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

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