The Richard & Judy book club reader : popular texts and the practices of reading / edited by Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 -- What really counts is the story : interview with Andrew Smith, author of Moondust / Jenni Ramone -- Of thousands : the TV book club / Helen Cousins -- Appendix : the Richard and Judy Book Club and summer reads lists by year.