Richard and Judy Book Club

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Reception Andrea Levy
In January 2011 the Richard and Judy Book Club listed Small Island as one of the 100 Books of the Decade.
Carroll, Rachel. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Small Island</span>, Small Screen: Adapting Black British Fiction”. Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James, Palgrave, pp. 65-77.
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The manuscript of it was exhibited at the British Library as part...

Timeline

July 1995: Jeff Bezos launched in Seattle, Washington,...

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July 1995

Jeff Bezos launched in Seattle, Washington, an online bookselling company named Amazon . It did only moderately well in 1996, but took off the following year.

Early 2004: The Richard and Judy Book Club was launched...

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Early 2004

The Richard and Judy Book Club was launched in Britain as a weekly television programme on Channel 4 , taking as its model the bookclub of Oprah Winfrey in the USA.

4 June 2006: The Sunday Times provoked fears among British...

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4 June 2006

The Sunday Times provoked fears among British authors that agents' fees would become liable to tax: it reported a test case brought against Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan (television presenters of the Richard and Judy Book Club

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