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New books Issue 54November 2016Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleMusicGiant printTalking books?Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Don’t press 1 for personal customer, but wait for optionsSelect Option 3 - advice on setting up one of our products or services including ad-hoc collectionsSelect Option 1 - to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections?ContentsBrailleAdult fictionAdult non- fictionAutobiographyBiographyDramaFood and DrinkHealth and FitnessHistoryLiteraturePopular ScienceReligionSportTravel and TourismChildren and young adult fictionGiant PrintAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographies and BiographiesFood and DrinkHistoryLiteratureNatural HistoryReligionTravel and TourismChildren and young adult fictionChildren and young adult non-fictionGeneral non-fictionEnglish LanguageNatural HistoryTransportDramaTalking BooksAdult fictionWelsh adult fictionVolunteer readAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyDramaHistoryMusicNatural HistoryPoetryPopular scienceReligionSocietyTransportTrue crimeWarfare and DefenceWelsh adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyChildren and young adult fictionWelsh children and young adult fictionBooks narrated by volunteersAdult FictionAdult Non-FictionAutobiography and biographyDramaFood and DrinkReligionSelf HelpTravel and Tourism?BrailleAdult fictionAllende, Isabel. The Japanese lover. 2015. General fiction.In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Francisco mansion. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener. Between them a tender love blossoms, but following Pearl Harbor the two are cruelly pulled apart. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world.UEB. 6v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25432203Allingham, Merryn. The girl from Cobb Street. 2015. Family stories.Daisy's war: book 1. 1938: Daisy Driscoll has been raised in an orphanage and is now struggling to make ends meet by working in London. At the outset of war, Daisy meets Gerald Mortimer and falls in love. Gerald is a cavalry subaltern in the Indian Army and is in London on leave. After his time with Daisy, he returns to India. Daisy, alone and pregnant, writes desperate letters to Gerald. Daisy's news reaches his Colonel's ears and Gerald is forced into marrying her. Daisy begins a new life with her husband but tragedy is about to strike.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25434303Alliott, Catherine. Wish you were here. 2015. Chick lit.When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham for a blissful break. But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too. With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25434003Archer, Jeffrey. Cometh the hour. 2016. Family stories.The Clifton chronicles: book 6. Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25495803Baldacci, David. Memory man. 2015. Crime.Amos Decker: book 1. When ex-detective Amos Decker returned home 18 months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murders, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25434003Brodrick, William. The sixth lamentation; a novel. 2004. Thriller.What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal.SEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25596502Brown, Sandra. Deadline. 2014. Thriller.Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the big story of Dawson's career and one in which he has a vested interest.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25459003Chadwick, Elizabeth. The winter crown. 2015. Historical fiction.Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 2. It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King Henry II battles for land across the channel, Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this, if only Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her, falling for a young mistress and leaving Eleanor sidelined and angry. Frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences.UEB. 10v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25433703Cleeves, Ann. The crow trap. 2010. Crime.Vera Stanhope: book 1. At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each know the meaning of betrayal. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide, a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture, the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25434703Cogman, Genevieve. The invisible library. 2015. Fantasy.Invisible Library: book 1. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25434103De Bernières, Louis. The dust that falls from dreams. 2015. General fiction.In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent. For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges. Torn between her love for two young men, one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?UEB. 10v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25431903Diamond, Lucy. The year of taking chances. 2015. Chick lit.In the small Suffolk village of Larkmead, Gemma is throwing a New Year's Eve party. It was supposed to be a small do but sociable husband Spencer has gone overboard with the invites and now the whole village is there. Caitlin has returned to the village where she spent her teenage years to pack up her much-missed mum's house and try and figure out what to do with her life; and Saffron, a PR whizz who is hiding a life-altering secret which no amount of spin can change. At the party, the three women meet over a glass or two of bubbly and pass around fortune cookies as Big Ben counts down to midnight. As the year unfolds the women come to lean on each other more and more as shocks, disappointments and rifts test them to their limits.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25426803Dillon, Lucy. One small act of kindness. 2015. Chick lit.When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious, passer-by Libby feels a sense of responsibility towards her. She was the one who called the ambulance, after all. When the woman comes round, she's suffered complete temporary memory loss. Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days at the rundown B&B she and her husband Jason are trying to convert into a chic romantic hideaway. But as the women's friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they're calling her, starts to get the feeling she was looking for someone.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25431303Douglas, Donna. The Nightingale girls. 2012. General fiction.Nightingale girls: book 1. Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In fact she is in the formidable shadow of her overbearing mother, who dominates every aspect of her life. Can a nursing career free Helen at last? The third of our heroines is naughty, rebellious Millie, an aristocrat on the run from her conventional upper class life.UEB. 8v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25427303Evans, Harriet. A place for us. 2015. Family stories.The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer's day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can't be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn't you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter's family is finally coming home.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25427403Evans, Nicholas. The loop. 1998. General fiction."The loop" is the story of Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old biologist sent alone to protect the wolves, in a sleepy mountain town in Montana, from those who seek to destroy them. It tells of her struggle for self-esteem and survival, and charts her dangerous love affair with the eighteen-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.SEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25580102Fellowes, Julian. Belgravia. 2016. Historical fiction.On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For Sophia Trenchard, the young and beautiful daughter of Wellington's chief supplier, this night will change everything. But it is only twenty-five years later, when the upwardly mobile Trenchards move into the fashionable new area of Belgravia, that the true repercussions of that moment will be felt. For in this new world, where the aristocracy rub shoulders with the emerging nouveau riche, there are those who would prefer the secrets of the past to remain buried.UEB. 8v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25548003Finnigan, Judy. I do not sleep. 2015. General fiction.Five years ago, Molly Gabriel lost her twenty-year-old son, Joey, to a terrible sailing accident. His empty boat was washed ashore on the rocks but his body was never found. Now, Molly has returned to the sands of Cornwall haunted by his disappearance, unable to accept he is gone. Joey was an experienced sailor and died on a calm sea. Things just don't add up and Molly cannot let it go. Desperate for answers, she turns to Joey's best friend, Ben, to go back to what really happened that day.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25424503Flynn, Katie. Rainbow's end. 2013. Family stories.Liverpool, 1904. When Ada Docherty gives birth to twins, Deidre and Donal, in her tiny house in Evangelist Court, she has no choice but to make Ellen, her eldest daughter, bring them up, for she must work to feed seven hungry mouths. But in Dublin, Maggie McVeigh's lot is even harder, for she sleeps on straw in a tumbledown tenement. When a local woman, Mrs Nolan, needs someone to look after her sons, Maggie takes on the job and finds security and comfort and love, too, with the eldest boy, Liam. This is the story of two families struggling through poverty and hardship to reach their Rainbow's End.UEB. 9v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25427003Forster, Margaret. Have the men had enough?. 1989. Family stories.In this story of female courage, black comedy turns to disturbing pathos as the rights of Mrs McKay are fought over. As generations and sexes clash, "Have the men had enough?" tells us truths at many levels. At once funny, moving and compelling, it is a portrait of an indomitable grandmother and a very special love story.SEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25580202Galbraith, Robert. Career of evil. 2015. Crime. Cormoran Strike: book 3. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.UEB. 9v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25432403Grafton, Sue. A is for alibi. 2007. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 1. When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. Plenty of people in the picturesque Southern California town of Santa Teresa had reason to want him dead. Including, thought the cops, his young and beautiful wife, Nikki. With motive, access and opportunity, Nikki was their number one suspect. The Jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki Fife hires Kinsey Millhone to find out who really killed her husband. But the trail has gone cold and there is a chilling twist even Kinsey didn’t expect.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25483803Gray, Alex. Never somewhere else. 2009. Crime.Lorimer and Brightman: book 1. When three young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer. Frustrated by a lack of progress in the investigation, Lorimer is forced to enlist the services of Dr Solomon Brightman, psychologist and criminal profiler. Together they form an uneasy alliance.Contains violence.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25431505Green, Hilary. Now is the hour. 2008. General fiction.Follies: book 1. In an empty theatre at the end of the pier the cast of the Fairbourne Follies gathers round the radio to hear Neville Chamberlain declare war on Germany. Four firm friends are forced to part. Rose, the beautiful dancer, must return to her family in London and the blitz, leaving singer Richard to enlist in the army with their relationship still unresolved. Gay, asthmatic Merry, the musical director, is destined for the army too, while the object of his unrequited love, charismatic magician, Felix, chooses the RAF. With the threat of capture, injury and death ever present, the four of them will have to find reserves of courage, love and endurance that they did not know they possessed.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25427503Griffiths, Elly. The house at Sea's End. 2011. Crime.Ruth Galloway: book 3. Dr Ruth Galloway is called in by a team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, when they unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. Ruth and DCI Nelson are drawn together once more to unravel the past. Tests reveal that the bodies have lain, preserved in the sand, for sixty years. The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War, a time when Great Britain was threatened by invasion. But someone wants the truth to stay buried, and will go to any lengths to keep it that way.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25483603Grylls, Bear. Ghost flight. 2015. Adventure.Ghost flight: book 1. Haunted by his wife and son's brutal abduction and murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs to the ends of the earth to recover and to hide. But even there he is found, and compelled to undertake one last mission, and to confront a savage past he can barely even remember. Jaeger agrees to lead an expedition into the Mountains of the Gods in the remote Amazon jungle. At the dark heart of this real life Lost World lies a mystery WWII warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive its very discovery may tear the world asunder.UEB. 8v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25426903Hardie, Mark. Burned and broken. 2016. Crime.An enigmatic policeman, currently the subject of an internal investigation, is found burned to death in his car on the Southend sea front. A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover the truth behind the sudden death of her best friend. As DS Frank Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex Police Major Investigation Team are brought in to solve the mystery that surrounds their colleague's death, they're under intense pressure to crack the case without damaging the force's reputation.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25572303Hurley, Andrew Michael. The loney. 2015. Horror.If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney, that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden forever, no matter how much I wanted it to.UEB. 5v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25453103Iggulden, Conn. The field of swords. 2011. Historical fiction.Emperor: book 3. Julius Caesar has taken his legions north to battle the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his one true friendship. Marcus Brutus was instrumental in the conquest of Gaul and so in restoring Caesar’s reputation as a hero of Rome. But after decades standing side by side, will they choose to cross the Rubicon together? Are they both willing to take the fight to Rome herself?UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25481603James, P. D. Original sin. 1994. Crime.Adam Dalgliesh: book 9. This story is set in a publishing firm, the Peverell Press. Chairman, Henry Peverell has just died, his French partner Jean-Philippe Etienne, has retired and Etienne's ruthless son Gerard has taken over as chairman and managing director. He has enemies: a discarded mistress, a humiliated author, his colleagues and threatened members of his staff. When he is found dead on the premises, his body desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects.SEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25596602Jones, Sadie. Fallout. 2015. General fiction.Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company. Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognises a soul in danger and loyalty, friendship, everything he has fought for, is drawn into the heat of their collision.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25434503Keyes, Marian. The woman who stole my life. 2015. Chick lit.Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year, touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side, she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25441603Killen, Chris. In real life. 2015. General fiction.For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn't look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be. For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story.Contains swear words.UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25434403Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's lover. 1973. Classic.Banned in 1928, and when it was published here in 1960, this frank depiction of a young woman's sensual awakening was at the centre of a sensational obscenity trial in 1963. Constance Chatterley is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly paralysed as her husband. Oppressed by her dreary life, she finds refuge and regeneration in the arms of Mellors the game-keeper.SEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25596202Lethbridge, Ann. Captured countess. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. Nicoletta, the Countess Vilandry, is on a dangerous mission, to lure fellow spy Gabriel D'Arcy into bed and into revealing his true loyalties. With such sensual games at play, and such strong sensations awakened, suddenly Nicky's dangerously close to exposing her real identity. Gabe knows the Countess has been sent to seduce him. The only question is to what end? He's never met such a captivating woman and he's determined to enjoy every seductive second she spends as his very willing captive.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25441403McBride, Eimear. A girl is a half-formed thing. 2013. General fiction.Eimear McBride's novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother after a tumour leaves him severely brain-damaged. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and sensual urges of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read 'A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing' is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.UEB. 4v. Price: ?10.00. Order No: 25429003Montefiore, Santa. The swallow and the hummingbird. 2014. Romance.When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. How long should Rita wait for the love of her life?UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25433903Mortimer, Carole. The redemption of Darius Sterne. 2015. Mills and Boon romance.The twin tycoons: book 1. Having built a global empire synonymous with excellence, formidable tycoon Darius Sterne is a man who gets what he wants. Always. And right now? He wants ex-ballerina Miranda Jacobs, in his bed and sighing his name in pleasure. Virginal Miranda can’t resist the allure of the brooding billionaire. But the closer he pulls her, the more Darius threatens the barriers she’s carefully constructed to conceal the scars of her past. Yet Miranda isn’t the only one with pain to hide. Can her pure love dance into his heart, and redeem the dark and damaged Darius Sterne?UEB. 3v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 25442303Parsons, Tony. The murder bag. 2015. Crime.Max Wolfe: book 1. There's a serial killer on the loose. He cuts throats. And he is good at it. 20 years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field, founded 500 years ago by King Henry VIII. Suddenly they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city all the way to the corner rooms in the corridors of power. At enormous personal cost, what Wolfe uncovers is a horrific secret that has been buried for two decades and is now ready to explode.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25441903Patterson, James. Private Berlin. 2013. Thriller.Private: book 5. Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she’s seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris, her colleague, is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. Mattie soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris’s childhood friends, one by one, and destroying the trail. But who wants the past buried so badly?UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25425003Patterson, James. Private down under. 2014. Thriller.Private: book 6. With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigating agency like Private. A horrific murder in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney stretches the newly formed Australian team to the limit. And if they don’t catch the killer soon, the next victim could be someone close to Private.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25425103Quinn, Anthony. Curtain call, or, The distinguished thing: a novel. 2015. General fiction.On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she's not supposed to be at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she may have seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed the 'Tie-Pin Killer' she realises that another woman's life could be at stake.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25441705Rankin, Ian. The falls. 2001. Crime.Inspector Rebus: book 12. A student has gone missing in Edinburgh, the daughter of influential bankers. Inspector Rebus feels that this is more than another missing case. When a doll is found in a six-inch coffin in her village, along with an internet role-playing game, his fears prove well founded.SEB. 11v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25596702Saintcrow, Lilith. The iron wyrm affair. 2012. Fantasy.Bannon and Clare: book 1. London's geniuses are being picked off by a vicious killer, and Emma Bannon, a sorceress in the service of the Empire, must protect the next target, Archibald Clare. Unfortunately he's more interested in solving the mystery of the murders than staying alive.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25442203Saintcrow, Lilith. The red plague affair. 2013. Fantasy.Bannon and Clare: book 2. After defeating a clockwork army bent upon regicide, Emma Bannon and Archibald Clare have come to respect each other's skills. So when the Queen asks Emma to track down a missing doctor who holds the key to a deadly weapon, Archibald's deductive talent may be just what she needs to find the man.