Richard and Judy might be suffering from rather reduced viewing numbers (recent figures put them on about 11,000 for their chatshow on the inaccurately named digital channel Watch), but the power behind their thrones hasn't lost her sense of humour. Amanda Ross, who runs the Richard and Judy Book Club, caused hilarity at a recent publishing dinner by joking that she picks books according to the formula: "Long book; short book; long book; short book." At least, I think she was joking ...
