2012 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
An Equal Music |
Vikram Seth |
Anne |
| February |
The True Deceivers |
Tove Jansson |
Janet (Ha) |
| March |
Agent Zigzag |
Ben Macintyre |
Janet (He) |
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2011 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
Suite Francaise |
Irene Nemirovsky |
Margaret |
| February |
Remarkable Creatures |
Tracy Chevalier |
Judith |
| March |
The Periodic Table |
Primo Levi |
Myra |
| May 6 (change of date) |
Secret Scripture |
Sebastian Barry |
Anne |
| May |
The Blackwater Lightship |
Colm Toibin |
Chris |
| June |
Sacred Hearts |
Sarah Dunant |
Alan |
| July |
The Good Doctor |
Damon Galgut |
John |
| August |
Deaf Sentence |
David Lodge |
Maria |
| September |
Troubles |
J G Farrell |
Janet (Ha) |
| October |
The Other Side of You |
Salley Vickers |
Anne |
| November |
The Music Room |
William Fiennes |
Pat |
| December |
Morality Play |
Barry Unsworth |
John |
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2010 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
Margaret |
| February |
Hidden Lives |
Margaret Forster |
Pat |
| March |
All of These People |
Feargal Keane |
Roger |
| April |
The Secret River |
Kate Grenville |
John |
| May |
The Sixth Lamentation |
William Brodrick |
Janet (Ha) |
| June |
Why the Whales Came and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas |
Michael Morpurgo
John Boyne |
Anne and Geoff |
| July |
Housekeeping |
Marilynne Robinson |
Myra |
| August |
White Tiger |
Aravind Adega |
Jennie |
| September |
The Lacuna |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Janet (He) |
| October |
The Good Earth |
Pearl Buck |
Lorna |
| November |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Stieg Larsson |
Geoff |
| December 17 |
Secret Scripture |
Sebastian Barry |
Anne |
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2009 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
The American Boy |
Andrew Taylor |
Lorna |
| February |
The Visible World |
Mark Slouka |
Roger |
| March |
Lolita |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Margaret |
| April |
Unless |
Carole Shields |
Judith |
| May |
On Chesil Beach |
Ian Mc Ewan |
John |
| June |
Black Diamonds |
Catherine Bailey |
Janet (Ha) |
| July |
Reading Lolita in Teheran |
Azar Nafisi |
Anne |
| August |
Untold Stories |
Alan Bennett |
Geoff |
| September |
The Road Home |
Rose Tremain |
Maria |
| October |
The Coroner’s Lunch |
Colin Cotterill |
Janet (He) |
| November |
Collected Short Stories |
E. M. Forster |
Lorna |
| December - postponed |
Housekeeping |
Marilynne Robinson |
Myra |
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2008 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
Wives and Daughters |
Mrs Gaskell |
Pat |
| February |
Arthur and George |
Julian Barnes |
Judith |
| March |
Staying On |
Paul Scott |
Anne |
| April |
Born to Rule |
Julia Gelardi |
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| May |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
Jennie |
| June |
Half of a Yellow Sun |
C. N. Adiche |
Janet (He) |
| July |
The Night Watch |
Sarah Waters |
Maria |
| August |
Queen of the Tambourine |
Jane Gardam |
John |
| September |
Mr Pip |
Lloyd Jones |
Anne |
| October |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
Moshan Hamid |
Geoff |
| November |
Dirt Music |
Tim Winton |
Janet (He) |
| December(19th) |
The Painted Veil |
Somerset Maugham |
Myra |
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| 2007 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
The Awakening |
Kate Chopin |
Myra |
| February |
Disgrace |
J M Coetzee |
John |
| March |
Moon Tiger |
Penelope Lively |
Ann |
| April |
Labyrinth |
Kate Mosse |
Roger |
| May |
The Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
Marion |
| June |
Seven Sisters |
Margaret Drabble |
Judith |
| July |
The Autobiography |
Betty Boothroyd |
Janet (He) |
| August |
The Collector |
John Fowles |
Margaret |
| September |
Our Hidden Lives |
Simon Garfield |
Janet (Ha) |
| October |
Plain Truths |
Jodi Picault |
Lorna |
| November |
Pigs in Heaven |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Roger |
| December |
Fludd |
Hilary Mantel |
Myra |
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| 2006 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
Shadow of the Wind |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
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| February |
The Line of Beauty |
Alan Hollinghurst |
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| March |
The Time Traveller's Wife |
Audrey Nieffenegger |
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| April |
Brideshead Revisited |
Evelyn Waugh |
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| May |
Tortilla Curtain |
T C Boyle |
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| June |
Old Filth |
Jane Gardam |
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| July |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
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| August |
My Cleaner |
Lisa O'Kelly |
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| October |
We Need to Talk about Kevin |
Lionel Shriver |
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| November |
Small Island |
Andrea Levy |
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| December |
Cold Comfort Farm |
Stella Gibbons |
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| 2005 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
Four Letters of Love |
Niall Williams |
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| February |
The Leopard |
Guiseppe di Lampedusi |
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| March |
Mary Swann |
Carol Shields |
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| April |
The Bookseller of Kabul |
Asne Seierstad |
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| May |
Any Human Heart |
William Boyd |
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| June |
Pompeii |
Robert Harris |
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| July |
Case Histories |
Kate Atkinson |
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| August |
Bitter Fruit |
Achmat Dangor |
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| September |
Things Can Only Get Better |
John O'Farrell |
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| October |
The Untouchable |
John Banville |
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| November |
Madame Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert |
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| December |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| 2004 |
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PRESENTER |
| January |
The Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
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| February |
Crow Lake |
Mary Lawson |
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| March |
Northern Lights |
Phillip Pullman |
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| April |
A Secret History |
Donna Tartt |
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| May |
The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
Alexander McCall Smith |
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| June |
The Other Boleyn Girl |
Philippa Gregory |
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| July |
Rebecca |
Daphne du Maurier |
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| August |
Brick Lane |
Monica Ali |
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| September |
Sons and Lovers |
D H Lawrence |
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| October |
The Colour of Heaven |
James Runcie |
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| November |
The Siege |
Helen Dunmore |
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| December |
The Kite Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
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