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| Name | Book received | Signed photo | |
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Kate Winslet | Delia Smith's Summer Collection cook book | |
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Monty Don | Monty Don The Complete Gardener | |
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Richard Briers | Henry Irving - The Greatest Victorian Actor by Madeline Bingham | Yes |
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Phil Tufnell | A to Z of Cricket | |
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Stirling Moss | Nuvolari by Christopher Hilton | Yes |
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Griff Rhys Jones | No Book - photo only | Yes |
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Hermione Norris | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks | Yes |
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Colin Montgomerie | The Thinkning Man's Guide to Golf | |
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Patrick Moore | Breaking The Barriers by Patrick Moore | Yes |
| Jilly Cooper | The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
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Yes | |
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John Francome | Inside Track - by John Francome | |
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Alastair Steward | Animal Farm by George Orwell | Yes |
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Jeffrey Archer | The Prodigy by Hermann Hesse | |
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Jacqueline Wilson | Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson | Yes |
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John Foyelan | Meetings with Remarkable Men by G I Gurdjieff | Yes |
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Parminder Nagra | A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Yes |
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Helen Worth | The Women of Coronation St by Daran Little | |
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Gordon Ramsay | Kitchen Heaven by Gordon Ramsay | |
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Edwina Currie | A Womans Place by Edwina Currie | |
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Joanna Trollope | Brother & Sister by Joanna Trollope | |
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Judi Dench | Irish & the Friends by John Bayley | Yes |
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Frederick Forsyth | Avenger by Frederick Forsyth | Yes |
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Libby Purves | Chronicles of Working Life - Monica Dickens - foreword by Libby Purves | |
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John Hannah | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Muakami | Yes |
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Bernard Hill | A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | |
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Paul Burrell | A Royal Duty x 2 by Paul Burrell | |
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Barbara Nadel | Harem by Barbara Nadel | Yes - copy |
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Richard Dunwoody | McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy | |
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June Whitfield | The 9th Penguin JUMBO book of The Sun Crosswords | Yes |
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Gabby Logan | Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland - returned as unsigned | Yes |
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Jane Lapotaire | Time Out of Mind by Jane Lapotaire | |
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Claire King | Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand | Yes |
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John Inverdale | British Sporting Greats by John Inverdale | |
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Alan Titchmarsh | Ground Force Weekend Workbook by Alan Titchmarsh | Yes |
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Mark Durden-Smith | The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry | |
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Twiggy | Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | Yes |
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Max Clifford | I Don't mean to be Rude BUT by Simon Cowell | |
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Nigel Havers | The Quiet American by Graham Greene | Yes |
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Arabella Weir | Does my bum look big in this? By Arabella Weir | Yes |
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Ameet Chana | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by C S Lewis | Yes |
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Rachel de Thame | Small Town Gardens | |
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Pauline Quirke | Over the Limit (my Secret Diaries 1993-8) by Bob Monkhouse | Yes |
| Joanna Lumley | Ten Tales Tall & True by Alasdair Gray
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Yes | |
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Davina McCall | Spirtitual Midwifery | Yes |
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Jeremy Beadle | Watch Out - my autobiography | |
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Ian Lavender | Three Great Novels ( strip Jack, The Black Book & Mortal Causes) by Ian Rankin | |
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Tim Brooke Taylor | Egg Beans & Crumpets by P G Woodehouse | Yes |
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Melanie C | Dancing with Demons - authorised biography of Dusty Springfield - Penny Valentine & Vicki Wickham | Yes |
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Jo Brand | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | Yes |
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Ricky Groves | The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid | Yes |
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Anita Dobson | The Tenth Insight by James Redfield | Yes |
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Kriss Akabusi | Kriss Akabusi On Track by Ted Harrison | |
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Toyah Willcox | Ibiza - A Mediterranean Lifestyle | Yes |
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Sebastian Faulks | On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks | Yes |
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Phil Spencer | How to buy a house - by Phil Spencer & Kirstie Allsopp | Yes |
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Ian Richardson | The original & complete Illustrated 'Strand' Sherlock Holmes | Yes |
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Jeremy Irons | The Man with the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas | Yes |
