The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up with top authors, to discuss their latest releases 18/09/2026
Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.
Gervase Phinn is an author, poet, broadcaster, and educational guru, affectionately dubbed "the James Herriot of Schools". His warm-hearted reminiscences about life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales have featured prominently on Radio 4 Book of the Week. His new novel 'Chalk Dust and New Chapters' is set in 1950s Yorkshire, and celebrates those memorably early schooldays.
Joanna Foat grew…
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