It has often been said that Jeffrey Archer's career is reflected in his fiction--or, in some cases, that his fiction is reflected in his career. Both have attracted a lot of public attention and have become the center of much controversy. A man of...

RICHARD ROGERS is right to say we need new policies to improve urban life - but he has no need to denigrate our cities. It is not true that they are "the worst in Europe". By failing to celebrate what is successful and...

15 April 1940: Jeffrey Howard Archer born in Weston-super-Mare. His father, William Archer, is a 64-year-old former mortgage broker with a conviction for dishonesty. His young mother, Lola, chronicles Jeffrey's adventures in a weekly column for the local newspaper. Archer attends Wellington School in...

After the enormous commercial success of his recent novels, "Kane and Abel" and "The Prodigal Daughter," one can easily understand why Jeffrey Archer and his publisher would bring out a collection of his short stories. But it is difficult to comprehend what conceivable enjoyment readers will derive from the sophomoric fictions in "A Quiver Full of Arrows," which suggest the author is unaware that the genre has made strides since the days of O. Henry. In a prefatory ...