Archer has christened the 15,000 sq ft house Writer’s Block (Francesco Guidicini)
In one of the short stories in Jeffrey Archer’s latest collection, a property developer who wants to build a group of super-luxe houses in Mallorca nearly comes unstuck thanks to both the government and the planners. When it came to constructing his own villa on the island, however, the bestselling writer and former deputy chairman of the Conservative party says he encountered few of those troubles.
“It was actually a very smooth process,” says Archer, 70, standing on the wooden deck of his sprawling home in a small community southeast of Palma, the island’s capital. “Although when I submitted the plans, they assumed I was building a small hotel. It has turned out to be slightly larger than I expected — I didn’t get the