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New books Issue 72January 2020Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleTalking books Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 03457 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 New Books: please re-subscribeWe understand how important New Books is to our RNIB library customers. Over the years we have automatically subscribed new members to receive it, but in reality most of our customers use the automated preference service rather than select their own books for their wish list. 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We are asking you to re-subscribe so we can make best use of our charitable funds that provide our RNIB Library service.ContentsBrailleAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyCraftsEnvironment and EcologyFood and DrinkHealth and FitnessHistoryPoetryPopular ScienceReligionSocietySportTrue CrimeWarfare and DefenceChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading Age15+ Suggested Reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyCountry LifeFood and DrinkHistoryMusicA Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyHealth and FitnessHistoryHumourMathematicsPoetryPolitics and GovernmentSelf HelpSocietyTravel and TourismWarfare and DefenceChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age05+ Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age 09+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading Age15+ Suggested Reading AgeBooks for saleTo borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionAaronovitch, Ben. Foxglove Summer. 2015. Fantasy.Peter Grant: book 5. Peter Grant is in a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the London copper out of London you can't take the London out of the copper. Travelling west with Beverley Brook, Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26285503Also;Aaronovitch, Ben. The Hanging Tree. [2017]. Fantasy.Peter Grant: book 6. UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26373303Alliott, Catherine. A Cornish Summer. 2019. Chick lit.Flora's been invited to spend the summer in Cornwall. There's just one small snag: she'll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda. Then her ex-husband shows up out of the blue, complete with his new wife. Can Flora spend the summer playing happy families with the woman who stole her husband's heart, and the mother-in-law who might have had a hand in it? Or will stumbling on the family secret change her mind about them all?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397403Archer, Jeffrey. Kane And Abel. 2003. General fiction.Kane and Abel: book 1. William Lowell Kane is the son of a Boston millionaire. Abel Rosnovski is a penniless Polish immigrant. They are two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world. Their paths are destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. Kane and Abel is the story spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save and finally destroy each other.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26420303Archer, Jeffrey. Nothing Ventured. 2019. Family stories.William Warwick: book 1. William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective and joins London's Metropolitan Police Force. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth, a research assistant at the gallery. He falls hopelessly in love with her, even as Beth guards a secret of her own. While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against art collector Miles Faulkner and his lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26429103Ashley, Phillipa. A Perfect Cornish Summer. 2019. Chick lit.For Sam Lovell, organising Porthmellow's summer festival is one of the highlights of her year. When their star guest pulls out with only a few weeks to go, everyone's delighted when a London chef who grew up locally steps in at the last minute. But Gabe Matthias is the last person Sam was expecting to see, and his return to Porthmellow will change her quiet coastal life for ever.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387703Atwood, Margaret. The Testaments. 2019. General fiction.Handmaid's tale: book 2. When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her: freedom, prison or death. Margaret Atwood’s sequel, The Testaments, picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26420203Bronte, Charlotte. Villette. 2004. Classic.With neither friends nor family, Lucy sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel.UEB. 14v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26361103Brooks, Elizabeth. Call Of The Curlew. 2018. Literary fiction.New Year's Eve, 1939. Virginia is ten, an orphan arriving to meet her new parents at their mysterious house, Salt Winds, on the edge of a vast marsh. War feels far away out here amongst the birds and shifting sands, until the day a German fighter plane crashes into the marsh. The people at Salt Winds are the only ones to see it. What happens next is something Virginia will regret for the next seventy-five years, and which will change the whole course of her life.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26393403Chambers, Kimberley. Backstabber. 2017. Thriller.Butlers: book 5. There are many people Vinny Butler and Eddie Mitchell have crossed in their time. Yet when two heavyweights of the criminal underworld go into business together they become untouchable, as do their families. But someone is out for revenge. The death count is rising and it’s getting closer to home. This isn’t business any longer, it’s about flesh and blood. So who is the backstabber?UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26373103Child, Lee. Tripwire. 1999. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 3. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club. He doesn't want to be found but someone has sent Costello, a private detective, to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the Costello beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. Reacher knows that he is in serious trouble. It's time to work out who is trying to find him and why.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26353103Also;Child, Lee. The Visitor. 2000. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 4.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26361303Child, Lee. Echo Burning. 2001. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 5.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26370603Child, Lee. One Shot. 2006. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 9.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26373503Child, Lee. The Hard Way. 2007. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 10.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26386903Child, Lee. Bad Luck And Trouble. 2007. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 11.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387003Child, Lee. Nothing To Lose. 2009. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 12.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406203Clancy, Tom. Threat Vector. 2013. Thriller.Jack Ryan: book 15. Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Qiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26342603Also;Clancy, Tom. Command Authority. 2014. Thriller.Jack Ryan: book 16.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26342703Clarke, Annie. Girls On The Home Front. 2019. Family stories.Factory girls: book 1. August 1941. As war sweeps across Britain and millions of men enlist to serve their country, it's up to the women to fight the battle on the home front. A new factory opens in the north-east of England. Fran signs up to join the ranks of women at the factory against her father's wishes. It's dangerous work but Fran has her best friends Sarah and Beth by her side. UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406903Cookson, Catherine. The Mallen Girl. 2007. Family stories.Mallen family: book 2. Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming deaf. Living in an almost silent world protected her from knowing the scandalous truth of her parentage. Anna Brigmore, who cherished Barbara like her own child, was haunted by the thought the secret must one day be revealed.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26275303Corry, Jane. I Looked Away. 2019. Thriller.Every Monday Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. The only thing that mars her happiness is her husband's affair but he swears it's over now. Then one day, while she's looking after Josh, her husband gets a call from that woman. Just for a moment, Ellie takes her eyes off her grandson. The accident that happens will change her life forever. Because Ellie is hiding something in her past. And what looks like an accident could start to look like murder.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26393603Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. 1997. Classic.Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. A dark, macabre London is inhabited by such disparate characters as Gaffer Hexam, scavenging the river for corpses; enchanting, mercenary Bella Wilfer; the social-climbing Veneerings; and the unscrupulous street-trader Silas Wegg.UEB. 22v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26333703Eliot, George. Silas Marner. ?1996. Classic.Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire. UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26353203Fallon, Jane. Tell Me A Secret. 2019. Chick lit.Best friends Holly and Roz tell each other everything. So when single mum Holly gets a shot at her dream job after putting everything on hold to raise her daughter, she assumes her friend will be thrilled. But is she just imagining things, or is Roz not quite as happy for her as she should be? As Holly starts to take a closer look at Roz's life, she begins to discover a few things that don't add up. It takes two to forge a friendship but it only takes one to wage a war. UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387303Fenwick, Liz. The Path To The Sea. 2019. Family stories.Boskenna, the beautiful, imposing house standing on the Cornish cliffs, means something different to each of the Trewin women. For Joan, as a glamorous young wife in the 1960s, it was a paradise that would ultimately end in tragedy. Diana, her daughter, still dreams of her childhood there. For broken-hearted Lottie, returning to Boskenna is a welcome escape from a life gone wrong in London. As the three women gather in Boskenna for a final time, the secrets hidden within the beautiful old house will be revealed in a summer that will leave them changed forever.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387803Forsyth, Frederick. The Day Of The Jackal. 1971. Thriller.It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman known only as the Jackal has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O.A.S. to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest attempt involves an assassin of legendary talent. This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped, but how do you track a man who exists in name alone?UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26451303Francis, Dick. Forfeit. 2014. Thriller.Bert Checkov, a racing correspondent, drunkenly confesses to fellow Fleet Street hack James Tyrone that he's been giving his readers bum tips for years. Five minutes later, Checkov's fallen out of a seventh-floor window. Tyrone's convinced there's more to his friend's death than meets the eye. He discovers that many of Checkov's tips never even made it to the start. But the deeper Tyrone digs, the dirtier and more dangerous this business appears to be.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26451103Fuller, Claire. Our Endless Numbered Days. 2015. Literary fiction.1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her life is about to change. Her survivalist father has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon. He takes Peggy from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a tiny wooden hut. She is not seen again for another nine years.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397303Gibson, Mary. Custard Tarts And Broken Hearts. 