Richard and Judy's book club

New Writers Book Club

Every month Richard and Judy and the Daily Mail review a book by a new author.

• 'Mudbound' by Hillary Jordan
• 'The marriage bureau for rich people' by Farahad Zama
• 'Loving Frank' by Nancy Horan

To read more about this book club and what Richard and Judy think about these books, visit Daily Mail weekend book club.

Summer Read 2008

Richard and Judy discussed eight holiday reads from thrillers to romance. The winner of the Summer Read 2008 is 'No time for goodbye'.

• 'No time for goodbye' by Linwood Barclay – Winner
• 'The outcast' by Sadie Jones
• 'East of the Sun' by Julia Gregson
• 'Down River' by John Hart
• 'The Pirate's Daughter' by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
• 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee' by Rebecca Miller
• 'Addition' by Toni Jordan
• 'The Resurrectionist' by James Bradley

Best Read 2008

Richard and Judy's Best Read of the Year is 'A thousand splendid suns'. Borrow all the titles discussed by the book club below:

• 'A thousand splendid suns' by Khaled Hosseini Winner
• 'Random acts of heroic love' by Danny Scheinmann
• 'The Rose of Sebastopol' by Katharine McMahon
• 'A quiet belief in angels' by RJ Ellory
• 'Notes from an exhibition' by Patrick Gale
• 'Then we came to the end' by Joshua Ferris
• 'The visible world' by Mark Slouka
• 'Mister Pip' by Lloyd Jones
• 'Blood river' by Tim Butcher
• 'The Welsh girl' by Peter Ho Davies

Christmas books

Richard and Judy recommended autobiographies, cookery and travel books for last Christmas.

Food and drink

• 'Jamie at home' by Jamie Oliver
• 'Mediterranean escapes' by Rick Stein

Celebrities

• 'My booky wook' by Russell Brand
• 'Survivor' by Sharon Osbourne
• 'Ronnie' by Ron Wood
• 'In the frame' by Helen Mirren

Best children's books

Borrow the books talked about and voted for by children in October 2007.

Early readers

• 'Giraffes can't dance' by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees
• 'Someone bigger' by Jonathan Emmett and Adrian Reynolds
• 'A very fishy battle' by Jeremy Strong
• 'Aliens love underpants' by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

Developing readers

• 'The girl with the broken wing' by Heather Dyer
• 'You're a bad man, Mr Gum!' by Andy Stanton
• 'The world according to Humphrey' by Betty G Birney
• 'Spy dog' by Andrew Cope

Confident readers

• 'Magyk' by Angie Sage
• 'H.I.V.E. - Higher Institute of Villainous Education' by Mark Walden
• 'Tunnels' by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
• 'Skulduggery Pleasant' by Derek Landy
• 'The killer underpants' by Michael Lawrence
• 'Sundae girl' by Cathy Cassidy

Fluent readers

• 'Lucas' by Kevin Brooks
• 'Finding Violet Park' by Jenny Valentine
• 'The recruit' by Robert Muchamore
• 'Girl, missing' by Sophie McKenzie