1st December- Best-selling Norwegian
crime writer Jo Nesbo reads from his
new Harry Hole thriller Phantom, which
 will be published in March 2012.

2nd December- Best-selling historian,
Ian Mortimer, reads from his latest
book, The Time Travellers Guide to
Elizabethan England, which publishes
in March 2012.

3rd December- Comedian and
Square Peg author David O’Doherty
reads from Christmas at Cold Comfort
Farm – a festive treat from Stella Gibbons, available now

4th December- Mark Haddon, author
of the bestseller The Curious Incident
of the Dog in the Night Time, reads
from his new novel, The Red House, published May 2012.

5th Decmeber- Segal reads from
debut novel, The Innocents, a retelling
of Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
set in a North London Jewish
community, published May 2012.

6th December- Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion reads from his new novel Silver, a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s perennial classic Treasure Island.

7th- December- Novelist Janet Davey reads from the opening chapter of her new novel By Battersea Bridge, published by Chatto in April 2012. 

8th December- Debut novelist
Elanor Dymott reads from her stunning novel, Every Contact Leaves A Trace,
out in April 2012. 

9th December- Samantha Harvey is the prize-winning author of The Wilderness. She reads from her second novel ALL IS SONG published Jan 2012 by Jonathan Cape.

10th December- Oliver Harris reads from Deep Shelter, the second in his Detective Nick Belsey crime series.

11th December- Clare Clark reads from
her new novel, Beautiful Lies, set in a
19th century London dogged by
economic crises and riots, with a press hungry for scandal. 

12th December- In Bageye At The Wheel biographer Colin Grant turns his pen to his own family, telling the story of his father, Bageye, one of the first West Indians in Luton. 

13th December- Jones’s new novel The Uninvited Guests is a darkly humorous, unsettling and ghostly tale which twists and turns to extraordinary effect, published in March.

14th December- Sarah Wise brilliantly exposes the terrifying phenomenon of
false allegations of lunacy in the
Victorian period.

15th December- Grace McCleen reads from The Land of Decoration, the story of 10 year old Judith; bullied at school and ignored by her father, she makes an intricate model of the promised land, a place where anything is possible… 

16th December- In Curiosity Philip Ball examines how our inquisitive impulse first became sanctioned - when it changed from a vice to a virtue, and it became permissible to ask any and every question about the world. 

17th December- In My Policeman
Bethan Roberts has produced an
intense and exquisitely raw yet tender
novel, which proves her to be one of
our most exciting young writers.

18th December- Sadakat Kadri draws on Islam's past and present to show us why the promise of a perfect social order can be compelling. But reality will always intrude. 

19th December- Poignant, thought-provoking and utterly compelling, The Mara Crossing is a magnificent tapestry of life on the move.

20th December- How one high-flyer completely re-thought her work and family life, and what doing it differently could mean for parents everywhere.

21st December- Tessa Hadley finds beauty in the detail of everyday life in her wonderful new collection of short stories, Married Love, published in January.

22nd December- In 1700 London was striking for its newness having been burnt down in the Great Fire. Historian Jerry White brings this ‘great and monstrous’ city alive.

23rd December- An account of one man's struggle to recover from the loss
of his greatest passion in life - and a hymn to music.