List of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club
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The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy
Book Club, which feature on the popular television chat show.
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Summer Book Club
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Children's Book Club
In 2007, Richard and Judy hosted a special Children's Book Club edition of the show as part of Channel 4's "Lost For Words" season. The featured books were chosen with the help of pupils from several schools around the UK.
Richard & Judy
Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. It originally aired on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club...
Book Club, which feature on the popular television chat show.
2004
- Monica AliMonica AliMonica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003...
- Brick Lane - Martina ColeMartina ColeMartina Cole is a British crime writer. She was brought up in Aveley, and has released seventeen novels about crime some of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have been adapted into high-rating television dramas...
- The KnowThe KnowThe Know is an Australian talk show on Max. The pop culture show features Yumi Stynes, musician Jimmy Barnes and actress Lisa Hensley as the main show hosts along with former Machine Gun Fellatio keyboardist, Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab. The show discusses and reviews movies, music, television and... - William Dalrymple - White MughalsWhite MughalsWhite Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple.Its Dalrymple's fifth major book.-Summary:The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married...
- Zoë HellerZoë HellerZoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.-Early life:Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport...
- Notes on a ScandalNotes on a ScandalNotes on a Scandal is a 2003 drama novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil... - David NichollsDavid Nicholls (writer)-Background:Nicholls is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985 , and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions...
- Starter for TenStarter for Ten (novel)Starter for Ten by David Nicholls is a novel first published in 2003 about the character Brian Jackson and his first year of university , his attempts to get on the Granada Television quiz show University Challenge, and his tentative attempts at romance with Alice Harbinson, another member of the... - Joseph O'ConnorJoseph O'ConnorJoseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. He is known for his 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire magazine...
- Star of the SeaStar of the SeaStar of the Sea is an historical novel by the Irish writer Joseph O'Connor published in 2004. The novel is set in 1847 against the backdrop of the Irish famine.... - Alice SeboldAlice SeboldAlice Sebold is an American novelist. She has published three books: Lucky , The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon .-Early life:...
- The Lovely BonesThe Lovely BonesThe Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received much critical...
(winner) - Asne SeierstadÅsne SeierstadÅsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones - most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2003 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.-Personal and professional life:...
- The Bookseller of KabulThe Bookseller of KabulThe Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais , and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan... - Nigel SlaterNigel SlaterNigel Slater is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Prior to this, Slater was food writer for Marie Claire for five years...
- Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger - Adriana TrigianiAdriana TrigianiAdriana Trigiani is an American novelist, television writer, producer and film director.-Career:Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and attended Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was a writer for The Cosby Show and its spin-off series A Different World before beginning on...
- Lucia, Lucia
2005
- William BrodrickWilliam Brodrick (writer)William Brodrick is a British novelist, famous in particular for his novel The Sixth Lamentation, which was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. He also won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award in 2009 for his novel A Whispered Name....
- The Sixth Lamentation - Paula ByrnePaula ByrnePaula Byrne, born into a large working-class family in Birkenhead in 1967, is a British author and biographer most famous for her bestsellers Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead...
- Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson - Justin CartwrightJustin CartwrightJustin Cartwright is a British novelist.He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and...
- The Promise of Happiness - Karen Joy FowlerKaren Joy FowlerKaren Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation....
- The Jane Austen Book ClubThe Jane Austen Book ClubThe Jane Austen Book Club is a 2004 novel by American author Karen Joy Fowler. The story, which takes place near Sacramento, California, centers around a book club consisting of five women and one man who meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's six novels... - Chris HeathChris HeathChris Heath is a British writer who was a regular contributor to the popular English music magazine Smash Hits in the eighties and early nineties....
- Feel: Robbie Williams - David MitchellDavid Mitchell (author)David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...
- Cloud Atlas (winner) - Audrey NiffeneggerAudrey NiffeneggerAudrey Niffenegger is an American writer, artist and academic.-Writing:A film version of Niffenegger's debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife , starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, was released in August 2009.She has also written a graphic novel, or "novel in pictures" as Niffenegger calls it,...
