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New books Issue 56March 2017Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Don’t press 1 for personal customer, but wait for options.Select Option 3 - advice on setting up one of our products or services including ad-hoc collections.Select Option 1 - to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections. TOC \o "1-4" \h \z \u ContentsBraille PAGEREF _Toc491774791 \h 5Adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774792 \h 5Adult non-fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774793 \h 25Autobiography PAGEREF _Toc491774794 \h 25Biography PAGEREF _Toc491774795 \h 26Country Life and Farming PAGEREF _Toc491774796 \h 27Drama PAGEREF _Toc491774797 \h 28History PAGEREF _Toc491774798 \h 28Quick reads PAGEREF _Toc491774799 \h 29Children and young adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774800 \h 3007+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774801 \h 3009+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774802 \h 3113+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774803 \h 3315+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774804 \h 34Giant print PAGEREF _Toc491774805 \h 35Adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774806 \h 35Adult Non-Fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774807 \h 42Autobiography PAGEREF _Toc491774808 \h 42Children and young adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774809 \h 4305+ Suggested Reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774810 \h 4307+ Suggested Reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774811 \h 439+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774812 \h 4511+ Suggested Reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774813 \h 4713+ Suggested Reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774814 \h 4715+ Suggested Reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774815 \h 48Children and Young adult Non-Fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774816 \h 489+ suggested reading age PAGEREF _Toc491774817 \h 48Drama PAGEREF _Toc491774818 \h 48Talking Books PAGEREF _Toc491774819 \h 50Adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774820 \h 50Adult non-fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774821 \h 73Autobiography And Biography PAGEREF _Toc491774822 \h 73History PAGEREF _Toc491774823 \h 77Children and young adult fiction PAGEREF _Toc491774824 \h 79Suggested reading age 7+ PAGEREF _Toc491774825 \h 79Suggested reading age 9+ PAGEREF _Toc491774826 \h 80Suggested reading age 11+ PAGEREF _Toc491774827 \h 83Suggested reading age 13+ PAGEREF _Toc491774828 \h 84Suggested reading age 15+ PAGEREF _Toc491774829 \h 84Books for Sale PAGEREF _Toc491774830 \h 86DAISY Made to Order PAGEREF _Toc491774831 \h 86BrailleAdult fictionAdams, Will. Newton's Fire. 2012. Thriller.Luke Hayward is adrift. Blacklisted out of academia, he is in no position to refuse when a client asks for his expert help in recovering some lost Isaac Newton papers. But a chance discovery in a dusty attic plunges Luke into a race to uncover the truth behind some seemingly random scribblings - a race which pits Luke against a fundamentalist madman with dangerously powerful friends. Luke discovers connections between Oxford, London and the Old City of Jerusalem in a breathless chase to uncover a secret hidden in the eccentric ramblings of a mathematical genius; a secret that, in the wrong hands, could be used to spark the holy war to end all holy wars.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25495703Bagshawe, Tilly. Sidney Sheldon's After The Darkness. 2010. Thriller.Grace Brookstein is the beautiful, young, and naive wife of financial superstar, Leonard Brookstein. In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall, and the public want someone to blame. Oblivious and seemingly unscathed, Grace continues her charmed life, until the death of Lenny in a tragic ‘accident’ forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel, revealing expensive crimes, and now Grace is in the frame. Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies and well-planned deceit, she soon puts her own life in danger. Grace is alone, angry, and desperate for revenge.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.42. Order No: 25570003Bennett, Vanora. The White Russian. 2015. General Fiction.Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art and adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother's sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian émigré community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies and illicit love affairs as White faces Red Russian and nothing is as it seems.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25496403Binchy, Maeve. Light A Penny Candle. 2006. Family Stories.As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling, who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carried Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents' chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. Through the years, they believed they could survive anything, as long as they had each other. Now they're about to find out if they were right.UEB. 12v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25482703Bond, Cynthia. Ruby. 2015. Literary Fiction.Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe centre of the city, all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25571303Boyd, William. Sweet Caress: The Many Lives Of Amory Clay. 2015. Literary Fiction.Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.UEB. 7v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25463603Bradford, Barbara Taylor. The Cavendon Women. 2015. Family Stories.Cavendon Hall: book 2. 1926. One stately home’s future lies with four very different young women. Four young women from both sides of the house will be the ones to shape its future – Daphne, fighting to modernise her ancestral home; Cecily Swann, forging a path as a fashion designer in London; Deidre, the career girl, and Dulcie, the outspoken debutante. They will change the estate’s future for good or ill as the roaring twenties burn towards the Great Depression. Nothing will ever be the same again.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25575703Bradshaw, Rita. Break Of Dawn. 2012. Historical Romance.Her mother's death in childbirth leaves Sophy Hutton at the mercy of her cruel aunt and uncle. At 16, Sophy learns the shocking truth behind her birth and escapes to London to forget her past. But life for women at the turn of the century is fraught with danger and Sophy soon discovers the darker side to the capital. Young and innocent, she doesn't recognise the man who really loves her when he appears; instead she is charmed into marrying handsome actor Toby Shawe, a flawed and amoral individual. Then the heartache really begins.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25492503Bretherick, Diana. The Devil's Daughters. 2015. Historical Crime.City of Devils: book 2. 1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate. As he embarks on his search for the missing girl, Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women and rumours of a haunted abbey on the outskirts of the city. UEB. 7v. Price: ?13.99. Order No: 25497103Britton, Fern. New Beginnings. 2011. Chick presenter Christie Lynch's life is about to change forever. A journalist and single mother of two, she can't believe her luck when she is spotted by a talent agent during an appearance on daytime TV show, Tart Talk. Soon the nation's sweetheart, Christie can't help but love her new job and, for the first time in years, she can mend her leaking roof and buy her kids, Libby and Freddie, a few treats. But as her career soars, Christie's forced to spend more and more time away from her kids and from Richard, the gorgeous single dad she recently met at the school gate. Can Christie find a way to balance her role as a mother with her increasingly demanding job?UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25492403Brook, Rhidian. The Aftermath. 2014. General Fiction.In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision: they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25480803Brookmyre, Christopher. A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away. 2003. Thriller.Angelique De Xavier: book 1. Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. Everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25552603Brookmyre, Christopher. The Sacred Art Of Stealing. 2003. Thriller.Angelique De Xavier: book 2. Their eyes met across a crowded room. The room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. He can afford to play cat-and-mouse with the female cop who's on his tail. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could end up in jail or, even more scary, he could end up in love.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25550203Brookmyre, Christopher. A Snowball In Hell. 2009. Thriller.Angelique De Xavier: book 3. If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and posting real-time coverage of his killings on the internet. He's got viewing figures to make the world's TV executives gasp in envy, and he's pulling the voyeuristic strings of every viewer by getting them to 'vote' to keep his captives alive.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25551703Chambers, Kimberley. The Betrayer. 2010. Thriller.Based in Stepney, this book is set on a rough and ready council estate, in the heart of London's East End. A story that starts in 1975 ends in 2005, it tells the trials and tribulations of the Hutton family. Maureen is the gutsy mum, separated from her alcoholic husband, she scrimps and saves for years to bring up her children and instil life's good values in them. She tries her utmost, but with only moderate success.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25491103Chambers, Kimberley. The Wronged. 2015. Thriller.The trap: book 3. Vinny Butler has used his time in prison well: to plan the downfall of all who've wronged him. Vinny's brother Michael may think he's the top dog running the family business, but it won't last when Vinny finds out how good his brother's got it. Meanwhile, Vinny is incensed when he finds out that Joanna had a baby in secret while he was in prison but that's nothing compared to his anger when he finds out who the father is. The Butlers are at war, and they're taking everyone down with them; it's all going to end in flames.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25468403Clancy, Tom. Debt Of Honour. 1995. Thriller.Jack Ryan: book 8. Called out of retirement to serve as the new President’s National Security Adviser, Jack Ryan quickly realizes that the problems of peace are fully as complex as those of war. Enemies have become friends, friends enemies, and even the form of conflict has changed. When one of those new enemies readies a strike not only at America’s territory, but at the heart of her economy, it is Ryan who must somehow prepare an untested President to meet the challenge. For there is a debt of honour to be paid and the price will be terrifyingly high.UEB. 20v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25570203Coe, Jonathan. Number 11, Or, Tales That Witness Madness. 2015. General Fiction.This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best – showing us how we live now.UEB. 6v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25517903Cookson, Catherine. The Obsession. 