October 10 to December 31 2013 New Braille Books
ISSUE 38
Braille
Adult fiction
Abbott, Megan E. Dare me. Crime fiction.
Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are the unchallenged rulers of their high school kingdom. They're the girls that nobody crosses, captains of the cheerleaders, invincible. Until their new coach arrives - all sleek poise and cool command - and their world is changed forever.
2013. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24682403.
Albom, Mitch. The first phone call from heaven. General fiction.
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax?
2013. 4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24713103.
Banks, Iain. Stonemouth. General fiction.
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After 5 years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up.
2012. 6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 23264005.
Boyd, William. Solo. Thriller.
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.
2013. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24667203.
Chambers, Kimberley. The victim. Thriller.
Mitchells and O'Haras; book 3. Frankie Mitchell has lost custody of her children to their sadistic father, is pregnant and in Holloway awaiting trial for attempted murder. In Frankie's absence, her father, underworld boss Eddie, is determined to get his own back.
2011. 7v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24640303.
Child, Lee. Never go back. Thriller.
Jack Reacher series; book 18. Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia and the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher's old desk isn't a woman. Reacher doesn't expect what comes next: he is accused of homicide. 2013. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24644303.
Clark, Lucy. One life changing moment. Mills and Boon medical romance.
Dr. Mackenzie Fawles can't believe her eyes when she sees John Watson - the man who saved her and her tiny daughter - again. She's never forgotten how safe she felt in his arms. John stopped doing emotion a long time ago, after the death of his wife and child but an unexpected connection was formed the day he saved Mackenzie.
2013. 3v. Price: £3.49. Order No: 24638803.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. Order No: 24638805.
Collard, Paul Fraser. The scarlet thief. Historical fiction.
Jack Lark series; book 1. 1854: The banks of the Alma River, Crimean Peninsular. The men of the King's Royal Fusiliers are in terrible trouble, ducking and twisting as the storm of shot, shell and bullet tear through their ranks. Officer Jack Lark has to act immediately and decisively. Does he have the officer qualities that are the life blood of the British Army?
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24668103.
Cornwell, Bernard. The pagan lord. Historical fiction.
The warrior chronicles; book 7. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north stand ready to invade. Uhtred, once Alfred's great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24660903.
Dunant, Sarah. Blood & beauty. Historical fiction.
When Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth or his love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic politician with an appetite for life, women and power must use papacy and family to succeed.
2013. 9v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24562405.
Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May and the invisible code. Crime fiction.
Bryant and May series; book 10. Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must investigate.
2013. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24668603.
Francis, Felix. Refusal. Thriller.
Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the horse racing authority, wants Sid Halley to look into some suspicious race results, but Sid gave up the investigating business six years ago. The following day, Sir Richard is found dead and Sid receives a threatening call. It is only when his six-year-old daughter goes missing that Sid realises that he may pay the ultimate price for his refusal.
2013. 5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24673103.
French, Nicci. Waiting for Wednesday. Thriller.
Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case.
2013. 7v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24581105.
Galbraith, Robert. The cuckoo's calling. Crime fiction.
Written under a pseudonym by J.K. Rowling, this gripping, elegant mystery is steeped in the atmosphere of London. A war veteran wounded both physically and psychologically, Cormoran Strike's life is in disarray but the case he is working on gives him a lifeline, despite coming at a personal cost.
2013. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24639503.
Gardner, Lisa. Hide. Thriller.
D.D. Warren series; book 2. Annabelle was seven years old when it first happened. She arrived home to find the suitcases packed and her parents fleeing. Now, aged 30, Annabelle has finally settled in Boston and is happy with her life. Until the bodies of six girls are discovered, one of them said to be her.
2012. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24638603.
Gerritsen, Tess. Bloodstream. Thriller.
The small town of Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death until a rash of teenage violence erupts.
2011. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24690803.
Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. All in scarlet uniform. Historical fiction.
The year is 1809, and the recruiting sergeants are hard at work, as the British army gathers strength for the next phase of the campaign against Bonaparte on the Spanish Peninsula. Captain Billy Pringle of the 106th Foot, however, has a somewhat more urgent reason to leave the country: having become embroiled in an ill-advised duel. But what seems at first like easy duty soon turns into a desperate fight for survival as they find themselves besieged in the strategic fortress of Cuidad Rodrigo.
2013. 6v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24639803.
Grey, Zane. Shower of gold. Western.
When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades - and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.
2013. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24668803.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 7v. Order No: 24668805.
Grisham, John. Sycamore Row. Thriller.
Jake Brigance series; book 2. Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. As the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death.
2013. 9v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24689903.
Harry, Lilian. Weddings in Burracombe. General fiction.
Burracombe Village; book 8. Devon, 1954. The villagers of Burracombe pull together to help each other though the tough times but, this summer, it's time to celebrate love and new life. There are a few surprises to come, however, before anyone can walk up the aisle.
2013. 7v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24558003.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 9v. Order No: 24558007.
Heller, Mandasue. Broke. Thriller.
Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best. But she doesn't want to know just how bad things are until his gambling habit brings the debt collector to her door. And Amy's troubles are only beginning. Someone else wants Mark for herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect and even her children.
2013. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24652903.
Herbert, James. The fog. Horror.
The peaceful life of a Wiltshire village is shattered when an earthquake releases a cloud of strange fog that drives people insane. There is only one man who can control the violence that has been unleashed.
2010. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24633503.
James, Matt. By the gun they died. Black horse western.
With seven killers camped on his trail, Blaize Morgan rode south into Weeping Woman valley. With his superior gun skills and horsemanship, Morgan expected to shake his pursuers easily, but soon realises he'll be lucky to survive the next 24 hours.
2010. 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24683003.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 2v. Order No: 24683005.
Jonasson, Jonas. The hundred-year-old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. Humorous fiction.
On his 100th birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure, involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan's remarkable earlier life in which he was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century.
2012. 7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24673603.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 8v. Order No: 24673605.
Jordan, Penny. A secret disgrace. Mills and Boon romance.
Only the Duke of Falconari can grant Louise Anderson’s grandparents' dying wish - but this is the same man who said arrivederci without a backward glance after their night of unadulterated passion. Discovering that their union created more than just salacious memories, he agrees to grant Louise's request in exchange that she wears his band of gold!
2012. 3v. Price: £13.50. Order No: 24673703.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. Order No: 24673705.
La Plante, Lynda. Silent victims. Crime fiction.
Prime suspect series; book 3. As Vera Reynolds, drag queen, sways onstage, a 16-year-old rent boy lies in the older man's apartment, engulfed in flames. Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, this high-profile case threatens to destroy everything she has worked for.
2013. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24638903.
La Plante, Lynda. Wrongful death. Crime fiction.
Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Langton to review the case. Reynolds died from a single gunshot wound to the head, but details are emerging that suggest someone else may have fired the gun.
2013. 9v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24681403.
Lindsay, Jeffry P. Dexter in the dark. Crime fiction.
Dexter series; book 3. When a student of Dr Jerry Halpern is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - Dexter Morgan is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate. He soon realises he could be dealing with someone a lot more sinister than he is.
2008. 5v, Price: £7.99. Order No: 24588204.
Long, John. Gunhawk. Western.
Jeff Rand, a feared and vengeful gunslinger since his family were murdered, is persuaded by Jim Miller to give up his gunning and join him in peaceful gold-mining. All goes well until one day Jeff returns to camp to find Miller murdered and the gold stolen.
2009. 3v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24640403.
McDonagh, Margaret. St Piran's: Italian surgeon, forbidden bride. Mills and Boon medical romance.
Talented neurosurgeon Gio Corezzi’s deliciously dark good looks turn the heads of every female at St Piran’s Hospital – except quiet beauty Jessica Carmichael’s. With no one to turn to and nowhere for Jess and her bundle of kittens to live while her dilapidated cottage is being patched up, she knows Gio’s offer of a roof over her head is one she can’t refuse. Now the devastatingly charming Italian has a week to claim the vulnerable Jess’s heart.
2011. 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24683203.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. 24683205.
Mackay, Malcolm. The necessary death of Lewis Winter. Thriller.
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It's hard to kill a man well.
2013. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24666903.
Madeley, Richard. Some day I'll find you. General fiction.
James Blackwood is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot – every girl's dream partner. Then James is shot down over Northern France. Diana is left a widow and pregnant. Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square she hears the voice of a man speaking English.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24639003.
Morgan, Richard K. The cold commands. Fantasy.
Land fit for heroes; book 2. Ringil, Egar and Archeth are back. In a world still cursed by slavery, a corrupt aristocracy and a vicious church, justice is still in short supply. Ringil, Egar and Archeth will fight for it but they need to fight for survival first.
2012. 9v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24682303.
Mosse, Kate. The mistletoe bride & other haunting tales. Short stories.
Inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by ghosts and spirits seeking revenge; by grief-struck women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.
2013. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24689603.
Oswald, James. Natural causes. Crime fiction.
Inspector McLean Mysteries; book 1. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24644003.
Patterson, James. 4th of July. Thriller.
Women's Murder Club series; book 4. For the second time, a body has been found electrocuted in a bath, with a message left in graffiti on the wall. What is the link between these two apparent murders? Lindsay and Jacobi must follow all possible leads before more people are claimed.
2009. 4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24630903.
Robinson, Peter. Children of the revolution. Crime fiction.
Inspector Banks series; book 21. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. When DCI Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye.
2013. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24652605.
Sansom, C J. Dominion. Thriller.
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever.
2012. 12v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 23532903.
Scarrow, Simon. Arena. Historical fiction.
Ancient Rome provides the setting for the gripping story of the champion gladiator Pavo, trained to kill, and a pawn in the games of the powerful and ambitious. Can Pavo survive to fulfil his most cherished goal - revenge for the murder of his father at the hands of a champion gladiator?
2013. 8v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24644403.
Shaw, Rebecca. Scandal in the village. Country life fiction.
Turnham Malpas series; book 6. When Jimbo asks his mother, Katherine, to come and live near him, his kindness has rather more repercussions than he anticipated. She sets herself up as guardian of the villagers' morals, and spreads rumours and half-truths about her neighbours' lives. But then she takes it too far.
2008. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24621103.
Shaw, Rebecca. Village fortunes. General fiction.
Turnham Malpas series; book 17. Now comfortably settled in the Big House, Johnny and Alice are over the moon at the arrival of their second son. But Johnny's younger brother is visiting from Brazil and causing not a little trouble in the village. For Ford and Mercedes Barclay, returning to the village after Ford's shameful imprisonment is a big step. Meanwhile, Fran Carter-Plackett has some important decisions to make about her future.
2013. 4v. Price: £10.99. Order No: 24644103.
Sinclair, Kira. The devil she knows. Mills and Boon blaze romance.
Devlin Warwick returns home from Atlanta to Sweetheart, South Carolina after being away for a decade. He has a goal to prove to those do-gooders who ran him out of town as a bad boy that they judged him wrong. Thus he ironically wears a devil's costume for the town's fall masquerade. Wedding dress designer Willow Portis is Sweetheart's good girl. For the masquerade she dresses as a sexy angel. When the devil and angel meet at the ball, each is stunned by the attraction and share the best night of their respective lives until the masks come off as Willow sees the man who broke her heart ten years ago.
2013. 3v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24697703.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. Order No: 24697705.
Steel, Danielle. Until the end of time. Romance.
Jenny and Bill are a married couple whose love is absolute. They're certain they are fated to be together but tragedy strikes cutting their lives and their happiness short. More than 30 years later, Bob, a hardened New York City publisher, will meet his match in Lillibet, a shy Amish girl who is a talented writer. And there's the unshakeable sense that they've known each other for a long time - possibly in another life.
2013. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24558105.
Trollope, Joanna. Sense & sensibility. General fiction.
Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood values discretion while her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere. But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years, their values are severely put to the test. Can Elinor remain stoic knowing that the man she likes has been ensnared by another girl? Will Marianne's faith in love be shaken by meeting the hottest boy in the county?
2013. 5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24690003.
Tyrell, Chuck. Vulture gold. Western.
Garet Havelock was a Cherokee half-breed and the marshal of Vulture City. But that wasn't enough to stop outlaw kingpin Barnabas Donovan from sending in three armed men to rob $100,000 in bullion from the Vulture Mine headquarters, killing two people in the process.
2011. 3v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24643803.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. Order No: 24643805.
Weatherley, Anna-Louise. Wicked wives. General fiction.
When the 'Blue Angel' yacht is found abandoned off the coast of Antigua, playboy and casino owner, Tom Black, who was on board is pronounced missing. Foul-play is suspected. After all, the serial gambler and womaniser had made plenty of enemies. As events come to light however, the finger of suspicion points to three women in particular - and the men they're married to.
2013. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24633703.
West, Charles G. Black Horse Creek. Western.
There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. When the boy returns home with a stolen horse, having just killed a U.S. Marshal, former deputy marshal Grayson is asked to bring in Billy alive but things don't always go the way the law would like.
2012. 4v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24653003.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 5v. Order No: 24653005.
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
Bradshaw, John W S. Cat sense: the feline enigma revealed.
Worshipped as gods, feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions, cats often seem as unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as they did in ancient times.
2013. 6v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24675903.
Autobiography and biography
Begley, Andrea. I didn't see that coming.
