Tuesday 31 October 2017

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

2017
The Art of Falling by Kim Moore

2015
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

2014
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
Black Country by Liz Berry

2013
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

2012
The Havocs by Jacob Polley

2011
Solace by Belinda McKeon

2010
Perfect Blue by Kona Macphee

2009 
London and the South-East by David Szalay

2008
On Purpose by Nick Laird

2007
Self Help by Edward Docx

2006
Woods Etc. by Alice Oswald

2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

2004
The Nerve: Poems by Glyn Maxwell

2003
The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill

2002
At Home in the Dark by Greta Stoddart

2001
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi

2000
Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie

1999
Shopping by Gavin Kramer

1998
God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson

1997
Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins

1996
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie

1995
Their Angel Reach by Livi Michael

1994
Feast Days by John Burnside

1993
The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self

1992
Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon

1991
The Fog Line by Carol Birch

1990
Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy

1989
Sea Music by David Profumo

1988
Acrimony: Poems by Michael Hofmann

1987
Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe

1986
A Quiet Gathering by David Scott

1985
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

1984
In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83 by James Fenton

1983
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift

1982
Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon
The Strange Museum by Tom Paulin

1981
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee

1980
The Slant Door by George Szirtes
Love-Life by Hugo Williams

1979
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo

1978
Dreams of the Dead by David Harsent
The Bear Looked Over the Mountain by Kit Wright

1977
The Story of the Weasel by Carolyn Slaughter

1976
Love or Nothing by Douglas Dunn

1975
In the Middle of a Life by Richard B Wright

1974
Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons by John Fuller

1973
Pasmore by David Storey

1972
The Loiners by Tony Harrison

1971
Troubles by JG Farrell

1970
King Log by Geoffrey Hill

1969
The Junkers by Piers Paul Read

1968
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

1967
Remedy is None by William McIlvanney
The Man with the Chocolate Egg by John Noone

1966
Nature Within Man by Jon Silkin

1965
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy

1964
The Broken Places: Poems by George MacBeth
Torse 3 Poems 1949-1961 by Christopher Middleton

Friday 20 October 2017

Non-fiction - British Book Awards

Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand 
Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect by Fearne Cotton 
5 Ingredients by Jamie Oliver 
The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, Stories and 100 Essential Recipes For Midwinter by Nigel Slater 
The Things You Can Only See When You Slow Down: How To Be Calm in a Busy World by Haemin Sunim 
Cooking For Family and Friends by Joe Wicks


2017
Winner
Hello, is this Planet Earth? by Tim Peake

Shortlist
Sidemen: The Book by The Sidemen
The Unmumsy Mum by Sarah Turner
Five on Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent
Lean in 15: The Sustain Plan by Joe Wicks
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking 


Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
What Does This Button Do? by Bruce Dickinson
Why I ‘m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Ask An Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space by Tim Peake
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young

2017
Winner
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity by Philippe Sands

Shortlist
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen


Non-fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2016
Winner
Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting

Shortlist
SPQR by Mary Beard
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Gut by Giulia Enders
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
How it Works: The Husband by Jason Hazeley Joel Morris
Lean in 15 by Joe Wicks
Deliciously Ella by Ella Woodward


Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe

2013
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Christina Lamb

2012
Is It Just Me by Miranda Hart

Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran

2010
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr


Biography/Autobiography of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson

2013
David Jason: My Life by David Jason

2012
My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding

Biography/Autobiography of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

2010
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry

Biography of the Year - British Book Awards
2009
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

2008
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

2007
The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay

2006
Sharon Osbourne Extreme by Sharon Osbourne

2005
My Life by Bill Clinton

2004
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater

2003
Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins


Food & Drink Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi

2013
Eat by Nigel Slater

2012
The Hairy Dieters by Si King & Dave Myers

Food & Drink Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
The Good Cook by Simon Hopkinson

2010
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi 


Illustrated Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2004
England's Thousand Best Houses by Simon Jenkins

2003
Sahara by Michael Palin

2002
The Blue Planet by Andrew Byatt , Alastair Fothergill & Martha Holmes

2001
The Beatles Anthology by Bryan Roylance

2000
Century by Bruce Bernard

1999
Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs

1998
The Lost Gardens of Heligan by Tim Smit

1997
Flora Britannica by Richard Mabey

1996
The River Cafe Cookbook by Rose Gray & Ruth Rogers

1995
The Art Book by Anonymous


The TV and Film Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2007
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

2006
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

2005
Himalaya by Michael Palin

2004
How Clean Is Your House? by Kim Woodburn & Aggie MacKenzie

2003
What Not to Wear by Trinny Woodall & Susannah Constantine


History Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2005
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague

2004
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag-Montefiore


Sports Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2007
Gerrard: My Autobiography by Steven Gerrard

2006
Being Freddie by Andrew Flintoff

2005
Gazza: My Story by Paul Gascoigne

2004
Martin Johnson: The Autobiography by Martin Johnson


Travel Writer of the Year - British Book Awards
1993
Pole to Pole by Michael Palin

