Telegraph Book Club : Introduction by Alan O'Cain

Throughout 2011 I was one of seven members of the Daily Telegraph Book Club. Each month we discussed a different book. Our debate was reported on weekly by Telegraph journalist Genevieve Fox. The twelve artworks on display in this exclusive interactive virtual exhibition are my creative responses to those twelve titles - "art as literary criticism". Use the sub-menu (left) to navigate through the works (note: some pages contain sound). The books I liked and the books I loathed should be clear, but one thing is certain, our group was never in agreement about the turkeys and the masterpieces.

(Interactive web pages and original handbound books created by Juliet Lunn.)

With thanks (or apologies!) to all authors chosen for the inspiration.

List of authors:

• Rose Tremain (Trespass)
• Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
• Joseph O'Connor (Ghost Light)
• Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White)
• Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
• Paul Murray (Skippy Dies)
• Kate Atkinson (Started Early, Took my Dog)
• A L Kennedy (What Becomes)
• David Grossman (To the End of the Land)
• Patrick McCabe (The Stray Sod Country)
• Kathryn Stockett (The Help)
• Ross Raisin (Waterline)