Richard & Judy
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Richard & Judy was a British magazine/chat show which was presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan
Richard and Judy
Richard and Judy is the name informally given to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, a married couple who are both British television presenters and columnists. Since their marriage, their television appearances have been largely made as a couple. They are best known for presenting This Morning and...

. It originally aired on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 from 2001 to 2008 but later moved to digital channel Watch
Watch (TV channel)
Watch is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network. The channel launched on 7 October 2008 on satellite through Sky and on cable primarily through Virgin Media.-History:...

 in October 2008. It featured the world's most famous stars, along with their Book Club. In July 2009, the show aired its final episode due to low ratings.

2001–08: Channel 4

The Richard & Judy Show started on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 on 26 November 2001, and aired every weekday from 5 pm to 6 pm.

However, between 2006 and 2008, the Richard & Judy show shared the 5 pm – 6 pm Channel 4 weekday slot with The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show was a BAFTA award-winning British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4...

, which started in March 2006. For 3 months of each year between 2006 and 2008, the Richard & Judy show occupied the 5 pm – 6pm slot (January to March and June to August), and then the Paul O'Grady Show occupied the slot for the following 3 months (March to June and September to December).

On 15 August 2008 edition of the show, Richard stated that the following week would be their last on Channel 4. The final edition of the show was broadcast on 22 August 2008.

2008–09: Watch

Richard and Judy went on to sign a £2 million deal with the UKTV network Watch
Watch (TV channel)
Watch is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network. The channel launched on 7 October 2008 on satellite through Sky and on cable primarily through Virgin Media.-History:...

. The couple hosted Richard & Judy's New Position from 7 October 2008. The couple said that the show would be "a high octane prime time show". Richard Madeley said "we were both hugely impressed with the team at UKTV, and their proposal was attractive and fun and will give us the kind of flexibility in our personal lives which we have been looking for". Richard and Judy continued their popular Book Club, which had begun on their Channel 4 show.

The new show featured a sofa area for interviews, and a bar area where the star guests and members of the show's crew gathered during the show. Each week the show had a celebrity barman; the first week's celebrity barman was comedian Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound is a British comedian and presenter. He is also the winner of 2010 "Let's Dance for Comic Relief".-Career:...

, who appeared often on the couple's Channel 4 series.

The first show of the new series attracted an average audience of around 200,000; this figure included the audience who watched the show on Watch+1. The second episode attracted 53,000 viewers for the 8 pm slot. Watch said they were happy with the ratings and it was a good start for the show. Subsequently, viewing figures consistently fell, to a new low of just 11,000 viewers.

Richard and Judy took a Christmas break on Friday 19 December 2008. The show returned on Tuesday 13 January 2009 in a new 6 pm slot, instead of the 8 pm slot it previously occupied. The show also dropped the "New Position" part of the title and was simply called Richard and Judy again.

By April 2009, ratings had slumped to just 5,000 viewers. The following month, it was agreed to terminate the show six months early.

From the week of Monday 8 June 2009, the show was cut back to just one episode a week, airing at 4 pm on Wednesdays. On 1 July 2009, the show aired its final episode.

You Say We Pay

This daily competition had a viewer at home describing images on a TV screen for Richard and Judy (who can't see the images, as the screen is behind them) to guess – without using any of the words on the screen. For each correct answer, the viewer wins £1000.

The game also appeared on the third series of Matt Lucas
Matt Lucas
Matthew Richard "Matt" Lucas is an English comedian, screenwriter and actor best known for his acclaimed work with David Walliams in the television show Little Britain; as well as for his portrayals of the scorekeeping baby George Dawes in the comedy panel game Shooting Stars, Tweedledee and...

' and David Walliams
David Walliams
David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...

' comedy hit Little Britain
Little Britain
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...

. Fictional characters Lou and Andy
Lou and Andy
Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin are fictional characters from the cult BBC TV and radio show Little Britain, played by David Walliams and Matt Lucas respectively. Andy's catchphrases include, "Yeah I know", "Want that one" and " Don't like it", while Lou's catchphrase is "What a kerfuffle!"Lou is kind,...

 were seen playing the game, and Andy didn't really seem to get the hang of it (he just said exactly what the images were). Other comedy lampoons of this game included the song "Richard & Judy" by Lazyhand which described a man's descent into poverty through trying to phone into this show.