2014. Family stories.Factory girls: book 1. The girls who work at the Pearce Duff custard and jelly factory are up in arms, striking for better conditions. Among them is Nellie Clark, trying to hold her family together after the death of her mother. Two men vie for Nellie's love. One is flamboyant, confident and a chancer. The other is steady, truthful and loyal. But the choice is not as easy as it might seem. Looming over them all is the shadow of the First World War.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26400403Also;Gibson, Mary. Jam And Roses. 2015. Family stories.Factory girls: book 2. UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26382703Gibson, Mary. Gunner Girls And Fighter Boys. 2016. Family stories.Factory girls: book 3.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26382803Glen, Joanna. The Other Half Of Augusta Hope. 2019. General fiction.Augusta has never felt like she fits in. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia. Then an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta's life. She's determined to find where she belongs but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26383303Grafton, Sue. S Is For Silence. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 19. In 1953 Violet, a local good time girl, drives off in her brand-new Chevy and is never seen again. Thirty-five years after Violet's unexplained disappearance, Daisy, the daughter she left behind, seeks closure. Daisy enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth. Soon it becomes clear that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate to keep hidden.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26293503Also;Grafton, Sue. V Is For Vengeance. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 22. UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26400303Grafton, Sue. W Is For Wasted. 2014. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 23.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26400803Grafton, Sue. X. 2015. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 24.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26401003Grames, Juliet. The Seven Or Eight Deaths Of Stella Fortuna. 2019. General fiction.If Stella Fortuna means 'lucky star,' then life must have a funny sense of humour. From her childhood in Italy, to her adulthood in America, death has seemed to pursue Stella. She has been burned, eviscerated and bludgeoned. She has choked, nearly fallen out of a window, and on one occasion, her life was only saved by a typo. This is a sweeping tale which spans nine decades, two continents, and one family's darkest truths.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26370003Griffiths, Elly. The Ghost Fields. 2016. Crime.Ruth Galloway: book 7. A construction crew unearths a buried World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot. DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. The remaining members of the Blackstock family seem strangely frightened by the discovery. Then human bones are found on the Blackstock family's pig farm. Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26412403Grossman, Vasilii?. Stalingrad. 2019. Classic.In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receives his call-up papers and spends a final night with his wife and children in the hut that is his home. As war approaches, the Shaposhnikov family gathers for a meal: despite her age, Alexandra will soon become a refugee; Tolya will enlist in the reserves; Vera, a nurse, will fall in love with a wounded pilot; and Viktor Shtrum will receive a letter from his doomed mother which will haunt him forever.UEB. 22v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26372403Groves, Annie. Wartime For The District Nurses. 2019. Family stories.District nurse: book 2. Alice and her friend Edith are district nurses in London's East End. As Hitler’s bombers train their sights on London, there is no escaping the new terror of the bombing raids. Edith is trying to battle on bravely while bearing her own heartache. The girls find themselves caught up in the terrible aftermath of the raids, their nursing skills desperately needed by the shaken locals on their rounds.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26343703Harris, Joanne. The Strawberry Thief. 2019. General fiction.Chocolat: book 4. Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square. Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend. But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette and a written confession to Reynaud, the life of the sleepy village is once more thrown into disarray.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26344703Harry, Lilian. A Child In Burracombe. 2018. Country life fiction.Burracombe village: book 12. Everyone in Burracombe rallies round to welcome their newest arrivals at a local children's home for war orphans. Little Maddy Simmons is reeling from losing her mother and brother in the Plymouth blitz. Her father was killed at sea. In a cruel twist Maddy has been sent to a different children's home to her beloved sister. As Maddy explores the village and makes new friends, she begins to feel at home. Maddy realises that Burracombe is the kind of place where you will always have someone to turn to.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26315703Haynes, Natalie. A Thousand Ships. 2019. Myths and legends.In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. With the fall of Troy, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash. A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women embroiled in that legendary war.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26382203James, Peter. Prophecy. 1999. Horror.Francesca Monsanto meets a man and his son racing to catch a train. It is a meeting she never anticipated, but one that was meant to be. As their relationship develops the coincidences that brought them together take on a dangerous aspect. The relationship is marred by gruesome tragedies. Eventually Frannie can no longer ignore the fact that she is the only thing linking these horrible events. Is it a murderous practical joke?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26293703Jewell, Lisa. The Family Upstairs. 2019. Thriller.In a large house in London, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They’ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? Two families find themselves entangled with the darkest of secrets.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406603Jewell, Lisa. After The Party. 2010. General fiction.It's 11 years since Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary first got together. They thought it would be for ever. Then two became four, a flat became a house. Now two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become dangerously distracted. But maybe it’s not too late to recapture happily ever after.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413203Johnson, Milly. A Summer Fling. 2010. Chick lit.Four seasons: book 2. Five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. Anna, 39, is left reeling after her fiancé's departure with a younger woman. Grace is trapped in a loveless marriage. Can she prevent 33-year-old Dawn from making the same mistake? At 28, Raychel would seem to be the happiest, with a loving husband. But what dark secrets make Raychel so unwilling to open up? Under the warm guidance of department head Christie, the girls know they have difficult choices to make.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26284603Also;Johnson, Milly. An Autumn Crush. 2011. Chick lit.Four seasons: book 3.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26284803Johnson, Milly. A Winter Flame. 2012. Chick lit.Four seasons: book 4.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26284903Jones, Ruth. Never Greener. 2018. Chick lit.When Kate was twenty-two, she had an intense affair with a married man, Callum, which ended in heartbreak. Seventeen years later, Kate is living in London with her husband and daughter. Meanwhile Callum and his wife are happy together, living in Edinburgh and watching their kids grow up. But then Kate meets Callum again. They are faced with a choice: to walk away from each other or to risk finding out what might have been.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26393703Koontz, Dean R. Forever Odd. 2011. Horror.Odd Thomas: book 2. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead. The dead sought him out. He has already lost the love of his life; and now a childhood friend has disappeared. As Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding his friend, he discovers something far worse than a dead body. Evil personified has come to visit this desert community of souls both living and dead.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26317703Also;Koontz, Dean R. Brother Odd. 2011. Horror.Odd Thomas: book 3.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26327403Lefteri, Christy. The Beekeeper Of Aleppo. 2019. General fiction.Nuri is a beekeeper and his wife, Afra, an artist in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When all they care for is destroyed by war they embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards Britain. Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has started an apiary and is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees. As Nuri and Afra travel through a dangerous world, they confront the pain of their loss.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26371203Maugham, W. Somerset. The Moon And Sixpence. 1999. Classic.Charles Strickland is a conventional stockbroker, with a wife and children. He abandons his family for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. His betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness. But his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397203Murray, Annie. Miss Purdy's Class. 2012. Romance.In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. She soon begins to understand the appalling hardships endured by the children. Gwen falls for Daniel, the elder brother in a fatherless household. But Daniel has secrets in his life that she would rather not face up to.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26317203Murray, Annie. Now The War Is Over. 2016. Family stories.WWII has finally ended. Rachel's husband has returned. Family life settles into a routine and Rachel starts to yearn for more. Melly, her eldest daughter, grew up in the bombed-out streets of Birmingham. Melly is determined to make the most of life and her greatest wish is to become a nurse. As the promise of the 1950s dawns, a new world of opportunity opens up to Rachel and Melly, but with it comes new challenges and tough choices.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26314903O'Connor, Jane. Needlemouse. 2019. Chick lit.Sylvia lives alone, dedicating herself to her job at the local university. On weekends, she helps out at a local hedgehog sanctuary because it gives her something to talk about on Mondays. It also makes people think she's nicer than she is. Only Sylvia has a secret: she's been in love with her boss, Professor Lomax, for over a decade now, and she's sure he's just waiting for the right time to leave his wife.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26407303Purcell, Laura. The Corset. 2018. Horror.Dorothea is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26423103Revell, Nancy. Shipyard Girls In Love. 2018. Family stories.Shipyard girls: book 4. Sunderland, 1941. A brief break in air raids is providing some much-needed respite from the war. Things are looking up for head welder Rosie, who has fallen head over heels for Detective Sergeant Miller. Life remains full of challenges for Gloria, who must face her abusive ex-husband and confront her own guilty conscience about baby Hope’s real father. Both women are determined that their love and faith will be enough to keep the most difficult of promises.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26305503Also;Revell, Nancy. Victory For The Shipyard Girls. 2018. Family stories.Shipyard girls: book 5.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26305603Revell, Nancy. Courage Of The Shipyard Girls. 