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BrailleAdult FictionAmis, Martin. The zone of interest. 2014. General fiction.There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show your reflection. Instead, it showed your soul - it showed who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it?SEB. 6v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25084703Barclay, Linwood. Lone wolf. 2006. Crime.Zack Walker: book 3. Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's lakeside fishing camp. Then another body is discovered and a large supply of fertilizer goes missing, evoking memories of the Oklahoma City bombing.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25233803Barclay, Linwood. Trust your eyes. 2013. Thriller.A man is moving down a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, scanning the storefronts, taking in his surroundings, when he sees something in a third-floor tenement window. A woman's face, distorted with terror. Thomas is convinced he's witnessing a murder. Except that things aren't quite as simple as that because Thomas was never actually there, and the murder was months ago.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24682207Brooks, Terry. The black unicorn. 2007. Fantasy.A year has passed since Ben Holiday bought the Magic Kingdom and claimed the throne. Three loyal friends had come to his aid: an incompetent court wizard, a talking dog, and the lovely Willow. Now Ben has to fight for his kingdom all over again.SEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25340902Brooks, Terry. Armageddon's children. 2007. Fantasy.Genesis of Shannara: book 1. Fifty years from now, our world is unrecognisable. Civilisation has fallen and anarchy is the only law. Logan Tom and Angel Perez are the last two Knights to stand against the forces of chaos. They are humanity's last hope. Although the odds are stacked against them, Logan and Angel have the power to halt the destruction of the Old World. It will be up to others to usher in the New ...SEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 21804601Burton, Jessie. The miniaturist. 2014. Historical fiction.On an autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt . Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all.SEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25319702Carol, James. Watch me. 2014. Thriller.Jefferson Winter: book 2. Eagle Creek, Louisiana. Lawyer Sam Galloway is burned alive in an apparently motiveless attack. The local sheriff's department calls in former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter to consult on the case. So far there's just one body, but there are going to be more. A deadline has been set, the clock is ticking, and Winter has just thirteen and a half hours to track down the killer, before he strikes again.SEB. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25122703Carpenter, Lea. Eleven days. 2013. General fiction.Eleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son. A Navy SEAL goes missing after a special mission; his mother waits. Through the eleven days that follow, this touching, braiding narrative unfolds their back stories and what drives them both.SEB. 5v. Price: ?17.99. Order No: 25303003Cleeves, Ann. Thin air. 2014. Crime.Shetland Island: book 6. A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears - apparently into thin air. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate.SEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25122403Coleman, Rowan. The memory book. 2014. General fiction.The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address. What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? Is it possible to rebuild your life? Raise a family? Fall in love again? When Claire starts to write her memory book, she already knows that this scrapbook of mementoes will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her.SEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25137603Cornwell, Bernard. Warriors of the storm. 2015. Historical fiction.Warrior chronicles: book 9. A fragile peace reigns in Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. King Alfred’s son Edward and formidable daughter, Aethelflaed, rule the kingdoms. But all around the restless Northmen, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy churches, are mounting raids. Despite the gathering threat, both Edward and Aethelflaed are reluctant to move out of the safety of their fortifications. But with Uhtred’s own daughter married to Ivarson’s brother, who can be trusted?UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25333603Cox, Edward. The relic guild. 2014. Fantasy.The Labyrinth is an abandoned forbidden zone, where humans were trapped behind boundary walls 100 feet high. Young Clara struggles to survive in a dangerous and dysfunctional city, where the use of magic is punishable by death. The only people Clara can trust are the Relic Guild, a secret band of magickers sworn to protect the Labyrinth. Clara and the Relic Guild must find a way to contact the worlds beyond their walls.SEB. 9v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25121203Cox, Josephine. The journey. 2005. Family stories. Romance.Barney Davidson: book 1. When Ben Morris comes to the aid of Lucy Baker and her daughter Mary, he is intrigued by the story behind their frequent visits to the local graveyard. The story of Barney Davidson, his family and the part Lucy played in his extraordinary life, is one of a deep, abiding love and an incredible sacrifice, spellbinding in its tragedy and passion.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 20920604Cox, Josephine. Three letters. 2012. Family stories.8-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with an appetite for other women's husbands. His father is quiet and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having affairs, he's chosen to turn a blind eye. But then, quite unexpectedly, Tom receives two bits of devastating news, and his world is shattered.SEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 23264703Crompton, Richard. The honey guide. 2013. Crime.Detective Mollel: book 1. Meet Mollel, a former Maasai warrior whose beloved wife died in the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. Mollel has been assigned to the investigation of the brutal murder of a local prostitute. Despite the resistance of his colleagues, Mollel soon begins to uncover something more far-reaching. But are his warrior's instincts correct?SEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25124803Deaver, Jeffery. The October list: a novel in reverse. 2014. Thriller.Gabrielle is sitting in an apartment in Manhattan, watching the clock. Her daughter has been kidnapped, she's shot and killed a man, she is trying to evade the police and negotiate with the kidnapper, a stone-cold killer. He wants the October List, and he wants money. The doorbell rings ... That is the end of Gabrielle's story, and the first chapter of this novel.SEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25122803Dunmore, Helen. The lie. 2014. General fiction.Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Daniel has survived, but the horror and passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?SEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24928503Erskine, Barbara. The darkest hour. 2014. General fiction.In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Seventy years later, and art historian Lucy uncovers the mystery surrounding a painting in her home – and accidentally ends up stirring up a hornet's nest of history.UEB. 10v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25169803Fforde, Katie. A French affair. 2013. General fiction.Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House, an antiques centre. Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the 21st century. Matthew Ballinger is not happy with the whirlwind that has arrived on his doorstep. The last thing either of them want is to fall in love. But will a trip to France change their minds?SEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 23593903Forsyth, Frederick. The kill list. 2014. Thriller.The kill list : a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it , The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets. Tasked with what seems like an impossible job is an ex-US marine known only as The Tracker.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25167003French, Tana. The secret place. 2014. Crime.Ryan and Maddox: book 5. The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place – the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously – Holly found the card.SEB. 10v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25101903Goodwin, Daisy. The fortune hunter. 2014. Historical romance.In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. She comes to England looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton. Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other, and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25166703Griffiths, Elly. Dying fall. 2013. Crime.Ruth Galloway: book 5. Ruth's old friend Dan Golding thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever - but he needs Ruth's help. Then, Dan is killed in a fire, leaving Ruth with one clue: the tomb of the Raven King. DCI Nelson is also rediscovering the past. He meets his friend Sandy Macleod, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances surrounding Dan's death.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25159403Gross, Andrew. Fifteen seconds. 2012. Thriller.Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop, with Henry as the prime suspect. Henry’s nightmare is complete when his daughter is kidnapped. Suddenly, survival is not enough: he must save his daughter. With everything taken from him, Henry has nothing left to lose.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25168503Harry, Lilian. Storm over Burracombe. 2008. General fiction.Burracombe village: book 3. There's trouble afoot in Burracombe. Hilary Napier is upset and angry when her father brings in a new manager for the family estate which she has been running for the past year. Even though she cannot help liking Travis Kellaway, she resents his presence. Then tragedy strikes, making everyone realise exactly what is important in their lives...SEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24749103Hislop, Victoria. The sunrise . 2014. General fiction.In 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean. Tourism and commerce boom in the city, with Greek and Turkish Cypriots living and working harmoniously side by side. In 1974, following a Greek military coup, Turkey invades the island to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority. As Famagusta is shelled, its population flees. In the now deserted city, just two families are left behind. 'The Sunrise' tells the story of this small group living in hiding.UEB. 7v. Price: ?19.99. Order No: 25169403Hore, Rachel. A week in Paris. 2014. Romance.Born on the day that World War II broke out, 21-year-old Fay Knox cannot remember her early childhood in London, before she moved to a Norfolk village with her mother, Kitty. Why then, on a visit to Paris on tour with her orchestra, does a strange series of events suggest that she spent the war there instead? There is only one clue to follow, an address on the luggage label of an old canvas satchel. But will the truth hurt or heal?UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25156303James, Marlon. A brief history of seven killings. 2015. General fiction.Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. This is an exploration of the fallout from this near-mythic event. This novel is told mainly in Jamaican patois from multiple character viewpoints, often in stream-of-consciousness style. Winner of the Man Booker prize 2015.UEB. 13v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25312803Jenoff, Pam. The winter guest. 2014. Romance. Helena and Ruth Nowak are sisters caught up in the struggle of Nazi occupied Poland. When Helena discovers a Jewish Allied paratrooper, wounded but alive, she risks the safety of herself and her family to hide him. As tensions are sparked, a singular act of betrayal unleashes a chain of events that will endanger them all and reverberate for decades to come.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25167403Martin, George R. R. A knight of the seven kingdoms: being the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire, Egg. 2015. Fantasy.A young, naive but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg, whose true identity must be hidden from all. This volume brings together the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, 'A Song of Ice and Fire'.UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25333903McCall Smith, Alexander. The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café. 2014. Crime.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: book 15. Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Café.SEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25123803McCarthy, Tom. Satin Island: a novel. 2015. General fiction.Meet U. - a 'corporate anthropologist' pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. U.'s employers have set him two tasks. Instead, procrastinating, meandering, drifting through endless buffer-zones of information, U. grows obsessed with the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis.Short listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015.UEB. 3v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25309403McGrath, M. J. The boy in the snow. 2013. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series: book 2. When Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk stumbles across a body abandoned in the Alaskan forest, she little imagines what her discovery will lead her to. Remaining in the area as part of the support team for her ex - husband Sammy’s bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race, Edie cannot get the image of the frozen corpse out of her mind.SEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25120703Moorcroft, Sue. The wedding proposal. 2014. Romance.Elle Jamieson is a private person, in relationships as well as at work – and for good reason. But then she's made redundant and with no ties to hold her , Elle heads off to sunny Malta. Lucas Rose is furious when his summer working as a divemaster is interrupted by the arrival of Elle. But then a phone call from England allows Lucas a rare glimpse of the true Elle.SEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25064703Obioma, Chigozie. The fishermen. 2015. General fiction.Told from the point of view of 9-year -old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, 'The Fishermen' is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact will transcend the lives and imaginations of both its characters and its readers. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015.UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25313303Runcie, James. Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil. 2014. Crime.The Grantchester mysteries: book 3. It is the 1960s and our favourite clerical detective Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German bride Hildegard. But life in Grantchester rarely stays quiet for long. SEB. 4v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25124903Sahota, Sunjeev. The year of the runaways. 2015. General fiction.Three young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the chaotic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes - in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015.UEB. 9v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25313803Seymour, Gerald. Traitor's kiss. 2014. Thriller.An English trawler strays into Russian waters. When it returns, the captain has a package to deliver to British intelligence. For the next four years a high-ranked Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, passes valuable information to MI6. Suddenly the flow of information stops. The time has come to get him out. Only one veteran agent realises that there is much more at stake than one man's life.UEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25157003Sherez, Stav. Eleven days. 2013. Crime.Carrigan and Miller: book 2. Eleven days before Christmas and a suspicious fire rages through a small convent in West London. DI Carrigan and DS Miller are called in to investigate. Their investigation seems to uncover more questions than answers: why did the 10 nuns not try to escape the fire? Where is Father McCarthy, the last person known to visit them? And who is the mysterious 11th victim.SEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25120903Sillitoe, Alan. Leonard's war. 1993. Romance.Leonard had fought in the Great War, he had "done his bit" and earned the right to peace and quiet when the bombs started falling in World War II. He was 46 and a widower. That was until he met Sophie - big, vivacious Sophie, who was to change his life.