In January 2006, MP
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 and Celebrity Big Brother contestant George Galloway
George Galloway
George Galloway is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year...

 played the quiz and won his housemates' shopping budget for the week. Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

, Abi Titmuss
Abi Titmuss
Abi Titmuss, , is a former English nurse turned glamour model, television personality and actress.-Early life:...

 and Carol Vorderman
Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008. In September 2011 she became a co-anchor of the ITV1 panel show Loose Women....

 have also participated when they were guests on the programme.

On 18 February 2007, The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...

 revealed allegations that the quiz was cheating viewers by inviting them to phone in after the winning contestant had already been chosen. The paper stresses that the couple had no knowledge of any wrongdoing.
This story was sold to the newspaper through publicist Jonathan Hartley.

On 6 July 2007, Eckoh, the operator of the phone-in quiz, had been fined a record £150,000 by regulator ICSTIS.

ICSTIS said the Channel 4 programme had shown a "reckless disregard" for viewers after inviting them to enter a competition once the potential winners had already been selected.

In addition to the fine, ICSTIS has ordered that all the money be paid back to those viewers affected, around £2.5 million, and has referred the case to Ofcom. The media regulator has the right to impose its own ban if it feels the broadcasting code has been breached.

Richard & Judy Book Club

See main page: List of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club


In 2004, the Richard & Judy Book Club was added as a regular segment of the show. It been credited as having a massive effect on the sales of the books it features, much like Oprah's Book Club
Oprah's Book Club
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new novel for viewers to read and discuss each month. The Club ended its 15-year run, along with...

 in the USA. Each year they feature ten books and have discussions during the programme, often with guests. Alongside the discussions and programme features, the novels in contention for the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, presented at the British Book Awards
British Book Awards
The Galaxy National Book Awards are a series of British literary awards focused on the best UK writers and their works, as selected by an academy of members from the British book publishing industry...

, the winner being the book that gets the most votes from the public.

The Richard and Judy book club returned in Autumn 2010 and is run online in conjunction with retailer WH Smith.

2004
  • Monica Ali
    Monica Ali
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     – Brick Lane
  • Martina Cole
    Martina Cole
    Martina 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 Know
    The Know
    The 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 Mughals
    White Mughals
    White 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 Heller
    Zoë Heller
    Zoë 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 Scandal
    Notes on a Scandal
    Notes 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 Nicholls
    David 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 Ten
    Starter 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'Connor
    Joseph O'Connor
    Joseph 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 Sea
    Star of the Sea
    Star 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 Sebold
    Alice Sebold
    Alice Sebold is an American novelist. She has published three books: Lucky , The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon .-Early life:...

     – The Lovely Bones
    The Lovely Bones
    The 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 Seierstad
    Åsne Seierstad
    Åsne 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 Kabul
    The Bookseller of Kabul
    The 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 Slater
    Nigel Slater
    Nigel 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 Trigiani
    Adriana Trigiani
    Adriana 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
    Lucía, Lucía
    Lucía, Lucía, also known as La hija del caníbal, is a Mexican film and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name, 1997 in Spain. The film stars Argentine actress Cecilia Roth , Mexican actor Kuno Becker and Spanish actor Carlos...



2005
  • William Brodrick
    William 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 Byrne
    Paula Byrne
    Paula 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 Cartwright
    Justin Cartwright
    Justin 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 Fowler
    Karen Joy Fowler
    Karen 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 Club
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    The 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 Heath
    Chris Heath
    Chris 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 Mitchell
    David 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 Niffenegger
    Audrey Niffenegger
    Audrey 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 Wife
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    Once 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 Picoult
    Jodi Picoult
    Jodi 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 Keeper
    My Sister's Keeper
    My 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 Taylor
    Andrew 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 Boy
    The American Boy
    The 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 Zafón
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    Carlos 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 Wind
    The Shadow of the Wind
    The 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 Barnes
    Julian Barnes
    Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...

