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New books Issue 66November 2018Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleMusicGiant printTalking books Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Press 1 for Business or registered charityPress 7 for anything else(including to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections)Newer books!It’s much easier to keep up to date with new additions to our librarycollection if you access our website. Don’t wait for the next edition of New Books; choose your books from our up to the minute online catalogue at ContentsBrailleAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and BiographyFood and DrinkHealth and FitnessHistoryNatural HistoryPsychologySportTravel and TourismNewly Available for loan and saleAdult fictionChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age05+ Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeGiant printAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and BiographyFood and DrinkHealth and FitnessSportWarfare and DefenceChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyHistoryNatural HistoryPoetryPolitics and GovernmentTravel and TourismWarfare and defenceA Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyBusiness and ManagementHistoryHumourNatural HistoryPsychologyScienceTransportChildren and young adult fiction07+ Suggested Reading Age 09+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTo borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionChild, Lee. The Midnight Line. 2018. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 22. Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK, he'll walk away. But if she's not?UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26083803Clark, Mary Higgins. The Cradle Will Fall. 2003. Thriller.A minor road accident lands county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she sees a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car. At work the next day, Katie begins investigating a suicide that looks more like murder. Medical examiner Richard Carroll discovers a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. And Katie has an appointment for routine surgery, in Dr. Highley's operating room.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26098403Clinton, Bill. The President Is Missing. 2018. Thriller.As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26099203Cohen, Julie. Together. 2018. General fiction.On a morning that seems just like any other, Robbie wakes in his bed, his wife Emily asleep beside him, as always. But then he leaves home for good. As the years go back all the way to 1962, Robbie's actions become clearer as we discover the story of a couple with a terrible secret. It is one they will do absolutely anything to protect.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26098703Cookson, Catherine. The Gambling Man. 1980. Family stories.Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler’s luck. At twenty-three, his ambition was in full flow. He feared nothing and nobody, not even the unscrupulous landlord he collected for. He was doing well, until one day his luck changed. Suddenly, things did not go as smoothly as he was used to.UEB. 6v. Price: ?1.25. Order No: 26109603Cookson, Catherine. The Fifteen Streets. 1993. Family stories.Life in the Fifteen Streets was tough. John O'Brien caught his glimpse of another world the day he met Mary Llewellyn. Mary lived well, had beautiful clothes, and worked because she wanted to. And when he fell in love with Mary, John knew there was a gulf between them that nothing could bridge; it was the gulf of the Fifteen Streets.UEB. 5v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 26109703Cookson, Catherine. My Beloved Son. 2017. Family stories.When Ellen Jebeau’s husband dies in 1926, he leaves behind a legacy of debt and empty dreams. However, Ellen is determined that her son Joseph should have everything in life that she never did, and will stop at nothing to give it to him. Can Joseph Jebeau escape the clutches of his mother's ruthless ambition and become the man he wants to be?UEB. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26109803Cookson, Catherine. Feathers In The Fire. 2008. Family stories.Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus McBain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had made her pregnant. Meanwhile, the master's wife is also pregnant. And a few months later the birth of the McBains' son Amos unleashes violence and tragedy at the farm. Born with no legs and emotionally crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26109903Cookson, Catherine. Fanny McBride. 1997. Family stories.Fanny McBride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her 50s, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local 'Ladies', which was to prove to be a stimulating experience.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26110003Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter. 2006. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 1. This is the first novel in a trilogy set during the reign of Queen Victoria. Beautiful Tilly Trotter loves farmer Simon Bentwood but he is betrothed to another. Then a spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken.UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26080503Also;Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter Wed. 2007. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 2.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26080703Cookson, Catherine. Tilly Trotter Widowed. 2006. Family stories.Tilly Trotter: book 3.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26081703Cookson, Catherine. The Cinder Path. 2004. Historical romance.The cinder path from the Northumberland farmhouse symbolised defeat for Charlie Macfell. People saw him as a born loser. At the root of it were boyhood humiliations by his brutal father. Then an opportunity emerged for him to display his inner strengths and integrity to those who thought him of no account.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26083903Cookson, Catherine. The Bondage Of Love. 1998. Family stories.Bill Bailey: book 4. This book continues to follow the fortunes of the Bailey Family. Davey Love and his son Sammy had made a special contribution to the fortunes of the Bailey family. Now, with Davey dead, there would be new challenges to face. How would Sammy fit into the family? Inevitably Fiona would bear the brunt of household disagreements, but she knew she could rely on Bill, that rock of a man with a rough tongue but a heart of gold.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26084003Craig, Charmaine. Miss Burma. 2018. Literary fiction.After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26061303Cronin, A. J. Adventures Of A Black Bag. 2013. Short stories.Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years, the stories found here feature the author's most famous creation, Dr Finlay. This is a collection of heart-warming, funny and touching stories, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters.UEB. 3v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 26098103Day, Elizabeth. The Party. 2018. General fiction.Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26098903De Waal, Kit. The Trick To Time. 2018. Literary fiction.Birmingham, 1972. Mona is a young Irish girl in a big city. She meets William, a charming Irish boy. They embark upon a dizzying love affair, a whirlwind marriage, an unexpected pregnancy, before a sudden tragedy tears them apart. Decades later, Mona pieces together the memories of the years that separate them. But can she ever learn to love again?UEB. 5v. Price: ?10.82. Order No: 26083603Deaver, Jeffery. The Steel Kiss. 2017. Thriller.Lincoln Rhyme: book 12. Every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident or whether they are facing a murderer who knows exactly how fatal machines can be.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26077103Endo?, Shu?saku. Silence. 2015. Historical fiction.It is 1640 and Father Sebastian Rodrigues, a Jesuit priest, sets sale for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there. He is also desperate to discover the truth about his former mentor, rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture. Rodrigues cannot believe the stories about a man he so revered, but as his journey takes him deeper into Japan and then into the hands of those who would crush his faith, he finds himself forced to make an impossible choice.UEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26144302Evans, Harriet. The Wildflowers. 2018. Chick lit.Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative and adulterous to the core. They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea. The same house sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy. But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26098803Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman And The Dragon: from The Flashman Papers, 1860. 2006. Adventure.Flashman: book 8. In China, in 1860, a lot of people mistakenly put their trust in Flashman: the English vicar's daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor's ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggles for power; and Szu-Zhan, the female bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war. They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross, Harry Flashman was a base coward and a charlatan.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26077503Gianna, Robin. Tempted By The Brooding Surgeon. 2018. Mills and Boon romance.Annabelle Richards arrives in Peru to find she’ll be working with renowned surgeon Daniel Ferrera, the man who almost ruined her career. When Annabel learns that Daniel’s brooding exterior hides a wealth of pain, an unexpected passion ignites between them. Will temptation prove too much to resist?UEB. 3v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 26113403Gowar, Imogen Hermes. The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock. 2018. Historical fiction.1785. The merchant Jonah Hancock learns one of his captains has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. Its arrival takes Jonah through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course. What will be the cost of their ambitions?UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26083503Grafton, Sue. N Is For Noose. 1999. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 14. When Nota County Sheriff's detective Tom Newquist dies of a heart attack, his widow is sure he was keeping secrets from her. She wants Private Investigator Kinsey Millhone to find out more. But no one is prepared to talk. She is about to give up when her next interview is with a masked attacker in her motel room. Then there's a chilling new clue, a childish drawing of a hangman's noose.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26108303Green, Mark. The Travel Auction. 2013. Romance.It should have been their trip of a lifetime. But with just days to go, Jonathan Cork is dumped by his girlfriend. Unable to change the name on the spare ticket and fast running out of time, Jonathan decides to take desperate measures. He advertises on eBay for a travel companion with the same name as his ex. What follows is a funny, page-turning, rollercoaster ride around South America.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24719005Greengrass, Jessie. Sight. 2018. Literary fiction.In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: the discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis; and John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing.UEB. 3v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 26069203Hannah, Sophie. The Mystery Of Three Quarters. 2018. Crime.Hercule Poirot mystery: book 3. An angry woman claims Hercule Poirot sent her a letter accusing her of murdering Barnabas Pandy, a stranger to her. Then a man makes the very same claim against Poirot. Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Who really sent these letters and why? Who is Barnabas Pandy? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger? UEB. 6v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 26089203Heap, Joe. The Rules Of Seeing. 2018. General fiction.Nova can do many things. But there’s one thing Nova can’t do. She can’t see. When an operation restores her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. Until she meets Kate. As their unlikely friendship blossoms, Kate’s past threatens to throw them into a different kind of darkness. Can they both learn to see the world in a different way?UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26108103Jefferies, Dinah. The Sapphire Widow. 2018. Romance.Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve is the daughter of a successful British gem trader. While she struggles with miscarriages, her husband Elliot spends much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation. After Elliot's sudden death, Louisa revisits the plantation at Cinnamon Hills and finds herself drawn towards the owner Leo. And when Elliot's shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26098503Kandasamy, Meena. When I Hit You: or, A Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Wife. 2017. General fiction.Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. What for her is a contract of love is for him a contract of ownership. He sets about reducing her to his idealised version of a kept woman, bullying her out of her life as an academic and writer. She attempts to push back, a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26083703Le Carré, John. The Naive And Sentimental Lover. 2006. General fiction.At the age of thirty-eight Aldo Cassidy can be called a success in the eyes of the world, if not by his wife. Touring Somerset, vaguely searching for a country home to give him the status of an English gentleman, he meets a charming if wayward couple, Helen and Shamus. He falls in love with them both and is swept into a world where feeling is the only justification for action.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26108203Marshall, Laura. Friend Request. 2018. Thriller.Friend request: book 1. Louise Williams receives a message from someone left long in the past. Maria Weston wants to be friends on Facebook. Maria has been missing for over 25 years. She was last seen the night of a school leavers' party, and the world believes her to be dead. Trying to piece together exactly what happened that night, Louise discovers there's much she didn't know.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26061103Matthews, Jason. Red Sparrow. 2018. Spy stories.Dominika Egorova & Nathaniel Nash: book 1. Dominika Egorov is a ballerina turned elite agent who must find the mole that has infiltrated the Russian secret service. American Nate Nash, idealistic and ambitious, handles the double agent. Codenamed MARBLE, the agent is considered one of the CIA's biggest assets. Will Dominika be able to unmask MARBLE? Or will her mission to uncover the mole see her faith in Russia destroyed?UEB. 10v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26053903Merrill, Christine. A Convenient Bride For The Soldier. 2017. Mills and Boon romance.Society of wicked gentlemen: book 1. A beautiful woman auctions her innocence. Georgiana Knight’s plan had been to lure in a villain, but instead she’s trapped the devil himself. And now, to protect her reputation, she must marry him! But if ex-soldier Frederick Challenger has hopes of taming this temptress, he’ll have to think again.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26112003Norris, Barney. Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain. 2016. Literary fiction.One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - those of a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard and a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life.UEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26136603Robinson, Peter. Sleeping In The Ground. 2017. Crime.Inspector Banks: book 24. A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. The shooter is found dead, apparently having committed suicide. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. As he digs deeper into the murders, he uncovers past secrets that might provide the answers he is looking for.UEB. 7v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 26093103Steel, Danielle. Against All Odds. 2018. Family stories.Kate Madison's stylish second-hand clothing shop has been a big success in New York, supporting her and her 4 kids since her husband's untimely death. Now her children have grown up and are ready to forge lives of their own. They all choose to play against the odds, much to their mother's dismay.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26077203Steiner, Susie. Missing, Presumed. 2016. Crime.DS Manon: book 1. A young girl is missing. Edith Hind is gone, leaving just her coat, a smear of blood and a half-open door. Each of her friends and relatives has a version of the truth. But none quite adds up. The press grows hungrier by the day. Can DS Manon Bradshaw fend them off, before a missing persons case becomes a murder investigation?UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26107203Also;Steiner, Susie. Persons Unknown. 2018. Crime.DS Manon: book 2UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26108503Ward, Jesmyn. Sing, Unburied, Sing. 2017. Literary fiction.Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His black mother, Leonie, wants to be a better mother, but can't put her children above her drug use. When the children's white father is released from prison, Leonie and her kids and her friend drive north to the State Penitentiary in Mississippi. At the prison is the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him.UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26080303Adult non-fictionAutobiographyJames, Laura E. Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman In A Neurotypical world. 2018.Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book tracks the year of Laura's life after she receives a definitive diagnosis from her doctor, as she learns that 'different' doesn't need to mean 'less' and how there is a place for all of us, and it's never too late to find it.UEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26092203Kay, Adam. This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries Of A Junior Doctor. 2017.Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any moment be holding our lives in their hands.UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26084403Mitchell, Wendy. Somebody I Used To Know. 2018.When Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 58, she had to say goodbye to the woman she once was. In this memoir, Wendy grapples with questions most of us have never had to consider. What do you value when loss of memory reframes what you have, how you have lived and what you stand to lose? What happens when you can no longer recognise your own daughters, or sometimes even yourself?UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26088503Smith, Wilbur A. On Leopard Rock: A Life Of Adventures. 2018.Wilbur Smith has lived a life of adventure, and now he shares the true stories that have inspired his fiction. He tells of being attacked by lions, close encounters with deadly reef sharks and getting lost in the African bush. From brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith's life is as compelling and eventful as his novels.UEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26092103Vardy, Jamie. Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere: My Story. 2017.Jamie Vardy set scoring records and helped underdogs Leicester City become Premier League champions in 2016. Rejected as a teenager by his boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday, Jamie played pub football while working in a factory. His impressive performances and hard work saw him rise again. This is the story of the boy from nowhere who reached the top in his own unflinching, honest words.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26088903Westover, Tara. Educated. 2018.Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She never set foot in a classroom or went to a doctor. As she grew older her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains to Harvard and to Cambridge.UEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 26091803BiographyBurton, Humphrey. Leonard Bernstein. poser, pianist, author, television teacher, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon, humanist and conductor without peer, Leonard Bernstein's versatility was legendary. Humphrey Burton was given exclusive access to Bernstein's papers and conducted hundreds of interviews with the composer's family, friends and colleagues. Burton captures Bernstein's fascinating and complex personality, providing a frank account of his homosexuality and his marriage.UEB. 16v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 26090503De Lisle, Leanda. White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr. 2018.Charles I’s reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. In this portrait, informed by newly disclosed manuscripts, including letters between the king and his queen, Leanda de Lisle uncovers a Charles I who was principled and brave, but also fatally blinkered.UEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26091403Fotheringham, William. Fallen Angel: The Passion Of Fausto Coppi. 2010.Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the 20th century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the greatest cyclist of the immediate postwar years. Coppi's scandalous divorce and controversial early death convulsed a conservative, staunchly Roman Catholic Italy in the 1950s. This is a portrait of Italy and Italian sport at a time of tumultuous change.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26121003Food and DrinkLawson, Nigella. At My Table: A Celebration Of Home Cooking. 2017.Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and her book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends and family. The recipes are arming, comforting, and inspirational, from new riffs on classic dishes, including chicken fricassee and sticky toffee pudding, to adventures in a host of new dishes and ingredients, from beef and aubergine fattet to white miso hummus.UEB. 4v. Price: ?26.00. Order No: 26120903Health and FitnessChatterjee, Rangan. The 4 Pillar Plan: How To Relax, Eat, Move And Sleep Your Way To A Longer, Healthier Life. 2018.In 'The 4 Pillar Plan', Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents a plan for taking control of your health and your life. Everyday health revolves around Dr Chatterjee's four pillars: relaxation, food, sleep and movement. By making small, achievable changes in each of these key areas you can create and maintain good health and avoid illness.UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 26084503Moran, Diana. Sod Sitting, Get Moving!: Getting Active In Your 60s, 70s And Beyond. 2017.'Sod Sitting, Get Moving!' is a guide to keeping fit and healthy in your 60s, 70s and beyond. Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. This book has easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran and text from Sir Muir Gray.UEB. 2v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26088803Walker, Matthew P. Why We Sleep: The New Science Of Sleep And Dreams. 2018.Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society. In this book, Matthew Walker charts 20 years of cutting-edge research, looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom to find the answers that will transform our appreciation of sleep and reverse our neglect.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26056903HistoryMorris, Jan. Pax Britannica: The Climax Of An Empire. 2012.Pax Britannica: book 2. The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions and tastes, its idealists and rascals.UEB. 11v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 26098303Natural HistoryDilger, Mike. Nightingales In November: A Year In The Lives Of Twelve British Birds. 2017.Have you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? 'The One Show's' natural history star, Mike Dilger, tells us the answers. This almanac tells the very different personal and annual stories of 12 well-known birds we deign to call 'British'.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26088303PsychologyPeterson, Jordan B. 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote For Chaos. 2018.Psychologist Jordan B. Peterson provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.UEB. 9v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26061203SportFay, Stephen. Arlott, Swanton And The Soul Of English Cricket. 2018.For more than a quarter of a century after the Second World War, as the BBC tightened its grip on the national consciousness, two of the most famous English voices were commentators on games of cricket. John Arlott and E.W. ('Jim') Swanton transformed the broadcasting of the nation's summer game into a national institution. They never grew to like each other, but both typified the contrasting aspects of post-war Britain and the way both it and the game they loved was to change.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 26148703Travel and TourismHiggs, John. Watling Street: Travels Through Britain And Its Ever-Present Past. 2017.John Higgs takes us on a journey along one of Britain's oldest roads in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia and eventually England and Wales. Watling Street is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth.UEB. 7v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 26078203Newly available titles for loan and saleAndrews, Virginia. If There Be Thorns. 