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25125603Smith, Wilbur. Golden lion. 2015. Historical fiction.The Courtneys. East African Coast, 1670. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry 'Hal' Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. He must pursue his nemesis across desert savannah, through the seedy underbelly of Zanzibar's slave markets and shark-infested waters, his life in danger at every turn.UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25333003Staincliffe, Cath. Letters to my daughter's killer. 2014. General fiction.Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope.SEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25123303Steel, Danielle. A perfect life. 2014. Romance.Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news. But privately, and off the set, there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years. Her teenage daughter, Salima, was blinded by Type 1 diabetes in childhood, and her needs have kept her away in a year-round boarding school. When Salima's school closes after a tragedy, she returns to her mother's New York City apartment, and suddenly they face challenges they've never had to deal with before.SEB. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25084403Stirling, Jessica. A corner of the heart. 2011. Family stories.Susan Hooper is private secretary to bestselling author, Vivian Proudfoot. Well-spoken and well-read, she soon learns how to hold her own with London's literary sophisticates. Her friends and family are shocked at the circles in which Susan finds herself where pimps and gangsters rub shoulders with wealthy fascist sympathisers in support of the war in Spain. As the threat of world war grows Susan is torn between loyalty to her family and a lover who will not let her go.SEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25120103Thomas, Matthew. We are not ourselves. 2014. General fiction.The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the early sixties, she meets and marries a young scientist named Edmund Leary. But while Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won't give up teaching for a better-paid job. Inadvertently Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift.SEB. 11v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25125103Tyler, Anne. A spool of blue thread. 2015. Family stories.'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and -green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are.Short listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015.UEB. 7v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25309003Williams, Tad. The dirty streets of heaven. 2013. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar: book 1. Bobby Dollar would like to know what he was like when he was alive, but too much of his time is spent working as an extremely minor functionary for the heavenly host judging recently departed souls. Until the day a soul goes missing, presumed stolen by 'the other side'.SEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25121703Williams, Tad. Sleeping late on judgement day. 2014. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar: book 3. Bobby Dollar thinks he's seen it all - after all, he's been to Hell and back again. His love life is still a mess, there are one too many people who have it out for him, and drowning his sorrows in a nice glass of whisky won't keep the demons at bay forever. Bobby's going to have to pull himself together and make a few tough decisions before time runs out. The problem is, time could run out at any moment.SEB. 9v. Price: ?13.99. Order No: 25121603Yanagihara, Hanya. A little life. 2015. General fiction.When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.Short listed for the Man Booker Prize 2015.UEB. 14v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25308503Adult Non-FictionAutobiographyBaggett, Larry W. In the dark on the sunny side: a memoir of an out-of-sight mathematician. 2012.Misfortune struck one June day in 1944, when a five-year-old boy was blinded following an accident with a paring knife. That boy, Larry W. Baggett, grew up to become an internationally renowned research mathematician and a successful university professor. This memoir describes his successes and failures as a blind person living and learning in the sighted world.SEB. 4v. Price: ?30.00. Order No: 25101403Barber, Lynn. A curious career. 2014.Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, is the perfect blend for a celebrity interviewer. Barber takes us through her early career at Penthouse and her later more eminent career at the 'Telegraph', 'Sunday Times', 'Vanity Fair', 'Observer' and 'Sunday Times'.SEB Uncontracted. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25022503Coles, Richard. Fathomless riches, or, how I went from pop to pulpit. 2014.The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single: the Communards' 'Don't Leave Me This Way' topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year. Fathomless Riches is his remarkable memoir.SEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25136003Fry, Stephen. More fool me. 2014.In his early thirties, Stephen had, as they say, 'made it'. Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is an account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.UEB. 6v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25165203.Grima, Charlie. Aren't you glad that it's not Christmas everyday?. memoirs of a Wizzard drummer, ex drummer of Roy Woods Wizzard. 2015.Charlie Grima emigrated from Malta to England as a young boy. From humble beginnings, he worked with Ozzy Osbourne and played Wembley Stadium, but 30 years ago he was a drummer with Wizzard – the band behind festive anthem I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day. Grima later turned to acting and then to working with blind children at Dorton House, something he considers to be a privilege.UEB. 3v. Price: ?8.73. Order No: 25303703Stein, Rick. Under a mackerel sky: a memoir. 2014.Rick Stein's formative years were shaped by the Oxfordshire farm he was brought up on and his family's holiday home in Cornwall. His father's suicide when Stein was 18 precipitated his escape for two years to Australia. However, after graduating from Oxford, success followed hopelessness, and his impressive career as a restaurateur and entrepreneur was followed by those of broadcaster, food champion and writer.SEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25137403Tyson, Mike. Undisputed truth: my autobiography. 2013.Love him or loathe him, 'Iron' Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again. SEB. 11v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 24756503BiographyBorman, Tracy. Thomas Cromwell: the untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant. 2014.Reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power, Thomas Cromwell was also a loving husband, father and guardian. With new insights into Cromwell's character, his family life and his close relationships with both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, Tracy Borman, examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.SEB. 10v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25121503Boycott, Geoff. The corridor of certainty. 2014.After a period of his life when a court case and then throat cancer threatened first his career and then his life, Geoffrey Boycott re-emerged as an apparently changed man. In this book, his first autobiographical work for 15 years, Boycott not only relives his battle with cancer but also talks about his many other interests and friendships beyond cricket.SEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25121303Farthing, Pen. Wylie: the brave street dog who never gave up. 2014.For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, to be crowned top dog at Scruffts, a competition for rescued crossbreeds held during Crufts , is nothing short of a miracle. Beaten and abused while being used as a bait dog, Wylie suffered terrible injuries that needed urgent treatment. This is the story of a dog who never gave up hope.SEB. 4v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25135803Junor, Penny. Prince Harry: brother, soldier, son. 2014.Prince Harry is the redhead that Diana called 'the spare', whose childhood was one of chaos and loss; the little boy walking behind his mother's cortege who broke our hearts. This is the story of how he survived the loss and chaos; how he lived in the shadow of his older, cleverer, more important brother - until suddenly he discovered there was something he could do better than almost anyone.UEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25166503Shakespeare, Nicholas. Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France. 2013.When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him. The Priscilla he remembered was very different from the glamorous, morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the many love letters and journals. He had heard rumours that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth turned out to be far more complicated.SEB. 8v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24930203Stott, Andrew McConnell. The pantomime life of Joseph Grimaldi. 2010.The son of Italian immigrants, Joseph Grimaldi was the most celebrated of English clowns. He created the 'Joey' look associated with clowns ever since, and completely transformed the role of the clown in the harlequinade.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25340802Ziegler, Philip. Olivier. 2013.Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the 20th century: no one could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Philip Ziegler ensures that Olivier's true character - at its most undisguised - shines through as never before.SEB. 10v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25097503Food and DrinkNew Remoska cooking for standard and grand Remoska. 2013.Helping you get so much more from your all-new Remoska.SEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25332202Humphries, Carolyn. The brilliant carbs counter. 2011.Carb counters are brought to balance carbs/insulin dosage for people with diabetes and to get on top of problems of overweight. Here are 3,400 UK foods, measured by portion size, carbs content, fat, protein and fibre. This title measures everything portion by portion, food by food – including ready meals and major brand differences - the way we manage our eating.SEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25358302Health and FitnessRath, Tom. Eat move sleep: how small choices lead to big changes. 2014.Eat Move Sleep will help make good decisions automatic - more than a book - this is a new way to live. From Tom Rath, author of strengthsFinders 2.0, comes a powerful book about what people can do to lead healthier lives. Eat Move Sleep focuses on all three components and their interconnectedness.SEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25122603HistoryCornwell, Bernard. Waterloo: the history of four days, three armies and three battles. 2014.In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment of the Battle of Waterloo, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers.SEB. 6v. Price: ?9.00. Order No: 25136303Johnson, Boris. Johnson's life of London: the people who made the city that made the world. 2012.London, a city which has over the centuries, survived attack, fire and devastation, is a place where people feel enabled to create and empowered to invent. Boris Johnson’s book is a celebration of the people who, from the Romans to the present day, give the city its vibrant and exuberant character.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25235503LiteratureEgremont, Max. Some desperate glory: the First World War the poets knew. 2014.While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets, many of whom were killed, show not only the war's tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men.SEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25103203PhilosophyWittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical investigations. 1972.This book contains philosophical thoughts on many themes, including the concepts of meaning, of understanding, of a proposition, of logic, the foundations of mathematics, and the states of consciousness.SEB. 21v. Price: ?9.00. Order No: 25180803Politics and GovernmentCalvocoressi, Peter. World politics since 1945. 2009.This text presents an overview of the major events and people that have shaped world politics since the end of the Second World War in 1945, including the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the ascendancy of the nuclear powers.SEB. 23v. Price: ?24.99. Order No: 25321402Popular ScienceHarari, Yuval N. Sapiens: a brief history of humankind. 2014.100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one - us. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? In 'Sapiens', Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions.UEB. 9v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25155203ReligionWarren, Richard. God's power to change your life. 2007."In the years I have been a pastor," writes Rick Warren, "the number-one question I'm asked is, 'Rick, why can't I change?'" People want to change but they're stuck. Here's how to get unstuck. Drawing simple but powerful truths from the Bible, this book gives you practical guidance for specific types of change, and it links you up with the power to actually make the changes you long to make.SEB. 3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25358202SportWhite, Jim. Premier League: a history in 10 matches. 2014.For all the accusations of greed levelled at its well-remunerated players - and the gripe that it is dominated by an elite of wealthy clubs - the FA Premier League has proved a huge success in footballing and commercial terms since its inaugural season of 1992-3. In this book, journalist Jim White recalls ten epic clashes which represent the rise and rise of English football's top flight.SEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25122103TransportDeary, Terry. Dangerous days on the Victorian railways: a history of the terrors and the torments, the dirt, diseases and deaths suffered by our ancestors. 2014.Often recognised as having revolutionised travel and industrial Britain, Victorian railways were perilous. Facing feuds and frauds, robberies and riots and the disasters of dangerous drivers, deadly designers and sleepy signalmen, Victorians risked more than just delays when stepping on a steam train. The victims of the Victorian railways had names, lives and families, and they deserve to be remembered.SEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25085303True CrimeMcDermid, Val. Forensics: the anatomy of crime. 2014.The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Bestselling crime author Val McDermid draws on interviews with top-level professionals to delve, in her own inimitable style, into the questions and mysteries that surround this fascinating science.SEB. 6v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25097403Warfare and DefenceBailey, Roderick. Target: Italy: the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943: the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy. 2014.Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. This is a tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, climaxing in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy's surrender in 1943.SEB. 12v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25022607Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Abducting a general: the Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete. 2014.One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe's car, then succeeded in hiding from the German army before finally being picked up on a beach in the south of the island.UEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25159503Lewis, Damien. Churchill's secret warriors: the explosive true story of the special forces desperadoes of WWII. 2014.In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare. 'Churchill's Secret Warriors' tells the story of the daring victories for this small force of freelance pirates, breaking all previously held rules of warfare.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25165303Children and young adult fiction07+ suggested reading ageDahl, Roald. George's marvellous medicine. 1981.George's grandmother has the nastiest eating habits in the world. She's asfrightening as a witch and as grumpy as a camel without a hump. When he can't stand this cantankerous old woman any longer, George decides to cure her nastiness once and for all. He concocts a very nasty medicine.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2194180209+ suggested reading ageAngus, Sam. Captain. 2014.It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at 15 he's not old enough to be a soldier either, and he's terrified of the war he's about to fight. Then he meets Captain, a refugee boy, and his donkey , Hey-ho. Together they teach Billy what it means to be brave, loyal and fearless, and above all what it means to be a friend.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25022105Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 25022103Black, Holly. The iron trial. 2014.Magisterium: book 1. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25125203Breslin, Theresa. Ghost soldier. 2014.When Rob and Millie's father goes missing in action during the First World War, the children desperately search the hospital trains returning to Edinburgh with the wounded. But there's no sign of him. While hiding their puppy in the nearby woods in order to stop him being sent to the front, Rob and Millie come across a building full of doctors treating soldiers with shellshock and other nervous disorders - but overhear a conversation that suggests this could be a mask for altogether more nefarious activity.UEB Uncontracted. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25022003Colfer, Eoin. The hangman's revolution. 2014.WARP: book 2. Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time -trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a fascist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Now they are after Chevie too, but she escapes - into the past. UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.39. Order No: 25125903Fischel, Emma. Witchworld. 2014.Witchworld: book 1. Flo Skritchett lives with her mother, the editor-in-chief of celebrity andLifestyle magazine, Hocus Pocus, and her witchteen sister. All is well, until her grandmother flies in to town and warns them that Witchworld is in danger from a Ghoul Attack! No one believes her - after all, Ghouls died out years ago and she still rides around on a broomstick, for goodness' sake! Summer Reading Challenge 2015.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25126503Loborik, Jason. The death of Arthur. 2010.The adventures of Merlin. Whilst out on a routine hunting trip, Arthur and his men encounter a huge and terrifying monster - the Questing Beast. Uther ignores Gaius' warning, that the creature's bite is always fatal, and sends Arthur and his knights out to kill it.SEB. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25321502Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone. 2001.Harry Potter: book 1. Harry Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's house. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry. Harry discovers his true heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the reason behind his parents mysterious death, who is out to kill him, and uncovers the most amazing secret of all time, the fabled Philosopher's Stone!UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 24694003Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. 2002.Harry Potter: book 2. Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The three firm friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible and mysterious things begin to happen. UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 24702803Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the half-blood prince. 2014.Harry Potter: book 6. When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny.UEB. 14v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25320803Stowell, Louie. The Usborne official astronaut's handbook. 2015.Here, readers can find out about astronauts, including the training they must undertake, how they travel into space, and what they do when they're up there. The book also features a foreword from ESA astronaut Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to embark on a mission to the International Space Station.UEB. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25324203Walliams, David. Grandpa's great escape. 2015.Jack's Grandpa wears his slippers to the supermarket; serves up Spam a la Custard for dinner; and often doesn't remember Jack's name. An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa, this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high octane adventure full of comedy and heart.UEB. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 2533400311+ suggested reading ageWhat are we fighting for?: new poems about war. 2014.This title explores the concept of war in an accessible way for younger readers. Fascinating and moving in equal measure, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats and pigeons, the Christmas truce of WWI when soldiers played football in no-man's land; poems about rationing and what it was like to be an evacuee; poems about modern warfare; plus lots of amazing true historical facts.UEB. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25324103Alcott, Louisa May. Little women. 2014.Little women: book 1. Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely? Includes Part II, Good Wives.UEB. 14v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25122303Alcott, Louisa May. Little men: life at Plumfield with Jo's boys. 1994.Little women: book 2. With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March (now Jo Bhaer) couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes and there are plenty of troubles and adventures ahead.UEB. 7v. Price: ?3.99. OrderBowler, Tim. Night runner. 2014.Zinny's life is falling apart. Shadowy figures are following him. His parents are keeping secrets but he can't figure out why. Then his mum ends up in hospital, his dad disappears, and Zinny has to do whatever he can to save his family. Even if it means helping the very men he's been running from. As the clock ticks, Zinny knows it's only a matter of time before someone ends up dead - and it could be him.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25021505Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 25021503St. John, Lauren. Fire storm. 2014.One dollar horse trilogy: book 3. Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse Storm, and a boyfriend who loves her. Then Kyle West walks into her life. The country's hottest equestrian coach is also drop dead gorgeous and Casey knows right away that she's in trouble . But who is Kyle and why are there so many unanswered questions about his past? As the Burghley Horse Trials approaches, it becomes clear that what is at stake is not just the Grand Slam but Casey's life.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25123403Storr, Catherine. Marianne dreams. 2000.Marianne is no child prodigy at drawing. Confined to her bed with an illness she finds a pencil in her great -grandmother's workbox, but the house she draws is as unsatisfying as always. But that night she dreams and rediscovers her drawing in a completely new world. Returning to this world night after night, Marianne encounters a strange but familiar boy and the house takes on an increasingly ominous significance for both of them.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 23463905Stroud, Jonathan. The screaming staircase. 2014.Lockwood & co: book 1. For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up and Lucy Carlyle, joins the smallest most ramshackle agency in the city, run by the charismatic Anthony Lockwood. When one of their cases goes horribly wrong, Lockwood & Co have one last chance of redemption. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25126203Westcott, Rebecca. Dandelion clocks. 2014.Liv takes us on a journey through her life from 'thirteen weeks before' to 'six months after'. We discover Liv's passion for photography, her brother's obsession with sticking to the rules, the stupidity of Moronic Louise at school, and how the family copes as Mum's terminal illness takes hold. Guided by Mum's own childhood diaries, Liv finds a new way to live.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25322903Wooding, Chris. Pale. 2015.The Lazarus Serum can bring you back from the dead - but when you come back you've changed - you're a Pale, an outcast. It's the last thing Jed wants , but an accident changes everything and Jed's forced to discover the true cost of living forever.UEB. 1v. Price: ?4.59. Order No: 2532300313+ suggested reading ageSmale, Holly. Picture perfect. 2014.Geek girl; book 3. Harriet Manners knows more facts than most. She knows that New York is the most populous city in the United States. But she knows nothing whatsoever about modelling in the Big Apple and how her family will cope with life stateside. And even more importantly, what to do when the big romantic gestures coming your way aren't from your boyfriend. Does geek girl go too far this time?UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99 Order No: 2513690315+ suggested reading ageClare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels. 2011.The mortal instruments: book 4. The Mortal War is over, and sixteen year old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and - most importantly of all - she can finally call Jace her boyfriend. But when Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25158803MusicBraille musicPianoBurgmuller, J F F. 25 Easy and Progressive Studies: op. 100. No. 19 of the Easier Piano Pieces series by ABRSM. These varied and progressive studies will help develop technique and are also enjoyable to play in their own right. Grades 2 - 5 standard. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: ?1.02; ?2.65; ?8.50. Order no: 25322602. HarpHandel, George Frideric. Finale from Music for the Royal Fireworks: arranged for harp. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: 0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order no: 24880702.McBroom, Amanda. The Rose: arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods.Bar over bar with chord symbols. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order no: 25292302.O'Carolan, Turlough. Carolan's Draught: for harp. Bar over bar. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order no: 24968302.Sager, Carole Bayer. The Prayer. Words and music by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster: arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods. Bar over bar with chord symbols. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order no: 25292202.Van Morrison. Moondance: arranged for harp by Sylvia Woods. Bar over bar with chord symbols. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?3.00. Order no: 25292402.Vocal musicSing with Mike! : Songs and activities that explore all three strands of the Irish Primary music curriculum.Songs and activities that open up the world of music for primary schoolchildren . Open score and full score. 3 volumes. ?3.75; ?11.37; ?33.00. Order No: 25195302.Bellini, Vincenzo. Sogno D'infanzia. For voice and piano. 19th century vocal music. Part of Composizioni da Camera. Accompaniment with outline. 1 volume. ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 24861502.Elgar, Edward. A Child Asleep: 1910. For voice and piano accompaniment.Accompaniment with outline. I volume. ?0.76; ?1.26; ?2.50. Order No: 24861402.New books 49Adult fictionAhern, Cecelia. The year I met you. 2014. Chick lit.Jasmine knows two things: one, she loves her vulnerable sister unconditionally. Two, she's only ever been good at one thing - her job helping business start-ups. So when she's sacked and put on gardening leave, Jasmine realises that she has nothing else to fill her life. She finds herself watching the antics of her neighbour, shock jock Matt, with more than a casual eye. Jasmine has every reason to dislike Matt, and the feeling appears to be mutual.3v.Amis, Martin. The zone of interest. 2014. General fiction.There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show your reflection. Instead, it showed your soul - it showed who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it?3v.Barclay, Linwood. Lone wolf. 2006. Crime.Zack Walker; book 3. Newspaper writer, Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories before, but nothing like what he's about to uncover when a mutilated corpse is found at his father's fishing camp. Zack fears the worst. This time, his paranoid worldview is dead-on. While the locals attribute the death to a bear attack, Zack suspects a predator whose weapons include arson, and enough wacko beliefs to fuel a dozen hate groups. 4v.Barclay, Linwood. Trust your eyes. 2013. Thriller.A man is moving down a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, scanning the storefronts, taking in his surroundings, when he sees something in a third-floor tenement window. A woman's face, distorted with terror. Thomas is convinced he's witnessing a murder. Except that things aren't quite as simple as that because Thomas was never there, and the murder was months ago.5v.Bennett, Anne. A strong hand to hold. 2014. Family stories.Linda Prosser is just twelve years old and desperately close to her mother and two tiny brothers. As the bombs drop around them one fateful night during World War II, Linda takes a risk which has disastrous consequences. Terrified, and buried beneath a mass of debris after her home takes a direct hit, it is Jenny who crawls through the wreckage of the house to rescue her. 5v.Bourne, Sam. Pantheon. 2012. Thriller.Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled, young Oxford don returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving only a note declaring her continuing love. In his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the darkest and deadliest secrets of a world at war.4v.Brody, Frances. Death of an avid reader. 2014. Crime.Kate Shackleton; book 6. Kate Shackleton's sterling reputation for courageous sleuthing attracts the attention of Lady Coulton. Hidden in her past is a daughter, born out of wedlock and given up to a different family. But as Kate delves deeper into Lady Coulton's past, she soon finds herself thrust into a scandal much closer to home. When the body of the respected Horatio Potter is found in the Leeds Library basement, the quiet literary community is suddenly turned upside down with suspicions and accusations 4v.Carpenter, Lea. Eleven days. 2013. General fiction.Eleven Days is the story of a mother and a son. A Navy SEAL goes missing after a special mission; his mother waits. Through the eleven days that follow, this touching, narrative unfolds their back stories and what drives them both. Through letters Jason wrote his mother, we see him becoming a strong, compassionate leader. But his fate will be determined by events outside the sphere of his training, and the strong embrace of his mother's love.3v.Clegg, Bill. Did you ever have a family? 2015. General fiction.On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family - her present, her past and her future. This novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony contains a new revelation about what led to the event, as everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow and their secret histories finally come to light.2v.Cornwell, Bernard. Warriors of the storm. 