- The Time Traveler's WifeThe Time Traveler's WifeOnce their timelines converge "naturally" at the library—their first meeting in his chronology—Henry starts to travel to Clare's childhood and adolescence in South Haven, Michigan, beginning in 1977 when she is six years old... - Jodi PicoultJodi PicoultJodi Lynn Picoult is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide.-Early life and education:...
- My Sister's KeeperMy Sister's KeeperMy Sister's Keeper is a 2004 novel written by New York Times Best Selling author Jodi Picoult. It tells the story of 13-year-old Anna, who litigates her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who is dying from leukemia.-Plot:The story takes... - Andrew TaylorAndrew Taylor (author)Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Dougal series, the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and the historical novel The American Boy.-Biography:...
- The American BoyThe American BoyThe American Boy was a monthly magazine published by The Sprague Publishing Co. of Detroit, Michigan from November 1899 to August 1941. At the time it was the largest magazine for boys, with a circulation of 300,000, and it featured action stories and advertising for the young boy.In 1911 a copy... - Carlos Ruiz ZafónCarlos Ruiz ZafónCarlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist who has lived in Los Angeles since 1993, where he spent a few years writing scripts whilst developing his career as a writer....
- The Shadow of the WindThe Shadow of the WindThe Shadow of the Wind is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and sold over a million copies in the UK after already achieving success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for...
2006
- Julian BarnesJulian BarnesJulian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...
- Arthur & GeorgeArthur & GeorgeArthur & George is the tenth novel by English author Julian Barnes which takes as its basis the true story of the 'Great Wyrley Outrages.'-Plot introduction:... - Richard BensonRichard BensonRichard M.A. Benson is an American photographer.He teaches at the Yale University and was dean of the Yale School of Art, from 1996 to 2006.-Awards:* 1978 Guggenheim Fellow* National Endowment for the Arts fellow...
- The FarmThe Farm (novel)The Farm is a 1933 novel by Louis Bromfield. Written just before Bromfield's return from decades of living and writing in Europe, the novel reflects the agrarian interests that would dominate the author's thinking during the last two decades of his life. David Anderson describes it as Bromfield's... - Geraldine Brooks - MarchMarch (novel)March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American...
- Michael ConnellyMichael ConnellyMichael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
- The Lincoln LawyerThe Lincoln LawyerThe Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, and it is the 16th novel written by American crime writer Michael Connelly. It is the first featuring Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Connelly's mainstay detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.... - Martin Davies - The Conjurer's Bird
- Nicole KraussNicole KraussNicole Krauss is an American author best known for her novels Man Walks Into a Room , The History of Love and, most recently, Great House...
- The History of LoveThe History of LoveThe History of Love: A Novel is the second novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published in 2005. The book was a 2006 finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction.-Plot:... - Anchee MinAnchee MinAnchee Min is a Chinese-American painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai...
- Empress OrchidEmpress OrchidEmpress Orchid is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress Dowager.Names within the story are different in... - Kate MosseKate MosseKate Mosse is an English author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages.- Private life :...
- LabyrinthLabyrinth (book)Labyrinth is an archaeological mystery English-language novel written by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present-day France. It was published in 2005....
(winner) - Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- Andrew SmithAndrew Smith (author)Andrew Smith is a British author. He is the author of Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, which tells the story of the twelve U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972....
- Moondust
2007
- Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...
- Half of a Yellow SunHalf of a Yellow SunHalf of a Yellow Sun is a novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, it tells the story of two sisters, Olanna and Kainene, during the Biafran War.-Plot:... - William BoydWilliam Boyd (writer)William Boyd, CBE is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.-Biography:Of Scottish descent, Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria, in Africa...
- RestlessRestless (novel)Restless, an espionage novel by William Boyd, was published in 2006 and won the Costa Prize for fiction.The novel depicts the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother was recruited as a spy during World War II. Its intrigue may well be a function of the style of prose. The book... - A.M. Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life
- Lori LansensLori LansensLori Lansens is a bestselling, internationally acclaimed novelist. Her first three books - "Rush Home Road", "The Girls", and "The Wife's Tale", have won acclaim throughout the world, and been translated into dozens of languages....