1981. Horror.Dollanganger: book 3. The Dollanganger family was now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past. But their parents’ dark heritage began to haunt them once more. The rage and hatred they felt returned to torment and twist the new generation. Only if they could forgive their mother and forgo their final revenge could they at last find the peace they so desperately sought.SEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26146602Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Oryx And Crake. 2003. Science fiction.MaddAddam trilogy: book 1. Snowman may be the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Once he was Jimmy, a member of a scientific elite; now he lives in isolation and loneliness, trawling through the past - the disappearance of his mother and the arrival of his mysterious childhood companions Oryx and Crake.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26142202Barker, Pat. Union Street. 1982. General fiction.Union Street - where life is tough, precarious, close-knit. Here, in the decaying heart of the city, is Kelly, eleven years old and living dangerously; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, unmarried and pregnant. And watching all the women – and their men - there's Iris, proud, and indomitable, fighting for her children, mother to half the street.SEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26141402Binchy, Maeve. The Glass Lake. 1995. General fiction.Kit McMahon is the beloved daughter of the kindly local pharmacist and Helen, his beautiful wife. Helen does not fit in with the ways and people of the lakeside village of Lough Glass. Each night she wanders alone by the lake, until one night she disappears. As an adult, Kit is constantly drawn back to the people of the village, Sister Madeleine the hermit, Philip O'Brien who has loved Kit since childhood, and Emmet, Kit's younger brother.SEB. 14v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26145402Binchy, Maeve. Scarlet Feather. 2000. Family stories.Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather set up a catering business together in Dublin. Against a background of catering triumphs and disasters, Tom's hopelessly obsessive love for his model girlfriend and Cathy's increasingly distant marriage crumble as the aphrodisiac of a shared business takes hold.SEB. 13v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26143002Buchan, Elizabeth. Revenge Of The Middle-aged Woman. 2002. General fiction.Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect her husband of an affair, especially one with her friend Minty. Left alone, Rose starts thinking about the man she married, about how well she knew him, and about the girl she had been before she met him. Can she recapture a life where she put herself first?SEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141802Burdett, John. Bangkok 8. 2004. Thriller.Inside a locked Mercedes, an African-American Marine sergeant is killed by a maddened python and a swarm of cobras. Two cops - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. Minutes later, only one is alive. Sworn to avenge the death of his partner and soul brother, Sonchai Jitpleecheep, works his way through District 8. Soon he is in a realm he has never before encountered: the moneyed underbelly of Bangkok, where desire rules and where Sonchai eventually tracks the killer.SEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141302Cooper, Jilly. Score!. 1999. General fiction.Rutshire chronicles: book 6. Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to make the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos. But when Rannaldini decides to write his memoirs all hell breaks loose and the result is murder.SEB. 14v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141902Cussler, Clive. Trojan Odyssey. 2003. Thriller.Dirk Pitt: book 17. There is a black tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. Whilst trying to determine its origin, startling things begin to occur and the inhabitants of a floating resort find themselves directly in the path of a violent storm. Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew rush to their rescue, but they discover that there is an all-too-human evil at work and the black tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon its work will be complete and the world will be a very different place.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141502Forrester, Helen. The Liverpool Basque. 1994. Family stories.Manuel Echaniz is a Basque, living in British Columbia. He is far from Liverpool, the city of his birth, after his grandfather settled there in the early years of the century, when many Basques passed through the port on their way to the New World. This is the story of Manuel's childhood and coming of age in the Liverpool docklands, getting himself an education of sorts and setting off on the long voyage of his life, which leads to Canada and an old man's memories.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26145502Grafton, Sue. M Is For Malice. 1997. Crime.Kinsey Millhone mysteries: book 13. Malek Construction is a $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California. Four sons now nearing middle age stand to inherit a fortune. They are four men with very different temperaments and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them, angry, troubled and in trouble, went missing. Kinsey Millhone is hired to trace that missing black sheep brother.SEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26146002Harris, Robert. Enigma. 1995. War fiction.Based around an actual event, this book is set in 1943 inside Britain's code-breaking centre. Germany's U-boats have unexpectedly changed their Enigma cipher and the battle of the Atlantic hangs in the balance. In desperation the authorities turn to brilliant young mathematician and codebreaker, Tom Jericho. What follows is a frantic race to crack the U-boat code.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26146902Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. 2001. Literary fiction.Latin terrorists storm an international gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to promote foreign interest and trade, only to find that their intended target, the President, has stayed home to watch his favourite soap opera on TV. Ultimately, it is the terrorist strike that does more to promote foreign relations than anyone could have hoped to achieve with the party.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26142002Patterson, James. 2nd Chance. 2002. Crime.The Women's Murder Club: book 2. When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, Detective Lindsay Boxer knows it's time to reconvene the Women's Murder Club. Boxer and her friends think the killer may be an ex-cop, but nothing can prepare them for the demented logic behind his choice of victims.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26141602Pearse, Lesley. Secrets. 2004. Family stories.Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed, and her mother Rose, devastated by the loss, begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children's home, but soon runs away to trace her grandmother, Honour. Eventually the two forge some sort of bond and Honour allows Adele to stay. When real love and friendship enters her life, she feels she can finally put her hurtful past behind her. Then war breaks out and, Rose decides to rear her ugly head again.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26145602Rankin, Ian. Set In Darkness. 2000. Crime.Inspector Rebus: book 11. The first Scottish parliament in 300 years is being located in Queensbury House, with its own, dark past. Legend has it that a young man was roasted there on a spit by a madman. When the fireplace where the youth died is uncovered, another more recent murder victim is found. Days later, in the gardens outside, there is another body and DI John Rebus is under pressure to find answers.SEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26142602Smith, Wilbur. Golden Fox. 1990. Thriller.Courtney: book 7. Isabella, Shasa Courtney's beloved daughter, enjoys all the freedoms London in the sixties can offer. But her lover is Ramon de Santiago y Machado, a KGB operative known as Golden Fox. His mission is to recruit her as an agent, and uncover her father's secret business dealings. Isabella must make a choice about who she will betray, her father and her country, or her son and the man she loves.SEB. 12v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26147702Also;Smith, Wilbur. Birds Of Prey. 1997. Adventure.Courtney: book 9.SEB. 15v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26147802Smith, Wilbur. The Triumph Of The Sun: A Novel Of African Adventure. 2005. Historical fiction.Courtney: book 12.SEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26147402Syal, Meera. Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee. 1999. Family stories.A story of Chila, a nice Punjabi girl married to the urbane Deepak, and her two childhood confidants: Sunita, the former activist law student, now an overweight, depressed housewife and mother; and the chic, beautiful Tania, who has rejected marriage in favour of a high-powered career in television and life in a trendy apartment with her English boyfriend.SEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141202Thackeray, W.M. (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. 1994. Classic.Vanity Fair is the story of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, who have just completed their studies at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies and are beginning to embark upon the world. The simple-minded nature of Amelia, who comes from a wealthy family, is contrasted with the strong-willed nature of Becky, who will stop at nothing to climb the social ranks of Victorian English society.SEB. 12v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26142702Vincenzi, Penny. Almost A Crime. 2000. General fiction.Tom and Octavia Fleming have a power marriage - high-profile and mutually supportive, but when Octavia discovers that Tom is having an affair, and that it is by no means his first, every single aspect of her life threatens to disintegrate.SEB. 16v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141002Vincenzi, Penny. Into Temptation. 2002. Family stories.Lytton dynasty: book 3. The Lytton family past is full of secrets, and only Lady Celia knows them all. Some secrets are more dangerous than others, some shared with Celia's family, some entirely her own. And all absolutely safe in her keeping. Until something happens that threatens to reveal them all.SEB. 13v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26142102Wouk, Herman. War And Remembrance. 1978. War fiction.Henry family: book 2. Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. The novel captures the tide of global events and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the war’s maelstrom.SEB. 26v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 26141102Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeGray, Kes. Oi Frog!. 2015.This is a tale about a frog who discovers that all animals have their special places to sit! Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gofers sit on sofas, but Frog does not want to sit on a log! Jam-packed with animals and silliness, this original story is full of humour. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26107103Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26107105Lloyd, Sam. Boris Babysits. 2016.Monster Mummy is going shopping, so Boris is babysitting for Monster Baby. The thing is, Boris isn't very good at it. He plonks Monster Baby in the dog basket, forgets to feed him and falls fast asleep when he should be putting Baby to bed. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26106803Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2610680505+ Suggested Reading AgePankhurst, Kate. Fantastically Great Women Who Made History. 2018.This title looks at the stories, accomplishments and adventures of many brilliant women through the ages. Travel along the Underground Railroad with brave Harriet Tubman and turn the pages of 'Frankenstein' with talented Mary Shelley. Journey through history with these and many other remarkable women.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26089603Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 2608960507+ Suggested Reading AgeBrahmachari, Sita. Zebra Crossing Soul Song. 2018.Leny has spent most of his life at the zebra crossing, and for many of those years Otis, the singing 'zebra man' has helped him on his way. But when Otis' sad past comes back to haunt him, Lenny is forced to face his crossroads alone. Only by examining the memories of their friendship can Lenny discover the truth. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 8+ and interest age of 13+. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26104303Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 26104305Gaiman, Neil. Fortunately, The Milk. 2014.You know what it's like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad's in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he's got to do, and the most important thing is DON'T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets, so the next morning he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26106703Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26106705Haig, Matt. A Boy Called Christmas. 