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The Book Show on Sky Arts
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Please find below all the books reviewed on the latest season of the Sky Arts Book Show - click on the Month you would like to see more information on.
June 2011
May 2011
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March 2011
February 2011
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December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
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Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Liz Lochhead
This is the familiar tale of the enmity between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots, but retold by Scotland's unofficial Poet Laureate with a ferocious iconoclasm. Needless to say, the play ends when Mary Queen of Scots...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/04/2009
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The Empty Family Stories
Colm Toibin
'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2010
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 16 June 2011.
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 30 July 2008.
Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel that will pull on the heart strings. There’s a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008
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The Forgotten Waltz
Anne Enright
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 9 June 2011.
With The Forgotten Waltz Enright turns her attention fully to love - you might even call it romance - as she follows...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Bullfighting
Roddy Doyle
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 9 June 2011.
Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs, and of the Irish middle-aged male confronting new...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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The Absolutist
John Boyne
May 2011 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 9 June 2011.
From the hugely successful author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas comes The Absolutist,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/02/2011
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Animal Tales (The Fantastic World of Terry Jones)
Terry Jones
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 June 2011.
From a dog being a doctor to an elephant wanting trousers, animals doing extraordinary things make this a wonderful collection of unusual stories. Terry Jones takes a kindly look...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/03/2011
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Afterwards
Rosamund Lupton
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
With an out-of-body experience at the centre of this ingenious tale, Lupton has surpassed the excellence of her first novel, Sister. This is highly compulsive, poignant stuff.
Featured on The...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
Beryl Bainbridge
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 June 2011.
The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation.
Format: Hardback - Released: 26/05/2011
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The Moment
Douglas Kennedy
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 May 2011.
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Tides of War
Stella Tillyard
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 May 2011.
Tides of War is drenched in an unforgettable atmosphere, from the mantillas and palms of Seville to gas lamps in foggy London....
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2011
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At Last
Edward St. Aubyn
May 2011 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 May 2011.
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mother's Milk and
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/05/2011
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Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 May 2011.
You can't choose who you love ... Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult's new novel asks what it takes to make a family in today's world.
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/04/2011
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Problem Child
Caradoc King
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 May 2011.
A remarkable memoir, the inspiring account of a child's instinct for survival in a hostile world.
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Skippy Dies
Paul Murray
Shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers Book Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 19 May 2011.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2010.
If you took The History Boys by Alan Bennett, A Clockwork Orange by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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The First Ladies
Kay Burley
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 May 2011.
What happens when the power of love challenges the love of power?
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/05/2011
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The Popes : A History
John Julius Norwich
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 May 2011.
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/03/2011
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Those in Peril
Wilbur Smith
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 12 May 2011.
If you like to lose yourself in a strapping yarn that is well told then this book - another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best loved storytellers...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/02/2011
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Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
Eoin Colfer
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 May 2011.
Bestselling master criminal Artemis Fowl is back for another thrilling adventure. But, is he the same? Now fifteen, Artemis seems older and wiser and he is determined to save...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Lucky Break
Esther Freud
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 May 2011.
This dazzling new novel from Esther Freud uncovers a world of ruthless ambition, uncertain alliances and the many-sided holy grail of Success.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Atlantic : A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 May 2011.
The Atlantic Ocean from its first existence, our discovery of it as a immense sea between Europe and the Americas through to its likely demise. It stays absorbing and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 April 2011.
A heart-wrenching story of ambition and betrayal that captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Untold Story
Monica Ali
What if Princess Diana hadn't died? Diana's life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare. Adored by millions, in her personal life she suffered heartbreak and betrayal. Within a life of privilege, she frequently felt trapped and alone. Constrained by...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2011
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One from the Hart : A Memoir
Stefanie Powers
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 April 2011.
One from the Hart is the story of a resourceful, empowered woman and her atypical celebrity life. Stefanie tells her tale with the candour, wit, and wisdom that have...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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King of the Badgers
Philip Hensher
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 April 2011.
After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility...
Format: Hardback - Released: 31/03/2011
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Body Work
Sara Paretsky
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 April 2011.
The brilliant new V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.
Format: Hardback - Released: 17/03/2011
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London Under
Peter Ackroyd
The depth below is hot, warmer than the surface, and tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional – rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. There is a Bronze Age trackway under...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Behind Closed Doors
Hugo Vickers
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 14 April 2011.
The author has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man....
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe
Jenny Colgan
Ever dreamed of starting over? Issy Randall can bake. No, more than that - Issy can create stunning, mouth-wateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe's bakery she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. So when she's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Winner of the Galaxy International Author of the Year Award 2011.
