Sincerely, Me: 2023’s most feel-good read from the Richard and Judy Book Club author

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Here’s the complete Richard and Judy Book Club Summer 2021 List (July). The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrove Playing Nice, a story following the parents of babies who were swapped at birth, is this week's Book Club read. Author JP Delaney joins Richard and Judy to talk about psychopathic characters, and when even the kindest of people have to stop 'playing nice'. Plus, how does an author come up with the pseudonym they want to write under? Writing under a pseudonym himself, JP explains... What happens to the families of serial killers? How do they reflect on the memories they shared? These are the questions Victoria Selman asks in Truly Darkly Deeply. Sophie was 12 when Matty Melgren came into her life as her mother’s much-loved partner; 20 years later he’s in prison for murder and Sophie must question everything she thought she knew. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize For Fiction, Because of You is Dawn French‘s fourth novel. Synopsis

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The Richard and Judy Book Club is a popular book club founded by the television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan in 2004.Emma Makepeace works for an agency in MI6 that is so secret, it doesn't appear on any government list. Her latest assignment is to work undercover on a Russian oligarch's super yacht on a hunt for chemical weapons. Emma knows from the off that this could be a suicide mission and now there are growing suspicions that there could be a traitor within MI6 itself. Because his lies run deeper than Olivia could ever have imagined –and this time it’s not her freedom that’s in jeopardy, but her life… With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz Two sisters. An intense bond. A bitter rivalry. Margo is a live-in nanny for an upper-class family. Cora is a penniless dancer on the cusp of a big break. Sixteen killers have done this job before me. Officially, I don’t exist, but every government uses me. I’m the most feared hitman in the world.

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Now she’s finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her daughter. Clear her name. And bring down her husband – the man who framed her.

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When a woman is murdered, the husband is always suspect number one. That’s certainly the case in this week’s Book Club novel, Take Your Breath Away. Brie – thought to have been killed six years ago – suddenly turns up screaming outside her old house, and her husband Andy’s future depends on discovering what’s going on. Paul O’Grady has written his first children’s book – Eddie Albert and the Amazing Animal Gang. Paul has taught his own pigs to sit, and used to answer the door with a bird on his head; he tells Richard and Judy about his love of animals, and how his own experiences inspired the animal characters in his book.

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I Have Something To Tell you is the first novel in the Spring 2022 Book Club. High flying criminal defence lawyer Jessica Wells appears to have it all, but her career and family life are put at risk by a new client. Edward Blake has been accused of murdering his wife, and Jessica is the only one who believes he’s innocent. Returning Book Club author Lisa Jewell joins Richard and Judy to explain why, despite not liking writing literary detectives, she ended up giving her DCI, Samuel, a lot of time. The three also share their takes on whether classic novels should be allowed to be drastically changed when they’re adapted for the screen. They discuss the themes that Liane has woven through the book, including holding grudges, children living up to their parents' expectations, and the grief that sportspeople who don’t fulfil their potential might feel. Husband and wife Paul Vlitos and Collette Lyons have written their first book together under the pseudonym Ellery Lloyd. People Like Her follows mummy influencer Emmy, who blogs under the name Mamabare. She shares her life as a parent of two young children with her followers, but her online persona hides the offline reality. The authors tell Richard and Judy why they found that two people writing one book is a bit like a game of consequences, and what they’ve learnt about the art of being an online influencer.

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Joining Richard and Judy is author Harriet Evans. She talks about choosing to write an unreliable narrator, taking inspiration from Game of Thrones, and how the idea to include folklore in her novel began in a traffic jam on Chelsea’s King’s Road. Plus, how Richard and Judy themselves inspired parts of the book... It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder – James Bond. Richard, Judy, and author Bernice L. McFadden explore prejudices towards sex workers, finding friendship in unlikely places, and how racism manifests in slightly different ways in different parts of the USA. Does Amber really have Rachel’s best interests at heart or is there something darker going on? Only one thing is clear: Rachel is being lied to. Never quite knowing who to believe, her search for the truth will reveal her picture-perfect family as anything but flawless. Richard and Judy Book Club 2022 Book List (July 2022) Beth is a 30 year old who lives with her parents and can’t hold down a job or relationship, but she’s suddenly forced to grow up when she’s put in charge of her teenage niece and toddler nephew after a terrible accident. The question is, will she be able to step up to the plate?