Richard and Judy Book Club Winners

2004 Winner
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. The novel received a large amount of critical praise and became an instant bestseller.

An adaptation of the novel is currently in preproduction and will be directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights.

2005 Winner
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It was short-listed for the 2004 Man Booker Prize, which went to Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty. It was also nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and won the British Book Award Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award. The book consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to the far future after a nuclear apocalypse.

2006 Winner
Labyrinth is an archaeological mystery, English language novel written by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present day France. It was published in 2005.

It divides into two main storylines that follow two protagonists, Alaïs (from the year 1209) and Alice (in the year 2005). The two stories occur in a shared geography and intertwine. The novel relies heavily on historical events such as the massacre at Béziers and the Crusade against the Cathars in Occitania, now the South of France, from around 1200. The text itself features many Occitan and French quotes, with some misspellings.

Labyrinth won a British Book Award. According to The Sunday Times, it was the second best selling book in the United Kingdom in 2006, after The Da Vinci Code, selling about 865,400 copies in paperback.

2007 Winner
The Interpretation of Murder, published in 2006, is Jed Rubenfeld's first novel.
On the morning after Sigmund Freud arrives in New York on his first - and only - visit to the United States, a stunning debutante is found bound and strangled in her penthouse apartment, high above Broadway. The following night, another beautiful heiress, Nora Acton, is discovered tied to a chandelier in her parents' home, viciously wounded and unable to speak or to recall her ordeal. Soon Freud and his American disciple, Stratham Younger, are enlisted to help Miss Acton recover her memory, and to piece together the killer's indentity. It is a riddle that will test their skills to the limit and lead them on a thrilling journey - into the darkest places of the city, and of the human mind.

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