2008. Historical Romance.Rosie finds it hard to cope with her eldest sister's over-possessive nature. Since the death of their mother Beatrice has been insufferably dominating, taking over the running of the house and ruling their father and servants with an iron hand. She glories in being the mistress at Pine Hurst and never dreams of leaving. But when the girls' father dies unexpectedly their security is threatened, and Beatrice must lay plans to protect this most prized possession.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25550403Culver, Chris. The Abbey. 2012. Crime.Detective Ash Rashid: book 1. Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of handling another death investigation. That's until his niece's body is found in the property of one of the city's wealthiest citizens. The coroner calls it an overdose, but the case doesn't add up. Against orders, Ash launches an investigation to find his niece's murderer. But the longer he searches, the darker the case gets and if he doesn't solve it fast, his niece won't be the only family member he has to bury.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25492903Delaney, Luke. Cold Killing. 2013. Crime.DI Sean Corrigan: book 1. A series of brutal killings leaves South London’s Murder Investigation Unit struggling to connect the crimes: no recognizable method; no forensic evidence; and the victims have nothing in common. DI Sean Corrigan’s troubled past has left him with an uncanny ability to identify the darkness in others, a darkness he struggles to keep buried within his own psyche. Sean knows these murders are the work of one man. As the violence escalates, Sean must find the evidence he needs to bring the perpetrator to justice, before the next attack hits too close to home.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25493203Ellroy, James. The Cold Six Thousand. 2010. Thriller.Underworld USA trilogy: book 2. Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan.UEB. 12v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25502903Fluke, Joanne. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder. 2011. Crime.Hannah Swensen: book 1. Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25493503Gabaldon, Diana. Written In My Own Heart's Blood. 2015. Historical Fiction.Outlander: book 8. June 1778, and as the American War of Independence nears its turning point, time-travelling lovers Jamie and Claire find themselves torn apart by the warring forces. As sons fight against fathers and whole families are splintered by the conflict, even Claire's foreknowledge of the future can only help her so much. Caught in the maelstrom of historical events, once again Jamie and Claire must battle to survive.UEB. 21v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25550703Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Wives And Daughters: An Everyday Story. 2003. Classic.Gaskell’s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter – all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Focusing on two families, the Gibsons and the Hamleys, this novel describes the habits, loyalties, prejudices, petty snobberies, rumours and adjustments of a whole countryside hierarchy.UEB. 14v. Price: ?1.99. Order No: 25496603Grafton, Sue. B Is For Burglar. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 2. There was nothing about Beverly Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. There was a will to be settled. She paid up front. And if it seemed a lot of money for a routine job, Kinsey wasn’t going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn’t see. But just as Kinsey begins to suspect foul play and start asking questions, Beverly Danziger pulls her off the case and fires her.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25490503Grafton, Sue. C Is For Corpse. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 3. Kinsey met Bobby Callahan in the gym on Monday morning. His story was hard to credit: a murderous assault by a tailgating car on a lonely rural road, a roadside smash into a canyon 400 feet below, his Porsche a ruin, his best friend dead, and his memory severely impaired. He was convinced someone was trying to kill him. By Thursday, he was dead. But Kinsey wasn’t going back on a deal. She had been hired to prevent a murder. Now she was looking for the murderer.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25490603Grafton, Sue. E Is For Evidence. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 5. It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn’t made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25490703Grafton, Sue. F Is For Fugitive. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 6. 17 years have passed since Jean Timberlake's body was found at the foot of the sea wall. At the time, Bailey Fowler, an ex-boyfriend of hers, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Now he's changed his tune. Kinsey Millhone is called in to solve the case and then she stumbles on the dark secrets of a family's buried past.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25490803Grafton, Sue. G Is For Gumshoe. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 7. Three things happened on May 5, the day everyone sang Happy Birthday to Kinsey Millhone. The repairs were completed on her apartment, and she moved back in. She was hired by Mrs Clyde Gersh to bring her mother back from the Mojave Desert. And lastly came a real surprise with the news that she'd made one of the top slots on Tyrone Patty's hit list.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25490903Grafton, Sue. H Is For Homicide. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 8. After a three-week-long investigation, Kinsey couldn’t wait to get home. What she needed most was a few quiet days by herself but two things happened to change all her plans. First she ran into a murder case. Then Kinsey met Bibianna Diaz, and before the night was over they were sharing a prison cell.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25491003Grafton, Sue. I Is For Innocent. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 9. It was a Monday, early in December, when Kinsey Millhone first got involved in the Isabelle Barney murder case. She was out of work. Attorney Lonnie Klingman's usual private investigator has just dropped dead of a heart attack. Kinsey was more than happy to oblige but the trouble started on the very first day of the investigation.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25496103Grafton, Sue. K Is For Killer. 2012. Crime.Kinsey Millhone: book 11. Lorna Kepler was beautiful and wilful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. She has also been found dead in mysterious circumstances and her death pulls Kinsey Millhone into a netherworld of deception, betrayal and unavenged murder.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25496303Gregory, Philippa. Earthly Joys. 2006. Historical Fiction.Earthly joys: book 1. Earthly Joys is a novel set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. Moving to the household of the flamboyant Duke of Buckingham, Tradescant witnesses at first hand the growing division between Parliament and the people; and the most loyal of servants must find a way to become an independent squire.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25550103Gregory, Philippa. Virgin Earth. 2006. Historical Fiction.Earthly joys: book 2. John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But the virgin land is not uninhabited. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers.UEB. 12v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25576703Griffiths, Elly. A Room Full Of Bones. 2012. Crime.Ruth Galloway: book 4. It is Halloween night in King's Lynn, and Dr Ruth Galloway is attending a strange event at the local history museum - the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But what Ruth finds is the body of the museum's curator lying beside the coffin. Soon the museum's wealthy owner lies dead in his stables too. These two deaths could be from natural causes but when he is called in to investigate, DCI Harry Nelson isn't convinced, and it is only a matter of time before Ruth and Nelson cross paths once more.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25575603Grisham, John. Rogue Lawyer. 2015. Thriller.Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take. Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial, even if he has to cheat to get one. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of 21-year-old Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police. When Swanger asks Sebastian to represent him, he lets Sebastian in on a terrible secret, one that will threaten everything he holds dear.UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25464403Groves, Annie. London Belles. 2011. Family Stories.Article Row: book 1. Young Tilly lives with her widowed mother Olive in a house on Article Row in Holborn, London. Forced to seek lodgers, following the death of her father-in-law, the family are in strife. Three girls, Sally, Dulcie, and Agnes, come knocking at her door, each in need of a roof over their heads. As the women prepare for war, all of their futures hang in the balance. Soon their lives will change forever and the home that binds the London Belles is no longer the sanctuary they once sought.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25575803Harris, Robert. Dictator. 2015. Historical Fiction.Cicero: book 3. There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his life constantly in danger, Cicero is tormented by the knowledge that he has sacrificed power for the sake of his principles. His comeback requires wit, skill and courage and for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others.UEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25518003Hayder, Mo. The Treatment. 2008. Crime.Jack Caffery: book 2. A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately. And as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past and his present the real nightmare begins.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25502603Hayder, Mo. Ritual. 2008. Crime.Jack Caffery: book 3. The hands of a young boy who has recently disappeared have been discovered. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed. The search for the young boy and his abductor lead DI Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25502703Hayes, Terry. I Am Pilgrim. 2014. Thriller.Pilgrim was the codename for a world class and legendary secret agent. When NYPD Ben Bradley tracks down Pilgrim, neither man can imagine the terrifying journey they are about to begin, as what begins as an unusual and challenging murder investigation leads them into a direct collision course with the dark forces of jihadist terrorism.UEB. 13v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25495903Henry, Veronica. The Birthday Party. 2011. Chick Lit.Secrets, rivalry, glamour - it's time for the party of the year. Delilah has lived out her tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the glare of the media spotlight. Now planning a milestone birthday, she has more on her mind than invitations. Raf has been offered a part in a movie he can't refuse. But will he succumb to the temptations he's struggled to resist for the last ten years? Delilah's three daughters are building careers of their own, only too aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For the Rafferty girls might look like angels, but they are only human. It's the perfect recipe for a party like no other.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25575503Iggulden, Conn. The Death Of Kings. 