The TV Book Club

The TV Book Club will be screened on Channel 4 and More4 between 29 January and 1 April 2012.

All of the featured books will be available from Westminster Libraries. Check the catalogue here or follow the links provided below.

The TV Book Club best reads of 2012

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S.J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.

Patrick De Witt – The Sisters Brothers

'The Sisters Brothers' is an offbeat Western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother who are on the trail of a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America.

Essie Fox – The Somnambulist

When 17-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels.

Elizabeth Haynes – Into the Darkest Corner

This is an edgy and powerful first novel, utterly convincing in its portrayal of obsession, and a tour de force of suspense.

Amor Towles – Rules of Civility

In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew. By the end of the year she'd learned - how to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue, how to live like a redhead, and how to insist upon the very best.

Katie Ward – Girl Reading

Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. Each chapter of this richly textured debut takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond.

Jessica Francis Kane – The Report

In March 1943, 173 people died on the steps of a London tube station while seeking shelter from an air raid. The job of compiling the report on the tragedy falls to magistrate Laurence Dunn, and he uncovers a precarious - even damaging - truth which forces him question which path to take.

Kevin Wilson – The Family Fang

Buster and Annie spent their childhood starring in their parents' madcap performance art pieces. However, now that they are adults, the chaos of their childhood has made it a struggle to adjust to life outside of their parents' strange world. But when the lives they've built come crashing down, they have nowhere left to go but home.

Anthony Quinn – Half of the Human Race

A story of love, sacrifice, suffrage and county cricket, projected against a vivid backdrop of England in the early 20th century.

Alexander Maksik – You Deserve Nothing

'You Deserve Nothing' is a captivating tale about teachers and students, of moral uncertainties and the coming of adulthood.

For more details about the screenings and the books, go to the TV Book Club website.