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. “Small Island, Small Screen: Adapting Black British Fiction”. Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James, Palgrave, 2014, pp. 65-77. n8 The manuscript of it was exhibited at the British Library as part...

Timeline

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.

Wray, Richard. “’Our belief is that there will be lots of winners’”. Guardian Unlimited, 24 Oct. 2005.

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.

Jeffries, Stuart. “The booksellers”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Feb. 2004.

H. S.,. “A Week in Books”. The Guardian, 14 June 2008, p. Review 5.

Review 5

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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