Books Featured on Between the Covers

With its winning mixture of celebrity banter and passionate literary recommendations, Between the Covers has become the nation’s favourite book club since its first series aired in 2020. The current series explores the favourite reads of Richard Osman, Neneh Cherry, Graham Norton and Elizabeth Day amongst others, and this is where you can find all the books discussed across the six shows.

Between the Covers is broadcast every Tuesday up to December 3 at 7pm on BBC Two or you can catch it on BBC iPlayer.

Book Club Picks

Discover the books the guests have been reading this series

All the Colours of the Dark
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£20.00 £15.99
Glorious Exploits
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£16.99 £14.99
There Are Rivers in the Sky
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£18.99 £15.99
Butter
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£14.99
Whale Fall
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£14.99
The Kellerby Code
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£14.99 £12.99

This Week's Book Club Pick

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A deft, witty homage to classic country house crime ideal for readers of Janice Hallett and Richard Osman, Sweet's irresistible whydunit centres on an extremely toxic love triangle in danger of turning deadly.

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This Week's Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

Ghosted
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£9.99 £8.99
The Wager
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£10.99 £8.99
A Court of Thorns and Roses
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£8.99 £6.99
Robin Hood Aged 10 3/4
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£14.99 £11.99
We Solve Murders
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£22.00 £16.99
Trustee from the Toolroom
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Week 5 Book Club Pick

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Stunningly evocative of remote island life at the end of the 1930s, O'Connor's exquisite debut mines themes of belonging and betrayal as young Manod sees the arrival of two anthropologists as an opportunity to escape to the mainland.

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Week 5 Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

Big Sky
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Born Lippy
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£10.99
The Faber Book of Reportage
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Engleby
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£9.99
Leonard and Hungry Paul
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On Cricket
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£20.00
A Promised Land
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Week 4 Book Club Pick

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Teeming with searing insights into sexism, obsession and pleasure, this glorious Japanese cult classic revolves around a famed female chef convicted as the serial killer of lonely businessmen and a story-hungry young journalist who wishes to learn the secrets of gourmet from her.
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Week 4 Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

Frankie
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Evenings and Weekends
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Persuasion
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£16.99
Somebody I Used to Know
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The Christmas Wish-tastrophe
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£14.99 £11.99
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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You Are Not Alone
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£10.99
Anita and Me
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£9.99

Week 3 Book Club Pick

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From the celebrated author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World comes an exquisitely constructed meditation on love, loss, and memory centred on three figures living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris.
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Week 3 Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

Homegoing
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Nina Simone's Gum
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Trails and Tribulations
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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A Thousand Threads
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£25.00
Too Much
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£10.99

Week 2 Book Club Pick

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Set in the Sicily of 412 BC, Lennon's at once riotously funny and incredibly moving novel finds two locals and a bunch of captured Athenian soldiers staging two of Euripides’ greatest tragedies in a quarry.
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Week 2 Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes
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In Cold Blood
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A Goat's Song
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The Light Years
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The Great Reindeer Rescue
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Tenth of December
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Friendaholic
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Week 1 Book Club Pick

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Spanning decades and focusing on a host of unforgettable characters, Whitaker's expansive crime novel doubles as a true American epic of identity and devotion as the aftermath of a childhood kidnapping reverberates through generations.
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Week 1 Guest Picks

Books written by the episode’s guests and the books they are recommending

Just Ignore Him
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Berserker!
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£10.99
Will and Testament
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£11.99
All Fours
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£20.00 £16.99
Demon Copperhead
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£9.99 £8.49
You Are Here
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£20.00 £16.99
Weirdo
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Butter
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Asako Yuzuki
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We Solve Murders
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Richard Osman
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas
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The Wager
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David Grann
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
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Elif Shafak
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You Are Here
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David Nicholls
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Glorious Exploits
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Ferdia Lennon
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Demon Copperhead
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Barbara Kingsolver
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All the Colours of the Dark
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Chris Whitaker
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All Fours
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Miranda July
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Frankie
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Graham Norton
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Jonny Sweet
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The Great Reindeer Rescue
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Stephen Mangan
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Evenings and Weekends
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Oisín McKenna
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Leonard and Hungry Paul
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Ronan Hession
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A Goat's Song
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Dermot Healy
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In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote
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The Light Years
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi
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Berserker!
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Adrian Edmondson
In stock online £10.99 Paperback
Robin Hood Aged 10 3/4
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Ben Miller
In stock online £14.99   £11.99 Hardback
Wendy Mitchell
£10.99 Paperback
Big Sky
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Kate Atkinson
In stock online £9.99 Paperback
Elizabeth O'Connor
£14.99 Hardback