Andrea Begley stunned the nation with her unique voice and was the winner of The Voice UK. Born in Ireland, she had to come to terms with losing 90% of her vision, but she made sure nothing would hold her back to achieve her dream.
2013. 3v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24660003.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 4v. Order No: 24660005.
Bishop, John. How did all this happen?: my story.
With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop began to take stock of his life as he faced up to the big '4-0'. This book explains how John became one of Britain's top TV funnymen.
2013. 6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24682803.
Foster, Rodney. The real 'Dad's Army': the war diaries of Lt. Col. Rodney Foster.
Colonel Rodney Foster joined the Home Guard in 1940 and kept a diary every day and in it meticulously chronicled his service in the real Dad's Army.
2011. 7v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 23115506.
Humble, Kate. Humble by nature: life, lambs and a dog called Badger.
In 2010, television presenter Kate Humble learned that a nearby farm was set to be sold off in lots to maximise its value. Kate contacted the council with an alternative plan; to keep the farm a working farm. What follows is a highly personal account charting the daily highs and lows of the farm's pivotal first year.
2013. 4v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24634203.
Steel, Danielle. Pure joy.
Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse, with a personality that could light up an entire room. A heartfelt look at the magic that dogs bring to our lives, and how they become part of the family.
2013. 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24713203.
Food and drink
Slimming world: curry heaven.
50 mouthwatering Indian recipes from Slimming world.
2010. 1v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24692706. For sale only.
History
Bryson, Bill. One summer: America 1927.
Bill Bryson travels back in time to summer 1927 in America, the year America stepped out onto the world stage, and tells a gripping narrative featuring a handful of larger-than-life characters, including Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth, Ernest Hemingway and Henry Ford.
2013. 10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24668203.
Holmes, Richard. Falling upwards: how we took to the air.
Meet the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the enigmatic group of men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall from the sky) and so discovered a new dimension of human experience.
2013. 7v. Price: £10.99. Order No: 24621403.
Hoyland, Graham. Last hours on Everest: the gripping story of Mallory & Irvine's fatal ascent.
In 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history: Mallory's body was discovered on Everest in 1999, and Irvine's body is still believed to be there. Graham Hoyland's compelling description of what actually happened on that day answers that most intriguing of questions - did they actually climb Everest?
2013. 6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24638703.
Kynaston, David. Family Britain, 1951-57.
Family Britain continues David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain with a portrait of the 1950s. Great national events jostle alongside everything that gave 1950s Britain its distinctive flavour from Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers and Hancock's Half Hour to Ekco television sets, skiffle and teddy boys.
2010. 19v. Price: £10.99. Order No: 24628103.
Hobbies and games
Silman, Jeremy. Silman's complete endgame course: from beginner to Master.
An instructive endgame book designed for players of all levels.
2007. 8v. Price: £20.99. Order No: 23595003. For sale only.
Science
Browne, John. Seven elements that have changed the world.
With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Yet our use of the Earth's mineral resources is not always for the benefit of humankind. Uranium is both productive nuclear power and destructive atomic bombs; gold is the foundation of global trade, but has also led to the death of millions.
2013. 7v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24667303.
Sport
Gray, Daniel. Hatters, railwaymen and knitters: travels through England's football provinces.
After a decade's exile in Scotland, Gray sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. 2013. 5v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24645403.
Travel
Bunce, Charlie. Great British railway journeys.
This is a glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years – its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
2011. 3v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24634603.
Wilson-Howarth, Jane. The essential guide to travel health: don't let bugs, bites and bowels spoil your trip.
Aimed at travellers to the tropics, mountainous regions and other remote areas of the developing world, this book gives advice on what to expect when you get to your destination, how to treat bites and stings, and general first aid.
2009. 9v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 23533503.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 11v. Order No: 23533505.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 5+
Price, Katie. Here comes the bride.
Katie Price's perfect ponies series; book 1. When Vicki takes the day off to be a chief bridesmaid at her best friend's wedding, she leaves the girls to look after themselves, and they plan a very special surprise for her. But by the time the wedding dawns, everything goes wrong. Will the girls and their ponies get there in time?
2007. Capitals. Single-sided. Double line spacing, 4v. Price: £3.99. Order No: 24675803.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 5v. Order No: 24675805.
Suggested reading age 7+
Smith, Jim. I am not a loser.
This is the first of three notebooks belonging to Barry Loser. Follow Barry as he tries to throw off his loserness, take revenge on the terrible Fronkle-burping Darren Darrenofski and finally become a winner.
2012. Capitals. Interline. Double line spacing, 2v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 23398605.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 3v. Order No: 23398603.
Suggested reading age 9+
Kinney, Jeff. The ugly truth.
Diary of a wimpy kid series; book 5. Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg is dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older.
2011. Capitals, 4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24652503.
Kinney, Jeff. The third wheel.
Diary of a wimpy kid series; book 7. A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves friend Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love.
2012. 2v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24620903.
Pichon, Liz. Excellent excuses (and other good stuff).
Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his scribbles and stories.
2011. Capitals, 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24593403.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 2v. Order No: 24593405.
Wilson, Jacqueline. Emerald star.
Since leaving the Foundling Hospital, Hetty has seen her fair share of drama, excitement, tragedy and loss. After the death of her beloved mama, she sets off to find a real home at last starting with the search for her father.
2012. Capitals, 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24621303.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 8v. Order No: 24621305.
Suggested reading age 13+
Fitzpatrick, Becca. Finale.
Hush series; book 5. Nora is more certain than ever that she is in love with Patch. Fallen angel or not, he is the one for her. Her heritage and destiny may mean that they will always be enemies, but there is no turning her back on him. Can their love survive a seemingly insurmountable divide?
2013. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24638503.
Lore, Pittacus. The power of six. Thriller.
Lorien Legacies; book 2. We are the last defence. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mystery, but to me he's one of us. Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us, if we all still believe in our mission. There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in.
2012. 7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24643903.
Children and young adult non-fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
Brownlie Bojang, Ali. India.
Countries in our world series. Each book offers complete coverage of one country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure, culture, and people.
2013. Capitals, 2v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24676105.
Also available in uncontracted Braille. 2v. Order No: 24676103.
Rosen, Michael. Fantastic Mr Dahl.
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? A lively biography of the world's number one storyteller.
2012. Capitals, 2v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24593203.
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Adult fiction
Abbott, Megan E. Dare me. Crime fiction.
Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are the unchallenged rulers of their high school kingdom. They're the girls that nobody crosses, captains of the cheerleaders, invincible. Until their new coach arrives - all sleek poise and cool command - and their world is changed forever. That year, there are no limits.
2013. 3v.
Bolton, S J. Like this, for ever. Thriller.
Lacey Flint; book 3. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no warning about who will be next. There will be no good reason for Lacey Flint to become involved. And no chance that she can stay away.
2013. 4v.
Boyd, William. Solo. Thriller.
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim.. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.
2013. 3v.
Carver, Tania. The doll's house. Thriller.
Detective Inspector Philip Brennan; book 5. From the outside, the house was unremarkable inside was a different matter. It was set out like a doll's house but the doll sitting at the table is life size. An adult woman. Eviscerated. As DI Phil Brennan investigates, he uncovers more bizarre revelations and realises that he must act fast.
2013. 4v.
Chambers, Kimberley. The victim. Thriller.
Mitchells and O'Haras; book 3. Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell. Not only has she lost custody of her children to their sadistic father, she is also pregnant and banged up in Holloway awaiting trial for attempted murder. In Frankie's absence, her father, underworld boss Eddie, is determined to get his own back.
2011. 5v.
Child, Lee. Never go back. Thriller.
Jack Reacher; book 18. After an epic journey all the way from South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher's old desk isn't a woman. Reacher doesn't expect what comes next: he is accused of homicide. 2013. 4v.
Clark, Lucy. One life changing moment. Mills and Boon medical romance.
Dr. Mackenzie Fawles can't believe her eyes when she sees John Watson - the man who saved her and her tiny daughter - again. She's never forgotten how safe she felt in his arms. John stopped doing emotion a long time ago, after the death of his wife and child but an unexpected connection was formed the day he saved Mackenzie.
2013. 2v.
Collard, Paul Fraser. The scarlet thief. Historical fiction.
1854: The banks of the Alma River, Crimean Peninsular. The men of the King's Royal Fusiliers are in terrible trouble, ducking and twisting as the storm of shot, shell and bullet tear through their ranks. Officer Jack Lark has to act immediately and decisively. Does he have the officer qualities that are the life blood of the British Army?
2013. 3v.
Cornwell, Bernard. The pagan lord. Historical fiction.
The warrior chronicles; book 7. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold. The Danes in the north stand ready to invade. Uhtred, once Alfred's great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg.
2013. 4v.
Court, Dilly. The workhouse girl. Historical fiction.
Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah and her widowed mother to enter the notorious St Giles and St George's Workhouse. When her mother dies in childbirth, the independent-minded Sarah falls foul of the workhouse master, Trigg, and his cruel wife. Sarah's ordeal seems to be over when a sugar mill owner takes her into his home. But her wealthy benefactor reports Trigg and his wife. And, blaming Sarah for their misfortune, in a fit of revenge, the couple decide to take the law into their own hands.
2013. 4v.
Cox, Josephine. Angels cry sometimes. Family story.
The marriage of Marcia and Curt Ratheter seemed idyllically happy. As much in love as on their wedding day, nothing could mar their joy. But one fateful day in 1931 brought Marcia's world tumbling about her ears and left her and her two daughters bereft.
1993. 4v.
Cronin, A. J. The stars look down. Family story.
It is a harsh life in the north-east of England and when the miners are on strike in the early years of this century, it becomes unbelievably hard. David youngest of the three Fenwick boys comes back from the war determined to try to improve the lives of his fellow miners. He becomes an MP but a minority Labour Government is as powerless as the men it tries to represent.
1989. 8v.
Dexter, Colin. Last seen wearing. Crime fiction.
Inspector Morse; book 2. Chief Inspector Morse investigates the disappearance of a schoolgirl in very mysterious circumstances. Two years after she vanished new evidence for the case has been found.
1976. 3v.
Dexter, Colin. The remorseful day. Crime fiction.
Inspector Morse; book 13. The final Inspector Morse novel. Why has Morse refused to lead the reinvestigation of the murder of Yvonne Harrison? When Lewis learns that Morse was once friendly with Yvonne, he begins to suspect that he knows more about her death than he is letting on.
1999. 4v.
Diamond, Lucy. Me and Mr Jones. Romance.
Meet the women in love with three very different brothers: Izzy, Alicia and Emma are thrown together unexpectedly as the family B and B gets into difficulties and it seems that keeping up with the Joneses is harder than anyone thought.
2013. 4v.
Extence, Gavin. The universe versus Alex Woods. General fiction.
This is the story of 17-year-old Alex Woods, born to a clairvoyant mother and a phantom father, victim of an improbable childhood accident, who is stopped at Dover customs in possession of 113 grams of marijuana and the ashes of his best friend.
2013. 4v.
Follett, Ken. The man from St. Petersburg. Thriller.
Imperial emissary, Count Orlov, comes to London during the long hot summer of 1914 - the British Government is in desperate need of a treaty against the Kaiser. But he is not alone... A thriller with suffragettes, bomb-carrying anarchists and Balkan politics to keep it moving at a smart pace.
1982. 4v.
Fowler, Christopher. Bryant & May and the invisible code. Crime fiction.
Bryant and May; book 10. Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later she is found dead inside the church. Bryant and May must investigate.
2013. 3v.
Francis, Felix. Refusal. Thriller.
Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the horse racing authority, wants Sid Halley to look into some suspicious race results, but Sid gave up the investigating business six years ago. The following day, Sir Richard is found dead and Sid receives a threatening call. The man insists that Sid Halley should investigate the alleged race-fixing and it is only when his six-year-old daughter goes missing that Sid realises that he may pay the ultimate price for his refusal.
2013. 4v.
Galbraith, Robert. The cuckoo's calling. Crime fiction.
Written under a pseudonym by J.K. Rowling, this gripping, elegant mystery is steeped in the atmosphere of London. A war veteran wounded both physically and psychologically, Cormoran Strike's life is in disarray but the case he is working on gives him a lifeline, despite coming at a personal cost.
2013. 5v.
Gardner, Lisa. Hide. Thriller.
D.D. Warren; book 2. Annabelle was seven years old when it first happened. She arrived home to find the suitcases packed and her parents fleeing. Now, aged 30, Annabelle has finally settled in Boston and is happy with her life. Until the bodies of six girls are discovered, one of them said to be her.
2012. 4v.
Gerritsen, Tess. Last to die. Thriller.
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles; book 10. Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles find themselves locked inside a high-security boarding school along with the students. The school has been set up to provide a place of sanctuary for children who have lost their families in violent circumstances. But now there has been a murder within the grounds. Does the threat come from outside - or from within?
2013. 4v.
Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. All in scarlet uniform. Adventure.
The year is 1809, and the recruiting sergeants are hard at work, as the British army gathers strength for the next phase of the campaign against Bonaparte on the Spanish Peninsula. Captain Billy Pringle of the 106th Foot, however, has a somewhat more urgent reason to leave the country: having become embroiled in an ill-advised duel. But what seems at first like easy duty soon turns into a desperate fight for survival as they find themselves besieged in the strategic fortress of Cuidad Rodrigo.
2013. 4v.
Grey, Zane. Shower of gold. Western.