2015. Historical fiction.Warrior chronicles; book 9. A fragile peace reigns in Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. King Alfred’s son Edward and formidable daughter, Aethelflaed, rule the kingdoms. But all around the restless Northmen, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy churches, are mounting raids. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the kingdoms’ greatest warrior, controls northern Mercia from the strongly fortified city of Chester. But forces are gathering against him. 4v.Cox, Edward. The relic guild. 2014. Fantasy.The Labyrinth is an abandoned forbidden zone, where humans were trapped behind boundary walls 100 feet high. Young Clara struggles to survive in a dangerous and dysfunctional city, where the use of magic is punishable by death. But when a strange man named Fabian Moor returns to the Labyrinth, Clara learns that magic serves a higher purpose and that some myths are much more deadly in the flesh. 6v.Erskine, Barbara. The darkest hour. 2014. General fiction.The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist, and she wants his parents to have something to remember him by in case it all goes wrong in the war. Seventy years later, and art historian Lucy uncovers the mystery surrounding a painting in her home – and accidentally ends up stirring up a hornet's nest of history.6v.FitzGerald, Helen. The cry. 2013. Thriller.When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? 3v.Forsyth, Frederick. The kill list. 2014. Thriller.The kill list, a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up, the message goes out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out. Tasked with what seems like an impossible job is an ex-US marine known only as The Tracker.3v.Gibson, Gary. Extinction game. 2014. Science fiction.Extinction game; book 1.Jerry Beche should be dead. Instead, he's rescued from a desolate Earth where he was the last man alive. He's then trained for the toughest conditions imaginable and placed with a crack team of specialists. But what is 'the Authority', the shadowy organization that rescued Beche and his fellow survivors? How does it access other timelines? And why does it need these instruments of death? As Jerry struggles to obey his new masters, he begins to distrust his new companions.4v.Goodwin, Daisy. The fortune hunter. 2014. Historical romance.In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Bored with the etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Sisi comes to England looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his. 5v.Gross, Andrew. Fifteen seconds. 2012. Thriller.Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop, with Henry as the prime suspect. Framed for a second murder Henry goes on the run. His only lifeline is state-trooper Carrie Holmes, no stranger to tragedy herself, who can help prove his innocence. Henry’s nightmare is complete when his daughter is kidnapped. With everything taken from him, Henry has nothing left to lose.3v.Hewson, David. The house of dolls. 2014. Crime.Pieter Vos; book 1. Anneliese Vos, 16-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared 3 years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and he leaves the police force. Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective, visits him. She tells him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. Now Vos finds himself drawn back into the life of a detective.4v.Hodgson, Antonia. The devil in the Marshalsea. 2014. Historical crime.Tom Hawkins; book1. London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into a hell of a debtor's prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's ruthless governor and his cronies. Contains strong language and violence.4v.James, Marlon. A brief history of seven killings. 2015. General fiction.Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. This is an exploration of the fallout from this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA. This novel is told mainly in Jamaican patois from multiple character viewpoints, often in stream-of-consciousness style.Winner of the Man Booker prize 2015. 8v.Jenoff, Pam. The winter guest. 2014. Romance.Helena and Ruth Nowak are sisters caught up in the struggle of Nazi occupied Poland. When Helena discovers a Jewish Allied paratrooper, wounded but alive, she risks the safety of herself and her family to hide him. Outraged at this impulsive choice that endangers them all, mild-mannered Ruth finds herself becoming increasingly jealous of Helena. 4v.McCall Smith, Alexander. The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café. 2014. Crime.The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; book 15. The arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Café. Grace is a lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken waiters and more? 3v.McCarthy, Tom. Satin Island: a novel. 2015. General fiction.Meet U. - a 'corporate anthropologist' pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. U.'s employers have set him two tasks. First, he must assist in the launching of a great, project which no one, least of all its own architects, fully understands. Second, he has to compose the Great Report - an ethnographic document to sum up our age. U. grows obsessed with the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015.2v.McGrath, M. J. The boy in the snow. 2013. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series; book 2. When Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk stumbles across a body abandoned in the Alaskan forest, she little imagines what her discovery will lead her to. With the local police convinced the death is linked to the Dark Believers, a sinister Russian sect, Edie's friends insist she leave the investigation to the proper authorities. 4v.Martin, George R. R. A knight of the seven kingdoms: being the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall, and his squire, Egg. 2015. Fantasy.This volume brings together the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and recall of the last dragon has not yet passed from living memory.4v.Moorcroft, Sue. The wedding proposal. 2014. Romance.Elle Jamieson is a private person, in relationships as well as at work – and for good reason. But then she's made redundant and with no ties to hold her, Elle heads off to sunny Malta. Lucas Rose is furious when his summer working as a divemaster is interrupted by the arrival of Elle, his ex, all thanks to his Uncle Simon's misguided attempts at matchmaking. But then a phone call from England allows Lucas a rare glimpse of the true Elle.4v.Obioma, Chigozie. The fishermen. 2015. General fiction.Told from the point of view of 9-year-old Benjamin, 'The Fishermen' is the story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river they encounter a madman, who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact will transcend the lives of both its characters and its readers.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015.3v.Roy, Anuradha. Sleeping on Jupiter. 2015. General fiction.The train stops at a railway station and young woman jumps off. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner, which attracts only worshippers? 2v.Runcie, James. Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil. 2014. Crime.The Grantchester mysteries; book 3. It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life. Our favourite clerical detective soon attempts to stop a serial killer who has a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an 'accidental' drowning on a film shoot may not have been so accidental and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby from a hospital. 4v.Sahota, Sunjeev. The year of the runaways. 2015. General fiction.Three young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the chaotic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa -wife in a flat on the other side of town: whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes - in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. She is Narinder, and her story is the most surprising of them all.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015.5v.Smaill, Anna. The chimes. 2015. Science fiction.'The Chimes' is set in a reimagined London, in a world where people cannot form new memories, and the written word has been forbidden and destroyed. In the absence of both memory and writing is music. In a world where the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphony, all appears lost. But Simon, a young man who arrives in London seeking the truth about what happened to his parents, discovers he has a gift that could change all of this forever.3v.Smith, Wilbur. Golden lion. 2015. Historical fiction.The Courtneys. East African Coast, 1670. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry 'Hal' Courtney, is running south to Zanzibar. Below deck, both his crew and his lover, the fearless warrior Judith Nazet, sleep. When the Bough is boarded, the crew must defend their ship and their lives. Hal will face even graver danger when he discovers his mortal enemy still lives and is hell-bent on revenge. 4v.Staincliffe, Cath. Letters to my daughter's killer.2014. General fiction. Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. 2v.Tyler, Anne. A spool of blue thread. 2015. Family stories.The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015.4v.Unsworth, Cathi. Weirdo. 2013. Crime.20 years ago, a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth to try to discover what really happened all those years ago.4v.Yanagihara, Hanya. A little life. 2015. General fiction.When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Over time, the relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood.Contains swear words. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2015.9v.Adult non-fictionAutobiographies and BiographiesBarber, Lynn. A curious career. 2014.An exceptionally inquisitive child Lynn constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. Barber takes us through her early career at Penthouse where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies, through her later more eminent career at the 'Telegraph', 'Sunday Times', 'Vanity Fair', 'Observer' and 'Sunday Times'.2v.Boycott, Geoff. The corridor of certainty. 2014.In this book, his first autobiographical work for 15 years, Boycott not only relives his battle with cancer but also talks about his many other interests and friendships beyond cricket, with a chapter on Brian Clough as well as a surprising section on feng shui.3v.Fry, Stephen. More fool me. 2014.In his early thirties, Stephen Fry - writer, comedian, star of stage and screen - had, as they say, 'made it'. Then, as the 80s drew to a close, he discovered a most enjoyable way to burn the candle at both ends, and took to excess like a duck to breadcrumbs. He was, to all intents and purposes, a high functioning addict. Containing raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is an account by a man driven to create and to entertain - revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.4v.Grima, Charlie. Aren't you glad that it's not Christmas everyday? Memoirs of a Wizzard drummer. 2015.From humble beginnings, Charlie worked with Ozzy Osbourne, played Wembley Stadium, headlined on Top of The Pops and toured the United States. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day remains a seasonal classic. Grima later turned to acting and then to working with blind children at Dorton House, something he considers to be a privilege.2v.HistoryHarari, Yuval N. Sapiens: a brief history of humankind. 2014.100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one - us. In 'Sapiens', Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions.5v.Johnson, Boris. Johnson's life of London: the people who made the city that made the world. 2012.Boris Johnson’s book is a celebration of the people who, from the Romans to the present day, give the city its vibrant and exuberant character. From Boudicca to Chaucer, Shakespeare to Florence Nightingale, Winston Churchill to Keith Richards, Johnson’s Life of London is the real story of London, told through the Londoners and non-Londoners who helped to shape the greatest city in the world.4v.True crimeMcDermid, Val. Forensics: the anatomy of crime. 2014.The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can use a corpse, the scene of a crime or a single hair to unlock the secrets of the past and allow justice to be done. Bestselling crime author Val McDermid draws on interviews with top-level professionals to delve into the questions and mysteries that surround this fascinating science.4v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 9+Blackwood, Sage. Jinx: the wizard's apprentice. 2013.Wizard's apprentice; book 1. It's not every day that your evil stepdad abandons you in the deep, dark forest of the Urwald and a wizard rescues you. The bubbling cauldrons and coloured potions of the wizard's house are a world away from the life Jinx has left behind. It's not long before Jinx begins to unlock his own powers. Simon is no ordinary wizard, he needs something from Jinx - something dark. Jinx begins to wonder: can he trust Simon at all?2v.Fischel, Emma. Witchworld. 2014.Witchworld; book . Flo Skritchett lives with her mother, the editor-in-chief of celebrity and Lifestyle magazine, Hocus Pocus, and her witchteen sister. All is well, until her grandmother flies in to town and warns them that Witchworld is in danger from a Ghoul Attack! No one believes her - after all, Ghouls died out years ago and she still rides around on a broomstick, for goodness' sake! 2v.Hill, Chris. Lucky. 2014.When lost red squirrel Lucky finds himself in Albion Park, the native squirrels all around him are bigger, tougher, and much more grey. He needs all the luck he can find to fit in, and even more to pass the Squirrel Trial that will give him a permanent place in the park. But when Lucky discovers a plot that threatens their home, he'll need more than just good fortune on his side.2v.Landy, Derek. The dying of the light. 2014.Skulduggery Pleasant; book 9. Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. So he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection. 6v.McNally, John. The sons of Scarlatti. 2015.Infinity Drake; book 1. Infinity Drake, aka Finn, is looking forward to a week away with his mad scientist uncle, Al, when they are summoned to a crisis meeting. A lethal bio-weapon has been released. Al must shrink a military team to hunt down the beast. Shrunk to 9mm tall, Finn has to jump in a tiny helicopter with two soldiers in a race to avert disaster and destroy the Scarlatti - the uber-wasp killing machine that's out there, many times their size.2v.Montgomery, Ross. The Tornado Chasers. 2014. When Owen Underwood's family move to Barrow, it's because there's nowhere safer in the Valleys. But in Barrow, safety is taken to extremes. Children have to wear bright yellow at all times and are never allowed outside except to go to school. How can Owen face an entire summer of that? In secret, Owen and his friends form the Tornado Chasers. Their mission: to get as close to a Grade 5 tornado as possible. It's time for them to face their fears!2v.Walliams, David. Grandpa's great escape. 2015. Jack's Grandpa wears his slippers to the supermarket; serves up Spam a la Custard for dinner; and often doesn't remember Jack's name. But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day. An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa, this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in an adventure full of comedy and heart.2v.Suggested reading age 11+Hartnett, Sonya. The children of the king. 2014.It's the Second World War and, with London becoming an increasingly dangerous place to live, the Lockwood children are whisked away to the Heron Hall, to stay with their Uncle Peregrine. But when they discover two strange boys hiding in a nearby derelict castle, the past and present collide. Those in the present will need to learn from the troubles of the past.2v.St. John, Lauren. Fire storm. 2014.One dollar horse trilogy; book 3. Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse Storm, and a boyfriend who loves her. Then Kyle West walks into her life. The country's hottest equestrian coach is also drop dead gorgeous and Casey knows right away that she's in trouble. As the Burghley Horse Trials approaches, it becomes clear that what is at stake is not just the Grand Slam but Casey's life.3v.Westcott, Rebecca. Dandelion clocks. 