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William Trevor was born in 1928. He is an Irish author and playwright, who has won the Whitbread Prize three times and has been nominated four times for the Booker Prize, most recently for his novel Love and Summer. Read Love and the Summer by William Trevor
My Song : A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance Harry Belafonte
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 5 June 2012.
From his impoverished childhood in Harlem and Jamaica, through his meteoric rise as an international calypso star, provocative crossover into Hollywood where he broke down... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/2012
Sacrilege S. J. Parris
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 5 June 2012.
We loved her debut Heresy, with the ex-monk turned secret agent Giordano Bruno and the follow up historical mystery, Sacrilege, is just as gripping.... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
The Good Book A Secular Bible A. C. Grayling
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 4 June 2012.
Offers a non-religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world's great religions. This title covers: Genesis ; Proverbs ;... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2011
One Day David Nicholls
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 February 2012.
One of Richard Bacon's favourite books.
A 2011 World Book Night selection.
Winner of... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'International Author of the Year' 2012.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 3 June 2012.
The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men Kitty Aldridge
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 3 June 2012.
After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/07/2012
Matilda Roald Dahl
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 2 June 2012.
Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Matilda is determined to get her... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2011
Johnson's Life of London : The People Who Made the City That Made the World Boris Johnson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts at the Hay Festival on 2 June 2012.
This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
Young Elizabeth the Making of Our Queen Kate Williams
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 31 May 2012.
Kate Williams reveals how the 25-year-old young Queen carved out a lasting role for herself amid the changes of the twentieth century. Her monarchy would be a very different... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People Andrew Marr
June 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch and to the... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012.
With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
Peaches for Monsieur le Cure Joanne Harris
June 2012 Book of the Month.
A fascinating novel. In one way comforting, as you find yourself back in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes for a third time (Chocolat and The Lollipop... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/05/2012
Jeremy Deller Joy in People Ralph Rugoff, Rob Young, Stuart Hall
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 May 2012.
Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966 and studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Sussex University. He won the Turner Prize in 2004... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau Gary Kemp
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 May 2012.
A warts and all tale of Gary Kemp's life, from his early years spent trying to kill his little brother, Martin, through the hedonistic 80’s, riding high in one... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
City of Dreadful Night Peter Guttridge
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 May 2012.
July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's left luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/03/2011
A World I Loved The Story of an Arab Woman Wadad Makdisi Cortas
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 May 2012.
This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death James Runcie
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 May 2012.
From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries, six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history - from the... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Humorist Russell Kane
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 May 2012.
The coruscatingly original debut novel from one of Britain's best young comedians. Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
Silver Return to Treasure Island Andrew Motion
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 May 2012.
Featuring a cast of noble seamen, murderous pirates and stories of love, valour and terrible cruelty, Silver is a worthy sequel to Treasure Island - one of the... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/03/2012
Various Pets Alive and Dead Marina Lewycka
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 May 2012.
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a Chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Double Cross The True Story of the D-Day Spies Ben Macintyre
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 March 2012.
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation:... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/03/2012
Dead Rich Louise Fennell
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 March 2012.
Dead Rich is a black comedy, a cautionary tale for our times. Format: Paperback - Released: 14/02/2012
All Cheeses Great and Small : A Life Less Blurry Alex James
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 March 2012.
This is the story of Alex James's transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Capital John Lanchester
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'UK Author of the Year' 2012.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 March 2012.
Capital is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion and humour, featuring a cast of characters... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Sue Townsend
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 March 2012.
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is a funny and touching novel about what happens when someone refuses to be the person everyone expects them to... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Black by Design: A 2-tone Memoir Pauline Black
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 March 2012.
Weaving her rise to fame and recollections of the 2-tone phenomenon with her moving search for her birth parents, Black By Design is a funny and enlightening memoir... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
Beyond the Bounty (Quick Reads) Tony Parsons
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 March 2012.
A World Book Day 2012 Quick Read.