- The GirlsThe Girls (novel)The Girls is the second novel by Canadian novelist and screenwriter Lori Lansens. It was first published in 2005 by Knopf CanadaIt is the life story of a pair of conjoined twins, Rose and Ruby Darlen, narrated by the twins themselves... - James RobertsonJames Robertson (novelist)James Robertson is a Scottish writer who grew up in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. He is the author of several short story and poetry collections, and has published three novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, and And the Land Lay Still. The Testament of Gideon Mack was...
- The Testament of Gideon MackThe Testament Of Gideon MackThe Testament of Gideon Mack is a novel written by the Scottish author James Robertson, first published in 2006. It pays conscious homage to ideas and themes originally explored with powerful effect in the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by the Scottish novelist,... - Griff Rhys JonesGriff Rhys JonesGriffith "Griff" Rhys Jones is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, television presenter and personality. Jones came to national attention in the early 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Mel Smith...
- Semi-detached - Jed RubenfeldJed RubenfeldJed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is an expert on constitutional law, privacy, and the First Amendment.-Biography:...
- The Interpretation of MurderThe Interpretation of MurderThe Interpretation of Murder, published in 2006, is Jed Rubenfeld's first novel. The book is written in the first person perspective of Dr. Stratham Younger, supposedly an American psychoanalyst...
(winner) - Catherine Ryan HydeCatherine Ryan HydeCatherine Ryan Hyde is an American novelist and short story writer. Her novels have enjoyed bestseller status in both the U.S. and U.K., and her short stories have won many awards and honors...
- Love in the Present Tense
2008
- Danny Scheinmann - Random Acts of Heroic LoveRandom Acts of Heroic LoveRandom Acts of Heroic Love is a semi-autobiographical debut novel by the author and actor Danny Scheinmann. It follows the parallel stories of two unconsciously connected men in two different time eras motivated by the memory of love: Moritz Daniecki, a young Austro-Hungarian soldier captured by...
- Katharine McMahonKatharine McMahonKatharine McMahon is a British writer born in north-west London. She is an historical novelist who, since 1990, has published seven books. McMahon is the best-selling author of The Rose of Sebastopol which was officially announced on 27 December 2007 as one of the ten titles for the Richard & Judy...
- Rose of Sebastopol - Roger Jon ElloryRoger Jon ElloryRoger Jon Ellory is a British thriller writer. He was born in June 1965 in Birmingham, England.-Personal life:RJ Ellory is an author who lives in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He cites Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Moorcock, J. R. R. Tolkien and Stephen King as being some of the people who...
- A Quiet Belief in AngelsA Quiet Belief In AngelsA Quiet Belief In Angels is a thriller novel written by R J Ellory.The book was featured on the Richard & Judy British Book awards of 2008 .... - Patrick GalePatrick GalePatrick Gale is a British novelist who lives in Cornwall.His father was the prison governor of Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight when Gale was born, and he was brought up in and around prisons...
- Notes from an Exhibition - Joshua FerrisJoshua FerrisJoshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural...
- Then We Came to the EndThen We Came to the EndThen We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's Americana, even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title.It takes place in a Chicago... - Mark SloukaMark SloukaMark Slouka is an American liberal humanist author and academic. The son of Czech immigrants, he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships in 2005....
- Visible WorldVisible WorldVisible World is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek recorded in 1995 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Chris Kelsey awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This is quiet, contemplative music for the most part -- attractive, but not superficially pretty. Its... - Lloyd JonesLloyd Jones (New Zealand author)Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand author who currently resides in Wellington. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.-Early life and education:...
- Mister PipMister PipMister Pip is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after a character in, and shaped by the plot of, Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.... - Tim ButcherTim ButcherTim Butcher is an English journalist, broadcaster and best-selling author.Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, he was educated at Rugby School, and Magdalen College, Oxford University....
- Blood River - Peter Ho DaviesPeter Ho DaviesPeter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.-Biography:Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University....
- The Welsh Girl - Khaled HosseiniKhaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini , is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician of ethnic Tajik origin. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide....
- A Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. The book focuses on the tumultuous lives of two Afghan women and how their lives cross each other, spanning from the 1960s to 2003...