When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades - and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.
2013. 4v.
Hannah, Sophie. The orphan choir. Thriller.
When the Beeston's son is accepted on a scholarship to a boarding school near their holiday home, it seems like the perfect time to get out of the city. But the move doesn't offer the solace Louise needs. She is plagued by the sound of a children's choir - but this is no normal choir.
2013. 2v.
Hardy, Thomas. Far from the madding crowd. Classic fiction.
The story of young farmer, Gabriel Oak, and his pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature lends her to both tragedy and true love.
2000. 5v.
Hardy, Thomas. Wessex tales. Classic fiction.
This was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect his experience of being a novelist. It comprises seven stories, in which characters and scenes are imbued with haunting realism.
1995. 3v.
Harrison, A S A. The silent wife. Thriller.
Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for 28 years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks.
2013. 3v.
Heller, Mandasue. Broke. Thriller.
Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best. But she doesn't want to know just how bad things are until his gambling habit brings the debt collector to her door. And Amy's troubles are only beginning. Someone else wants Mark for herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect and even her children.
2013. 3v.
Iggulden, Conn. Stormbird. Historical fiction.
Wars of the Roses; book 1. In 1437, Henry VI, the Lamb, accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king - Henry depends on his closest men, Spymaster Derry Brewer and William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, to run his kingdom. As storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home. Who, or what, can save the kingdom before it is too late?
2013. 5v.
James, Peter. Dead man's time. Crime fiction.
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace; book 9. A robbery at a Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying and millions taken in valuables. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one item, of sentimental value, that her powerful family care about above all else, and they are ready to take the law into their own hands.
2013. 5v.
James, Matt. By the gun they died. Western.
With seven killers camped on his trail, Blaize Morgan rode south into Weeping Woman valley. With his superior gun skills and horsemanship, Morgan expected to shake his pursuers easily, but soon realises he'll be lucky to survive the next 24 hours.
2010. 1v.
Jordan, Penny. A secret disgrace. Mills and Boon romance.
Louise Anderson's heart pounds as she approaches the imposing castello. Only the Duke of Falconari can grant her grandparents' dying wish - but this is the same man who said arrivederci without a backward glance after their night of unadulterated passion. Discovering that their union created more than just salacious memories, he agrees to grant Louise's request in exchange that she wears his band of gold!
2012. 2v.
Kent, Hannah. Burial rites. Historical fiction.
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdøttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district office Jøn Jønsson, his wife and their two daughters. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed.
2013. 3v.
La Plante, Lynda. Wrongful death. Crime fiction.
Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Langton to review the case. Reynolds died from a single gunshot wound to the head, but details are emerging that suggest someone else may have fired the gun.
2013. 5v.
MacBride, Stuart. Close to the bone. Crime fiction.
Logan McRae; book 8. Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant.
2013. 5v.
McDonagh, Margaret. St Piran's: Italian surgeon, forbidden bride. Mills and Boon medical romance.
Talented neurosurgeon Gio Corezzi's deliciously dark good looks turn the heads of every female at St Piran's Hospital - except quiet beauty Jessica Carmichael's. With no one to turn to and nowhere for Jess and her bundle of kittens to live while her dilapidated cottage is being patched up, she knows Gio's offer of a roof over her head is one she can't refuse. Now the devastatingly charming Italian has a week to claim the vulnerable Jess's heart.
2011. 2v.
Mackay, Malcolm. The necessary death of Lewis Winter. Thriller.
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It's hard to kill a man well.
2013. 3v.
Madeley, Richard. Some day I'll find you. General fiction.
James Blackwood is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot – every girl's dream partner. Then James is shot down over Northern France. Diana is left a widow and pregnant. Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square she hears the voice of a man speaking English.
2013. 4v.
Mosse, Kate. The mistletoe bride & other haunting tales. Short stories.
Inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by ghosts and spirits seeking revenge; by grief-struck women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny.
2013. 2v.
Oswald, James. Natural causes. Crime fiction.
Inspector McLean Mysteries; book 1. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim.
2013. 4v.
Patterson, James. 4th of July. Thriller.
Women's Murder Club; book 4. For the second time, a body has been found electrocuted in a bath, with a message left in graffiti on the wall. What is the link between these two apparent murders? Lindsay and Jacobi must follow all possible leads before more people are claimed.
2009. 3v.
Patterson, James. Second honeymoon. Thriller.
Honeymoon; book 2. A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite - and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into the case, trying to figure out who this deranged killer is. At the same time, Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common. As wedding hysteria rises, John and Sarah work ever more closely to decipher the logic behind two rampages.
2013. 3v.
Pearse, Lesley. Belle. General fiction.
15-year-old Belle's life is about to change forever. Not only is she about to realise that the house she's grown up in is a brothel, but when trouble breaks out and Belle finds herself the only witness to the murder of one of the girls, things take a turn for the sinister.
2011. 6v.
Pilcher, Rosamunde. The day of the storm. Family story.
At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca travels to Boscarva, a beautiful Cornish mansion, where she meets a family torn by passion and greed, and uncovers a family mystery which holds the key to her future.
1992. 3v.
Robinson, Peter. Children of the revolution. Crime fiction.
Inspector Banks; book 21. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. When DCI Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye.
2013. 5v.
Scarrow, Simon. Arena. Historical fiction.
Ancient Rome provides the setting for the gripping story of the champion gladiator Pavo, trained to kill, and a pawn in the games of the powerful and ambitious. Can Pavo survive to fulfil his most cherished goal - revenge for the murder of his father at the hands of a champion gladiator?
2013. 5v.
Seymour, Gerald. The corporal's wife. Thriller.
A small British team are sent into Iran to smuggle out a young woman named Farideh. If they are caught, they will all be executed by the fundamentalist government - the Brits because they are effectively spies and Farideh because her husband is regarded as a traitor and she has a dangerous mind of her own.
2013. 5v.
Shaw, Rebecca. Scandal in the village. General fiction.
Tales from Turnham Malpas; book 6. When Jimbo asks his mother, Katherine, to come and live near him, his kindness has rather more repercussions than he anticipated. She sets herself up as guardian of the villagers' morals, and spreads rumours and half-truths about her neighbours' lives. But then she takes it too far.
2008. 3v.
Shaw, Rebecca. Village fortunes. General fiction.
Tales from Turnham Malpas; book 17. Now comfortably settled in the Big House, Johnny and Alice are over the moon at the arrival of their second son. But Johnny's younger brother is visiting from Brazil and causing not a little trouble in the village. For Ford and Mercedes Barclay, returning to the village after Ford's shameful imprisonment is a big step. Meanwhile, Fran Carter-Plackett has some important decisions to make about her future.
2013. 3v.
Sinclair, Kira. The devil she knows. Mills and Boon blaze romance.
Devlin Warwick returns home from Atlanta to Sweetheart, South Carolina after being away for a decade. He has a goal to prove to those do-gooders who ran him out of town as a bad boy that they judged him wrong. Thus he ironically wears a devil's costume for the town's fall masquerade. Wedding dress designer Willow Portis is Sweetheart's good girl. For the masquerade she dresses as a sexy angel. When the devil and angel meet at the ball, each is stunned by the attraction and share the best night of their respective lives until the masks come off as Willow sees the man who broke her heart ten years ago.
2013. 2v.
Slaughter, Karin. Unseen. Thriller.
Will Trent; book 8. Special Agent Will Trent has something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton, the woman he loves, to find out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. But when a young Macon patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again. Soon both their lives are in danger.
2013. 4v.
Steel, Danielle. First sight. Romance.
Timmie is a self-made fashion legend who runs a hugely successful business empire. But while her hard-won professional success is satisfying, she's had much less luck in her personal life. She has spent the last decade alone, dating handsome yet superficial men. But all of that changes when Timmie is hospitalised during a business trip to Paris. 2013. 4v.
Stirling, Jessica. The good provider. Family stories.
Nicholson family; book 1. Set in Glasgow at the turn of the century, the story of Kirsty Barnes and Craig Nicolson. Kirsty, an orphan, escapes from her life as a servant on a remote Ayrshire farm and runs off with Craig, her childhood sweetheart, to Glasgow, where they struggle to find security and happiness in the impoverished back streets.
1988. 7v.
Trollope, Joanna. Sense & sensibility. General fiction.
Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwoodvalues discretion while her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere. But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years, their values are severely put to the test. Can Elinor remain stoic knowing that the man she likes has been ensnared by another girl? Will Marianne's faith in love be shaken by meeting the hottest boy in the county?
2013. 3v.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Monk, Ray. Inside the centre: the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer had diverse interests and phenomenal intellectual attributes, but also a complicated and fragile personality, his suspicious connections in the 1930s bringing him to McCarthy's attention.
2012. 17v.
Barr, Damian. Maggie & me.
Maggie & Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the iron lady.
2013. 2v.
Begley, Andrea. I didn't see that coming.
Andrea Begley stunned the nation with her unique voice and was the winner of The Voice UK. Born in Ireland, she had to come to terms with losing 90% of her vision, but she made sure nothing would hold her back to achieve her dream.
2013. 2v.
Bowen, James. The world according to Bob.
The sequel to the bestselling 'A Street Cat Named Bob' continues the remarkable adventures of James and Bob showing - through new stories - how Bob's extraordinary street wisdom has shown James the meaning of friendship, loyalty, trust and happiness.
2013. 2v.
Connors, Jimmy. The outsider: my autobiography.
Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he upset in doing so.
2013. 6v.
Crace, John. Harry's games.
Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer? Master tactician or practical joker? How is it that even when he was facing court proceedings for tax evasion so many people were still seriously tipping him to be the next England manager?
2013. 3v.
Humble, Kate. Humble by nature: life, lambs and a dog called Badger.
In 2010, Television presenter Kate Humble learned that a nearby farm in the Wye Valley where she has lived for four years was set to be sold off, broken up into lots to maximise its value. Kate contacted the council with an alternative plan; to keep the farm a working farm. After six months of plans and endless meetings, Kate and her Husband, Ludo, finally convinced the council that their plan would work, even though they hadn't the first clue of how to run a farm. What follows is a highly personal account charting the daily highs and lows of the farm's pivotal first year.
2013. 3v.
Johnson, Alan. This boy.
This is the story of two incredible women: Alan Johnson's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, domestic violence and loneliness to try to ensure a better future for her children; and his sister, Linda, who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility to protect her family.
2013. 3v.
Widdecombe, Ann. Strictly Ann: the autobiography.
These are the memoirs of a woman who joined the old Conservative Party in 1964, was politically formed by the 70s and saw Thatcherism in the 80s - then ministerial office and later the Shadow Cabinet. It is also a book for people who struggle with moral dilemmas even if they are not converts to Roman Catholicism like Ann.
2013. 6v.
Drama
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts.
This play portrays two tramps, trapped in an endless waiting for the arrival of a mysterious personage named Godot, while disputing the appointed place and hour of his coming. They amuse themselves with various bouts of repartee and word-play.
2006. 1v.
Economics
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything.
The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy.
2005. 4v.
Food and drink
King, Si and Myers, Dave. The Hairy Dieters.
Healthy, delicious recipes created by ordinary members of the public, with the aim to persuade Britain to lose weight without losing their love of food.
2012. 2v.
Health and fitness
Carper, Jean. 100 simple things you can do to prevent Alzheimer's and age-related memory loss.
Simple ideas and strategies that can be easily incorporated into everyday life to help prevent the onset of Alzheimers and other age-related memory loss.
2011. 3v.
Davis, Martha. The relaxation and stress reduction workbook.
Each chapter of this workbook follows a practical format, including a history of the technique covered, symptom effectiveness, examples, checklist, further reading and homework.
2008. 5v.
Mosley, Michael and Spencer, Mimi. The fast diet.
Is it possible to eat what you like, most of the time, and get thinner and healthier as you do it? Simple answer: yes. You just have to restrict your calorie intake for two non-consecutive days each week (500 calories for women, 600 for men).
2013. 2v.
History
Ashdown-Hill, John. The last days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA.
An exploration of Richard III's last 150 days, the lead-up to the Battle of Bosworth Field and the aftermath. Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found, alive and well, in Canada and how this inspired the dig that led to the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfriars Priory in Leicester.
2013. 3v.
Castor, Helen. She-wolves: the women who ruled England before Elizabeth.
The stories of these women - told here in all their vivid humanity - illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman; and the King was the head of all. How, then, could a woman be King, how could royal power lie in female hands?
2011. 6v.
Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945-1951.
The author weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the next three decades.
2007. 9v.
Wise, Sarah. Inconvenient people: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England.
12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.
2012. 7v.
Hobbies and games
Mendelson, Paul. Bridge: winning ways to play your cards.
Acclaimed bridge writer Paul Mendelson shows how the play of bridge cards is akin to a series of battles from the moment dummy hits baize.
2008. 2v.
Law
Wacks, Raymond. Law: a very short introduction.
A clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world.
2008. 2v.
Music and entertainment
Maconie, Stuart. The people's songs: the story of modern Britain in 50 records.
The story of modern Britain via the records that soundtracked this dramatic and kaleidoscopic period. The story is told chronologically over 50 chapters. At the heart of each is one emblematic song that is discussed fully.
2013. 5v.
Sport
Lloyd, David. The Ashes according to Bumble.
A new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the microphone. It's the book that Bumble's many fans have been longing for.