     – Arthur & George
    Arthur & George
    Arthur & 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 Benson – The Farm
  • Geraldine Brooks – March
    March (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 Connelly
    Michael Connelly
    Michael 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 Lawyer
    The Lincoln Lawyer
    The 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 Krauss
    Nicole Krauss
    Nicole 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 Love
    The History of Love
    The 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 Min
    Anchee Min
    Anchee Min is a Chinese-American painter, photographer, musician, and author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai...

     – Empress Orchid
    Empress Orchid
    Empress 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 Mosse
    Kate Mosse
    Kate 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 :...

     – Labyrinth
    Labyrinth (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 Smith
    Andrew 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 Adichie
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Chimamanda 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 Sun
    Half of a Yellow Sun
    Half 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 Boyd
    William 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...

     – Restless
    Restless (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 Lansens
    Lori Lansens
    Lori 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 Girls
    The 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 Robertson
    James 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 Mack
    The Testament Of Gideon Mack
    The 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 Jones
    Griff Rhys Jones
    Griffith "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
    Semi-detached
    Semi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin...

  • Jed Rubenfeld
    Jed Rubenfeld
    Jed 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 Murder
    The Interpretation of Murder
    The 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 Hyde
    Catherine Ryan Hyde
    Catherine 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 Love
    Random Acts of Heroic Love
    Random 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 McMahon
    Katharine McMahon
    Katharine 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 Ellory
    Roger Jon Ellory
    Roger 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 Angels
  • Patrick Gale
    Patrick Gale
    Patrick 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 Ferris
    Joshua Ferris
    Joshua 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 End
    Then We Came to the End
    Then 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 Slouka
    Mark Slouka
    Mark 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 World
  • Lloyd Jones
    Lloyd 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 Pip
    Mister Pip
    Mister 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 Butcher
    Tim Butcher
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     – Blood River
  • Peter Ho Davies
    Peter Ho Davies
    Peter 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 Hosseini
    Khaled Hosseini
    Khaled 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 Suns
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    A 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...

     (winner)

Summer Book Club

2004
  • Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer 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 Light
    A Northern Light
    A 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. Tracy
    P. J. Tracy
    P. 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 Ahern
    Cecelia Ahern
    Cecelia 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 You
  • Maile Meloy
    Maile Meloy
    Maile 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 Richards
    Ben Richards (writer)
    Ben Richards is an English writer, born in 1964. Before writing novels and TV dramas, he worked for three years as a housing officer in Newham and Islington, London...

     – 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 Sherwood
    Ben 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 Wolstencroft
    David Wolstencroft
    David 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
    Good News, Bad News (novel)
    Good News, Bad News is a spy/espionage novel by British author David Wolstencroft. The novel was first published in 2004, and was Wolstencroft's first novel...



2006
  • Jim Lynch
    Jim Lynch
    James Robert Lynch is a former American football linebacker who spent his entire eleven-year professional career with the American Football League and National Football League Kansas City Chiefs.-Early years:...

     – The Highest Tide
  • Sam Bourne
    Sam Bourne
    Sam 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 Men
    The Righteous Men
    The 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 Hislop
    Victoria Hislop
    Victoria Hislop is an award winning British author.-Personal:Born in Bromley, she grew up in Tonbridge and attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls....

     – The Island
    The 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 Koomson
    Dorothy Koomson
    Dorothy 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 Girl
  • Elisabeth Hyde – The Abortionist's Daughter
  • Elizabeth Kostova
    Elizabeth Kostova
    Elizabeth 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 Historian
    The Historian
    The 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 Edwards
    Kim Edwards
    Kim 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 Daughter
    The Memory Keeper's Daughter
    The 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 Kernick
    Simon Kernick
    Simon 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
    Kate Morton
    Kate Morton is an Australian author, who has enjoyed domestic and international success with her novels The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden. Morton's third novel, The Distant Hours, was published in 2010.-Early life and education:Morton is the eldest of three sisters...

