Richard and Judy Book Club Podcast - exclusive to WHSmith
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Podcast Description
Richard and Judy present their thoughts and interviews with each author of the books chosen for the Book Club summer reads. Get involved in what is on its way to becoming Britain’s biggest Book Club.
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Victoria Hislop - The Thread | Back to Greece with a familiar name. Victoria Hislop's latest novel celebrates modern Greek history and the people it affected. Hear her inspirations and the best piece of advice she ever received in our exclusive author interview. | 24 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Simon - The Story of Beautiful Girl | Three different storylines intertwined across a 40 year timescale - a story of love conquering disability and the changes in social attitudes. Rachel Simon explains her writing routine and what inspired this thought-provoking novel. | 12 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alison Littlewood - A Cold Season | Wrap up warm and snuggle up for first-time novelist Alison Littlewood revealling a tear in her eye when she saw her book on the shelf and bought out. Opening on a foggy, Saddleworth Moor this spooky horror fantasy, is one Richard and Judy are clearly excited by. | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amanda Brooke - Yesterday's Sun | Could you choose to give up your own life to allow your unborn baby to live? That's the dilemma at the centre of this novel from Amanda Brooke who gives a heartfelt explaination of where the idea came from. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paula McLain - The Paris Wife | Welcome Ernest and Hadley Hemmingway in this novel about real people where immediately the reader knows all will not end well. Author Paula McLain explains more and about how she was first published aged 19. | 1 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jojo Moyes - Me Before You | A weepy, but funny romance full of changes. Author and journalist Jojo Moyes talks about the thrill and privilege of being a writer and reads an extract from her book. | 16 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louisa Young - My Dear I Wanted to Tell You | The horrors of the First World War and the banality of real life are the themes of this prize-winning novel. Louisa Young explains how ideas fester in the compost heap section of her mind linking and entwining to create the perfect novel. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mons Kallentoft - Midwinter Sacrifice | Another Scandinavian sensation, who admits to having a strict working regime. This thrilling tale is full of frozen landscape references told on poetic tones. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SJ Watson - Before I Go To Sleep | Beginning the new series; a mesmerising thriller, the film rights to which have already been snapped up by Ridley Scott. Richard and Judy discover what inspired the clever premise behind the book and the author reveals how he felt when he first learned he was to be published. | 6 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Hosp - Next of Kin | A murder mystery, the fourth in the Scott Finn Series, written by a real-life Boston Attorney. In the last of the Autumn series, David Hosp reveals that the majority of his books are written during his daily commute. | 8 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Araminta Hall - Everything and Nothing | Vigorous and strongly written, this story captures the pressures and strains of young family life perfectly. Aslo in the podcast, Araminta explains how being a writer has helped her with her own work-life balance. | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lisa Genova - Left Neglected | A traumatic accident that leads to life-changing events is the theme for this novel from Lisa Genova who compares finishing a book to giving birth. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michelle Paver - Dark Matter | A ghost story set in the sinister Artic. Creeping into the supernatural Michelle Paver reveals that she wrote her first story at the age of 5 and finds writing is a compulsion. | 27 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie | Meeting an escaped tiger in the East End aged 8, Jaffy Brown goes on to an adult expedition to capture a dragon. The best book Richard believes he has read in the last 15 years and now short-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. | 13 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter May - The Blackhouse | Multi-award winning novelist and scriptwriter Peter May has set his latest offering on the Scottish island of Lewis, a first book in a trilogy about Police Detective Fin Macleod. Here Peter talks about what inspires him and how he has been writing since he was aged four. | 29 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Tasting in food, the emotions of the cook who made it, is an incredible curse as well as a blessing that in this highly original book helps the reader understand family relationships, emotions and how they interact. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Megan Abbott - The End of Everything | 80s mid-west America and a childhood friendship is ripped apart when one of the children disappears, but nothing is quie as it seems. | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bella Pollen - The Summer of the Bear | An old friend of the Richard and Judy Book Club, Bella Pollen has written a very unusual book that is ever so easy to read. Set in the cold war it is an extraordinary tale featuring grief, communication and a grizzly bear | 18 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna Quindlen - Every Last One | Testament to the power of a Mother's love, Every Last One comes from Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen. Here she tells Richard and Judy about how every paragraph in the novel is inter-woven and how she hates writing, but loves having written. | 4 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Speller - The Return of Captain John Emmett | It's a mystery set in 1920's Britain just after the First World War and packed full of secrets. Here, Elizabeth Speller reveals how she always wanted to be a writer, first as a poet and now novelist. | 21 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree | "Full of atmosphere" is how Richard describes Erin Kelly's psychological thriller set in the hot summer of 1997 in Bohemian North London. Here she explains how her characters and location came together over a period of five years to create the seductive world at the heart of the novel. | 7 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Natasha Solomons - The Novel In the Viola | Wartime romance, packed with emotion and with a surprise ending. Author Natasha Solomons explains why her childhood dyslexia inspired her to become a writer and reveals to Richard and Judy why she chose the subject for this, her follow up to the successful Mr Rosenblum's List. | 23 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jed Rubenfeld - The Death Instinct | September 16th 1920 - The Wall Street bombing was never solved, the parallels between this time where the book begins and our modern world are stunning. Former acting student turned law academic Jed Rubenfeld, inspired by the history of New York has done it again with his follow-up novel to The Interpretation of Murder. | 9 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suzannah Dunn - The Confession of Katherine Howard | In her historic novel about the fifth wife of Henry VIII, acclaimed writer Suzannah Dunn gives an insight into the Tudor court. Here she talks to Richard and Judy about her thoughts on Katherine the person and reveals why writing as a job isn't as easy as some people make out. | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Winman - When God Was a Rabbit | In this first of a new fortnightly series featuring books on the Book Club summer reading list, actress turned author Sarah Winman talks to Richard and Judy about her first novel that spans four decades. | 12 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coming soon - Summer 2011 - The Richard and Judy Book Club Podcast | Hear the authors, hear the readers and hear Richard and Judy discuss the latest selection of titles for the Richard and Judy Book Club. | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 26 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Richard and judy
This sounds like another great choice from Richard and judy - can't wait to read it!
Good someone
Loving the bookclub as I get bewildered trying to find new authors to read. Haven't had a duff read yet!
Great interview
Brilliant, really interesting interview and great offer to get When God Was A Rabbit for half price as well. will pop in and get my copy after work!
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