2013. 3v.
Travel
Bunce, Charlie. Great British railway journeys.
This is a glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
2011. 2v.
True crime
Echols, Damien. Life after death: eighteen years on death row.
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while 18-year-old Echols, deemed the ringleader, was sentenced to death. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011. 2013. 3v.
O'Connor, Sean. Handsome brute: the story of a ladykiller.
Explores the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has generally been dismissed as a sadistic sex-killer and little else. But the story behind the tabloid headlines reveals itself to be complex and ambiguous, provoking unsettling questions that echo across the decades to the present day.
2013. 5v.
Warfare and defence
Glass, Charles. Deserter: the last untold story of the Second World War.
The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee?
2013. 5v.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
Doder, Joshua. Grk and the Pelotti gang.
Grk books. Tim and his dog Grk, zip through the streets of Rio at high speed, after the notorious Pelotti gang. Then their plane crashes in the jungle, and they find themselves having to fight to the death on the world's biggest waterfall. Will it be enough to stop the most dangerous criminals in South America?
2006. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk and the phoney macaroni.
Grk books. Grk is walking happily through the park, sniffing trees and chasing squirrels, when he's suddenly snatched by two men in black suits. Where are they taking him? And how can Tim get him back?
2012. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk down under.
Grk books. When Grk sniffs some succulent sausages, he can't resist following his nose - and ends up on the other side of the world. He's in Australia, the land of surfing, sharks and the Red Jelly Gang, a ruthless band of crooks who have taken over the Sydney Opera House.
2010. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk takes revenge.
Grk books. Tim can't speak much French. Grk can speak even less. But they have to learn fast when they take the train to France and track down the evil Colonel Zinfandel.
2009. 1v.
Talking books
Adult fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. General fiction. TB 20541.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race.
2013. Read by Amaka Okafor. 17 hours 25 minutes. TB 20541.
Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Redemption. Thriller. TB 20693.
Department Q; book 3. Two brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle, tar to seal it, paper, a splinter for writing, blood for ink. A message for help. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by Matt Addis. 17 hours 42 minutes. TB 20693.
Allen, Louise. Scandal in the Regency Ballroom. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB 20691.
Lady Miss Bree Mallory hopes no one in Society will discover that she once drove the stage from London to Newbury or that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith! Yet, while beautiful Bree has no interest in marriage, Max's kisses are powerfully persuasive.
2013. Read by Sally Burnett. 21 hours 49 minutes. TB 20691.
Anderson, Kevin J. Hellhole awakening. Science fiction. TB 20694.
Hellhole series; book 2. General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds.
2013. Read by Peter Fitzpatrick. 19 hours 35 minutes. TB 20694.
Anderson, Natalie. Blame it on the bikini. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20695.
For Mya Campbell, trying on a ridiculously tiny bikini and texting her best friend the incriminating photo was supposed to be a private joke. But she's sent the photo to her best friend's brother, Brad, by mistake! Brad sees a side of Mya he ever knew existed and makes seducing her his brand-new project!
2012. Read by Helen Cashin. 6 hours 17 minutes. TB 20695.
Asimov, Isaac. The caves of steel. Science fiction. TB 20879.
Olivaw series; book 1. Detective Elijah Baley investigates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds.
1997. Read by Robert G Slade. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB 20879.
Braddon, M E. Lady Audley's secret. Classic fiction. TB 20551.
Lucy Graham was a governess until she managed to charm Sir Michael Audley into marrying her. All was quiet at Audley Court until a visit from Sir Michael's friend George Tallboys. George suddenly disappears, but there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye, and what is Lady Audley keeping to herself?
1862. Read by Jenny Coverack, 17 hours 9 minutes. TB 20551.
Bradshaw, Rita. Candles in the storm. Family story. TB 20620.
Daisy Appleby is born in a storm, and 15 years later another storm alters her fate. Her father and brothers are lost at sea, and the same night Daisy saves William, a wealthy local heir, and falls in love. Separated by their families, many years of turmoil pass before she finds happiness.
2003. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 13 hours 58 minutes. TB 20620.
Bracewell, Patricia. Shadow on the crown. Historical fiction. TB 20547.
The year is 1001 and King Ethelred, a man haunted by his own past and troubled by his future has lost his queen. To protect his lands and retain his crown he must choose his bride with care.
2013. Read by Helen Bourne. 17 hours 43 minutes. TB 20547.
Brooks, Terry. Straken. Fantasy. TB 20549.
High Druid of Shannara; book 3. Imprisoned in the druid's keep, young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him, and at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a'Ru, who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid.
2006. Read by John Cormack. 15 hours 34 minutes. TB 20549.
Burrows, Annie. Never trust a rake. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB 20600.
Rumour has it that the Earl of Deben, the most notorious rake in London and in need of an heir, has set aside his penchant for married mistresses and turned his skilled hand to seducing innocents. But if Lord Deben expects Henrietta Gibson to respond to the click of his fingers he can think again. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2013. Read by Jenny Coverack. 7 hours 43 minutes. TB 20600.
Cantrell, Kat. The baby deal. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20823.
When billionaire Michael Shaylen becomes guardian to a baby boy, he makes his ex-lover, Juliana Cane, a deal: two months to teach him to be a father and he'll give her career a boost. But even as desire burns between them so do the reasons Juliana has to say good-bye?
2013. Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 6 hours 6 minutes. TB 20823.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The wild hunt. Historical fiction. TB 20696.
In the wild, windswept Welsh marches, at the turn of the 13th century, a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands - but they have yet to meet.
2008. Read by Karen Cass. 12 hours. TB 20696.
Chesterton, G K. The man who was Thursday. Classic fiction. TB 20106.
A phantasmagoric turn-of-the-century London where police are poets and anarchists abound. Gabriel Syme is chosen by Scotland Yard to infiltrate the Central European Council of Anarchists. Each of the seven-member Council goes by the name of a weekday, and Syme himself is elected 'Thursday'. Syme must avoid discovery, undo his new colleagues, and save the world.
1908. Read by Toby Longworth. 5 hours 59 minutes. TB 20106.
Clark, Lucy. One life changing moment. Mills and Boon medical romance. TB 20701.
Dr. Mackenzie Fawles can't believe her eyes when she sees John Watson - the man who saved her and her tiny daughter - again. She's never forgotten how safe she felt in his arms. John stopped doing emotion a long time ago, after the death of his wife and child but an unexpected connection was formed the day he saved Mackenzie.
2013. Read by Brigid Lohrey. 6 hours 19 minutes. TB 20701.
Cooper, Glenn. Library of the dead. Thriller. TB 20357.
Tthe Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died.
2009. Read by Stuart Milligan. 13 hours 15 minutes. TB 20357.
Coward, Noel. Collected short stories. TB 20698.
These stories formed part of a 12 volume set of his works issued to mark the centenary of his birth.
1999. Read by Greg Wagland. 19 hours 33 minutes. TB 20698.
Crews, Caitlin. A devil in disguise. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20601.
Drusilla Bennett's job from hell will soon be over as she plucks up the courage to say "I quit!". A resignation from the best PA he's ever had is simply unacceptable. He turns on his legendary charm so that Dru understands exactly why it's so hard to say no to Cayo Vila!
2012. Read by Madeleine Brolly. 5 hours 37 minutes. TB 20601.
Cussler, Clive. Cyclops. Thriller. TB 20586.
Dirk Pitt series; book 8. For Dirk Pitt, the witnessing of an airship disaster sets in motion the most nail-biting events of his career. When he finds his trail leading to fabulous treasure beneath the sea he knows he is on to something special. Or is he?
1987. Read by Paul Birchard. 15 hours 38 minutes. TB 20586.
Diamond, Lucy. Me and Mr Jones. Romance. TB 20707.
2013. Read by Emma Powell. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 20707.
Doughty, Louise. Apple Tree Yard. Thriller. TB 20706.
Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. The affair spins out of control and leads inexorably to violence. Contains strong language and violence.
2013. Read by Joan Walker. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 20706.
Dunant, Sarah. Blood and beauty. Historical fiction. TB 20829.
When Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth or his love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic politician with an appetite for life, women and power must use papacy and family to succeed.
2013. Read by Chris Courtenay. 18 hours 41 minutes. TB 20829.
Elton, Ben. Gridlock. General fiction. TB 20703.
Deborah is a woman with personal transportation problems which she and her strange friend Geoffrey intend to solve. If they manage it, the knock-on effect could just save the cities of the world from driving themselves to their own funerals. Contains violence, strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2006. Read by Andy Secombe.12 hours 25 minutes. TB 20703.
Ephron, Nora. Heartburn. General fiction. TB 20704.
Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. Since Rachel is a cookery writer between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes.
1996. Read by Amy Finegan. 5 hours 33 minutes. TB 20704.
Falconer, Duncan. The protector. Thriller. TB 20588.
Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier and a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to find a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town.
2007. Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 25 minutes. TB 20588.
Fielding, Joy. Shadow Creek. Thriller. TB 20624.
Val finds herself in the unlikely position of camping with her daughter and her soon-to-be ex-husband's new fiancé. But no one is aware of the brutal murders that have taken place only a few miles away. Eventually campers and killers collide, secrets are revealed, and lives are changed forever.
2012. Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 20624.
Finney, Jack. From time to time. Science fiction. TB 20590.
Time and Again series; book 2. Simon Morley embarks on another trip across the borders of time, this time to visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is travelling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship - the Titanic.
1996. Read by Peter Brooke. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 20590.
Fleming, Ian. The spy who loved me. Thriller. TB 20168.
Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers.
2012. Read by Steve Hodson and Helene Wilson. 5 hours 41 minutes. TB 20168.
Flynn, Vince. American assassin. Thriller. TB 20651.
Mitch Rapp series; book 1. Tragedy entered Mitch's life a year before when 35 of his classmates, including his girlfriend, perished on Pan Am flight 103. When CIA Director Irene Kennedy arrives on campus to recruit new agents, Mitch sees a way for revenge.
2011. Read by Ian Knauer. 12 hours 51 minutes. TB 20651.
Follett, Ken. A place called freedom. Historical fiction. TB 20709.
In 1767 cruelty rules the Scottish coalfields. Lizzie Hallim's fiancé, Jay Jamisson, presides over the mine where men, women and children toil underground, prevented by law from ever leaving the village. But Lizzie helps a slave to escape, and their destinies become entwined.
Contains passages of a sexual nature.
1995. Read by James Bryce. 16 hours 9 minutes. TB 20709.
Franklin, Ariana. Mistress of the art of death. Crime fiction. TB 20503.
Adelia Aguilar series; book 1. In medieval Cambridge four children have been murdered. The townsfolk blame the Jewish population. Hoping that scientific investigation can find the true killer, the king calls for a young prodigy from the University of Salerno.
2008. Read by Diana Bishop. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 20503.
Gale, Iain. Brothers in arms. Adventure fiction. TB 20718.
Jack Steel series; book 3. 1708. War rages across the lowlands of Flanders and British soldiers fight ferociously to protect the town of Oudenarde. Newly married and promoted to the rank of Captain, Jack Steel has never been better. But Oudenarde is a hard-fought battle that tests Steel and his grenadiers to their very limits.
2010. Read by Tom Carter. 10 hours. TB 20718.
Gardner, Lisa. Hide. Thriller. TB 20716.
D D Warren series; book 2. Annabelle was seven years old when she arrived home to find the suitcases packed and her parents fleeing. Now, aged 30, Annabelle has finally settled in Boston and is happy with her life. Until the bodies of six girls are discovered, one of them said to be her.
2012. Read by Christy Meyer. 12 hours 34 minutes. TB 20716.
Gayle, Mike. Turning forty. General fiction. TB 20715.
Matt Beckford is on the verge of a landmark birthday and after thirteen years living abroad, he returns to Birmingham and catches up with his ex, Ginny. After a nostalgic night together Ginny finds she is pregnant. Looks like turning 40 doesn't make those life decisions any easier.
2013. Read by Leighton Pugh. 9 hours 43 minutes. TB 20715.
Gemmell, David. Quest for lost heroes. Fantasy. TB 20717.
Drenai series; book 4. The Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and Nadir hordes sweep across the land bringing desolation and despair. When slavers kidnap a young girl in the tiny realm of Gothir, a peasant boy sets off on a quest that will shake the world.
2012. Read by Ian Prosser. 14 hours 31 minutes. TB 20717.
Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. General fiction. TB 20714.
Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage in the Outer Hebrides and set about renovating it. They discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb - a mermaid child.
2013. Read by Crawford Logan and Kirsty Cox. 10 hours 7 minutes. TB 20714.
Gregory, Philippa. The white princess. Historical fiction. TB 20734.
The cousins' war series; book 5. The beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV, the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her mother's rebellion and her husband's tyranny.
2013. Read by Lizzie Hopley. 17 hours 13 minutes. TB 20734.
Hassel, Sven. SS General. War story. TB 20559.
Sven Hassel and his diminishing band of veterans are plunged into the maelstrom of Stalingrad. Sven and his comrades join one last-ditch attempt to break out, to fight their way across the frozen steppe to freedom.
2003. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 20559.
Haynes, Elizabeth. Human remains. Thriller. TB 20361.
Highly intelligent but socially inept, Colin spends his free time collecting academic qualifications and searching for ways to meet women, until he stumbles upon a new technique that proves both potent and deadly.