     – The House at Riverton
    The House at Riverton
    The 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 Torday
    Paul Torday
    Paul 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 Yemen
  • Jane Fallon
    Jane Fallon
    Jane 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 Mills
    Mark 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 Garden
    The Savage Garden
    The 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 Tropper
    Jonathan Tropper
    Jonathan 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 Lawson
    Mary Lawson
    Mary 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 Jones
    Sadie Jones
    Sadie 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 Barclay
    Linwood Barclay
    Linwood 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 Goodbye
    No Time For Goodbye
    No 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 River
  • Margret Cezair – The Pirate's Daughter
  • Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca Miller
    Rebecca 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
    The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a 2009 American drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same title. The film premiered on February 9, 2009, at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was shown at the Sydney Film Festival and the...

  • Toni Jordan – Addition
  • James Bradley
    James 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


2009
  • Julian Fellowes
    Julian Fellowes
    Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL , known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative peer.-Early life:...

     – Past Imperfect
  • Dave Boling – Guernica
  • Stephen L. Carter
    Stephen L. Carter
    Stephen L. Carter is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.-Education:...

     – Palace Council
  • Charles Elton – Mr Toppit
  • Jill Dawson
    Jill Dawson
    Jill Dawson is an English poet and novelist who grew up in Durham, England. She began publishing her poems in pamphlets and small magazines. Her first book, Trick of the Light, was published in 1996...

     – The Great Lover
    The Great Lover (novel)
    The Great Lover is a 2009 biographical novel by Jill Dawson. The novel follows the fictional Nell Golightly as she encounters the eccentric poet Rupert Brooke in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. Set from 1909 until 1914, in the novel Dawson examines Brooke's relationship with Nell, and his growth as...

  • Colin Bateman
    Colin Bateman
    Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...

     – Mystery Man
  • Sue Miller
    Sue Miller
    Sue Miller is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching...

     – The Senator's Wife
  • Janice Y. K. Lee – The Piano Teacher

Richard and Judy book club in conjunction with WH Smith

2010 - Winter
  • Rosamund Lupton – Sister
  • Delphine de Vigan - No and Me
  • Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
  • Naseem Rakha - The Crying Tree
  • Thomas Trofimuk - Waiting for Columbus
  • Maria McCann
    Maria McCann
    Maria McCann is an English novelist. She was born in Liverpool in 1956 and worked as a lecturer in English at Strode College, Street, Somerset since 1985, until starting work with Arden...

     - The Wilding
  • Rachel Hore - A Place of Secrets
  • Ben MacIntyre
    Ben Macintyre
    Ben Macintyre is a British author, historian, and columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.- Author :...

     - Operation Mincemeat


2011 - Spring
  • Nigel Farndall – The Blasphemer
  • Helen Simonson – Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
  • Lucinda Riley – Hothouse Flower
  • Suzanne Bugler – This Perfect World
  • Emma Donoghue
    Emma Donoghue
    Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...

     – Room
  • Greg Hurwitz – You're Next
  • Rose Tremain
    Rose Tremain
    Rose Tremain CBE is an English author.-Life:Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943 in London and attended Francis Holland School then Crofton Grange School from 1954 to 1961; the Sorbonne from 1961–1962; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965 where she then...

     – Trespass
  • Sarah Blake
    Sarah Blake
    Sarah Blake is a pornographic actress who entered the industry in around 2003, and specializes in fetish work.- Career :...

     – The Postmistress


2011 - Summer
  • Sarah Winman – When God Was a Rabbit
  • Suzannah Dunn
    Suzannah Dunn
    Suzannah Dunn is an author and graduate of the MA creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. She teaches MA creative writing at the University of Manchester, and is the author of ten novels...

     – The Confessions of Katherine Howard
  • Jed Rubenfeld
    Jed Rubenfeld
    Jed 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 Death Instinct
  • Natasha Solomons – The Novel in the Viola
  • Erin Kelly
    Erin Kelly
    Erin Kelly is an American film, theater and television actress, best known for her role as Annabelle Tillman in Katherine Brooks's 2006 film Loving Annabelle.-Films:Kelly has collaborated with director Katherine Brooks on four films...