2014.Liv takes us on a journey through her life from 'thirteen weeks before' to 'six months after'. We discover Liv's passion for photography, her brother's obsession with sticking to the rules, the stupidity of Moronic Louise at school, and how the family copes as Mum's terminal illness takes hold. Guided by Mum's own childhood diaries, Liv finds a new way to live.2v.Suggested reading age 13+Cole, Stephen. Shoot to kill. 2014.Young Bond; book 6. Expelled from Eton and determined never to trust again, James Bond's plans for a solitary summer are dashed by the discovery of a gruesome film reel – a reel someone is willing to kill for. James finds himself caught up in a sinister plot of blackmail, murder and revenge. His friends are in danger and his life is on the line; James must find a way out.3v.Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Atlantia: a novel. 2014.Set within a civilization that lives deep beneath the sea, twin sisters, Rio and Bay, are about to make the most important decision of their lives. In a single moment, all Rio’s hopes for the future are shattered when Bay, makes an unexpected choice, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio’s true self, she has nothing left to lose. 3v.Stratton, Allan. The dogs. 2015.Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years. His father is hunting them. At least, that's what Cameron's been told. When they settle in an isolated farmhouse, Cameron starts to see and hear things that aren't possible. Soon he's questioning everything he thought he knew and even his sanity. 2v.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 11+What are we fighting for? New poems about war. 2014.This title explores the concept of war in an accessible way for younger readers. Fascinating and moving in, there are poems about incredibly brave dogs, cats and pigeons, the Christmas truce of WWI when soldiers played football in no-man's; poems about rationing and what it was like to be an evacuee, poems about modern warfare; plus lots of amazing true historical facts.1v.Talking BooksAdult FictionAhern, Cecelia. How to fall in love. 2013. Romance. TB22209.Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate - but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him that life is worth living. Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she's made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life, but is that all that's happening?Read by Aoife McMahon. 9 hours 43 minutes. TB22209.Alleyn, Fredrica. Dark obsession. 2009. Erotic fiction. TB21922.Ambitious young interior designer Annabel Moss wins a new assignment at Leyton hall, home of the very wealthy Lord and Lady Corbett-Wynne. But the grandeur of the house is a fa?ade for some shockingly salacious practices. Annabel is drawn into a world of decadence where anything is allowed as long as a respectable appearance prevails. In an atmosphere of intensity and sexual secrecy, she becomes involved in a variety of interesting situations. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Juliette Burton. 9 hours 24 minutes. TB21922.Anderson, Marina. The Dining Club. 2014. Erotic fiction. TB22018.He is everything she never wanted: brooding, secretive, rich and far-removed from her care-free artistic lifestyle. Yet David has a power over Grace that she cannot resist, a power that comes from his darker, passionate side. Inviting Grace to a weekend at the Dining Club, David offers her the opportunity to discover his deepest desires and to find pleasures far beyond her wildest imagination, but only if she if willing to play a series of sensual games. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Read by Lilly Cobourn. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB22018.Ashton, David. Shadow of the serpent. 2011. Historical crime. TB22038.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 1. It's 1880 and the city is gripped by election fever. But while the rich and educated argue about politics, in the dank wynds of the city it's a struggle just to stay alive, especially when a murderous madman seems to have resurfaced after 30 years. Inspector McLevy is lured into a world of politics, perversion, deception and mystery and into the shadow of the serpent. Read by Crawford Logan. 8 hours 40 minutes. TB22038.Ashton, David. Fall from grace. 2008. Historical crime. TB22039.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 2. Revolving around the Tay Bridge Disaster, this story begins with a break-in and murder at the Edinburgh home of Sir Thomas Bouch, the enigmatic, egotistical builder of the Tay Bridge. McLevy is brought in to investigate. With the help of brothel madam Jean Brash, McLevy finds the murderer, but there is much, much more to unfold. Read by Crawford Logan. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB22039.Ashton, David. A trick of the light. 2011. Historical crime. TB22251.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 3. A Trick of the Light sees Inspector McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathan Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? Meanwhile, a beautiful young American spiritualist, Sophia Adler, is the toast of upper-class Edinburgh with her dramatic seances. However, she could yet prove to be the deadliest woman McLevy and Conan Doyle will ever encounter.Read by Crawford Logan. 11 hours 31 minutes. TB22251.Ashton, David. Nor will he sleep. 2013. Historical crime. TB22252.Inspector McLevy mystery; book 4. 1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with youthful anarchy as two rival gangs of students, Scarlet Runners and White Devils, try to outdo each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour. Enter Inspector James McLevy, a little more grizzled, but unchanging in his fierce desire to mete out justice. As the inspector delves further he meets up with one Robert Louis Stevenson, in the city to bury his recently deceased father. Read by Crawford Logan. 10 hours 25 minutes. TB22252.Baker, Anne. Liverpool lies. 2000. Family story. TB22030.It is 1941 and Connie and Lottie Brinsley are training to be nurses at Liverpool's Walton Hospital. When heavy bombing is followed by the news that their home has taken a direct hit and their parents and little brother are dead, the two sisters are utterly devastated. Later, they are shocked to discover that their uncle, Steve, is not who they thought he was, and the Brinsleys have been living a lie for years. And Steve's not the only one who's hiding the truth, for when Lottie meets and marries Waldo Padley, no one tells her that he's a liar and a cheat. But, no matter what life throws at them, the sisters find the strength to face the troubles ahead.Read by Suzanne Goldberg. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB22030.Bennett, Anne. A strong hand to hold. 2014. Family story. TB22212.Linda Prosser is just twelve years old and desperately close to her mother and two tiny brothers. As the bombs drop around them one fateful night during World War II, Linda takes a risk which has disastrous consequences. Terrified, and buried beneath a mass of debris after her home takes a direct hit, it is Jenny who crawls through the wreckage of the house to rescue her. So begins a friendship which is last through the years. But when Linda falls in love with a man that Jenny despises, she is faced with sacrificing her future happiness for the friend who has given hereverything.Read by Avita Jay. 15 hours 18 minutes. TB22212.Blair, Jessica. The restless spirit. 2010. Family story. TB21936.When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person, Mary Lawson, can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson and Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both of their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain and its people, Jean and Colin both strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.Read by Maggie Mash. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB21936.Boszormenyi, Zoltan. The club at Eddy's bar. 2014. Thriller. TB21599.In the last years of the Cold War, the Club at Eddy's Bar is a magnet for the elite of a city in the Carpathian Mountains. They keep one another's secrets, even the truth about a brutal murder. When a young journalist learns too much, he is forced to leave behind his wife and children and flee to Canada as a refugee. He brings with him the notebook in which he has kept his account of the crime, hoping to publish it when his family is safely with him. But as he struggles to start a new life in Canada, he finds as many secrets and lies are being concealed by those with power and money in the new country as in the old.Read by Philip Bretherton. 12 hours 54 minutes. TB21599.Bourne, Sam. Pantheon. 2012. Thriller. TB22213.Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism . And James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled, young Oxford don is horrified. He returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving only a note declaring her continuing love. A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic and to one of America’s greatest universities, its elite clubs and secret societies – right to the heart of the American establishment. And in his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the darkest and deadliest secrets of a world at war.Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 13 hours 3 minutes. TB22213.Carr, Carol K. India Black. 2014. Historical crime. TB22010.Madam of espionage mystery; book 1. In the winter of 1876, the beautiful young madam India Black is busy as usual: keeping her tarts in line and avoiding the police. But when Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office dies of a heart attack while visiting her brothel, India is thrust into a deadly game between Russian and British agents who are seeking the military secrets Latham carried. India finds herself dodging Russian agents, seducing spies and embarking on midnight sleigh rides, not to mention ignoring the attraction she starts to feel for her handsome and exasperating British co -conspirator. Read by Julie Stark. 9 hours 45 minutes. TB22010.Carr, Susanna. Outrageously yours. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22063. Mills and Boon blaze. With a high-profile job opportunity on the line, Claire Miller must go from squeaky-clean wallflower to wild party girl in just one week. To do that, she needs the help of Jason Strong, her favourite client and secret crush. He's sexy, a notorious bachelor and just the guy to destroy this good girl's rep. Only Claire didn't count on Jason's spontaneous streak, or that his brand of improvising could turn their strictly professional relationship into something intensely personal and incredibly hot. Now she has to trust him with her future, her body and her deepest secrets. And hope that by week's end, she'll have him out of her system without breaking her heart. Contains scenes of a sexual nature. Read by Laila Payne. 5 hours 39 minutes. TB22063.Clark, Cassandra. The dragon of Handale. 2015. Historical crime. TB21943.Abbess of Meaux mystery; book 5. Set in the 14th century, Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, struggles to decide whether to rejoin the Order and the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. While walking about the grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His wounds appear to be the ravages of claws, but larger than any animal Hildegard knows of. Despite being warned against it, she goes for a walk in the woods. There she discovers a secret tower, locked and barred, with armed men on guard. Hildegard risks all dangers to seek out the truth.Read by Katie Pattinson. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB21943.Clark, Mary Higgins. A stranger is watching. 2005. Thriller. TB22025.Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompson's death will not stop the pain and anger of Nina's husband, Steve. Thompson's death will not still the fears of Nina's six-year-old son, Neil, witness to his mother's brutal slaying. Not even the love and friendship of Sharon Martin, a journalist who is slowly becoming a part of their world, will ever erase their bitter memories. Only time, perhaps, will heal their wounds. But in the shadows a stranger waits, a cunning psychopath who has killed before, who has unfinished business at the Peterson home. Read by Liza Ross. 7 hours 34 minutes. TB22025.Clark, Mary Higgins. Loves music, loves to dance. 1992. Thriller. TB22027.Best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers. On a lark, Darcy persuades Erin to help their TV producer friend research the kinds of people who place personal ads . It seems like innocent fun until Erin disappears. Erin's body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier -- on one foot is her own shoe, on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. Soon after, startling communications from the killer reveal that Erin is not the first victim of this "dancing shoe murderer." And, if the killer has his way, she won't be his last. Next on his death list is Darcy. Read by Emma-Claire Brightlyn. 7 hours 47 minutes. TB22027.Cornwell, Bernard. The empty throne. 2014. Historical fiction. TB22239.Warrior chronicles; book 8. England is fractured, torn apart more by internal fighting than the threat of Viking invasion. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. His wife is a formidable fighter and great leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her strongest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. So the scene is set for an explosive battle between elders and warriors for an empty throne. Read by Matt Bates. 11 hours 15 minutes. TB22239.Coupland, Douglas. The gum thief. 2008. General fiction. TB21921.Roger is a middle-aged and divorced 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger's notebook and finds that he's writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he's getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger's work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.Read by Laurel Lefkow, Christopher Ragland, Stephanie Cannon, James Sobol Kelly. 6 hours 39 minutes. TB21921.Cox, Josephine. Three letters. 2012. Family story. TB22218.Eight-year-old Casey’s mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women’s husbands. Casey’s father, Tom Denton, is gentle and hard-working; though he has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs, he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. Tom’s world is cruelly shattered when he receives two bits of devastating news and he realises that from now on their lives must change. Tom is made to fight for his son, determined to keep him safe. Fate takes a hand and life can be unbearably cruel, but, unbeknown to Casey, there are three letters penned by his father, that may just change his destiny forever.Read by Carole Boyd. 12 hours 28 minutes. TB22218.Dunn, Matthew. Sentinel. 2013. Thriller. TB21951.Spycatcher; book 2. 14 days ago, CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, received a cryptic message from an agent operating deep undercover in Russia: 'He has betrayed us and wants to go to war'. Unable to make contact, the Director of Operations is forced to turn to one of his most deadly field officers – Will Cochrane. Will's mission is simple: infiltrate the remote submarine base in eastern Russia's Avacha Bay, locate the MI6 agent operating under the codename 'Svelte', and decode his message - or die trying.Read by Robert Portal. 8 hours 47 minutes. TB21951.Ewan, Chris. Dark tides. 2014. Thriller. TB21824.When Claire Cooper was eight years old her mother mysteriously vanished during Hop-tu-naa, the Manx Halloween. At fourteen, Claire is still struggling to come to terms with her disappearance when she's befriended by a group of five teenagers who mark every Hop-tu-naa by performing dares. But Claire's arrival begins to alter the group's dynamic until one year a prank goes terribly wrong, changing all their futures and tearing the friends apart. Six years later, one of the friends is killed on Hop-tu-naa in an apparent accident. But Claire, now a police officer, has her doubts. Is a single footprint found near the body a deliberate taunt?Read by Juliette Burton. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB21824.Frame, Janet. Faces in the water. 2009. Classic. TB21928."I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doors and barred windows from the people who called themselves sane." When Janet Frame's doctor suggested that she write about her traumatic experiences in mental institutions in order to free herself from them, the result was the novel Faces in the Water. Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff, with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind. Read by Nicollette Mackenzie. 8 hours. TB21928.Grey, Zane. Robbers' roost. 2015. Western. TB21954.While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim Wale, a man trying to leave the past behind, struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom.Read by John Chancer. 10 hours 44 minutes. TB21954.Hassel, Sven. Blitzfreeze. 2014. War. TB21940.A shocking insight into the realities of war, the conditions endured by ordinary soldiers and their unwavering solidarity. It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia.. . The 27th Penal Regiment has been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach Moscow they must defeat the fearsome Red Army. But instead, they find themselves at the mercy of an even deadlier enemy: the killer cold of the Russian winter. As they advance across the icy wastes, they think only of survival.Read by Richard Burnip. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB21940.Higgins, Jack. Rain on the dead. 2015. Thriller. TB22197.Sean Dillon; book 21. The story begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the 'Prime Minister's Private Army' prevents it becoming a bloodbath. Soon they are on the trail of the perpetrators, confident they will catch them. What Dillon & Co don't realize is that they have just sprung a trap that will lead them to almost certain death. For there is a new Master pulling the strings for al Qaeda in London, and this time he's going to make sure the hated enemy is destroyed once and for all.Read by Nigel Carrington. 8 hours 1 minute. TB22197.Hobb, Robin. Fool's assassin. 2014. Fantasy. TB22223.Fitz and the fool; book 1. Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Molly these many years, the estate a reward to his family for loyal service to the crown. But behind the facade of respectable middle-age lies a turbulent and violent past. For Tom Badgerlock is actually FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the Farseer line, convicted user of Beast-magic, and assassin. On a shelf in his den sits a triptych carved in memory stone of a man, a wolf and a fool. Once, these three were inseparable friends: Fitz, Nighteyes and the Fool. But one is long dead, and one long-missing. Then one Winterfest night a messenger arrives to seek out Fitz, but mysteriously disappears, leaving nothing but a blood-trail. Suddenly Fitz's violent old life erupts into the peace of his new world, and nothing and no one is safe. Read by Avita Jay and Lee Maxwell Simpson. 28 hours 44 minutes. TB22223.Hobb, Robin. Blood of dragons. 2013. Fantasy. TB22204.Rain Wild Chronicles; book 4. The legendary blue dragon Tintaglia is dying of wounds inflicted by hunters sent by the Duke of Chalced, who meanwhile preserves his dwindling life by consuming the blood of the dragon’s poet Selden Vestrit. If Tintaglia perishes, her ancestral memories will die with her. And the dragons in the ancient city of Kelsingra will lose the secret knowledge they need to survive. Their keepers immerse themselves in the dangerously addictive memory-stone records of the city in the hope of recovering the Elderling magic that once allowed humans and dragons to co-exist. In doing so, they risk losing their own identities, even their lives. And danger threatens from beyond the city, too. For war is coming: war between dragonkind and those who would destroy them. Read by Anne Flosnik. 16 hours 10 minutes. TB22204.Hunter, Alan. Gently does it. 2010. Crime. TB22016.George Gently; book 1. Chief Inspector George Gently's quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant is found dead. His son, with whom he had been seen arguing, immediately becomes the prime suspect, although Gently is far from convinced of his guilt. Norchester City Police gratefully accept Gently's offer to help investigate the murder, but he soon clashes with Inspector Hansom, the officer in charge of the case. Hansom's idea of conclusive evidence appals Gently almost as much as Gently's thorough, detailed, methodical style of investigation exasperates Hansom, who considers the murder to be a straightforward affair. Locking horns with the local law is a distraction Gently can do without when he's on the trail of a killer.Read by Charles Armstrong. 7 hours 4 minutes. TB22016. James, Marlon. A brief history of seven killings. 2015. General fiction. TB22421.Man Booker Prize winner, 2015. Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. This is an exploration of the fallout from this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and crossing continents, A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA. This novel is told mainly in Jamaican patois from multiple character viewpoints, often in stream-of-consciousness style.Read by various narrators. 26 hours 5 minutes. TB22421.Jones, Wendy. The thoughts and happenings of Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals. 2012. General fiction. TB22466.Wilfred Price; book 1. In a small town in South Wales in 1924, Wilfred Price, overcome with emotion on a sunny spring day, proposes to a girl he barely knows at a picnic. The girl, Grace, joyfully accepts and rushes to tell her family of Wilfred's intentions. But by this time Wilfred has realised his mistake. He does not love Grace. To add to Wilfred's emotional turmoil, he thinks he may just have met the perfect girl for him. As Wilfred struggles in an increasingly tangled web of expectation and duty, love and lies, Grace reveals a long-held secret that changes everything.Read by Gareth Armstrong. 6 hours 55 minutes. TB22466.Kelly, Cathy. The honey queen. 2013. General fiction. TB22225.It's easy to fall in love with the beautiful town of Redstone – the locals wave and chat to each other, the shops and cafes are full of cheerful hustle and bustle. When Australian-raised Lillie finally makes it back home to Ireland, she is drawn right into the heart of the thriving community. And all of Lillie's hard-earned wisdom will soon be called into play as she helps new friends navigate unchartered territory. Read by Amy Creighton. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB22225.Kendrick, Sharon. The ruthless Greek's return. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22261.Once Loukas Sarantos was bodyguard to the world’s richest men. Now the ruthless Greek is a CEO, with bodyguards of his own. And his most recent procurement means he can finally take revenge on Jessica Cartwright, the only woman ever to walk away from him. As the face of Loukas’s new luxury jewellery company, formerly out-of-his-league Jessica now has to answer to him and he will relish every second of having her under his control. But as the embers of their former fire reignite Loukas begins to realise that Jessica might be the most precious jewel in his possession.Read by Julie Stark. 5 hours 42 minutes. TB22261.Kepler, Lars. The hypnotist. 2011. Crime. TB22242.Detective Inspector Joona Linna ; book 1. Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock. Linna’s running out of time. The killer’s on the run and, seemingly, there are no clues. Desperate for information, Linna enlists disgraced specialist Dr Erik Maria Bark, a hypnotist who vowed never to practice again. As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls with reverberations far beyond Linna’s case.Read by Eamonn Riley. 17 hours 2 minutes. TB22242.Lackberg, Camilla. The gallows bird. 2011. Crime. TB22226. Patrik Hedstrom; book 4. A woman is found dead, apparently the victim of a tragic car crash. It's the first in a spate of seemingly inexplicable accidents in Tanumshede and marks the end of a quiet winter for detective Patrik Hedstrom and his colleagues. At the same time a reality TV show is being shot in the town. As cameras shadow the stars' every move, relations with the locals are strained to breaking point. When a drunken party ends with a particularly unpopular contestant's murder, the cast and crew are obvious suspects. Could there be a killer in their midst? As the country tunes in, the bodies mount up. Under the intense glare of the media spotlight, Patrik faces his toughest investigation yet.Read by Eamonn Riley. 13 hours 37 minutes. TB22226.Landon, Christopher. Ice cold in Alex. 2003. War. TB22065.They served it ice-cold in Alex – pale amber Rheingold beer in tall, dewy glasses. This is the image that haunts Captain George Anson. Stationed in the North African desert just before the fall of Tobruk, an ice-cold lager seems a million miles away. When Anson is detailed to escort two nursing sisters to Alexandria, it looks as though his wish is finally about to come true - a routine assignment, with a lager at the end of it as his reward. But what starts out as a routine journey soon becomes an epic. Forced to drive further and further south in order to escape the advancing German Army, Anson and his small party are soon on the edge of the Great Sand Sea. As they battle with the physical agonies of a six-hundred-mile drive through the desert it soon becomes apparent that each member of the group has his or her own private struggles to resolve. Not only that, but with a Nazi agent in their midst, it is clear that not all of them are going to make it to Alexandria.Read by James Parsons. 8 hours 1 minute. TB22065.Lee, Maureen. Stepping stones. 1998. Family story. TB21938.Lizzie O’Brien was born into a large, boisterous family, determined to stay together in Liverpool despite the nightly bombing raids of the Second World War. But for Lizzie, childhood innocence is haunted by a dark shadow that is ruining her life – her brute of a father who sees her as a cuckoo invading the family. At Sixteen Lizzie runs away to London the first of her stepping stones towards freedom and a new life. She believes the past and its nightmares are locked away, and only a glorious future remains, of friendships forged for a lifetime and a glittering new career as an actress set for Hollywood. But the past is threatening to destroy Lizzie’s dreams, and she can no longer ignore the truth.Read by Lizzie Hopley. 19 hours 11 minutes. TB21938.McCarthy, Tom. Satin Island. 2015. General fiction. TB22422.Man Booker Prize shortlist, 2015. Meet U - a 'corporate anthropologist' pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. U's employers have set him two tasks. First, he must assist in the launching of a great, epoch-defining project which no one, least of all its own architects, fully understands. Second, he has been asked to compose the seemingly impossible: the Great Report - an ethnographic document to sum up our age. Instead, procrastinating, meandering, drifting through endless buffer-zones of information, U grows obsessed with the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis.Read by James Garnon. 6 hours 4 minutes. TB22422.Mallory, Sarah. The chaperon's seduction. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22032.Infamous Arrandales; book 1. ‘Ten Thousand Pounds to Whoever Can Seduce the Heiress by Michaelmas!’ Even for dissolute rake Richard Arrandale, this latest bet is outrageously scandalous. But Richard doesn’t care until he meets the heiress’s charming chaperon and the stakes are raised even higher. Widowed Lady Phyllida Tatham is no longer the shy, plain creature she once was, and she’s determined to protect her beautiful stepdaughter. But there’s one suitor, with the worst kind of reputation, who seems more interested in seducing her. Who will come out on top in this winner-takes-all game? Read by Cally Lawrence. 8 hours 28 minutes. TB22032.Mantel, Hilary. The assassination of Margaret Thatcher and other stories. 2014. Short stories. TB22229.A collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma'; nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Read by Jane Carr. 4 hours 32 minutes. TB22229.Mascull, Rebecca. The visitors. 2014. Historical fiction. TB22295.Imagine if you couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't speak. Then one day somebody took your hand and opened up the world to you. Adeliza Golding is a deaf-blind girl, born in late Victorian England on her father's hop farm. Unable to interact with her loving family, she exists in a world of darkness and confusion; her only communication is with the ghosts she speaks to in her head, who she has christened the Visitors. One day she runs out into the fields and a young hop-picker, Lottie, grabs her hand and starts drawing shapes in it. Finally Liza can communicate. Her friendship with her teacher and with Lottie's beloved brother Caleb leads her from the hop gardens and oyster beds of Kent to the dusty veldt of South Africa and the Boer War, and ultimately to the truth about the Visitors.Read by Juliette Burton. 11 hours 14 minutes. TB22295.O'Brien, Anne. The King's sister. 2015. Historical romance. TB22267.1382. Daughter of John of Gaunt, sister to the future King Henry IV, Elizabeth of Lancaster has learned the shrewd tricks of the court from England’s most powerful men. Rejecting her duty, Elizabeth weds the charming and ruthlessly ambitious Sir John Holland: Duke of Exeter, half-brother to King Richard II and the one man she has always wanted. But defiance can come at a price. 1399. Elizabeth’s brother Henry has seized the throne. Her husband, confidant to the usurped Richard, masterminds a secret plot against the new King. Trapped in a dangerous web, Elizabeth must make a choice. Defy the King and betray her family. Or condemn her husband and send him to his death. Read by Lucy Scott. 14 hours 27 minutes. TB22267.Obioma, Chigozie. The fishermen. 2015. General fiction. TB22419.Man Booker Prize shortlist, 2015. Told from the point of view of 9-year -old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, 'The Fishermen' is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his extended absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river they encounter a madman, who predicts that one of the brothers will kill another. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact - both tragic and redemptive – will transcend the lives and imaginations of both its characters and its readers.Read by Jude Owusu-Achiaw. 10 hours 20 minutes. TB22419.Phillips, Marie. The table of less valued knights. 2014. Humorous fiction. TB21924.Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights, Camelot's least prestigious table, has been banned by King Arthur from going on quests, and hasn't left the castle in 15 years. He's tempted out of his imposed retirement by Elaine, who is looking for her kidnapped fiancé. She appears to be the classic Damsel in Distress, but turns out to have a big secret to hide. Across the border in Puddock, the new young queen, Martha, is appalled to be married off against her will to the odious Prince Edwin of Tuft. She disguises herself as a boy and runs away, but doesn't get very far before the Locum of the Lake, standing in for the full-time Lady, intercepts her with some startling news: Martha's brother, the true heir to the throne of Puddock, is not dead as she has always thought, and Martha must go on her own quest to find him. The two quests collide, entangling Humphrey, Elaine and Martha's lives. Read by Beth Chalmers. 8 hours 50 minutes. TB21924.Sahota, Sunjeev. The year of the runaways. 2015. General fiction. TB22420.Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2015. Three young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar and Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the chaotic Randeep. Randeep, in turn, has a visa -wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes - in case the immigration men surprise her with a call. She is Narinder, and her story is the most surprising of them all. Read by Sartaj Garewal. 16 hours 7 minutes. TB22420.Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose body? 2010. Classic crime. TB22086.Lord Peter Wimsey ; book 1. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a friend that Mr Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bath – wearing nothing but a gold prince-nez. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr Thipps, and a good look at the body raises a number of interesting questions. Why would such an apparantly well-groomed man have filthy black toenails, flea bites and the scent of carbolic soap lingering on his corpse? Then comes the disappearance of oil millionaire Sir Reuben Levy, last seen on the Battersea Park Road. With his beard shaved he would look very similar to the man found in the bath but is Sir Levy really dead?Read by Roger D Watson. 6 hours 15 minutes. TB22086.Sigurdard?ottir, Yrsa. The day is dark. 2012. Crime. TB21946.Thóra Gudmundsdóttir ; book 4. When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate.Is there any connection with the woman who vanished from the site some months earlier? Why are the locals so hostile? And could one of the team staying at the site with Thora be responsible for the disappearances?Read by Joan Walker. 12 hours 5 minutes. TB21946.Simmons, Dan. The abominable. 2014. Thriller. TB21361.June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the three men strike for Everest's peak and the most vicious climate on earth. As the winds rise and the temperature and oxygen levels drop, Deacon and his companions hear howls in the distance. Some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain, sending them scrabbling blindly into Everest's dangerous heights to escape it. Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew but can they escape the same hideous fate?Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 28 hours 41 minutes. TB21361.Smith, Wilbur A. Golden lion. 2015. Historical fiction. TB22347.East African Coast, 1670. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry 'Hal' Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. Below deck, both his crew and his lover, the fearless warrior Judith Nazet, sleep. Although there is an uneasy truce between the warring English and Dutch, Hal scents danger when he sights a ship passing close by. When the Bough is boarded, the crew must defend their ship and their lives. Hal will face even graver danger when he discovers his mortal enemy still lives and is hell-bent on revenge. He must pursue his nemesis across desert savannah, through the seedy underbelly of Zanzibar's slave markets and shark-infested waters, his life in danger at every turn. Read by Sean Barrett. 12 hours 36 minutes. TB22347.Stratmann, Linda. The poisonous seed. 2013. Crime. TB21370.Frances Doughty; book 1. When a customer of William Doughty’s chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William’s daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing fathers reputation and save the business. She soon becomes convinced that the death was murder, but unable to convince the police, she turns detective. Armed only with her wits, courage and determination, and aided by some unconventional new friends, Frances uncovers a startling deception and solves a ten year old murder. There will be more deaths, and a secret in her own family will be revealed before the killer is unmasked, and Frances will find that her life has changed forever.Read by Natalie Castka. 12 hours 53 minutes. TB21370.Syal, Meera. Anita and me. 1997. General fiction. TB21933.It’s 1972. Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington, ‘the jewel of the Black Country’. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village, her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities – but more than anything, she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang.Read by Maya Sondhi. 10 hours 39 minutes. TB21933.Trollope, Joanna. Sense and sensibility. 2013. General fiction. TB21414.Two sisters could hardly be more different. Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere as she dreams of going to art school. 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? And when social media is the controlling force at play, can love ever triumph over conventions anddisapproval?Read by Rachel Stirling. 8 hours 33 minutes. TB21414.Tyler, Anne. A spool of blue thread. 2015. Family story. TB22302.Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2015. 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and -green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we see played out the hopes and fears, the rivalries and tensions of families everywhere.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 12 hours 28 minutes. TB22302.Wrenn, Elizabeth. Second chance. 2007. Animal stories. TB22059.Every woman needs a best friend and Deena Munger needs one more than most. Faced with an almost empty nest, a marriage that's as stale as week-old bread, and hot flushes that are driving her mad, no wonder she feels running away. Despite her twenty extra pounds, Deena feels invisible and wonders when she started to disappear. Until the day Heloise enters her life. To the astonishment of her family, Deena volunteers to raise a Guide dog -and suddenly her world is turned upside down. Can this messy, boisterous, playful Labrador puppy show her the way out of the darkness?Read by Sarah Borges. 12 hours 36 minutes. TB22059.Yanagihara, Hanya. A little life. 2015. General fiction. TB22298.Man Booker Prize shortlisted, 2015. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome – but that will define his life forever. Contains strong language. Read by Robert G Slade. 33 hours 45 minutes. TB22298.Adult Non fictionAutobiography and biographyGregg, Victor. Rifleman: a front-line life from Alamein and Dresden to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 2011. TB21920.Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen and was sent to the Middle East. He joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape, but was caught and became a prisoner of war; sentenced to death in Dresden for attempting to escape and burning down a factory, only the allies' infamous raid on the city the night before his execution saved his life. This is the story of a true survivor.Read by John Clegg. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB21920.Lacey, Robert. Grace: Her lives - her loves: The startling royal exposé. 1995. TB21917.Movie legend, princess, tragic heroine. The moment Grace Kelly stepped into the spotlight in 1950, the world was entranced. In this definitive biography of Hollywood’s sweetheart, Robert Lacey looks behind the fairytale facade to reveal the real story of Princess Grace of Monaco, as she became. Gaining unprecedented access to her family and friends, he tells the story of a complex and conflicted woman determined to live her dream. The bestselling biographer also reveals new details about Grace’s tragic early death in a car accident that sent shockwaves around the world, and lifts the lid on the affairs that rocked her marriage to Prince Rainier III.Read by Christopher Oxford. 16 hours 26 minutes. TB21917.MacCarthy, Fiona. Eric Gill. 2003. TB21864. Eric Gill who died in 1940, was among the greatest English artist-craftsmen of the 20th century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius, and a master in the art of sculpture and wood -engraving. In this biography, the problems and contradictions of Gill the man and Gill the artist are examined. This complex man had spiritual longings, and this had taken him into the Catholic Church in 1913 (without it having any effect on his eroticism). He habitually wore a cassock, which was both convenient for his work and also recalled a monk’s habit. In 1921 he founded a crafts guild called the Guild of SS Joseph and Dominic.Read by Di Langford. 13 hours 45 minutes. TB21864.Moore, Lucy. Nijinsky. 2014. TB21923.Nijinsky's story has lost none of its power to shock, fascinate and move. Adored and reviled in his lifetime, his phenomenal talent was shadowed by schizophrenia and an intense but destructive relationship with his lover, Diaghilev. 'I am alive' he wrote in his diary, 'and so I suffer'. Read by Jane McDowell. 11 hours 24 minutes. TB21923.Spencer, Charles. Prince Rupert: the last cavalier. 2008. TB22012.To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier' and one of those Royalists who fought on even after Charles was executed in 1649, commanding the Royalist forces in exile before the triumphant restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Prince Rupert is revealed as more than just a great general and dashing cavalier. He was a scientist and classical scholar too: a true renaissance prince.Read by Steve Hodson. 19 hours 24 minutes. TB22012.Matusiak, John. Wolsey: the life of King Henry VIII's cardinal. 2014. TB21911.This work explores the many contrasting layers of Thomas Wolsey's life and career, and represents the first genuinely popular biography of the much-maligned cardinal to appear in over 30 years. Making no assumptions, it looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes whose meteoric rise was marked by an equally inexorable descent into desperation, as he attempted in vain to satisfy the tempestuous master whose ambition ultimately broke him.Read by Greg Wagland. 17 hours 10 minutes. TB21911.Weintraub, Robert. No better friend: one man, one dog, and their incredible story of courage and survival in WWII. 2015. TB22188.Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the prisoners. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. This is their story of friendship and survival.Read by Andrew Cullum. 16 hours 33 minutes. TB22188.Yates, Chris. The lost diary: April - September 1981. 2013. TB21870.Chris Yates is one of the most celebrated anglers in the world today. He broke the carp record held by Dick Walker at Redmire in 1980, starred in the BBC series A Passion For Angling and has written ten books, including a series of diaries published between 1977 and 1980. The final volume of the 'River Diaries' never made it into print, however, because Chris lost it somewhere in his house. Happily, 30 years later, Chris discovered an old battered photograph album in the bottom of a box full of Christmas decorations - 'The Lost Diary' had been found.Read by Richard Derrington. 3 hours 34 minutes. TB21870.Health and FitnessGray, J A Muir. Sod seventy! The guide to living well. 2015. TB22058.Many of us approach our 70s with an unhelpful stereotype lodged in our brains. The stooped figures on the road sign imply that ageing inevitably causes problems but many of these can be postponed or prevented because they are caused not by ageing, but by loss of fitness, preventable disease and the wrong attitude. Shake off the stereotypes and empower yourself. Embrace 70, and make the most of it by following the simple resolutions created for you in this book, packed with ideas to help you get fit and healthy, in body and mind. This book tells you how to Sod Seventy! – and live life to the full! Read by Tom Carter. 4 hours 3 minutes. TB22058.HistoryJones, Dan. The hollow crown: the Wars of the Roses and the rise of the Tudors. 2015. TB21934.The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these chaotic years. Yet efforts were made to maintain some semblance of peace and order, as chivalry was reborn, the printing press arrived, and the Renaissance began to flourish. Read by Roddy Peters. 13 hours 30 minutes. TB21934.HumourCoogan, Steve. I, Partridge: we need to talk about Alan. 2011. TB22231.Alan Gordon Partridge is the best, and best-loved, radio presenter in the region. Born into a changing world of rationing, Teddy Boys, apes in space and the launch of ITV, Alan’s broadcasting career began as chief DJ of Radio Smile at St. Luke’s Hospital in Norwich. After replacing Peter Flint as the presenter of Scout About, he entered the top 8 of BBC sports presenters. Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder, a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future. Gregarious and popular, yet Alan's never happier than when relaxing in his own five -bedroom, south-built house with three acres of land. But who is this mysterious enigma? Read by Alan Partridge. 6 hours 59 minutes. TB22231.LiteratureDouglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland. 2015. TB21929.Drawing on previously unpublished material, 'The Story of Alice' illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books, examining the peculiar friendship between Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories . It analyses how their relationship influenced the creation of Wonderland, how the two Alice books took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era, and why 150 years later they continue to enthrall and delight us.Read by Russell Bentley. 18 hours 53 minutes. TB21929.Popular ScienceCox, Brian. Human universe. 2015. TB22257.Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. Professor Brian Cox takes readers out of this world and into a whole new dimension as he gives us a new perspective on human life. Following the spark of human curiosity from its ignition in the distant past to its journey into the future, the book spans the history of the universe. Human Universe is first and foremost a love letter to humanity; a celebration of our outrageous fortune in existing at all.Read by Bob Rollett. 9 hours 2 minutes. TB22257.SportDavis, Steve. Interesting: my autobiography. 2015. TB22052.Steve Davis was just a Romford rookie, learning how to play snooker from a book his father had given him, when an encounter with Barry Hearn changed his life forever. With Hearn's backing, Steve toured the country as an amateur, challenging and beating established professionals and winning titles. It wasn't long before he progressed to the world's stage, when the sport dominated the nation with a cast of legends such as Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins and Ray Reardon regularly doing battle. This is a memoir that closely evokes the smoke-filled atmosphere of those arenas, the intrigue behind the scenes and the personal psychology and sacrifice that is required to stay at the top of such an exacting sport.Read by John Rayment. 13 hours 30 minutes. TB22052.TransportQuinn, Tom. Tales of the old railwaymen. 2004. TB21866. Take a step back into the old world of steam railways, and discover the reality of life and work on Britain's railway system before the Beeching cuts and the introduction of diesel changed it forever. Read by David Learner. 6 hours 22 minutes. TB21866.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Puttock, Simon. Don't count your chickens. 2006. TB22305.Ruth-May has a new hobby: chickens. And she is completely hooked! She starts out with just two, but in no time at all, she has 16 chickens to cuddle and count, morning, noon and night. Ruth -May is deliriously happy, but the chickens ... well, that's a different matter. Fed up to the back beak with being cuddled and coddled, they escape to the park and teach Ruth-May an important lesson. If you really love something, you have to set it free and that applies to chickens too! Read by Katie Pattinson. 9 minutes. TB22305.Sparkes, Amy. Do not enter the monster zoo. 2013. TB21779.What would you do if you received an invitation to run a zoo full of huge, scary monsters? The brave little boy in this story leaps at the chance, and although the monsters seem scary at first, he soon has them eating out of the palm of his hand. This is an exciting, imaginative, hilarious adventure that encourages little readers to have confidence and stand up for themselves.Read by Andy Secombe. 7 minutes. TB21779.Suggested reading age 5+Blackman, Malorie. Snow dog. 2001. TB22308."It's going to be WOOF-ONDERFUL!" There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic.Read by Katie Pattinson. 21 minutes. TB22308.Rodgers, Frank. The witch's dog and the magic cake. 1999. TB22309.Wilf, the Witch's dog, has baked a cake . But before Wilf and his friends can eat it, Sly Cat and Tricky Toad cast a spell that makes the cake grow bigger and bigger and then float away. Wilf's quick thinking - and a little bit of magic - stop the giant magic cake before it causes a terrible accident.Read by Katie Pattinson. 11 minutes. TB22309.Rodgers, Frank. The witch's dog and the flying carpet. 