Alex and Annabel are socially worlds apart, but that doesnt stop him from demanding her hand in marriage. Not only is he bewitched by Annabels beauty, he feels drawn to her by something he cant explain. Alex is arrogant and self-assured, but he cannot stop thinking about the outspoken girl he encounters on the road to Gothelstone. But when Jevan is forced to travel to London to receive an education, Annabel is devastated.Then Alexheir to the Saltonstall legacy and son of Cerberus Saltonstall, the wealthy landowner of the foreboding Gothelstone Manorcomes into her life. His devotion to Annabel is full of twists and turns as brutality melds with deepest desire. The son of the blacksmith, he lives his life on the verge of destruction. Annabels closest friend is Jevan Wenham.

Ben Sherwood – The Death and Life of Charlie St.Annabel Taylor, a beekeepers daughter, grows up wild and carefree on the moors of England in the late 1860s, following in the footsteps of her mother, a beautiful witch.Ben Richards – The Mermaid and the Drunks.Steven Galloway – The Cellist of Sarajevo.Beatrice Colin – The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite.Frances Osborne – The Bolter: Idina Sackville-The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress.Kate Atkinson – When Will There Be Good News?.Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns ( winner).Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End.Patrick Gale – Notes from an Exhibition.Roger Jon Ellory – A Quiet Belief in Angels.

Danny Scheinmann – Random Acts of Heroic Love.

Catherine Ryan Hyde – Love in the Present Tense.

Jed Rubenfeld – The Interpretation of Murder ( winner).

James Robertson – The Testament of Gideon Mack.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun.

Andrew Smith – Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth.

Eva Rice – The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind.

Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler's Wife.

Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club.

Justin Cartwright – The Promise of Happiness.

Paula Byrne – Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson.

William Brodrick – The Sixth Lamentation.

Nigel Slater – Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger.

Åsne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul.

Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones ( winner).

The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H.

The Beekeeper's Daughter by Jane Jordan