2011. Historical Fiction.Emperor: book 2. The young Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley, gaining a fearsome reputation. Then his ship is captured and he is abandoned on the North African coast. After gathering a legion of men powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors and to suppress an uprising in Greece, he returns to Rome a hero. At the moment of his triumph, Julius finds he must fight again. A savage rebellion threatens the city, led by a gladiator named Spartacus.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25481403Iggulden, Conn. The Gods Of War. 2011. Historical Fiction.Emperor: book 4. Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people. The glory that Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian enjoy is short lived. There are lands to conquer and choices to make that may yet tear them apart. What cost will Caesar suffer for the path he has walked? Who will make him pay?UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25481303Iggulden, Conn. Bloodline. 2015. Historical Fiction.Wars of the Roses: book 3. Winter 1461. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims himself England's rightful king. Factions form and tear apart as snow falls. Through blood and treason, through broken men and vengeful women, brother shall confront brother, king shall face king. Two men can always claim a crown. Only one can keep it.UEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25468203Jones, Wendy. The Thoughts And Happenings Of Wilfred Price, Purveyor Of Superior Funerals. 2012. General Fiction.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.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25550303Kipling, Rudyard. The Day's Work. 2011. Short Stories.In The Day's Work, Kipling uses a series of short stories to examine labour and employment from a variety of different industries, be it shipping, transport or bridge building. The result is a masterly collection of writings dealing with such eternal themes as family loyalty, obedience to command, and dependency against all the odds.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25551503Kube-Mcdowell, Michael P. Tyrant's Test. 1997. Science Fiction.Star Wars. The Black Fleet crisis: book 3. Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat, even at the cost of Han's life. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to NilSpaar's deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the NewRepublic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25570303La Plante, Lynda. The Red Dahlia. 2011. Crime.Anna Travis: book 2. Anna Travis and James Langton return, and must work together to capture one of the most terrifying killers they have ever encountered. A young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames. Horrifically mutilated and drained of blood, her death is an ominous mirror image of an unsolved 1940s case in Los Angeles known as 'The Black Dahlia'. Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this copycat killer, dubbed 'The Red Dahlia' from the flower his victim wore in her hair. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25570403Lane, Lizzie. Coronation Wives. 2013. Family Stories.It's 1953. Coronation year. While Bristol is still recovering from the aftermath of the war, three very different women are counting the cost. Polly longs for an easier, more glamorous life, but with her irrepressible young daughter and her charming, if scheming, husband, will things improve? Charlotte is trying to forget her illicit wartime romance and accept the shortcomings of her marriage. And Edna is desperate to protect her young family, even if it means keeping secrets.UEB. 8v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25570503Leather, Stephen. The Bombmaker. 2000. Thriller.Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers, until a misplaced bomb ripped a group of passing kids apart, and she left all that behind her. Now, years later, she's got a whole new life with a new family and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and she is blackmailed into building a huge explosive device for them – target unknown.UEB. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25575203Lupton, Rosamund. The Quality Of Silence. 2016. Thriller.On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrived in Alaska Within hours they were driving alone across a frozen wilderness where nothing grows, where no one lives, where tears freeze and night will last for another 54 days. They are looking for Ruby's father. Travelling deeper into a silent land. They still cannot find him. And someone is watching them in the dark.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25463303Mcinerney, Lisa. The Glorious Heresies. 2015. General Fiction.One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a 15-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony. Georgie is a prostitute, while Maureen, the accidental murderer, has returned to Cork after 40 years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of other perceived sins, she threatens to destroy everything her son has worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of the Irish underworld into the spotlight.UEB. 7v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25571103Mckenzie, Elizabeth. The Portable Veblen. 2016. Literary Fiction.Meet Veblen. She's an experienced cheerleader (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator, and a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her namesake, the economist Thorstein Veblen. She's also a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand everything she says.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25571403Mackintosh, Clare. I Let You Go. 2015. Thriller.In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25492803Marsh, Ngaio. Photo-Finish. 1999. Classic Crime.Inspector Alleyn: book 31. Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last novels. The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour. Among the other guests are Chief Superintendent Alleyn and his wife, but theirs is not a social visit. When tragedy strikes, and isolated by one of the lake's sudden storms, Alleyn faces one of his trickiest cases.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25569703Martin, George R. R. A Storm Of Swords. 2011. Fantasy.A song of ice and fire: book 3. Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavour, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King's Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne.UEB. 23v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25482203Montanari, Richard. The Stolen Ones. 2013. Crime.Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey. Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head and left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning of a trail of evil that leads back to the hospital and the nightmares it still contains.SEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24865503Oswald, James. The Book Of Souls. 2013. Crime.Inspector McLean mysteries: book 2. Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée, but the killer made a mistake and McLean put an end to the killing spree. 12 years later, the Christmas killer is murdered. But with the festive season comes a body; naked, washed, and with her throat cut.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25496003Pearse, Lesley. Without A Trace. 2015. General Fiction.Coronation Day, 1953. Molly Heywood has always been a pillar of strength for her local community, so when her friend Cassie fails to attend the Coronation Day party in her village, it is Molly who heads out in the rain to look for her. But nothing can prepare Molly for what she is going to discover. Now with Cassie gone and her six-year-old daughter Petal missing, it is up to Molly to head to London to uncover the past Cassie kept so well hidden. But will Molly discover the truth before it's too late? Or has Petal disappeared forever?UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25492703Phinn, Gervase. Trouble At The Little Village School. 2013. Country Life Fiction.Barton-in-the-Dale: book 2. Elisabeth Devine rocked the boat when she took over as head teacher of the primary school in Barton-in-the-Dale. Now after winning over the wary locals, she can settle into her new role. But now the school is to be merged with its rival, and Elisabeth has to fight for the new headship with Urebank's ruthless and calculating headmaster.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25551803Pressfield, Steven. Gates Of Fire: An Epic Novel Of The Battle Of Thermopylae. 1999. War Fiction.At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history and one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale.UEB. 8v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25495503Quinn, Julia. The Secret Diaries Of Miss Miranda Cheever. 2007. Historical Romance.Bevelstoke: book 1. At the age of ten, Miss Miranda Cheever showed no signs of ever becoming a Great Beauty. Only, in 1811, the nineteen-year-old Viscount Turner, eldest brother of Miranda's closest friend, had kissed the hand of an awkward ten-year-old girl and promised her that one day she'd be as beautiful as she was smart. Now, eight years later, Miranda is a woman grown, and Turner an embittered widower. But she has never forgotten his kindness. Indeed it is only in her diary that she confides the truth: she has never stopped loving Turner, and she has never stopped hoping that one day he will see her as more than a na?ve girl.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25576503Reeman, Douglas. Go In And Sink. 2001. Sea Stories.February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but for most there can be no thought of leave. If the enemy collapse in North Africa is to be exploited, every experienced man will be needed. Marshall must return to the Mediterranean, but this time to a very different kind of war. For his new command is secret and extremely hazardous - a captured German U-boat.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25441803Riordan, Kate. The Girl In The Photograph. 2015. General Fiction.It's the summer of 1933 and Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in this isolated house concealed within a Gloucestershire valley in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice soon begins to sense that something isn't quite right within the walls of this beautiful manor. Traces of the previous occupant, Elizabeth Stanton, are everywhere, and Alice discovers Elizabeth's life eerily mirrors the path she herself is on. The past is set to repeat its sorrows, and with devastating consequences.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25495603Rothschild, Hannah. The Improbability Of Love. 2015. General Fiction.Annie McDee is searching for a present for her unsuitable lover in a neglected second-hand shop. A grimy painting catches her eye. Leaving the store with the picture after spending her meagre savings, she prepares an elaborate dinner for two, only to be stood up, the gift gathering dust on her mantelpiece. But every painting has a story and if it could speak, what would it tell us? For Annie has stumbled across 'The Improbability of Love', a lost masterpiece by Antoine Watteau, one of the most influential French painters of the 18th century.UEB. 9v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25571203Shaw, Rebecca. A Village Dilemma. 