2013. Read by Karina Fernandez, Russell Bentley and David Thorpe. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB 20361.
Henry, Veronica. A night on the Orient Express. Romance. TB 20730.
A journey on the Orient Express can be more than the trip of a lifetime. For one group of passengers there awaits revelations, confessions and assignations.
2013. Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB 20730.
Homes, A M. May we be forgiven. General fiction. TB 20591.
Harry is a scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. Uneasy rivals since childhood, one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by Robert G Slade. 20 hours 58 minutes. TB 20591.
Hope, Maggie. A wartime nurse. Family story. TB 20327.
Theda hadn't given much thought to what would happen after she became a nurse. But by the time she finished her first year and was studying for her exams, she was coming up to twenty-one and there was a war on.
2011. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 11 hours 19 minutes. TB 20327.
Kernick, Simon. The murder exchange. Thriller. TB 20825.
When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to a pre-arranged meeting in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the suitcase he has been guarding is empty - and Iversson wants to know why. Contains strong language and violence.
2011. Read by Jonathan Oliver and Mark Elstob. 10 hours 54 minutes. TB 20825.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight behaviour. TB 20511.
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?
2013. Read by Barbara Kingsolver. 16 hours 53 minutes. TB 20511.
King, Stephen. Night shift. Horror. TB 20367.
A collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world.
2012. Read by Christopher Ragland. 13 hours 59 minutes. TB 20367.
Krinard, Susan. Lord of the beasts. Mills and Boon nocturne romance. TB 20609.
Enchanted blood flows through vet Donal Fleming's veins, but Donal has met Cordelia and has fallen hard for the mortal. He must now face the consequences of an impossible choice - between human love and the powers that, to him, are life itself.
2013. Read by Helen Dickens. 16 hours 24 minutes. TB 20609.
L'Amour, Louis. Utah Blaine. Western. TB 20610.
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the army of the revolution, breaks out of jail and heads north with nothing but the clothes on his back. He finds new trouble struggling at the end of a noose, and steps in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The executioners are the rancher's own men, looking to steal his land.
2006. Read by William Roberts. 6 hours 14 minutes. TB 20610.
Lee, Maureen. Through the storm. Family story. TB 20378.
Pearl Street series; book 3. Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. While sisters Eileen and Sheila share the anxious burden of absent husbands. Kitty Quigley, stuck at home for years with an invalid father, is delighted to become an auxiliary nurse. And Jessica Fleming finds herself and friend Rita increasingly drawn to the glamour and excitement of the Yanks.
1998. Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 15 hours 10 minutes. TB 20378
Leon, Donna. Wilful behaviour. Crime fiction. TB 20720.
Commissario Guido Brunetti series; book 11. When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case.
2009. Read by Steve Hodson. 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 20720.
MacDonald, Sara. Sea music. General fiction. TB 20381.
The house opposite the church, overlooking the Cornish coast, is home to three generations of Tremains. It is Lucy whose discoveries of family papers, hidden in the old attic, brings to light the first of the long-hidden secrets.
2003. Read by Elaine Caxton. 14 hours 49 minutes. TB 20381.
McFarlane, Mhairi. You had me at hello. Romance. TB 20563.
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Ten years after they said goodbye, Rachel bumps into Ben and as they talk, the years melt away. But Ben is married. Rachel is not. And slowly but surely, Rachel feels the return of the broken heart she can't do anything to mend.
2012. Read by Charlotte Worthing. 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 20563.
Mackay, Malcolm. The necessary death of Lewis Winter. Thriller. TB 20880.
Glasgow trilogy; book 1. Glasgow hit-man Callum MacLean, twenty-nine, lives alone in his flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It's hard to kill a man well. Contains violence.
2013. Read by Tim Farrow. 7 hours 2 minutes. TB 20880.
McKinty, Adrian. I hear the sirens in the street. Thriller. TB 20568.
Sean Duffy series; book 2. Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood - however faint - that always connects a body to its killer. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by John Cormack. 10 hours 6 minutes. TB 20568.
Madeley, Richard. Some day I'll find you. Romance. TB 20758.
James Blackwood is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot – every girl's dream partner. Then James is shot down over Northern France. Diana is left a widow and pregnant. Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square she hears the voice of a man speaking English.
2013. Read by Steve Hodson. 12 hours 13 minutes. TB 20758.
Mayhew, Margaret. I'll be seeing you. Family story. TB 20436.
When Juliet's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photo which shatter all her previously held beliefs. They show her real father was an American bomber pilot in WWII, some 40 years before. Juliet sets out to trace him.
2005. Read by Kim Hicks. 9 hours 38 minutes. TB 20436.
Michener, James Albert. Centennial. General fiction. TB 20324.
Centennial traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. It is a sweeping saga of people and places thrown together by breathtaking endeavour as memorable characters bring the story to life.
1974. Read by William Roberts. 19 hours 8 minutes. TB 20324.
Montefiore, Santa. Secrets of the lighthouse. General fiction. TB 20627.
Ellen Trawton is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her, to her aunt's house. Once there, she uncovers a dark secret and a future she never knew she had.
2013. Read by Maggie Cronin. 14 hours 37 minutes. TB 20627.
Mosse, Kate. Citadel. Historical fiction. TB 19094.
Languedoc trilogy; book 3. While war blazed in the trenches at The Front, a cell of resistance fighters, codenamed Citadelle, fight for everything they hold dear, their struggle will reveal an older, darker combat being fought in the shadows.
2011. Read by Natalie Castka. 28 hours 29 minutes. TB 19094.
O'Connor, Joseph. Ghost light. General fiction. TB 20480.
Dublin, 1907. Molly Allgood, a young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.
2010. Read by Marcella Riordan. 9 hours 3 minutes. TB 20480.
Ogawa, Yako. The housekeeper and the professor. General fiction. TB 20254.
He is a brilliant maths Professor but ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired to care for the Professor. Every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
2012. Read by Katy Slater. 5 hours 51 minutes. TB 20254.
Patterson, James. Violets are blue. Thriller. TB 20649.
Alex Cross series; book 7. Desperate to stop a series of deaths, Alex teams up with Jamilla Hughes, a savvy woman detective from San Francisco, and the FBI's Kyle Craig.
2009. Read by Paul Birchard. 8 hours 36 minutes. TB 20649.
Pearson, Allison. I don't know how she does it. General fiction. TB 20482.
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. With a Nanny, in-laws, husband, boss - not to mention the children - Kate is juggling so many balls that someday something's going to hit the ground.
2003. Read by Regina Reagan. 12 hours 22 minutes. TB 20482.
Picardie, Justine. Daphne. General fiction. TB 20483.
The author Daphne du Maurier, famous, despairing as her marriage falls apart, finds herself haunted by Rebecca, the heroine of her most famous novel, written 20 years earlier. Seeking distraction, she begins to research Branwell Bronte.
2008. Read by Joanna David. 10 hours 52 minutes. TB 20483.
Picoult, Jodi. The storyteller. General fiction. TB 20326.
Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world, sleeping by day and working in a bakery by night. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet elderly man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to - until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for 60 years.
2013. Read by Regina Reagan. 16 hours 39 minutes. TB 20326.
Pilcher, Rosamunde. The day of the storm. Family story. TB 20569.
At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca travels to Boscarva, a beautiful Cornish mansion, where she meets a family torn by passion and greed, and uncovers a family mystery which holds the key to her future.
2006. Read by Emma Powell. 7 hours 9 minutes. TB 20569.
Pullman, Philip. Grimm tales for young and old. Short stories. TB 20484.
Philip Pullman chooses his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling. He brings the heart of each tale to the fore, following with a commentary on the story's background.
2012. Read by Samuel West. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 20484.
Pyper, Andrew. The demonologist. Thriller. TB 20416.
Professor Ullman is a leading authority on Christian religion and myth but he sees what he teaches as nothing more than fiction. When he's offered a trip to Venice to be a consultant on a case study, based on his expertise as a 'demonologist,' what he witnesses will change what he believes forever.
2013. Read by Sam Mancuso. 9 hours 56 minutes. TB 20416.
Reilly, Matthew. Area 7. Thriller. TB 20575.
Scarecrow series: book 2. The hero of Ice Station is sent to a US Air Force installation in the Utah desert. Schofield will be escorting the President on an inspection tour of the base itself. But there are certain people who don't plan on the head of state leaving there alive.
2010. Read by Matthew Hendrickson. 12 hours 59 minutes. TB 20575.
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos. The prisoner of heaven. Thriller. TB 19903.
Cemetery of forgotten books; book 3. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea have married. They now have a son and are living with Daniel's father. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.
2012. Read by Peter Kenny. 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 19903.
Scarrow, Simon. The eagle's conquest. Historical fiction. TB 20580.
Cato series; book 2. When Centurion Macro arrives on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius's invasion in the summer of AD 43, he knows he will be facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career.
2008. Read by Gordon Griffin. 14 hours 8 minutes. TB 20580.
Shafak, Elif. The forty rules of love. General fiction. TB 20333.
Ella Rubinstein is 40 years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed.
2011. Read by Laurel Lefkow and David Thorpe. 13 hours 55 minutes. TB 20333.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. Quo vadis. Classic fiction. TB 20392.
Quo Vadis is a monumental historical epic that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.
1897. Read by Steve Hodson. 28 hours 13 minutes. TB 20392.
Simms, Chris. Hell's fire. Crime fiction. TB 20583.
DI Jon Spicer; Book 4. A charred corpse and satanic paraphernalia are found on the blackened alter of a torched church in Manchester. The killer is prepared to commit unspeakable acts of evil in homage to his god. Jon Spicer is in hot pursuit. Contains strong language.
2009. Read by Laurence Mitchell. 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 20583.
Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie project. General fiction. TB 20582.
Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie.
2013. Read by James Menzies Miller. 8 hours 49 minutes. TB 20582.
Tyrell, Chuck. Vulture gold. Western. TB 20817.
Garet Havelock was a Cherokee half-breed and the marshal of Vulture City. But that wasn't enough to stop outlaw kingpin Barnabas Donovan from sending in three armed men to rob $100,000 in bullion from the Vulture Mine headquarters, killing two people in the process.
2011. Read by Peter Brooke. 5 hours 22 minutes. TB 20817.
Vickers, Salley. The cleaner of Chartres. General fiction. TB 20533.
There is something special about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning the Cathedral at Chartres each morning. No one quite knows where she came from and yet everyone she encounters would surely agree that she has touched their lives in subtly transformative ways. But with a chance meeting in the cathedral one day, the spectre of Agnes' past .
2013. Read by Michael Maloney. 8 hours 13 minutes. TB 20533.
Webb, Katherine. A half forgotten song. Romance. TB 20492.
A chance phone call leads Zach Gilchrist to make a decision to write a book on artist Charles Aubrey. Zach's research into Aubrey leads him to Mitzy Hatcher, an elderly eccentric woman who knew Aubrey as a young girl. As Zach begins to unravel the past, Mitzy's story is slowly revealed - her obsessive love for Charles Aubrey, a love which led to tragic consequences.
2012. Read by Jacqueline King. 16 hours 26 minutes. TB 20492.
Welsh, Irvine. Skagboys. General fiction. TB 19771.
Mark Renton has it all - he's good-looking, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities. When his family starts to fracture, the only way out is heroin. Contains strong language.
2012. Read by Tam Dean Burn. 24 hours 50 minutes. TB 19771.
Williams, Carrie. Chilli heat. Erotic fiction. TB 20640.
Nadia Kapur reluctantly agrees to take her recently divorced mother, Valerie, on her gap-year trip to India. As the two women explore India's most exotic locations, it is Valerie who experiences a sexual reawakening with a succession of lovers and Nadia who is forced to wrestle with her own inhibitions and repressed desires. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2008. Read by Avita Jay and Helen Jones. 8 hours 44 minutes. TB 20640.
Wood, Valerie. Children of the tide. Family story. TB 20622.
Hungry tide series; book 3. It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby, the home of the wealthy Rayners. The baby's father is a Rayner, its mother dead, and the respectable shipping family are left shattered.
1996. Read by Maggie Mash. 21 hours 31 minutes. TB 20622.
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
MacFarlane, Robert. The wild places. TB 20564.
Macfarlane mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
2008. Read by Peter Kenny. 9 hours 5 minutes. TB 20564.
Autobiography and biography
Aitken, Jonathan. John Newton: from disgrace to Amazing grace. TB 20420.
John Newton’s famous conversion during a storm at sea led to his new role as a social reformer and key figure in the abolition of slavery. He was the author of many hymns including Amazing grace and Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken.
2008. Read by Jon Cartwright. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB 20420.
Begley, Andrea. I didn't see that coming. TB 20861.
Andrea Begley stunned the nation with her unique voice and was the winner of The Voice UK. Born in Ireland, she had to come to terms with losing 90% of her vision, but she made sure nothing would hold her back to achieve her dream.
2013. Read by Melanie MacHugh. 6 hours 25 minutes. TB 20861.
Connors, Jimmy. The outsider: my autobiography. TB 20700.
Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he upset in doing so.
2013. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 12 hours 49 minutes. TB 20700.
Cooper, Stephen. The final whistle: the Great War in fifteen players. TB 20555.
A tribute to the role rugby played during the First World War by following the poignant stories of 15 men who played for Rosslyn Park. Their story is told through personal diaries and letters.