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25441503Sheldon, Sidney. The sands of time. 1989. General fiction.This is the tale of four nuns who are abruptly forced to flee the secure environment of their Spanish convent and face a hostile world they long ago abandoned. Suddenly these four women find themselves pawns in a violent struggle between the outlawed Basque underground movement, led by the charismatic Jaime Moir, and the Spanish army.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25580002Sparks, Nicholas. See me. 2015. Romance.Colin Hancock is focused on getting his teaching degree and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his past. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when he crosses paths with Maria Sanchez one rain-swept night, his carefully structured life is turned upside down. Before the couple has a chance to envision a life together, menacing reminders from events in Maria's past begin to surface.UEB. 9v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25431403Tait, Vanessa. The looking glass house. 2015. Historical fiction.Oxford, 1862. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be the person to transform her life. Flattered by his attentions, Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just an overlooked, dowdy governess. One sunny day, as Mary chaperones the Liddells on a punting trip, Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson's muse and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvey in pursuit of her obsession.UEB. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25434203Vincenzi, Penny. No angel. 2001. Family stories.Lytton dynasty: book 1. The first book of this family saga introduces the reader to the Lytton family, who own a publishing house in the years before World War II. Oliver and his wife, Lady Celia, have three children, Giles, Elspeth and Kit, and this story is about their secrets, lies, ruthlessness and ambition.SEB. 18v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25596102Watson, Mark. Hotel Alpha. 2015. General fiction.Three decades ago, the charismatic Howard York built the empire of his dreams: the Hotel Alpha. Graham, the Alpha's concierge, has been behind the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has witnessed every stage of its history. Chas, Howard's blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. But both of them must now accept that the Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want, and that Howard's vision has been built on secrets as well as dreams.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25433803Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. 2014. Western.Will Andrews drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere and full of restless men looking for ways to make money. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with a man who convinces him to fund an expedition to track down buffalo in the Colorado Rockies.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25434603Williams, Tennessee. A streetcar named Desire. 1984.In this play, which blends pathos with a sense of decadence, a recently widowed, faded Southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law, in the French quarter of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a complete mental breakdown due to the insensitivity of those around her.SEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25588702Willis, Connie. Doomsday book. 2012. Science fiction.A woman travels back through time to complete her doctoral thesis but, due to an accident, she lands in the middle of the Black Plague of 1348. The Oxford she left behind is laid low by a mysterious strain of influenza and, with no-one willing to risk arranging her rescue, time is running out.UEB. 12v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25442503Adult non- fictionAutobiographyBellingham, Lynda. There's something I've been dying to tell you. 2015.In 2013, actress, television personality and Sunday Times bestselling author, Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. In this memoir, Lynda talks with beautiful poignancy about her life since her diagnosis, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn't planned. This is a brave and brutally honest memoir and yet even when talking about these deeply personal experiences, Lynda manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour bringing light to a very dark time.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25448203Gregg, Victor. Rifleman: a front-line life from Alamein and Dresden to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2011.Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting to escape and burning down a factory, only the allies' infamous raid on the city the night before his execution saved his life. This is the story of a true survivor.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25426603Uhlberg, Myron. Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love. [2009]Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighbourhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25449403Zamperini, Louis. Devil at my heels: a heroic Olympian's astonishing story of survival as a Japanese POW in World War II. 2014.Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mile record at USC that stood for 20 years. When war came he left the track for a B24, a move that would have heartbreaking consequences.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25432103BiographyPelzer, Dave. A man named Dave. 2001."A Man Named Dave" is the conclusion to Dave Pelzer's trilogy of memoirs. With extraordinary generosity of spirit, Dave takes us on his journey confronting his past. In a dramatic reunion he confronts his father and ultimately faces the mother who so brutally abused him. Finally Dave finds the courage to break the chains of the past and learn to love, trust and live for the future.SEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25595902DramaAristophanes. Lysistrata and other plays: The Acharnians, The clouds, Lysistrata. 2002.Aristophanes was a contemporary of Socrates and the last and greatest of the old Attic comedians, but unfortunately only 11 of his plays survive. Of these, this title contains three: 'Lysistrata', 'The Acharnians', and 'The Clouds'. In Lysistrata, the titular heroine persuades the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands, forcing them to end the Peloponnesian War; and in The Archanians, a lone peasant enters into a private peace treaty with the Spartans, much to the chagrin of his fellow Athenians. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirises Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25482103Food and DrinkGwynn, Mary. The WI cookbook: the first 100 years. [2015]As the Women's Institute turns 100, this book, curated by food journalist Mary Gwynn, brings together the 100 best loved members' recipes nationwide. Organised decade by decade, and setting each recipe in its historical and social context, it spans everything from jams and preserves to main courses, puddings and bakes. Nostalgic favourites like Toad in the Hole and Kedgeree feature alongside contemporary hits such as Lamb Pot Roast with Nettle Champ and Italian Lamb with Roasted Sweet Peppers. Here are recipes created during the war to make the most of limited supplies (like Stuffed Cod Steak and Apple and Fig Roll) and ideas to overcome the challenges of food rationing (like Elderberry and Apple Jelly and Corned Beef Hash) to current day recipes such as Venison Steaks with Quick Bearnaise Sauce and finally the WI's own signature cake: The Centenary Fruit Cake from North Yorkshire.UEB. 4v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25432303Health and FitnessMeadows, Guy. The sleep book: how to sleep well every night. 2014.Supported by case studies, background information, exercises, key summaries and client testimonials, and enhanced with illustrations and visual aids, The Sleep Book teaches a revolutionary new method for combating insomnia. The Sleep Book is the sum of a doctorate degree in sleep and well over 12,000 hours spent working with more than 2,000 insomniacs in one-to-one clinics, workshops and retreat environments.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25419803HistoryBryson, Bill. A short history of nearly everything. 2003.This book is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.SEB. 9v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 25567902Hodge, Susie. Secrets of the Knights Templar: the hidden history of the world's most powerful order. 2013.The Knights Templar is one of the most secretive and powerful religious orders in history: for over two centuries they were the elite fighting force of the Crusades. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them both wealth and political influence. But it is the legends and secrecy surrounding the order and its Grand Masters that continue to fascinate historians and general readers alike. This book examines each of these mysteries in turn to reveal the truth about the Knights' secret practices, rituals and codes, as well as the continued influence of the Templars today.UEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25431103Langley, Philippa. The king's grave: the search for Richard III. 2014.In an incredible find, Richard III's remains have been uncovered beneath a car park in Leicester. In alternate chapters, Philippa Langley, whose years of research and belief that she would find Richard in this exact spot, reveals the inside story of the search for the king's grave, and historian Michael Jones tells of Richard's 15th-century life and death. The result is a portrayal of one of our greatest archaeological discoveries, allowing a complete re-evaluation of our most controversial monarch - one that discards the distortions of later Tudor histories and puts the man firmly back into the context of his times.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25449203Sides, Hampton. In the kingdom of ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette. 2015.In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. But it was not long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice. Battling everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition fought madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25449103Summers, Julie. Jambusters: the story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War. 2015.The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. With all the vigour, energy and enthusiasm at their disposal, a third of a million country women set out to make their lives and the lives of those around them more bearable in what they described as 'a period of insanity'. Jambusters tells the story of the minute and idiosyncratic details of everyday life during the Second World War. Making jam, making do and mending, gathering rosehips, keeping pigs and rabbits, housing evacuees, setting up canteens for the troops, knitting, singing and campaigning for a better Britain after the war: all these activities played a crucial role in war time.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25448403LiteratureDouglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland. 2015.Drawing on previously unpublished material, 'The Story of Alice' illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books, examining the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. It analyses how their relationship influenced the creation of Wonderland, how the two Alice books took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era, and why 150 years later they continue to enthrall and delight us.UEB. 11v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25431203Popular ScienceWright, Lawrence. Twins: genes, environment and the mystery of human identity. 1997.How do we become who we are? How free are we to decide on the directions of our lives? Given the moral injunctions against experimentation on humans, the experiences of twins, identical in their genes, upbringing or both, are crucial evidence in answering these questions and in understanding our sense of free will and individual identity.SEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25595802ReligionArmstrong, Karen. Fields of blood: religion and the history of violence. 2015.Countering the atheist claim that believers are by default violent fanatics and religion is the cause of all major wars, Karen Armstrong demonstrates that religious faith is not inherently violent. In fact, the world's major religions have throughout their history displayed ambivalent attitudes towards aggression and warfare. At times they have allied themselves with states and empires for protection or to further their influence; at others they have tried to curb state oppression and aggression and worked for peace and justice.UEB. 14v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25449003SportOborne, Peter. Wounded tiger: the history of cricket in Pakistan. 2014.The story of Pakistan cricket is filled with triumph and tragedy. In recent years, it has been threatened by the same problems affecting Pakistan itself: fallout from the 'war on terror', sectarian violence, corruption, crises in health and education, and a shortage of effective leaders. But for all its troubles, cricket gives all Pakistanis a chance to excel and express themselves, a sense of identity and a cause for pride in their country.UEB. 14v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25582602Travel and TourismBryson, Bill. The road to Little Dribbling: more notes from a small island. 2015.In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The trip resulted in the book 'Notes from a Small Island'. Now, Bill Bryson sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath on the northernmost tip of Scotland. Once again, he will guide us through all that's best and worst about Britain today.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25431803Balding, Clare. Walking home. 2015.Clare Balding is on a mission to discover Britain and Ireland. She's conquered over 1,500 miles of footpaths, from the Pennine Way to the South-west Coast Path. As well as blisters and a twisted ankle, she's walked with extraordinary people. In Walking Home she shares these stories and tells of more (mis)adventures with her family and her wayward Tibetan terrier Archie. Along the way there are beguiling diversions and life-changing rambles.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25448603Macfarlane, Robert. Landmarks. 2015.Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it.UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25449303Children and young adult fiction0-4 suggested reading ageMurphy, Jill. Five minutes' peace: celebrating thirty years of the large family. 2016.This is the story of Mrs Large the elephant, who just needs five minutes of peace and quiet away from her boisterous children. So, taking refuge in the bathroom, she fills herself a hot, foamy bubble bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast and the morning paper. But there's never a dull moment with the Larges, and it soon becomes clear that mum's quiet time is to be very short-lived!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25584303Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25584305Rosen, Michael. We're going on a bear hunt. 2013.Follow the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of the bear. What a surprise awaits in the cave on the other side of the dark forest.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25584403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2558440505+ suggested reading ageGaiman, Neil. The day I swapped my dad for two goldfish. 2005.When a boy swaps his dad for two goldfish he does not really think through the consequences! After all, he is not the only person who can swap stuff. When the boy is told by his mother that he has to get his father back it is not so easily done. It seems that the father has a pretty high value as he has been traded by one child to the next leaving a trail that the son has to follow. Where will it all end?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 2v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 2559290309+ suggested reading ageLewis, C.S. The horse and his boy. 1954.Chronicles of Narnia: book 3. Shasta, a boy on the verge of being sold into slavery, meets Bree, a talking horse who has been kidnapped from Narnia and longs to return there. Together they decide to run away in search of his beloved home. They flee on a wild and dangerous journey through strange cities, eerie tombs and harsh deserts -- in search of Narnia, where there is freedom and safety.SEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25596002Thorne, Jack. Harry Potter and the cursed child. 2016.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.UEB. 4v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25587803Wilson, Jacqueline. Buried alive! 1998.Tim and Biscuit are having a brilliant holiday in Wales. Life is full of ice cream, sandcastles and picnics – until they meet the horrid bully Prickle -Head and his side-kick Pinch-Face. Just as they are about to despair, reinforcements arrive in an unexpected form. SEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25596402Wilson, Jacqueline. Katy. 2015.Katy Carr is a lively, daredevil oldest sister in a big family. She loves messing around outdoors, climbing on the garage roof, or up a tree, cycling, skateboarding, and swinging. But her life changes in dramatic and unexpected ways after a serious accident. Inspired by the classic novel, What Katy Did, Jacqueline Wilson creates a modern version for the twenty-first-century.UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25426503Also available in uncontracted braille. 10v. Order No: 2542650513+ suggested reading ageDawson, James. Hollow Pike. 2012.Lis London is hoping for a fresh start when she arrives in the sleepy village of Hollow Pike but nothing here is as it seems. Lis has a recurring nightmare where someone is trying to kill her. A ritual murder in the woods, just like her dream, makes Lis think she might be next to die.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25451303Gardner, Graham. Inventing Elliot. 2004.Elliot is determined to reinvent himself at his new school. This time he will be so cool that no bully will touch him. But he is too successful. Taken up by the Guardians, a mysterious group who control and manipulate others to create a reign of terror, he is invited to become one of them.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25455903Hartinger, Brent. Geography Club. 2004.Russel Middlebrook: book 1. Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active friend, Ike. But how can kids this diverse get together without drawing attention to themselves?UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.54. Order No: 25456603Kate, Lauren. Teardrop. 2014.Teardrop: book 1. Never, ever cry - Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn't, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has before. But Ander doesn't know Eureka's darkest secret: ever since her mother drowned in a freak accident, Eureka wishes she were dead, too.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25413803Kate, Lauren. Waterfall. 2014.Teardrop: book 2. Eureka's tears have flooded the earth and now Atlantis is rising, along with its evil king, Atlas. Eureka is the only one who can stop him but first she must learn how to fight. She travels across the ocean with Ander to try and make sense of the dark world her sorrow has created. Will she be strong enough to defeat Atlas, or is her broken heart just what he needs to power his rising kingdom?UEB. 7v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25414203Levithan, David. Boy meets boy. 2006.Paul has been gay his whole life and he's confident about almost everything. He doesn't have to hide his feelings like best friend Tony. Or even cope with loving the wrong guy like his other best friend Joni. But heartbreak can happen to anyone. Falling in love changes everything.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25451203London, Alex. Proxy. 2014.Knox was born into one of the city's wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want, the latest tech, the coolest clothes and a Proxy to take all his punishments. When Knox breaks a vase, Syd is beaten. When Knox plays a practical joke, Syd is forced to haul rocks. And when Knox crashes a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is branded and sentenced to death. Syd is a Proxy. His life is not his own. Then again, neither is Knox's.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25448303S?enz, Benjamin Alire. Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe. 2014.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When they meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the two loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special kind of friendship, the kind of friendship that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through their friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and about the kind of people they want to be.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25452003Wilson, Jacqueline. Girls out late. 1999.Girls: book 3. Will Russell stay interested in Ellie when she has to be home by nine? Ellie's dad says she has to be home by nine o'clock, but while she's out with her best friends, Magda and Nadine, she meets a boy. Will Russell stay interested in a girl who has to be home by nine?SEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2559630215+ suggested reading ageManning, Sarra. Pretty things. 2005.Brie is in love with Lancome Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories and Charlie, her gay best friend. But Charlie is in love with 1960's pop art, 1980s teen movies and serial heartbreaker, Walker. Walker has only ever been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy. And Daisy is far too busy hating everyone to know what love is. This is a story about kissing people you shouldn't, falling in love and off your heels, and breaking hearts because there's nothing to watch on telly.UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25451503?Giant PrintAdult fictionAllende, Isabel. The Japanese lover. 2015. General fiction. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her overseas to live with an aunt and uncle in their opulent San Francisco mansion. