Richard & Judy Summer Reads revealed
The Bookseller 30.04.09

The eight-strong list for Richard and Judy's sixth Summer Read campaign has been revealed, with "Gosford Park" screenwriter and actor Julian Fellowes, journalist Dave Boling and former Oprah's Book Club nominee Sue Miller making the list.

The titles will be announced on R&J's UKTV Watch show "Richard & Judy's New Position" tomorrow night, with the first review to take place on Wednesday 13th May.

Each week the couple will rate and review a title, joined by two celebrity guest critics. Actors Joanna Lumley and Dominic West are already lined up to review Fellowes' book. Cactus TV m.d. Amanda Ross said, "Each year as the standard of books is so high, I worry that we can maintain our success rate. My husband and business partner Simon Ross is my harshest critic, but he thinks this year's bunch are the best yet, and couldn't put them down when we took them on our Easter break."

The list:

13th May Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes (Orion)

20th May Guernica by Dave Boling (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

27th May Palace Council by Stephen L Carter (Vintage, Random House)

3rd June Mr Toppit by Charles Elton (Penguin)

10th June The Great Lover by Jill Dawson (Sceptre)

17th June Mystery Man by Bateman ( Headline)

24th June The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller (Bloomsbury) 1

st July The Piano Teacher by Janice Y K Lee (HarperCollins)