2002. Country Life Fiction.Turnham Malpas: book 9. An unwelcome visitor arrives in Turnham Malpas. Why is Bryn Fields, who fled four years ago under the worst possible circumstances, back? And what are his plans for the village? For the rector and his wife, Peter and Caroline, there are more serious problems to cope with when their twins start asking about their real mother. Having accepted her husband's indiscretion ten years ago, Caroline finds that facing up to it again now is almost more than she can bear.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25480903Smith, Wilbur A. Cry Wolf. 2011. Adventure.Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25550603Steinbeck, John. East Of Eden. 2000. Classic.Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.UEB. 13v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25476803Stirling, Jessica. Prized Possessions. 1999. Family Stories.Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the worst slums of the Gorbals, all for the sake of her three daughters, her most prized possessions. She would do anything to protect Polly, Babs and Rosie. In this tough part of Glasgow, there are many dangers, physical and moral, facing women. And the girls themselves seem sometimes to be determined to make marriages as unwise as the one that landed her with crippling debts, three small children and no man to take care of them. Lizzie is a fighter; to her surprise, so are more than one of her girls.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25386703Titchmarsh, Alan. The Last Lighthouse Keeper. 2004. Romance.Will Elliott is out of a job. The lighthouse he's been manning on Prince Albert Rock, off the wild Cornish coast, is about to become automated. So Will decides to fulfil his lifelong ambition, to sail round the coastline of Britain. Determined to continue his solitary existence, Will begins his preparations for his epic voyage. But before he has time to so much as paint his hull, he meets Amy Finn, a beautiful artist and fellow loner.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25483703Van Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Legacy: A New Jason Bourne Novel. 2010. Thriller.Bourne: book 4. Jason Bourne has gradually come to realise who and what he really is – a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb, and a deadly killer. Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game for ever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family.UEB. 11v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25481203Watson, S. J. Second Life. 2015. Thriller.When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. But Julia's quest quickly evolves into an alluring exploration of her own darkest sensual desires. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger online, she's losing herself, losing control, and perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life.UEB. 6v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25482503Watson, S. J. Before I Go To Sleep. 2014. Thriller.Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love, all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. Christine, an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is and who she can trust.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25575307Webb, Charles Richard. The Graduate. 2010. General Fiction.When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful co-ed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortunately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.UEB. 4v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25570803Adult non-fictionAutobiographyRyder, Sue. And The Morrow Is Theirs: The Autobiography Of Sue Ryder. 1975.This dedicational work began while she was still a child and grew during her work with the Special Operations Executive. She established the Sue Ryder Foundation as a living memorial to those who endured persecution or were killed during the two World Wars. Today thousands of people find hope and help in homes in Britain and overseas.UEB. 5v. Price: ?1.25. Order No: 25551403Trumpington, Jean. Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir. 2015.The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable privilege, but the Wall Street Crash entirely wiped out her mother's fortune. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she became a land girl before joining naval intelligence at Bletchley Park. After the war she worked first in Paris and then on Madison Avenue, New York, with advertising's 'mad men'. It was here that she met her husband, the historian Alan Barker, and their marriage, in 1954, ushered in the happiest period of her life before embarking on her distinguished political career, as a Cambridge City councillor, Mayor of Cambridge and, then, in 1980, a life peer.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25550903BiographyAckroyd, Peter. Alfred Hitchcock. 2015.As an adult, Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. This biography wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25460103Hegarty, Neil. Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography. 2015.Written in collaboration with Sir David Frost's wife and three sons, this work features many unpublished writings from Frost and exclusive access to his vast archive. It also offers opinions on Frost from his extraordinary list of friends. It is an epic story of personal achievement set amidst a rapidly changing world, encountering the great and the good that have dominated news and entertainment over the last 50 years.UEB. 10v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25577203Sullivan, Rosemary. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary And Tumultuous Life Of Svetlana Alliluyeva. 2015.Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father’s brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States, leaving her two children behind.UEB. 13v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25577103Wright, Thomas. Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea. 2013.A biography of one of the greatest Englishmen in the history of science, William Harvey, whose quest to understand the movement of blood overturned beliefs held by anatomists and physicians since Roman times. His theory altered the culture, language and political ideas of its time.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25576803Wulf, Andrea. The Invention Of Nature: The Adventures Of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero Of Science. 2015.Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid, even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps, Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today.UEB. 13v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25452403Country Life and FarmingGray, Emma. One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love And Lambing In The Middle Of Nowhere. 2012.What happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new? When 23-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take over an isolated Northumberland farm seems just the fresh start she needs. Throughout the long nights of lambing, the highs and lows of the local sheepdog trials and the day-to-day chores of maintaining a large, ramshackle farm, Emma's collies are her most loyal companions. With Bill, Fly, Roy and Alfie by her side, she'll never really be alone.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25576003DramaBennett, Alan. The History Boys. 2004.An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's classic play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.UEB. 2v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25456003HistoryHolland, Tom. Dynasty: The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Caesar. 2015.Tom Holland gives a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty. The booktraces the full astonishing story of its rule of the world: both the brilliance of its allure, and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes. Ranging from the great capital rebuilt in marble by Augustus to the dank and barbarian-haunted forests of Germany, it is populated by a spectacular cast: murderers and metrosexuals, adulterers and druids, scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators. 'Dynasty' is the portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome.UEB. 11v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25476703Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer: The Secret History Of The End Of An Empire. 2008.The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror. Indian Summer depicts the epic sweep of events that ripped apart the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and reveals the secrets of the most powerful players on the world stage: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the wife of the last viceroy and the first prime minister of free India.UEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25576903Quick readsCleeves, Ann. Too Good To Be True. 2016.Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez from the bestselling Shetland series. When young teacher Anna Blackwell is found dead in her home, the police think her death was suicide or a tragic accident. After all, Stonebridge is a quiet country village in the Scottish Borders, where murders just don't happen. Anna had seemed happier than ever before she died. And to Perez, this suggests not suicide, but murder.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 6v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25491303Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 25491305Henry, Veronica. The Anniversary. 2016.Ten irresistible stories from ten bestselling authors – specially written for Quick Reads. Original stories from Fanny Blake, Elizabeth Buchan, Rowan Coleman, Jenny Colgan, Philippa Gregory, Matt Haig, Veronica Henry, Andy McNab, Richard Madeley and John O'Farrell - with special anniversary recipes from The Hairy Bikers.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 8v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25491403Yousafzai, Malala. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban. 2016.This is an abridged Quick Reads version of 'I am Malala'. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank range. Malala Yousafzai's extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations. She has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 8v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25491603Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 25491605Children and young adult fiction07+ suggested reading ageAtwater, Richard. Mr Popper's Penguins. 2011.The lovable Mr. Popper dreams of being an intrepid Antarctic explorer, living life among the penguins alongside his hero, Admiral Drake. So he is shocked one day when the admiral responds to his fan letter by sending him a real, live penguin! Soon, Mr. Popper has an ice rink in the basement and a dozen penguins living in his house.UEB double line spacing. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25569803Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 25569805Brumpton, Keith. Terror On The Training Ground. 2010.Dino FC: book 1. Terry Triceratops is the manager of Dinosaur FC. With the team at the bottom of the Premiership, the chairman brings in fitness trainer Hans Hadrosaur to whip the dinos back into shape. If the team drops out of the league, then Terry faces the sack. So the Dino FC players are determined to secure a win against Jurassic Park Rangers.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25496903Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 25496905Godden, Rumer. The Diddakoi. 2013.Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gypsy - a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn't care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns down, Kizzy is all alone. Can Kizzy survive in a hostile world and save Joe?UEB double line spacing. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25491503Plowden, Sophie. Jack Dash And The Magic Feather. 2015.Jack is not happy when his family move to the dull suburban town of Curtly Ambrose. But everything changes when Jack finds a magic feather inside a book. Jack's magic feather makes whatever he draws come to life. But his grand plans (for a dog, a car and loads of chocolate) don't go quite right and he ends up on the run from the Mayor and taking a sealion on the bus. Even worse Jack is constantly being pestered by Coco, the girl next door who is very annoying and possibly insane. Jack needs to get better at drawing or it's going to be a complete disaster!UEB double line spacing. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25407703Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 25407705Stanton, Andy. Mr Gum And The Goblins. 2014.That old roo-de-lally Mr Gum and the hideous Billy William the Third are once more mucking things up for everyone. They're a-schemin' and a-hatchin' and making their bad plans up on Goblin Mountain. Can the brave travellers make it past the three Impossible Challenges of Goblin Mountain and save the town?UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25493103Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 25493105Webb, Holly. The Case Of The Stolen Sixpence. 2015.Maisie Hitchins: book 1. Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of mysteries to solve on the streets of Victorian London, if only she weren't so busy running errands for her grandmother. When Maisie rescues an abandoned puppy, he quickly leads her to her first case. George, the butcher's boy, has been sacked for stealing, but Maisie's sure he's innocent. It's time for Maisie to put her detective skills to the test as she follows the trail of the missing money.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2550360309+ suggested reading ageBlyton, Enid. The Sea Of Adventure. 2014.Adventure: book 4. Recovering from measles on a remote Scottish island, the children are left to fend for themselves when their host disappears. Soon they're on the trail of a ruthless enemy through the wildest and most desolate places.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25476003Cassidy, Cathy. Coco Caramel. 2014.Chocolate box girls: book 4. Coco is the youngest of the Tanberry sisters but she's as headstrong as any of them. Coco is crazy about animals and loves her riding lessons. When her favourite pony at the stables is sold, Coco scopes out the new owner and she's not happy about what she discovers. With big sister Honey going off at the deep end and Summer only just recovering from her eating disorder, Coco can't rely on family help. Can Coco save Caramel alone or will a new friend help her?UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25502503Corder, Zizou. The Truth. 2007.Lionboy: book 3. Charlie Ashanti - lion-rescuer, shipwreck survivor, circus veteran, son of asthma cure-inventing scientists, and Catspeaker - is safe. Or is he? Reunited with his parents in Morocco, Charlie thinks that his old enemy, Maccomo the lion-tamer, is being held captive. But all is not as it seems.UEB. 5v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25487303Kessler, Liz. Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister. 2009.Philippa Fisher: book 1. Philippa Fisher tries and fails to summon a fairy, but is taken aback when Daisy, the new girl at school, announces that she is her fairy godmother or godsister, since they are the same age. Daisy is not best pleased with Philippa, but she has a mission to fulfil and is obliged to stick with her until she has granted her three wishes.UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25503103Kessler, Liz. The Tail Of Emily Windsnap. 2015.Emily Windsnap: book 1. Emily lives on a boat, but her mother has always tried to keep her out of the water. It is only when she has her first swimming lesson that she discovers it is her natural element. When she finally gets into the sea, Emily grows a tail and soon begins to explore a glorious underwater world.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25502803Kinney, Jeff. The Long Haul. 2014.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 9. A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun, unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig – not exactly Greg Heffley's idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure and this is one the Heffleys won't soon forget.UEB. 2v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25390903Rowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books.UEB. 3v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25676503Shan, Darren. Demon Thief. 2006.The Demonata: book 2. When Kernel Fleck's brother is stolen by demons, he must enter their universe in search of him. It is a place of magic, chaos and incredible danger. Kernel has three aims: to learn to use magic; to find his brother, to stay alive. But a heartless demon awaits him, and death has been foretold.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25398403Shan, Darren. Blood Beast. 2007.The Demonata: book 5. Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole. Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25399903Stevens, Robin. Murder Most Unladylike. 2014.Wells and Wong mystery: book 1. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. But then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls know a murder must have taken place and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2549300313+ suggested reading ageCollins, B. R. Love In Revolution. 2013.Esteya is fifteen. As war rumbles closer, Esteya's brother, an important figure in the Revolutionary Communist Party, is able to protect their family from the worst of the privations of war. Then Esteya meets an extraordinary girl, Skizi, an outcast, shunned by all. But Esteya and Skizi are drawn to each other. Slowly and wonderfully love blossoms. And then Esteya's family are betrayed and forcibly taken away. Skizi disappears. Esteya is left deserted, heartbroken and in terrible danger. But she must find a way to escape and to find Skizi.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25455803Pearce, Jackson. Cold Spell. 2014.Retold fairytales: book 4. A contemporary retelling of “The Snow Queen,” beginning with a prologue of the memories of Kai’s grandmother Dalia’s past. In the present, the story is told by Ginny, who lives across from Kai and loves him. It is snowing, hard, in Atlanta in October. A cold, beautiful girl named Mora appears as Dalia dies and takes Kai away from his future as a violinist and from Ginny. She follows, driving from Atlanta to Nashville, in snow that is not natural but created by Mora, the Snow Queen. Guided by Grandma Dalia’s book of recipes and spells, Ginny meets up with a savvy beauty queen and her werewolf-hunting husband in Tennessee and then with a group of Travellers in Kentucky.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25392003Sales, Leila. This Song Will Save Your Life. 2013.All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. Then she stumbles upon a secret warehouse party. There, at night, Elise can be a different person, making real friends, falling in love for the first time, and finding her true passion DJing. But when her real and secret lives collide, she has to make a decision once and for all: just who is the real Elise?UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2545620315+ suggested reading ageGarcia, Kami. Beautiful Creatures. 2010.Beautiful Creatures: book 1. In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets. There is a girl, Lena Duchannes. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday her fate will be decided. Ethan never even saw it coming.UEB. 9v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25503303Giant printAdult fictionArcher, Jeffrey. This Was A Man. 2016. Family Stories.The Clifton chronicles: book 7. In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes Chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank. Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons.4v.Carey, Peter. Oscar And Lucinda. 2011. Literary Fiction.Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Made for each other, the two are gamblers – one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.6v.Chambers, Kimberley. The Wronged. 2015. Thriller.The trap: book 3. Vinny Butler has used his time in prison well: to plan the downfall of all who've wronged him. Vinny's brother Michael may think he's the top dog running the family business, but it won't last when Vinny finds out how good his brother's got it. Meanwhile, Vinny is incensed when he finds out that Joanna had a baby in secret while he was in prison but that's nothing compared to his anger when he finds out who the father is. The Butlers are at war, and they're taking everyone down with them; it's all going to end in flames.5v.Collins, Wilkie. The Woman In White. 2011. Classic.The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. 10v.Cookson, Catherine. A House Divided. 1999. Family Stories.Set at the end of the Second World War, Matthew Wallingham, blinded in action and a decorated war hero, returns home and strives to put his life back in order. Although he has the sympathy of his family and friends, it seems that the only person who is able to help him in his depression is his nurse, Liz. But Liz herself has a shadow hanging over her that will bring a terrifying violence into the Wallingham family's life.4v.Cornwell, Bernard. A Crowning Mercy. 2003. Historical Fiction.Crowning mercy: book 1. In mid-17th century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, a young girl, illicitly bathing in a stream, first fell in love with a passing stranger. Her parents called her Dorcas, but he called her Campion. She had one gift left for her by her unknown father – a pendant made of gold, banded by tiny glowing stones and at its base was a seal engraved with an axe and the words: St Matthew. So when she flees before the unbearable, worthy suitor who is forced upon her after her forbidden meeting, she takes this and the delicate lace gloves with her, and hopes to find her father, and her lover.5v.Cussler, Clive. Pacific Vortex! 1998. Thriller.Dirk Pitt: book 1. Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials and vanished. Then ace maritime trouble-shooter Dirk Pitt finds the log of the Starbuck, a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii. 'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain.' a crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain's final, scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex.3v.Hannah, Sophie. Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2016. Crime. Hercule Poirot mystery: book 2. Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change to her will, one she intends to announce at dinner that night. She has decided to cut off her two children without a penny and leave her fortune to someone who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford’s guests are the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard. When a crime is committed Poirot must find the culprit.3v.Herbert, James. The Ghosts Of Sleath. 2015. Horror.David ash: book 2. Can a ghost haunt a ghost? Can the dead reach out and touch the living? Can ancient evil be made manifest? These are the questions that confront investigator David Ash when he is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient village's long history. As each dark secret is unveiled and terrible, malign forces are unleashed, he will fear for his very sanity.4v.Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Marking Time. 1993. Family Stories.Cazalet Chronicles: book 2. Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war. The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with acknowledge and the need to share it.6v.Maclean, Alistair. Fear Is The Key. 1980. Adventure.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead, but only after he had avenged their murders.3v.Muriel, Oscar De. The Strings Of Murder. 2015. Historical Crime.Frey & McGray: book 1. Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room, and no way in or out, the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray, actually believes in such supernatural nonsense.4v.Neville, Stuart. Those We Left Behind. 2016. Crime.DCI Serena Flanagan: book 1. When 12-year-old Ciaran Devine confessed to murdering his foster father it sent shock waves through the nation. DCI Serena Flanagan, then an ambitious Detective Sergeant, took Ciaran's confession after days spent earning his trust. Probation officer Paula Cunningham, now tasked with helping Ciaran re-enter society, after having spent seven years locked away, suspects there was more to this case than the police uncovered. When she brings her fears to DCI Flanagan, the years of lies begin to unravel, setting a deadly chain of events in motion.3v.Patterson, James. The 6th Target. 2009. Crime.The Women's Murder Club: book 6. Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene of a shooting to find that three people have been killed, and one of her friends, Claire, has been shot and lies bleeding, whilst the murderer is on the run. Lindsay promises Claire that she'll hunt down this killer. But, it proves not to be so easy.3v.Patterson, James. 7th Heaven. 2009. Crime.Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare & debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace, his disappearance & the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.3v.Patterson, James. Step On A Crack. 2011. Thriller.Michael Bennett: book 1. The scene is set for a huge funeral in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The rich and the famous from all over America, and beyond, have arrived to honour a former First Lady after her sudden, unexpected death. Then follows an attack that was three years in the planning. Hostages are taken, the ex-President among them, ransoms demanded, a couple of hostages shot to show the kidnappers mean business. It's all brilliantly and chillingly co-ordinated, and Michael Bennett, the detective in charge of the case, knows it will be his biggest ever challenge.3v.Patterson, James. Gone. 2014. Thriller.Michael Bennett: book 6. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him.3v.Patterson, James. Alert. 2016. Thriller.Michael Bennett: book 8. New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks, but the city is about to be shaken in a way it never has before. After two devastating catastrophes in quick succession, everyone is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett is assigned to the case and given the near impossible task of hunting down the shadowy terror group responsible. Then a shocking assassination makes it clear that these inexplicable events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Now Bennett is racing against the clock to save his beloved city, before the most destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart.3v.Riordan, Kate. The Girl In The Photograph. 2015. General Fiction.It's the summer of 1933 and Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in this isolated house concealed within a Gloucestershire valley in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice soon begins to sense that something isn't quite right within the walls of this beautiful manor. Traces of the previous occupant, Elizabeth Stanton, are everywhere, and Alice discovers Elizabeth's life eerily mirrors the path she herself is on. The past is set to repeat its sorrows, and with devastating consequences.4v.Sheffield, Jack. Teacher, Teacher! The Alternative School Logbook, 1977-1978. 2007. Country Life Fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 1. In 1977 Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. There's also beautiful, Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster.3v.Sheffield, Jack. Dear Teacher: The Alternative School Logbook 1979-1980. 2009. Country Life Fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 3. Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack and his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms, as once again the official School Log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine. Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero, Nicholas Parsons; and Jack, to his astonishment, finds himself having to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas.3v.Sheffield, Jack. Please Sir!: The Alternative School Logbook 1981-1982. 2011. Country Life Fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 5. It's 1981, the time of Adam and the Ants, Rubik's Cube, the Sony Walkman and the Falklands War, as head teacher Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest School for another rollercoaster year. Vera, the ever-efficient school secretary, has to grapple with a new-fangled computer, and enjoys a royal occasion, while Ruby the caretaker rediscovers romance with a Butlin's Redcoat. And for Jack, wedding bells are in the air. But the unexpected is just round the corner.3v.Sheffield, Jack. Educating Jack: The Alternative School Logbook 1982-1983. 2012. Country Life Fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 6. As the 1982 school year begins, Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his sixth year as headteacher. Nora Pratt celebrates twenty-five years in her coffee shop, Ronnie Smith finally tries to get a job, and little Krystal Entwhistle causes concern in the school Nativity play. It's the time of ET and Greenham Common, Price William's birth, Fame legwarmers and the puzzling introduction of the 20p piece. Meanwhile, for Jack, the biggest surprise of his life is in store.3v.Sheffield, Jack. Silent Night. 2014. Country Life Fiction.Jack Sheffield: book 8. More funny and heartwarming adventures for the North Yorkshire village school and its eccentric occupants. 1984, and it's an important time for the children of Ragley-on-the-Forest school. Their school choir is to sing a carol in a church in York, and is actually going to be on television! Helping to keep his excited children, not to mention their parents, under control during these momentous events taxes Jack and his staff to the limit. And at the same time, Jack has his own problems to deal with.3v.Steel, Danielle. One Day At A Time. 2009. Romance.Coco Barrington, from a legendary Hollywood family, is a law school dropout and family black sheep. With her mother, a bestselling author in a relationship with a younger man, and her sister Jane, a top film producer with a long-term partner, Liz, they are not your typical family. Coco works as a dog walker, in a Northern California beach town - until she agrees to house-sit her sister's luxurious San Francisco home. The house comes complete with an unexpected houseguest, Leslie Baxter, a dashing British superstar who's fleeing his psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldn't be more different. The attraction couldn't be more immediate.3v.Watson, S. J. Before I Go To Sleep. 2014. Thriller.Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love, all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life. Christine, an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is and who she can trust.4v.Adult Non-FictionAutobiographyRentzenbrink, Cathy. The Last Act Of Love: The Story Of My Brother And His Sister. 2016.In the summer of 1990, two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school, Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries. He was left in a permanent vegetative state. Over the following years, Cathy and her parents took care of Matty but there came a point at which it seemed the best thing they could do for Matty, and for themselves, was let him go. Cathy describes the unimaginable pain of losing her brother and the decision that changed her family's lives forever. 2v.Children and young adult fiction05+ Suggested Reading ageRodgers, Frank. Pirate Penguins. 2006. Animal Stories.Paisley, Posso, Kelty and Spott are pirate penguins. And they're hungry. But there's nothing to eat - all the fish have disappeared from the sea! Could the gang of scary, sharp-toothed cats have anything to do with it? It's time for Paisley to come up with a cunning plan.1v.07+ Suggested Reading ageAnholt, Laurence. Eco-Wolf And The Three Pigs. 2002. 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".1v.Anholt, Laurence. Ghostyshocks And The Three Scares. 2002.Ghostyshocks is scared of the dark forest and vampire bears. She is extra-frightened when she gets lost in the woods with only one old house in sight. Could the scary bears live there? She has to knock on the door to find out.1v.Anholt, Laurence. Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin. 2002.Once upon a time in a country where everyone had silly names (and the King had the silliest of all) there lived a miller by the name of Eyebrow Snailsocks. Eyebrow has a problem – he can't stop boasting about his daughter and soon the King decides to find out the truth. So one night, the miller's daughter finds herself locked in a room full of spaghetti which she must knit into vests by sunrise or else!1v.Cope, Andrew. Spy Dog: Storm Chaser. 2015. Adventure.Spy Dog: book 11. An unusual storm cloud has been hovering over Brickfield town and Lara knows that something isn't quite right about it - it smells, sort of chickeny. The people of Brickfield are becoming strangely grumpy so Lara, Spy Dog extraordinaire, must investigate. If the town doesn't see sunshine soon the consequences could be dogastrophic!1v.King-Smith, Dick. The Magic Carpet Slippers. 2001.When 75-year old Percy Sloggett's battered old slippers are replaced, it is a surprise to discover that the new pair are magic. They make him feel years younger and also make him strong and clever. When they enable him to leap across the road to prevent an accident, they become life-savers as well.1v.Mcdonald, Megan. Judy Moody Around The World In 8 ? Days. 2011.Judy Moody: book 7. Judy Moody has a double! Amy Namey is exactly like Judy, and she's a member of the 'way-cool' My-Name-Is-A-Poem Club. But when Judy starts an ‘Around-the-World’ school project with her new best friend, her old friends start to feel left out.1v.Riddell, Chris. Ottoline And The Yellow Cat. 2015. Adventure.Ottoline: book 1. Ottoline Brown lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr Munroe. Together they look after the Brown family's eclectic collections – and dabble in a spot of detective work. So they are the first to the scene of the crime when a string of high society dog-nappings and jewel thefts hits Big City. Ottoline (who luckily has a diploma from the Who-R-U academy of Disguise) and Mr Munroe go undercover - and expose an ingenious scam masterminded by furry feline crook, the Yellow Cat.1v.Strong, Jeremy. The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog. 2007. Animal Stories.Hundred-mile-an-hour dog: book 1. