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The Book Show on Sky Arts
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Please find below all the books reviewed on the Sky Arts Book Show - click on the Month you would like to see more information on. To see books reviewed in last year's series click the link below. Sky Arts Book Show 2008
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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Jonathan Coe
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 May 2010.
Jonathan Coe is a great observer of human nature and once again he gives us a thoroughly believable and sympathetic character in Maxwell Sim. Small, and sometimes seemingly insignificant,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Ghost Light
Joseph O'Connor
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 May 2010.
A beautiful love story that will leave the reader moved and uplifted.
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Bad Ideas? - An Arresting History of Our Inventions
Robert Winston
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 May 2010.
A history of our technological progress spanning hundreds of years. Winston makes the most complicated of ideas easy to understand and shows that sometimes some advances are not always...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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The Way Home
George P Pelecanos
CWA Gold Dagger Finalist 2010.
CWA Judges’ comments: 'A remarkable portrait of a blue collar family whose son is struggling to break free from his criminal past.'
The Lovereading view...
A crime novel that focuses largely on the relationship between a father and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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The Last Weekend
Blake Morrison
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 20 May 2010.
A dark and gripping story about friendships and old rivalries. The summer heat makes for an uncomfortable time both physically and mentally in this compelling tale.
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Seeing Stars
Simon Armitage
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 May 2010.
Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Blueeyedboy
Joanne Harris
April 2010 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 13 May 2010.
A brilliantly plotted thriller from the author of Chocolat. This tale of a highly dysfunctional...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2010
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One Day
David Nicholls
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 May 2010.
Two people meet on the last day of university and forge a friendship which the reader follows on the same day of the year, every year, for the next...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Maya
Alastair Campbell
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 May 2010.
Partly a psychological thriller and mostly about the obsession with fame society now has Campbell draws together characters from the worlds of business, journalism, politics and film and creates...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Last 10 Seconds
Simon Kernick
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 6 May 2010.
Simon Kernick is fast becoming one of the top crime writers in Britain today and at Lovereading we have been fans for a long time. Here we have another...
Format: Hardback - Released: 21/01/2010
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The Dead Republic
Roddy Doyle
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 April 2010.
The final part of Roddy Doyle's trilogy see's Henry Smart return to the Ireland he left 20 years before and once again getting caught up in the Republican movement....
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Living Dolls - The Return of Sexism
Natasha Walter
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 April 2010.
A straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 April 2010.
A story of a group of people in 1970, holidaying in an Italian castle, at the height of the sexual revolution. Move forward 40 years and Amis fills in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Unnamed
Joshua Ferris
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 April 2010.
The 'Unnamed' is the intriguing condition that afflicts Tim Farnsworth causing him to set off walking at unpredictable times, walking without any destination or desire to stop, until utter...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/02/2010
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So Much for That
Lionel Shriver
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 April 2010.
A book about terminal illness and battling the healthcare system may not sound much fun but Lionel Shriver adds her marvellous touch to every page making it a compelling...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Redeeming Features
Nicky Haslam
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 April 2010.
One of the most colourful and fabulous fashionistas in the country Nicky Haslam has been at the forefront of the fashion and celebrity world for decades. Mixing with supermodels,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Ivington Diaries
Monty Don
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 April 2010.
The seasons in Monty Don’s hands are equally blessed. Capturing15 years of creative gardening at his farmhouse home in Ivington (in Herefordshire), Monty makes milky winter-sun pruning just as...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2009
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A Life Apart
Neel Mukherjee
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 April 2010.
A Life Apart is a scalding novel about dislocations and alienations,
about the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories
and about the consolations of storytelling.
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/01/2010
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Trespass
Rose Tremain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 April 2010.
Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Road Home and returns with Trespass. A captivating thriller, set in southern...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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We are All Made of Glue
Marina Lewycka
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010.
A warm and humorous read about two lonely women who form a friendship. Definitely one for fans of her previous novels and a great one to start with if...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2010
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 April 2010.
Pullman’s re-telling of the life of Christ. Controversial before it was even published Pullman’s book gives his view on the life of Jesus. He is not trying to shock...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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The Long Song
Andrea Levy
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010.
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
February 2010 Book of the Month.
With the recent television...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010.
A writer who had more titles on the BBC’s Big Read Top 100 than any other living author, only Charles Dickens matched him. At the start Pratchett was categorised...
Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 01/10/2005
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Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
Antonia Fraser
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 March 2010.
Antonia Fraser’s memoir of the love story between herself and Harold Pinter, who spent 33 years together, having found each other somewhat later in life. Since 1968 Fraser has...
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/01/2010
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The Other Family
Joanna Trollope
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 March 2010.
A well constructed story and a fascinating host of characters make for
another absorbing novel from one of the masters of family drama. When
Richie Rossiter unexpectedly dies he leaves the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Solar
Ian McEwan
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 March 2010.