1992
Travels on my Elephant by Mark Shand

1991
India by VS Naipaul

1990
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards

Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
Oi Cat! by Kes Gray Illustrated by Jim Field
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman Illustrated by Chris Wormell
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Bad Dad by David Walliams Illustrated by Tony Ross

2017
Winner
The Girl Of Ink And Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Shortlist
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher Illustrated by Shane Devries
Oi Dog! by Kes and Claire Gray & Jim Field
Nadiya’s Bake Me a Story by Nadiya Hussain Clair Rossiter
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling & John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
The World’s Worst Children by David Walliams Illustrated by Tony Ross

2016
Winner
My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons Illustrated by Laura Ellen Anderson

Shortlist
A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig Illustrated by Chris Mould
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Mog's Christmas Calamity by Judith Kerr
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Illustrated Edition by JK Rowling Illustrated by Jim Kay
Username: Evie by Joe Sugg & Matt Whyman Illustrated by Amrit Birdi
Grandpa's Great Escape by David Walliams Illustrated by Tony Ross

Children's Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
Awful Auntie by David Walliams

2013
Demon Dentist by David Walliams

2012
Ratburger by David Walliams

Children's Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

2010
Zog by Julia Donaldson Illustrated by Axel Scheffler

British Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2009
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

2008
Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon

2007
Flanimals of the Deep by Ricky Gervais

2006
Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz

2005
The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson Illustrated by Axel Scheffler

2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

2003
Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson

2002
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

2001
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

2000
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

1999
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling

1998
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling

1997
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

1996
The Hutchinson treasury of Children's Literature by Alison Sage 



Illustrated Children's Book of the Year - British Book Awards 
1991
The Mousehole Cat by Nicola Bayley


1992
Farmer Duck by Helen Oxenbury

1993
Penguin Small by Mick Inkpen


1994
Mummy Laid an Egg by Babette Cole

1995
The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book by Jay Young

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year - British Book Awards

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
The Girl Before by JP Delaney
The Dry by Jane Harper
Spook Street by Mick Herron
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

2017
Winner
Dodgers by Bill Beverly

Shortlist
The Widow by Fiona Barton
Night School by Lee Child
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Conclave by Robert Harris
I See You by Clare Mackintosh

Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

2013
The Carrier by Sophie Hannah

2012
A Wanted Man by Lee Child

Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson

Crime Thriller of the Year - British Book Awards
2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2008
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell

2007
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin

2006
The Take by Martina Cole

2005
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin

Fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards

Fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
The Break by Marian Keyes
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Winter by Ali Smith
City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

2017
Winner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Shortlist
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Muse by Jessie Burton
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

Popular Fiction Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2016
Winner
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Shortlist
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The Green Road by Anne Enright
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Grey by EL James
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
After You by Jojo Moyes

Popular Fiction Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

2013
An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris

2012
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

Popular Fiction Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French

2010
One Day by David Nicholls

Popular Fiction Award - British Book Awards
2009
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks

2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

2007
Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes

2006
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger


Literary Fiction Award - British Book Awards
2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

2004
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon



International Author of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

2013
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

2012
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

International Author of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Debut Book of the Year - British Book Awards

Debut Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2018
Shortlist
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Sirens by Joseph Knox
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Why Mummy Drinks by Gill Sims
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

2017
Winner
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

Shortlist
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Girls by Emma Cline
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

New Writer of the Year - British Book Awards
2016 
Winner
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

Shortlist
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

New Writer of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

2013
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann

New Writer of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2012
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

2011
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

2010
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Newcomer of the Year - British Book Awards
2009
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2008
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn

2007
The Island by Victoria Hislop

2006
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

2005
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

2004
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

2003
I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson

2002
McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy

2001
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

2000
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart

1997
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

1990
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Book of the Year - British Book Awards

Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

2016
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley

Book of the Year - Specsavers National Book Awards
2014
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

2012
Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran

2010
One Day by David Nicholls

Book of the Year - British Book Awards
2009
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

2008
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

2007
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn & Hal Iggulden

2006
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

2005
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

2004
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

2003
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

2002
Billy by Pamela Stephenson

2001
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons

2000
Managing My Life by Alex Ferguson

1999
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

1998
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

1997
Longitude by Dava Sobel

1996
Delia Smith's Winter Collection by Delia Smith

1995
Writing Home by Alan Bennett

1994
Wild Swans by Jung Chang


Paperback of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards
2011
Room by Emma Donoghue 

Monday 9 October 2017

Oprah's Book Club

2018
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

2016
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

2015
Ruby by Cynthia Bond

2014
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

2012
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Wild by Cheryl Strayed

2010
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

2009
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan

2008
A New Earth  by Eckhart Tolle
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

2007
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Measure of a Man  by Sidney Poitier

2006
Night  by Elie Wiesel

2005
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Million Little Pieces  by James Frey

2004
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2003
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

2002
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Sula by Toni Morrison

2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Icy Sparks  by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Cane River by Lalita Tademy

