Tonight sees an emotive Channel 5 documentary called Amanda Knox: The Untold Story. It explores the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Four days after the murder Kercher’s flatmate, American Amanda Knox was jailed along with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast drug dealer. Recently, four years after the murder, Knox and Sollecito were acquitted and freed under intense media glare across the world.

Amanda Knox: The Untold Story features interviews with a criminologist and a forensic scientist, and reviews the evidence which was originally used to convict the three suspects. It also explores what the decision to acquit Knox and Sollecito means for Meredith’s family and the Italian justice system.

Such a complex case can not be fully explored in the space of an hour long documentary, and some will want more information about the events and those involved. Author John Follain has recently released a book which claims to provide just that. It’s called ’Death in Perugia: The Definitive Account of the Meredith Kercher case from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox.

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Apprentice fans rejoice – a new series of The Young Apprentice has started tonight on BBC1. Tonight sees a new group of 12 highly ambitious and motivated schoolchildren battle for the chance to kick-start a future business career, mentored by the business legend himself, Sir Alan Sugar. It’s 8 gruelling weeks for the young upstarts, and Sir Alan can only pick one winner. Each week a candidate is eliminated with the famous ‘You’re Fired’ catchphrase. Tonight’s episode sees a boys vs girls task, in which the contestants must come up with a range of frozen snacks to be sold directly to members of the public.

Sir Alan Sugar’s new book is a great read. It’s titled: The Way I See It: Rants, Revelations and Rules for Life. It offers a fascinating insight into what it’s like to be Alan Sugar – Twitter addict, entrepreneur, Lord, TV celebrity, grandad! In this book he reveals the secrets of his own success and offers us controversial opinions on everything from Katie Price to health and safety laws.

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Henry Winkler appeared on The Alan Titchmarsh Show to discuss his recent honorary OBE award for his work on dyslexia in the UK. Winkler, who is most famous for his portrayal of Arthur ‘The Fonz’ Fonzarelli in 1970′s hit TV show ‘Happy Days’, received the prestigious honour at the British Embassy in Washington earlier this year. A man of many talents, Henry Winkler has also written a series of fictional children’s books about Hank Zipzer, an unlikely hero, whose adventures and struggles with dyslexia are based on Winkler’s own childhood.

You can buy Hank Zipzer books from Amazon for around £3-4 each, or as a box set of books – there are 12 in the series.

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Nigella Lawson is back on our screens with a new series of Nigella Kitchen, where she shares the secrets of food and flavours she just can’t live without, including lemon polenta cake, chicken with 40 cloves of garlic and chocolate brownies. There are a whole host of other fantastic and delicious recipes from the series of Nigella Kitchen in her new book. It is called Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home. Nigella Lawson truly believes that the kitchen really is the heart of the home. If you love cooking or you are looking for inspiration from one of the UK’s best loved chefs, you can’t go wrong with this incredible cook book.

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How To Train Your Dragon is a new DVD animated film by DreamWorks based on the book by Cressida Cowell and starring the voice talents of Gerard Butler and Jay Baruchel. Cressida Cowell appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to tlak about the book and the new DVD. She has been writing books since she herself was a child. This latest film is about a young Viking called Hiccup who finds and befriends a dragon called ‘Toothless’.

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Billionaire Boy is the new children’s book by Little Britain star David Walliams, and he appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about it. Walliams tells the story of an incredibly rich little boy who, despite his amazing array of toys including his own bowling alley, cinema, butler who’s an orangutan, is not happy. For Joe has no friends. Then someone comes along who seems to like Joe for him, and not his money. But Joe’s about to learn that when money is involved, nothing is quite what it seems…

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Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff appeared on The One Show last night to talk about his new book Ashes to Ashes, a lively, revealing and personal account of the last four years of Test cricket. It starts with the greatest triumph ever, winning the Ashes in 2005 and the interesting aftermath including singing Rocketman with Elton John and hanging out with the Beckhams.

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Martine McCutcheon appeared on The Paul O’Grady Show to talk about her new book The Mistress. She started out earning a pittance as a Saturday girl in a shop, but went on to conquer stage, screen and the pop charts. She has just published her first novel called The Mistress, which made Paul O’Grady blush.

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David Walliams was a guest on The Paul O’Grady Show last night to promote his new hilarious children’s novel, Mr Stink. This is the follow up to the hugely successful The Boy in the Dress, and like his first childrens novel it contains illustrations by Quentin Blake, who famously collaborated with Roald Dahl.

David Walliams is one of Britain’s leading comedy talents. When he’s not being a lady on Little Britain he’s greased up and swimming the channel. He has now turned his hand to children’s fiction.

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Ben Elton appeared on The One Show to talk about his new book, Meltdown. Ben Elton is one of the UK’s most entertaining writers and Meltdown is no exception. Christine Bleakley described the book as timely as it refers to the credit crunch. Ben Elton explained that Meltdown is about a likeable City Trader whose life and career comes crashing down in the wake of the recent credit crunch. It’s a story about romance and comedy, about the way people handle success and failure. A great addition to the library of any Ben Elton fan.

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