     – The Poison Tree
  • Elizabeth Speller – The Return of Captain John Emmett
  • Anna Quidlen – Every Last One
  • Bella Pollen – The Summer of the Bear


2011 - Autumn
  • Megan Abbott
    Megan Abbott
    Megan Abbott is an American author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction and a graduate of the University of Michigan. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist. She has stated that she...

     – The End Of Everything
  • Aimee Bender
    Aimee Bender
    Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.-Biography:Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at University of...

     – The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
  • Peter May
    Peter May (writer)
    Peter May is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist and crime writer.- Early life :Peter was born in Glasgow. From an early age he was intent on becoming a novelist, but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. At the age of 21, he won the Fraser...

     – The Blackhouse
  • Lisa Genova – Left Neglected
  • Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver
    Michelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...

     – Dark Matter
  • Carol Birch
    Carol Birch
    Carol Birch is a British novelist and attended Keele University. The author of eleven novels, she won the 1988 David Higham Award for the Best First Novel of the Year for Life in the Palace, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize with The Fog Line in 1991, and she was long-listed for the 2003 ManBooker...

     – Jamrach's Menagerie
  • Araminta Hall – Everything and Nothing
  • David Hosp – Next of Kin

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 Cope
      Andrew Cope
      Andrew 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
  • 9+ / Confident :
    • Mark Walden
      Mark Walden
      Mark 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 Landy
      Derek Landy
      Derek 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 Pleasant
      Skulduggery Pleasant
      Skulduggery Pleasant is the debut novel of Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in 2007. It is the first of the Skulduggery Pleasant novels...

  • 12+ / Fluent :
    • Sophie McKenzie – Girl, Missing
      Girl, Missing
      Girl, 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 Muchamore
      Robert Muchamore
      Robert Kilgore Muchamore is an English author, most notable for writing the CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novels.-Prior to writing:...

       – CHERUB: The Recruit
      CHERUB: The Recruit
      The 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...


New Writers Book Club

Launched in October 2008, the club "highlights 12 debut writers over the course of a year".

2008
  • Oct: Hillary Jordan
    Hillary Jordan
    Hillary Jordan is the author of two novels: MUDBOUND, published in March 2008, and WHEN SHE WOKE, published in October 2011, both by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from Columbia University...

     – Mudbound
  • Nov: Farahad Zama – The Marriage Bureau for Rich People
  • Dec: Nancy Horan
    Nancy Horan
    Nancy Horan is the American author of Loving Frank, a novel about Mamah Borthwick and her relationship with American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Horan was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction by the Society of American Historians on April 17, 2009, for works...

     – Loving Frank
    Loving Frank
    Loving Frank is an American novel by Nancy Horan published in 2007. It tells the story of Mamah Borthwick and her illicit love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright amidst the public shame they experienced in early twentieth century America. This fictional account told from a new perspective, that of...


2009
  • Jan: Jennie Rooney – Inside the Whale
    Inside the Whale
    "Inside the Whale" is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s...

  • Feb: Melissa Benn
    Melissa Benn
    Melissa Ann Benn is a British journalist and writer. She is the only daughter of Tony and Caroline Benn.Benn was born in Hammersmith, London. She has two older brothers, Stephen and Hilary, and a younger brother, Joshua. She attended Holland Park School and graduated with a first in History from...

     – One of Us
  • Mar: Tom Rob Smith
    Tom Rob Smith
    Tom Rob Smith is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was born and raised in London.Smith studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, following his graduation in 2001 he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his...

     – Child 44
    Child 44
    Child 44 is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith, and features disgraced MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Stalin's Soviet Union....


Richard & Judy Wine Club

Richard and Judy launched their wine club in 2005. Focusing on a different selection of wine each week, they reviewed the wines and gave tasting notes to the viewers.

External links

  • Richard & Judy at Channel4.com
  • Richard & Judy at justwatch.co.uk
    Watch (TV channel)
    Watch is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network. The channel launched on 7 October 2008 on satellite through Sky and on cable primarily through Virgin Media.-History:...

  • Richard & Judy Book Club
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