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda, the son of the family's Japanese gardener. Between them a tender love blossoms, but following Pearl Harbor the two are cruelly pulled apart. Throughout their lifetimes, Alma and Ichimei reunite again and again, but theirs is a love they are forever forced to hide from the world. 3v.Alliott, Catherine. Wish you were here. 2015. Chick lit.When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the south of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. They exchange the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future for a blissful break . But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming too. With James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.4v.Baldacci, David. Memory man. 2015. Crime.Amos Decker: book 1. When ex-detective Amos Decker returned home 18 months ago to find the bodies of his wife and only daughter, he didn't think he could carry on living. Overwhelmed with grief, he saw his life spiral out of control, losing his job, his house and his self-respect. But when his former partner in the police visits to tell him that someone has confessed to the murders, he knows he owes it to his wife and child to seek justice for them.5v.Beatty, Paul. The sellout. 2016. General fiction.Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens, on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. When his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, all that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.3v.Binchy, Maeve. Light a penny candle. 2006. Family stories.As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there that she met Aisling, who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell and carried her through the painful end of her parents' chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. Through the years, they believed they could survive anything, as long as they had each other. Now they're about to find out if they were right.8v.Burnet, Graeme Macrae. His bloody project. 2015. Historical crime.A brutal triple murder in a remote northern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of Roderick Macrae, a seventeen-year-old from the village. There s no question that he is guilty, but why did he commit the crime? Was he insane? Whose account should we believe? And will he hang? The story is recounted through Roderick Macrae's memoir, trial transcripts, and newspaper reports.3v.Chadwick, Elizabeth. The winter crown. 2015. Historical fiction.Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 2. It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King Henry II battles for land across the channel, Eleanor fulfils her duty as acting ruler and bearer of royal children. But she wants to be more than this, if only Henry would let her. Instead, Henry belittles and excludes her, falling for a young mistress and leaving Eleanor sidelined and angry. Frustrated at Henry's hoarding of power, Eleanor is forced into a rebellion of devastating consequences.6v.Cleeves, Ann. The crow trap. 2010.Crime.Vera Stanhope: book1. At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each know the meaning of betrayal. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, where she discovers the body of her friend, Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide, a verdict Rachael refuses to accept. When another death occurs, a fourth woman enters the picture, the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope.5v.Coetzee, J. M. The schooldays of Jesus. 2016. Literary fiction.Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, Davíd is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of.3v.Cogman, Genevieve. The invisible library. 2015. Fantasy.Invisible Library: book 1. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai , she's posted to an alternative London . Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic.4v.Croft, Kathryn. The stranger within. 2014. Thriller.On the surface, Callie Harwell has it all. Newly married to James, she finally gets the family she has longed for and becomes a mother to his two sons. So why is she arrested for murder? Things are not as Callie hoped they would be and she struggles to be accepted as part of James’ family, and to keep hidden the secrets that could destroy her future. As her life spirals out of control, setting in motion a chain of events with devastating consequences, Callie is forced to question how well we ever really know ourselves.2v.De Bernières, Louis. The dust that falls from dreams. 2015. General Fiction.In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic and eccentric household in Kent. For Rosie, the path ahead is full of challenges. Torn between her love for two young men, one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace, she has to navigate her way through extraordinary times. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?6v.Dillon, Lucy. One small act of kindness. 2015. Chick lit.When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious, passer-by Libby feels a sense of responsibility towards her. She was the one who called the ambulance, after all. When the woman comes round, she's suffered complete temporary memory loss. Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days at the rundown B&B she and her husband Jason are trying to convert into a chic romantic hideaway. But as the women's friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they're calling her, starts to get the feeling she was looking for someone.5v.Douglas, Donna. The Nightingale girls. 2012. General fiction.Nightingale girls: book 1. Three very different girls sign up as student nurses in 1936, while England is still mourning the death of George V. Dora is a tough East Ender, driven by ambition, but also desperate to escape her squalid, overcrowded home and her abusive stepfather. Helen is the quiet one, a mystery to her fellow nurses, avoiding fun, gossip and the limelight. In fact she is in the formidable shadow of her overbearing mother, who dominates every aspect of her life. Can a nursing career free Helen at last? The third of our heroines is naughty, rebellious Millie, an aristocrat on the run from her conventional upper class life.5v.Edwards, Mark. Follow you home. 2015. Thriller.It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home. Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, they realise they are in terrible danger and that their nightmare is just beginning.3v.Erskine, Barbara. Daughters of fire. 2007. Historical fiction.The Romans are landing in Britannia. Cartimandua, the young woman destined to rule the great Brigantes tribe, watches the invaders come ever closer. In the present day, historian Viv Lloyd Rees has immersed herself in the legends surrounding the Celtic queen. Viv struggles to hide her visions of Cartimandua and her conviction that they are real. But her obsession becomes more persistent when she finds an ancient brooch that carries a curse. Bitter rivalries and overwhelming passions are reawakened as past envelops present and Viv finds herself in the greatest danger of her life.7v.Evans, Harriet. A place for us. 2015. Family stories.The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer's day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can't be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn't you pay any price to have a glorious place like this? Welcome to Winterfold. Martha Winter's family is finally coming home.5v.Fellowes, Julian. Belgravia. 2016. Historical fiction.On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For Sophia Trenchard, the young and beautiful daughter of Wellington's chief supplier, this night will change everything. But it is only twenty-five years later, when the upwardly mobile Trenchards move into the fashionable new area of Belgravia, that the true repercussions of that moment will be felt. For in this new world, where the aristocracy rub shoulders with the emerging nouveau riche, there are those who would prefer the secrets of the past to remain buried.5v.Flynn, Katie. Rainbow's end. 2013. Family stories.Liverpool, 1904. When Ada Docherty gives birth to twins, Deidre and Donald, in her tiny house in Evangelist Court, she has no choice but to make Ellen, her eldest daughter, bring them up, for she must work to feed seven hungry mouths. But in Dublin, Maggie McVeigh's lot is even harder, for she sleeps on straw in a tumbledown tenement. When a local woman, Mrs. Nolan, needs someone to look after her sons, Maggie takes on the job and finds security and comfort and love, too, with the eldest boy, Liam. This is the story of two families struggling through poverty and hardship to reach their Rainbow's End.5v.Forster, E. M. Maurice. 2005. Classic. Gay fiction.Maurice is born into a privileged way of life, conforming to social conventions, yet he finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, a Cambridge friend, and Alec, the gamekeeper, he experiences a sexual awakening.3v.Franklin, Ariana. Winter siege. 2014. Historical fiction.1141. A mercenary watches from the icy reeds as a little girl with red hair is attacked by his own men. He is powerless to stop them. But a strange twist of fate brings them together again. Sheltering in a church, he finds the girl freezing cold, close to death, clutching a sliver of parchment. And now he is certain of what he must do. He will bring her back to life. He will train her to fight. And he will protect her from the man who calls himself a monk, who lost a piece of parchment he will do anything to get back.4v.Franzen, Jonathan. Purity. 2015. Literary fiction.Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life.7v.Galbraith, Robert. Career of evil. 2015. Crime.Cormoran Strike: book 3. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.6v.Goodwin, Rosie. Dancing till midnight. 2006. Family stories.Grace Collins, orphaned as a child, has been brought up by her severely religious aunt, Emily. Starved of love, she falls for the first man who shows her affection. Then she discovers the joy of ballroom dancing, and she meets Philip, who sweeps her off her feet and promises to show her a better way of life. But as he draws her into a web of deceit, she discovers that all that glitters is not gold.5v.Hardie, Mark. Burned and broken. 2016. Crime.An enigmatic policeman, currently the subject of an internal investigation, is found burned to death in his car on the Southend sea front. A vulnerable young woman, fresh out of the care system, is trying to discover the truth behind the sudden death of her best friend. As DS Frank Pearson and DC Catherine Russell from the Essex Police Major Investigation Team are brought in to solve the mystery that surrounds their colleague's death, they're under intense pressure to crack the case without damaging the force's reputation.3v.Hurley, Andrew Michael. The loney. 2015. Horror.If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney, that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to.4v.Jones, Sadie. Fallout. 2015. General fiction.Luke Kanowski is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. Arriving in London, he meets Paul Driscoll, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh Radley. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company. Nina Jacobs is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognises a soul in danger and loyalty, friendship, everything he has fought for, is drawn into the heat of their collision.4v.Kennedy, A. L. Serious sweet. 2016. Literary fiction.A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts and a man of conscience. Meg Williams is a bankrupt accountant. She’s 45 and shakily sober, living on Telegraph Hill, where she can see London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety. As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London, they pass through 24 hours that will change them both forever. Contains swear words.5v.Keyes, Marian. The woman who stole my life. 2015. Chick lit.Stella Sweeny is back in Dublin. After living the dream in New York for a year, touring her self-help book, appearing on talk shows all over the USA and living it up in her 10-room duplex on the Upper West Side, she's back to normality with a bang. And she's got writer's block.5v.Killen, Chris. In real life. 2015. General fiction.For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn't look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be. For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story. Contains swear words.3v.Lethbridge, Ann. Captured countess. 2014. Mills & Boon historical.Nicoletta, the Countess Vilandry, is on a dangerous mission, to lure fellow spy Gabriel D'Arcy into bed and into revealing his true loyalties. With such sensual games at play, and such strong sensations awakened, suddenly Nicky's dangerously close to exposing her real identity. Gabe knows the Countess has been sent to seduce him. The only question is to what end? He's never met such a captivating woman and he's determined to enjoy every seductive second she spends as his very willing captive.3v.Levy, Deborah. Hot milk. 2016. Literary fiction.Two women arrive in a Spanish village, a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean, seeking medical advice and salvation. One suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective, struggling to understand her mother's illness. Searching for a cure to a defiant and quite possibly imagined disease, ever more entangled in the seductive, mercurial games of those around her, Sofia finally comes to confront and reconcile the disparate fragments of her identity.2v.McLaughlin, Emma. Between you and me. 2013. Family stories.Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade has built a life for herself in New York City, far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. But when she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant, it's an offer she can't refuse. Yet the joy at their reunion is overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her controlling parents. As Kelsey grasps desperately at a "real" life, Logan risks everything to try and give her cousin the one thing she has never known, happiness.3v.McGuire, Ian. The north water. 2016. Historical fiction.Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle in 1859. Also aboard is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this ill-fated voyage. In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act.3v.Mallory, Sarah. Pride in Regency Society. 2014. Mills and Boon romance.When young widow Evelina Wylder comes face to face with her dashing captain husband, very much alive, she’s shocked, overjoyed and furious. So, whatever his explanation for his outrageous deception, she’ll keep Nick firmly out of their marriage bed. The earl's runaway bride: Felicity’s husband, dashing Major Nathan Carraway, has disappeared into war-torn Spain. Left alone, Felicity discovers a dark secret behind her whirlwind marriage and flees to England. Five years on, Felicity has just taken the hand of a handsome dance partner. She’s about to come face to face with her commanding husband, back to claim his runaway bride.6v.Means, David. Hystopia. 2016. General fiction.At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas 'enfolded' - wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy - while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the Psych Corps and re-enacting atrocities on civilians. 3v.Montefiore, Santa. The swallow and the hummingbird. 2014. Romance.When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen. How long should Rita wait for the love of her life?5v.Mortimer, Carole. The redemption of Darius Sterne. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. The twin tycoons: book 1. Having built a global empire synonymous with excellence, formidable tycoon Darius Sterne is a man who gets what he wants. Always. And right now? He wants ex-ballerina Miranda Jacobs, in his bed and sighing his name in pleasure. Virginal Miranda can’t resist the allure of the brooding billionaire. But the closer he pulls her, the more Darius threatens the barriers she’s carefully constructed to conceal the scars of her past. Yet Miranda isn’t the only one with pain to hide. Can her pure love dance into his heart, and redeem the dark and damaged Darius Sterne?2v.Moyes, Jojo. After you. 2015. Romance.Me before you: book 2. Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did 18 months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does.4v.Nevill, Adam L. G. No one gets out alive. 2014. Horror.Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be. It's not only the eerie atmosphere of the vast, neglected house, or the disturbing attitude of her new landlord, Knacker McGuire, that makes her uneasy - it's the whispers behind the fireplace, the scratching beneath floors, the footsteps in the dark, and the young women weeping in neighbouring rooms.5v.Parsons, Tony. The murder bag. 2015. Crime.Max Wolfe: book 1. There's a serial killer on the loose. He cuts throats. And he is good at it. 20 years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field, founded 500 years ago by King Henry VIII. Suddenly they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city all the way to the corner rooms in the corridors of power. At enormous personal cost, what Wolfe uncovers is a horrific secret that has been buried for two decades and is now ready to explode.4v.Patterson, James. Private. 2011. Thriller.Private: book 1. Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. In L.A., Jack is already deep into the investigation of a multimillion-dollar gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of eighteen schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed. It nearly pushes him over the edge. Instead, Jack pushes back and devotes all of Private's resources to tracking down her killer. And Jack doesn't have to play by the rules.3v.Patterson, James. Private London. 2012. Thriller.Private: book 2. For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private, the world's most exclusive detective agency, saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again.3v.Patterson, James. Private games. 2012. Thriller.Private: book 3. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found brutally murdered, Peter Knight, head of Private London, is called to the scene. Private are working with the organising committee on security for the Games, so Denton Marshall was a valuable client. It soon becomes clear that this is no isolated incident. The killer is targeting the Games itself, and the lives of everyone involved are under threat.3v.Patterson, James. Private - no. 1 suspect. 2013. Thriller.Private: book 4. Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world’s most successful detective agency. But when his former lover is found murdered in Jack’s bed, Jack is instantly the number one suspect. With his team stretched to breaking point and Jack fighting for his life, he finds himself strong-armed by the mob into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and Jack realises he is facing his most powerful enemies ever.3v.Patterson, James. Private down under. 2014. Thriller.Private: book 6. With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigating agency like Private. A horrific murder in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney stretches the newly formed Australian team to the limit. And if they don’t catch the killer soon, the next victim could be someone close to Private.3v.Patterson, James. Private L.A. 2014. Thriller.Private: book 7. Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack’s clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach. But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse, a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there’s more bad news: Hollywood’s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer Harlow, have been kidnapped, along with their adopted children.4v.Patterson, James. Private India. 2014. Thriller.Private: book 8. Santosh Wagh heads Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. Someone is killing women, seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India, a danger that could threaten the lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens.3v.Patterson, James. Private Vegas. 2015. Thriller.Private: book 9. Jack Morgan, head of Private Investigations, the global PI agency of the rich and famous, is being pushed to the limit. His car has been firebombed, his ex is dating someone else, and his twin brother is still out to destroy him. Add to that Jack’s best friend being held on a trumped-up charge that could see him locked away for a very long time, and it seems like all bets are off.3v.Patterson, James. Private Sydney. 2015. Thriller.Private: book 10. Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. Powerful figures want Moss to stay 'lost', while others just as ruthlessly want him found. Meanwhile, a routine background check becomes a frantic race to find a stolen baby and catch a brutal killer, a killer Private may well have sent straight to the victim's door.3v.Quinn, Anthony. Curtain call, or, the distinguished thing: a novel.2015. General fiction.On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she's not supposed to be at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she may have seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed the 'Tie-Pin Killer' she realises that another woman's life could be at stake.4v.Reeman, Douglas. Go in and sink. 2001. Sea stories.February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but for most there can be no thought of leave. If the enemy collapse in North Africa is to be exploited, every experienced man will be needed. Marshall must return to the Mediterranean, but this time to a very different kind of war. For his new command is secret and extremely hazardous - a captured German U-boat.4v.Reeves, Virginia. Work like any other. 2016. General fiction.Roscoe T. Martin has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. When his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm Roscoe uses his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness on a farm recently falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie and their son seems back within Roscoe's grasp. Then a young man is electrocuted on their land. Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter and, no longer an electrician or even a farmer, he must now carve out a place in a violent new world.3v.Saintcrow, Lilith. The iron wyrm affair. 2012. Fantasy.Bannon and Clare: book 1. London's geniuses are being picked off by a vicious killer, and Emma Bannon, a sorceress in the service of the Empire, must protect the next target, Archibald Clare. Unfortunately he's more interested in solving the mystery of the murders than staying alive.3v.Saintcrow, Lilith. The red plague affair. 2013. Fantasy. Bannon and Clare: book 2. After defeating a clockwork army bent upon regicide, Emma Bannon and Archibald Clare have come to respect each other's skills. So when the Queen asks Emma to track down a missing doctor who holds the key to a deadly weapon, Archibald's deductive talent may be just what she needs to find the man.3v.Shaw, Rebecca. Village matters: tales from Turnham Malpas. 1999. Country life fiction.Turnham Malpas: book 3. Times are changing in Turnham Malpas. Brash Craddock Fitch determined to make his mark on the village and the village is determined to put him in his place. Sir Ralph is having trouble adjusting to his more modest status, and timid Muriel to her exalted one, while a change of fortune surprises Jimmy Glover too. It's all Jimbo Charter-Plackett, fount of all gossip, can do to keep up. But these concerns are eclipsed by tragedy when Flick, Jimbo's daughter, is knocked down by the unpopular barman Alan. And before the shock of the accident has passed, a bitter dispute springs up that could affect the entire village.3v.Sparks, Nicholas. See me. 2015. Romance.Colin Hancock is focused on getting his teaching degree and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his past. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when he crosses paths with Maria Sanchez one rainswept night, his carefully structured life is turned upside down. Before the couple has a chance to envision a life together, menacing reminders from events in Maria's past begin to surface.7v.Stirling, Jessica. Prized possessions. 1999. Family stories.Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the worst slums of the Gorbals, all for the sake of her three daughters, her most prized possessions. She would do anything to protect Polly, Babs and Rosie. In this tough part of Glasgow, there are many dangers, physical and moral, facing women. And the girls themselves seem sometimes to be determined to make marriages as unwise as the one that landed her with crippling debts, three small children and no man to take care of them. Lizzie is a fighter; to her surprise, so are more than one of her girls.5v.Strout, Elizabeth. My name is Lucy Barton: a novel. 2016. Literary fiction. A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood; and her present, as the facade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer. From Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more deeply into the emotional complexity of family life, the inescapable power of the past, and the memories, however painful, that bind a family together.1v.Szalay, David. All that man is. 2016. General fiction.There are nine men in this book, and they think they have unique stories. But really, aren't they all the same man? Each of them is searching, reaching, not quite grasping their situations. None of them is at home. They are alone in the edgelands of Europe, and the stakes are bewilderingly high. And so these nine lives form an ingenious novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the 21st century man. It's not a joke. Life is not a joke. Contains swear words.4v.Tait, Vanessa. The looking glass house. 2015. Historical fiction.Oxford, 1862. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, the Christ Church mathematics tutor, at a party at the Deanery, she wonders if he may be the person to transform her life. Flattered by his attentions, Mary begins to believe that she could be more than just an overlooked, dowdy governess. One sunny day, as Mary chaperones the Liddells on a punting trip, Mr Dodgson tells the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But Mary is determined to become Mr Dodgson's muse and will turn all the lives around her topsy-turvey in pursuit of her obsession.3v.Taylor, Douglas S. Sword of souls. 2006. Fantasy.Chronicles of Caledon: book 1. Sword of Souls launches just after the fall of the Ramadan tribes by the merciless red bearded Tarvas who invade sparing only the women and the young children in their brutal endeavors of destruction. A young orphan by the name of Lithius manages the miraculously escape from the bondage of the Tarvas warriors. Lithius through his acquired strength and magic begins his ascension only to embrace the formidable armies and darker secrets of the evil Lord of Draccus, Morderra-Atrauis.3v.Thien, Madeleine. Do not say we have nothing. 2016. General fiction.In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-Ming. As her relationship with Marie deepens, Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China,from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989.5v.Titchmarsh, Alan. The last lighthouse keeper. 2004. Romance.Will Elliott is out of a job. The lighthouse he's been manning on Prince Albert Rock, off the wild Cornish coast, is about to become automated. So Will decides to fulfil his lifelong ambition, to sail round the coastline of Britain. Determined to continue his solitary existence, Will begins his preparations for his epic voyage. But before he has time to so much as paint his hull, he meets Amy Finn, a beautiful artist and fellow loner. 3v.Watson, Mark. Hotel Alpha. 2015. General fiction.Three decades ago, the charismatic Howard York built the empire of his dreams: the Hotel Alpha. Graham, the Alpha's concierge, has been behind the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has witnessed every stage of its history. Chas, Howard's blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. But both of them must now accept that the Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want, and that Howard's vision has been built on secrets as well as dreams.3v.Watson, S. J. Second life. 2015. Thriller.When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. But Julia's quest quickly evolves into an alluring exploration of own darkest sensual desires. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she's losing herself, losing control, and perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.4v.Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. 2014. Western.Vintage classics. Will Andrews drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere and full of restless men looking for ways to make money. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with a man who convinces him to fund an expedition to track down buffalo in the Colorado Rockies.3v.Willis, Connie. Doomsday book. 2012. Science fiction.SF masterworks. A woman travels back through time to complete her doctoral thesis but, due to an accident, she lands in the middle of the Black Plague of 1348. The Oxford she left behind is laid low by a mysterious strain of influenza and, with no-one willing to risk arranging her rescue, time is running out.7v.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and BiographiesBellingham, Lynda. There's something I've been dying to tell you. 2015.In 2013, actress, television personality and Sunday Times bestselling author, Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. In this memoir, Lynda talks with beautiful poignancy about her life since her diagnosis, her family and how together they came to terms with a future they hadn't planned. This is a brave and brutally honest memoir and yet even when talking about these deeply personal experiences, Lynda manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour bringing light to a very dark time.3v.Gregg, Victor. Rifleman: a front-line life from Alamein and Dresden to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2011.Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting to escape and burning down a factory, only the allies' infamous raid on the city the night before his execution saved his life. 3v.Nielsen, Kim E. The radical lives of Helen Keller. 2009.Many years after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Best known for her advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, a defender of the radical International Workers of the World, and a supporter of birth control, and she served as one of the nation's most effective but unofficial international ambassadors.3v.Uhlberg, Myron. Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love. 2009.Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents.2v.Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: a biography. 2014. Classic.Oxford world's classics. Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word. At its heart are the life and works of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. But as well as being a love letter to Vita, Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history, teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters, and wryly examines sexual double standards.5v.Wulf, Andrea. The invention of nature: the adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science. 2015.Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid, even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps, Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today.7v.Zamperini, Louis. Devil at my heels: a heroic Olympian's astonishing story of survival as a Japanese POW in World War II. 2014.Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mile record at USC that stood for 20 years. When war came he left the track for a B24, a move that would have heartbreaking consequences.4v.Food and DrinkGwynn, Mary. The WI cookbook: the first 100 years. 2015As the Women's Institute turns 100, this book, brings together the 100 best loved members' recipes nationwide. Organised decade by decade, it spans everything from jams and preserves to main courses, puddings and bakes. Nostalgic favourites like Toad in the Hole and Kedgeree feature alongside contemporary hits such as Lamb Pot Roast with Nettle Champ and Italian Lamb with Roasted Sweet Peppers. Here are recipes created during the war to make the most of limited supplies and ideas to overcome the challenges of food rationing to current day recipes and finally the WI's own signature cake: The Centenary Fruit Cake from North Yorkshire.3v.HistoryHodge, Susie. Secrets of the Knights Templar: the hidden history of the world's most powerful order. 2013.The Knights Templar is one of the most secretive and powerful religious orders in history: for over two centuries they were the elite fighting force of the Crusades. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them both wealth and political influence. But it is the legends and secrecy surrounding the order and its Grand Masters that continue to fascinate historians and general readers alike. This book examines each of these mysteries in turn to reveal the truth about the Knights' secret practices, rituals and codes, as well as the continued influence of the Templars today.3v.Langley, Philippa. The king's grave: the search for Richard III. 2014.In an incredible find, Richard III's remains have been uncovered beneath a car park in Leicester. In alternate chapters, Philippa Langley, whose years of research and belief that she would find Richard in this exact spot, reveals the inside story of the search for the king's grave, and historian Michael Jones tells of Richard's 15th-century life and death. The result is a portrayal of one of our greatest archaeological discoveries, allowing a complete re-evaluation of our most controversial monarch - one that discards the distortions of later Tudor histories and puts the man firmly back into the context of his times.4v.Sides, Hampton. In the kingdom of ice: the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette. 2015.In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. But it was not long before the Jeannette was trapped in crushing pack ice. Battling everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition fought madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival.6v.Summers, Julie. Jambusters: the story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War. 2015.The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. With all the vigour, energy and enthusiasm at their disposal, a third of a million country women set out to make their lives and the lives of those around them more bearable in what they described as 'a period of insanity'. Jambusters tells the story of the minute and idiosyncratic details of everyday life during the Second World War. Making jam, making do and mending, gathering rosehips, keeping pigs and rabbits, housing evacuees, setting up canteens for the troops, knitting, singing and campaigning for a better Britain after the war: all these activities played a crucial role in war time.4v.LiteratureDouglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland. 2015.Drawing on previously unpublished material, 'The Story of Alice' illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books, examining the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. It analyses how their relationship influenced the creation of Wonderland, how the two Alice books took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era, and why 150 years later they continue to enthrall and delight us.6v.Natural HistoryMottershead, June. Our zoo. 2015.When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of opening a zoo without bars, his four-year-old daughter June had no idea how extraordinary her life would become. Soon her best friend was a chimpanzee called Mary. Chester Zoo has since achieved worldwide renown. June Mottershead chronicles the heartbreak, the humour, the trials and triumphs, above all the characters, both human and animal, who shaped her childhood.3v.ReligionArmstrong, Karen. Fields of blood: religion and the history of violence. 2015.Countering the atheist claim that believers are by default violent fanatics and religion is the cause of all major wars, Karen Armstrong demonstrates that religious faith is not inherently violent. In fact, the world's major religions have throughout their history displayed ambivalent attitudes towards aggression and warfare. At times they have allied themselves with states and empires for protection or to further their influence; at others they have tried to curb state oppression and aggression and worked for peace and justice.7v.Travel and TourismBalding, Clare. Walking home. 2015.Clare Balding is on a mission to discover Britain and Ireland. She's conquered over 1,500 miles of footpaths, from the Pennine Way to the South-west Coast Path. As well as blisters and a twisted ankle, she's walked with extraordinary people. In Walking Home she shares these stories and tells of more (mis)adventures with her family and her wayward Tibetan terrier Archie. Along the way there are beguiling diversions and life-changing rambles.3v.Macfarlane, Robert. Landmarks. 2015.Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it.4v.Macfarlane, Robert. The old ways: a journey on foot. 2013.Following the tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, Robert Macfarlane discovers a lost world, a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.5v.Wood, Levison. Walking the Nile. 2015.In this book, recounting Levison Wood's walk the length of the Nile, he will uncover the history of the Nile. He will also come face to face with the great story of a modern Africa emerging out of the past. The challenges of the terrain, the climate, the animals, the people and his own psychological resolution are immense. The dangers are very real, but so is the motivation for this ex-army officer. No one has ever made this journey on foot. If he can overcome the mental and physical challenges, he will be walking into history.4v.Children and young adult fiction0-4 suggested reading ageCowell, Cressida. How to be a Viking. 2013.This is a story about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything, especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must. So who will save the day when everything goes wrong aboard ship and all the big Vikings lose their cool?Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Davidson, Susanna. Usborne my first fairyland book. 2011. Discover the magical world of fairyland as you search an enchanted forest for fairies sleeping in cobwebs, pixies dancing, elves sailing on boats made of leaves and goblins hoarding their treasure. Beautifully detailed illustrations show scenes from fairyland - from a goblin market to a frost fair and fairies dancing by moonlight. This title introduces new words and lots of things to look for and talk about with your child.1v.Usborne illustrated nursery rhymes. 2011. This is an illustrated collection of over 100 traditional rhymes with enchanting illustrations ideal for any baby or young child. It also includes well-known tongue-twisters, sayings and lullabies.1v.5+ suggested reading ageButchart, Pamela. The magic hamster. 2016.Wigglesbottom Primary: book 3. This title features three more stories of primary school mayhem as 2R set out to solve the real mysteries of life. What is the school mashed potato really made of? When Lauren swallows a fly, will she actually turn into one? And who, or what, is 'robot boy'?Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Chandler, Fiona. The sorcerer's apprentice. 2007. Folklore and fables.Usborne young reading. Thanks to his laziness, the sorcerer's apprentice dabbles in magic far beyond his abilities. But when the consequences of his actions begin to spiral dangerously out of control, he finds himself in big trouble. This retelling is based on a poem composed in 1797 by the German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.1v.Civardi, Anne. Going on a plane. 2005.Usborne first experiences. Each title in the 'First Experiences'series introduces very young children, with very simple text, to a situation they might find themselves in for the first time. Going on a plane for the first time is very exciting! This book shows small children what to expect and Stephen Cartwright’s illustrations are full of things for children to look at and talk about. With a little yellow duck to spot on every page.1v.Davidson, Susanna. East of the sun, west of the moon. 2009.Folklore and fables. Usborne young reading. The Norwegian folk tale retold for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Based on a Scandinavian fairytale, Asta's father gives her to a talking white bear in exchange for wealth. She is taken away to the bear's castle, but is there more to this bear than meets the eye?1v.Davidson, Susanna. Rapunzel. 2005. Magic and fairy tales.Kidnapped at birth by a wicked witch, then locked up in a tower, Rapunzel thinks all is lost until a handsome prince comes to save her. But the witch is more cunning then they realize. Will Rapunzel ever escape?1v.Davies, Kate. Noah's ark. 2011. Usborne first reading. Noah is told to build an ark that will hold two of every animal before the big flood arrives.1v.Daynes, Katie. The ant and the grasshopper. 2008. Usborne first reading. A thoughtful retelling of Aesop's fable. It's the middle of summer and while the grasshopper is enjoying himself, the ant is busy preparing for winter and when winter arrives both the ant and the grasshopper learn something about the merits of hard work.1v.Meadows, Daisy. Luna the loom band fairy. 2014. Rainbow magic. Luna the loom band fairy makes sure everyone has lots of fun creating fabulous loom band arts and crafts. But when naughty Jack Frost steals her magical sparkling silver loom, all the creations start to go wrong! Can Rachel and Kirsty get it back and help save the day for loom band fans everywhere?1v.Meadows, Daisy. Emma the Easter fairy. 2011.Rainbow magic. Each spring, Emma the Easter fairy paints three magical eggs, and these help everyone have a wonderful time. But when mean Jack Frost steals the magical eggs and kidnaps the Easter Bunny everything starts to go wrong! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Emma before this special time of year is ruined?1v.Rosen, Michael. Bilal's brilliant bee. 2016.Bilal is terrified of The Test. He can't answer any of the questions! But then Bumble the bee comes along, and he can answer any question you ask, even the really tricky ones. Then Bilal's granny suggests they go on the wildly popular TV quiz show, What's What? Win the Lot! But what will happen if Bilal and Bumble do win the lot? Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Stories from around the world for little children. 2011. Folklore and fables.Usborne picture storybooks. This is a treasury of stories from around the world, retold for young children. It contains five traditional tales with illustrations: "Aladdin and his Magical Lamp" (Persia), "Brer Rabbit Down the Well" (United States), "How Zebras Got their Stripes" (Africa), "Why the Sea is Salty" (Korea) and "The Dragon Painter" (China). Each story is illustrated and perfect for either reading aloud or for more confident readers to tackle alone.1v.7+ suggested reading ageClary, Julian. The Bolds. 2015.Bolds: book 1. Mr and Mrs Bold live in a nice house (in Teddington), they have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and they love to have a bit of a giggle. And they're hyenas! So far, they've managed to keep things under wraps, even when their children were born. But the nosey man next door smells a rat (or a hyena), and a trip to the local wildlife park, and the brilliantly wacky heist that results, could be the end of Teddington's best -kept secret. Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Courtauld, Sarah. Journey to the centre of the Earth. 