The Rev Richard Coles: ‘I think my CV looks like the work of a fantasist’ | Books
After being a pop star in his 20s (as keyboard player in the Communards with Jimmy Somerville), Richard Coles became an Anglican vicar and then a broadcaster (notably as a co-presenter for 12 years on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live). The 61-year-old is now a bestselling novelist: his second “cosy crime” book, A Death in the Parish, featuring the country vicar and occasional sleuth Canon Daniel Clement, is out now in paperback; a third mystery follows this summer. He lives in East Sussex with his two dachshunds Pongo and…