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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
December 2009
November 2009
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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
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 the point that Golding wrote other novels of equal merit,...
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 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 its best."
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on...
Format: Hardback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Playing the Game
Belle de Jour
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 November 2009.
Unlike the previous two books by this author this has been marketed as fiction however, the story is about how things may have turned out for Belle and her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/06/2009
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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
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 and Cicero’s rule over Rome. Harris stays true to historical...
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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