Taking a Break...
We have every intention of bringing back the Oneword Countdown, but we have no return date as yet. Keep an eye on the website for more information.
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The Oneword Countdown Aunts
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This week’s guest are:
Cathy Waterhouse – Hatchards
Will Goodlad – Penguin Books
Sarah May – Author
Rupert Christiansen – Author
Patricial Cattley – Sussex University
Hannah Betts – The Times
The Oneword Countdown Children's Books
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Countdown Reviews
Charlotte Phillips Reviews Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man".
Words are dangerous things, especially when you write as beguilingly as Primo Levi. He loves language, revels in linguistic oddities, and couldn’t admit a badly chosen word into his work even if he wanted to.
The Oneword Countdown - Poetry
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This week’s guest are:
Alistair Spalding – Borders Bookshop
Jane Wood – Orion Books
Tobias Hill - Poet
Fiona Sampson – Poetry Review
Matthew Hollis – Editor Poetry Faber and Faber
Neil Astley – Bloodaxe Books
Andrew Motion – My Life In Books
Programme 30 – 7th October 2006 - The Hardback Fiction Chart (as supplied by Nielsen Bookscan)
The Hardback Fiction Chart
1 The Mission Song by John Le Carre
2 Cross by James Patterson
3 Echo Park by Michael Connelly
4 Ultimate Weapon by Chris Ryan
5 The Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy
6 Imperium by Robert Harris
7 Under Orders by Dick Francis
8 The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
9 Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell
10 A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
11 Doctor Who:The Nightmare of Black Island by Mick Tucker
12 Doctor Who:The Price of Paradise by Coline Brake
13 Doctor Who:The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole
14 Snow Blind by P J Tracy
15 A Crowded Marriage by Catherine Alliott
16 The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
17 Love and Dr. Devon by Alan Titchmarsh
18 Brethren by Robyn Young
19 Into a Dark Realm:No. 5 by Raymond E Feist
20 Troy:Shield of Thunder by David A Gemmell
21 The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
22 Restless by William Boyd
23 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
24 The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
25 No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub by Virginia Ironside
26 For One More Day by Mitch Albom
27 Last of the Wilds:Age of the Five S. by Trudie Canavan
28 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
29 Coming Out by Danielle Steel
30 The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
GENRE CHART – POETRY
1 Surgically Enhanced by Pam Ayres
2 Collected Poems by John Betjeman
3 Trains and Buttered Toast:Selected Radio Talks by John Betjeman
4 Pam Ayres:The Works by Pam Ayres
5 Best Loved Poems of John Betjeman by John Betjeman
6 John Betjeman:Poet to Poet S. by John Betjeman
7 The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
8 Now We are Sixty by Christopher Matthew
9 Best-loved Poems by Neil Philip
10 The Nation's Favourite Poems
11 The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
12 Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
13 Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
14 The Norton Anthology of Poetry
15 High Windows by Philip Larkin
16 Staying Alive:Real Poems for Unreal Times
17 Selected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
18 Warning:When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple by Jenny Joseph
19 More Nation's Favourite Poems
20 The Best of Betjeman by John Betjeman