2012. Read by Peter Wickham. 14 hours 51 minutes. TB 20555.
Crace, John. Harry's games. TB 20587.
Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer? Master tactician or practical joker? Even when he was facing court proceedings for tax evasion many people were still seriously tipping him to be the next England manager.
2013. Read by Rupert Bush. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB 20587.
Frayn, Michael. My father's fortune. TB 20467.
A moving and humorous account by Michael Frayn of his father who was a quick-witted boy from a poor and struggling family who made a go of his life despite hardships and later deafness.
2011. Read by Martin Jarvis. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB 20467.
Hemingway, Ernest. A moveable feast. TB 20729.
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. He recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation.
1994. Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 53 minutes. TB 20729.
Higashida, Naoki. The reason I jump. TB 20726.
Written when he was only 13, Naoki abundantly proves that autistic people do possess imagination, humour and empathy, but also makes clear, with great poignancy, how badly they need our compassion, patience and understanding.
2013. Read by Ryan Watson. 2 hours 28 minutes. TB 20726.
Law, Phyllida. How many camels are there in Holland? Dementia, ma and me. TB 20370.
In this Sequel to Notes to my mother-in-law Phyllida Law returns to the tiny Scottish village of Ardentinny to look after her ma, Mego who is becoming ever more muddled. Phyllida's account captures the warmth and tenderness of two generations of daughters brought together to care for their much-loved mother and grandmother.
2013. Read by Phyllida Law. 3 hours 23 minutes. TB 20370.
Palin, Michael. Halfway to Hollywood: diaries 1980-1988. TB 20571.
This second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers.
2010. Read by Robin Houston. 32 hours 38 minutes. TB 20571.
Suchet, John. Beethoven: the man revealed. TB 20585.
Beethoven may have been one of the greatest artists who ever lived, but he was still a man who had to live among fellow mortals.
2012. Read by Robin Houston. 12 hours 25 minutes. TB 20585.
Vine, Jeremy. It's all news to me. TB 20581.
Vine looks at our obsession with news, just exactly how and why it happens, and the power of real life stories versus the media's desire to shape them.
2012. Read by John Sackville. 11 hours 4 minutes. TB 20581.
Crafts
Griffiths, Melody. Knitting in no time: a fast, fun collection of 50 quick-knit projects. TB 405067.
This modern collection offers you the knitting know-how you need to create quick-to-knit ponchos, jackets, sweaters and a great range of hats, scarves and bags. Using simple stitches and speedy techniques, many of the projects feature new and novelty yarns on the market.
2006. Read by female synthetic voice. 6 hours 44 minutes. TB 405067.
Patel, Aneeta. Knitty gritty: for the absolute beginner knitter. TB 405068.
This book teaches beginners how to knit in plain English, using a line of 'knit' translated into a line of English, so that knitters will feel confident about taking that next big step into the world of knitting patterns on their own.
2008. Read by female synthetic voice. 2 hours 49 minutes. TB 405068.
Food and drink
Ha, Christine. Recipes from my home kitchen: Asian and American comfort food. TB 405081.
After tragically losing her sight in her twenties, this remarkable home cook, who specializes in the mouth-watering, wildly popular Vietnamese comfort foods of her childhood, as well as beloved American standards that she came to love growing up in Texas, re-learned how to cook. Using her heightened senses, she turns out dishes that are remarkably delicious and accessible.
2013. Read by female synthetic voice. 6 hours 4 minutes. TB 405081.
King, Si. The Hairy Dieters. TB 405053.
Healthy, delicious recipes created by ordinary members of the public, with the aim to persuade Britain to lose weight without losing their love of food.
2012. Read by female synthetic voice. 4 hours 56 minutes. TB 405053.
Lawson, Nigella. Nigellissima: instant Italian inspiration. TB 20175.
Italian food now plays a familiar role in our everyday eating but 'Nigellissima' goes beyond bolognese to bring to our table 120 inspired recipes, from the crustless meatzza to long fusilli with a no-cook Sicilian sauce.
2012. Read by Sally Burnett. 10 hours 25 minutes. TB 20175.
Gardening
Don, Monty. The road to Le Tholonet: a French garden journey. TB 20705.
Part travelogue to some of France's best and most historic gardens, part treasure-trove of historical anecdotes, part memoir.
2013. Read by Greg Wagland. 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 20705.
History
Churchill, Winston S. A history of the English-speaking peoples. TB 20495.
The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. This volume begins in 55 B.C. and ends with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
2006. Read by Christian Rodska. 17 hours 6 minutes. TB 20495.
Feeney, Paul. A 1950s childhood: from tin baths to bread and dripping. TB 20711.
From waking up to ice on the inside of the windows, washing in a tin bath by the fire and spoonfuls of cod-liver oil, home life was very different to today.
2009. Read by Richard Derrington. 5 hours 42 minutes. TB 20711.
Fraser, Antonia. Perilous question: the drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832. TB 20710.
'Perilous Question' evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its lines of most resistance to reform.
2013. Read by Helen Bourne. 14 hours 23 minutes. TB 20710.
Kynaston, David. Modernity Britain, 1957-59. TB 20922.
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period in their own right: neither the stultifying 'high' Fifties nor the liberating 'high' Sixties, but instead an action-packed, sometimes dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape.
2013. Read by Keith Hill. 15 hours 11 minutes. TB 20922.
Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain. TB 20565.
An original, authoritative look at the social history of the 20th century, retold through the eyes of the household servants.
2013. Read by Sally Anne Newton. 12 hours 54 minutes. TB 20565.
McKinstry, Leo. Lancaster: the Second World War's greatest bomber. TB 20562.
While addressing the political controversy surrounding the bombing offensive against Germany, McKinstry draws on first-hand accounts from pilots and crew members to bring to life the important characters and events of the Lancaster's career.
2010. Read by Geoffrey Drew. 27 hours 1 minute. TB 20562.
Salmon, Andrew. To the last round: the epic British stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951. TB 20807.
This is the story of the most desperate battle fought by British soldiers since WWII. In three whirlwind nights of battle, one regiment of artillery fired as many shells as were fired at El Alamein. Salmon has interviewed veterans of every unit engaged, to produce an account of the action as they experienced it.
2010. Read by Richard Burnip. 20 hours 21 minutes. TB 20807.
Humour
Sedaris, David. Let's explore diabetes with owls. TB 20576.
A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer named America's favourite humorist by Time magazine.
2012. Read by Eric Meyers. 6 hours 57 minutes. TB 20576.
Personal improvement
Armstrong, John. How to worry less about money. TB 20909.
Money is too important a part of life for us not to worry about it, but by approaching it differently, we can change the way we perceive its worth.
2012. Read by David Learner. 3 hours 23 minutes. TB 20909.
Pets
Bradshaw, John W. S. Cat sense: the feline enigma revealed. TB 405080.
Worshipped as gods, feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions, cats often seem as unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as they did in ancient times. Cat Sense is a scientific portrait of the true, surprising nature of cats.
2013. Read by female synthetic voice. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 405080.
Poetry
Astley, Neil. Staying alive: real poems for unreal times. TB 20543.
Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems.
2002. Read by Brian Fenton. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB 20543.
Heaney, Seamus. Human chain. TB 20912.
Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems, and it elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present .
2010. Read by Brian Fenton. 1 hour 11 minutes. TB 20912.
Politics
Grayson, Richard S. British politics: a beginner's guide. TB 405091.
Introduction to British politics covers the structure of the British government, the civil service, political parties, the media, the EU and the UK's special relationship with the US.
2010. Read by female synthetic voice. 7 hours 51 minutes. TB 405091.
Science
Ferguson, Kitty. Stephen Hawking: his life and work: the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated, and courageous figures of our time. TB 20167.
An account of the Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity and become an inspiration to those who have witnessed his triumph over disability.
2012. Read by Carole Boyd. 12 hours. TB 20167.
Transport
Holmes, Richard. Falling upwards: how we took to the air. TB 20728.
Meet the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the enigmatic group of men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall from the sky) and so discovered a new dimension of human experience.
2013. Read by Peter Crerar. 14 hours 4 minutes. TB 20728.
Travel
Johnson, Samuel. A journey to the western islands of Scotland. TB 20654.
The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with James Boswell in 1773. It contains Johnson's descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him.
1984. Read by Crawford Logan. 5 hours 46 minutes. TB 20654.
Linstead, Hilary. Growing old outrageously: a memoir of travel, food and friendship. TB 20722.
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after 35 years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better.
2013. Read by Di Langford. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB 20722.
Theroux, Paul. The last train to Zona Verde: overland from Cape Town to Angola. TB 20814.
An ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer, Paul Theroux.
2013. Read by Peter Noble. 14 hours 2 minutes. TB 20814.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 5+
Meadows, Daisy. Alexandra the Royal Baby Fairy. TB 20760.
Rainbow magic. The whole of Fairyland is very excited - there's going to be a new royal baby! But when Foster the stork fails to deliver the new bundle of joy on time, the Royal Baby Fairy asks friends of the fairies, Rachel Tate and Kirsty Walker, for their help.
2013. Read by Lucy Scott. 32 minutes. TB 20760.
Meadows, Daisy. Kate the Royal Wedding Fairy. TB 20759.
Rainbow magic. Kate the Royal Wedding Fairy makes sure that all weddings are happy and magical! But when Jack Frost steals the true love crown, the fairyland royal wedding is sure to be a disaster. Can Kirsty and Rachel find the crown so the royal couple will live happily ever after?
2011. Read by Lucy Scott. 35 minutes. TB 20759.
Murray, Tamsyn. Rabbit racer and medal mayhem. TB 20523.
Stunt Bunny; books 3 and 4. It's time for Stunt Bunny's biggest challenge yet! When Taz the Tornado, a cat who loves to race, joins the Superpet cast, the host Gloria decides that all the pets need to learn a new trick, or loose their place on the show.
2012. Read by Kate Harbour. 2 hours 37 minutes. TB 20523.
Suggested reading age 7+
Davies, Nicola. Rubbish town hero. TB 20162.
Chipo and his little sister Gentle live on Papa Fudu's dumpsite in Rubbish Town, searching for valuable things amongst the rubbish to try to stay alive. Life isn't easy - luckily, Chipo has spirit, courage and lots of imagination!
2012. Read by Mark Meadows. 3 hours 28 minutes. TB 20162.
Jansson, Tove. Comet in Moominland. TB 20725.
Moomintroll; book 2. Although they're small, fat and shy creatures, Moomins have the most amazing adventures and here the Moomins deal with a comet speeding towards the Earth.
1959. Read by Karen Cass. 3 hours 38 minutes. TB 20725.
Loser, Barry. I am still not a loser. TB 20813.
Barry Loser series; book 2. Barry has a new problem: Gordon Smugly has stolen his best friend, Bunky. Join Barry as he attempts to get Bunky back, organises a girly-screamvoice test and tries to avoid seeing his teacher kissing his gran.
2013. Read by Daniel Philpott. 1 hour 16 minutes. TB 20813.
Mackay, Janis. The accidental time traveller. TB 20721.
One ordinary day, Saul is on his way to the corner shop when a girl suddenly appears in the middle of the road. She doesn't understand traffic, or the things in shops, and she's wearing a long dress with ruffled sleeves. Her name is Agatha Black and is from 1813, and Saul needs to find a way to get her back there.
2013. Read by Caroline Guthrie. 6 hours 5 minutes. TB 20721.
Murphy, Jill. The worst witch to the rescue. TB 20521.
Worst witch; book 6. Mildred Hubble has always been the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, but she just knows this term will be different. She's done the best holiday project ever. Even her arch-enemy, Ethel Hallow, is being friendly to her! But is it all too good to be true?
2008. Read by Barbara Flynn. 1 hour 51 minutes. TB 20521.
Pitcher, Caroline. Cloud cat. TB 20525.
Jez tries to protect his brother Luka, who has been losing his sight since the disappearance of their parents. But Luka is unaware of the danger, determined to visit the magical realm of the Cloud Cat.
2005. Read by Andrew Sachs. 2 hours 45 minutes. TB 20525.
Sheldon, Dyan. Harry and Chicken and Harry the explorer. TB 20488.
It's not every day you meet a cat who talks and calls you by your most secret family nickname. That's what happens to Chicken when she meets Harry. But then Harry isn't really a cat at all - he's an extraterrestrial being, stranded on Earth.
2012. Read by Charlotte Coleman. 1 hour 37 minutes. TB 20488.
Simon, Francesca. Horrid Henry's nightmare. TB 20808.
Horrid Henry series. This time Horrid Henry is chased by a ghost bunny with huge teeth, a wailing graveyard ghost and a slimy zombie.
2013. Read by Annie Aldington. 1 hour 2 minutes. TB 20808.
Sparkes, Ali. Fly frenzy. TB 20889.
S.W.I.T.C.H. series; book 2. Something precious has been stolen from Josh and Danny's garden. To catch a thief the twins need a disguise and Petty Potts is on hand with her S.W.I.T.C.H spray. Soon the boys have 360 degree vision and a strange attraction to dog poo. Before the twins can reveal the thief, they'll need to avoid the swat.
2011. Read by Lucy Scott. 1 hour 8 minutes. TB 20889.
Suggested reading age 9+
Bradford, Chris. The way of the sword. TB 20639.