2016.Boy called Christmas: book 1. You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is impossible. A Boy Called Christmas is a tale of adventure, snow, kidnapping, elves, more snow, and an 11-year-old boy called Nikolas, who isn't afraid to believe in magic.UEB double line spacing. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26110903Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 26110905McCombie, Karen. The Mystery Of Me. 2017.Ketty can't remember anything about her life before the accident. But people are treating her weirdly. Ketty just can't shake the feeling that something is terribly wrong. When her new friend Otis reveals that pre-crash Ketty was a spiteful bully, she faces a tough decision. What kind of person can she be now? This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26102203Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26102205Palmer, Tom. Killing Ground. 2017.Defenders: book 2. Everyone in Halifax is freaked out when circles of scorched earth start appearing on the moors, in the parks and even in the football stadium. Seth and his friend Nadiya set out to discover the dark history behind the mysterious forces attacking the town. Can two football-mad kids stop an endless cycle of supernatural suffering? This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26106503Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 2610650509+ Suggested Reading AgeBrooks, Ben. Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different: True Tales Of Amazing Boys Who Changed The World Without Killing Dragons. 2018.Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different is a compilation of 100 stories of famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and innovator in his own way, and all going on to achieve amazing things. Entries include Frank Ocean, Salvador Dalí, Rimbaud, Beethoven, Barack Obama, Stormzy, Ai Weiwei and Jesse Owens.UEB. 3v. Price: ?17.99. Order No: 26093403Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 26093405Blyton, Enid. Five Run Away Together. 2017.The Famous Five: book 3. Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timothy are the Famous Five. In their third adventure, the Five discover a mysterious truck during a camping trip on Kirrin Island. They suspect smugglers. But then they hear a child's scream in the middle of the night. Who else is on the island with them and why?UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26090203Hitchcock, Fleur. Bus Stop Baby. 2016.On her way home from school, 13-year-old Amy finds a newborn baby abandoned at the village bus stop. It's wrong, just like when Mum walked out on Amy and her sister ten years ago. So Amy tries to fix it, by finding the baby's mother. But as Amy searches, she uncovers another story, a secret even closer to home. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26106603Lewis, Gill. Sky Dancer. 2017.When the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest up there in the heather, Joe finds himself stuck right in the middle. He has a choice to make, and a huge secret to keep. Joe can't do what's right for everyone. But can he find the strength to fight for what he really believes in? This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26104603Peretti, Paola. The Distance Between Me And The Cherry Tree. 2018.Mafalda is a 9-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family, and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26089103Riordan, Rick. The Hidden Oracle. 2017.Trials of Apollo: book 1. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the 4,000-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world, until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26104203Sparkes, Ali. Car-jacked. 2015.Jack Mattingly is a genius. But when his parents' car is hi-jacked, with him inside it, for once he's as clueless as the rest of us. The car-jacker doesn't know Jack's in the car, yet. But it's only a matter of time before he's discovered. And then, anything could happen. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2610610311+ Suggested Reading AgeGrant, Sara. Chasing Danger. 2016.Chasing danger: book 1. When Chase Armstrong (please don't call her Charlotte) is sent to visit her Grandmother at a remote tropical resort, she is looking forward to sunbathing, swimming and snorkeling. The last thing she expects is danger. But when modern day pirates attack the island and take the guests hostage, it's up to Chase to try and save her grandmother and herself, before it's too late! This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 26104403Jobling, Curtis. Dead Scared. 2014.Haunt: book 1. Knocked off his bike in a road traffic accident, Will is now officially dead and a ghost. But somehow his best mate, Dougie, can still see him. Will seems bound to Dougie, going only where Dougie goes. They set about unravelling the mystery of Will's predicament. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26102703MacKenzie, Ross. Shadowsmith. 2016.'Are you brave?' When the mysterious Amelia Pigeon turns up at Kirby's bedroom window in the dead of night, this is the question she asks him. Then they tumble into a world of ancient malevolent spirits who have torn their way into Kirby's quiet seaside village. How brave is he really? This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2610470313+ Suggested Reading AgeAdeyemi, Tomi. Children Of Blood And Bone. 2018.Legacy of Orisha: book 1. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Or?sha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy.UEB. 10v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 26054303Levy, Marianne. Accidental Superstar. 2016.Accidental superstar: book 1. Katie Cox is used to going unnoticed, by her parents and her best friend. But when a video of her singing in her bedroom goes viral, she becomes a superstar overnight. As the views skyrocket and a recording contract beckons, the real world starts to feel very far away. And now Katie's riding high on her newfound fame. But the higher she goes, the further there is to fall. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 26104503Giant PrintAdult fictionBarclay, Linwood. Far From True. 2016. Thriller.Promise Falls: book 2. A freak accident has killed Lucy Brighton's father. And when she goes to his house, she's convinced that someone has broken in. Private investigator Cal Weaver discovers a secret 'playroom' in the basement, complete with video equipment, and it looks as though there's a missing recording. How does the stolen DVD connect to the other disturbing events that are happening in the town?5v.Clark, Mary Higgins. The Cradle Will Fall. 2003. Thriller.A minor road accident lands county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she sees a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car. At work the next day, Katie begins investigating a suicide that looks more like murder. Medical examiner Richard Carroll discovers a trail leading to Dr. Edgar Highley. And Katie has an appointment for routine surgery, in Dr. Highley's operating room.3v.Cohen, Julie. Together. 2018. General fiction.On a morning that seems just like any other, Robbie wakes in his bed, his wife Emily asleep beside him, as always. But then he leaves home for good. As the years go back all the way to 1962, Robbie's actions become clearer as we discover the story of a couple with a terrible secret. It is one they will do absolutely anything to protect.4v.Cookson, Catherine. The Bondage Of Love. 1998. Family stories.Bill Bailey; book 4. Davey Love and his son Sammy had made a special contribution to the fortunes of the Bailey family. Now, with Davey dead, there would be new challenges to face. How would Sammy fit into the family? Inevitably Fiona would bear the brunt of household disagreements, but she knew she could rely on Bill, that rock of a man with a rough tongue but a heart of gold.4v.Cookson, Catherine. Fanny McBride. 1997. Family stories.Fanny McBride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her 50s, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local 'Ladies', which was to prove to be a stimulating experience.3v.Cookson, Catherine. Feathers In The Fire. 2008. Historical fiction.Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus McBain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had made her pregnant. Meanwhile, the master's wife is also pregnant. And a few months later, the birth of the McBains' son Amos unleashes violence and tragedy at the farm. Born with no legs and emotionally crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him.4v.Cookson, Catherine. The Fifteen Streets. 1993. Family stories.Life in the Fifteen Streets was tough. John O'Brien caught his glimpse of another world the day he met Mary Llewellyn. Mary lived well, had beautiful clothes, and worked because she wanted to. And when he fell in love with Mary, John knew there was a gulf between them that nothing could bridge; it was the gulf of the Fifteen Streets.3v.Cookson, Catherine. The Gambling Man. 1980. Historical fiction.Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler’s luck. At twenty-three, his ambition was in full flow. He feared nothing and nobody, not even the unscrupulous landlord he collected for. He was doing well, until one day his luck changed. Suddenly, things did not go as smoothly as he was used to.4v.Cookson, Catherine. My Beloved Son. 2017. Family stories.When Ellen Jebeau’s husband dies in 1926, he leaves behind a legacy of debt and empty dreams. However, Ellen is determined that her son Joseph should have everything in life that she never did, and will stop at nothing to give it to him. Can Joseph Jebeau escape the clutches of his mother's ruthless ambition and become the man he wants to be?4v.Cronin, A. J. Adventures Of A Black Bag. 2013. Short stories.Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years, the stories found here feature the author's most famous creation, Dr Finlay. This is a collection of heartwarming, funny and touching stories, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters.2v.Day, Elizabeth. The Party. 2018. General fiction.Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. Then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.3v.Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. 2018. Literary fiction.Washington Black is an eleven year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. The eccentric Christopher 'Titch' Wilde is one of the owners. He is an inventor and abolitionist, whose single-minded pursuit of the perfect aerial machine mystifies all around him. They escape the island together, but then Titch disappears, and Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible.4v.Evans, Harriet. The Wildflowers. 2018. Chick lit.Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative and adulterous to the core. They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea. The same house sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy. But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde.5v.Gianna, Robin. Tempted By The Brooding Surgeon. 2018. Mills and Boon romance.Annabelle Richards arrives in Peru to find she’ll be working with renowned surgeon Daniel Ferrera, the man who almost ruined her career. When Annabel learns that Daniel’s brooding exterior hides a wealth of pain, an unexpected passion ignites between them. Will temptation prove too much to resist?2v.Gunaratne, Guy. In Our Mad And Furious City. 2018. Literary fiction.For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it does anywhere: football, music, freedom. But now, after the killing of a British soldier, riots are spreading across the city. While Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions - girls and grime - their friend, Yusuf, is caught up in a different tide, a wave of radicalism threatening to carry his troubled brother, Irfan, with it.3v.Hannah, Sophie. The Mystery Of Three Quarters. 2018. Crime.Hercule Poirot mystery: book 3. An angry woman claims Hercule Poirot sent her a letter accusing her of murdering Barnabas Pandy, a stranger to her. Then a man makes the very same claim against Poirot. Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Who really sent these letters and why? Who is Barnabas Pandy? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?3v.Heap, Joe. The Rules Of Seeing. 2018. General fiction.Nova can do many things. But there’s one thing Nova can’t do. She can’t see. When an operation restores her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. Until she meets Kate. As their unlikely friendship blossoms, Kate’s past threatens to throw them into a different kind of darkness. Can they both learn to see the world in a different way?4v.Iggulden, Conn. Stormbird. Historical fiction.Wars of the roses: book 1. King Henry V is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king, and he depends on his closest men. As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged. Who, or what, can save the kingdom before it is too late?5v.Jefferies, Dinah. The Sapphire Widow. 