2013.Usborne young reading. A rip-roaring adventure story, this is the story of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi novel, retold for younger readers. Intrepid explorer Professor Liedenbrock leads a dramatic expedition to an Icelandic volcano, where a secret tunnel leads to the very centre of the earth.1v.Courtauld, Sarah. White Fang. 2010.Usborne young reading. The classic tale of White Fang, half-wolf, half-dog, by Jack London retold for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. The story of White Fang’s epic journey from cub to sled dog to fighting dog. Living in harsh surroundings with brutal owners, every day is a battle for survival.1v.Cowell, Cressida. How to fight a dragon's fury. 2015.How to train your dragon: book 12. It is the Doomsday of Yule. At the end of this day, either the humans or the dragons will face extinction. Alvin the Treacherous is about to be crowned the King of the Wilderwest on the island of Tomorrow. His reign of terror will begin with the destruction of dragons everywhere. The fate of the dragon world lies in the hands of one young boy as he stands on the nearby isle of Hero's End with nothing to show, but everything to fight for.2v.Davidson, Zanna. Midnight escape. 2014.Usborne young reading. Fairy ponies: book 1. Holly is staying with her Great Aunt May when she discovers a tiny pony with shimmering wings. At first, she thinks she must be dreaming, until two fairy ponies visit her one night on an urgent undertaking: Puck the fairy pony has been snatched by the spoiled girl next-door, and the ponies need Holly's help to rescue him. Little does Holly know that their midnight escape will lead to a special reward - entry to the secret world of the fairy ponies, hidden in the Great Oak Tree at the bottom of the garden.1v.Davidson, Zanna. Magic necklace. 2014. Usborne young reading. Fairy ponies: book 2. Puck, the fairy pony, and Holly are visiting the Pony Queen when a powerful magic necklace - which grants its wearer whatever they wish for – is stolen from her Summer Palace. Puck and Holly's search for the thief leads them into the underwater world of the river ponies, an enchanting place of coral houses, clear waters and dangerous sea creatures. When their adventures finally bring them to the culprit, they find themselves face-to-face with a wicked fairy pony, whose evil wish is to steal the throne from the Pony Queen!1v.Davidson, Zanna. Rainbow races. 2014.Usborne young reading. Fairy ponies: book 3. Holly can't wait to watch her friend, Puck the fairy pony, compete in the Rainbow Races. But when an enchanted storm is unleashed over Pony Island, ruining the races, the home of the fairy ponies is threatened with darkness forever.1v.Davidson, Zanna. Unicorn Prince. 2014.Usborne young reading. Fairy ponies: book 5. A pony princess, Rosabel, has come to stay on Pony Island, and Puck and Holly are given the task of looking after her. But spoilt and determined Princess Rosabel flies to the dark forest where she is kidnapped by Shadow.1v.Daynes, Katie. Ali Baba and the forty thieves. 2007. Usborne young reading. A classic folktale retold with easy-reading text for children who have just started reading alone. Ali Baba has discovered a cave full of treasure. It's a dream come true! But soon he has a nosy brother and forty thieves to deal with.1v.Forbes, Sarah. Elspeth Hart and the school for show-offs. 2015. Adventure.Elspeth Hart: book 1. Ever since her parents were tragically washed away in a flood, poor Elspeth Hart has been forced to live with her disgusting aunt, Miss Crabb, in the attic of the Pandora Pants School for Show-offs. Elspeth spends her days sweeping up mouse droppings, washing filthy pots and dodging Tatiana Firensky, the most horrible show-off of all. But what Elspeth doesn't know is that things are about to change.Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Frost, Adam. A brush with danger. 2015.Fox investigates: book 1. P.I. Fox is a globe-trotting detective with unorthodox methods. He's guaranteed to solve any mystery, no matter how unusual it is! Wily Fox is in Paris investigating a notorious art forger and someone is definitely trying to stop him. Can Wily Fox solve the mystery before troublesome Detective Inspector Hound does? Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Gray, Louise. Izzy the invisible. 2016.Eight-year-old Izzy is more curious, playful and clumsy than her serious, grown-up sister Carrie. In fact Izzy is much more like Gran, an eccentric scientist who has a house full of weird and wonderful pets. But when one of Gran's experiments backfires, Izzy discovers that she has the ability to become invisible! That is, unless Perky the parrot is perched on her shoulder, or she has one of his feathers safely stowed in her pocket. While Gran searches for an antidote, Izzy explores her invisibility but Mum, Dad and Carrie aren't impressed. Can Izzy prove that she is using her invisibility to help those around her, and regain her sister's trust? Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Jones, Gareth P. Rise of the slippery sea monster. 2016.Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates: book 4. Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) The Steampunk Pirates get a taste of their own medicine when the Leaky Battery is raided by a sea monster that's greedy for gold. But when the rusty robots race to get their treasure back, they sail straight into a trap...Can they dodge the creature's twisting tentacles or will they be squished to smithereens? Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.MacPhail, David. Thorfinn and the awful invasion. 2015.Thorfinn the nicest Viking: book 1. Thorfinn is no ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Tired of Thorfinn and his too-nice ways getting them into trouble, his dad decides it's time for Thorfinn to earn his gruesome Viking name. Stuck on a longboat with a ragtag bunch of adventurers who'd like to throw him overboard, how will the Nicest Viking cope with a dangerous voyage to Scotland? Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Pounder, Sibéal. Witch wars. 2015.Witch wars: book 1. When Fran the Fabulous Fairy turns up in Tiga Whicabim's shed to tell her she's a witch, Tiga doesn't believe her. Or at least not until Fran points out that TIGA WHICABIM is actually an anagram of I AM A BIG WITCH and magics her away down the drainpipes to compete in Witch Wars – the competition to crown the next Top Witch of Ritzy City. Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Rayner, Shoo. Dragon gold. 2014.What would you do if there was a school competition to make a dragon that can fly? Ryan always wins everything, thanks to his incredibly competitive dad. Ryan will have the state-of-the-art gadget like always. Harri would love to know what it feels like to win, just once, but there's no chance. And then someone new walks into Harri's mum's shop. Someone 'almost' invisible. Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.9+ suggested reading ageClare, Horatio. Aubrey and the terrible yoot. 2015.Aubrey is a rambunctious boy who tries to run before he can walk and has crashed two cars before he's old enough to drive one. But when his father, Jim, falls under an horrendous spell Aubrey is determined to break it. Everyone says his task is impossible, but with the help of the animals of Rushing Wood, Aubrey will never give up and never surrender - even if he must fight the unkillable Spirit of Despair itself: the terrible yoot!Summer Reading Challenge 2016.1v.Morpurgo, Michael. Beowulf. 2013.Myths and legends. Long ago there was a Scandinavian warrior who fought three evils so powerful they could destroy whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saves the land of the Danes from a merciless ogre named Grendel and then from his sea-hag mother. But it is his third terrible battle, with the death-dragon of the deep, in which he truly meets his match.1v.Walliams, David. Awful auntie. 2014.Humorous fiction. From larger than life, tiddlywinks obsessed Awful Aunt Alberta to her pet owl, Wagner – this is an adventure with a difference. Aunt Alberta is on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance, Saxby Hall. But, with the help of Soot, the Cockney ghost of a chimney sweep alongside her, Stella is determined to fight back. And sometimes, a special friend, however different, is all you need to win through.2v.11+ suggested reading ageSugg, Zoe. Girl Online. 2015.Girl Online: book 1. Penny has a secret. Under the alias Girl Online, she blogs about school dramas, boys, her mad, whirlwind family and the panic attacks she's suffered from lately. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets the gorgeous, guitar-strumming Noah. Suddenly Penny is falling in love and capturing every moment of it on her blog. But Noah has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny's cover, and her closest friendship, forever.2v.13+ suggested reading ageLet it snow: three holiday romances. 2013.Romance. An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a train of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.2v.MacPhail, Catherine. Sticks and stones. 2005.Greg thinks he's the funniest and coolest boy in school, until he finds himself in the frame for stealing a mobile phone and realises not everyone thinks he's as cool as he does!1v.15+ suggested reading ageGreen, John. Will Grayson, Will Grayson. 2012.Gay fiction. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with...Will Grayson. When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.2v.Children and young adult non-fiction0-4 suggested reading age General non-fictionLitchfield, Jo. First shapes. 2012.Usborne look and say. Introducing the concept of shapes to very young children, this book shows them how to identify squares, circles, triangles, rectangles and stars, as each of the scenes shows objects made of these shapes.1v.English LanguageBonnet, Rosalinde. Colours. 2012.Usborne very first words. This is a colourful first picture wordbook, filled with familiar objects for small children to spot and name. It encourages vocabulary building, talking, and colour recognition.1v.Bonnet, Rosalinde. Things that go. 2013.Usborne very first words. This title offers lots of vehicles for small children to spot and talk about. It helps with the essential acquisition of language skills.1v.Bonnet, Rosalinde. Usborne very first ABC. 2012.A charmingly illustrated first alphabet book for the very young. It includes a picture for each letter and carefully controlled vocabulary and phonically regular words. It features picturesthat provide lots to talk about for pre-readers and will aid vocabulary building.1v.Brooks, Felicity. Farm. 2013.Look and say. Each double-page shows a different farm, and introduces children to the names of the farm animals found there. This book is a great way to get children talking about familiar farm animals and learn new words.1v.Litchfield, Jo. Holiday. 2012.Usborne look and say. Turn the pages of this bright and lively picture book to find out about going on holiday. Little children will love spotting and naming all the familiar objects.1v.Litchfield, Jo. Home. 2013.Usborne look and say. Each double-page shows a different room in the house, and introduces children to the names of the objects found there. This book is a great way to get children talking about familiar objects and learn new words.1v.Litchfield, Jo. School. 2013.Usborne look and say. This little picture book follows the progress of a busy nursery class through the day. With lots to look at and learn, young children will be fascinated by the colour and detail on every page.1v.5+ suggested reading ageNatural HistoryCourtauld, Sarah. Bears. 2010.Usborne first reading. Did you know that there are only eight different kinds of bears in the world. This title explores the world of bears and discusses different species, their habitats and how they catch their prey. It follows some new born cubs as they leave their den and venture out into the world.1v.Courtauld, Sarah. Frogs. 2007.Usborne first reading. This book looks at the fascinating world of frogs. Splash into the slimy world of frogs, and find out how they feed, swim and keep safe from danger. Then watch as a tiny tadpole grows up into a frog and takes it first leap onto land.1v.Courtauld, Sarah. Monkeys. 2009.Usborne first reading. This title allows children to find out about the different species of monkey across the world, including their habitats, diets and habits. Swing into the amazing world of monkeys with this charmingly illustrated book. See monkeys leap from tree to tree and eat up crunchy bags. Then watch as grown-up monkeys fall asleep and their babies start to play.1v.Courtauld, Sarah. Owls. 2009.Usborne first reading. Swoop into the secret world of owls and find out how they see, hear and hunt in the dark. Then watch as a baby owl grows up, climbs out of her nest and learns to fly. Part of the "First Reading" series, aimed at children who are beginning to read and developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.1v.Lacey, Minna. The Usborne big book of big sea creatures. 2011.Including watercolour illustrations by Fabiano Fiorin, this book covers huge sharks, whales, squid and lots of other fish, with key facts about each creature. 1v.TransportCullis, Megan. The Usborne big book of big trains. 2013.An information picture book for young readers on a topic that is loved by all generations. Fabulous, big pictures of all different types of trains from steam engines to bullet trains and funicular railways. With big, bold, colourful illustrations and some amazing facts.1v.9+ suggested reading ageDramaThorne, Jack. Harry Potter and the cursed child. 2016.It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.2v.?Talking Books Adult fictionAaronovitch, Ben. Moon over Soho. 2011. Fantasy. TB23251.Peter Grant: book 2. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body, a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural. Body and soul are what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho.Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. 10 hours 4 minutes. Barnett, Laura. The versions of us. 2015. General fiction. TB22917.A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their life. Eva and Jim are 19 and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva's then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. 'The Versions of Us' follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting.Read by Clare Corbett and Daniel Weyman. 12 hours 47 minutes. Bennett, Vanora. The people's queen. 2011. Historical fiction. TB22428.14th century England is in turmoil: the king is in debt to the city and the old order has broken down and it is a time of opportunity for those who can seize the moment. The king's mistress, Alice Perrers, becomes the virtual ruler of the country from his sickbed. Disliked and despised by the Black Prince and his cronies, her strong connections to the merchants make her a natural ally for the king's ambitious second son, John of Gaunt. They create a powerful position for one of his henchmen, Geoffrey Chaucer. Read by Lucy Scott. 19 hours 30 minutes. Billingham, Mark. Good as dead. 2011. Crime. TB23248.Tom Thorne: book 10. Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. As she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman. The crazed hostage-taker is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in youth custody. By holding a police officer at gunpoint, he will force the one man who knows more about the case than any other to re-investigate his son's death. That man is DI Tom Thorne. While Helen fights to stay alive and the body-count rises, Thorne must race against time if heis to bring a killer to justice and save a young mother's life.Read by Mark Billingham. 10 hours 46 minutes. Bradshaw, Rita. Break of dawn. 2012. Historical romance. TB22967.Her mother's death in childbirth leaves Sophy Hutton at the mercy of her cruel aunt and uncle. At 16, Sophy learns the shocking truth behind her birth and escapes to London to forget her past. But life for women at the turn of the century is fraught with danger and Sophy soon discovers the darker side to the capital. Young and innocent, she doesn't recognise the man who really loves her when he appears; instead she is charmed into marrying handsome actor Toby Shawe, a flawed and amoral individual. Read by Anne Dover. 12 hours 41 minutes. Camilleri, Andrea. The track of sand. 2012. Crime. TB23196.Inspector Montalbano: book 12. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind only a trail in the sand. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. She had been keeping it at the stables of Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Soon things take a more disturbing turn.Read by Daniel Philpott. 5 hours 52 minutes. Christie, Agatha. The rose and the yew tree. 2012. Romance. TB22861.Everyone expected Isabella Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange then that John Gabriel, an ambitious and ruthless war hero, should appear in her life. For Isabella, the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of home and happiness forever. For Gabriel, it would destroy his chance of a career and all his ambitions.Read by Daniel Philpott. 7 hours 13 minutes. Christie, Agatha. The burden. 2012. Romance. TB22862.Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives.Read by Gillian Kerrod. 7 hours 9 minutes. Clary, Julian. Devil in disguise. 2010. Humorous fiction. TB22940.When Simon's pursuit of Mr Right leads to a devastating betrayal, Molly is left broken-hearted and their friendship seems fractured beyond repair. Distraught, Molly flees for comfort to her one-time landlady, Lilia, an ex-cabaret singer with an extraordinary past. But is Lilia's bungalow quite the safe refuge it seems?Read by Kris Dyer. 14 hours 7 minutes. Cleave, Chris. Everyone brave is forgiven. 2016. Literary fiction. TB23227.When war is declared, Mary North goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss, until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists. Young, bright and brave, Mary is certain she'd be a marvellous spy. When she is, bewilderingly, made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom finds that he will do anything for Mary. And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them. Read by Luke Thompson. 12 hours 38 minutes. Collins, Jackie. The stud. 2012. General fiction. TB22869.Stud: book 1. London, 1969. The hottest, hippest, domain of hedonists and pleasure-seekers, where swingers swarm the clubs and discos in a quest to live for the moment. At the centre of this scene, one man plays all the angles, never missing a chance to score with the beautiful women who desire him, and walks the line between ecstasy and overload. Now the woman he wants the most knows his number and may just call his bluff.Contains swear words. Read by Una Byrne, David John and Louise Jameson. 7 hours 54 minutes. Connelly, Michael. City of bones. 2014. Crime. TB22915.Harry Bosch: book 8. When the bones of a boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up dark memories from his past. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he won't be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom, until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision.Read by Peter Jay Fernandez. 11 hours 7 minutes. Dietrich, William. Napoleon's pyramids. 2011. Historical fiction. TB23201.Ethan Gage: book 1. Ethan Gage, an expatriate American in post-revolutionary France, wins an ancient medallion in a card game. That same night, Ethan is framed for a prostitute’s murder and barely escapes France with his life. Faced with either prison or death, Gage is offered a third choice: to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte, as France sails to conquer Egypt. Once Gage arrives, he realises that the medallion may solve one of the greatest riddles of history– who built the Great Pyramids, and why. Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 24 minutes. Douglas, Anne. The butterfly girls. 2002. Family stories. TB23133.Rose, Martie and Alex grew up in the "Colonies", a housing development by the Water of Leith. Only Rose, a lawyer's daughter, did not belong. When Alex and Martie decided to train as nurses in Edinburgh, they're relieved to see Rose's friendly face, even if she is now Staff Burnett. Martie is determined to escape the misery of her childhood and find a rich husband, Alex has more romantic dreams. She's had a crush on Rose's brother since they were children and is secretly excited when he's admitted to the hospital with a mild case of TB. But, nurses in the 1950s are strictly forbidden from any personal development with their patients.Read by Maggie MacRitchie. 13 hours 15 minutes. Ebershoff, David. The Danish girl. 2015. Literary fiction. TB23252.Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a favour asked by a wife of her husband setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires.Read by Joe Jameson. 11 hours 18 minutes. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. The home-maker. 1999. Literary fiction. TB22749.Persephone book: book 7. The Home-Maker describes Evangeline, an obsessively house-proud mother and home-maker who renders each of her children miserable in different ways, through her perfectionism and her need to control; without realizing it, she is frustrated and bored yet she thinks she is a good and devoted mother. Lester, her husband, is also unhappy, at home and at work. It is only when he falls off a roof that his family's life changes; he is wheelchair-bound at home and his wife goes to work in a department store in small town New England. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 7 hours 47 minutes. Follett, Ken. Edge of eternity. 2014. General fiction. TB23081.Century trilogy: book 3. Five families. Three decades. One extraordinary era. When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. In the United States, George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration, is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement. Boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to protest against segregation, they begin a fateful journey together. Russian activist, Tania Dvorkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet.Read by David Learner. 44 hours 8 minutes. Forster, Margaret. Georgy girl. 2005. General fiction. TB23151.Georgy is young and fun, but is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Then Meredith her pretty, callous flatmate, announces she is pregnant and Jos, the expectant father, decides he is in love with Georgy.Read by Cally Lawrence. 6 hours 20 minutes. Genova, Lisa. Still Alice. 2015. General fiction. TB22944.Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. She soon finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease. Her short-term memory may be hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, but she is still Alice.Read by Amy Finegan. 