April 2011 Book of the Month.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011.
One of the 20 Longlisted titles for the Orange...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2011
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Family Values
Wendy Cope
Cope's mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of aging she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2011
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Room
Emma Donoghue
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A 2012 World Book Night selection.
Winner of the Galaxy Paperback of the Year Award 2011.
This was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize but I believed at the time it would...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/01/2011
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Whatever You Love
Louise Doughty
Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Boys Don't Cry
Malorie Blackman
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 31 March 2011.
Best selling Malorie Blackman delighted hundreds of thousands of readers with Noughts and Crosses, her thoughtful and touching story about love in a society riven by racial segregation. Here,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Custody
Manju Kapur
When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for the freedom to live with the man...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Aphrodite's Hat
Salley Vickers
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 March 2011.
The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010
Chris Mullin
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 March 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Biography of the Year 2010.
The sequel to Chris Mullin’s highly acclaimed first volume of diaries, A View From the Foothills, widely regarded as the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/08/2010
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So Much To Tell
Valerie Grove
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 March 2011.
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children's books in 1961 and changed the face of children's publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Red Dust Road
Jackie Kay
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Biography of the Year Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 March 2011.
This charmingly written autobiography - about a young girl with a Nigerian father adopted by a wonderfully humane white Scottish...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2011
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Daughters-in-Law
Joanna Trollope
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
Rachel has always been at the centre of her family of three sons but now the youngest is getting...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2011
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The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 March 2011.
A heartbreaking story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
It has to be said that some books set in strange places and unfamiliar...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Never Let Me Go (film edition)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 March 2011.
If you've not yet read this unputdownable and devastating book then you should do so either before or after you've seen the film. Ideally before!!! This is a devastating,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2010
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The Lake of Dreams
Kim Edwards
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 March 2011.
After years abroad, Lucy returns home from Japan. At a crossroads in her life, she is newly haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Late one night,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/01/2011
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To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 March 2011.
Spare like the landscape he depicts, Colin Thubron writes of the landscape of Tibet and the pilgrimage route to Mount Kailas, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists but rarely visited...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2011
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The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 March 2011.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010.
The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2010
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I Think I Love You
Allison Pearson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 February 2011.
Allison Pearson is back with I Think I Love You, a humorous yet poignant portrayal of teenageobsession and first love as experienced by Petra, a 13-year-old girl infatuated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2011
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The Betrayal
Helen Dunmore
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 24 February 2011.
Betrayal is a powerful and touching novel of ordinary people in the grip of a terrible and sinister regime - 1950s Soviet Union, and a moving portrait of a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Saints and Sinners
Edna O'Brien
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 February 2011.
A collection that is characterised by the author's powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/02/2011
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Half of the Human Race
Anthony Quinn
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 and their difficulties in understanding each other at a turning-point in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/02/2011
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Gallery Girl
Wendy Holden
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 February 2011.
January 2011 Book of the Month.
A hilarious and wonderfully feel-good tale from Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling author Wendy Holden. She...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/07/2010
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We Had it So Good
Linda Grant
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 February 2011.
The exquisitely crafted new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS - the thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2011
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The Stranger in the Mirror
Jane Shilling
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 February 2011.
Presents one woman's attempt to understand what middle age is, what it means for her and whether, as a new generation of women turns 50, some kind of revolution...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/01/2011
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Jerusalem : The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
February 2011 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 February 2011.
A triumphant history, a compelling...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/01/2011
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Lyrics Alley
Leila Aboulela
One of the 20 Longlisted titles for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 February 2011.
A lyrical and deeply moving novel by a twice ORANGE-listed rising star, set in pre-Independence Sudan,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/12/2010
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Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 February 2011.
I just love this man’s writing. The 17-year old, razor happy gang leader, Pinkie, is one of fiction’s great characters, truly nasty. Despite the dated period, the underlying message...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Parting Shots
Matthew Parris
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 February 2011.
Sadly, the tradition of Ambassadors firing off one last missive as they leave their posts is now finished – and reading some of the letters published here, you can...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2010
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Nemesis
Lindsey Davis
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 January 2011.
Winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2011.
In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 13 Mar 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 January 2011.
With its lavish period detail, gossip below...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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The Templar Salvation
Raymond Khoury
February 2011 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 27 January 2011.
The search to expose the ancient - and deadly - secrets of Christianity continues in this...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/01/2011
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Diaries Volume Two : Power and the People
Alastair Campbell
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 20 January 2011.
Power and the People is the second of four volumes, and covers the first two years of New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/01/2011
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Role Models
John Waters
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 20 January 2011.
