Richard and Judy's Summer Read 2008
From Wednesday 25th June Richard & Judy will be reviewing a book a week in this year’s Summer Read. Each week a holidaying celebrity will be summing up the book for us followed by a discussion with Richard & Judy and two celebrity reviewers in studio.
We very much hope you’ll read along with us and let us know what you think.
Our featured books are available from all good bookshops or you can buy online at The Richard & Judy Book Club
Review a book for us
If you, your friends or family would like to appear on ‘Richard & Judy’ and review one of our Summer Read books for us then email us.
richardandjudy@channel4.comJust tell us where you are going, who you are going with and when you are going and we will get back to you.
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Wednesday 25th June 2008
Set in the South of England in the 1950s, The Outcast is a story of a boy who becomes estranged from his family and environment after witnessing a terrible tragic accident.
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No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
Wednesday 2nd July 2008
A page turning thriller in which, teenaged girl wakes up one morning to discover her family have vanished without a trace. 25 years later, after a TV appeal, she begins to learn the truth behind their sudden disappearance.
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East of The Sun by Julia Gregson
Wednesday 9th July 2008
A sweeping epic set in 1928 and three women are travelling to India. Rose is to going marry a man she barely knows, Tor is in search of a husband and Viva, their chaperone, is travelling back to the country where she was born.
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Down River by John Hart
Wednesday 16th July 2008
A Chandleresque US thriller about Adam Chase, who has spent the last five years in New York trying to wipe out the memory of his family’s rejection after he was accused but acquitted of murder.
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The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair
Wednesday 23rd July 2008
A multi-generational story based around the extraordinary true story of Errol Flynn’s arrival in 1940s Jamaica. The Pirate’s Daughter follows Ida, a young girl who falls for Flynn’s legendary charms.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
Wednesday 30th July 2008
Married to an older man and finding herself living in a retirement village in her fifties, Pippa Lee appears to be the perfect wife to her overbearing literary agent husband, but behind this front lies a troubled and varied past.
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Addition by Toni Jordan
Wednesday 6th August 2008
Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts the letters in her name; the steps she takes each morning to the local café; and the number of seeds on her slice of orange cake. But her world is thrown into confusion when she meets a charming man.
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The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
Wednesday 13th August 2008
Gabriel Swift arrives in London to study with Edwin Poll, greatest of the city’s anatomists. But soon he finds himself drawn to his master’s nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful resurrectionist and governor of its trade in stolen bodies.
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