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2009
- Jesse KellermanJesse KellermanJesse Kellerman is an American novelist and playwright. He has published four novels: Sunstroke , Trouble , The Genius , and The Executor...
- The Brutal Art - Kate SummerscaleKate SummerscaleKate Summerscale is an award-winning English writer and journalist.She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water',...
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Andrew DavidsonAndrew Davidson (author)Andrew Davidson is a Canadian novelist. He has a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia, and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada....
- The GargoyleThe Gargoyle (novel)The Gargoyle is the debut novel by Andrew Davidson.-Plot:The Gargoyle follows two different time lines, one in the form of a story [or ‘memory’], and one in real time. In real time, an unnamed atheist and former porn star with a troubled childhood is driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs... - Kate AtkinsonKate AtkinsonKate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
- When Will There Be Good News - David EbershoffDavid EbershoffDavid Ebershoff is an American-born writer, editor, and teacher.-Biography:Born in Pasadena, California, he is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Chicago, and studied at Keio University in Tokyo....
- The 19th WifeThe 19th wifeThe 19th Wife is the international bestselling novel by David Ebershoff. Inspired by the life of Ann Eliza Young, the novel intertwines a historical narrative with a modern-day murder mystery. A television movie adaptation aired on Lifetime on September 13, 2010, starring Matt Czuchry, Patricia... - France Osborne - The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress
- Joseph O'Neil - NetherlandNetherlandNetherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...
- Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
- Elizabeth H. Winthrop - December
- Steven GallowaySteven GallowaySteven Galloway is a Canadian novelist.Galloway was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia. He attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia. Galloway teaches for the UBC creative writing program...
- The Cellist of Sarajevo
Summer Book Club
2004
- Jennifer DonnellyJennifer DonnellyJennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...
- A Gathering LightA Northern LightA Northern Light is an American historical novel by Jennifer Donnelly. In the United Kingdom it was published under the alternative title A Gathering Light... - P. J. TracyP. J. TracyP. J. Tracy is a pseudonym for American mother-daughter writing team Patricia and Traci Lambrecht. Their novels include Monkeewrench , Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind and Shoot to Thrill .-Novels:*Monkeewrench *Live Bait *Dead Run *Snow...
- Want to Play?Want to Play?Monkeewrench , is the first novel by author team P. J. Tracy. It revolves around the search for a copycat killer, who is recreating murders found in a new computer game... - Cecelia AhernCecelia AhernCecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, since 2004. In addition to publishing several novels, she has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies, for which all her royalties go to charity.Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate...
- PS, I Love YouPS, I Love YouP.S. I Love You is Irish writer Cecelia Ahern's first novel, published in 2004. The book reached #1 bestseller status in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.-Characters in "P.S... - Maile MeloyMaile MeloyMaile Meloy is an American author of fiction. She was born in Helena, Montana, where she was also raised.Meloy graduated from the University of California, Irvine with an M.F.A...
- Liars and Saints - Ben RichardsBen RichardsBen Richards is an English actor. He is best known for playing Bruno Milligan in series 4 and 5 of the British TV drama Footballers' Wives and in series 1 and 2 of its spin-off Footballers' Wives: Extra Time...
- The Mermaid and the Drunks - Bella Pollen - Hunting Unicorns
2005
- Karen Quinn - The Ivy Chronicles
- George Hagen - The Laments
- Anthony Capella - The Food Of Love
- Susan Fletcher- Eve Green
- Ben SherwoodBen Sherwood- Early life and education :Ben Sherwood was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1981, he graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. In 1986, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an AB degree...
- The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud - David WolstencroftDavid WolstencroftDavid Wolstencroft is a Scottish television writer and author. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks and its spin-off series, Spooks: Code 9. Wolstencroft was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, later going on to read history at...
- Good News, Bad News
2006
- Jim Lynch - The Highest TideThe Highest TideThe Highest Tide: A Novel is a 2005 young adult novel by author Jim Lynch.- Plot :Miles O'Malley is a 13-year-old boy from Skookumchuck Bay in southern Washington in love with his 18-year-old babysitter, Angie Stagner, daughter of the local judge and his neighbor. His parents are unhappy and want a...