2000
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Open House  by Elizabeth Berg
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Gap Creek  by Robert Morgan
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Back Roads  by Tawni O'Dell
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

1999
Vinegar Hill  by A Manette Ansay
Tara Road  by Maeve Binchy
River, Cross My Heart  by Breena Clarke
White Oleander  by Janet Fitch
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Mother of Pearl  by Melinda Haynes
Jewel  by Bret Lott
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

1998
Midwives  by Chris Bohjalian
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Breath, Eyes, Memory  by Edwidge Danticat
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
I know this much is true by Wally  Lamb
Where the Heart Is  by Billie Letts
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

1997
The Heart of a Woman  by Maya Angelou
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say  by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt  by Bill Cosby
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines
A Virtuous Woman  by Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
She’s Come Undone  by Wally  Lamb
Songs in Ordinary Time  by Mary McGarry Morris
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

1996
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Wednesday 4 October 2017

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club


Spring 2018   
The Child by Fiona Barton
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
The Thirst by Jo Nesbø
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown

Autumn 2017
Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
The Betrayals by Fiona Neill
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penney
Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys


Summer 2017
Miss You by Kate Eberlen
The Trespasser by Tana French
Conclave by Robert Harris
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
I See You by Clare Mackintosh
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Spring 2017
I'm Travelling Alone by Samuel Bjork
The Muse by Jessie Burton
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Baby Doll by Hollie Overton
A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart

Autumn 2016
The Widow by Fiona Barton
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
The Ballroom by Anna Hope
Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
The Loving Husband by Christobel Kent
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

Summer 2016
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
According to Yes by Dawn French
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girls by Lisa Jewell
Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Spring 2016
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
The Samaritan by Mason Cross
Moving by Jenny Eclair
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman

Autumn 2015   
Life After You by Lucie Brownlee
The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Tea Planter's Wife by Dinah Jefferies
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
The Ice Twins by SK Tremayne
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

Summer 2015
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
Summertime by Vanessa LaFaye
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Us by David Nicholls

Spring 2015
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
Miss Carter's War by Sheila Hancock
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Book of You by Claire Kendal
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood

Autumn 2014
The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
Under a Mackerel Sky by Rick Stein
The Martian by Andy Weir

Summer 2014
Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
Dear Thing by Julie Cohen
The Lie by Helen Dunmore
An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse

Spring 2014
Longbourn by Jo Baker
A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby
Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Autumn 2013
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
Heartbreak Hotel by Deborah Moggach
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
The Twins by Saskia Sarginson
Never Coming Back by Tim Weaver

Summer 2013
The Sea Sisters by Lucy Clarke
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
This is How it Ends by Kathleen MacMahon
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie
Natural Causes by James Oswald
The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman 
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Spring 2013
Gold by Chris Cleave
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Dark Winter by David Mark
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
After the Fall by Charity Norman

Autumn 2012
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore
Fault Line by Robert Goddard
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
Between a Mother and her Child by Elizabeth Noble
Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani

Summer 2012
The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall
Tideline by Penny Hancock
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
The Thread by Victoria Hislop
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Spring 2012
Yesterday's Sun by Amanda Brooke
Midwinter Sacrifice by Mons Kallentoft
A Cold Season by Alison Littlewood
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young

Autumn 2011
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Everything and Nothing by Araminta Hall
Next of Kin by David Hosp
The Blackhouse by Peter May
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Summer 2011
The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzannah Dunn
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Every Last One by Anna Quindlen 
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Spring 2011
This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale
Hothouse Flower by Lucinda Riley
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Trespass by Rose Tremain

Winter 2010
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
The Wilding by Maria McCann
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk

Richard & Judy Book Club
2009
Book of the Year
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

List
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
December by Elizabeth H Winthrop

Summer 2009
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
Guernica by Dave Boling
Palace Council by Stephen L Carter
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
The Piano Teacher by Janice YK Lee
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller

2008
Book of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

List
Blood River by Tim Butcher
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
Random Acts Of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann 
The Visible World by Mark Slouka

Summer 2008
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Down River by John Hart
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Addition by Toni Jordan
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller

2007  
Book of the Year
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld   

List
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Restless by William Boyd
This Book Will Save Your Life by AM Homes
The Girls by Lori Lansens 
Semi-detached by Griff Rhys Jones
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Summer 2007
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon
Relentless by Simon Kernick
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
How to talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper

2006
Book of the Year
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

List
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Farm by Richard Benson
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Conjuror's Bird by Martin Davies
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith

Summer 2006
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
My Best Friend’s Girl by Dorothy Koomson
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

2005
Book of the Year
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

List
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Summer 2005
The Food of Love by Anthony Capella
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
The Laments by George Hagen
The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Good News, Bad News by David Wolstencroft

2004
Book of the Year
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

List
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Know by Martina Cole
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
Notes on a Scandal by Zöe Heller
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
The Bookseller of Kabul by Ǻsne Seierstad
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani

Summer 2004
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen
The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards
Want to Play? by PJ Tracy