2018. Romance.Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve is the daughter of a successful British gem trader. While she struggles with miscarriages, her husband Elliot spends much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation. After Elliot's sudden death, Louisa revisits the plantation at Cinnamon Hills and finds herself drawn towards the owner Leo. And when Elliot's shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to.4v.Johnson, Daisy. Everything Under. 2018. Myths and legends.As a child, Gretel lived on a canal boat with her mother, but she hasn't seen her since the age of sixteen. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water, a canal thief? In the end, there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back.2v.King, Stephen. The Outsider. 2018. Horror.When an 11-year-old boy is found murdered, forensic evidence and reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland. But Maitland has an alibi. And further research confirms he was indeed out of town that day. So how can he have been in two places at the same time?6v.Le Carré, John. The Naive And Sentimental Lover. 2006. General fiction.At the age of thirty-eight, Aldo Cassidy can be called a success in the eyes of the world, if not by his wife. Touring Somerset, vaguely searching for a country home to give him the status of an English gentleman, he meets a charming if wayward couple, Helen and Shamus. He falls in love with them both and is swept into a world where feeling is the only justification for action.5v.Lee, Georgie. Captain Rose's Redemption. 2018. Mills and Boon romance.Captured by pirates off the Virginia coast, Lady Cassandra Shepherd is shocked to see in the blue eyes of Captain Rose the young man she loved and lost. What has caused him to exchange his honour for a chance at revenge? But now he needs her help. Dare Cas believe the captain can reclaim his life as an upstanding gentleman and with it, her hand in marriage?2v.Mackintosh, Sophie. The Water Cure. 2018. Literary fiction.Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them, three strangers washed up by the sea, trailing desire and destruction in their wake.2v.Merrill, Christine. A Convenient Bride For The Soldier. 2017. Mills and Boon romance.Society of wicked gentlemen: book 1. A beautiful woman auctions her innocence. Georgiana Knight’s plan had been to lure in a villain, but instead she’s trapped the devil himself. And now, to protect her reputation, she must marry him! But if ex-soldier Frederick Challenger has hopes of taming this temptress, he’ll have to think again.3v.Also;Lethbridge, Ann. An Innocent Maid For The Duke. 2017. Mills and Boon romance.Society of wicked gentlemen: book 2.3v.Robinson, Peter. Sleeping In The Ground. 2017. Crime.Inspector Banks: book 24. A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. The shooter is found dead, apparently having committed suicide. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. As he digs deeper into the murders, he uncovers past secrets that might provide the answers he is looking for.4v.Rooney, Sally. Normal People. 2018. Literary fiction.Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is a love story about how a person can change another person's life.3v.Sheffield, Jack. Happiest Days: The Alternative School Logbook 1986-1987. 2017. Country life fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 10. It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for his tenth rollercoaster year as head teacher. Ruby the caretaker finds happiness at last, Vera the secretary makes an important decision, a new teacher is appointed and a disaster threatens the school. Meanwhile, Jack receives unexpected news, and is faced with the biggest decision of his career.3v.Steiner, Susie. Missing, Presumed. 2016. Crime.DS Manon: book 1. A young girl is missing. Edith Hind is gone, leaving just her coat, a smear of blood and a half-open door. Each of her friends and relatives has a version of the truth. But none quite adds up. The press grows hungrier by the day. Can DS Manon Bradshaw fend them off, before a missing persons case becomes a murder investigation?4v.Also;Steiner, Susie. Persons Unknown. 2018. Crime.DS Manon: book 2.4v.Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fall Of Gondolin. 2018. Fantasy.In the tale of 'The Fall of Gondolin' are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manw?, chief of the Valar. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on Gondolin, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs.3v.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and BiographyDe Lisle, Leanda. White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr. 2018.Charles I’s reign is one of the most dramatic in history, yet Charles the man remains elusive. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. In this portrait, informed by newly disclosed manuscripts, including letters between the king and his queen, Leanda de Lisle uncovers a Charles I who was principled and brave, but also fatally blinkered.4v.Burton, Humphrey. Leonard Bernstein. poser, author, television teacher, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon, humanist and conductor without peer, Leonard Bernstein's versatility was legendary. Humphrey Burton was given exclusive access to Bernstein's papers and conducted hundreds of interviews with his family, friends and colleagues. He captures Bernstein's fascinating and complex personality, providing a frank account of his homosexuality and his marriage.10v.James, Laura E. Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman In A Neurotypical World. 2018.Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book tracks the year of Laura's life after she receives a definitive diagnosis from her doctor, as she learns that 'different' doesn't need to mean 'less' and how there is a place for all of us, and it's never too late to find it.3v.Smith, Wilbur A. On Leopard Rock: A Life Of Adventures. 2018.Wilbur Smith has lived a life of adventure, and now he shares the true stories that have inspired his fiction. He tells of being attacked by lions, close encounters with deadly reef sharks and getting lost in the African bush. From brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith's life is as compelling and eventful as his novels.3v.Vardy, Jamie. Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere: My Story. 2017.Jamie Vardy set scoring records and helped underdogs Leicester City become Premier League champions in 2016. Rejected as a teenager by his boyhood club Sheffield Wednesday, Jamie played pub football while working in a factory. His impressive performances and hard work saw him rise again. This is the story of the boy from nowhere who reached the top in his own unflinching, honest words.3v.Westover, Tara. Educated. 2018.Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She never set foot in a classroom or went to a doctor. As she grew older her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains to Harvard and to Cambridge.4v.Food and DrinkLawson, Nigella. At My Table: A Celebration Of Home Cooking. 2017.Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook and her book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends and family. The recipes are warming, comforting, and inspirational, from new riffs on classic dishes, including chicken fricassee and sticky toffee pudding, to adventures in a host of new dishes and ingredients, from beef and aubergine fattet to white miso hummus.3v.Health and FitnessChatterjee, Rangan. The 4 Pillar Plan: How To Relax, Eat, Move And Sleep Your Way To A Longer, Healthier Life. 2018.In 'The 4 Pillar Plan', Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents a plan for taking control of your health and your life. Everyday health revolves around Dr Chatterjee's four pillars: relaxation, food, sleep and movement. By making small, achievable changes in each of these key areas you can create and maintain good health and avoid illness.2v.Moran, Diana. Sod Sitting, Get Moving! : Getting Active In Your 60s, 70s And Beyond. 2017.'Sod Sitting, Get Moving!' is a guide to keeping fit and healthy in your 60s, 70s and beyond. Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. This book has easy exercise ideas created by Green Goddess and health and fitness expert Diana Moran, and text from Sir Muir Gray.1v.SportFotheringham, William. Fallen Angel: The Passion Of Fausto Coppi. 2010. Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the 20th century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years. Coppi's scandalous divorce and controversial early death convulsed a conservative, staunchly Roman Catholic Italy in the 1950s. This is a portrait of Italy and Italian sport at a time of tumultuous change.3v.Warfare and DefenceNichol, John. Spitfire: A Very British Love Story. 2018. The Spitfire was a marvel of British engineering, with agility and resilience that would quickly pass into legend. This is a passionate portrait of this magnificent fighter aircraft, its many innovations and updates, and the people who flew and loved them. It carries the reader beyond the Battle of Britain and explains why the Spitfire is still so loved today.5v.Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeGray, Kes. Oi Goat! 2018.Oi Frog and friends. "Oi goat! Put on a coat," said the frog. When asked why, the frog says, "Everyone dresses up on World Book Day." The frog then describes all the different ways various animals dress up in celebration of this special day.1v.Hargreaves, Adam. My Book About Me By Mr Silly. 2018.What would you write a book about? Mr Silly's story began with himself, but then he decided to include his friends. He knew that if his friends were in the book then they would want to read it, just like you. Enjoy this very silly book about Mr Silly's book!1v.07+ Suggested Reading AgeBond, Michael. Paddington Turns Detective And Other Funny Stories. 2018.Nothing is ever straightforward when Paddington is involved. Whether he is attempting detective work, helping to sail a boat or performing magic, ordinary things have a habit of becoming quite extraordinary. Three classic Paddington Bear stories are brought together for the first time in this special collection.1v.Butchart, Pamela. The Baby Brother From Outer Space! 2018.When Haroon's mum brings his baby brother into school, Izzy and her friends are alarmed. The baby is clearly using mind control because the office ladies are being really nice. But it's when he starts using his alien phone that they know. Haroon's baby brother is from outer space and he's making contact with aliens! 1v.Clary, Julian. The Bolds' Great Adventure. 2018.Fasten your seatbelts, it's a special adventure for Teddington's wildest family! Learn just how our intrepid hyenas managed to get from their African safari park onto the plane and off to their new home in England. It's quite a remarkable, and some would say, unbelievable tale but there are many laughs along the way!1v.Fletcher, Tom. Brain Freeze. 2018.Izzy’s grandpa was an ice-cream man, and he used to tell the BEST stories. There was the one about giving a 99 Flake to a Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and another about feeding a Fab to a hungry T-Rex. But what if they weren’t just stories? What if that blue ice-cream van had a secret magic of its own? 1v.Griffiths, Andy. Terry's Dumb Dot Story. 2018.Meet Andy and Terry. They make books together in the world's coolest treehouse! But they can't agree on their special story for World Book Day. They have Mr Big Nose keeping an eye on them now, and the story police too! 1v.Hussain, Nadiya. Nadiya's Bake Me A Story - World Book Day edition. 2018.Enter a scrummy world of stories and recipes plus exclusive puzzles, all written and devised by Nadiya Hussain. Bake some delicious blueberry and orange soda bread and, while it is in the oven, enjoy the story of Little Red Hen and her friends. Meet some very confused elves in 'The Elves and the Chouxmaker', then make the salmon and green bean curry from the story.1v.09+ Suggested Reading AgeBalding, Clare. The Girl Who Thought She Was A Dog. 2018.Fennel and Twiglet are best friends. They do everything together, from curling up in their basket to playing fetch in the park. Twiglet understands Fennel like no one else, especially her life-long dream of winning Crufts. There's just one problem: Fennel isn't a dog. And a girl can't win a competition for dogs, no matter how much she acts like one. Can she? 1v.Dougall, Alastair. Marvel Avengers: The Greatest Heroes. 