8 hours 30 minutes. George, Elizabeth. A banquet of consequences. 2015. Crime. TB23009.The Inspector Lynley mysteries: book 19. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling writer Clare Abbott and her personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the murder, she begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime...Read by Julie Teal. 22 hours 12 minutes. Goodman, Carol. Dark possession. 2013. Fantasy. TB23082.Fairwick Chronicles: book 3. Fairwick is a changed place. The door to Faerie has been destroyed and the town has been taken over by the all powerful and dominant Nephilim. The suggestion of another remaining door is the only thing keeping Callie's hope alive, and with her friends trapped in Faerie and her demon lover banished, she knows she must act before it's too late. So when she is told of a powerful relic that can destroy the Nephilim she begins a dangerous journey to retrieve it. But the relic is in Faerie, and the witch-finders are after her.Contains swear words.Read by Stephanie Cannon. 9 hours 51 minutes. Goyer, David S. Heaven's war. 2013. Science fiction. TB22945.Heaven's shadow: book 2. When an unidentified object is spotted, hurtling towards Earth, two rival teams race to claim it. But the affectionately named Keanu conceals astonishing and dangerous secrets. Instead of barren rock, astronauts discover a giant ship with an extraterrestrial crew. A ship that has headed to Earth with a mission and a message: help us.Read by Jeff Harding. 16 hours 34 minutes. Greene, Vanessa. The Seafront Tea Rooms. 2015. Chick lit. TB22451.Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to scope out Britain's best tea rooms. She knows she's found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms, but is it a secret she should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the Seafront, convinces Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Together with another regular, Seraphine, a culture-shocked French au pair with a passion for pastry-making, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems. But what none of them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries of a different kind.Read by Fiona Paul. 8 hours 50 minutes. Gregory, Susanna. An unholy alliance. 1997. Historical crime. TB22760.In 1350 the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death. At Michaelhouse Matthew Bartholomew is training new physicians to replace those who died of the pestilence. When the body of a friar is found in the massive chest where the University stores its most precious documents, Bartholomew is dragged away from his teaching to investigate. But the friar's is not the only unexplained death in town.Read by Charles Armstrong. 10 hours 57 minutes. Han, Kang. The vegetarian: a novel. 2015. Literary fiction. TB23164.Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion.Read by David Thorpe. 6 hours 11 minutes. Harkness, Deborah E. The book of life. 2015. Paranormal fiction. TB21460.All souls trilogy: book 3. Historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families with one heart-breaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency.Read by Emma Claire Brightlyn. 21 hours 33 minutes. Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. 2008. Classic. TB23022.Set in India, 'Siddhartha' is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.Read by Chetan Pathak. 4 hours 45 minutes. Hiraide, Takashi. The guest cat. 2014. Literary fiction. TB23025.A couple in their 30s live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys accompany the cat; the days have more light and colour. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife; they go walking together, talk and share stories of the cat and its little ways, play in the nearby garden. But then something happens that will change everything again.Read by Ric Jerrom. 3 hours 45 minutes. Ironmonger, J. W. Not forgetting the whale. 2015. General fiction. TB22919.When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest's wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst. But what the villagers don't know is that Joe Haak has fled London fearing a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a collapse forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. But is the end of the world really nigh? Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from the outside world? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay?Read by David Thorpe. 13 hours 30 minutes. James, E. L. Grey. Fifty shades of grey as told by Christian. 2015. Erotic fiction. TB23087.Fifty shades: book 4. Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty - until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him - to Christian's cold, wounded heart. Will being with Ana dispel the horrors that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?Contains violence. Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words.Read by Paul Birchard. 16 hours 47 minutes. Kelly, Cathy. Between sisters. 2015. Chick lit. TB23262.Cassie has spent her married life doing everything right, making sure her children have the perfect life, being a devoted wife and daughter-in-law. It's left her so exhausted that 'wine o'clock' comes a little earlier each afternoon. Her sister Coco runs a vintage dress shop and has shied away from commitment over the years. Coco believes men complicate things, and she's got enough to contend with. Until a face from her past returns. Read by Caroline Lennon. 14 hours 23 minutes. Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. 2002. Science fiction. TB23028.Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.Read by Christopher Ragland. 8 hours 45 minutes. La Plante, Lynda. Widows. 2008. Thriller. TB22890.Dolly Rawlins: book 1. Harry Rawlins had been masterminding robberies for 20 years. The hijack of a security van would bring the gang thousands, but the job went wrong & Harry & his team were killed. Harry's widow, Dolly, had three options. She could hand over Harry's ledgers to the police. She could hand them over to a bunch of thugs. Or she could take the business over.Read by Annie Aldington. 7 hours 40 minutes. La Plante, Lynda. Widows: No. 2. 1994. Thriller. TB23030.Dolly Rawlins: book 2. Four women hold up an armed security wagon and make their escape to Rio, leaving the bulk of the cash hidden in London. They are free and ready to start a new life, but the shadow of a man they had presumed dead hangs over them.Read by Annie Aldington. 12 hours 20 minutes. Lafaye, Vanessa. Summertime. 2015. General fiction. TB23254.Florida, 1935, and the residents of Heron Key are preparing for the 4th July barbecue. Tensions simmer at the party and in the early hours of the morning, a woman is found half-beaten to death. As whites turn on blacks, the finger of suspicion points at one man. Far over the Atlantic a tropical storm changes direction and turns towards Florida. As the hurricane beacons are lit along the Keys, the town folk prepare themselves as they always do, unaware that the approaching storm is beyond anything they've ever experienced. In one night, Heron Key will change forever.Read by Adjoa Andoh. 11 hours 15 minutes. Lawton, John. Blue rondo. 2007. Crime. TB14812.Frederick Troy: book 5. London, late 1950s. A new breed of gangster appears and the battle for the East End begins. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy is quite literally caught in the crossfire, when he is hit by the blast from a car bomb. His girlfriend and boss want him to retire, but then his past emerges in the form of an old mistress, and his youth returns to haunt him. It is time for Troy to return to the fray.Read by Lewis Hancock. 12 hours 8 minutes. Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne sanction. 2010. Thriller. TB22920.Bourne: book 6. University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares of his former life as Jason Bourne. Soon he finds himself embroiled in a CIA operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation, and is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled assignment of his double life. With his own side trying to take him down, all the while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute.Read by Jeremy Davidson. 16 hours 8 minutes. Maitland, Karen. The vanishing witch. 2014. Thriller. TB22992.The reign of Richard II is troubled, the poor are about to become poorer still and landowners are lining their pockets. It's a case of every man for himself, whatever his status or wealth. But in a world where nothing can be taken at face value, who can you trust? The dour wool merchant? His impulsive son? The stepdaughter with the hypnotic eyes? Or the raven-haired widow clutching her necklace of bloodstones? And when people start dying unnatural deaths and the peasants decide it's time to fightback, it's all too easy to spy witchcraft at every turn.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 17 hours 17 minutes. Mortimer, Carole. Darian Hunter: Duke of desire. 2014. Mills and Boon romance. TB23091.Dangerous Dukes: book 3. The Players: Darian Hunter, Duke of Wolfingham: legendary rake and notorious bachelor. Mariah Beecham, Countess of Carlisle: society’s scandalous widow and secret agent of the crown. The Stage: A notoriously debauched house party. The Scene: Forced to pose as lovers, Darian and Mariah must work together to stop an assassination plot. The Twist: As the shocking and oh, so sensual games play out around them the romantic ruse becomes all too real. And the tantalising temptation to indulge their every desire becomes overwhelming.Read by Sherry Baines. 7 hours 48 minutes. Mosby, Steve. The 50/50 killer. 2016. Crime. TB23259.Mark Nelson is a young police officer, newly assigned to the team of John Mercer, a highly-decorated and successful detective. When a man is found burned to death in his own home, Mercer's team is thrown into an investigation that grows darker and more complex at every turn. The evidence points to a man known as the Fifty-Fifty Killer. His targets are young couples, who he stalks and subjects to a single night of torture and manipulation, testing and destroying the love between them. Read by Gareth Armstrong. 10 hours 29 minutes. Murray, Annie. The narrowboat girl. 2009. Family stories. TB22984.Narrowboat girl: book 1. Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother, Flo, sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man, Norman is not at all what he seems, as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover.Read by Annie Aldington. 13 hours 27 minutes. O'Brien, Edna. The little red chairs. 2015. Literary fiction. TB22951.When a wanted war criminal, masquerading as a healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this searing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequence of that fatal attraction. This is a story about love, the artifice of evil and the terrible necessity of accountability in our shattered, damaged world.Read by John Cormack. 10 hours 16 minutes. Pearse, Lesley. Rosie. 2010. General fiction. TB22679.Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley. But soon enough Heather vanishes, abandoning Rosie to her fate. Only when Thomas Farley comes to find his sister several years later, does Rosie learn the terrible truth about Heather and her family. Running away from home, she finds herself pursued by the man who brought ruin on her family. Is he out to get her too? Or could he have some other reason for chasing her?Read by Emma Powell. 22 hours 50 minutes. Pearse, Lesley. Tara. 2011. General fiction. TB22954.In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life on her own terms.Read by Madeleine Brolly. 22 hours 17 minutes. Raybourn, Deanna. A curious beginning. 2015. Historical crime. TB23036.Veronica Speedwell mystery: book 1. London, 1887. Veronica Speedwell intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. But fate has other plans When Veronica thwarts her own abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, he offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. When the Baron is murdered, Veronica and Stoker are forced to go on the run from an elusive assailant, wary partners in search of the villainous truth.Read by Lucy Scott. 11 hours 5 minutes. Sennen, Mark. Cut dead. 2014. Crime. TB22837.DI Charlotte Savage: book 3. When three women are found headless and mutilated in a pit on a farm, it's a return to a chilling case for DCI Savage and her team. For the killings bear all the hallmarks of The Candle Cake Killer, a man who mutilated and killed his victims on consecutive midsummer's days leaving no clue apart from a piece of birthday cake. The police were unable to catch him, and for several years the Candle Cake Killer lay dormant, he's back and Midsummer's Day is approaching.Read by Stevie Lacey. 13 hours 49 minutes. Shaara, Jeff. Gods and generals. 1996. War fiction. TB23280.Civil War trilogy: book 1. Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever come to pass.Read by Paul Birchard. 19 hours 15 minutes. Shaw, Chantelle. A bride worth millions. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22781.Howard sisters: book 2. Athena Howard can’t believe she did it. In an outrageously large wedding dress, she climbed out of the window and escaped The Wedding of the Year and the fiancé who lied to her. And fell straight into Luca De Rossi’s arms! Luca has just two weeks to marry and meet the terms of his grandmother’s will. The cut-throat businessman offers Athena one million pounds to become Mrs De Rossi in name only, unless the allure of his new wife’s purity proves too much for this cynical playboy to resist claiming their wedding night.Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 6 hours 21minutes. Shaw, Chantelle. Sheikh's forbidden conquest. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22904.Howard sisters: book 1. Sultan Kadir Al Sulaimar might be Europe's most notorious playboy, but since his bride-to-be has finally come of age he's sworn to be faithful to the princess he's never met. Yet when feisty helicopter pilot Lexi Howard saves his life she turns Kadir's regimented world upside down. His first duty must be to his country, but avoiding the sensual pilot is becoming increasingly difficult, especially now that she's working for him!Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 6 hours 16 minutes. Smith, Frederick E. 633 Squadron. 2003. War fiction. TB22757.633 Squadron: book 1. Vesuvius - this was the mission on which the success of D-Day depended. The chosen squadron was no. 633, and their target was a fjord in Norway, where the Germans were known to be developing something so secret that not even the crews of the Mosquitoes which were to fly on the mission could be told about it. All they do know is that they will be flying in low, between the steep mountain walls, without fighter support. Most of them will be flying one way only.Read by Sam Woolf. 9 hours 14 minutes. Taylor, Jennifer. Miracle under the mistletoe. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22907.Two years ago A&E Consultant Sean Fitzgerald left Molly Daniels broken -hearted. Now he’s back, and the reception she gives him is frostier than the weather! But he’s determined to reveal the truth about his past. Walking away from Molly was the hardest thing Sean’s ever done, but now she’s within his reach once more he never wants to let her go. Could one magical mistletoe kiss be all he needs to melt her heart and finally show Molly he’s here to stay?Read by Madeleine Brolly. 4 hours 15 minutes. Toyne, Simon. Solomon Creed. 2015. Science fiction. TB22855.Solomon Creed: book 1. When Solomon Creed flees the burning wreckage of a plane in the Arizona desert, seconds before an explosion sets the world alight, he is acting on instinct. He has no memory of his past, and no idea what his future holds. Running towards a nearby town, one name fires in his mind, James Coronado. Somehow, Solomon knows he must save this man. But how do you save a man who is already dead?Read by Joseph Balderrama. 13 hours 24 minutes. Trenow, Liz. The Poppy Factory. 2014. Family stories. TB22856.With the end of the First World War, Rose is looking forward to welcoming home her husband, Alfie, from the battlefields. Traumatised by what he has seen, the Alfie who comes home is a different man to the one Rose married. As he struggles to cope with life in peacetime, Rose wrestles with temptation as the man she fell in love with seems lost forever. Many years later, Jess returns from her final tour of Afghanistan. Haunted by nightmares from her time at the front, her homecoming is a disaster. Can comfort come through her great -grandmother Rose’s diaries?Read by Maggie Mash. 11 hours 19 minutes. Trevor, Elleston. The big pick-up. 1979. War fiction. TB23047.Set entirely in France, Elleston Trevor's novel revolves around a ragged platoon of war-weary and humiliated British soldiers retreating from the German onslaught. With their morale collapsing, with enemy tanks behind them and enemy dive-bombers overhead, they trek to Dunkirk and the expected safety of evacuation. Dunkirk was a disaster, but the army's salvation by a flotilla of little boats was a miracle.Read by Sam Woolf. 10 hours 14 minutes. Van Lustbader, Eric. The testament. 2006. Thriller. TB22766.When Bravo's father dies in mysterious circumstances, his hidden life is laid bare. Dexter Shaw belonged to a secret religious order long thought extinct. For centuries, this order has guarded a lost Testament that could end Christianity as we know it. Dexter was the Keeper of the Testament - now his son must take his place. Bravo has to solve the clues his father left behind, locate this precious document and ward off those who want it destroyed. But his enemies are powerful, and will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.Read by Robert G Slade. 19 hours 44minutes. Veste, Luca. Dead gone. 2014. Crime. TB22287.DI Murphy and DS Rossi: book 1. A serial killer is stalking the streets of Liverpool, gruesomely murdering victims as part of a series of infamous unethical and deadly psychological experiments. When it becomes apparent that each victim has ties to the City of Liverpool University, DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi realise they're chasing a killer unlike any they've hunted before, one who doesn't just want their bodies, but wants their minds.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 11 hours 38 minutes. Veste, Luca. The dying place. 2014. Crime. TB22858.DI Murphy and DS Rossi: book 2. DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi discover the body of a teenage boy, dumped in front of a church in Liverpool. 17-year-old Dean Hughes was reported missing six months ago, yet no-one has been looking for him. A known troublemaker, who cared if he was dead or alive? But soon the police realise Dean isn't the only boy who's gone missing in similar circumstances. Someone has been abducting troubled teens. Someone who thinks they're above the law. Someone with terrifying plans for them.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 10 hours 39 minutes. Ward, Catriona. Rawblood. 2015. Horror. TB23256.In 1910, eleven-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her father at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. For generations the Villarcas have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the line. Their disease confines them to their lonely mansion their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse.Read by Victoria Fox and Peter Kenny. 13 hours 23 minutes. Waugh, Daisy. Melting the snow on Hester Street. 2013. General fiction. TB22859.It is the blistering summer of 1929 and Hollywood's glamorous set appear to have it all. Everybody everywhere is living the Hollywood dream, including the elegant and charming, high-society couple, actor and actress Maximilian and Eleanor Beecham. But beneath the sophistication and glamour their insecure and unhappy marriage is on the brink of divorce and their finances are teetering on a knife's edge after a series of failed films. But they cannot resist one last shot of making it in the film industry.Read by Alice Frayn. 10 hours 48 minutes. Weaver, Pam. For better for worse. 2014. Family stories. TB22860.As Britain recovers from the Second World War, Annie Royal is looking to the future. Recently married to Henry, and with a baby on the way, she and her new husband are happily settled in the seaside town of Worthing. But a knock at the door brings Annie's world crashing down. On her doorstep stands Sarah and her two young children. As they talk, Sarah reveals that she is Henry's wife and she has been searching for him since he walked out on their family a year ago.Read by Jenny Funnell. 12 hours 31minutes. Webb, Katherine. The English girl. 2016. General fiction. TB23258.Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to visit Arabia by travelling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. But Joan's encounter with the extraordinary and reclusive pioneering explorer Maude Vickery will change everything. Both women have things that they want, and secrets they must keep. As their friendship grows, Joan is seduced by Maude's stories, and the thrill of the adventure they hold, and only too late does she begin to question her actions - actions that will spark a wild, and potentially disastrous, chain of events.Read by Anna Bentink. 16 hours 43 minutes. Williams, Kate. The storms of war. 2015. Historical fiction. TB23260.In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring the world. But the onslaught of war changes everything and soon the de Witts find themselves sidelined and in danger of losing everything they hold dear.Read by Katie Scarfe. 20 hours 38 minutes. Wolitzer, Meg. The Interestings. 2014. General fiction. TB22691.On a warm July night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. The friendships they make this summer will be the most important of their lives. But decades later not everyone can sustain in adulthood what had seemed so special in adolescence. As their fortunes tilt precipitously over the years, some of them dealing with great struggle, others enjoying wealth and success, friendships are put under the strain of envy and crushing disappointment against the backdrop of a changing America.Contains swear words.Read by Regina Reagan. 