- Sam BourneSam BourneSam Bourne is the pseudonym of the British journalist, Jonathan Freedland intended to distinguish his work in fiction from his journalism. Freedland is credited on the copyright page as the author of the thrillers The Righteous Men , The Last Testament , The Final Reckoning and The Chosen One .His...
- The Righteous MenThe Righteous MenThe Righteous Men is a novel written by Sam Bourne, a pseudonym of English journalist Jonathan Freedland. The story is about a half-British news reporter, Will Monroe , Jewish Occult Mysticism, Kabbalah, Hasidic Judaism, and the nefarious Christian sect known as Church of the Reborn Jesus.It has... - Victoria HislopVictoria HislopVictoria Hislop is an award winning British author.-Personal:Born in Bromley, she grew up in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls....
- The IslandThe Island (2005 novel)The Island is a historical novel written by Victoria Hislop. It has won several awards including Newcomer of the Year at the 2007 British Book Awards... - Dorothy KoomsonDorothy KoomsonDorothy Koomson is a contemporary English novelist.Koomson has two degrees in Psychology and Journalism when she graduated from Leeds University. She has written for a number of women's magazines and newspapers, not to mention writing 7 successful novels being published in the UK and US...
- My Best Friend's GirlMy Best Friend's Girl (novel)My Best Friend's Girl is a 2006 novel by Dorothy Koomson. The book is based around a woman called Kamryn Matika, who finds out her best friend, Adele, is dying of Cancer. Adele wants Kamryn to adopt her five year old daughter, Tegan after she dies... - Elisabeth Hyde - The Abortionist's Daughter
- Elizabeth KostovaElizabeth KostovaElizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.-Early life:Elizabeth Z. Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville...
- The HistorianThe HistorianThe Historian interweaves the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia known as "Vlad the Impaler", and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula together with the story of Paul, a professor; his 16-year-old daughter; and their quest for Vlad's tomb...
2007
- Kim EdwardsKim EdwardsKim Edwards is an American author and educator. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter , is a New York Times Bestseller, and was honored with the Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award at the 2008 British Book Awards....
- The Memory Keeper's DaughterThe Memory Keeper's DaughterThe Memory Keeper's Daughter is a novel by American author Kim Edwards that tells the story of a man who gives away his newborn baby, who has Down syndrome to one of the nurses. Published by Viking Press in June 2005, the novel garnered great interest via word of mouth in the summer of 2006 and... - Simon KernickSimon KernickSimon Kernick is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters.Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruitpicker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from...
- Relentless - Kate Morton - The House at RivertonThe House at RivertonThe House at Riverton is the first novel by Australian author Kate Morton, published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan in June 2007. It has been selected as a Summer Read by the Richard & Judy Book Club, and was featured on Channel 4's Richard & Judy Show on Wednesday 18 July 2007....
- Paul TordayPaul TordayPaul Torday is a British writer and the author of the comic novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4...
- Salmon Fishing In The YemenSalmon Fishing in the YemenSalmon Fishing in the Yemen is an upcoming British comedy film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas. The screenplay is by Simon Beaufoy, based on a novel of the same name by Paul Torday. Principal photography began on August 6, 2010 and was... - Jane FallonJane FallonJane Fallon is the author of four bestselling novels - Getting Rid of Matthew , Got You Back , Foursome and The Ugly Sister...
- Getting Rid of Matthew - Mark MillsMark Mills (writer)Mark Mills is a British writer of screenplays and novels. His first screenplay was BAFTA nominated short film One Night Stand starring Jemma Redgrave and James Purefoy in 1993; this won Mills a 'Best Screenplay' award at the Angers European First Film Festival in 1995.Mills' first novel was...
- The Savage GardenThe Savage GardenThe Savage Garden is the second novel written by British author Mark Mills. Set in 1958, the story tells of Cambridge student Adam Strickland and his trip to Tuscany, Italy; which started off as a chance to study the old, Italian renaissance architecture of a garden owned by the aristocratic Docci... - Jonathan TropperJonathan TropperJonathan Tropper is an American writer and a Professor of English at Manhattanville College.Tropper's book, How To Talk To A Widower, was the 2007 selection for the Richard and Judy Show in the United Kingdom. Everything Changes was a Booksense selection. Three of Tropper's books are currently...
