David Robb's six best books

David Robb is best known for playing Dr. Clarkson in the TV series Downton Abbey and Sir Thomas Boleyn in the TV adaptation of Wolf Hall. One of his six best books, as shared at the Daily Express:

THE NEW CONFESSIONS by William Boyd

I get swept along by epic tales and Boyd is brilliant with detail. This incorporates a childhood in Edinburgh and a stint in Hollywood which I can identify with. The guy gets involved in all sorts of schemes and ends up in Los Angeles during the McCarthyite witch-hunts.

Read about another entry on the list.

The New Confessions is among Patrick McGilligan's five best film directors in fictional form.

--Marshal Zeringue