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	WEEK 3 - Wednesday 26th January 2005 THE AMERICAN BOY Andrew Taylor Published by Harper Perennial ISBN: 0007109601


		MORE, MORE, MORE!!! Read the reviews of our third Book Club title, 'The American Boy' from our featured Book Group, Richard & Judy, and our celebrity reviewers Emilia Fox and Sir Trevor MacDonald, plus find out more about the story and the author >>here

ABOUT THE BOOK

Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel. Set in England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family's twisted intrigues.

Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies – a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it.

And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events – what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?


		ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrew Taylor writes his chilling crime novels in a converted outbuilding near the cosy, straggling Victorian cottage that he shares with his wife and two children. He lives in a small town in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. A self-confessed writing and word ‘addict’, he is the author of ‘twenty plus books, at a conservative estimate’ and the recipient of two Ellis Peters Historical Daggers (for The Office of the Dead and The American Boy) and a John Creasey Memorial Award (for his debut novel Caroline Minuscule).


		ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Published by Harper Perennial (Harper Collins) (ISBN 0007109601) Find out more about the books published by Harper Collins from their website >>here


		RICHARD & JUDY'S BOOK CLUB Find out more about all the other books in the Book Club, including how to win a complete set of all ten books >>here


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	NATIONAL LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND
	Imagine not being able to get hold of the book all your friends are saying you must read. Newspapers, magazines and TV shows are telling you it’s one of the best books they’ve ever read, but you can’t read it, let alone express your views or vote for it. Thankfully that is not the case with Richard & Judy’s Best Read! Once again, the National Library for the Blind (NLB) has worked closely alongside Richard & Judy to make sure blind people can take part in the Best Read and is producing the short-listed books in Braille to sit alongside each book club programme. Find out more information on buying or borrowing these books, and more information about NLB here...


	BOOK GROUPS!
	If you're part of a book club or reading group, we'd like to hear what you think about the books in this year's Richard & Judy Book Club. We can't wait to hear what you think of the books so Happy Reading and get in touch here!