Bestselling author Harlan Coben has commended the Queen and the Queen’s Reading Room charity for their approach to encouraging people to read. American Coben, 62, who has more than 80 million books in print worldwide, is famous for novels including Win, The Boy From The Woods, Run Away, Fool Me Once, Tell No One and the Myron Bolitar thriller series Several of his books have been adapted by Netflix, most recently Fool Me Once, which starred Dame Joanna Lumley and Michelle Keegan , with key scenes filmed in Bolton . It was a hit for the streaming service , topping the list of most-watched programmes.
Hot on the heels of the success of Fool Me Once, scenes for is Missing You have been shot in Le Mans Crescent and Victoria Square. He is among the impressive line-up for the Queen’s Reading Room festival, now in its second year, which is being held at Hampton Court Palace on June 8. Coben, who met the Queen earlier in the year during an event at Clarence House, told the PA news agency of the “tremendous honour” of being asked to appear at the literary festival.
He said: “But also what made it better for me is, especially after going to the Clarence House event, what the Queen’s Reading Room is doing, which is so unusual and different. “I’ve done a lot for a lot of literary groups and we’re always trying to encourage people to read, young people to read, old people to read, and the Queen is doing that. “But I think by tying it into actual science is what I find .