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She is a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Can Trevor train her by the end of the holidays or will he lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg?1v.Webb, Holly. Catmagic. 2008. Animal Stories.There's magic everywhere, if you know where to look. The last thing Lottie wants is to spend the holidays with her boring uncle. But everything changes when she discovers his pet shop is full of magical animals. 1v.Webb, Holly. Dogmagic. 2008. Animal Stories.Lottie is enjoying life at the magical pet shop and especially the magic lessons with Sofie and Ariadne the witch. With her new best friend, Ruby, even school is becoming fun, but can Lottie trust her? What would Ruby say if she knew Lottie had magical powers?1v.9+ suggested reading ageDon, Lari. First Aid For Fairies And Other Fabled Beasts. 2008.Helen has absolutely no interest in becoming a vet like her mother. So she isn't best pleased when asked to help an injured horse. Only this horse isn't entirely normal, and nor are his friends. Without warning, Helen is thrust into an extraordinary world full of magical rituals, fantastical creatures and a dangerous, powerful beast known as the Master, who would destroy it all.2v.Grylls, Bear. Gold Of The Gods. 2008. Adventure.Mission: survival: book 1. Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost city of gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer - until now. When Beck gets lost in the Columbian jungle with no food, no compass, and no hope of rescue danger lurks ahead. But Beck is no ordinary teenager - he's the world's youngest survival expert. If anyone can make it out alive, he can.1v.Judge, Malcolm. The Hamburgers Of Doom. 2015. Jonny Jakes investigates. Meet Jonny Jakes, undercover schoolboy reporter for 'The Woodford Word.' He offends everyone he writes about and hates anyone finding out his real name. It's not Jonny Jakes. After only half a term of Jonny's diligent reporting, Mr Hardy is retiring as Head Teacher. Just who is his replacement, Mr Jones? With a suspiciously normal name like that, Jonny knows something's up. He just didn't expect it to be so out of this world.1v.Lingard, Joan. The Chancery Lane Conspiracy. 2010.Elfie and Joe: book 2. When Elfie's best friend, Joe, starts work as a clerk in her father's office, Elfie is delighted. Unfortunately, Joe's not the only new person working in the lawyer's office in Chancery Lane. Mr Trelawney's bigoted partner Mr Basildon-Blunt takes an instant dislike to Joe and worse, he seems to have some hold over Elfie's father.1v.Mccombie, Karen. Angels Next Door. 2014. Angels next door: book 1. Riley's best friend has gone away forever and Lauren 'Queen of Everything' Mayhew is making school a nightmare. It looks like Riley's on her own until the three angelo sisters move in next door. Colourful and sparkly, they stand out, especially at school and since they've arrived there have been loads of strange coincidences. Who are these new girls?1v.Marshall, Jill. Jane Blonde: Sensational Spylet. 2006.Jane Blonde: book 1. Ten-year-old Janey Brown feels like she is practically invisible. Then a crazy woman turns up at the school gates, claiming to be Janey's godmother. According to hip-hop talking, larger-than-life 'G-Mamma', Janey Brown really is something special. She's Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet – and it's time for her first mission.2v.Pichon, Liz. Excellent Excuses (And Other Good Stuff). 2011.Tom Gates: book 2. Following on from the first Tom Gates book from Liz Pichon, this book takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his scribbles and stories.2v.Reeve, Philip. Goblins Vs Dwarves. 2013. Fantasy.Goblins: book 2. The reawakening of ancient sorcery is bringing new creatures to the world of Clovenstone. A network of tunnels is sneaking into the heart of goblin territory. Skarper and his friends try to halt this underground invasion, but the dwarves - ruthless, cunning and covered in mole-droppings - are a dangerous enemy. The hapless heroes of GOBLINS must defend their magical castle in a fabulously action-packed sequel from one of the master storytellers of children's fantasy fiction.2v.Willoughby, Holly. First Term At L'Etoile. 2013.School for Stars: book 1. On the first day of term at L'Etoile, School for Stars, twins Maria and Molly Fitzfoster meet Pippa Burrows who's won a song-writing scholarship to the school. The talented trio share the same dreams of super-stardom and become best friends. But will their friendship stand up against Lucifette Marciano's plans to wreck their chances and claim fame for herself?1v.11+ Suggested Reading ageEarle, Phil. The Bubble Wrap Boy. 2014.“All my life I've been tiny Charlie from the Chinese Chippie, whose only friend is Sinus, the kid who stares at walls. But I believe that everyone's good at something. I've just got to work out what my something is.” Charlie's found his secret talent: skateboarding. It's his one-way ticket to popularity. All he's got to do is practice, and nothing's going to stop him - not his clumsiness, not his overprotective mum, nothing. Except Charlie isn't the only one in his family hiding a massive secret, and his next discovery will change everything. How do you stay on the board when your world is turned upside down?2v.13+ Suggested Reading ageBuckle, J. A. Half My Facebook Friends Are Ferrets. 2014. 15-year-old Josh fantasises about becoming a death metal guitarist complete with tattoos, piercings and hordes of adoring fans. But it's not easy when his super-strict mum won't let him grow his hair! Luckily Josh has a way of coping with life's setbacks; it's only a diary, but it contains all Josh's hopes, dreams and frustrations. There's a lot he wants to get done before his 16th birthday, but things never turn out quite like he plans. What Josh doesn't know is that his mother also kept a diary, back about the time he was born, and a secret in there holds the key to Josh's life becoming a whole lot more metal.1v.Cannon, Katy, Love, Lies & Lemon Pies. 2014. Love, lies & lemon pies: book 1. 16-year-old Lottie is on a mission to protect her biggest secret, and it'll take every lie and every baking trick she can muster. Since her dad died, life hasn't been the same for Lottie. When the school suggests she joins Bake Club to get her back on track, Lottie reluctantly agrees. But soon she rekindles her love of baking and gets caught up with Mac, school rebel and another unwilling Bake Club member. As the end-of-year bake-off approaches, the tension rises. Can Lottie keep up the facade of her perfect life? And can her bubbling romance with Mac survive the pressure?2v.Ducie, Joe. The Rig. 2013. Science Fiction.15-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at the Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. After making some escape plans and meeting the first real friends of his life, Drake quickly realises that all is not as it seems on the Rig. The Warden is obsessed with the mysterious Crystal-X; a blue, glowing substance that appears to give superpowers to the teens exposed to it. Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom but can they survive long enough to make it?2v.15+ Suggested Reading ageMorgan, R. J. Fifteen Bones. 2014. Jake is not a bad person. He used to have 'potential'. But now he's been expelled from five schools and only Cattle Rise, a tough inner-city school, will take him. What nobody knows is that Jake is drowning in grief. Then one night he hears screams in the night from the girl next door. Could it be that Robin's trapped in a fate worse than his? Perhaps, in helping her, he can help himself. But, as he's drawn into Robin's world, Jake realises that he's about to discover what real danger is.2v.Children and Young adult Non-Fiction9+ suggested reading ageDramaRowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books.2v.Talking BooksAdult fictionAdler-Olsen, Jussi. Guilt. 2014. Crime. TB23485.Department Q: book 4. 1987: Nete Hermansen, a young woman brutally assaulted in her youth, sterilised without her consent by a fanatical surgeon, and banished to Sprogo, the island for outcast women is planning her escape and her vengeance. And soon people begin to go missing and no one, certainly not the police, knows why, nor that individual cases are connected. Today: M'rck and his assistants Assad and Rose in Department Q are examining old missing persons cases and spot a disturbing pattern from 1987.Read by Steven Pacey. 16 hours 3 minutes. Archer, Jeffrey. This Was A Man. 2016. Family Stories. TB23608.The Clifton chronicles: book 7. In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her 10 years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank. Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear herdebts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons.Read by Alex Jennings. 12 hours 50 minutes. Asher, Neal L. Dark Intelligence. 2015. Science Fiction. TB23011.Transformation: book 1. Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. He died in a human vs alien war which ended a whole century ago. And when he relives his traumatic final moments, he is filled with a desire for vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, it annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down.Contains swear words.Read by Tom Slatter. 15 hours 6 minutes. Aswany, Alaa. The Automobile Club Of Egypt. 2016. Literary Fiction.TB23173.Inside the walls of the automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them. The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear under the tyrannical rule of Alku. When Abd el-Aziz Gaafar becomes the target of Alku's cruelty and his pride gets the better of him, a devastating act sends ripples through his family. Egyptians both inside and outside the club are about to face a stark choice: to live safely without dignity, or fight for their rights and risk everything.Read by David Thorpe. 19 hours 8 minutes. Atkinson, Kate. A God In Ruins. 2015. Literary Fiction. TB23493.Todd Family: book 2. Kate Atkinson's 'Life after Life' explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In 'A God in Ruins', Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.Read by alex Jennings. 16 hours 26 minutes. Barclay, Alex. The Drowning Child. 2016. Thriller. TB23652.Ren Bryce: book 6. When Special agent Ren Bryce is called to Tate, Oregon to investigate the disappearance of twelve-year-old Caleb Veir, she finds a town already in mourning. Two other young boys have died recently, although in very different circumstances. As Ren digs deeper, she discovers that all is not as it seems in the Veir household - and that Tate is a small town with a big secret. Can Ren uncover the truth before more children are harmed?Read by Penelope Rawlins. 11 hours 43 minutes. Barker, Pat. Noonday. 2015. General Fiction. TB23486.Brooke family: book 3. Paul, Elinor and Kit first met in 1914 at the Slade School of art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even turned to séances in an attempt to contact lost loved ones. As the bombs fall and Elinor and the others struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want.Read by Juliet Stevenson, Steven Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Read, Finlay Robertson. 9 hours 50 minutes. Beckett, Simon. The Calling Of The Grave. 2011. Crime. TB23509.David Hunter: book 4. When DI Terry Connor turns up on David Hunter's doorstep, it's an unwelcome reminder of the past. The two used to be friends before Connor's behaviour caused a bitter rift. And the news the policeman brings is even less welcome: the psychotic rapist and murderer Jerome Monk has escaped from high security prison. And as the maniac's bloody trail edges ever closer, Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust, especially when his own life depends on it.