Table of Content
Contents: Introduction: on readers and reading, Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins; Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers: Suspicious minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and its resistant readers, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo; Entertainment media, risk and the experience commodity, Nickianne Moody; Different spaces, same old stories? On being a reader in the Richard & Judy Book Club, Alex Kendall and Julian McDougall; Richard and Judy behind bars, Jenny Hartley. Part 2 Reading the Richard & Judy Book Club Selections: You can't judge a book by its coverage: the body that writes and the television book club, Kerry Myler; 'Not the normal kind of chicklit'? Richard & Judy and the feminised middlebrow, Beth Driscoll; The roles of the storytellers: Richard and Judy read The Jane Austen Book Club, Jenni Ramone; A good authentic read: exoticism in the postcolonial novels of the Richard & Judy Book Club, Helen Cousins; The delicious side of the story: culinary writing, cultural contexts and the club, Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Part 3 After The Richard & Judy Book Club: 'What really counts is the story': interview with Andrew Smith, author of Moondust (February 10, 2010), Jenni Ramone; Ten of thousands: the TV book club, Helen Cousins; Appendix; Index.
