Top Fives
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Top Newspaper Reviews
- 1 Religion for atheists: a non-believer's guide to the uses of religion / Alain De Botton / Hamish Hamilton
- 2 The Obamas / Jodi Kantor / Allen Lane
- 3 French children don't throw food / Pamela Druckerman / Doubleday
- 4 Jack Holmes and his friend / White Edmund / Bloomsbury
- 5 The art of fielding / Chad Harbach / Fourth Estate
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Top TV Tie-ins
- 1 Extreme frontiers: racing across Canada from Newfoundland to the Rockies / Charley Boorman / Sphere
- 2 Craft / Kirstie Allsopp / Hodder & Stoughton
- 3 Jerusalem: the biography / Simon Sebag Montefiore / Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 4 Falling skies / Paul Tobin / Dark Horse Books
- 5 Aftermath / Peter Robinson / Pan
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Top Radio Tie-ins
- 1 Londoners: the days and nights of London now - as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it and long for it / Craig Taylor / Granta
- 2 The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 / Sue Townsend / Penguin
- 3 The life of Lee / Lee Evans / Michael Joseph
- 4 Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens / Vintage
- 5 The Unsettled Dust / Robert Aickman / Faber and Faber
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Top Movie Tie-ins
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Top Internet Chat
- 1This week our special subject focuses on what bloggers are saying about the new tie-in movie books
- 2Top new book review chat is on Stephen King's 11.22.63
- 3Alan Partridge's biography is the most talked about book
- 4Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is not surprisingly generated most internet about in bestsellers
- 5Blog quote of the week from "Just read extracts from Colin Clark's memoir My Week with Marilyn. Puke inducing. Hope the film's better."- Ksturton, Twitter
What's happening this week in Books & Media...
Books & Press: 2012 Highlights
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, by Kate Summerscale
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal. On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps. This was the home of the rich widow Lady Drysdale, a vivacious hostess whose soirees were the centre of an energetic intellectual scene. Lady Drysdale's guests were gathered in the high, airy drawing rooms on the first floor, the ladies in dresses of glinting silk and satin, bodices pulled tight over boned corsets; the gentlemen in tailcoats, waistcoats, neckties and pleated shirt fronts, dark narrow trousers and shining shoes. When Mrs Robinson joined the throng she was introduced tho Lady Drysdale's daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Edward Lane. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlights
Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
In 'Bring up the Bodies', sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning 'Wolf Hall', Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. This new novel is a speaking picture, an audacious vision of Tudor England that sheds its light on the modern world. It is the work of one of our great writers at the height of her powers. See Details »
Books & Television
Earthflight / BBC1 - Thursdays
Earthflight uses ground-breaking technology to take you on a journey like no other: into the skies to fly with birds. Filmed using pioneering techniques, this collection of photographs from the landmark BBC series takes you across the world to experience some of the most stunning spectacles on Earth in a new and inspiring way. See Details »
Books & Movies
War Horse
Directed by Steven Spielberg, there has been tremendous hype surrounding the movie adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse, the story of Joey, a thoroughbred horse, and how he is forced into the thick of the harrowing, poorly-led battles of the First World War. Judging by the reviews thus far, the hype certainly seems justified, and will give the book yet another fillip. Book into theatre and into movie, War Horse is proving to be the complete tie-in book. See Details »
Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and powerful stories. In the cold, grey bleakness of a New England winter, Ethan (Dominic Mafham) scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena (Laurel Lefkow).A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's cousin Mattie (Jessica Raine) arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by their circumstances and the stifling conventions of the time.Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published yet what many readers didn't know was that the novella's themes mirrored real events in the life of Edith Wharton. Wharton's own story is told in an accompanying play, The Jinx Element, that transmits on Saturday 21 January and explores her own sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she was 47. See Details »
Books & Radio
Book of the Week - El Narco / Radio 4
'El Narco' is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. See Details »
Books & Television
The Fabulous Baker Brothers
With four generations of baking know-how behind them, Tom and Henry have followed in the footsteps of their foodie family to become a baker and a chef. Tom is a talented master baker whose famous Hobbs House Bakery sits just next door to his younger brother Henry's butchery. Together our young brothers work side by side making the amazing bread and delicious meaty accompaniments and fillings that have made their businesses so successful. Here, in this brand new cook book to accompany the hit Channel 4 show, The Fabulous Baker Brothers share with us mouthwatering oven-based recipes that unlock a world of gorgeous homemade breads, pastries, pies, cakes and confectionary. See Details »
Books & Social Networking
Who's talking about what on the Internet?