2019. Family stories.Shipyard girls: book 6.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26305703Shaw, Rebecca. Love In The Country. 2009. Country life fiction.Barleybridge: book 6. When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. He is keen to settle into his first real job and embraces the working life of a country vet. Seb's expertise with animals leads to a friendship with the upper-class Jilly. And it leads to more than friendship with Maggie, whose family is heartbroken when he diagnoses their alpacas with TB. But then a surprise meeting in the Practice itself turns his world upside down.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26284203Sherratt, Mel. Hush Hush. 2018. Crime.DS Grace Allendale: book 1. A killer is on the loose, attacking people in places they feel most safe: their workplaces, their homes. It's up to DS Grace Allendale to stop the murders and prove herself to her new team. All clues lead to local crime family the Steeles, But the Steeles aren't just any family, they're Grace's family. Two brothers and two sisters, connected by the violent father only Grace and her mother escaped. To catch the killer, Grace will have to choose between her team and her blood.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26403503Also;Sherratt, Mel. Tick Tock. 2019. Crime.DS Grace Allendale: book 2.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26403603Steel, Danielle. Blessing In Disguise. 2019. Family stories.As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle learns she is pregnant, but knows that marriage to the father of her baby is out of the question. Returning to New York, Isabelle enters a new relationship but once again finds herself a single mother. With two young daughters Isabelle unexpectedly finds happiness and a love that gives her a third child, a baby as happy as her beloved father. Her three girls grow up to be very different women. When a final turn of fate brings a past secret to light, it bonds mother and daughters closer.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26370203Steel, Danielle. The Good Fight. 2019. General fiction.In America in the 1960s a new generation of women are breaking the boundaries. Meredith wants to be one of them. Determined to become a lawyer, Meredith discovers her passion for justice, fighting for civil rights and desegregation. But when the violence of the era strikes too close to home, her once tightly knit family must survive a devastating loss and rethink their values and traditions.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26383203Styles, Daisy. Christmas With The Bomb Girls. 2017. Family stories.Bomb girls: book 3. Christmas time is approaching at the Phoenix Munitions Factory and Gladys, Kitty, Edna and the rest of the Bomb Girls are determined to make this a year to remember. Myrtle's health is in decline. Edna's love life begins to take flight. A shy new arrival joins their midst. Gladys, back from performing for the troops on the front, is sullen and sad. Her old friends are determined to bring back her spark.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26303003Also;Styles, Daisy. The Bomb Girl Brides. 2018. Family stories.Bomb girls: book 4.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26303203Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History Of Henry Esmond. Classic.Orphaned Henry Esmond is raised by his aristocratic, Jacobite relatives, the Castlewoods. As a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army he wrestles with his allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England. Esmond falls in love with both Lady Castlewood and Beatrix, her beautiful, headstrong daughter. He is inspired to join the ultimately unsuccessful campaign to reinstate James Stuart to the throne.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26342103Thompson-Spires, Nafissa. Heads Of The Colored People. 2018. Short Stories.Nafissa Thompson-Spires exposes the violence that threatens black Americans. A teenager is insidiously bullied as her YouTube following soars; an assistant professor finds himself losing a subtle war of attrition against his office mate; a nurse is worn down by the demand for her skills as a funeral singer. And across a series of stories, a young woman grows up, negotiating and renegotiating her identity.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406803Trollope, Anthony. The Way We Live Now. c1994. Classic.Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury becomes one of his victims. Melmotte's web of deceit draws in his own daughter Marie and Felix's mother, the pulp novelist Lady Carbury. But as Melmotte climbs higher in society, things begin to unravel.UEB. 20v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26355803Ware, Ruth. The Turn Of The Key. 2019. Thriller.It seems like a great opportunity for Rowan: a live-in nanny position, with a very generous salary. When Rowan arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the beautiful home in the Scottish Highlands, and by the picture-perfect family. But she's stepping into a nightmare that will end with a child dead and her in a cell awaiting trial for murder. Rowan maintains she's not guilty of murder, which means someone else is.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406703Watkins, Roz. The Devil's Dice. 2019. Crime.DI Meg Dalton: book 1. A lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave. There are rumours of a local curse but DI Meg Dalton is convinced it is cold-blooded murder. Chiselled into the cave wall above the body is an image of the grim reaper and the dead man's initials that has been there for over a century. As Meg battles to solve the increasingly disturbing case, it's clear someone knows her secrets. The murderer is playing games with Meg and the dice are loaded.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26372903Wood, Valerie. A Place To Call Home. 2018. Historical fiction.1854. A young family has to relocate from the countryside to Hull, looking for work. For young wife and mother Ellen, it's very different to the remote, pretty coastal village where she grew up. Her husband finds a job in a seed-crushing mill to support them and their small children. With love and determination, they make the best of things, forging friendships with other newcomers and refugees. Then tragedy threatens Ellen's fragile happiness. How much more can she sacrifice before they find a place to call home?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387203Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 2000. Classic.On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party. While doing so, she reminisces about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwells on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly -approaching adulthood. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. He is slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26348503Adult non-fictionAutobiographyCumming, Laura. On Chapel Sands. 2019.In 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them. It was another 50 years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, Laura. The author unpicks the web woven around her mother and her disappearance in 1929.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26403703 Dean, Emily. Everybody Died, So I Got A Dog. 2019.For Emily Dean growing up with her family was a training ground for many things, like ignoring unpaid bills. Her older sister Rachael, was her rock. Rachael went on to have the perfect family and treasured dog, before being suddenly diagnosed with cancer. In just three devastating years Emily lost not only her sister, but both parents as well. This is the story of how Emily discovers that it is possible to overcome the worst that life can throw at you, and of how she finally gets her own dog.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26372603Durrell, Margaret. Whatever Happened To Margo? 2018.In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald. And Gerald himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26370703Fox, Jason. Battle Scars. 2018.Jason Fox served with the Special Boat Service for over a decade, thriving on the close bonds of the British Special Forces brotherhood. Battle Scars tells the story of his elite career, the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours. Fox also writes about the psychological devastation of combat that ultimately forced him to leave the military. UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387503Spicer, Kate. Lost Dog. 2019.Kate is a journalist in London trying to steer some order into a life that is going off the rails. When she adopts a lurcher called Wolfy, the shabby rescue dog saves her from herself. But when the dog disappears, it is up to Kate to hit the streets of London and find him. Trying to find her dog tests her relationship, and her sanity, to its limit. It gets her thinking about her life, and why things have turned out as they have for her.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26392703Simpson, Catherine. When I Had A Little Sister. 2019.In December 2013 Catherine Simpson received the phone call she had feared for years. Her little sister Tricia had been found dead. Tricia was 46 and had been stalked by depression all her life. Yet mental illness was a taboo subject within the family. After Tricia died, Catherine found she had kept a lifetime of diaries. The words in them took her back to a past they had shared and offered a thread to help explore the labyrinth of her sister's suicide.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26290903BiographyHonigstein, Raphael. Klopp. 2017.Jürgen Klopp was confirmed as manager of Liverpool FC in October 2015 to a rapturous reception. With exclusive access to Klopp's friends, family, colleagues and players, Raphael Honigstein goes behind-the-scenes at Liverpool, Mainz and Dortmund to tell the definitive story of Klopp's career. He describes Klopp's transformative footballing genius and how he is bringing the noise to Anfield.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413303Macintyre, Ben. The Spy And The Traitor. 2018.One evening in July 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement in Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade Oleg Gordievsky had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The plastic Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26370403CraftsGreenhowe, Jean. Jean Greenhowe's Knitted Animals. c1990.These are knitting patterns for soft toy animals, including ducks, mice, elephants, whales and more. All the designs are easy to knit from oddments of yarn, using simple stiches and shapings, without complicated gussets or awkward pieces. Happy knitting!UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26406503Environment and EcologyHoffman, Julian. Irreplaceable. 2019.All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow, and from Kent to Glasgow to India to America, they are disappearing. 'Irreplaceable' is an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397903Thunberg, Greta. No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference. 2019.In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. This book collects Greta's speeches together. This is a rallying cry for why we must fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel.UEB. 1v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26400203Food and DrinkHarriott, Ainsley. Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen. 2019.Ainsley Harriott is going back to his roots to uncover the best-kept secrets of Caribbean home cooking. There are recipes for light dishes and snacks such as Crab and chilli cornbread muffins and Chickpea and plantain patties; flavoursome main meals including Grilled chicken roti wrap with mango dressing and Grilled lamb cutlets with green herb yoghurt; indulgent desserts and cocktails including White chocolate, rum and raspberry crème brulee and Lazy man’s long island iced tea.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26404103Health and FitnessSingh, Ranj. Save Money Lose Weight. 