Young samurai series; book 2. One year of training in samurai school and Jack is in real trouble. He's busy preparing for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests courage, skill and spirit to the limit. And, at the same time, Jack is caught in a running battle with fellow student Kazuki and his gang.
2009. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 10 hours 29 minutes. TB 20639.
Clough, Caroline. Black tide. TB 20702.
Toby's dad and little sister have been kidnapped by pirates, and Toby is left alone in the aftermath of the terrible Red Fever epidemic which has wiped out much of the world's population. Toby must journey across post-apocalyptic Scotland to find his family.
2012. Read by Ewan Donald. 6 hours 31 minutes. TB 20702.
Constable, Cathryn. The wolf princess. TB 20500.
Sophie dreams of being someone special. Lost in the snow on a school trip to Russia, she's rescued by Princess Anna Volkonskaya. But as night falls and wolves prowl, Sophie discovers more than dreams in the princess's palace of secrets.
2012. Read by Hattie Morahan. 7 hours 31 minutes. TB 20500.
Fennell, Emerald. Shiverton Hall. TB 20502.
Arthur Bannister has been accepted into Shiverton Hall, which turns out to be an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. But Arthur has no time to worry about the strange coincidence, as he is too busy trying to make sense of Shiverton Hall.
2013. Read by Simon Shepherd. 5 hours 33 minutes. TB 20502.
Horowitz, Anthony. Oblivion. TB 20626.
The power of five series; book 5. The five gatekeepers - Matt, Pedro, Scott, Jamie and Scarlett - are scattered in an alternate future, where each of them faces a hostile and dangerous world. As they struggle to re-group and plan their next move, the malevolent King of the Old Ones gathers his forces in Oblivion.
2012. Read by Laurence Mitchell. 8 hours 22 minutes. TB 20626.
Kinney, Jeff. The last straw. TB 20655.
Diary of a wimpy kid; book 3. Greg's dad, Frank, is on a mission - a mission to make this wimpy kid, well, less wimpy. All manner of 'manly' physical activities are planned, but Greg just about manages to find a way out of them. That is until military academy is mentioned and Greg realizes that he's going to have to come up with a very special excuse.
2009. Read by Simon Lee Phillips. 2 hours 16 minutes. TB 20655.
Meres, Jonathan. May contain nuts. TB 20931.
The world of Norm; book 1. Norm knew it was going to be one of those days when he woke up and found himself about to pee in his dad's wardrobe. Why on Earth did his family have to move, anyway? And when Norm is in bed, he's kept awake by his dad snoring like a rhinoceros!
2011. Read by Jonathan Meres. 3 hours 11 minutes. TB 20931.
Sacerdoti, Daniela. Really weird . TB 20805.
Mischievous fairies? Stranded mermaids? Smelly troll? Whatever your supernatural dilemma, call the Really Weird Removals company! Luca and Valentina's uncle Alistair is a paranormal investigator. When he realises the children can see the supernatural creatures that share our world, he invites them to join his team.
2012. Read by Ewan Donald. 7 hours 20 minutes. TB 20805.
Ure, Jean. Fruit and nutcase. TB 20616.
Mandy Small has trouble writing, so her teacher, suggests that she tells her life story into a tape recorder. So begins Mandy's funny, and sometimes sad, story of life with her loving but irresponsible parents, her troubles at school and her interfering grandmother. With so many things to worry about, Mandy begins to think that she's in danger of turning into a real fruit and nutcase!
1999. Read by Emma Noakes. 2 hours 33 minutes. TB 20616.
Walliams, David. Ratburger. TB 20535.
Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery - mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it? The clue is in the title!
2013. Read by David Walliams. 3 hours 36 minutes. TB 20535.
Wilson, Jacqueline. Emerald star. TB 20537.
Since leaving the Foundling Hospital, Hetty has seen her fair share of drama, excitement, tragedy and loss. After the death of her beloved mama, she sets off to find a real home at last starting with the search for her father. But Hetty is no longer a simple country girl, and begins to fear she'll never truly belong anywhere.
2012. Read by Finty Williams. 8 hours 45 minutes. TB 20537.
Suggested reading age 11+
Barker, Clive. The thief of always: a fable. TB 20820.
Mr Hood's holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. But there is a price to be paid. Harvey Swick finds out about the dark side.
1993. Read by Ben Addis. 5 hours 6 minutes. TB 20820.
Brent-Dyer, Elinor M. The school at the Chalet. TB 20621.
The Chalet School series; book 1. Madge Bettany decides to establish a small school in the Austrian Tyrol for her much younger sister, Joey.
1998. Read by Sherry Baines. 8 hours 17 minutes. TB 20621.
Cabot, Meg. Ten out of ten. TB 20636.
The princess diaries; book 10. Mia is about to turn 18 and has decided to put down her princess pen for good. This is your one and only chance to find out how it all ends.
2009. Read by Kelly Burke. 9 hours 34 minutes. TB 20636.
Coolidge, Susan. Clover. TB 20607.
What Katy Did; book 4. Clovergoes to Colorado to nurse her brother Phil, loves Colorado and its beautiful mountains, in fact she never wants to get back to the East, luckily for her she meets and falls in love with Geoff.
2012. Read by Stephanie Cannon. 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 20607.
Morpurgo, Michael. Running wild. TB 19669.
When 10-year-old Will's father dies in the Iraq war, his mother surprises him with a trip to Indonesia. But little could she have known what awaited them both there. An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure.
2009. Read by Michael Morpurgo. 6 hours 23 minutes. TB 19669.
Shan, Darren. Hunters of the dusk. TB 20614.
The Saga of Darren Shan; book 7. It is six years after Darren was made a Vampire Prince and following a grim prophesy made by Mr Tiny, the vampires know the ascension of the Vampaneze Lord is at hand and it will be either Vancha Marsch, Larten Crepsley or Darren Shan.
2002. Read by Ian Prosser. 5 hours 17 minutes. TB 20614.
Swindells, Robert. Blitzed. TB 20440.
George is fascinated by World War Two. Bombers, Nazis, doodlebugs. When a school trip to a World War Two museum leads to a timeslip - and George is in London at the time of the Blitz he discovers the reality is very different! He joins up with a group of other homeless children, struggling to survive. And then they suspect someone they know of being a German spy.
2006. Read by Christian Rodska. 4 hours 1 minute. TB 20440.
Suggested reading age 13+
Caine, Rachel. Glass houses. TB 20635.
College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better.
2008. Read by Stephanie Cannon. 7 hours 47 minutes. TB 20635.
Canavan, Trudi. The rogue. TB 20637.
The traitor spy trilogy; book 2. Living among the Sachakan rebels, Lorkin does his best to learn about them and their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their knowledge for the healing they so desperately want and, while he assumes they fear revealing their existence to the world, there are hints they have bigger plans.
2012. Read by Cally Lawrence. 14 hours 47 minutes. TB 20637.
Collins, Tim. Prince of dorkness. TB 20301.
Diary of a wimpy vampire series. Nigel Mullet, the unfortunate and bungling 15-year-old vampire is back. But this time he not only has to deal with his daily trials of bad skin, and annoying little sister, and the worry of his fangs popping out at inopportune moments.
2012. Read by Chris Nelson. 4 hours 30 minutes. TB 20301.
Farrant, Natasha. After Iris. TB 20713.
Bluebell Gadsby thinks and feels very deeply about life, but can't really talk to anyone about it because no one in the Gadsby family wants to address the real problem - that Blue's twin sister, Iris, died a year ago.
2013. Read by Charlotte Worthing. 5 hours 30 minutes. TB 20713.
Grant, Michael. Fear. TB 20604.
Gone series; book 5. Iit's been nearly a year since everyone over the age of 15 disappeared. Now, though, the gaiaphage has blotted out the sun and plunged the FAYZ into perpetual gloom. Divided and dispirited, the survivors face their greatest challenge - the darkness of their own minds.
2012. Read by Paul Birchard. 11 hours 44 minutes. TB 20604.
Green, John. The fault in our stars. TB 20733.
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
2013. Read by Kelly Burke. 7 hours 41 minutes. TB 20733.
Hendry, Diana. The seeing. TB 20731.
Nothing ever seems to happen in the quiet, respectable seaside town of Norton. The war is over, and everyone's thrilled to be living peacefully - everyone but 13-year-old Lizzie, who's so bored she could scream. But when the wild and dangerous Natalie arrives, Lizzie is drawn irresistibly to the new girl from the wrong side of the tracks.
2013. Read by Becky Wright. 5 hours 23 minutes. TB 20731.
Higson, Charles. The fear. TB 20406.
The enemy; book 3. The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups.
2012. Read by Robert Nairne. 11 hours 56 minutes. TB 20406.
Horowitz, Anthony. Necropolis. TB 20365.
Evil has been unleashed on the world and only five children - with special powers - can save it. Matt and the others desperately need to find Scarlett, the final gatekeeper, who has been trapped in Hong Kong, where puddles of water turn into puddles of blood, where ghosts, demons and hideous creatures stalk the streets.
2009. Read by Kris Dyer. 11 hours 21 minutes. TB 20365.
Long, Helen. What's up with Jody Barton? TB 20263.
Jody and Jolene are twins who are quite different, as people are. They're also a bit similar. Looking the same. Falling in love with the same person. Except Jody is a bit different. In a way Jolene doesn't know.
2012. Read by Lisa Coleman. 5 hours 28 minutes. TB 20263.
McKenzie, Sophie. Hunted. TB 20518.
Dylan, the daughter of the scientist who created the Medusa gene for psychic powers, has never felt she really fits into the crime-fighting Medusa Project. But then she makes a discovery about her father's death which changes everything.
2011. Read by Lisa Coleman. 5 hours 28 minutes. TB 20518.
Muchamore, Robert. Guardian angel. TB 20612.
Cherub 2; book 2. Ryan has saved Ethan's life more than once. Ethan thinks he must be a guardian angel. But Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them.
2012. Read by David Thorpe. 8 hours 23 minutes. TB 20612.
Ness, Patrick. Monsters of men. TB 20611.
Chaos walking series; book 3. War says the Mayor. At last. Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. Then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge!
2010. Read by Brian Fenton. 15 hours 6 minutes. TB 20611.
Skuse, C J. Pretty bad things. TB 20062.
Paisley and Beau Argent are in the headlines again. Last time, they were the 'wonder twins', when as six-year-olds they were found alive in woods after three days missing following their mother's death. Now at 16, life's not so wonderful.
2011. Read by Kathrine Fenton. 7 hours 44 minutes. TB 20062.
Pitcher, Annabel. Ketchup clouds. TB 20764.
15-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a criminal, Stuart Harris, locked up on death row in Texas. Zoe tells her story in the only way she can: in letters to the man in prison in America.
2013. Read by Charlotte Worthing and Laurence Mitchell. 6 hours 47 minutes. TB 20764.
Wein, Elizabeth. Code name Verity. TB 20619.
Code name Verity; book 2. Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat; one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. But when a vital mission goes wrong, one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war.
2012. Read by Karina Fernandez. 10 hours 46 minutes. TB 20619.
Suggested reading age 15+
Burgess, Melvin. The hit. TB 20633.
A new drug is out. The Hit. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price Adam’s life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up to his girlfriend, Lizzie to show him.
2013. Read by Laurence Mitchell. 8 hours 22 minutes. TB 20633.
Michael, Livi. Malkin child. TB 20828.
Jennet's family all believe they are witches. Other folk think they are, too. But 1612 is a dangerous time to be a witch. When her family are imprisoned and put on trial in Lancaster Castle, Jennet's evidence will help decide their fate.
2012. Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 2 hours 8 minutes. TB 20828.
St. Crow, Lili. Betrayals. TB 20642.
Strange Angels: book 2. Located in a secret training facility, trainee demon-slayer Dru must discover who is out to get her and prevent her one gift from draining away.
2009. Read by Emma-Claire Brightlyn. 9 hours 6 minutes. TB 20642.
Books in other languages
Welsh adult fiction
Hunter, Jerry. Gwreiddyn chwerw. General fiction. TB 20451.
Nofel i oedolion yn ymdrin a safle'r ferch tua chan mlynedd yn a´l, wrth i Mari, y prif gymeriad, roi genedigaeth i'w thrydydd plentyn.
2012. Read by Enid Hughes. 4 hours 8 minutes. TB 20451.
Welsh adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Hywyn, Gwenno. Wil Sam: Cyres y cweir 5. TB 19009.
Gwasg Gwynedd am ddal i synian ac am dderbyn nad ydw i na chawr na pherthynas pell nac agos i gawr. Dwbl diolch i Gwenno Hywyn am ei thrafferth a'i hir amynedd yn troi fy sgwrs fler, bytiog a gwasgarog i yn eiriau ffit i'w cynnwys mewn llyrf. Hefyd, diolch i John Roberts, Y Ffor, am ei help efo'r lluniau.
1985. Read by Huw Charles Morris and Catrin Griffiths. 9 hours 23 minutes. TB 19009.
Jones, Russell. Gwyrdd fy myd. TB 19011.
Hanes y cymeriad lliwgar a charismataidd Russell Jones, un o gyflwynwyr rhaglen Yn yr Ardd ar S4C. Yn cynnwys llawer o luniau ohono ef, ei deulu a'i ardd yn Rhostryfan, ger Caernarfon, a'I ddiddordebau amrywiol a gwahanol - fel cadw ieir a gwau! Cawn hefyd farn bendant Russell am hyn a'r llall, a phytiau hwyliog amdano gan aelodau o'I deulu.
