The TV Book Club

The TV Book Club 2012 will review 1 book per week from 29th January to 1st April.

Featured Books

Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson
January 2012 Book of the Month. Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 29 January 2012. Winner of the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year 2011. Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 5 February 2012. Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother. The Sisters Brothers...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012

The Somnambulist
Essie Fox
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 12 February 2012. This debut novelist's coming of age story uses evocative language to transport you to late 19th century Victorian England where lost love, grief, dark secrets and hidden passions take...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Into the Darkest Corner
Elizabeth Haynes
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 19 February 2012. This is an edgy and powerful first novel, utterly convincing in its portrayal of obsession, and a tour de force of suspense.
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2011

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 26 February 2012. For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. 'If you want shopping at Bendel's, gin martinis at a debutante's mansion and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Girl Reading
Katie Ward
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 4 March 2012. With each chapter inspired by a real work of art, this richly textured debut novel transports us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be....
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/2012

The Report
Jessica Francis Kane
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 11 March 2012. An evocative and moving debut novel - based on the true story of the worst UK civilian disaster of the Second World War, when 173 people were crushed to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012

The Family Fang
Kevin Wilson
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 18 March 2012. The Family Fang is an utterly unique, moving and hilarious novel about one of life's greatest mysteries: the relationship between parents and their children.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

Half of the Human Race
Anthony Quinn
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 25 March 2012. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 February 2011. Combining national drama and private tragedy, "Half of The Human Race" is a book about men and women...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

You Deserve Nothing
Alexander Maksik
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 1 April 2012. Utterly compelling, brilliantly written, YOU DESERVE NOTHING is a captivating tale about teachers and students, of moral uncertainties and the coming of adulthood. It heralds the arrival of a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2012

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Channel 4 TV Book Club 2012

The TV Book Club, continues in 2012 offering viewers the chance to celebrate and immerse themselves in Britain’s best writing. In a similar style to book clubs around the country, a panel of presenters including – Meera Syal, Dave Spikey, Rory McGrath and Laila Rouass - review specially selected best reads.

Here is the list of the titles to be reviewed in this series:

29th Jan - Before I go to Sleep

5th Feb - The Sisters, Brothers

12th Feb - The Somnabulist

19th Feb - Into the Darkest Corner

26th Feb - The Rules of Civility

4th Mar - Girl Reading

11th Mar - The Report

18th Mar - The Family Fang

25th Mar - Half of the Human Race

1st Apr - You Deserve Nothing

You can watch The TV Book Club on More4 and Channel 4.