2018.Explore your favourite Marvel Comics characters including Black Panther, Captain America, Black Widow, Ant-Man, Scarlet Witch and many more. Discover the Avengers' astonishing super powers and awesome costumes. Learn all about the Super Heroes' origins and their important roles on the team. 1v.Peretti, Paola. The Distance Between Me And The Cherry Tree. 2018.Mafalda is a 9-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family, and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed.2v.13+ Suggested Reading AgeFraillon, Zana. The Ones That Disappeared. 2017. Miran, Esra and Isa are three young Syrian children brought to Australia to be slaves. They escape but Miran is captured by the police. Hiding in the shadows of the forest, Esra and Isa are found by a local boy, Skeet. Together they will create a man out of mud, a Riverman who will come to life. He will lead them down into the tunnels of the town in an effort to rescue Miran.2v.McManus, Karen M. One Of Us Is Lying. 2017.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. All of them are suspects.3v.Talking BooksAdult fictionAkunin, Boris. All The World's A Stage: The Further Adventures Of Erast Fandorin. 2017. Crime. TB24288.Erast Fandorin: book 11. Eliza is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress. Her ex-husband has threatened to kill anyone who courts her. Detective Fandorin is contacted by a friend who asks him to investigate an incident involving Eliza. But when he watches Eliza on stage for the first time, he falls in love. Can he solve the case without attracting the attentions of the murderer?Read by Jonathan Coote. 14 hours 37 minutes. TB24288.Andrews Lyn. Liverpool Sisters. 2016. Family stories. TB24355.Liverpool 1907. Sisters Livvie and Amy are just sixteen and thirteen years old when their mother dies in childbirth. They are still missing their mum when their father announces that he is going to marry again. His new bride is Mary, a girl just a few years older than Livvie, and only time will tell whether Mary will be the kind of step-mother a motherless girl could love.Read by Anne Dover. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB24355.Andrews V. C. Misty. 1998. Horror. TB24504.Wildflowers: book 1. Misty is the tale of a young girl facing the trials of her devious, divorced parents and the terrors of a deeply-held secret. When she meets three other girls in therapy, also children of divorce, she learns that she's not alone, and not alone in sharing secrets.Read by Kelly Burke. 4 hours 5 minutes. TB24504.Bradshaw, Rita. Beyond The Veil Of Tears. 2015. Family stories. TB24329.As an only child, 15-year-old Angeline is heartbroken when her parents are killed and she is given into the care of her uncle. Naive and innocent, Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald who is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his womanizing has caused. On her wedding night, Angeline enters a nightmare from which there is no awakening. Contains violence.Read by Janine Birkett. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB24329.Brodrick, William. The Silent Ones. 2015. Crime. TB24537.Father Anselm: book 6. Father Anselm returns to the Old Bailey to fight the most difficult and troubling case of his life. The man in the dock is Father Littlemore. He is charged with grave offences against Harry Brandwell who, it seems, is both a victim and a liar. Meanwhile Harry Brandwell, abused, abandoned and betrayed, has decided to take matters into his own hands.Read by Matt Addis. 11 hours 13 minutes. TB24537.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Autumn Throne. 2016. Historical fiction. TB24372.Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 3. England 1176. Imprisoned by her husband, King Henry II, Eleanor refuses to let her powerful husband bully her into submission. Freed only by Henry's death, Eleanor becomes dowager Queen of England. But the competition for land and power that Henry stirred up among his sons has intensified to a dangerous rivalry. Read by Katie Scarfe. 18 hours 22 minutes. TB24372.Connelly, Michael. The Poet. 2014. Crime. TB24303.Jack McEvoy: book 1. The apparent suicide of his policeman brother sets Denver crime reporter Jack McEvoy on edge. Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death, Jack looks into a series of police suicides. This puts him on the trail of a cop-killer whose victims are selected all too carefully.Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 17 hours 30 minutes. TB24303.Douglas, Donna. Nightingales On Call. 2014. Family stories. TB24317.Nightingale Girls: book 4. 1937 sees new challenges for the trainee nurses. Dora and her enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final months of their training. Jess is the feisty daughter of an East End family and determined to prove herself as a ward maid. And new trainee nurse Effie's sister Katie begins to worry that Effie's behaviour is out of control.Read by Penelope Freeman. 12 hours 42 minutes. TB24317.Erskine, Barbara. Kingdom Of Shadows. 2004. Historical fiction. TB24401.Clare, the wife of a City banker, appears to have it all, but her marriage is a lonely one. When she inherits the castle of Duncairn, once the home of Isobel, the mistress of Robert the Bruce, she finds herself haunted by Isobel's dramatic life. As husband Paul's recklessness threatens their security, Clare must fight to save Duncairn, and to save herself from the powers of Isobel.Read by Kirsty Cox. 30 hours 8 minutes. TB24401.Fellowes, Jessica. The Mitford Murders. 2017. Historical crime. TB24373.1919. Louisa takes a position in the Mitford household at Asthall Manor. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy. Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake, is killed on a train in broad daylight. Nancy and Louisa find that in postwar England, everyone has something to hide.Read by Rachel Atkins. 11 hours 18 minutes. TB24373.French, Tana. The Trespasser. 2016. Crime. TB24343.Dublin Murder Squad: book 6. Working on the Dublin Murder squad, Detective Antoinette Conway's life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Her new case looks like a regular lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn is blond, pretty and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's nothing unusual about her, except that Antoinette has seen her somewhere before. Read by Hilda Fay. 20 hours 8 minutes. TB24343.Gemmell, David. Morningstar. 2018. Fantasy. TB24287.Angostin invaders surge through the Highlands, laying waste to everything in their path. Darkness follows in their wake as a mad necromancer resurrects the eons-dead Vampyre Kings. Only the bandit Jarek Mace, and the magicker and bard Owen Odell, have the courage to fight the Angostins and the undead.Read by David Monteath. 11 hours 43 minutes. TB24287.Gemmell, David. Echoes Of The Great Song. 2018. Fantasy.TB24276.The Great Bear will descend from the skies, and with his paw, lash at the ocean. Then he will sleep for ten thousand years, and the breath of his sleep will be death. The prophecy had come true. A new ice age dawned. The few survivors of a once great empire struggled to rebuild. Then two moons appeared in the skies, unleashing a terrible evil that threatened the survival of the world.Read by Charles Armstrong. 13 hours 29 minutes. TB24276.Gemmell, David A. Dark Moon. 2018. Fantasy. TB24277.One night, the invincible and sadistic Daroth vanished from the face of the earth. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy and not a trace remained. Then a dark moon rose above the Desert and a black tidal wave swept across the land. The desert vanished and a great city appeared. From this city, re-emerged the powerful and immortal Daroth, immune to spear and sword. Read by Homer Todiwala. 12 hours 52 minutes. TB24277.Golden, Christopher. Dead Ringers. 2016. Horror. TB24074.Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband, Nick, and is furious when he pretends not to know her. Afterwards, Tess discovers that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if Nick's not in Boston, who was the man she encountered on the street? Then there's Frank who is assaulted by an intruder in his living room, a man who could be his brutal, violent twin but Frank is an only child.Contains violence and swear words. Read by William Roberts. 10 hours 37 minutes. TB24074.Gregory, Philippa. Earthly Joys. 2006. Historical fiction. TB24306.Tradescant: book 1. As gardener and confidante to Sir Robert Cecil, Tradescant is well placed to observe the social and political changes that are about to sweep through the kingdom. While his master conjures intrigues at Court, Tradescant designs for him the magnificent garden at Hatfield, scouring the known world for ever more wonderful plants. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 19 hours 6 minutes. TB24306.Hislop, Victoria. Cartes Postales From Greece. 2016. General fiction. TB24357.Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to someone Ellie does not know, each signed with an initial: A. These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her. She decides she must see this country for herself. On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Read by Victoria Hislop, Dan Stevens, Esther Wane, Gareth Armstrong, James Gant, and Sandra Duncan. 8 hours 15 minutes. TB24357.Hogan, Ruth. The Keeper Of Lost Things. 2017. General fiction. TB24346.Anthony spent half his life collecting lost objects. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners. But the final wishes of the Keeper of Lost Things have repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters.Read by Jane Collingwood and Sandra Duncan. 8 hours 37 minutes. TB24346.Kelly, Erin. He Said/She Said. 2017. Thriller. TB24347.In the aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever. Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear. Laura knows she was right to speak out, she also knows that you can never see the whole picture: something is always hidden, something she never could have guessed.Read by Jonathan Broadbent and Helen Johns.13 hours 38 minutes. TB24347.Lagercrantz, David. The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye. 2017. Thriller. TB24354.Millennium: book 5. Sentenced to two months in prison for saving a young boy's life, Lisbeth refuses to say anything in her defence. She has more important things on her mind. Mikael makes the long trip to visit every week and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For Mikael, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For Lisbeth, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.Read by Saul Reichlin. 13 hours 34 minutes. TB24354.Leather, Stephen. Dead Men. 2008. Thriller. TB24324.Spider Shepherd: book 5. Belfast 1994. Five masked men brutally murder an RUC Special Branch officer. Days later, the IRA announces it is laying down its arms. 2007. The men who killed the RUC officer have been released from prison under the Good Friday agreement and one by one someone is killing them, in exactly the same way that the RUC officer died.Read by Cornelius Garrett. 11 hours 21 minutes. TB24324.McKay, Shirley. Time & Tide. 2012. Historical crime. TB24492.Hew Cullan: book 3. 1582, St Andrews. In the swell of a storm, a battered ship is wrecked in St Andrews harbour. Aboard is a Flemish sailor - the only survivor. The cargo of the ship appears a welcome windfall but it brings devastation to the town as squabbling turns to hysteria and tragedy. Hew traces the ship to its source in Ghent, where he uncovers a strange secret.Read by David Monteath. 10 hours 49 minutes. TB24492.Mills, Mark. Where Dead Men Meet. 2016. Thriller. TB24359.Paris, 1937. Luke, a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy, finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity, or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding towards war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage 25 years ago.Read by Tim Bentinck. 10 hours 44 minutes. TB24359.North, Claire. The End Of The Day. 2017. General fiction. TB24371.Sooner or later, death visits everyone. Before that, they meet Charlie. Sometimes he is sent as a courtesy, sometimes as a warning. Either way, this is going to be the most important meeting of your life. You might meet him in a hospital or at the scene of a traffic accident. Would you shake him by the hand, take the gift he offers, or would you pay no attention to the words he says?Read by Peter Kenny. 18 hours 22 minutes. TB24371.Peake, Tony. North Facing. 2017. General fiction. TB24538.When Paul Harvey, sensitive, isolated, and desperate to fit in at school, is invited to join the most popular pupil's gang, he will do whatever is required to please the ringleader Andre du Toit. Now a man in his sixties and living abroad, Paul is drawn back to Pretoria to revisit his boyhood home. It has taken him most of his life to grasp and make sense of his past. Read by Jon Cartwright. 5 hours 17 minutes. TB24538.Picoult, Jodi. Small Great Things. 