| Ronnie Barker | Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll -VERY OLD BOOK
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Yes | |
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Damon Albarn | Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | |
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Kate O'Mara | The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy | Yes |
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Kathy Staff | Happy Families by Kathy Staffs | Yes |
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Pam St Clements | The Aye-aye and I by Gerald Durrell | Yes |
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Bill Nighy | A Sportsman's Notebook | |
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Anthony Worrall Thompson | My Autobiography my Anthony Worrall Thompson | Yes |
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Nick Park | Rex the Runt Rainy Day Companion by Kevin Wrench & Andrew Franks | |
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Kate Atkinson | Case Histories by Kate Atkinson | |
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Anglea Rippon | Chocolat by Joanne Harris | Yes |
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Nanette Newman | Familiar Strangers by Bryan Forbes | |
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Christine Hamilton | The Book of British Battleaxes by Christine Hamilton | Yes |
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Daniel Radcliffe | The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger | Yes |
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Andrew Morton | Diana in pursuit of love by Andrew Morton | Yes |
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Jean M Auel | The Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel | |
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Paul McCartney | Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens | |
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Ricky Gervais | The Office (the scripts:series 2) by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant | |
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Pete Waterman | Tank Engine Thomas Again by The Rev W Awdry | Yes |
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Zoe Wanamaker | Zen in the Art of Archery | |
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Kay Mellor | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte | Yes |
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Kay Mellor | Band Of Gold - Chain of Power by Kay Mellor | Yes |
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Simon Rouse | The Reader by Bernhard Schlink | Yes |
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Emma Noble | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon | Yes |
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Art Malik | The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie | Yes |
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Stephanie Beecham | The Open Cage by Phoebe Raddings ( 2 copies ) | |
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Laila Morse | The Jester by James Patterson | Yes |
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Michael Palin | Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray | Yes |
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Bob Hoskins | Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood | Yes |
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John Bardon | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres | Yes |
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Darcey Bussell | Favourite Ballet Stories by Darvey Bussell | Yes |
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Elizabeth Dawn, MBE | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt | Yes |
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Helen Fielding | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | Yes |
| Dame Shirley Bassey | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - VERY OLD BOOK
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Yes | |
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Kevin Whately | A line in the Sand by Gerald Seymour | Yes |
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Julian Clary | The Stately Homo by Paul Bailey | |
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Ben Kingsley | House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III | Yes |
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Gary Lineker | Favourite Football Stories by Gary Lineker | Yes |
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Helen Fraser | Photo only | Yes |
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Kacey Ainsworth | Truecrime by Jake Arnott | Yes |
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Mariella Frostrup | Cloudstreet by Tim Winton | |
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David Bellamy | The Bellamy Herbal by David Bellamy | |
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Pam Ayres | To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee | Yes |
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Barbara Dickson | Field For The British Isles by Antony Gormley | Yes |
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Phil Collins | Writing Home by Alan Bennett | Yes |
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Ian McKellen | Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver | Yes |
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Hilda Braid | An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge | Yes |
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Julia Sawalha | A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Yes |
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Victoria Wood (also signed by Piers Paul Read) |
Alec Guinness by Piers Paul Read | Yes |
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Alan Hansen | Liverpool's Dream Team | Yes |
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Mark Lawrenson | The Times Football Yearbook 2004-2005 | |
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Joan Collins | Love & Desire & Hate by Joan Collins | |
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Jenny Seagrove | Charlotte Bronte by Jane Eyre | Yes |
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Jodie Marsh | The Faraway Tree Stories by Enid Blyton | Yes |
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Helena Bonham Carter | The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams | Yes |
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John Nettles | Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry | Yes |
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Carol Smillie | Working Mum's Handbook | |
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Linda Barker | The Mermaid and the Drunks by Ben Richards x 2 | |
