previously written, on which basis he couldn\u2019t imagine embarking on any future novels.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe did indeed pull it off \u2013 and he was utterly thrilled by the early reader reactions.”<\/p>\n
\nArcher, a former Conservative MP, was made a life peer in 1992, but in 2001 he was imprisoned for lying and cheating in a 1987 libel case against the Daily Star newspaper, for which he had been awarded \u00a3500,000 in damages.<\/p>\n
\nHe was sentenced to four years in jail for perjury and perverting the course of justice, but was released in 2003 and remained in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2024.<\/p>\n
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