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Sky Arts broadcasts from the Guardian Hay-on-Wye Festival.
See below for more information about the authors being interviewed by Mariella Frostrup at Haye-on-Wye book festival. The special series of shows will be broadcast 7pm everyday 29 May to 06 June on Sky Arts 1
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Men from the Boys
Tony Parsons
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 May 2010.
The final part of the trilogy that includes Man and Boy and Man and Wife. We have moved on 10 years in Harry's life and just as...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Hitch 22: A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 May 2010.
A memoir from one of Britain’s foremost intellectual commentators of the past 40 years. There are an abundance of experiences and exploits for Hitchens to draw on in this...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography
Jo Brand
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 31 May 2010.
Jo Brand, as one of Britain's best loved comedians, has a wickedly dry
sense of humour and this comes across loud and clear in her biography.
Hers is a fascinating story...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 31 May 2010.
Another magical tale from Audrey Niffenegger that follows the story of twins who have been left the flat of a dead aunt they have never met. Niffenegger has produced...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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My Better Half and Me
Rosemary Ackland, Joss Ackland
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 June 2010.
"My Better Half and Me" weaves together Rosemary's diaries with Joss' commentary to tell of an extraordinary love-story that lasted over fifty years.
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Policing Controversy
Ian Blair
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 June 2010.
A fascinating insight in to, what must be, one of the toughest and most stressful jobs in the country. Iain Blair had only been the Commissioner of the Met...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
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Little Darlings
Jacqueline Wilson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 June 2010.
Bestselling Jacqueline Wilson tells a fairy tale story of the unlikely intertwining of two very different families against a strong and realistic background. Destiny is growing up poor with...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Allegra Huston
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 June 2010.
An extraordinary tale giving great insight to one of the Hollywood Dynasties. Allegra Huston was just four when her mother died and she was sent to live with he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Me and You
Anthony Browne
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 June 2010.
Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne gives a thought provoking new take on the traditional story of Goldilocks. Here, Goldilocks, who lives on a dark and dreary estate portrayed all in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/04/2010
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A Village Lost and Found
Brian May, Elena Vidal
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 June 2010.
Brian May and Elena Vidal bring to life TR Williams photographs and stereo cards. A wonderful snapshot (excuse the pun) of life in an 1850’s country village.
Format: Hardback - Released: 22/10/2009
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Gentle Footprints : A Collection of Animal Stories
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 June 2010.
A lovely collection of animal stories including a specially written story from Richard Adams, author of Watership Down. Proceeds from the sale of the book go to the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
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The Pacific
Hugh Ambrose
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 June 2010.
The official tie-in book to accompany the TV series, following the lives of 5 different men fighting the Japanese in the Pacific in the Second World War.
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/03/2010
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The Fever of the Bone
Val McDermid
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 June 2010.
Val McDermid is the winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award 2010, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing.
CWA Hall of Fame Dagger 2009.
This...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Country
Jasper Conran
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 June 2010.
With Jasper Conran's Country, you are so obviously getting a very superior book for your money. It's country living, country style, nostalgia, landscape, interiors, detail, still-life, colour, texture, shape,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2010
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Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable
Sir Max Hastings
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 June 2010.
Max Hastings tells of his childhood growing up in a “dysfunctional” family but surrounded by an abundance of fascinating people from John Betjeman to Thomas Hardy. With these influences...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 June 2010.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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At Home - A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 May 2010.
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Bill Bryson turns is eyes inwards to look at the everyday things that add up to make the real history of the world. As he...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 May 2010.
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Utterly gripping, this is a deliciously haunting and chilling tale of dark magic and treachery which reaches out across time threatening all who cross its...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Book Show on Sky Arts, hosted by writer and presenter Mariella Frostrup, features a selection of today's top authors and books from classics to children's.
With each show its popularity grows and for the 4th year running Sky Arts is broadcasting a special series of shows that are filmed every day at the Guardian Hay Festival, the UK's premier literary festival.
Over the course of the festival we will have a special section on our site where you can find out more about the authors and books that Mariella will be talking about. You can read extracts from these books free of charge.
You will find the special shows broadcast on Sky Arts 1 (channel 256 or 258 in HD) every day at 7pm for the duration of the festival. 29 May - 06 June. |
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