When will your next book be published?

Jeffrey's answer

At the time of writing, Adam and Eve, published this October 2026, is my next novel — and the one I am holding my breath on, because it is not, in many ways, the book most readers expect from me. After that, I am working on something I cannot yet talk about, though my publishers know what it is, and my family know what it is, and I will say more when the time is right.

The longer answer is that books arrive on a rhythm. I write four two-hour shifts a day, six days a week, for eight or nine months of the year. That produces a first draft. The first draft then goes through fourteen, fifteen, sometimes twenty drafts before it lands on my publisher’s desk. From manuscript delivery to bookshop shelf is roughly twelve to eighteen months, depending on the market and the genre.

What that means in practice is roughly one novel a year, plus occasional short story collections, plus occasional non-fiction.

Here is the current publishing rhythm, as of writing:

Adam and Eve — October 2026. My next novel. A WW2 epic about the choices that shape lives, and history. Two children born on the same day in entirely different circumstances. The ending I will not describe.

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less — 50th Anniversary Edition — June 2026. The book that started everything, fifty years on. Paramount’s television adaptation is in development for the same window.

End Game — published October 2025. The eighth and final William Warwick novel, concluding the series that began with Nothing Ventured in 2019.

A Christmas Carol — my modern update of the Dickens classic, due 2027–2028.

Children’s books — Faraday, The Little Kingdom, and the Willie and Randolph books — written for and with my grandchildren. The most recent batch are available now; more are in the pipeline.

Short stories — I have written ninety-five over the years. The eighth collection will arrive when I have enough anecdotes worth bringing together. I cannot tell you exactly when. Short stories appear when they are ready.

Beyond that, there is another big idea I have started to write. I have not told anyone what it is, beyond my publishers and my family. I will say more in due course.

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• The publishing rhythm. Roughly one novel a year, plus occasional short story collections and non-fiction. Manuscript-to-shelf is 12–18 months in most markets.
• Older books still in print. Every novel JA has written — including Kane and Abel (1979), Not a Penny More (1976), and the entire Clifton Chronicles — remains in print and available worldwide.
• For media rights / adaptations. All enquiries via The Jeffrey Archer Company. Paramount’s adaptation of NAPMNPL for the 50th anniversary is one of several projects in development.