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See below for more information about the authors being interviewed by Mariella Frostrup at Hay-on-Wye book festival. The special series of shows will be broadcast 7pm every day 28 May to 31 May on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD
Featured Books
Tales from the Deep Cerys Matthews
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 28 May 2011.
Two Welsh legends are brought to life for a new audience in this debut publication from singer Cerys Matthews. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2011
The Tao of Travel Paul Theroux
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 28 May 2011.
Enumerates 'The Contents of Some Travellers' Bags' and exposes 'Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited'; tracks extreme journeys in 'Travel As An Ordeal'... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/05/2011
Carte Blanche : The New James Bond Novel Jeffery Deaver
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 28 May 2011.
James Bond returns in a contemporary new thriller by Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. CARTE BLANCHE takes place in the present day over a... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/02/2011
The King's Speech Mark Logue, Peter Conradi
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 29 May 2011.
The King's Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a
time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
Wonders of the Universe Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 29 May 2011.
Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2011
The Troubled Man : A Kurt Wallander Mystery Henning Mankell
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 29 May 2011.
The return of Kurt Wallander, for his final case, has already caused a
sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man confirms Henning
Mankell's position... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/03/2011
Heroes David Bailey, Dylan Jones
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2011.
Help for Heroes is a charity that aims to help wounded servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan. This title includes photographs and is a celebration... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/10/2010
The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2011.
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/03/2011
The Death of Eli Gold David Baddiel
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 30 May 2011.
The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2011
White Crow Marcus Sedgwick
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 31 May 2011.
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011.Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
Rifleman A Front Line Life Rick Stroud, Victor Gregg
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 31 May 2011.
The astonishing life of a young working-class man who fought throughout the Second World War from Alamein to the invasion of Sicily, was captured at... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2011
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 5th year running Sky Arts is broadcasting a special series of shows that are filmed every day at the Telegraph 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 244 or 243 in HD) every day at 7pm for the duration of the festival. 28 May - 31 May.