On Chesil Beach was the last offering from McEwan and although beautifully formed it
was a novella rather than a good...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/03/2010
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The Making of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 December 2009.
The book to accompany the brilliant TV series is equally as engrossing. Andrew Marr looks at one of the most interesting and complex times of British history with the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2009
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The Infinities
John Banville
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 December 2009.
A family drama with the action taking place over one day. Even within this time frame there are wonderful insights in to relationships and situations. With the odd mythical...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2009
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Halfway to Hollywood Diaries 1980 to 1988
Michael Palin
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 December 2009.
Now this would be a test for those celebrities who write their memoirs in between massages and manicures: keep a diary every day and make it interesting. Not just...
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/09/2009
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Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children
Conn Iggulden
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 December 2009.
It's Peter Pan with attitude as Conn Iggulden, creator of the
phenomenal bestseller The Dangerous Book for Boys, introduces an
explosive and magical new fictional world of the Tollins – flying
creatures...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2009
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Alison Weir
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 December 2009.
Alison Weir brings history to life yet again in this study of the last few days of Anne Boleyn's life. This reads as well as any fictional conspiracy theory...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
William Boyd
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 December 2009.
A gripping thriller that will keep you glued from beginning to end. When Adam Kindred finds himself caught up in a murder and has to lose himself in the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2009
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William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
John Carey
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 December 2009.
A detailed and fascinating biography of the author of Lord of the Flies. In this biography Carey does make...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Sue Townsend
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 December 2009.
The latest volume in the Adrian Mole saga see's Adrian down on his luck in more ways than one and when the possibility that he may have prostate cancer...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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This Mitchell and Webb Book
David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 November 2009.
A great gift for any fan of this quirky comedy duo. Filled with their bizarre and strange humour there is plenty to keep you laughing all through the festive...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/04/2009
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The Kites are Flying
Michael Morpurgo
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 November 2009.
Set around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, this is a hugely topical novel from a master storyteller, which at its heart makes a plea for peace and unity. The story is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
Marian Keyes
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 November 2009.
Marion Keyes brings a whole host of characters together in this funny and sad book. A mystery narrator carries the story along as we delve into the lives of...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/10/2009
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Meltdown
Ben Elton
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 November 2009.
Always topical, Ben Elton centres his new book around the credit crunch. Following his characters from their days at university, through the highs of their careers and domestic lives...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Bride's Farewell
Meg Rosoff
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 November 2009.
Meg Rosoff has written another superb book for young adults, although this will be equally enjoyed by the more mature adults out there too! Pell leaves home determined not...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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An Education
Lynn Barber
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 November 2009.
A memoir of the authors life from her teens in the 60's through until today. Bittersweet, funny and thoroughly enjoyable, this will be one you won't want to put...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/06/2009
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The Complaints
Ian Rankin
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 November 2009.
Rankin has moved on to a new protagonist in the form of Malcolm Fox and has set him up in a department which bodes well for what we are...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 November 2009.
This is quite different from Mosse’s previous books Labyrinth and Sepulchre. It started out as a short story for the 2009 Quick Reads but the author felt...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer
Michael Mansfield
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 October 2009.
Probably one of the most recognisable British lawyers of our time, Mansfield has been involved in some of the biggest law suits this country has seen. This is someone...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Lustrum
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 October 2009.
This is the second part of Harris's historical trilogy which began with Imperium. More political intrigue from 60BC...
Format: Hardback - Released: 08/10/2009
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Get Her Off the Pitch! How Sport Took Over My Life
Lynne Truss
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 October 2009.
In Lynne Truss’s varied career in journalism her four years spent as a sports columnist perhaps seemed the most unlikely but she made a success of those four years...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 October 2009.
The book adapted from Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show looking at the history of ideas through philosophy, literature and much, much more. A great 'dipping into' book.
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/09/2009
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A Beginner's Guide to Acting English
Shappi Khorsandi
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 October 2009.
Shappi Khorsandi gives a warm, humorous and slightly scary view of her childhood growing up in England as exiles from Iran in the 1970’s and 80’s. Well written and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
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Collected Screenplays
Christopher Hampton
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 October 2009.
One for lovers of screenplays, this work includes the wonderful ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ and some of Hampton’s other works, previously unpublished.
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/09/2002
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Talking Theatre
Richard Eyre
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 October 2009.
Anyone with the vaguest interest in the theatre will find this a fascinating insight in to that world told by those who live and breathe it. Some of our...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/09/2009
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Robert Vaughn: A Fortunate Life - An Autobiography
Robert Vaughn
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 October 2009.
From ‘The Man from UNCLE’ in the 1960’s through to today’s ‘Hustle’ on BBC Robert Vaughn has been a regular on our film and TV screens. Having met some...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/12/2008
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