Fifty Shades Freed: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller

About E L James

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015 she published the #1 bestseller Grey the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey and in 2017 the chart-topping Darker the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Mister in 2019. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide. E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World and Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012) and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads as voted by readers in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third instalment Fifty Shades Freed won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.