A self-portrait told through intimate literary profiles of John Waters' favourite personalities - some famous, some less well-known. A paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 12/02/2010
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Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
Nigella Lawson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 16 December 2010.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Food & Drink Book of the Year 2010.
Expansive, practical, delicious and quite probably the cookery book of the year. Kitchen is a big,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Distant Hours
Kate Morton
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 16 December 2010.
November 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Kate Morton,the bestselling author of The House at Riverton, returns to our bookshops this month with The Distant Hours – a bewitching tale of family...
Format: Hardback - Released: 15/10/2010
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Parky's People: The Interviews - 100 of the Best
Michael Parkinson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 9 December 2010.
A distillation of over 2,000 interviews that Michael Parkinson conducted throughout his TV career. His chosen interviews range from the arts to sports and politics; memorable conversations, intimate glimpses...
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
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A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Dawn French
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 December 2010.
November 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Dawn French turns her hand to fiction with the release of novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous – a hilarious and compelling read about a motherand...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/10/2010
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Empire of Silver
Conn Iggulden
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 2 December 2010.
September 2010 Book of the Month.
Conn Iggulden knows his history and knows how to tell a great story. This is the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Comfort and Joy
India Knight
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 November 2010.
A blackly funny, tender dissection of the meaning of love - family love, sibling love, children love - Comfort and Joy will make you laugh and cry.
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/11/2010
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The Brave
Nicholas Evans
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 November 2010.
October 2010 Book of the Month.
This will sweep you up in its grasp in the same way The Horse...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
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The Making of Pink Floyd The Wall
Gerald Scarfe
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 18 November 2010.
Gerald Scarfe's account of the making of Pink Floyd's iconic Wall album art, stageshow and film. Packed full of archive images, including interviews and related material, this is the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 21/10/2010
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The Fort
Bernard Cornwell
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 November 2010.
Bernard Cornwell, King of the historical action adventure has picked on an extraordinary battle in history -The Penobscot Expedition - that has fascinated the author for years, and will...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 November 2010.
Iain M. Bank's Culture series is in a league of its own when it comes to modern science fiction and his latest Surfae detail doesn't disappoint. Vast in scale,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2010
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Dark Matter
Michelle Paver
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 11 November 2010.
A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. Evocative, chilling and superbly unsettling.
Format: Hardback - Released: 21/10/2010
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My Father's Fortune: A Life
Michael Frayn
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2010.Costa Book Awards 2010 Judges' comment: "A delightful and wholly unsentimental memoir that balances beautifully the twin responses of tears and laughter."
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Trick of the Dark
Val McDermid
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 November 2010.
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fans of a good thriller will enjoy Trick Of The Dark by crime writer...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy, The Cousins' War, brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort, a shadowy and mysterious character in the first book of the series - The White Queen - but who now takes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/07/2010
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Worth Dying for
Lee Child
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 October 2010.
Another fast paced thriller featuring the seemingly indestructible Jack Reacher. Fans will not be disappointed and new readers are...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography
Barry Humphries
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 October 2010.
Dame Edna’s long term manager reveals all! Barry Humphries dishes the dirt on his world famous ‘client’ in spectacular and hilarious style. A must for all fans.
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
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The L-Shaped Room
Lynne Reid Banks
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 28 October 2010.
This is the 50th anniversary edition of Lynne Reid banks classic and it is still as fresh and moving as it was 50 years ago. Times may have changed...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2004
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Mog the Forgetful Cat
Judith Kerr
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 October 2010.
Many happy returns to Mog the Forgetful Cat who has been delighting readers for forty years. Brilliant author-illustrator Judith Kerr’s timeless stories about Mog, the cat who has a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Luka and the Fire of Life
Salman Rushdie
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 October 2010.
Another magical, mystical tale from Salman Rushdie to please readers of all ages. It follows up Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written for the authors first son,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2010
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Jump!
Jilly Cooper
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 21 October 2010.
Just reading the synopsis of this book made me smile and feel a warm glow that Jilly Cooper was...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
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The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
James Ellroy
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 14 October 2010.
A candid and sometimes shocking memoir from one of the greatest thriller writers of the last century. Ellroy's obsessive relationship with his mother is laid bare giving us a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 09/09/2010
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A Week in December
Sebastian Faulks
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 14 October 2010.
This is Sebastian Faulks' first novel set in present day Britain. Here he explores our lives from the polar extremes of a rich but morally bankrupt hedge fund manager...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Small Hand
Susan Hill
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 14 October 2010.
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Best-selling author of The Woman In Black, Susan Hill is on top form with this chilling ghost story about a book dealer who comes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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