2019.Are you keen to lose weight without spending a fortune? Dr Ranj Singh brings you a 28-day plan that shows you how to make nutritious, calorie-controlled, budget-conscious meals for the whole family. As well as 80 delicious recipes, the book includes shopping lists, meal planners, tips to slash your weekly grocery bill, and easy, no-cost exercise ideas.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26364203HistoryBailey, Catherine. The Lost Boys. 2019.Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German Resistance, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In response, Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, orders the arrest of the families of the plotters. In a remote castle in Italy, von Hassell's daughter, Fey, is discovered. She is arrested and her two sons, aged three and two are seized by the SS. UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26392903Nicholson, Virginia. How Was It For You? 2019.When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women, like men, could try without buying. But this book describes a turbulent power struggle. Here are the voices from the battleground. Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary, and countercultural Caroline.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26387603PoetryHomer. The Odyssey. 2007.Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? What new tests await him if he ever reaches his home shore? UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26364603Hughes, Ted. Ted Hughes. 2004.Simon Armitage has compiled a selection of Ted Hughes poetry. As Armitage writes in his introduction, right from the beginning, Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries. Poems from the major landmarks in the long career of Hughes are all represented here, from 1957's Hawk in the Rain and 1970's Crow to Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998).UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26393803Popular ScienceHawking, Stephen. A Brief History Of Time. 2008.Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in 'A Brief History of Time'. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and string theory.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26360403ReligionThe Qur'an. 2008.The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching. This new translation is written in a contemporary idiom that remains faithful to the original, making it easy to read while retaining its powers of eloquence.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26355103SocietyLewis, Rosie. Taken. 2017.Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother's substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie's loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her `forever mummy' in Rosie.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26405803SportPrior-Palmer, Lara. Rough Magic. 2019.The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. Competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km over the vast Mongolian plains. In 2013 nineteen-year-old Lara Prior-Palmer decided to enter the race. She raced for seven days through extreme heat and terrifying storms to become the youngest-ever champion and the first woman to win the race.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26392803True CrimeGallop, Angela. When The Dogs Don't Bark. 2019.Angela has been a forensic scientist for over 40 years. After joining the Forensic Science Service, the first crime scene she attended was for a case involving the Yorkshire Ripper. She has helped solve numerous high-profile cases. From the crime scene to the courtroom, 'When the Dogs Don't Bark' is the remarkable story of a life spent searching for the truth.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26372703Rule, Ann. The Stranger Beside Me. 2019.Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, brilliant in law school, successful with women, and on the verge of a dazzling career. Fast-forward to January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy is executed. He had confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five young women. This is his story: the story of his magnetic power, his unholy compulsion, his demonic double life, and his string of helpless victims.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26383403Warfare and DefenceFoster, Steve. The Soldier Who Came Back. 2018.In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Antony Coulthard was the privately educated son of wealthy parents. Fred Foster was the son of a bricklayer from Nottinghamshire. Together they hatched a plan to break out of the PoW camp. But, after making it to within touching distance of the Swiss border, their luck ran out. This is one of the most daring and remarkable wartime escape stories ever told.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26273603Holland, James. Normandy '44. 2019.D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. it was a brutal campaign. In terms of daily casualties, the numbers were worse than for any one battle during the First World War. Drawing on unseen archives and testimonies from around the world, James Holland introduces a cast of eye-witnesses that includes foot soldiers, tank men, fighter pilots and bomber crews, sailors, civilians, resistance fighters and those directing the action.UEB. 17v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26364103Olson, Lynne. For Your Freedom And Ours. 2004.According to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's wartime air force minister, without the Polish pilots 'our shortage of trained pilots would have made it impossible to defeat the German air force and so win the Battle'. This volume focuses on a small group of five of them, from success to betrayal.UEB. 12v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26360803Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeFreedman, Claire. Aliens Love Underpants. 2017."Aliens love underpants, in every shape and size, But there are no underpants in space, so here's a big surprise..." You probably thought aliens came down to Earth with a view to taking over the planet. But, no, they simply want to steal your pants! This tale has a madcap, rhyming text, perfect for joining in.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26292303Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2629230507+ Suggested Reading AgeCopeland, Sam. Charlie Changes Into A Chicken. 2019.Charlie changes into a chicken: book 1. Charlie McGuffin has an incredible secret. He can change into animals. All sorts of animals: a flea, a pigeon, even a rhino. Trouble is, he can't decide when and it only happens when he gets worried. And right now, Charlie has quite a lot to worry about: his brother in hospital; their very panicked parents; and the school bully who has Charlie in his sights. With the help of his three best friends, Charlie needs to find a way of dealing with his crazy new power.UEB double line spacing. 6v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26333803Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 26333805Dougherty, John. Dinosaurs And Dinner-ladies. 2016.In dining halls of long ago when dinosaurs sat down to dine, did prehistoric dinner-ladies keep them all in line? What's the real reason the dinosaurs died out? Can anyone rescue Class 2M from the wild dinner-ladies? And what will happen when Class 2M meet a lion? This is a diverse collection of poetry ranging from short haikus to lengthier short-story style poems.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26362103Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26362105Fogle, Ben. Mr Dog And The Rabbit Habit. 2019.Mr Dog is enjoying some free time, racing with rabbits. But when a mother rabbit is captured in a trap, he finds he must play bunny-sitter and for an abandoned pet rabbit too. Can Mr Dog keep the bunnies safe and solve the mystery of what lurks behind the Big New Fence in their field? For somebody wants rid of ALL the rabbits, and time is running out to save them.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26362403Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 26362405Montgomery, L. M. Emily Climbs. 2013.Emily: book 2. Emily's Aunt Elizabeth allows her to leave New Moon to go to high school in Shrewsbury. But for the whole three years Emily must board with hateful Aunt Ruth, and she must promise to stop writing stories. Emily must prove herself at school, despite rejection and jealousy. Her happy childhood friendships, with Teddy and Perry, start to turn into something more complicated and in a small-town, the merest hint of gossip can cause scandal.UEB. 8v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26248603Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 26248605The Dangerous Book Of Monsters. 2018.Doctor Who. In his travels across time and space, the Doctor has met hundreds of monsters. Now, he's created this handy spotter's guide to the most dangerous creatures in the Whoniverse! In this companion guide to How To Be A Time Lord, the Twelfth Doctor reveals everything you need to know about each dangerous monster, advice for battling them, and how and when to make a speedy escape.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2626000309+ Suggested Reading AgeBlyton, Enid. Five Go Off In A Caravan. 2017.Famous Five: book 5. The Famous Five are spending their holidays in a caravan. The gang are thrilled when they stumble across a circus troupe. Unfortunately some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26387903Butterworth, Jess. When The Mountains roared. 2018.When Ruby's dad uproots her from Australia to set up a hotel in the mountains of India, Ruby is devastated. Ever since her mum died, Ruby has been afraid of cars, of the dark, and of going to sleep and never waking up. But then the last remaining leopards of the mountain are threatened and everything changes. Ruby vows to do all she can to protect them, if she can only overcome her fears.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26379303Crompton, Richmal. Just William. 2015.Just William: book 1. In Richmal Compton's Just William the Outlaws plan a day of non-stop adventure. The only problem is that William is meant to be babysitting. But William won't let that stop him having fun with his gang, he'll just bring the baby along!UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26388003Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 26388005Fargher, Anna. The Umbrella Mouse. 2019.1944, and London is under attack. Young mouse Pip Hanway's home, umbrella shop James Smith & Sons, is destroyed by a bomb. She must begin a perilous quest to find a new home. But the only way to get there is by joining Noah's Ark, a secret gang of animals fighting the resistance in France, operating beneath the feet of the human soldiers. Danger is everywhere and as the enemy closes in, Pip must risk everything to save her new friends.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26365303O Briain, Dara. Secret Science. 2018. Science is a non-stop everywhere. You've got an incredible brain, which has worked out how to read these words. You've got aeroplanes that can somehow get from the ground into the sky with all those people and their luggage on board. You've got electricity and artificial intelligence and GPS and loads more. Dara O Briain takes you on a journey to the incredible science behind your everyday life and on into the future.UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26359803Stewart, Alexandra. Everest. 2019.In the late morning of May 29th 1953, the sun was shining brightly on the top of Everest and two men were there to witness it for the first time ever. Their names were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. This is the story of how two very different yet equally determined men battled frost-biting temperatures, tumbling ice rocks, powerful winds and death-defying ridges to reach the top of the world's highest mountain.UEB. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26372203Young, Moira. The Road To Ever After. 2017.Davy David, an orphan, lives by his wits in the dead-end town of Brownvale. A stray dog called George turns Davy's life upside down, forcing them to flee. A mischievous wind blows the two of them to a boarded-up museum where they meet the elderly recluse, Miss Flint. She has planned one last adventure before her time is up and hires the reluctant Davy and George to escort her.