- How to talk to a Widower - Mary LawsonMary LawsonMary Lawson is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist...
- The Other Side of The Bridge
2008
- Sadie JonesSadie JonesSadie Jones is an English writer and novelist.Jones was raised in London, the daughter of Evan Jones, a Jamaican-born poet and scriptwriter, who worked with director Joseph Losey on several projects and Joanna Jones, an actor...
- The Outcast - Linwood BarclayLinwood BarclayLinwood Barclay is a Canadian-American humourist, author and former columnist. He has published books of autobiography and both humorous and dramatic detective fiction, and he formerly wrote the thrice-weekly humour column in the Toronto Star, as well as releasing a podcast with his articles. He...
- No Time for GoodbyeNo Time For GoodbyeNo Time for Goodbye is a thriller novel written by Canadian author Linwood Barclay.The book was featured on the Richard & Judy Summer reading list of 2008 and The London Sunday Times reported in its year-end bestseller list that the novel led the paperback and hardcover fiction list with sales of... - Julia Gregson - East of the Sun
- John Hart - Down RiverDown RiverDown River is a 1931 British crime film directed by Peter Godfrey and starring Charles Laughton, Jane Baxter and Harold Huth.-Plot:A man smuggling drugs up the River Thames is caught when a newspaper reporter pursues him.-Cast:...
- Margret Cezair - The Pirate's Daughter
- Rebecca MillerRebecca MillerRebecca Augusta Miller is an American film director, screenwriter and actress, most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits , The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Angela,and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee all of which she wrote and directed.-Life and career:Born in Roxbury,...
- The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Toni Jordan - Addition
- James BradleyJames Bradley (Australian writer)James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer.His books include three novels and a book of poetry...
- The Resurrectionist
Children's Book Club
In 2007, Richard and Judy hosted a special Children's Book Club edition of the show as part of Channel 4's "Lost For Words" season. The featured books were chosen with the help of pupils from several schools around the UK.
- 5+ / Early :
- Claire Freedman & Ben Cort - Aliens Love Underpants
- Sally Grindley & Lindsey Gardiner - Poppy and Max and the Fashion Show
- 7+ / Developing :
- Andrew CopeAndrew CopeAndrew Cope is a children's author. He has written books in the Spy Dog series and the Spy Pups series.- Background :Andrew Cope was born in Derby in 1966. He is a teacher and trainer in positive psychology.-Spy Dog:...
- Spy Dog - Betty G. Birney - The World According to Humphrey
- Andrew Cope
- 9+ / Confident :
- Mark WaldenMark WaldenMark Walden is the award-winning author of the H.I.V.E. series of novels. He was a senior producer in charge of developing Playstation games for Sony before taking up writing full time.-Personal life:...
- H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Derek LandyDerek LandyDerek Landy is an Irish author and screenwriter, famous for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.thumb|Derek Landy in Edinburgh, August 2011...
- Skulduggery PleasantSkulduggery PleasantSkulduggery Pleasant is the debut novel of Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in 2007. It is the first of the Skulduggery Pleasant novels...
- Mark Walden
- 12+ / Fluent :
- Sophie McKenzie - Girl, MissingGirl, MissingGirl, Missing is a children's novel by Sophie McKenzie, published in 2006.It won the 2007 Bolton Children's Book Award, the 2008 Manchester Book Award and the 2007 Red House Children's Book Award for Older Readers, as well as being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.It was also one of the books...
- Robert MuchamoreRobert MuchamoreRobert Kilgore Muchamore is an English author, most notable for writing the CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novels.-Prior to writing:...
- CHERUB: The RecruitCHERUB: The RecruitThe Recruit is the first novel in the CHERUB series, written by Robert Muchamore. It introduces most of the main characters, such as James Adams , Lauren Adams , Kyle Blueman and Kerry Chang...
- Sophie McKenzie - Girl, Missing