Across the socialsphereWhat are bloggers saying about the Independent's top 50 cookbooks. Bloggers certainly like their food Also, what are bloggers saying about new reviews, authors and bestsellers. Find out on our unique social networking page.. See Details »
Added This Week
- PRESS: 361 new review listings from the press
- PRESS: 515 listings detailing interviews, features etc
- TELEVISION: 352 listings of programmes with tie-in books from drama, comedy, soaps, chat shows
- RADIO: 69 new listings of radio programme details with tie-in books from drama, comedy, soaps, chat shows
- MOVIES: 567 up-to-date tie-ins for movies
- SOCIAL NETWORKING: An extensive overview showing what is being talked about on the Internet - endless
This Week's Specials
- The Independent on Sunday has tyhe best of the new books being published to celebrate Charles Dickens's bicentennial year
- Sunday Telegraph focuses on new photography books
- The Guardian lists ten of the best seductions in books
- The Sunday Telegraph presents five of the best books for aspiring writers
- In the Daily Mail: Slimmer. Better in bed. Now we're told French women are better MOTHERS too!
- The Daily Express has Lynda La Plante's six favourite books
- Massive coverage for David Hockney's A Bigger Britain exhibition (and tie-in book)
Books & Television
Use our extensive TV tie-in list
The Books & Media television tie-in list is updated DAILY, to bring all the latest details of authors and books featured on the box, whether it be on mainstream channels like BBC1 & 2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five or on the many satellite channels that we also scour to find tie-in books across a range of genres - soaps, drama, comedy, food & drink, home & garden and many more. Not only do we cover official tie-ins, but also give details of authors interviewed on chat shows. If it's on TV, you'll find it here.
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Find books & authors featured on radio
Books & Media brings a comprehensive listing of the books and authors featured on BBC Radio, and that list is updated daily. By using our daily listings service, you can access the authors that are being interviewed and the books they are talking about. We bring news on the Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Classic Serials, author interviews on chat shows and tie-ins to documentaries. Our archive will also show you what authors and books have been featured in past months and what is forthcoming.This is an indispensible reference tool.
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The widest newspaper reference tool on the Web
At Books & Media searces newspapers and magazines every day to find reviews, interviews, features, serialisations and much more. Our list is updated daily from a list of 32 sources from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and we top that up with review listings from the influential London Review of Books and Times Literary Supplement, alongside key business titles such as the Spectator, Economist and New Statesman. Add to the our star ratings for reviews and coverage, and extracts from reviews, and you have a list that is not only second-to-none, but a one-stop reference for all that is happening in the Press.
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Find the latest movie tie-ins
Many great books have been adapted into great movies... and some haven't. But good or bad, Books & Media will be bringing regularly updated movie tie-in listings, not only for current releases for also for future releases. We use a number of sources, including our sister company, West10 Entertainment, which provides movie data to a number of industry organisations. From the movie title, we link into the book detail and give full bibliographic information of that book, including a description. So if you want to find the book behind the movie (or vice versa), the Books & Media movie page is the place to find it!
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Books & authors & social networking - it's happening
Social networking has become a brave new world for books and authors. Readers can voice opinions without fear and all of a sudden that voice has got some power. From readers' groups to individuals to authors themselves, points of view rage around the world... and that influence is growing all the time. At Books & Media, we will be trawling all the major social networking sites - from myspace to twitter to youtube, Google and many more to find out what is being talked in hyperspace.
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