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2636010311+ Suggested Reading AgeAdams, Richard. Watership Down. 2014.Fiver, a young rabbit, is very worried. He senses something terrible is about to happen to the warren. His brother Hazel knows that his sixth sense is never wrong. So, there is nothing else for it. They must leave immediately. And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all.UEB. 12v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26400903Also available in uncontracted braille. 15v. Order No: 26400905Blyton, Enid. The Naughtiest Girl In The School. 2007.Naughtiest girl: book 1. Elizabeth Allen is spoilt and selfish. When she is sent away to boarding school she makes up her mind to be the naughtiest girl in the school.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2473050313+ Suggested Reading AgeBracken, Alexandra. The Darkest Minds. 2016.Darkest minds: book 1. Ruby is 16. A mysterious disease has killed most of America's children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for survival?UEB. 10v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26361903Brown, Savannah. The Truth About Keeping Secrets. 2019.When Sydney's dad dies in a car crash, Sydney can't believe it was an accident. Her father was the only psychiatrist in their small Ohio town and knew a lot of secrets. When the threatening texts begin, and June Copeland, homecoming queen and golden child, appears at the funeral out of nowhere, Sydney's suspicions deepen. The two teenagers grow closer in the wake of the accident, but what is picture perfect June hiding?UEB. 6v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26334103Dockrill, Laura. Big Bones. 2018.Bluebelle, aka BB, aka Big Bones, is a sixteen-year-old girl encouraged to tackle her weight even though she's perfectly happy, thank you, and getting on with her life and in love with food. Then a tragedy in the family forces BB to find a new relationship with her body and herself. This is a story about best mates, belly laughs, boys and the best Bakewell tart.UEB. 7v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26356003Duffy, Malcolm. Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. 2018.Danny's mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good. Callum seems nice enough, and Danny can't deny he's got a cool set up; big house, fast car, massive TV, and Mam seems to really like him. But cracks begin to show. Danny witnesses Mam being bullied and Callum spiral out of control. So Danny goes in search of the dad he's never met.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26372103Pullman, Philip. Northern Lights. 2011.His dark materials: book 1. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal, including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? UEB. 10v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26369103Also;Pullman, Philip. The Subtle Knife. 2011.His dark materials: book 2.UEB. 8v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26369203Pullman, Philip. The Amber Spyglass. 2011.His dark materials: book 3.UEB. 12v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2636950315+ Suggested Reading AgeEmmich, Val. Dear Evan Hansen. 2018.A letter that was never meant to be seen draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the suicide of their son. As a result Evan is given the chance of a lifetime to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. No longer incapacitated by anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. He's confident and a viral phenomenon. Until everything is in danger of unravelling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26370903Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time. 2005. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26330503Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 26330505Talking BooksAdult FictionAaronovitch, Ben. Foxglove Summer. 2014. Fantasy. TB24784.Peter Grant: book 5. Peter Grant is in a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the London copper out of London you can't take the London out of the copper. Travelling west with Beverley Brook, Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods.Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. 10 hours 47 minutes. TB24784.Also;Aaronovitch, Ben. The Hanging Tree. 2016. Fantasy. TB24839.Peter Grant: book 6. Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. 10 hours 24 minutes. TB24839.Baldwin, James. If Beale Street Could Talk. 1994. Classic. TB24813.Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, a sculptor, is her lifelong friend and father of her child. Accused of raping a Puerto Rican woman, Fonny is jailed. It is a crime he did not commit. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. Contains swear words.Read by Laila Pyne. 5 hours 59 minutes. TB24813.Burrows, Annie. The Captain Claims His Lady. 2018. Mills and Boon romance. TB24674.Brides for bachelors: book 3. Shy wallflower Lizzie Hutton knows her height and clumsiness alone make her a debutante to avoid. That is until she is enticed by the mysterious stranger. Lizzie meets tall, strong and striking Captain Harry Bretherton, who takes a surprising interest in her! Their intense chemistry makes him hard to resist. If only it weren't for the secrecy around his past.Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 7 hours 50 minutes. TB24674. Carr, Philippa. Lament For A Lost Lover. 1978. Historical fiction. TB24814.Daughters of England: book 5. Under the sway of Cromwell, England simmers with religious persecution and political unrest. Arabella and her parents have retreated to France but yearn for their native country. When Arabella is separated from her family, she makes her way alone in an increasingly dangerous world. As the British king is restored to his throne, Arabella’s journey mirrors the turbulence of England.Read by Flora Ogilvy. 12 hours 51 minutes. TB24814.Channer, Gordon. A Buzzard To Lunch. 2000. Country life fiction.TB24825.Valley of dreams: book 4. The struggle of a family with three growing children who sold everything to buy a wild remote valley. They built themselves a house and made their own electricity supply from a waterwheel. Now the valley has been devastated, but this is a tale of ingenuity.Read by Neville Watchurst. 13 hours 9 minutes. TB24825.Ellmann, Lucy. Ducks, Newburyport. 2019. Literary fiction. TB24922.Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the U S A. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. This is a scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 45 hours 37 minutes. TB24922.Evans, Harriet. The Garden Of Lost And Found. 2019. General fiction. TB24845.Nightingale House, 1919. Liddy discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Horner, burning his best-known painting 'The Garden of Lost and Found' days before his sudden death. When Edward and Liddy's great-granddaughter Juliet is sent the key to Nightingale House, she opens the door onto a forgotten world. The house holds its mysteries close but she is in search of answers. Read by Kristin Atherton. 19 hours 15 minutes. TB24845.Everest, Elaine. Christmas At Woolworths. 2017. Family stories. TB24879.Woolworths: book 2. 1942. Best friends Sarah, Maisie and Freda are brought together by their jobs at Woolworths. With their loved ones away on the front line, their bonds of friendship strengthen. Betty is the manager at Woolworths and a rock for the girls. She has given up on love until a stranger turns up one day. As Christmas approaches, the girls must rely on each other to navigate the dark days that lie ahead.Read by Annie Aldington. 10 hours 39 minutes. TB24879.Fleming, Leah. The Captain's Daughter. 2012. Historical fiction. TB24826.When the Titanic hits an iceberg one night, May’s dreams are shattered. Jumping from the ship at the last minute, May loses sight of her husband Joe and baby Ellen. Distraught, she is pulled into a lifeboat. Minutes later, the Captain swims to the lifeboat and hands May a baby swaddled in blankets. Then May makes a shocking discovery and a split-second decision which will change the lives of many.Read by Sherry Baines. 18 hours 19 minutes. TB24826.Goodwin, Rosie. The Little Angel. 2017. Historical fiction. TB24732.Days of the week: book 2. 1896, Nuneaton. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning. Then Kitty is summoned to live in London with her birth mother. But she quickly discovers the peril she finds herself in, as an innocent beautiful young girl making her way in the music halls and theatres of the big city.Read by Charlie Sanderson. 15 hours 9 minutes. TB24732.Griffiths, Elly. The Ghost Fields. 2015. Crime. TB24739. Ruth Galloway: book 7. A construction crew unearths a buried World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot. DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. The remaining members of the Blackstock family seem strangely frightened by the discovery. Then human bones are found on the Blackstock family's pig farm. Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?Read by Clare Corbett. 9 hours 36 minutes. TB24739.Griffiths, Elly. The Woman In Blue. 2016. Crime. TB24848.Ruth Galloway: book 8. Cathbad, a druid, is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. The next morning, the woman's body, dressed in white nightdress and blue dressing-gown, is found in a ditch outside Walsingham. Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is drawn into an unholy investigation.Read by Jane McDowell. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB24848.Harris, Jane. Sugar Money. 2017. Historical fiction. TB24731.Martinique, 1765. Brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation. Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. With no choice other than to obey Cleophas he sets out with his brother on this 'reckless venture'.Read by James Goode. 12 hours 39 minutes. TB24731.Hart, Gracie. The Child Left Behind. 2019. Family stories. TB24793.Pit Lane: book 2. Victoria Wild is only four years old but already knows about heartbreak, having been abandoned by her unwed mother when she was only a baby. Her Aunt Eliza was there to take her in but Victoria bears the stigma of her illegitimacy. More trouble is around the corner as Victoria’s mother, Mary-Anne Wild, is coming home to exact her revenge on the man who ruined her life.Read by Emma Swan. 9 hours 33 minutes. TB24793.Hogan, Ruth. Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel. 2019. General fiction. TB24842.Tilly loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing staff and guests. But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Now an independent woman still damaged by her mother's cruelty, her only friend is her dog. When her mother dies, she goes back to Brighton to unravel the mystery of her exile.Read by Jane Collingwood. 9 hours 2 minutes. TB24842.Howatch, Susan. The Heartbreaker. 2004. General fiction. TB24800.St Benet's: book 3. On the verge of psychic and physical collapse, Gavin Blake, desperate to escape his world of prostitution, violence, and pornography, seeks refuge at St. Benet's, a local church in the financial heart of London, where he becomes involved with Carta Graham, a church fund-raiser still struggling with her own demons.Contains sex scenes and swear words.Read by Mira Dovreni and Elliot Fitzpatrick. 19 hours 36 minutes. TB24800.Macneal, Elizabeth. The Doll Factory. 2019. Historical fiction. TB24878.London. 1850. The greatest spectacle is being built in Hyde Park, and among the crowd two people meet. For Iris it is forgotten seconds later. For Silas it marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will teach her to paint. Her world begins to become a place of art and love. But Silas has only thought of one thing since their meeting, and his obsession is darkening.Read by Tuppence Middleton. 10 hours 56 minutes. TB24878.Massie, Allan. End Games In Bordeaux. 2015. Historical crime.TB24865.Bordeaux: book 4. In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing girl, and investigates cases of historic sex abuse.Read by Philip Bretherton. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB24865.May, Peter. The Man With No Face. 2019. Thriller. TB24847.1979. Journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to Brussels, intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered. Their double-assassination is witnessed by the journalist's autistic daughter. This girl recalls every detail about her father's killer, except for one. Bannerman is now fighting to expose a murderous conspiracy, protect a helpless child, and unmask a remorseless killer.Read by Peter Forbes. 10 hours 51 minutes. TB24847.Mazzola, Anna. The Story Keeper. 2018. Historical fiction. TB24846.Audrey is on the Isle of Skye to collect the folk tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857, the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty. The body of a young girl washes up on the beach. The crofters believe the girls are the victims of the spirits of the unforgiven dead. Audrey may uncover just what her family have been hiding from her all these years.Read by Sarah Barron. 8 hours 52 minutes. TB24846.Murray, Annie. All The Days Of Our Lives. 2014. Family stories. TB24881.Hopscotch Summer: book 3. 1946. Katie is innocent, yet hungry for love. Emma has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her husband Norm to return. But she soon finds that the joy of homecoming only brings a whole new set of problems. Molly, after a brutal childhood, found a place to belong during the war, in the women's army. Read by Penelope Freeman. 15 hours 38 minutes. TB24881.O'Leary, Beth. The Flatshare. 2019. Chick lit. TB24849.Tiffy needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon works nights and needs cash. And so Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients wrongly imprisoned brothers and the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rule book out the window.Read by Carrie Hope Fletcher and Kwaku Fortune. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB24849.Obioma, Chigozie. An Orchestra Of Minorities. 2019. General fiction. TB24924.Umuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, he joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his most prized chickens into the water below to demonstrate the severity of the fall. The woman, Ndali, is moved by his sacrifice. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. Read by Chukwudi Iwuji. 18 hours 10 minutes. TB24924.Penman, Sharon Kay. Falls The Shadow. 2000. Historical fiction. TB24701.Welsh princes: book 2. Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word and found himself the champion of the common people.Read by Derek Hutchinson. 31 hours 27 minutes. TB24701.Riley, Lucinda. The Love Letter. 2018. General fiction. TB24733.1995, London. Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of 95. Joanna is a young journalist, assigned to cover the actor's funeral. Joanna stumbles on the mention of a letter James has left behind, the contents of which others have been desperate to conceal for over 70 years. She realizes that there are other forces attempting to prevent her from discovering the truth. Read by Camilla Rockley. 16 hours 30 minutes. TB24733.Rushdie, Salman. Quichotte. 2019. Literary fiction. TB24923.Quichotte, an ageing travelling salesman, is obsessed with TV. His daily diet of reality TV, sitcoms, films, soaps, comedies and dramas has distorted his ability to separate fantasy from reality. He wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. And he obsessively writes love letters to a celebrity he knows only through his screen. Quichotte's story is told by Brother, a mediocre spy novelist in the midst of a midlife crisis.Read by Vikas Adam. 16 hours 4 minutes. TB24923.Ryan, Chris. Warlord. 2017. Thriller. TB24841.Danny Black: book 5. On the border of the United States and Mexico, the drug cartels are rampant. Of all the cartels, the most violent is Los Zetas, originally made up of former Mexican special forces turned bad. When the CIA reaches out to the British military for help, SAS legend Danny Black and his team are despatched to give the Zetas a taste of their own medicine. Read by Michael Fenner. 12 hours 10 minutes. TB24841.Scarrow, Simon. The Gladiator. 2012. Historical fiction. TB24843.Cato: book 9. Centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a campaign against the Parthians when their ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete. An earthquake has struck the island, destroying its cities and killing thousands. In the chaotic aftermath, large bands of the island's slaves begin to revolt. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 13 hours 34 minutes. TB24843.Scarrow, Simon. Fire And Sword. 2017. Historical fiction. TB24844.Wellington and Napoleon: book 3. 1804. Napoleon is emperor of France, his ultimate aim to rule Europe. After defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar, he wins a glorious victory, Austerlitz. He then deposes the Spanish king and places his own brother on the throne. But he is yet to triumph over Great Britain. Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) throws himself into the British campaign in Europe. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 21 hours 21 minutes. TB24844.Seymour, Gerald. Harry's Game. 2013. Thriller. TB24702.A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the killer has gone to ground in Belfast. Undercover agent Harry Brown is sent into the heart of enemy territory to infiltrate the terrorists. He is alone in a city of strangers, where any intruder is the subject of immediate gossip and rumour.Read by John O'Mahony. 11 hours 35 minutes. TB24702.Trocchi, Alexander. Young Adam. 2008. Literary fiction. TB24763.Originally published in 1957, this existential thriller is set on a barge travelling along the canal that runs between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The narrator Joe is an outsider; a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman's corpse floating in the canal. Tensions increase in cramped confines with Joe's highly charged seduction of the skipper's wife. Contains sex scenesRead by Joe Johnston. 5 hours 52 minutes. TB24763.Trollope, Joanna. An Unsuitable Match. 2018. Family stories. TB24880.Rose is getting married to Tyler, a wonderful man who is head-over-heels in love with her. Rose's daughter doesn't want her to get hurt again. Her twins are used to their mother being there for them. And then there's Tyler's children: Mallory, who craves her father's attention; and Seth, whose bakery is taking off and needs all the money he can get. In trying to make everyone happy, can Rose and Tyler ever be happy?Read by Samantha Bond. 9 hours 16 minutes. TB24880.Adult Non-fictionAutobiographyHutchinson, Ian. Hutchy: Miracle Man. 2017. TB24859.Ian Hutchinson is a road racer. He has enjoyed success at the Isle of Man TT, the North West 200 and the Ulster Grand Prix. After being hit by another machine, he broke his left leg so badly that it was feared it might have to be amputated. After modifications to the gear levers and rear brakes on his race machines, he went on to win the 2013 Macau Grand Prix. This is the story of the life and career of a brilliant rider.Read by Frazer Hadfield. 4 hours 3 minutes. TB24859.BiographyFotheringham, William. Fallen Angel. 2010. TB24827.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.Read by David Thorpe. 10 hours 23 minutes. TB24827.Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson And The American Dream. 1991. TB24790.This biography takes us through his early political victories and the ideals that inspired them, from the Washington system that trained him, through his election as Vice President and the year when JFK's assassination brought him to the highest office in the land. The author covers the talents that brought Johnson triumph, the inner demons that tormented him, and the flaws that engendered his ultimate tragedy.Read by Amy Finegan. 19 hours 10 minutes. TB24790.Country Life Dilger, Mike. My Garden And Other Animals. 2012. TB24858.‘Potential’ was the word that sprang to mind when Mike and Christina viewed their new ‘house-and-garden-to-be’ in a small village south of Bristol. And so begins their year-long journey to create their own wildlife sanctuary. From otters to badgers, chickens to hedgehogs, an orchard, a pond and compost bins, to the best birdlife imaginable.Read by Philip Bretherton. 11 hours 45 minutes. TB24858.Food and DrinkVickery, Phil. Phil Vickery's Essential Gluten-free. 2016. TB24837.Phil Vickery uses his Michelin-starred cooking talents and simple, honest ingredients to create dishes that everyone in the family can eat. This includes recipes for pizza, bread, pasta, cakes and biscuits. The 175 delicious recipes take their inspiration from cuisines around the world and range from Lasagnette with Asparagus and Tomatoes to Easy Pad Thai Noodles and American-style Pancakes with Pears and Almonds.Read by Philip Bretherton. 7 hours 58 minutes. TB24837.HistoryBoyd, Julia. Travellers In The Third Reich. 2019. TB24882.The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt, of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust? 'Travellers in the Third Reich' is an account of the rise of the Nazis based on first-hand accounts from foreign visitors to Germany.Read by Stephanie Racine. 14 hours 16 minutes. TB24882.MusicGaines, James R. Evening In The Palace Of Reason. 2005. TB24828.Prussia's Frederick the Great challenged Johann Sebastian Bach to a musical duel to improvise a six-part fugue based on an impossibly intricate theme. Bach obliged, playing a three-part fugue on one of Frederick's fortepianos. Upon his return to Leipzig, Bach composed The Musical Offering, one of the great compositions in the history of music. Read by Christopher Oxford. 10 hours 46 minutes. TB24828.A Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult FictionAlexander, Sara. The Last Concerto. 2019. Romance. TB704641.Accompanying her mother to cleaning jobs, Alba visits the villa of an eccentric Signora and touches the keys of a piano for the first time. During secret lessons, Alba is at last able to express emotions too powerful for words alone. Ignoring her parents' insistence that she work in the family's car dealership and marry a local boy, Alba accepts a scholarship to the Rome conservatoire. Read by Sara Alexander. 14 hours 23 minutes. TB704641.Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Treacherous. 2019. Short story. TB704417.Hayley Martin and Fiona Chambers have been best friends since they were ten. From the moment that beautiful Fiona stood up to the school bullies for Hayley, the misfit, the two have been inseparable. Twenty years on, they still share everything, and even run their own business together. Until a dark secret threatens to test their loyalty to breaking point. Is anyone really who they appear to be?Read by Jennifer Woodward. 2 hours 29 minutes. TB704417.Carrington, Sam. The Missing Wife. 2019. Thriller. TB704409.A sleep-deprived mother approaching her fortieth birthday, the very last thing Louisa wants to do is celebrate. But when her friend Tiff organises a party, inviting the entire list of Louisa's Facebook friends, Louisa is faced with a room full of people she hasn't spoken to in years - including her ex-boyfriend, Oliver Dunmore. When Oliver's wife Melissa goes missing after the party, everyone remembers the night differently.Read by Kristen Atherton. 10 hours 32 minutes. TB704409.Dare, Tessa. The Wallflower Wager. 2019. Historical fiction. TB704627.Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society—and now he wants to get even. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn't take into her home and her heart. Now she's set her mind and heart on saving him. Not if he ruins her first.Read by Mary Jane Wells. 7 hours 8 minutes. TB704627.Dickinson, Miranda. The Day We Meet Again. 2019. Romance.TB704701.Phoebe and Sam meet by chance at St Pancras station. Heading in opposite directions, both seeking their own adventures, meeting the love of their lives wasn't part of the plan. So they make a promise: to meet again in the same place in twelve months' time if they still want to be together. But is life ever as simple as that?Read by Laura Kirman and Joshua Manning. 