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Tazmin Outhwaite | Thirty-nothing by Lisa Jewell | Yes |
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Joseph Fiennes | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakow | |
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Bruce Forsyth | Bruce the Autobiography | |
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Carol Vorderman | Heidi by Johanna Spyri | Yes |
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Nell McAndrew | Audreystyle by Pamela Clarke Keogh | Yes |
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Cherie Blair | Middlemarch by George Eliot | Yes |
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James Dreyfus | Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq | Yes |
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Saffron Burrows | Dirt Music by Tim Winton | Yes |
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John & Norma Major | Chequers | Yes for JM only & letters |
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Stephen Fry | Blandings Castle | Yes |
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Wendy Craig | Now We Are Six by A A Milne | Yes |
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Brian Blessed | Old Possum's Book of Pratical Cats | |
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Emma Thompson | Persuasion by Jane Austen | |
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Prue Leith | Leaving Patrick by Prue Leith | Yes |
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Sue Johnston | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks | |
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Cheryl Baker | Low Calorie Cook Book | Yes |
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Dermot O'Leary | The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson | Yes |
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Amanda Redman | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks | Yes |
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Chris Beardshaw | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson | Yes |
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Elizabeth Taylor | Nibbles and Me | Yes |
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Billy Connolly | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
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Prunella Scales | Thirty Years With G.B.S | Yes |
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Alexander McCall Smith | The Sunday Philosophy Club | |
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Martin Pipe | Mainly Fun and Horses by Rod Simpsons | Yes |
| Greg Rusedski | Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
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Yes | |
Above list Updated on 08/10/2004
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Emma Forbes | The Soul Bird by Michal Snunit | |
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Melvyn Bragg | A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg | |
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Michael Owen | Off the Record - My Autobiography | |
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Jools Holland | The Hand That Changed Its Mind | |
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Laila Rouass | To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee | |
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Gary Kemp | The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe | |
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Philip Pullman | Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman | |
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Jeremy Vine | In Command of History by David Reynolds | |
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Jim Broadbent | Catch - 22 by Joseph Heller | Yes |
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Chris Martin | The Aventure of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
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Zandra Rhodes | The Art of Zandra Rhodes | |
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Colin Jackson | The Autobiography Colin Jackson | |
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Lisa Barbuscia | The Seven Spirtual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra | |
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Richard Wilson | A fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Yes |
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Tess Daly | The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock | |
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Lynda La Plante | Royal Flush by Lynda La Plante | Yes |
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Frank Skinner | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens | Yes |
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Billy Bragg | Still Suitable for Miners by Billy Bragg - NOT SIGNED | |
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Jenny Pitman | On the Edge by Jenny Pitman | |
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Chris Tarrant | James Bond The Legacy by John Cork & Bruce Scivally | |
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Fiona Phillips | The Gruffalo's Child | |
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Alan Rickman | Blank Signed Journal by Specialist Stationers Papyrus | |
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Martin Shaw | Call of The Great Master by Daryai Lal Kapur | Yes |
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David Gower |
The Laugh's on us by - Cricket's Finest Tell Their Funniest - Cartoons by Jeff Hook | |
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Nick Hancock | Buried
Alive by Arnold Bennett |
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Jonathan Kerrigan | A Short History of Nearly Everthing by Bill Bryson |
Above list Updated on 26/10/2004
| Robbie Coltrane | Careless Love by Peter Guralnick - The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
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Yes | |
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Martin Clunes | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakow | |
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P D James | Murder Room by P.D James | Yes |
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Michael Kitchen | Close to the Wind by Pete Goss | Yes |
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Peter Stringfellow | King of Clubs | |
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Geoffrey Palmer | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon | Yes |
Above list Updated on 08/11/2004
| Do you know somebody famous who you can persuade to part with a book for LEPRA? We are seeking signed books from celebrities for our charity auction on eBay in November. If you feel you have something which may be of interest to us please contact Fundraising@lepra.org.uk. |
