Richard and Judy's Book Club 2007 - Tiscali Shopping

Back for its fourth series (to begin on 31st January), the very popular Richard and Judy Book Club has chosen its eight titles to send you into a reading frenzy.

Why not also browse Richard & Judy's Spring 2006 Book Club list and our books section for more great reads or discuss these titles in more depth.

This is a dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think "Shadow of the Wind" meets "The Historian". "The Interpretation of Murder" is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protege and rival Carl Jung.
  £12.99

The story of five characters caught up in the civil war in Nigeria, this is the sweeping new novel from the author of "Purple Hibiscus", shortlisted for the Orange Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Award. "Vividly written and thrumming with life".
  £11.49

Ninth novel from the Whitbread-winning author. In the summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting true story about her mother, Sally, and her life as a spy during the Second World War.
  £5.49

An updating of the Faust myth in which a minister, Gideon Mack, encounters Satan. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scottish author uses the literary device of a discovered manuscript falling into the hands of a publisher.
  £6.99

A young business owner called Mitch helps his neighbour, Pearl, by watching her young son, Leonard, while she goes to work. One day Pearl fails to return.
  £8.49

An uplifting story of how wealthy Richard Novak is forced out of the bubble of his Los Angeles hills mansion to reconnect with the world. A(my) Homes, an American author, previously provoked controversy with The End of Alice, about a child molester.
  £13.49

A real treat for anyone who remembers or wants to know about Britain in the late 60's and 70's, laugh aloud at Griff's self-deprecating, elegant, affectionate prose, or understand a little bit better how on earth they got from there to here.
  £5.99

Rose and Ruby Darlen, soon to be the world's oldest conjoined twins, look back over their three decades together and each tell the story of their surprisingly separate lives. The second novel from the Canadian screenwriter.
  £8.99