From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise ... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion Alain de Botton
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 March 2012.
For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing peculiar doctrines or doing away with consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last Alain de Botton... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/01/2012
Waiting for Sunrise William Boyd
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 March 2012.
A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms. Format: Hardback - Released: 16/02/2012
The Man Who Forgot His Wife John O'farrell
March 2012 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 March 2012.
John O’Farrell’s novels are consistently funny, poking a stick at middle clash angst and embarrassing social... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/03/2012
An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants Dame Daphne Sheldrick
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 March 2012.
A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers, finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning against the possibility that the ivory trade might be... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
War Horse Michael Morpurgo
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 March 2012.
Best-selling War Horse, a magnificent First World War story of human and animal courage on the battle field in the face of deadly danger will shortly be a film... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/11/2011
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World Simon Callow
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 23 February 2012.
Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles
Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of
the theatre to the life of the... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? Jeanette Winterson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 December 2011.
Jeanette Winterson:
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , was published. It tells the story of... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
Sapphire Battersea Jacqueline Wilson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 December 2011.
With Jacqueline Wilson's trademark wit and humour, she has once again delivered a wonderfully moving story of life for a foundling, Hetty Feather, in Victorian London. In thissecond... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2011
Blood Line Lynda La Plante
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 December 2011.
Under the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes
charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a
missing person's case -... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/06/2011
The House of Silk : The New Sherlock Holmes Novel Anthony Horowitz
Shortlisted for the Specsavers Bestseller Dagger 2012.
November 2011 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 December 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2011
Stranger Magic Marina Warner
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 December 2011.
With startling originality and impeccable research, this groundbreaking book shows how magic, in the deepest sense, helped to create the modern world, and how profoundly it is still inscribed... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
The Magic of Reality : How We Know What's Really True Richard Dawkins
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 December 2011.
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Are we alone? Have you heard... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/09/2011
Many Lives Stephanie Beacham
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 December 2011.
A rather different star-studded yet spiritual autobiography. From Hollywood to Corrie via Shakespeare and Celebrity Big Brother, Stephanie Beacham really has been there and done that. In this candid... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/10/2011
Mary Boleyn : 'The Great and Infamous Whore' Alison Weir
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 November 2011.
In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir
explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers
the facts about one of the most... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
You Can't Say That : Memoirs Ken Livingstone
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 November 2011.
Written in Livingstone's unmistakable voice, by turns angrily sincere
about social justice, wickedly droll and gossipy, and surprisingly
wistful about people he has known and loved, this is a... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
Teacher's Dead Benjamin Zephaniah
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 November 2011.
If the first page doesn’t make you want to read on then this isn’t the book for you. It’s violent and to the point – it’s psychological suspense at... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
The Importance of Being Myrtle Ulrika Jonsson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 November 2011.
When Myrtle's husband, Austin, dies on the bus one morning, everything seems to freeze. But in reality Myrtle has been frozen for nearly forty years, locked into an emotionless... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
Even My Ears are Smiling Michael Rosen
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 November 2011.
Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen’s wonderfully touching and witty poems take readers through many familiar family moments such as Dad loosing his glasses in 'Where are his Glasses?' as... Format: Mixed media product - Released: 03/10/2011
The Faithless Martina Cole
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 November 2011.
October 2011 Book of the Month.
The exciting new novel from the phenomenal No. 1 bestselling author is a powerfully addictive read.... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/10/2011
Perfect People Peter James
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 November 2011.
John and Naomi are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a
rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but they
realize the odds of their next... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
A Dancer in Wartime One Girl's Journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells Gillian Lynne
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 November 2011.
This is a portrait of a wartime childhood like no other. Eye-opening,
inspiring and moving, it charts the struggles and joys of reaching for
the top of a profession... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
The Fear Index Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011.
Robert Harris' latest book is gripping, compelling and unsettlingly a little too close to the truth. Set entirely over the course of a single day, The Fear Index follows... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2011
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