2001. TB22310.An old magic carpet causes all sorts of trouble for Wilf, the Witch's Dog and his friends. Sly Cat and Tricky Toad don't help - they are back to their old sneaky ways. First some magic just sends Streaky flying into the air, then a magical carpet turns into a jungle complete with its very own tiger! Finally Wilf goes on a magical, but dangerous roller-coaster ride. It's a good job that Wilf is so clever - he puts everything right and even has a brilliant idea about what to do with the old flying carpet. Read by Katie Pattinson. 16 minutes. TB22310.Toksvig, Sandi. Unusual day. 1997. TB22306. When Jessica brings her granny into school for 'Unusual Day' Miss Johnson thinks she's got muddled up with 'Family Day'. Her granny may be wearing a tracksuit and trainers, but she still looks like a fairly ordinary granny. However, when 'Unusual Day' is disrupted by a fire next door, everybody discovers just how unusual Jessica's granny is.Read by Katie Pattinson. 14 minutes. TB22306.Toksvig, Sandi. The troublesome tooth fairy. 2000. TB22307.When Jessica loses her first tooth, Granny tells her to watch out for a trainee tooth fairy. That shimmering little creature might look the part in her purple and silver outfit but she's not too sure of her job. As Granny knows, the trainee tooth fairy has been known to whisk away more than just the lost tooth.Read by Katie Pattinson. 22 minutes. TB22307.Suggested reading age 7+Anholt, Laurence. Eco-Wolf and the three pigs. 2002. TB22316.Eco-Wolf knows it's important to give Mother Nature RESPECT. Unlike the three big bad pigs, and their pesky polluting plans... Eco-Wolf is furious when three bad pigs start messing with his valley vibes and building on his peaceful countryside home. But does he have enough huff and puff to blow up the polluting pigs' plans? This is a modern twist on the classic story of "The Three Little Pigs". Read by Greg Wagland. 17 minutes. TB22316.Beardsley, Martyn. Sir Gadabout does his best. 2001. TB22336. Sir Gadabout Sir Gadabout, the nuttiest knight in Camelot, is back with all his old friends. This time he challenges Sir Mistabit in a tournament and goes in search of Lucky, a three legged goat last seen heading towards dangerous dragon country. Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour. TB22336.Beardsley, Martyn. Sir Gadabout goes to knight school. 2006. TB22337.Sir Gadabout When Sir Lancelot is called away from knight school, Sir Gadabout becomes the teacher - even though he's the one who needs to learn a thing or two about courtly conduct. How can the lads defeat the King of Gaul and his angry mob with the worst knight in the world as their leader? Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour 3 minutes. TB22337.Beardsley, Martyn. Sir Gadabout goes overboard. 2004. TB22338.Sir Gadabout Longbeard, a loathed and prickly pirate , and his cranky crew have been stirring up trouble in the English Channel. Luckily, Sir Gadabout is on a mission to save sailors from the scurvy scoundrels. But Sir Gadabout's never sailed a ship before and the pirates don't have much love for landlubbers. A shiver-yer-timbers sea story exploding with cannonballs and cutlasses and starring Camelot's crassest knight!Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour 9 minutes. TB22338.Blackman, Malorie. Jack Sweettooth. 2008. TB22315.Jackson Winstanley Sweettooth (or Jack for short) is a mouse who lives with Matthew and the rest of the Bailey family. He gets the blame for a lot of things - Mrs Bailey thinks he's swallowed her ruby and nibbled at Shani's birthday cake. And Jack's biggest enemy is Beauregard Battersby -Bunge, the pesky ginger cat from next door. But everything gets better when another mouse, Blossom, comes to stay with the Baileys - soon Blossom and Jack are the best of friends!Read by Katie Pattinson. 43 minutes. TB22315.King-Smith, Dick. The magic carpet slippers. 2001. TB22312.The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well as in the house. In time his battered old slippers need to be replaced and he gets something of a surprise when he discovers that his new pair are magic. They make him feel years younger and also make him strong and clever. Percy is desperate to tell someone his secret and so tells his friend's grand-daughter, Lollie – for of course children understand magic better than adults do. Percy's slippers turn out to be life-savers as they enable him to leap across the road to save Lollie from being knocked over by a car.Read by Greg Wagland. 1 hour. TB22312.Watkins, Sam. Creature teacher. 2015. TB21913.Jake's class finally has the best teacher in the whole world, Mr Hyde. He doesn't make them clean toilet bowls with toothbrushes and his lessons are always fun. There is just one teeny, tiny, HUGE problem. Mr Hyde transforms into a naughty, little creature whenever he becomes upset. The creature has some amazing abilities but being well-behaved isn't one of them! Jake's class will have to use all their ingenuity to hide the creature, so they can keep their brilliant teacher. But Mrs Blunt, their headmistress, is never far off the scent. Read by Katie Pattinson. 1 hour 50 minutes. TB21913.Suggested reading age 9+Dragt, Tonke. The letter for the king. 2014. TB22011.The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person. When sixteen-year-old Tiuri answers a desperate call for help, he finds himself on a perilous mission that could cost him his life. He must deliver a secret letter to the King who lives across the Great Mountains a letter upon which the future of the entire realm depends. It means abandoning his home, breaking all the rules and leaving everything behind, even the knighthood that he has dreamed of for so long. He must trust no one. He must keep his true identity secret. Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter.Read by Andy Secombe. 16 hours 38 minutes. TB22011.Ibbotson, Eva. The star of Kazan. 2014. Children's stories. TB22019.In a tiny alpine church, on a June day in 1897, an abandoned baby girl is found by a middle-aged cook from Vienna. So begins the unusual childhood of Annika, brought up in the house of three eccentric professors by their two domestic servants. Her life in this golden city of music, fabulous food, and the beautiful Lippizana stallions who dance before the Emperor Franz Joseph is greatly blessed - until her unknown mother tracks her down and comes to claim her... Read by Charlie Norfolk. 11 hours 36 minutes. TB22019.Magorian, Michelle. Cuckoo in the nest. 2015. TB21959.Amid the rubble of post-war Britain, Ralph is entranced by the theatre. He loves seeing the performances, talking to the actors, the buzz of the audience, and the corridors and dressing rooms backstage. But how can a working-class boy achieve his dream when there is no opportunity for theatre training?Read by Annie Aldington. 13 hours 49 minutes. TB21959.MacKenzie, Ross. The Nowhere Emporium. 2015. TB21958.When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the 'shop from nowhere' -- and its owner, Mr Silver - - draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver's apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium's vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms -- rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined. But when Mr Silver disappears, and a shadow from the past threatens everything, the Emporium and all its wonders begin to crumble. Can Daniel save his home, and his new friends, before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever?Read by Tom Carter. 5 hours 48 minutes. TB21958.Rix, Megan. The bomber dog. 2013. TB22022.Grey is just a puppy when he arrives at the War Dog Training school. Nathan, his trainer, is a brave young soldier. Wolf is a war dog who's seen it all. Grey and Nathan soon become inseparable. Until the day a parachute jump goes tragically wrong. As the Second World War rages, Grey faces his most important mission yet: to find his best friend. With Wolf at his side , he must journey across France and behind enemy lines. His path is fraught with danger. Can he reach Nathan before it's too late?Read by Susannah Bond. 3 hours 28 minutes. TB22022.Walliams, David. Grandpa's great escape. 2015. TB22406.Jack's Grandpa wears his slippers to the supermarket; serves up Spam a la Custard for dinner; and often doesn't remember Jack's name. But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day. An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa, this book takes readers on an incredible journey with Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high octane adventure full of comedy and heart. Read by David Walliams, Michael Gambon and Nitin Ganatra. 5 hours 50 minutes. TB22406.Suggested reading age 13+Almond, David. A song for Ella Grey. 2014. TB21919.Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards; of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. This is her story - as she bears witness to a love so complete; so sure, that not even death can prove final. Read by Rowena Gray. 4 hours 9 minutes. TB21919.Rennison, Louise. The taming of the tights. 2013. TB22190.The misadventures of Tallulah Casey ; book 3. Tallulah is keen to put all thoughts of Cain behind her. But that seems like that the last thing he wants. Their performing arts college may have been saved by Honey's mystery benefactor, but for how long is anyone's guess. So will Tallulah finally get to wear those golden slippers of applause or will Dr Lightowler swoop down on her glory days?Read by Louise Rennison. 5 hours 54 minutes. TB22190.Rearchived titles newly available in Daisy formatAdult FictionAmis, Kingsley. Take a girl like you. 1960. General fiction. TB5489.Patrick Standish is the classics master at a grammar school and his one absorbing interest is girls. Jenny Bunn is a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Jenny is a beauty and men and women are crazy about her, most of all handsome Patrick Standish, who Jenny also likes. But Jenny and Patrick live in a world where it’s becoming ridiculously difficult—disastrously difficult—to sort out the claims of sex and the claims of love. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Steve Hodson. 14 hours 33 minutes. TB5489.Eden, Dorothy. Siege in the sun. 1967. Historical romance. TB513.Set at the time of the Boer war, Lizzie, known in London as Lady Elizabeth Stafford, is fleeing a past of denied womanhood, and discovers the meaning of desire in her reckless, searing love affair with an enigmatic young journalist. Tom, who knows each secret mission behind enemy lines may be his last, finds his greatest challenge in unlocking the passions of the lovely Englishwoman. Read by Lorenza Coalville. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB513.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyBaldwin, Monica. I leap over the wall. 1949. TB7347. At the age of twenty-one, Monica Baldwin, the niece of Stanley Baldwin, entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of forty-eight, and after struggling with her vocation for many years, she obtained a special prescript from Rome and left the convent. But the world Monica had known and forsaken in 1914 was very different to the world into which she emerged at the height of the Second World War. This is the account of one woman's two very different lives, with revealing descriptions of the world of a novice, the duties of a nun's day, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. Interwoven with these are the trials and tribulations of coping with a new and alien world, as the author is confronted with fashions, interventions, politics and art totally unfamiliar to her. Read by Fleur Chandler. 11 hours 42 minutes. TB7347.Alexander, Joan. Voices and echoes: tales from colonial women. 1983. TB5196.To marry into the Colonial Service was to marry "a job, a way of life, a privilege and a deprivation". The author is a diplomat's wife herself, and from her conversations with over a hundred women connected with the Service emerge stories of courage and humour evocative of another age. Read by Elizabeth de Silva. 10 hours 9 minutes. TB5196.HistoryAronson, Theo. Crowns in conflict: the triumph and the tragedy of European monarchy, 1910-1918. 1986. TB6554.With the majority of European monarchs closely related they formed a royal clan, an international freemasonry through which, it was assumed, the peace of Europe was being maintained. The First World War shattered all this as cousin took up arms against cousin. Against the upheavals of these years, monarchs were revealed as both powerless and impotent. The kings and their world vanished forever.Read by Robert Gladwell. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB6554.Bean, P. Lost children of the Empire. 1989. TB7923. Between 1860 and 1930 some 130,000 children were shipped off to parts of the British Empire and forgotten. It was a cheap way of emptying homes and populating the colonies. Many were subjected to cruelty, with names changed, records withheld and brought up to believe that they were orphans. But the shocking part of the story is that it did not end in the 1930s. After World War II, some 10,000 children were transported to Australia with the last batch going as late as 1967. The book looks at the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust set up in 1987 to trace relations and help both sides of the family come to terms with what happened. This book contains passages describing sexual violence towards children. There is a warning within the recording before the most violent of these. Read by Di Langford. 8 hours 26 minutes. TB7923.MusicNettel, Reginald. The orchestra in England. 1946. TB538.Tracing the development of the orchestra from the pre-classical period before Haydn and Mozart to that of the present day concert hall. Read by Alvar Lidell. 10 hours 21 minutes. TB538.ReligionBarrow, Andrew. The flesh is weak: an intimate history of the Church of England.1980. TB3775.The story of the Church from its inception at the time of the Reformation up to the present day, emphasizing its lovable and its infuriating aspects. Whimsical, colourful, and eccentric characters who were part of the Church of England abound in this book.Read by John Whale. 11 hours 43 minutes. TB3775.Apocrypha. [1970]. TB1648.The New English Bible is a translation of the whole Bible in current English undertaken by the major Christian bodies (other than the Roman Catholic) of the British Isles. It is not a revision of the Authorised version, nor is it intended to replace it.Read by Andrew Timothy. 15 hours 8 minutes. TB1648.Travel Ackerley, J R. Hindoo holiday. 1932. TB4916.In the 1920s, the young J R Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. The qualification for the position of private secretary to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur was a strange one: he asked for someone who resembled a character by his favourite writer. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Read by William Abney. 10 hours 19 minutes. TB4916.Children’s fictionSuggested reading age 9+Adams, Richard. The bureaucats. 1985. TB7634.The humorous adventures of two lovable but mischievous kittens whose good intentions often lead to trouble for their master. Read by Arthur Blake. 45 minutes. TB7634.Banks, Lynne Reid. Melusine. 1988. TB7742.What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France. The strange daughter Melusine is like no girl he has ever seen, with her brusqueness and her expressionless black eyes, and as he gradually befriends her, he begins to realize that there is something very wrong about her, about the chateau, and about her life within it. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 6 hours 52 minutes. TB7742.Garfield, Leon. Garfield's apprentices. 1977. TB3287.Tales of young boys and their apprenticeship to various trades in 18th century London. Read by Garrard Green. 5 hours 37 minutes. TB3287Suggested reading age 11+Angadi, Patricia. Playing for real. 1990. TB8513.The story follows three children as they move out from the Cornish village of Zennor after World War II, and seek something to replace the illusions of their childhood. Abandoned by her mother, lonely and imaginative, Joanne makes friends with the elusive, mysterious Charlie. Peter Petherick, heir to a wealthy landowner, takes refuge from the bullying of his sisters in a secret kingdom of his own. Read by Gemma Jones. 7 hours 46 minutes. TB8513. ................
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