11 hours. TB704701.Ferguson, Catherine. Summer Under The Stars. 2019. Romance. TB704385.Daisy's had a tough year. After losing her mother and struggling with a job she hates, she really needs a break. So, when her boyfriend suggests a summer getaway, Daisy jumps at the chance, organising a romantic trip to her friend Clemmy's new glamping site. But Daisy didn't realise Toby hates all things outdoorsy - he's far more bothered about working on the Wi-Fi than walking in the wilderness. Read by Kristin Atherton. 8 hours. TB704385.Fielden, T. P. Died And Gone To Devon. 2019. Classic crime. TB704828.Miss Dimont: book 4. In the seaside town of Temple Regis, the body of political candidate Odile Clifford is discovered on the balcony of the lighthouse. Riviera Express reporter Judy Dimont goes in search of the killer, but who is it? And where will they strike next? What's more, Judy's position as chief reporter is under threat when her editor takes on hot-shot journalist David, whose work is just too good to be true. Read by Eve Karpf. 9 hours 29 minutes. TB704828.Gitsham, Paul. Forgive Me Father. 2019. Crime. TB704634.DCI Warren Jones: book 5. A fire breaks out in a chapel, and DCI Warren Jones is alarmed by what is discovered at the scene. Curled up in the ash and debris is a body – and it's soon clear that the chapel doors were locked from the inside. The disappearance of a local priest, Father Nolan, and a cryptic note left in his room, point to an unusually violent suicide. Warren begins to suspect foul play – and murder.Read by Malk Williams. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB704634.Glen, Joanna. The Other Half Of Augusta Hope. 2019. General fiction. TB704386.Augusta has never felt like she fits in. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. Now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her twin sister, Julia. Then an unspeakable tragedy upends everything. She's determined to find where she belongs but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?Read by Stephanie Racine and Jude Owusu. 12 hours 30 minutes. TB704386.Higgins, Jack. Storm Warning. 2019. War fiction. TB704649.It's 1944 and Germany is facing its final defeat. Five thousand miles across the Allied dominated Atlantic, twenty-two men and five nuns aboard the Barquentine Deutschland are battling home to Kiel. Among them are a U-boat ace captured in a raid on Falmouth and a gunboat commander who's fought from the Solomons to the Channel and a rear admiral desperate to get some of the action. Read by Greg Wagland. 8 hours 37 minutes. TB704649.James, Rosie. Front Line Nurse. 2019. Family stories. TB704635.Angelina never knew her mother. Saved by a local orphanage, she knows she owes her life to the kindness of others. And she's determined to repay her debt by working as a nurse. Strong, kind and patient, Angelina is a natural on the ward. But when war breaks out in 1914 and she is sent to The Front, her courage is tested like never before. A chance meeting with a soldier sends Angelina's whole world into turmoil. Read by Anna Cordell. 6 hours 27 minutes. TB704635.Koepp, David. Cold Storage. 2019. Science fiction. TB704667.When bioterror operative Roberto was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Read by Chris Messina. 8 hours 6 minutes. TB704667.Money-Coutts, Sophia. What Happens Now? 2019. Chick lit. TB704645.Lil thought she'd already found `the one' until he dumped her for a colleague. She finds herself on a first date with Max. What's the worst that can happen? First Max ghosts her and then a few weeks later Lil discovers she's pregnant. But she should probably tell Max, if she can track him down. Surely he's not that Max, the highly eligible, headline-grabbing son of Lord and Lady Rushbrooke, currently trekking up a mountain in South Asia? Read by Sophia Money-Coutts. 9 hours 20 minutes. TB704654.Neale, Kitty. A Family's Heartbreak. 2019. Family stories. TB704632.When Jenny's mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. But factory worker Craig has fallen head over heels for Jenny, and he offers her a place to stay. When tragedy strikes, she's left to pick up the pieces of both her broken home - and her broken heart. Desperately trying to make ends meet, Jenny is alone and working round the clock. Read by Annie Aldington. 10 hours 15 minutes. TB704632.Rayner, Nicola. The Girl Before You. 2019. Thriller. TB704702.Alice has always been haunted by the women from her husband's past. As a politician and now a TV personality, George Bell's reputation as a ladies' man precedes him. But when Alice falls pregnant, her unease becomes an obsession. And there's one ex in particular she can't get out of her head, a beautiful student who went missing before they finisheduniversity: Ruth. Read by Lucy Rayner. 10 hours 45 minutes. TB704702.Sainz Borgo, Karina. It Would Be Night In Caracas. 2019. Literary fiction. TB704765.In Caracas, Adelaida alone, except for harried undertakers, buries her mother. Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside her window tear gas rains down on protesters in the streets. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. This marks the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy. Read by Ana Osorio. 5 hours 45 minutes. TB704765.Sullivan, Maggie. Snow On The Cobbles. 2019. Family stories. TB704829.Coronation Street: book 3. When Lizzie moves with her mother and her brothers to No.9 Coronation Street at the end of the Second World War, it's a new start for all of them. Things look up for Lizzie when she lands a job as a barmaid in a local pub, the Pride of Weatherfield. There she makes friends with the young and giddy Hilda Ogden, still waiting for her wayward husband, Stan, to come home from the war. Read by Gabrielle Glaister. 9 hours 16 minutes. TB704829.Taylor, Andrew. The Second Midnight. 2019. War fiction. TB704834.1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral. Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB704834.Wells, Rachel. A Friend Called Alfie. 2019. Animal stories. TB704763.Alfie: book 6. When George learns that one of the residents of Edgar Road has been taken into hospital, he realises it's up to him to provide some comfort. The only problem is that they now have a little puppy in tow - Pickles the Pug. As George tries to do everything he can to make the world - and its humans - happier, Alfie struggles to keep Pickles in check and out of trouble. Read by Edward Killingback. 8 hours 2 minutes. TB704763.Williams, Beatriz. The Golden Hour. 2019. General fiction. TB704719.The Bahamas, 1941. Lulu arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine whose readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But beneath the glitter of Wallis and Edward's marriage lies an ugly - and even treasonous - reality. In the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a handsome scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties. Read by Cassandra Campbell and Saskia Maarleveld. 16 hours 18 minutes. TB704719.Ziepe, Laura. The Morning After The Wedding Before. 2019. Chick lit. TB704643.Did she really say `I do'? Emma is getting married! She knows it should be the happiest time of her life, but she can't help feeling she's marrying the wrong man. So when she wakes up on her wedding day with a ring already on her finger, she panics - who did she marry last night?Read by Georgia Maguire. 8 hours 55 minutes. TB704643.Adult Non-fictionAutobiographyHarry, Debbie. Face It. 2019. TB704725.Following her path from success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, bankruptcy, and Blondie's break-up as a band to her acting career in more than thirty films, a solo career and the triumphant return of her band, and her advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights, Face It is a story of a woman who made her own path, and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps.Read by Debbie Harry, Clem Burke, Gary Valentine and Alannah Currie.8 hours 57 minutes. TB704725.Ismail, Edna Adan. A Woman Of Firsts. 2019. TB704621.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s people, especially its women. The first midwife to practise in Somaliland, Edna became a formidable teacher and campaigner for women’s health. As her country was swept up in its bloody fight for independence, Edna rose to become its First Lady and first female cabinet minister. Read by Edna Adan Ismail. 13 hours 27 minutes. TB704621.Kelly, Angela. The Other Side Of The Coin. 2019. TB704793.Angela Kelly has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal Household for twenty-five years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser and then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor, Curator, Wardrobe and In-house Designer. The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Read by Angela Kelly. 5 hours 36 minutes. TB704793.Health and FitnessBorelius, Maria. Health Revolution. 2019. TB704406.The incredible story of one woman's quest to banish depression and fatigue, boost her energy and live a healthier, happier life. When Maria Borelius' energy and health started to decline, she decided enough was enough and embarked on a personal journey to transform herself. Bringing together ground-breaking research this book presents a simple five-step plan to bring out the best version of you.Read by Jane Oppenheimer. 8 hours 58 minutes. TB704406.Reeves, James. The Book Of Rest. 2019. TB704629.What if feeling OK, feeling 'sorted' and feeling complete was possible without having to do anything? If you took a moment to stop, then you'd see that what lies at the very core of your being is already perfectly at ease, peaceful, and OK. This is a guide born out of the philosophies and practices of yoga nidra ('sleep yoga') enabling the reader to recognise, allow and use rest to connect with their deepest, always-at-peace self.Read by James Reeves and Gabrielle Brown. 6 hours 33 minutes. TB704629.HistoryBanfield, Petrina. Letters From Alice. 2018. TB703360.It is a stormy evening in 1920s London. Charlotte, a terrified teenager, has just given birth out of wedlock. Newly qualified almoner Alice is determined to keep Charlotte and her baby safe. But when a threatening note appears, she realises that Charlotte may need more protection than she first thought. This book is based on extensive research and enriched with lively social history and excerpts from newspaper articles.Read by Christine Kavanagh. 7 hours 52 minutes. TB703360.Jones, Dan. Summer Of Blood. 2019. TB704628.The Peasants' Revolt has remained an underexplored period of history. In revisiting the bloody events of 1381, Dan Jones has brought back to life the squalor, drama and complex hierarchies of a society that until now seemed almost too distant to imagine. His examination of village life and the failings of government from the perspective of the Revolt's key players is both intellectually stimulating and compulsively readable.Read by Kris Dyer. 7 hours 51 minutes. TB704628.Spohr, Kristina. Post Wall, Post Square. 2019. TB704728.With a wealth of newly declassified archival sources, historian Kristina Spohr offers a novel interpretation of the revolutionary upheaval of 1989 and, how in its aftermath, a new world order was forged without major conflict. The Post-Wall world, Spohr argues, was brought about in significant measure through the determined diplomacy of a small cohort of international leaders. Read by Julia Winwood. 28 hours 43 minutes. TB704728.HumourO'Connell, Brian. The Personals. 2019. Humour TB704709.The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories. What draws Brian to the classified ads are the intriguing human stories he finds there, the unexpected twists and turns, the personalities, the curious objects and the range of human experience waiting to be discovered. Read by Brian O'Connell. 5 hours 34 minutes. TB704709.MathematicsEastaway, Rob. Maths On The Back Of An Envelope. 2019. TB704703.Learn how to tackle tricky maths problems with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Join Rob Eastaway as he takes an entertaining look at how to figure without a calculator. Packed with amusing anecdotes, quizzes, and handy calculation tips for every situation, this is an invaluable introduction to the art of estimation.Read by Rob Eastaway. 