Bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote A Woman Of Substance, has died at the age of 91. 

The author died peacefully at her home on Sunday November 24 following a short illness, “and was surrounded by loved ones to the very end”, a spokeswoman said.

She wrote a total of 40 novels during her career, with her most recent, The Wonder of It All, published last year.

She was often labelled “the grand dame of blockbusters”, with her books selling more than 91 million copies to date,…