2016. General fiction. TB24350.When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the African American nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his white supremacist father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives. Read by Noma Dumezweni, Jeff Harding and Jennifer Woodward.16 hours 45 minutes. TB24350.Quinn, Julia. It's In His Kiss. 2006. Historical romance. TB24449.Bridgerton: book 7. Gareth St. Clair's sole heirloom is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past and the key to his future. It's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Hyacinth offers to translate his diary. But as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek lie not in the diary, but in each other.Read by Emma Vane. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB24449.Reynolds, Alastair. House Of Suns. 2009. Science fiction. TB24335.Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. They meet every two hundred thousand years, to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. But someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line. Can they prevent their line from being wiped out of existence?Read by Ruby Thomas. 18 hours 40 minutes. TB24335.Richmond, Michelle. The Marriage Pact. 2017. Thriller. TB24450.Newlyweds Jake and Alice are offered membership of a club which promises members will never divorce. Signing The Pact seems the ideal start to their marriage. Until one of them breaks the rules. Because The Pact is for life. Its members will go to any lengths to ensure nobody leaves.Read by Jeff Harding. 14 hours 28 minutes. TB24450.Robinson, Peter. Watching The Dark. 2012. Crime. TB24351.Inspector Banks: book 20. DI Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks is brought in to investigate. His colleague DS Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation is beset by her own doubts and demons.Read by Simon Slater. 13 hours 40 minutes. TB24351.Ryan, Chris. Hellfire. 2015. Thriller. TB24352.Danny Black: book 3. On the Syria Iraq border a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. In Nigeria the British High Commissioner and his aide are kidnapped. A four-person SAS team, including Danny Black, is deployed to find him. They discover a combined Boko Haram IS plot to unleash a bio-terror attack upon the world. Read by Michael Fenner. 12 hours 56 minutes. TB24352.Scarrow, Simon. The Eagle In The Sand. 2012. Historical fiction. TB24361.Cato: book 7. Judaea in AD 46. Roman centurions Cato and Macro have been posted to Judaea for a 'hearts and minds' operation. The Empire needs to win over the locals after some of their religious figures have started revolts. Not only are these small villages causing trouble, but there are also thousands of Parthians eager to fight Rome. Read by Russell Boulter. 11 hours 36 minutes. TB24361.Scarrow, Simon. The Generals. 2016. Historical fiction. TB24360.Wellington and Napoleon: book 2. In the aftermath of the French Revolution Napoleon must restore order in France and find peace or victory over her enemies: England and Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington). Wellesley is leading a vast army in India, where British interests are under threat. Wellesley returns to England determined to end France's domination of Europe. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 21 hours 11 minutes. TB24360.Shaw, Rebecca. Village Secrets. 2008. Country life fiction.TB24328.Turnham Malpas: book 5. Kate Pascoe is the new head teacher of the village school. She arrives at Turnham Malpas with very different ideas to those of her predecessor. In the end Kate finds a place she can call home and her obsessions are forgiven if not forgotten.Read by Anne Cater. 8 hours 55 minutes. TB24328.Slimani, Lei?la. Lullaby. 2018. General fiction. TB24451.When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children. But as jealousy and suspicions increase, Myriam and Paul's idyllic tableau is shattered.Read by Laura Costello. 6 hours 24 minutes. TB24451.Weeks, Lee. Cold As Ice. 2013. Crime. TB24488.DC Ebony Willis: book 2. On a freezing day, the body of a young woman is pulled from an icy canal in London. Meanwhile cosmetics saleswoman Tracy Collins' daughter Danielle suddenly disappears. With the discovery of another body, it becomes clear that Danielle is in grave danger. D.C. Ebony Willis must take on the most challenging assignment of her career. Read by Annie Aldington. 10 hours 56 minutes. TB24488.Wheatley, Dennis. The Dark Secret Of Josephine. 1970. Historical fiction. TB24138.Roger Brook: book 5. Aug 1794 - Apr 1796. Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most daring secret agent, had sailed for the West Indies. But the Caribbean was infested with pirates and the slaves were in revolt. He uncovers a mysterious episode in the life of the Empress Josephine, a mystery that led to Napoleon receiving his first command: the Army of Italy.Read by Charles Armstrong. 17 hours 55 minutes. TB24138.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyBelafonte, Harry. My Song: A Memoir Of Art, Race And Defiance. 2012. TB24396.A story from a singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memory. He befriended some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. From his impoverished childhood through his meteoric rise as an international calypso star, to his crossover into Hollywood he broke down many racial barriers, this is an inspirational story.Read by Greg Lockett. 19 hours 40 minutes. TB24396.Huxley, Elspeth. The Mottled Lizard. 1981. TB24444.Thika: book 2. This sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika continues the story of Elspeth’s childhood in Kenya. British settlers, called to serve in WWI, return to their neglected farms and ranches. For Tilly and Robin it is back to the struggle. For their daughter, now 11, it is back to the ponies, lessons at home, wild pets and hunting trips with Njombo, the Kikuyu headman.Read by Helen Bourne. 15 hours 47 minutes. TB24444.Country life and farmingO'Grady, Paul. Paul O'Grady's Country Life. 2013. TB24334.Paul O'Grady recounts the trials and tribulations experienced on moving to rural Kent. Country Life gives a glimpse into the home life of one of Britain’s best loved stars, alongside the animals he adores. In addition, Paul shares some of his favourite recipes, explores country lore and superstitions, and extols the benefits of growing your own vegetables, herbs and fruit.Read by Peter Kenny. 7 hours 42 minutes. TB24334.HistoryCurzon, Catherine. Kings Of Georgian Britain. 2017. TB24476.For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Britain was a Georgian land. 'Kings of Georgian Britain' offers a fresh perspective on the lives of the four Georges and the events that shaped their characters and reigns.Read by Mira Dovreni. 8 hours 9 minutes. TB24476.Natural historyDarlington, Miriam. Owl Sense. 2018. TB24477.Owls have captivated the human imagination for millennia. Miriam Darlington seeks to identify every European species of this charismatic bird, on a journey that will take her from southern Spain to the frosted borders of the Arctic. However, along the way, her teenage son Benji succumbs to a mysterious illness, and her owl quest soon becomes entangled with the search for his cure.Read by Joan Walker. 10 hours 24 minutes. TB24477.Harris, Alexandra. Weatherland: Writers And Artists Under English Skies. 2016. TB24479.Writers and artists across the centuries looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and paintings. Alexandra Harris's subject is not the weather itself, but the weather as it is daily recreated in the human imagination. Read by Harriet Dunlop. 14 hours 35 minutes. TB24479.PoetryDunmore, Helen. Inside The Wave. 2017. TB24478.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems possess an eloquent lyricism as they explore the voyage. This title features poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the human world and the underworld.Read by Ruth Sillers. 1 hour 16 minutes. TB24478.Blake, William. Jerusalem, The Emanation Of The Giant Albion. 2012. TB24374.'Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion' was considered by Blake to be his greatest work. A consummate work of art, poetry and spirituality, Jerusalem articulates the journey of Man's spiritual awakening to become the Divine Humanity. This recording was originally commissioned by the Blake Society in 2012 and was gifted by Tim Bruce to the RNIB in 2018.Read by Tim Bruce. 6 hours 52 minutes. TB24374.Politics and governmentOrwell, George. The Lion And The Unicorn: Socialism And The English Genius. 2018. TB24497.George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. 'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution.Read by David Thorpe. 2 hours 56 minutes. TB24497.Travel and tourismMorris, Richard. Yorkshire: A Lyrical History Of England's Greatest County. 2018. TB24448.Yorkshire, it has been said, is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. Read by Sean Baker. 11 hours 15 minutes. TB24448.Warfare and DefenceHolland, James. Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War In The East. 2016. TB24493.February 1944, a rag-taggle collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out against some of the finest infantry in the Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what was one of the most astonishing battles of the Second World War. Read by Philip Bretherton. 11 hours 43 minutes. TB24493.A selection of Harper Collins titlesAdult FictionBird, A. L. The Classroom. 2018. Thriller. TB703351.After years of IVF, Kirsten is a devoted mum to Harriet – and she can’t believe the time has come to send her little girl off to school. It’s time to entrust her daughter’s care to her new teacher. Miriam has been waiting for the perfect little girl. She’s very picky, but when Harriet walks in, Miriam knows: this is the child she’s been waiting for. Harriet knows not to speak to strangers. But her lovely new teacher isn’t a stranger at all. Read by Isabel Inchbald. 6 hours 57 minutes. TB703351.Burke, Sue. Semiosis. 2018. Science fiction. TB703362.Escaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet - Pax - with plans for a perfect society. The plants on Pax are smart – smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals. To survive, the colonists must strike bargains of their own, they must go further, searching for a way to communicate and coexist with these utterly alien intelligences.Read by Caitlin Davies and Daniel Thomas May. 14 hours 46 minutes. TB703362.Dalcher, Christina. Vox. 2018. General fiction. TB703572.Jean spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 10 hours 28 minutes. TB703572.Dare, Tessa. The Governess Game. 2018. Historical romance. TB703390.After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don't need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud. The ladies of London have tried-and failed-to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart without risking her own. Read by Mary Jane Wells. 7 hours 23 minutes. TB703390.Hannah, Sophie. The Mystery Of Three Quarters. 2018. Classic crime. TB703386.Hercule Poirot mystery: book 3. An angry woman claims Hercule Poirot sent her a letter accusing her of murdering Barnabas Pandy, a stranger to her. Then a man makes the very same claim against Poirot. Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Who really sent these letters and why? Who is Barnabas Pandy? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 9 hours 58 minutes. TB703386.Heap, Joe. The Rules Of Seeing. 2018. General fiction. TB703564.Nova is 32 years old and she is about to see the world for the very first time. Nova can speak five languages. And as an interpreter for the Metropolitan Police, she can tell when someone is lying just from the sound of their voice. But there's one thing Nova can't do. She can't see. When her brother convinces her to have an operation that will restore her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. Read by Cariad Lloyd. 9 hours 15 minutes. TB703564.Jonasson, Jonas. The Accidental Further Adventures Of The Hundred-Year-Old Man. 2018. Humorous fiction. TB703363.Hundred-Year-Old Man: book 2. It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Read by Peter Kenny. 10 hours 18 minutes. TB703363.Knott, Lucy. How To Bake A New Beginning. 2018. Chick lit. TB703416.Amanda has a fantastic job in a great restaurant, a wonderful house but, realises that her life is missing one monumental piece. Sabrina is living the high life in LA. Her Instagram is full of lavish parties but in reality she's stuck behind a desk. Louisa has always been drowned out by her sister's successes. When their grandfather passes away these sisters are forced to take another look at their lives. Read by Penny Andrews. 8 hours 14 minutes. TB703416.McLaughlin, Cressida. The House Of Birds and Butterflies. 2018. Chick lit. TB703367.Abby loves Meadowsweet Nature Reserve where she lives and works, especially Swallowtail House, the rambling but empty country house she passes. When a TV wildlife programme chooses a rival location Meadowsweet is under threat - unless Abby can whip up a plan. However, she finds herself distracted by the arrival of new neighbour, bad-boy novelist, Jack Westcoat.Read by Katy Federman. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB703367.Manning, Sarra. The Rise And Fall Of Becky Sharp. 2018. Chick lit. TB703409.Beautiful, brilliant, ruthless - nothing can stop Becky. Determined to swap the gutters of Soho for the glamorous, exclusive world behind the velvet rope, Becky will do anything to achieve fame, riches and status. Whether it's seducing society's most eligible bachelors, or befriending silly debutantes and rich old ladies, Becky is destined for great things. Read by Aysha Kala. 11 hours 52 minutes. TB703409.Mosse, Kate. I Am Heathcliff. 2018. Short stories. TB703339.Sixteen short stories inspired by Wuthering Heights to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Curated by Kate Mosse and commissioned for Emily Bronte's bicentenary year in 2018, these fresh, modern stories pulse with the raw beauty and pain of love and are as timely as they are illuminating. Read by Dami Olukoya, Lucy Brownhill, Lara Sawalha, Freddie Gaminara and Karen Cogan. 7 hours 33minutes. TB703339.Rhinehart, Luke. The Dice Man. 2018. General fiction. TB703576.The rules are down to you. The rules that stop you seducing your neighbour, that stop you hitting your boss, the rules that stop you living. The dice don’t do rules; the dice do life. Luke is a psychiatrist, a husband and a father, his life locked down by routine and order until he picks up the dice. The dice govern his every decision and each throw takes him further into a world of risk, discovery and freedom. Read by Robert G. Slade. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB703576.Roberts, Caroline. The Cosy Teashop In The Castle. 2018. Chick lit. TB703353.When Ellie lands her dream job running the little teashop in the beautiful but crumbling Claverham Castle, it's the perfect escape from her humdrum job in the city. Life is definitely on the rise as Ellie replaces spreadsheets for scones. Now all that's missing in Ellie's life is a slice of romance. Can Joe, the estate manager, be the one to put the cherry on the top of Ellie's dream?Read by Eloise Secker. 8 hours 45 minutes. TB703353.Stephens, Anna. Darksoul. 2018. Fantasy. TB703568.Godblind: book 2. The Wolves lie dead beside Rilpor's soldiers, slaughtered at the hands of the Mireces and their army. The veil that once kept the Red Gods at bay has been left in tatters as the Dark Lady's plans for the world come to fruition. But hope might yet bloom in the unlikeliest of places: in the heart of a former slave, in the mind of a soldier with the eyes of a fox, and in the hands of a general destined to be king.Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 14 hours 12 minutes. TB703568.Adult Non-FictionAutobiographyGarner, Alan. Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir. 2018. TB703372.Where Shall We Run To? Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as `a sissy and a mardy-arse'; pushing his friend Harold into a clump of nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father joining the army to guard the family against Hitler; the coming of the Yanks, with their comics and sweets and chewing gum. An evocative memoir of a vanished England.Read by Robert Powell. 3 hours 5 minutes. TB703372.Business and ManagementHusain, Mishal. The Skills: From First Job To Dream Job – What Every Woman Needs To Know. 2018. TB703410.What's holding you back in the workplace? What's the best way to get your ideas across? How do you overcome self-doubt, or break through to the next level? Written by award-winning broadcaster Mishal Husain, The Skills will inspire, motivate, champion and encourage women to reach their potential by focusing on practical skills that make a difference.Read by Mishal Husain. 5 hours 7 minutes. TB703410.HistoryBanfield, Petrina. Letters From Alice. 2018. TB703360.It is a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who has just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Based on extensive research into the archive material held at the London Metropolitan Archives, and enriched with lively social history and excerpts from newspaper articles.Read by Christine Kavanagh. 7 hours 52 minutes. TB703360.HumourStirling, Iain. Not Ready to Adult Yet: A Totally Ill-informed Guide to Life. 2018. edian Iain Stirling is best known as the voice of the smash hit Love Island. Looking back at his journey to adulthood, Iain explores why millennials are the way they are - and whether that makes us self-obsessed, work-shy, mollycoddled, egomaniacs; or just a misunderstood generation with a crippling fear of failure. Is there more to this #selfie and avocado-obsessed generation that can't grow up than meets the eye? Read by Iain Stirling. 6 hours 25 minutes. TB703382.Natural HistoryAttenborough, David. Life On Earth. 2018. Natural HistoryTB703579.David Attenborough has revisited Life on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe. His perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of species of living organisms takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue and green wonder we know today. Read by David Attenborough.12 hours 26 minutes. TB703579.PsychologyEmre, Merve. What's Your Type? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs And The Birth Of Personality Testing. 2018. TB703417.An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. How did the Myers-Briggs insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our internet, our lives?Read by Laurence Bouvard. 11 hours 49 minutes. TB703417.ScienceQuammen, David. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History Of Life. 2018. TB703411.This book is an exploration of our transformed understanding of evolution and of life's history itself. It involves the reading of the deep history of life by looking at the variation in protein molecules found in living organisms. Quammen explains how molecular studies of evolution have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life - including where we humans fit into it. Read by Jacques Roy. 13 hours 48 minutes. TB703411.TransportBurns, Lawrence D. Autonomy: The Quest To Build The Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World. 2018. TB703389.From the ultimate insider - a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project - comes the definitive story of the race between Google, Apple, Tesla and Uber to create the driverless car, and what this technological revolution means for our future. Burns looks toward the future and explains how this new technology will impact our lives. Read by George Newbern. 11 hours 20 minutes. TB703389.Children and young adult fiction07+ Suggested Reading Age Clary, Julian. The Bolds To The Rescue. 2016. TB24455.Bolds: book 2. The Bolds are a family of hyenas living as humans in a suburban house. Their kindness to animal waifs and strays has become legendary, and more and more animals keep turning up to stay. But when the Bolds take in a couple of race horses who are on the run, they worry their animal magnetism is getting to be too much. Have these hyenas bitten off more than they can chew?Read by Julian Clary. 2 hours 44 minutes. TB24455.09+ Suggested Reading AgeLeonard, M. G. Beetle Queen. 2017. TB24511.Battle of the beetles: book 2. Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But Darkus' dad has forbidden them to investigate any further and disgusting crooks Humphrey and Pickering are out of prison. Read by M. G. Leonard. 7 hours 34 minutes. TB24511.McGowan, Anthony. Brock. 2013. TB24489.Nicky and Kenny: book 1. When Nicky finds Jezbo and his gang digging up a badger set, there's not a lot he can do to save them. But one badger cub has escaped. Can Nicky save it? This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 8+ and interest age of 13+.Read by Anthony McGowan. 1 hour 31minutes. TB24489.Also;McGowan, Anthony. Pike. 2015. TB24490.Nicky and Kenny: book 2. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 8+ and interest age of 13+.Read by Anthony McGowan. 1 hour 50 minutes. TB24490.McGowan, Anthony. Rook. 2017. TB24491.Nicky and Kenny; book 3. This is a high interest, low reading age book for reluctant readers with a reading age of 8+ and interest age of 13+.Read by Anthony McGowan. 1 hour 51 minutes. TB24491.McLaughlin, Tom. The Accidental Secret Agent. 2017. TB24463.Accidental: book 2. The secret service made a major mix-up. They mistook a 13-year-old boy called Kevin for a secret agent (I know, so much for an 'intelligence' agency). This was the sort of kid that would try and zip wire across a building and end up falling headfirst into a fountain, with his bum on show. Despite this, it is up to Kevin to save us all from an evil.Read by Dan Bottomley. 3 hours 41 minutes. TB24463.Peretti, Paola. The Distance Between Me And The Cherry Tree.2018. TB24549.Mafalda is a 9-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family, and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed.Read by Rosie Akerman. 4 hours 31minutes. TB24549.Walker, Dan. Sky Thieves. 2017. TB24405.Sky thieves: book 1. A band of sky thieves 'steal' Zoya away from her orphanage, landing up in the clouds, on board The Dragonfly's deck. There, Zoya discovers a world of meteorite storms, midnight raids, floating islands, and long lost treasure. But with a deadly enemy closing in, will Zoya find the strength to face her fears and unlock the key to her destiny?Read by Darren Benedict. 6 hours 28 minutes. TB24405.Williamson, Lara. The Boy Who Sailed The Ocean In An Armchair. 2017. TB24472.All Becket wants is for his family to be whole again. But standing in his way are two things: firstly, his dad, his brother and he seem to have run away from home and, secondly, Becket's mum died before he got the chance to say goodbye. Arming himself with an armchair of stories, a snail named Brian and 1000 paper cranes, Becket ploughs on, determined to make his wish come true.Read by Andy Cresswell. 6 hours 29 minutes. TB24472.13+ Suggested Reading AgeReeve, Philip. Black Light Express. 2018. TB24467.Railhead: book 2. At the edge of the Great Network, a small-time thief and an android girl ride aboard a sentient train. Zen and Nova have ridden a train from one world to another before. But this time it's different. They've passed through a gate which shouldn't exist at all. They did terrible things to open it, and now they can never go back.Read by Malk Williams. 9 hours 13 minutes. TB24467.Weatherly, Lee. Broken Sky. 2016. TB24336.Broken: book 1. Amity is a teen pilot, battling in one-on-one combat to maintain peace in a world where war has been replaced by dogfights. But when Amity discovers the organisation she works for is corrupt, she begins to question everything. In this society of double agents, suspicion and betrayal, nobody is quite what they seem, including Amity's first love.Read by Laila Pyne. 11 hours 27 minutes. TB24336.Introducing the low cost braille readerWe're proud to announce the UK launch of the Orbit Reader 20, a revolutionary refreshable braille display. It is produced in conjunction with the Transforming Braille Group, of which RNIB is a founding member. Read books and take notes at an affordable price of ?449 ex VAT.Key features:20 refreshable eight-dot braille cellsportable and travel friendlyuse any braille code and any languageread books via SD card and take simple notesconnect to your device via Bluetooth or USB for use with a screen reader or to access reading appsSD card pre-installed with a selection of books and a searchable Oxford English Dictionary when purchased from RNIB.Buy the Orbit Reader 20 for ?449 ex VAT, ?538.80 inc VAT (includes delivery). RNIB Connect members are able to purchase at the discounted price of ?399 ex VAT when ordered via the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999. Find out more about RNIB Connect and sign-up when you order through the Helpline to receive the discounted price. Handsfree magnificationAttaching to your existing prescription glasses, the Eschenbach maxTV clip-on lenses provide hands-free two times (2x) magnification for watching television; effectively doubling the size of your screen.The maxTV clip-on glasses are designed for use at a working distance of three metres (3m or 9.8ft); they also have a large visual field. Equipped with protective rubber jaws and a thin foam strip to avoid scratching the lenses of your prescription glasses. The convenient hinged mechanism also allows the lenses to be flipped up, and out of the way, when not in use.Shop online at shop..uk or call our Helpline on 0303 123 9999. Product code MAG71, priced ?63.00 ex VAT, ?75.00 inc VAT.To borrow booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or email library@.ukTo buy booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or online at .uk/shop? RNIB November 2018RNIB registered charity number 1156629 (England and Wales),SC044876 (Scotland) and 1173 (Isle of Man) ................
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