2010. Read by Enid Hughes. 1 hour 25 minutes. TB 19011.
Customs and folklore
Williams, Mair. Ddoi di Dei? llên gwerin blodau a llwyni. TB 11726.
Casgliad o ysgrifau am lên gwerin blodau a phlanhigion eraill, yn cynnwys manylion am enwau, rhinweddau meddyginiaethol ac ofergoelion, ynghyd â dyfyniadau perthnasol o farddoniaeth.
1998. Read by Merfyn P Jones. 2 hours 41 minutes.TB 11726.
Essays
Owen, William. Pluen y sgwennwr. TB 20457.
Casgliad difyr arall o ysgrifau'r dewin geiriau William Owen, Borth-y-gest ar amrywiol destunau, yn cynnig cyfle newydd i ddarllenwyr fwynhau ac edmygu Cymraeg rhywiog awdur profiadol, gyda'i hiwmor agored a'i ddawn I bortreadu sefyllfaoedd sy'n cosi'r dychymyg.
2012. Read by Huw Charles Morris. 4 hours 36 minutes. TB 20457.
Welsh Quick reads
Yassine, Ali. Ali Yassine: llais yr adar gleision. Autobiography. TB 19581.
Teitl yn y gyfres o gyfrolau byr a chyflym Stori Sydyn. Dyma hunangofiant un o gefnogwyr enwocaf tim pal-droed Caerdydd. Llyfr am bal-droed yw hwn, ond hefyd llyfr am gymeriad diddorol iawn o gefndir Arabaidd. Ali Yassine oedd y llais ar feic yr hen Barc Ninian, ac ef hefyd sy'n diddanu'r dorf yn y stadiwm newydd.
2010. Read by Huw Charles Morris. 1 hour 37 minutes. TB 19581.
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
Caldwell, Lucy. All the beggars riding. General fiction. TB 405052.
When Lara was 12, and her younger brother Alfie 8, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent, because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life!
2013. 7 hours 19 minutes. TB 405052.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Clarke, Darren. An open book: my autobiography. TB 405050.
Darren Clarke's 2006 Ryder Cup successes following shortly after his wife Heather's tragic death from cancer cemented his place in the nation's hearts. He talks about his fellow golfers, the competition on the field and the friendships off it, his own future in golf, and learning to live without Heather.
2012. 7 hours 18 minutes. TB 405050.
Food and drink
Abel, Keith. The Abel and Cole Veg Box Companion. TB 405054.
Bursting with recipes and ideas and ingenious tips for everyday veg and everyday uses for unusual veg.
2012. 6 hours 29 minutes. TB 405054.
History
Bonnard, Andre. Greek civilisation: from the Iliad to the Parthenon. TB 405082.
Written for the general reader, it covers the period of growth from Homer to Pericles, and the emerging glory of the Greek achievement is constantly seen against the background of social struggle through which this remarkable people worked its way from a primitive tribal state towards a system of popular sovereignty.
1957. 11 hours 34 minutes. TB 405082.
Kynaston, David. Family Britain. 1951-57. TB 404713.
Great national events jostle alongside everything that gave 1950s Britain its distinctive flavour from Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers and Hancock's Half Hour to Ekco television sets, skiffle and teddy boys. 2010. 43 hours 51 minutes. TB 404713.
Law
Harris, Paul. What to do when someone dies. TB 405051.
Which? Essential guides series. This book provides advice on: how to register a death; notifying relevant parties; making funeral arrangements; applying for probate; and sorting out tax, property and other financial matters.
2006. 8 hours 55 minutes. TB 405051.
Pets
Pitcher, George. The dogs who came to stay. TB 405057.
This is the true story of how two dogs entered the life of a retired US academic and bachelor - and changed everything. Pitcher poignantly describes the trust and love which develops between them, and how he found his life immeasurably improved.
1997. 4 hours 7 minutes. TB 405057.
Religion
Kirkby, John. Nevertheless: the incredible story of one man's mission to change thousands of people's lives. TB 405055.
The story of how Christians Against Poverty got started.
2006. 7 hours 4 minutes. TB 405055.
McCreary, Alf. Saint Patrick's City: the story of Armagh. TB 405059.
Required reading for all those who want to learn more about the real Saint Patrick and about his reconciling message for our world.
2001. 10 hours 19 minutes. TB 405059.
Sport
Murray, Colin. A random history of football. TB 405069.
An alternative history of football. Sheffield United almost signed Diego Maradona, Saddam Hussein changed the result of an Iraq versus Chelsea match, Bury FC's Robbie the Bobby tops the league of worst-behaved mascots.
2010. 7 hours 23 minutes. TB 405069.
True crime
Busby, Sian. The cruel mother: a family ghost laid to rest. TB 405085.
In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother drowned two of her new babies and was sentenced to imprisonment in Broadmoor. This event has resounded throughout the generations of the family and given rise to a collective anxiety about parenting ability and fear of illness. 2005. 8 hours 57 minutes. TB 405085.
DAISY audio books on request
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Adult fiction
Caldwell, Lucy. Where they were missed. Family story. Read by Penny Beggs.
Lasting 6 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 805012. It is Belfast in the 1980s. Daisy and Saoirse are living through the hottest summer ever. The yard is too hot and their mother keeps flying off the handle. It's clear that their parents are struggling with each other and the political violence outside that is forcing them ever closer together and yet is also smashing them apart. Order No: 805012.
Delderfield, R F. The dreaming suburb. Family story. Read by Stephen Jack.
Lasting 17 hours 17 minutes. Order No: 805015. The Avenue story; book 1. The story of the lives of five families in a suburban avenue between 1919 and 1940, reflecting the lives of London people through two eventful decades. Order No: 805015.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Classic. Read by Helen Bourne.
Lasting 46 hours 19 minutes, on two CDs priced £14.99. Order No: 803121. In Middlemarch, in the heart of England, Dorothea wants to change the world and Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific discoveries. But after disastrous marriages, they both lose control of their lives. Can they ever achieve their dreams? Order No: 803121.
Evans, Justin. The white devil: a ghost story. Horror. Read by Thomas Hodgkins.
Lasting 12 hours 8 minutes. Order No: 804386. Shortly after Andrew Taylor's arrival at Harrow, the pupils notice his striking resemblance to Lord Byron, a former pupil, and Andrew is persuaded to play Byron in the school play. This is where his troubles begin. Contains strong language and sexual content. Order No: 804386.
Keating, H R F. The hard detective. Crime. Read by Sheila Mitchell.
Lasting 6 hours 29 minutes. Order No: 801082. Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has earned the nickname the “hard detective” - but she's had to be unyielding to make it in a man's world. But now two of her officers have died within hours of each other. Order No: 801082.
Kingsbury, Karen. Redemption. Family story. Read by Stephanie Ellyne.
Lasting 12 hours 36 minutes. Order No: 804398. Redemption; book 1. Kari Baxter Jacobs is hurt. Her husband Tim, a respected professor, is having an affair with a student. Stunned, Kari returns home to the Baxter family to sort things out. But when an old flame shows up, she's more confused than ever. Order No: 804398.
Le Carre, John. Call for the dead. Spy story. Read by Michael Jayston.
Lasting 4 hours 46 minutes. Order No: 804146. George Smiley; book 1. George Smiley thought his interview with Samuel Fennan had gone well, but Smiley is shocked to discover that Fennan had committed suicide as a result of the interview, but why? Order No: 804146.
Marshall, Sybil. A nest of magpies. Country life. Read by Marilyn Finlay.
Lasting 21 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 805014. Fran, now widowed, wants to be reintegrated into the village. As she is drawn into the lives of its people she is fascinated by Johanna, the enigmatic outsider. Her influence is a catalyst for change and a chain of events effects a breakdown of the old social hierarchy. Order No: 805014.
Maupin, Armistead. Tales of the city. Humorous. Read by Regina Reagan.
Lasting 8 hours 45 minutes. Order No: 804987. Tales of the city; book 1. A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of Laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching and outrageous. Contains strong language. Order No: 804987.
McGrath Patrick. Asylum. Thriller. Read by Ian McKellen.
Lasting 8 hours 40 minutes. Order No: 803927. Asylum is a masterful tale of sexual fixation and pathological obsession, of the extreme manipulations to which people will resort to satiate personal need, and of the outer perimeters of love and hate. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Order No: 803927.
McVeigh, Jennifer. The fever tree. Romance. Read by Helen Bourne.
Lasting 16 hours 11 minutes. Order No: 804336. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men. Order No: 804336.
Ramsden, Ruth. Blue murder at the Pink Parrot. Thriller. Read by various.
Lasting 10 hours 20 minutes. Order No: 804979. JJ unwittingly finds herself at the centre of a murder mystery and a blackmail plot. As the bodies start to pile up she has to find the culprit before he or she finds her. Order No: 804979.
Robinson, Derek. A splendid little war. War story. Read by Andy Secombe.
Lasting 14 hours 32 minutes. Order No: 804414. The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. “There's a splendid little war going on”, a British staff officer told them. “You'll like it”. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. Order No: 804414.
Warren, Nancy. Fringe benefits. Mills and Boon romance. Read by Sarah Mennell.
Lasting 5 hours 44 minutes. Order No: 804984. Spencer Tate cannot help but be tempted by Jane; after all she is intelligent, gorgeous, but off limits. Sooner or later Spencer will discover the truth about Jane's marriage and then the sparks will fly. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Order No: 804984.
Adult non-fiction
Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia. Travel. Read by Alvar Lidell.
Lasting 9 hours 22 minutes. Order No: 804995. The author went to Patagonia in search of a prehistoric monster and a sea-faring ancestor; he found a refuge of forlorn desolation and breathtaking beauty, and discovered the strange life-histories of the eccentrics who live there. Contains strong language. Order No: 804995.
Chatwin, Bruce. What am I doing here? Biography. Read by Nigel Graham.
Lasting 12 hours 12 minutes. Order No: 804996. A collection of his own stories; profiles of fascinating people and travelogues covering his visits to Russia, China and Afghanistan, amongst other places. Order No: 804996.
Harris, Paul. What to do when someone dies. Self help. Read by various.
Lasting 8 hours 55 minutes. Order No: 805013. Which? essential guides. This book provides advice on: how to register a death; notifying relevant parties; making funeral arrangements; applying for probate; and, sorting out tax, property and other financial matters. Order No: 805013.
Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the afternoon. Sport. Read by Duncan Carse.
Lasting 9 hours 51 minutes. Order No: 804985. Describes the art of bullfighting and the technical and emotional appeal of the “corida”, with stories of famous Spanish matadors and picadors. Order No: 804985.
Keller, Helen. Teacher. Biography. Read by Caryl Spencer.
Lasting 7 hours 38 minutes. Order No: 804982. The story of Annie Sullivan, the orphan who became the deaf-blind author's first teacher and whose patient love enabled her to begin to communicate with the outside world. Order No: 804982.
Lawson, Nigella. Nigella express. Food and drink. Read by Lucy Scott.
Lasting 6 hours 52 minutes. Order No: 800850. Featuring fabulous fast foods, effortless entertaining and easy, delicious meals, “Nigella Express” is her solution to eating well when time is short. Order No: 800850.
Palin, Michael. Brazil. Travel. Read by Michael Palin.
Lasting 10 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 803950. Brazil is one of the four new global superpowers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities. Order No: 803950.
Pulsford, Dave. Dementia: support for family and friends. Health. Read by Georgina Foss.
Lasting 8 hours 49 minutes. Order No: 804412. This book explores the journey with dementia and explains not only how it will affect the person with the condition, but also those around them and how best to get help. Order No: 804412.
Children and young adult fiction
Wilson, Jacqueline. Twin trouble. Read by Bernard Cribbins.
Lasting 1 hour 1 minute. Order No: 803380. New twins have arrived in the family and Connie is in despair - until Nurse Meade arrives and gives her two tiny blue glass beads. When Connie twiddles with the beads, magical things begin to happen. Suggested reading 9+. Order No: 803380.
DAISY Box sets
Box sets in the DAISY gift range include designed and printed covers, braille label and presentation case. Our range includes classics, adults and children’s box sets.
Poetry essentials box set (804916) - £18.95
Four books on four CD’s lasting 6 hours 19 minutes. A diverse collection of poetry books from celebrated writers that include winners of the Nobel Prize, The T.S Elliot award and young writer of the year - a timeless collection to own forever. Warning: Titles may contain strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Includes the following titles:
• District and circle, by Seamus Heaney
• Ginnel, by Lucy Newlyn
• Nations favourite love poems, by Daisy Goodwin
• The ice age, by Paul Farley
Girls night in box set (804997) - £21.95
Four books on four CDs lasting 43 hours. Enjoy a little “me” time curled up on the sofa with any one of these four great books. A funny and feel good collection that will help you unwind and relax after a crazy day or chaotic week. So grab your chocs, your cuppa, hit play and enjoy. Warning: Titles may contain strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Includes the following titles:
• Sleeping beauties, by Mavis Cheek
• Loose women girls night in: heartfelt advice, inspired innuendo and toe-curling confessions
• Chocolate lovers club, by Carole Matthews
• Sparkles, by Louise Bagshawe
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