10 hours 38 minutes. Zink, Nell. Mislaid. 2015. General fiction. TB22863.The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, is determinedly fondling Peggy, an ingénue freshman with literary pretensions, in his canoe. So begins a long affair but the two are mismatched from the start. The story that follows rocks the boat in every sense. Mislaid explodes the nuclear family and topples every foundation of identity, black and white, gay and straight, 'normal' and very, very strange.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 7 hours 58 minutes. Welsh adult fictionBianchi, Tony. Dwy farwolaeth Endaf Rowlands. 2015. Literary fiction. TB22932.Stori yw hon am beiriannau golchi diffygiol, am hen felin yng Nghaerdydd a'i phileri haearn, am g?t y diweddar Eric Morecambe ac, yn bennaf oll, am s?n asgwrn cefn yn pydru. Gwaith arobryn y Fedal Ryddiaith yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Maldwyn a'r Gororau, 2015. Read by Tom Blumberg. 5 hours 3 minutes. Cob, Alun. Sais. 2014. General fiction. TB22004.Nofel ddychanol, wefreiddiol a dychrynllyd, gyda hiwmor tywyll a thro syfrdanol yn ei chynffon. Beth sy'n digwydd pan mae Sais yn cael ei ladd go iawn, a hynny, efallai oherwydd bod yr awdur Alun Cob wedi ysgrifennu nofel lle mae rhywun yn lladd Saeson? Dyma stori o fewn nofel, o fewn nofel ac Alun Cob yn eich tywys ymhellach i mewn i grombil y cwlwm tywyll. Read by Huw Charles. 4 hours 29 minutes. Davies, Joanna. Un man. 2015. Science fiction. TB22913.Nofel sci-fi a stori garu. Mae Erin wedi cael llond bol ar ei bywyd diflas, ei gwaith di-ddim a'i chariad difeddwl. Mae hi'n dyheu am fywyd gwell ac yna, un noson, yn ei chwsg , mae Morgan yn ymddangos. Dyn ei breuddwydion. Yn sydyn mae bywyd yn werth ei fyw ond dim ond pan mae hi'n cysgu. Read by Rhian Jones. 5 hours 23 minutes. Edwards, Sonia, Mynd adra'n droednoeth. 2014. General fiction. TB22005.Nofel delynegol, gofiadwy i oedolion sy'n gofyn y cwestiwn oesol: beth yw pris gwir hapusrwydd? Read by Sian Bassett-Roberts. 4 hours 2 minutes. Evans, Geraint. Y gelyn cudd. 2015. Crime. TB22568.Pedwaredd nofel dditectif yn y gyfres boblogaidd am Gareth Prior a'i d?m. Bydd y nofel yn mynd ? ni i Gaerdydd ac i bencadlys MI5 yn Llundain yn dilyn diflaniad Syr Gerald oddi ar ei gwch ym Mae Aberteifi. Ond pwy yw'r gelyn go iawn? Read by Owain Gillard. 7 hours 26 minutes. Hughes, Sion. Llythyrau yn y llwch. 2014. General fiction. TB22006.Nofel iasoer wedi'i selio ar stori wir sy'n datgelu tensiynau a hiliaeth adeg yr Ail Ryfel Byd. Dyma nofel gyntaf yr awdur, a ddisgrifiwyd fel 'epig o nofel' gan feirniaid Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen 2014. Yn 1942, yng nghanol yr Ail Ryfel Byd, mae pentref cysglyd Llanyborth yn deffro i olygfa ryfeddol. Mae miloedd o filwyr Americanaidd wedi ymgartrefu mewn gwersylloedd o'u cwmpas. Yn fuan daw tensiynau hiliaeth y milwyr gwyn tuag at y milwyr du i'r amlwg ac mae poblogaeth y pentref yn cael eu gorfodi i gymryd ochrau. Yng nghanol hyn mae Sali Lloyd, merch ddi -briod yn cael ei hunig blentyn ac yn ei alw'n Tomos. Yn 1985, deugain mlynedd yn diweddarach, mae Tomos Lloyd yn dychwelyd i Lanyborth i geisio datrys dirgelwch mwyaf ei fywyd...Read by Chris Davies. 6 hours 46 minutes. Jones, Harri Pritchard. Disgyn i'w lle. 2014. General fiction. TB21992.Nofelig yn adrodd hanes hen ?r heddiw, Alwyn Gwyn, a'i berthynas gyda'i rieni, yn enwedig ei dad, Joseff, a fu'n gynorthwy-ydd meddygol yn ffosydd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. Read by Paul Morris. 1 hour 59 minutes. Lewis, Caryl. Y bwthyn. 2015. General fiction. TB23108.Nofel sy'n troi o gwmpas tri chymeriad - Enoch, Isaac ac Owen. Mae'r stori'n dechrau pan mae Owen yn dod i aros mewn bwthyn ar dir fferm fynyddig. Nofel delynegol, gynnil, a byd natur yn ganolog i'r digwyddiadau, sy'n aros yn y cof. Read by Hanna Jarman. 4 hours 51 minutes. Lewis, Sian, Miwsig Moss Morgan. 2014 Literary fiction. TB21996.Mae Moss Morgan, un o drigolion tref Aberberwan, yn dipyn o enigma. Mae ei benderfyniad i symud o'i gartref i fyw mewn ogof yn edrych allan ar y m?r yn mynd i gael effaith pellgyrhaeddol ar fywyd un o drigolion y dref. Hon fydd Nofel y Mis Gorffennaf. Daeth y nofel arbennig hon yn agos iawn at gipio Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol eleni. Meddai un o'r beirniaid, Nofel hudolus, gyfareddol a chyfoethog . . . dyma awdur crefftus a phrofiadol syn creu cymeriadau dwfn, amrywiol a chofiadwy. Dro ar ?l tro, parodd i mi ddal fy ngwynt oherwydd ceinder y dweud neu wreiddioldeb y delweddu. Read by Gwenda Richards. 10 hours 36 minutes. Lewis, Mared. Min y m?r. 2012. General fiction. TB20452.Mae'n ddiwedd haf mewn pentref glan m?r, a phob dim yn ddigon tebyg i'r arfer ym mywyd Ruth - fisitors Min y M?r yn prinhau, y mab yn bymtheg oed oriog, a Cled yn dal y gannwyll iddi o hyd, er gwaetha'i pherthynas ? Steve y syrffiwr. Pob dim yn debyg i'r arfer... nes daw nodyn dienw drwy ddrws Min y M?r, a chysgod o orffennol Ruth yn bygwth chwalu'r cyfan. Read by Melangell Dolma. 6 hours 35 minutes. Llewelyn, Haf. Mab y cychwr. 2012. Historical fiction. TB20445.Dolgellau, 1603. Wedi blynyddoedd cythryblus mae Rhys ap Gruffydd wedi llwyddo i greu bywyd newydd tawel iddo'i hun fel cowmon y Nannau, ac mae yntau ac Wrsla, y weddw ifanc, yn deall ei gilydd. Ond mae'r drwgdeimlad rhwng teuluoedd bonheddig y Nannau a'r Llwyn eisoes wedi hawlio un bywyd diniwed. Daw'r hen fardd Si?n Phylip ? newyddion o'r glannau. Read by Melangell Dolma. 5 hours 55 minutes. Owen, Llwyd. Heulfan. 2012. Crime. TB20454.Nofel gyffrous gan Llwyd Owen. Yn y dyfodol agos mewn gwlad debyg iawn i'r Gymru gyfoes, mae lladron meistrolgar yn dwyn o dan drwynau crachach Gerddi Hwyan, gan gythruddo a drysu Aled Colwyn a Richard King, y ditectifs sydd ar eu trywydd. A fydd dihiryn go iawn y nofel yn cael ei haeddiant? Read by Gwennan Evans. 7 hours 42 minutes. Owen, Tudur. Y Sw. 2014. Humorous fiction. TB22003.Sut mae cael eich llun ar dudalen flaen papur newydd cenedlaethol? Syml. Gadewch i Wyddel o r enw Brendan Fitzgibbon ddod ? llond lori o anifeiliaid egsotic i'ch fferm. Ychwanegwch haf gwlyb ofnadwy a Saesnes wallgof, yn ogystal ? pherthynas fregus eich rhieni, ac mae ganddoch chi stori werth chweil i'r 'News of The World'. Dyma sut y newidiodd fy mywyd i, a'n cornel ddistaw ni o Sir F?n, am byth wrth i'r genedl ddod i wybod am helynt Y Sw. Mae'r nofel hon yn seiliedig ar stori wir, ond newidiwyd enwau, lleoliadau a ffeithiau i amddiffyn y diniwed. Ni chafodd unrhyw anifail ei niweidio yn sgil ysgrifennu'r stori yma. Er mai ffuglen yw'r stori, a nifer o'r cymeriadau a'r sefyllfaoedd yn rai dychmygol, mae'n seiliedig ar blentyndod yr awdur.Read by Huw Charles. 6 hours 1 minute. Parri, Harri. Ifan Jones a'r Fedal Gee. 2012. General fiction. TB20455. Cyfres Porth yr Aur. Cyfrol o straeon byrion llawn hiwmor sy'n dilyn anturiaethau'r gweinidog Eilir Thomas a gweddill trigolion y dref hynod honno, Porth yr Aur. Read by Huw Charles. 4 hours 36 minutes. Parrott, Gwen. Cyw melyn y fall. 2012. Crime. TB20458.Dilyniant i'r nofel boblogaidd, Gwyn eu Byd. Mae Dela Arthur yn falch o fynd ar ei gwyliau i orffwys ac ymlacio wedi helbul gaeaf caled ac anllad 1947 yn Nant-yr-eithin. Ond yn fuan wedi i Dela gyrraedd Cwm y Glo mae merch fach yn diflannu o'i chartref, ac yn ystod y chwilio deuir o hyd i dystiolaeth fod trosedd erchyll wedi'i chyflawni. Read by Geraint Pickard. 11 hours..Parrott, Gwen. Tra Bo Dwy: nofel Maeseifion. 2015. Crime. TB22567.Mae Anna a'i merch, Llio, yn byw mewn fflat gyffredin ar stad ddi-nod ym Maeseifion, ond mae popeth yn newid pan ddaw'r ddwy yn dystion i lofruddiaeth sy'n effeithio ar y gymuned gyfan. Nofel dditectif newydd gan awdures Gwyn eu Byd, Cyw Melyn y Fall a Hen Blant Bach. Read by Enid Hughes. 10 hours 25 minutes. Roberts, Lleucu. Saith oes Efa. 2014. Short stories. TB22002.Saith stori fer. Cefnogi Seimon mae gwraig fferm Cesel Ucha yn ei wneud o fore gwyn tan nos. Pan ddaw'r tyrfe i aflonyddu arno, mae hi'n gorfod camu i'r blaen a rhedeg y lle nes bod y storm wedi cilio. Ond un diwrnod, daw rhywbeth i darfu ar fywydau'r ddau. Gwaith arobryn y Fedal Ryddiaith yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Sir G?r, 2014. Read by Branwen Gwyn. 3 hours 54 minutes. Roberts, Eigra Lewis. Fel yr haul. 2014. Historical fiction. TB21999.Nofel hanesyddol newydd gan Eigra Lewis Roberts yn portreadu chwe blynedd olaf Morfydd Llwyn Owen, cyfansoddwraig ddisglair a chantores dalentog a fu farw yn drasig o ifanc. Read by Enid Hughes. 9 hours 6 minutes. Steffan Ros. Manon. Llanw. 2014. General fiction. TB22007.Mae Llanw yn byw mewn t? ar y traeth gyda Gorwel, ei hefaill, a'u nain. Mae chwedlau yn ffordd o fyw i'r ferch freuddwydiol hon. Ond mae'r Ail Ryfel Byd yn taflu ei gysgodion, ac mae penderfyniad Gorwel yn cael effaith andwyol ar fywyd Llanw. Nofel arall eithriadol gan awdures Blasu. Read by Gwenda Richards. 9 hours 54 minutes. Volunteer readJones, Geraint V. Ei uffern ei hun. 2005. Crime. TB405448.Nofel afaelgar am ymchwil yr heddlu i lofruddiaeth gwraig ifanc mewn dinas yn Lloegr, a'r modd y mae'r ymholiadau'n arwain at ddatgelu hen gyfrinachau ac agor hen greithiau ym mywydau aelodau teulu'r wraig yng nghefn gwlad Maldwyn, gan nofelydd hynod brofiadol a phoblogaidd. 4 hours 43 minutes. Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyAsbridge, Thomas S. The greatest knight: the remarkable life of William Marshal, the power behind five English thrones. 2015. TB23131.Asbridge draws upon an array of contemporary evidence, to present a compelling account of William Marshal's life and times, from rural England to the battlefields of France, the desert castles of the Holy Land and the verdant shores of Ireland. Charting the unparalleled rise to prominence of a man bound to a code of honour, yet driven by unquenchable ambition, this knight's tale lays bare the brutish realities of medieval warfare and the machinations of royal court, and draws us into the heart of a period of our history, when the West emerged from the Dark Ages and stood on the brink of modernity.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 16 hours 17 minutes. Brown, Jane. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: the omnipotent magician, 1716-1783. 2012. TB23016.Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man and his work, from his childhood and apprenticeship in rural Northumberland, through his formative years at Stowe, the most famous garden of the day. His innovative ideas, and his generous nature, led to a meteoric rise to a Royal Appointment in 1764 and his clients and friends ranged from statesmen like the elder Pitt to artists and actors like David Garrick.Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 16 hours 50 minutes. Etherington-Smith, Meredith. The 'It' girls: Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, the couturiere 'Lucile' and Elinor Glyn, romantic novelist. 1986. TB6810.Celebrated sisters Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon and Elinor Glyn, both wilful, glamorous and wordly, are the subjects of this double biography. Born in the 1860s they were forced by circumstance to support themselves at a time when the sole occupation for a gentlewoman was to be a governess. Lucile became one of the foremost couturieres of her age. Elinor's career as a novelist was equally dazzling; her society shocker, "Three Weeks", detailing an extra-marital affair between an exotic seductress and an unwitting younger man, established her notoriety.Read by Joanna Mackie. 10 hours 45 minutes. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream: a memoir. 2003. TB22948.In this candid and revealing memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back over her eventful life, from her private education at home, through brief spells as an actress and model, to developing a successful career as a novelist. As well as giving a highly personal insight into the author's life, she illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century.Read by Helen Bourne. 21 hours 59 minutes. Kingett, Robert. Off the grid: living blind without the Internet. 2015.TB23155.Journalist Robert Kingett accepts a dare, one that at first seems simple: to adapt to his blindness without the Internet. This account is a cozy diary of battling with an FM radio, hooking up a landline phone, and the journey of adapting to a brand new way of living from someone who has never disconnected from the World Wide Web.Read by T. David Rutherford. 3 hours 27 minutes. Myers, Dave. Blood, sweat and tyres. 2015. TB23255.The Hairy Bikers are known for their best-selling cookbooks, and now they are here to tell you how it all started. Si King and Dave Myers, aka The Hairy Bikers, have lived life to the fullest. They had fantastically rich northern childhoods, laced with food and fun, but of course, with some tragedy too. We also get to know the early Bikers; we find out how their friendship developed and all of the round-the-world trips they went on.Read by Si King and Dave Myers. 10 hours 24 minutes. Parini, Jay. Every time a friend succeeds something inside me dies: the life of Gore Vidal. 2015. TB22952.An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Parini's biography probes behind the glittering surface of Vidal's colourful life to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truth underlying his celebrity-strewn life. There is plenty of glittering surface as well, a virtual Who's Who from Eleanor Roosevelt on down.Read by John Chancer. 18 hours 56 minutes. Whistler, Laurence. The laughter and the urn: the life of Rex Whistler. 1985. TB6086.The story of a painter whose work was romantic and humorous told by his brother with whom he shared much of his short life. A peace loving man, he joined the Welsh Guards and was killed in the Normandy landings aged thirty-nine. The diversity of his achievement for so short a span was remarkable - murals, book illustrations and theatre designs as well as easel painting and portraiture.Read by Bruce Montague. 15 hours 45 minutes. DramaThorne, Jack. Harry Potter and the cursed child. 2016. TB23322.This play is based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school -age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.Read by Geoffrey Newland. 6 hours 26 minutes. HistoryBeard, Mary. SPQR: a history of ancient Rome. 2015. TB22744.This book explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire. Read by Monica Kendall. 20 hours 23 minutes. DeFede, Jim. The day the world came to town. 2003. TB22750.When thirty-eight jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to the closing of United States airspace, the citizens of this small community were called upon to come to the aid of more than six thousand displaced travellers. The people were asked to aid and care for these distraught travellers, as well as for thousands more, and their response was truly extraordinary.Read by Garrick Hagon. 7 hours 32 minutes. Jenner, Greg. A million years in a day: a curious history of everyday life: from the Stone Age to the phone age. 2015. TB23261.Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. 'A Million Years in a Day' reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. Jenner explores the gradual and often unexpected evolution of our daily routines.Read by Greg Jenner. 10 hours 49 minutes. Roberts, Alice M. The Celts: search for a civilization. 2015. TB23038.We know a lot about the Roman Empire. But there was another ancient people in Europe, feared warriors with chariots, iron swords, exquisite jewellery, swirling tattoos and strange rituals and beliefs. For hundreds of years Europe was theirs, not Rome's. They were the Celts. From Denmark to Italy; Portugal to Turkey, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, revealing the remarkable story of the Celts: their real origins, how they lived and thrived, and their enduring modern legacy.Read by Di Langford. 8 hours 54 minutes. MusicBostridge, Ian. Schubert's winter journey: anatomy of an obsession. 2015. TB23074.Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. Ian Bostridge focuses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. He unpicks the enigmas and subtle meaning of each of the twenty-four songs to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, bringing the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike. Though not strictly a biography of Schubert, Schubert's Winter Journey provides insight into the mind and work of the great composer.Contains swear words.Read by Chris Courtenay. 10 hours 42 minutes. Natural HistoryBarkham, Patrick. Coastlines: the story of our shore. 2015. TB23012.Told through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks and history, and the people who have made their lives within sight of the waves.Read by Richard Derrington. 13 hours 44 minutes. PoetryThe Oxford book of English verse. 1999. TB22746.This anthology of English poetry contains over 850 poems, covering more than seven centuries of English verse from all parts of the British Isles. Some of the greatest long poems are here, Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey', Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market', alongside some of the shortest, haikus, squibs, and epigrams.Read by Greg Wagland. 27 hours 32 minutes. Popular scienceCarroll, Sean B. The Serengeti rules: the quest to discover how life works and why it matters. 2016. TB23172.How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? Award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions, and shows how their discoveries matter for our health and the health of the planet we depend upon.Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 7 hours 35 minutes. ReligionSacks, Jonathan. The dignity of difference: how to avoid the clash of civilizations. 2003. TB22957.A statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it introduces a new paradigm into the search for co-existence. Sacks argues that we must do more than search for common human values. We must also learn to make space for difference, even and especially at the heart of the monotheistic imagination.Read by John Cartwright. 8 hours 12 minutes. SocietySeymour, Ellee. The shop girls: a true story of hard work, friendshipand fashion in an exclusive 1950s department store. 2014. TB22903.For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Set during the closing years of the Second World War, and moving into the 1950s, 'The Shop Girls' perfectly recreates the camaraderie and friendship of these fascinating young women, and brings to life the thrilling hustle and bustle of a fashionable department store.Read by Rachel Atkins. 8 hours 42 minutes. TransportBradley, Simon. The railways: nation, network and people. 2015. TB23075.Thousands of route-miles fenced off from the rest of the country, carved into landscapes barely changed since Shakespeare's time and ruled by their own mysterious rhythms and laws. From the classical architecture of Newcastle Station to the unrelenting traffic and expanse of Clapham Junction and the lost stations of Oban and Challow, Bradley explores the landscape of the railways, the trains, and the passengers. Read by Bob Rollett. 27 hours 25 minutes. True crimeHarding, Luke. A very expensive poison: the definitive story of the murder of Litvinenko and Russia's war with the West. 2016. TB23136.1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. 22 days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. This book presents the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko. Harding traces the journey of the poison across London, from hotel room to nightclub, assassin to victim; a deadly trail that seemingly leads back to the Russian state itself.Read by Peter Crerar. 11 hours 55 minutes. Pickford, Nigel. Lady Bette and the murder of Mr Thynn. 2014. TB23264.Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissolute fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins. Who is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Konigsmark, young and glamorous? Or is it a political assassination, as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Read by Katie Scarf. 10 hours 38 minutes. Sereny, Gitta. The case of Mary Bell: a portrait of a child who murdered: with a new preface and appendix by the author. 1995. TB22759.In December 1968 two girls, Mary Bell, eleven, and Norma Bell, thirteen (neighbours, but not related), stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling, within a six-week period, Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three. Norma was acquitted. Mary Bell, the younger but infinitely more sophisticated and cooler of the two, was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder because of 'diminished responsibility' and was sentenced to 'detention' for life.Contains violence. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 13 hours 14 minutes. Warfare and DefenceBenuzzi, Felice. No picnic on Mount Kenya. 2015. TB22876.In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one goal in mind. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, and with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 9 hours 50 minutes. Campbell, Clare. Dogs of courage: when Britain's pets went to war, 1939-45. 2015. TB22867.During the most dangerous days of the Second World War, the British government set out to recruit an army of canines, a 'Guard Dog Unit'. This experimental team of brave hounds would later use their incredible sense of smell to sniff out the anti-personnel mines that barred the way to reclaiming Europe. Based on original documents, first-hand accounts and interviews, Dogs of Courage tells a story of human determination, heartbreak and uncompromising canine courage.Read by Harriet Dunlop. 9 hours 45 minutes. Welsh adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyDavies, D. T. Dianc i Ryddid: Rhyfel D.T. Davies. 2015. TB22931.Hunangofiant dirdynnol cyn-garcharor rhyfel yn yr Ail Ryfel Byd, sef, D T Davies, Dryslwyn, sir Gaerfyrddin, yn dilyn ei bererindod i Awstria am y tro cyntaf ers iddo ddianc o'r wlad 70 mlynedd yn ?l. Read by Chris Davies. 5 hours 2 minutes. TB22931.Lewis, Ll?r Gwyn. Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel. 2014. TB21995.Llyfr am hanes, rhyfel a theithio gan yr awdur, y bardd a'r darlithydd, Ll?r Gwyn Lewis. Dyma blethiad hyfryd o ffaith a ffuglen a'i chanolbwynt ar y cof a sut yr ydym ni'n coffau. Trwy bytiau cofiannol, ysgrifau taith, ffotograffau, dyddiaduron, cofnodion a llenyddiaeth cawn gydgerdded a'r awdur rhwng cwsg ac effro ar hyd llwybrau'r cof a'r dychymyg. Read by Llyr Gwyn Lewis. 6 hours 24 minutes. TB21995.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Lucas, David. The Skeleton Pirate. 2013. TB23183.The Skeleton Pirate is the terror of the seas who'll never be beaten! Until, that is, he gets beaten by an unruly bunch of pirates and thrown overboard. Down in the depths of the sea, he embarks on an adventure with a beautiful mermaid, a whale with tummy ache and a golden ship full of treasure.Read by Kris Dyer. 8 minutes. Suggested reading age 5+Bass, Guy. Monster boy. 2011. TB23192.Gormy Ruckles: book 1. Gormy Ruckles is determined to be the most fearsome monster the world has ever seen! But when his father sets him a tall task - to scare a sheep - Gormy realises there might be more tomonsterin than he first thought.Read by Guy Bass. 52 minutes. Bass, Guy. Monster mischief. 2011. TB23193.Gormy Ruckles: book 2. Gormy is fed up with everyone telling him he isn't monstrous enough yet. Why won't anyone give him a chance? And with a mysterious creature wreaking havoc all through the house, Gormy is going to need to be more than scary.Read by Guy Bass. 58 minutes. Norton, Liss. Florence's birthday wish. 2011. TB23211.Bluebell Woods: book 1. Bluebell Woods, home to a cast of woodland friends. Spring is here and Florence the rabbit is excited about her birthday. It seems that everyone is busy, and she is worried no one will be around to celebrate. She confides in her best friends, Honey the wood mouse, Natalie the hedgehog and Evie the squirrel, that she would love a picnic by the Babbling Brook, but even they're too busy to come. The big day arrives, will Florence's celebration be everything she hoped for?Read by Rita Sharma. 1 hour 2 minutes. Suggested reading age 7+Asquith, Ros. Letters from an alien schoolboy. 2011. TB23190.Alien schoolboy: book 1. Flowkwee is on a mission – he has to disguise himself as a schoolboy and spy on young earthlings, in order to help his father with his research. Here are his letters to his best friend, describing the strange earthlings who have only one head, two peepers, and no aerials, lights, whirlers or even winkers! And he discovers the fool-proof way to catch earthlings is to tell them to follow a sign saying ‘ice cream!’Read by Wayne Forester. 2 hours 32 minutes. Dougherty, John. Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the badness of badgers. 2015. TB23202.Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face: book 1. Winner of the Great Kerfuffle Best Book of Last Tuesday. Come and join our intrepid heroes Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face on their highly dangerous and nail-biting adventure (or it may just be mildly perilous!). Oh, and there might be a few dodgy badgers hanging about too. Meet the funniest collection of characters ever known to mankind in this stupendously hilarious book that will make you laugh your socks off, and quite possibly your ears too.Read by Robert Nairne. 1 hour 25 minutes. Faber, Polly. The not-a-pig. 2015. TB23080.Mango & Bambang: book 1. A charming collection of four stories about the unlikely friendship between Mango, a little girl, and Bambang, an Asian tapir. Mango Allsorts is good at all sorts of things, not just karate and chess. Bambang is most definitely not-a-pig and is now lost in a very busy city. When the two unexpectedly meet, a friendship begins, filled with adventures, and of course, plenty of banana pancakes.Read by Candida Gubbins. 1 hour 1 minute. Jones, Gareth P. The clan of the scorpion. 2012. TB23206.Ninja meerkats: book 1. Jet Flashfeet, Chuck Cobracrusher, Donnie Dragonjab, and Bruce Willowhammer... Together they are THE CLAN OF THE SCORPION! Armed to the teeth with ninja know-how, this ultimate fighting force has one goal - to thwart the evil Ringmaster's plans for world domination. A tiger is missing from Hong Kong Zoo, but this is no ordinary big cat and she won't be found by sticking "Lost!" posters on lampposts. When the meerkats find a clown-shaped Clue in the Poo at the zoo, it can only mean one thing: the Ringmaster and his Circus Goons are in town.Read by David Thorpe. 1 hour 7 minutes. Jones, Gareth P. The eye of the monkey. 2012. TB23207.Ninja meerkats: book 2. An Indian emerald with mystical powers has been stolen from under the noses of the monkeys who guard it. The meerkats team up with kung fu supremo the Delhi Llama to investigate. Some monkey business is afoot, and there are no prizes for guessing who's behind it.Read by David Thorpe. 1 hour 16 minutes. Mitchelhill, Barbara. Damien Drooth supersleuth. 2011. TB23210.Damian Drooth: book 1. Damian Drooth, the one-of-a-kind, clean-up-the world hero, has arrived. Criminals beware – and be very afraid! In this collection of Damian Drooth mysteries we find the boy detective embroiled in a variety of unlikely cases. But he always comes out on top– in the end!Read by Christopher Naylor. 2 hours 35 minutes. Scott, Kate. Boy in tights. 2015. TB23214.Spies in disguise: book 1. Joe discovers his parents are spies, which is great. But Joe’s parents are in danger, which is not so great. And now Joe has to go undercover as a girl, which is definitely NOT GREAT AT ALL. Joe (now ‘Josephine’) is miserable when he starts his new school in a blonde wig, dress and tights. But soon he has a spy mission of his own. Using a host of unusual gadgets, Joe investigates some suspicious goings on. But can he do so without revealing his true identity?Read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart. 2 hours 32 minutes. Suggested reading age 9+Backshall, Stephen. Tiger wars. 2014. TB23191.Falcon chronicles: book 1. Saker is on the run from the only life he knows. He’s escaping the Clan, a clandestine organisation that hires teen renegades to the highest bidder. From India to the Himalayas and China he’ll be pursued by hunting dogs, mercenaries, spies, thieves and assassins as he comes face to face with a terrifying Chinese Overlord in his quest to set free the most majestic, lethal and valuable of all the predators – the tiger. And with him, on every dangerous step of the adventure, is Sinter, a girl who has her own reasons for running away.Read by Steve Backshall. 6 hours 17 minutes. Cheshire, Simon. Operation Sting. 2015. TB23198.Swarm: book 1. The Secret Intelligence Agency has a new weapon: SWARM – artificially intelligent robotic bugs that act as undercover agents. Operating below the radar, they can fly faster, see further and sting harder! They won't stop until they've completed their mission, no matter what it takes. When a prototype weapon is stolen, it's a race against time for SWARM to locate and reclaim the weapon before the thieves crack the encryption code protecting it.Read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart. 2 hours 2 minutes. Donnelly, Jennifer. Deep blue. 2014. TB22685.Waterfire saga: book 1. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be about reuniting with handsome Prince Mahdi, her childhood crush. Instead she finds herself haunted by strange dreams foretelling the return of an ancient evil, and dealing with the deaths of her parents as assassins storm the betrothal ceremony, plunging the city into chaos. Serafina and her best friend Neela embark on a quest to avenge her parents' death andprevent a war between the mer nations. Read by Phoebe McIntosh. 8 hours 45 minutes. Hickman, John. Freaks United. 2016. TB23204.Seth, Beefy and Angelo can't believe it when they aren't selected for the football team at their new school. Then they are labelled the 'Freaks' who didn't make it. Now they have new enemies in the form of Bieber-a-like Daniel Logan and P.E. teacher Mr Steele. So do they go home and give up the dream, or do they start their own team? The Freaks United are born and they are going to live up to their name.Read by Thomas Eyre. 3 hours 12 minutes. Mayhew, Jon. Mortlock. 2011. TB23034.Mortlock: book 1. Josie is a knife-thrower in a magician's stage act, Alfie is an undertaker's assistant. They are both orphans and they have never met, but they are about to be given a clue to the secret of their shared past.Read by James Parsons. 7 hours 16 minutes. Thorne, Jack. Harry Potter and the cursed child. 2016. TB23322.This play is based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school -age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.Read by Geoffrey Newland. 6 hours 26 minutes. Suggested reading age 11+Taylor, Thomas. Dan and the dead. 2015. TB23216.Dan: book 1. Dan can see ghosts. See them, speak to them, and sometimes help them – for a price. Dan and his ghostly sidekick Simon help the unquiet dead solve their problems and move on. But when they take on the case of a teenage shoplifter, things start to spin out of control. Soon Dan is up against a dangerous and badly-dressed gangster, a rather unusual vicar, the ghost of a Victorian stage magician who cut off his own head and a spot of grave robbing!Read by Simon Bubb. 2 hours 22 minutes. Suggested reading age 13+Brooks, Kevin. iBoy. 2010. TB22780.Before the attack, 16-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it's having an extraordinary effect. Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know and see more than he could ever imagine. And with incredible power comes knowledge and a choice.Contains swear words.Read by Robert Nairne. 7 hours 40 minutes. Cole, Stephen. Shoot to kill. 2015. TB21793.Young Bond: book 6. Expelled from Eton and determined never to trust again, James Bond's plans for a solitary summer are dashed by the discovery of a gruesome film reel – a reel someone is willing to kill for. Travelling from the English countryside to Los Angeles, James finds himself caught up in a sinister plot of blackmail, murder and revenge that goes way beyond any Hollywood gangster movie. His friends are in danger and his life is on the line; James must find a way out.Read by David Thorpe. 8 hours 39 minutes. Downham, Jenny. You against me. 2014. TB23079.When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide.Contains swear words.Read by Natalie Castka. 11 hours 28 minutes. Rushton, Rosie. Secret schemes and daring dreams. 2008. TB22901.Jane Austen in 21st Century: book 3. Emma Woodhouse had, for 17 years, had pretty much everything her own way. She was of the opinion that if you wanted something enough, you simply applied all your energies to getting it. So when she met someone with untapped potential, she set out to change their lives for them. Whether they liked it or not.Read by Madeleine Hyland. 5 hours 12 minutes. Welsh children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Walliams, David. Yr eliffant eithaf digywilydd. 2016. TB23114.Wedi cwblhau ffurflen 'mabwysiadu eliffant', doedd Sam ddim yn disgwyl gweld eliffant go iawn ar garreg y drws, ond wedi iddo ddod i'r t?, mae'n un antur anferth ar ?l y llall! Cyfrol ddwyieithog sy'n addas i blant dros 3 oed. Read by Hanna Jarman. 8 minutes. Walliams, David. Yr hipo cyntaf ar y lleuad. 2015. TB23115.Addasiad Gruffudd Antur o un o lyfrau stori David Walliams. Mae Heulwen eisiau bod yr Hipo cyntaf ar y Lleuad. Ond tybed pwy fydd yn cyrraedd gyntaf? Heulwen neu Caswallon ap Cynfelyn ap Cadwaladr? Read by Hanna Jarman. 11 minutes. Suggested reading age 5+Dahl, Roald. Yr CMM. 2016. TB23168.Addasiad Cymraeg o The BFG, stori anhygoel gan awdur llyfrau plant poblogaidd iawn yn s?n am ffrind gorau Sophie, sef y CMM, cawr mawr caredig sy'n defnyddio rhai geiriau hynod.Read by Rhian Jones. 5 hours 15 minutes. Milbourne, Anna. Ceffylau a merlod. 2010. TB23053.Cyfres dechrau da Usborne beginners. Sut mae ceffylau'n byw'n wyllt? Pa fath o ferlyn sy'n byw ger Pegwn y Gogledd? Pam mae ceffylau'n gwisgo pedolau? Mae'r atebion a llawer mwy o wybodaeth ryfeddol am geffylau a merlod yn y llyfr hwn. Mae Ceffylau a Merlod yn rhan o gyfres gyffrous o lyfrau i blant sy'n dechrau darllen ar eu pennau eu hunain. Mae'r testun yn hawdd ei ddarllen ac wedi'i ysgrifennu'n arbennig gyda help arbenigwr darllen.Read by Paul Morris. 13 minutes. Tomos, Angharad, Darn Bach o Bapur: nofel am aberth y Beasleys. 2014. TB22566.Mae'r stori hon yn seiliedig ar safiad Eileen a Trefor Beasley a ddechreuodd yn y 1950au i wrthod talu treth cyngor Llanelli nes iddyn nhw dderbyn ffurflen Gymraeg. Bu i'r brotest barhau am wyth mlynedd a golygu caledi mawr i'r teulu. Roedd Delyth Beasley wrth ei bodd yn chwarae'r piano oedd yn stafell fyw'r teulu yn Llangennech. Ond pan ddaeth cnoc y beili ar y drws bu'n rhaid i biano y ferch fynd. A daeth y beili'n ?l yn gyson rhwng 1952 a 1960 i fynd ? rhagor o eiddo'r teulu - y soffa, y bwrdd, y cadeiriau a'r drych ... Pam? Am fod Trefor ac Eileen, tad a mam Delyth ac Elidyr, yn gwrthod talu treth Cyngor Llanelli nes iddyn nhw dderbyn bil yn Gymraeg. Dyma'r stori wir am frwydr anodd un teulu bach dros ffurflen dreth, a'r effaith gafodd hynny ar yr iaith Gymraeg. Stori fawr am ddarn bach o bapur! Read by Hanna Jarman. 2 hours 26 minutes. Walliams, David. Cyfrinach Nana Crwca. 2014.TB23018.Mae'n gas gan Ben aros yn nh? Nana Crwca bob nos Wener. Mae hi'n nain gyffredin ym mhob ffordd: gwallt gwyn, dannedd gosod, ac yn drewi o fresych. Ond mae ganddi gyfrinach arbennig iawn. Ychydig a wyddai Ben fod ei nain oedrannus yn lleidr gemwaith rhyngwladol ... Addasiad Cymraeg o Gangsta Granny.Read by Hanna Jarman. 3 hours 25 minutes. Walliams, David. Deintydd dieflig. 2015. TB23112.Addasiad Cymraeg o Demon Dentist gan Gruffudd Antur. Roedd y dref yn dywyll ac roedd pethau od yn digwydd yng nghanol nos. Yn ?l yr arfer roedd plant yn gosod dant o dan y gobennydd gan obeithio y byddai'r tylwyth teg yn galw heibio! Ond y fath siom wrth edrych dan y gobennydd yn y bore a gweld beth oedd yno. Dim llai na slyg marw, pry cop a channoedd o bryfed clust bywiog. Read by Hanna Jarman. 4 hours 36 minutes. Suggested reading age 9+Dahl, Roald. Charlie a'r ffatri siocled. 2002. TB23464.Mae Charlie Bucket yn dwlu ar siocled. Ac mae Mr Willy Wonka, y dyfeisiwr mwyaf rhyfeddol yn y byd, yn mynd i agor giatiau ei ffatri siocled anhygoel i bump o blant lwcus. Gwobr hollol wych! Addasiad Elin Meek o Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gan Roald Dahl. Read by Tom Blumberg. 4 hours. Suggested reading age 13+Boyne, John. Y bachgen mewn pyjamas. 2009. TB23107.Addasiad o'r llyfr The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a ddaeth yn destun ffilm gofiadwy yn ddiweddar. Stori ingol am ddarn o hanes na ddylid byth ei anghofio. Llyfr dadlennol am gyfeillgarwch ac am greulondeb rhyfel. Chlywodd Bruno, sy'n naw oed, erioed s?n am yr Ateb Terfynol na'r Holocost. Does ganddo ddim syniad fod ei wlad yn gwneud pethau mor greulon i bobl Ewrop. Read by Rhian Jones. 5 hours 51 minutes. Books narrated by volunteersAdult FictionEidson, Thomas. The last ride. 1996. Western. TB405452.In New Mexico an old man begins a journey that can only end in death. For thirty years Samuel Jones has lived as an Apache, severing all ties with his family. Now his daughter needs him to ride against the Indians and recapture his lost granddaughter.12 hours 1 minute. Howard, Linda. Diamond Bay. 1999. Romance. TB405454.Rescues; book 2. Rachel Jones wasn't looking for trouble, much less a man, but in Kell Sabin she found both. On a hot summer's night Kell is washed up barely alive on a Florida beach and into Rachel's life. Their love blossoms as he recovers from his injuries. But by falling in love with Kell, Rachel has put her own life in danger from the forces that want him dead. Once fate has bought them together, can they learn to live apart?7 hours 51 minutes. Howard, Linda. White lies. 1998. Romance. TB405449.Rescues; book 4. Escorted by the FBI to her ex-husband's bedside, Jay Granger is unprepared for her reaction. Something's different. Even unconscious, this man is more dangerous than she remembers. Is this the man she'd married, or a total stranger? Jay Granger knows that the man lying in the bed is not her amnesiac ex-husband, despite his sincere belief he is, but when Jay becomes entangled in a web of danger and duplicity, it becomes impossible to escape her uncertain future.7 hours 33 minutes. Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown at Oxford. 1993. Classic. TB405459.In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century.21 hours 42 minutes. Kendrick, Sharon. Mistress of La Rioja. 2002. Mills and Boon romance. TB405450.There had been a searing mutual attraction between Sophie and Don Luis La Camara, but she'd had to return to England. Now Luis had come to find her, to ask her to return to La Rioja, as his young son's nanny and his mistress. It was hardly the declaration of love Sophie had hoped for. Would she really give up her home, her business, her life, to be with the enigmatic Spaniard who'd given up on love? Sophie had grown to love the motherless little boy, and if there was just one tiny chance she could claim Luis's love, then the answer had to be yes!5 hours 14 minutes. Stajno, Yana. Rules for Thursday lovers. 2015. Humorous fiction. TB405451.Old school friends, Angie and Fiona, bump into one another at a rather drunken timeshare event aboard a barge on the river Thames. Bored with her life, Fiona insists they both need some excitement. Their marriages have grown stale. Both women crave romance, not a timeshare apartment. Timesharing a lover; now that would be interesting! Auditions are swiftly convened at London Zoo, with hopefuls including a language student, an opera singer and a pickpocket. 9 hours 47 minutes. Adult Non-FictionAutobiography and biographyThe servant queen and the king she serves. 2016. TB405453.The Queen’s remarkable life of service to nation and commonwealth has made her one of the most admired people in the world. But what is the source of her inspiration and strength in good times and tough times? This tribute focuses on the Queen’s own words to draw out the central role of her trust in Jesus Christ in shaping her life and work, offering us an inspiring, multi-faceted insight onto a life well lived for others.1 hour 9 minutes. Hart, Dolores. The ear of the heart: an actress' journey from Hollywood to holy vows. 2013. TB405458.Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. She made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You, but a turning point in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting, but in order to answer a mysterious call she heard with the "ear of the heart".19 hours 33 minutes. McGrain, Danny. Celtic, my team. 1978. TB405439.Danny McGrain, brought up on a sprawling city housing estate, signed up with Celtic as a teenager in May 1967. At the time, Celtic was not only the best team in Scotland but in Europe, having just won the European Cup with a new exciting brand of attacking football, which took the world by storm. It was a daunting task for a youngster trying to break into a team of superstars but McGrain's dashing style, pace and ball control marked him as true Celtic material. McGrain went on to become the Celtic captain, becoming a favourite of player and fan alike.6 hours 57 minutes. DramaBillington, Michael. The 101 greatest plays: from antiquity to the present. 2015. TB405456.Theatre critic Michael Billington selects his 101 greatest plays of all time. 101 extended essays, and occasional dialogues, put the plays in context, justify their inclusion, explain their significance and trace their performance history. This book poses a number of questions. What makes a great play? Does the definition change with time and circumstance? Are certain common factors visible down the ages? However, The 101 Greatest Plays is ultimately a celebration of the art of the dramatist.17 hours 44 minutes. Food and DrinkFree food feasts. 2016. TB405457.Slimming World's Food Optimising puts you in control. You don't need to worry about weighing all your food, counting points or monitoring every mouthful. The Free Food list includes masses of food that you can eat in unlimited amounts. This is a Slimming World cookbook featuring 60 delicious recipes. There are also more than 20 dishes that are perfect for the Slimming World fast track weight loss plan. This cookbook covers meaty feasts, poultry perfection, seafood, spaghetti, and fruit and veg favourites.3 hours 19 minutes. ReligionAnderson, Lynn. If I really believe, why do I have these doubts? 1992. TB405455.Faith is the most fundamentally important aspect of following Christ. Yet there are times in every believer's life when the inevitable question arises in the heart and works its way to the soul: If I really believe, why do I have these doubts? The question may have been planted by tragedy or trial, or ignited by rejection or heartbreak. If you or someone you know is asking this question, this book will bring help and hope to every heart in search of a deeper faith.6 hours 55 minutes. Self HelpMcQ, Joe. The steps we took. 1990. TB405446.This is a book of plain-spoken wisdom for people with addictions and people who love them. Joe McQ has been a student of the Twelve Steps for more than three decades. He, like tens of thousands of others, lives them every day, one day at a time. In The Steps We Took, Joe takes us through them, one Step at a time, and helps us understand how theyWork - and how they can change our lives5 hours 28 minutes. Travel and TourismMacdonald, Hugh. Rambles round Glasgow: descriptive, historical and traditional. 1856. TB405445.In this 19th century travel book, he writes, "We have thousands amongst ourselves who can boast of their familiarity with the wonders of other lands, yet who have never traced the windings of the Clyde, the Cart, or the Kelvin, … or of penetrating that sanctum of Gothic magnificence, the crypt of our own venerable Cathedral! To such parties we would say …. that there are many things of beauty and of interest to be met with in the course of a brief ramble among the environs of our own city."17 hours 44 minutes. ?To borrow booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or email library@.ukTo buy booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or online at .uk/shop? RNIB November 2016RNIB registered charity number 1156629 (England and Wales) and SC044876 (Scotland). ................
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