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the Books & Media highlights for the coming week:
TV tie-in of the week (4 – 10 September) is the new TV adaptation of Andrea Newman’s controversial 1976 novel Bouquet of Barbed Wire (ITV1, Monday, 9pm). Originally published by Penguin, Serpent’s Tail has the 2010 tie-in.
With a new series of Mad Men starting on Wednesday on BBC4, the ideal companion is The Kings of Madison Avenue (ECW Press), which has detailed episode guides and cast biographies.
Radio tie-in of the week is Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, featured in Bookclub (Radio 4, Sunday & Thursday, 4pm) when James Naughtie and readers talk to the Canadian author about his novel which won the 2002 Man Booker prize and went on to be a global publishing phenomenon. Radio 4’s Book of the Week is Donald Sturrock's biography of Roald Dahl, Storyteller.
The film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go has an October release date, and on the social networks, the Man Booker longlisted C by Tom McCarthy is the most talked about new book.
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Viewers of the TV Book Club have voted The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Orion) as their top summer read. 