3 hours 36 minutes. TB704703.PoetrySansom, Ian. September 1, 1939. 2019. TB704639.This is a book about a poet - W. H. Auden. About a poem - `September 1, 1939', his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown. About a city - New York, in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis. And our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden's poem in its entirety on their editorial pages.Read by Ian Sansom. 9 hours 39 minutes. TB704639.Politics and GovernmentCameron, David. For The Record. 2019. TB704730.For the first time, the man who called that referendum talks about the decision and its origins. Cameron is honest about the key players from his time in politics. And he is frank about himself - the things he got right and the things he got wrong. We learn why he kept Britain's promise on overseas aid spending and what it was like to commit British troops to conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria. Read by David Cameron. 30 hours. TB704730.Mitchell, Marcia. The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War. 2019. TB704711.In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency requesting Katharine's assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the press. Katharine's decision would change her life forever, as she was arrested under the Official Secrets Act. Read by Harriet Dunlop. 6 hours 59 minutes. TB704711.Self HelpYoung, Scott H. Ultralearning. 2019. TB704626.Ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning shares the nine principles behind every successful ultralearning project and offers insights into how you can organize and execute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language, earn the equivalent of a college degree, or master multiple skills to build a business.Read by Scott H. Young. 7 hours 46 minutes. TB704626.SocietyTolentino, Jia. Trick Mirror. 2019. TB704451.From one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on the internet, the self, feminism and politics.Read by Jia Tolentino. 9 hours 46 minutes. TB704451.Travel and TourismCloake, Felicity. One More Croissant For The Road. 2019. TB704372.France is a place where you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. Part travelogue, part food memoir, all love letter to France, this book follows `the nation's taster in chief' Felicity’s very own Tour de France, cycling 2,300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette.Read by Felicity Cloake. 9 hours 2 minutes. TB704372.Warfare and DefenceMilton, Giles. D-Day: The Soldiers' Story. 2018. TB24705.D-Day was the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The events of June 6, 1944 are told through the tales of survivors from all sides. We hear the stories of the teenage Allied conscript, the crack German defender, the French resistance fighter, the military architects at Supreme Headquarters, and the young schoolboy in the Wehrmacht's bunkers.Read by Giles Milton. 15 hours 51 minutes. TB24705.Humphreys, Richard. Under Pressure. 2019. TB704731.As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard joined the submarine service and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. This is the candid and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat - and stay sane - in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.Read by Richard Humphreys. 6 hours 49 minutes. TB704731.Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeRiordan, Jane. A Tree For Christmas. 2017. TB24980.Winnie-the-Pooh. It wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas tree but when Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set off to find the perfect tree in the Hundred Acre Wood they soon run into difficulties. But perhaps with the help of their friends Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl, they'll be able to make this a Christmas to remember after all.Read by Kris Dyer. 9 minutes. TB24980.05+ Suggested Reading AgeVan Allsburg, Chris. The Polar Express. 2015. TB24977.Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.Read by Christopher Ragland. 13 minutes. TB24977.07+ Suggested Reading AgeBrown, Eric. Space Ace. 2017. TB24856.Billy's grandfather is a retired astronaut who likes to take Billy on trips around planet Earth. But when the ship's computer takes over, they find themselves zooming away on a grand tour of the Solar System. But the computer system fails and Billy's grandfather is forced to pilot the ship manually through the treacherous asteroid belt. This is a dyslexic-friendly story filled with facts about the solar system. Read by Kris Dyer. 40 minutes. TB24856.Clarke, Jane. Blast-off! 2018. TB24911.Al's awesome science: book 3. It's the twins' birthday and Al and his friends are experimenting to find out how to blast off his time machine into outer space. Trouble is, fiddling with balloons and homemade rockets is very messy. When some extra baking powder accidentally spills onto the cake, it has some unexpected gassy consequences. Read by David Thorpe. 56 minutes. TB24911.Clarke, Jane. Busy Bodies! 2019. TB24914.Al's awesome science: book 4. Al is researching the effects on his body of travelling in a time machine. Trouble is it's hard to experiment without any mess, especially when your neighbour's cat Precious is in the same house with Al's naughty dog Einstein. 'Busy Bodies!' contains experiments about digestion, nutrition, facts about the body, balance and space travel.Read by David Thorpe. 55 minutes. TB24914.Hawken, Eleanor. Hell Hound Curse. 2014. TB24634.Sammy Feral's diaries of weird: book 3. Sammy Feral is a lucky boy. His family run a zoo and so he spends his spare time hanging out with orangutans, crocodiles and snakes. But his luck has just run out. His entire family has been infected with a werewolf virus. Now his mum, dad and sisters are howling at the moon, craving raw meat and, worst of all, trying to infect Sammy.Read by Stephen Perring. 3 hours 8 minutes. TB24634.Jones, Gareth P. Attack Of The Alien Dung! 2017. TB24877.Pet defenders: book 1. Planet Earth Is under constant threat from aliens, and who is there to protect its inhabitants? Why, our pets. When Dung Guzzler beetles arrive from the former star Dun-Glowing, things look bad: these things thrive on rubbish, and as they get bigger will happily trample whole cities to produce more rubble. How will agent Biskit and his new partner Mitzy the cat stop them? Read by David Thorpe. 1 hour 28 minutes. TB24877.McGowan, Anthony. Lark. 2019. TB24857.Barrington Stoke teen. Nicky and Kenny: book 4. Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Mum's coming to visit and it'll be the first time they've seen her in years. But when they head for a trek across the moors a series of unforeseen circumstances could leave the brothers in a vulnerable and very dangerous position. This book is particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers with an interest age of 13+ and a reading age of 8+.Read by Frazer Hadfield. 1 hour 49 minutes. TB24857.O'Connell, David. The Chocolate Factory Ghost. 2018. TB24607.Dundoodle mysteries: book 1. Archie McBudge knows his lucky pants really work, because when he and his mum go to the remote Scottish village of Dundoodle, they find he's inherited the world-famous McBudge Confectionery Company from Great-Uncle Archibald. But all is not well in Dundoodle, and when Archie reads the mysterious letter his great-uncle left him he finds himself on a quest to save his family's company. Read by Angus King. 3 hours 33 minutes. TB24607.Webb, Steve. Spangles McNasty And The Fish Of Gold. 2016. TB24875.Spangles McNasty: book 1. Spangles has decided to spend his summer collecting other people's spangly things! Having convinced themselves that goldfish are made of gold and that they grow to the size of whales, Spangles and his friend Sausage-face Pete decide to find the great Fish of Gold. Only young Freddie Taylor can stop Spangles' dastardly plan, in a tale full of time-travelling jet skis, madcap chases and haunted custard.Read by Alex Wingfield. 1 hour 49 minutes. TB24875Webb, Steve. Spangles McNasty And The Diamond Skull. 2018. TB24735.Spangles McNasty: book 3. Spangles is a horrid scallywag who likes to do yucky things like eat cold chips out of bins. So, it's no surprise that when the famous and very sparkly Diamond Skull pirate hat comes to Bitterly Bay Museum, Spangles and best mate Sausage-face Pete want to get their thieving fingers on it. But local boy and all-round good egg Freddie Taylor has a cunning plan.Read by Alex Wingfield. 2 hours 13 minutes. TB24735.09+ Suggested Reading AgeAlward, Amy. The Potion Diaries. 2015. TB24821.Potion Diaries: book 1. When the Princess of Nova accidentally poisons herself with a love potion meant for her crush, she falls in love with her own reflection. A nationwide hunt is called to find the cure. Enter Samantha, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent. She will have to compete with the dazzling powers of a megapharma company and have to decide how close she willing to get to Zain, her dashing enemy.Read by Antonia Whillans. 9 hours 9 minutes. TB24821.Davies, Valentine. Miracle On 34th Street. 2010. TB24906.Kris Kringle, forced out of a retirement home for refusing to deny he is Santa Claus, is hired as a Santa at Macy's in Manhattan. When Kris begins recommending that customers shop for the best deal, even if that sends them to competitors, people congratulate the store for its good will and business booms. Mr. Macy is happy about that...until some of his employees plot to get rid of him by having him declared insane.Read by Jeff Harding. 2 hours 53 minutes. TB24906.Hargrave, Kiran Millwood. The Way Past Winter. 2018. TB24736.Mila and her sisters live with their brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in the snow. One night, a fur-clad stranger arrives seeking shelter for himself and his men. But by the next morning, they've gone, taking Oskar with them. Fearful for his safety, Mila and her sisters set out to bring Oskar back. It means going north, crossing wild and frozen lands to find a way past an eternal winter.Read by Victoria Fox. 4 hours 34 minutes. TB24736.Young, Moira. The Road To Ever After. 2017. TB24808.Davy David, an orphan, lives by his wits in the dead-end town of Brownvale. A stray dog called George turns Davy's life upside down, forcing them to flee. A mischievous wind blows the two of them to a boarded-up museum where they meet the elderly recluse, Miss Flint. She has planned one last adventure before her time is up and hires the reluctant Davy and George to escort her.Read by Jane Perry. 4 hours 40 minutes. TB24808.13+ Suggested Reading AgeLucas, Rachael. The State Of Grace. 2017. TB24749.Fifteen-year-old Grace is funny and plain-spoken. Just because she has Asperger's doesn't mean she's great at maths (she's not) or can draw the Eiffel Tower from memory (she can't). She finds herself falling in with the cool crowd when the cutest boy in school likes her. But when things start to change at home the world doesn't make sense to her any more.Read by Gemma Lawrence. 6 hours 56 minutes. TB24749.Wegelius, Jakob. The Murderer's Ape. 2018. TB24811.Sally Jones is not only a loyal friend, she's an extraordinary individual. In overalls or in a maharaja's turban, this unique gorilla moves among humans without speaking, but understanding everything. She and the Chief are devoted comrades who operate a cargo boat. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, and the Chief is convicted of murder, Sally Jones embarks on a harrowing quest to clear his name.Read by Fenella Fudge. 13 hours 40 minutes. TB24811.15+ Suggested Reading AgeMayhew, Julie. The Electrical Venus. 2018. TB24832.In a side-show fair in eighteenth-century England, Mim is struggling to find her worth as an act. Not white, but not black enough to be truly exotic, her pet parrot who speaks four languages is a bigger draw than her. But then Dr Fox arrives with his kit for producing 'electrickery', feats of electrical magic these bawdy audiences have never seen before. To complete his act, Fox chooses Mim to play the 'Electrical Venus'. But is this starring role her true worth? 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