Churchill: Walking with Destiny
by Andrew Roberts

The New York Times proclaimed that Churchill: Walking with Destiny “must surely be the best single-volume biography of Churchill yet written.”

Andrew Roberts is considered one of the world’s most eminent historians and authors. I’m always interested in the routines of other writers, so I was fascinated by this account that Andrew Roberts shared in the Writing Routines newsletter:

“I write in my study at my house in Belgravia in London, starting very early in the morning, usually around 4.30am, dressed in my pajamas, dressing-gown and slippers. That way no-one interrupts you for five hours, in which time you can get a huge amount of work done. (I averaged 5,500 words a day for 100 days straight writing Churchill: Walking with Destiny). I take an hour’s nap every afternoon and then work through until supper, using the caffeine drink Red Bull to keep me alert until I go to bed at 10pm. It’s a fairly weird routine, I know, but I’ve adhered to it for nearly forty years after going up to university, and it works for me.”

You can’t argue with the success of Andrew Roberts (whose next book, a biography of King George III - of Hamilton fame - is due to be published in October, 2021).