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 9 hours 58 minutes. Brown, Sandra. Breath Of Scandal. 2005. Thriller. TB23064.New York, 1990. The road from Palmetto, South Carolina, has been a long one, and Jade Sperry has worked hard to get where she is. Her life was ruined in 1976, shortly before graduation, when she was raped by three classmates. Because they were all sons of prominent citizens, Jade knew they would never be convicted of rape. But Jade vowed to seek revenge, and now she is returning to Palmetto.Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words.Read by Julie Hooker. 14 hours 59 minutes. Campbell, Barney. Rain. 2015. War Fiction. TB23487.Tom Chamberlain was always destined to be a soldier. From the moment when, as a young boy, he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast his path was set. And despite all entreaties, the lure of the army proved irresistible. With the long war in Afghanistan at its savage peak, Tom is despatched from home with his men in the dead of an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving the country without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by self-doubt, he must discover both who he is and what he is capable of in a nightmarish land of heat, hardship and terrifying enemies seen and unseen.Read by Mark Meadows. 10 hours 28 minutes. Carey, M. R. The Girl With All The Gifts. 2014. Science Fiction. TB23246.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her 'our little genius'. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favourite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.Read by Finty Williams. 13 hours 6 minutes. Carrington, Sam. Saving Sophie. 2016. Thriller. TB23651.A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next? When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out, drunk and accompanied by police officers, no one is smiling the morning after. But Sophie remembers nothing about how she got into such a state. Twelve hours later, Sophie's friend Amy has still not returned home. Then the body of a young woman is found. Karen is sure that Sophie knows more than she is letting on. As she becomes convinced that Sophie is not only involved but also in danger.Read by Antonia Beamish. 10 hours 10 minutes. Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Summer Queen. 2013. Historical Fiction. TB23249.Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 1. Young, golden-haired and blue-eyed Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood is over. Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to being crowned King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious French court. She is only 13. Barely out of childhood, and forced to deal with great scandals, fraught relationships and forbidden love at every turn.Read by Katie Scarf. 18 hours 22 minutes. Clements, Katherine. The Silvered Heart. 2016. Historical Fiction. TB23144.1648: civil war is devastating England. The privileged world Katherine Ferrars knows is crumbling under Cromwell's army and, as an orphaned heiress, she has no choice but to do her duty and marry for the sake of family. But as her marriage turns into a prison and her fortune is decimated by the war, she becomes increasingly desperate. So when she meets the enigmatic Ralph, she seizes the chance he offers. Their plan is daring and brutal, but it's an escape from poverty and the shackles of convention. They know if they're caught, there's only one way it can end.Read by Lucy Tregear. 12 hours 56 minutes. Cleeves, Ann. The Crow Trap. 2016. Crime. TB23145.Vera Stanhope: book 1. At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each know the meaning of betrayal. So when people begin to mysteriously die, DI Vera Stanhope is sent to investigate.Read by Joan Walker. 13 hours 16 minutes. Coe, Jonathan. Number 11, Or, Tales That Witness Madness. 2015.General Fiction. TB23488.This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best – showing us how we live now. Read by Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes. 11 hours 49 minutes. TB23488.Collins, Joan. The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club. 2016. Chick Lit. TB23271.Contessa Carlotta di Ponti, stunningly beautiful and filthy rich, has finally escaped her abusive marriage and is looking to find true love in St. Tropez. The party season kicks off with a spectacular bash at billionaire Harry Silver's palatial mansion, but tragedy soon strikes. Could seemingly innocuous events - a bad oyster, a fatal wasp sting, a faulty funicular - mean something more sinister for the bejewelled citizens of St. Tropez? It is up to glamorous detective Gabrielle Poulpe to save the day and find the murderer in their midst or life on St. Tropez as its residents know it could be over forever!Contains violence. Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words.Read by Jilly Bond. 9 hours 16 minutes. Cooper, Jilly. Mount! 2016. General Fiction. TB23594.Rutshire chronicles: book 10. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. This means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing winners in the richest races worldwide. Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert's assistant Gav. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert's wayward father, it is not just Gav who is attracted to her: a returning Rupert finds himself dangerously tempted.Read by Sian Thomas. 19 hours 26 minutes. Cornick, Nicola. The Phantom Tree. 2016. General Fiction. TB23660."My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another." Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison stumbles across a delicate old portrait - supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The woman is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 as an unwanted orphan and presumed dead after going missing as a child. The painting is more than just a beautiful object from Alison’s past - it holds the key to her future, unlocking the mystery surrounding Mary's disappearance, and the enigma of Alison's son. Alison's quest soon takes a dark and foreboding turn, as a meeting place called the Phantom Tree harbours secrets in its shadows.Read by Stephanie Racine, Laura Kirman. 11 hours 45 minutes. TB23660.Cussler, Clive. Medusa. 2009. Thriller. TB21559.NUMA files: book 8. In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface. Austin is convinced both events are connected, and he puts NUMA on the case. Soon he's uncovering some hideous medical experiments and evidence of a terrifying virus that could be used to create a worldwide pandemic. Behind it all lies an ambitious Chinese criminal organization prepared to commit mass murder to achieve its ends. Read by Jeff Harding. 13 hours 19 minutes. Cussler, Clive. Atlantis Found. 2012. Thriller. TB23272.Dirk Pitt: book 15. Dirk Pitt is on hand at a Colorado archaeological site where an ancient and mysterious artefact has been found, one that is perhaps linked to other strange objects turning up across the globe. Soon Pitt's skills and ingenuity are needed to rescue the team after a suspicious explosion seals them deep underground. The artefacts carry a message, a warning of global armageddon. A shadowy organisation called the Fourth Empire is actively seeking to accelerate the end it foretells. Now Pitt and NUMA must face this diabolical foe, who will stop at nothing to wipe out all life on earth.Read by Jeff Harding. 19 hours 16 minutes. Davis, Lindsey. The Ides Of April. 2013. Historical Crime. TB23225.Flavia Albia mystery: book 1. Flavia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances. Albia investigates and discovers there have been many other strange deaths all over the city, yet she is warned off by the authorities.Read by Lucy Brown. 11 hours 4 minutes. Deaver, Jeffery. The Steel Kiss. 2016. Thriller. TB23230.Lincoln Rhyme: book 12. Technology is everywhere. It makes our lives easier, our connections faster and journeys quicker. But in the hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident or whether they are facing a murderer who knows exactly how fatal machines can be.Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 49 minutes. Dillon, Lucy. One Small Act Of Kindness. 2015. Chick Lit. TB23231.When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious, passer-by Libby feels a sense of responsibility. She called the ambulance, after all. When the woman comes round, she's suffered complete temporary memory loss. Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days at the rundown B&B she and her husband are trying to convert into a romantic hideaway. But as the women's friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they're calling her, gets the feeling she was looking for someone. Read by Lucy Price-Lewis. 13 hours 5 minutes. Eclair, Jenny. Moving. 2015. General Fiction. TB23250.Edwina Spinner has lived in the same house for over fifty years. It used to be a busy family home but now Edwina lives alone and it has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it. A young estate agent comes to value the house, but as Edwina takes him from room to room, she is transported back to her old life to her first husband Ollie and their twins, James and Rowena. Back to lies and dark secrets and to a stepson whose name Edwina cannot even bear to speak aloud. Why is she now so alone? What happened to Edwina's family all those years ago?Read by Judith Boyd, Clare Willie, and Andrew Wincott. 12 hours 55 minutes.Edwards, Mark. Forward Slash. 2016. Thriller. TB23658.When Amy receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried. Becky would never do such a thing on a whim. Aided by Becky's neighbour, Gary, Amy sets about tracking down the men her sister had dated, following a trail that leads her into the darkly seductive world of internet hook-ups. But Amy is unaware that a sadistic killer is watching - a killer who's been using the internet to stalk, torture and kill.Read by Jessica Poole, Ben Elliot. 10 hours 49 minutes. Extence, Gavin. The Mirror World Of Melody Black. 2015. General Fiction. TB23218.It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. And now she can't shake the feeling that if she hadn't gone into Simon's flat, if she'd had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. And she would never have met Melody Black.Read by Jane Collingwood. 8 hours 21 minutes. Fallon, Jane. Got You Back. 2008. Chick Lit. TB23150.Stephanie & Katie are strangers but they're in love with the same man - James. Stephanie is his wife, Katie his mistress. When Stephanie discovers James is having an affair, she tracks Katie down. They join forces to get their own back on him. But what happens when one thinks enough is enough and the other doesn't want to stop?Read by Candida Gubbins. 11 hours 14 minutes. Faulks, Sebastian. Where My Heart Used To Beat. 2015. Literary Fiction. On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host is alexander Pereira, a man who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for the past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally, unforgettably, back into the trenches of the Western Front.Read by David Sibley. 11 hours 8 minutes. Ferrante, Elena. The Story Of A New Name. 2013. General Fiction. TB23134.Neapolitan: book 2. Following 'My Brilliant Friend', this title features the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the centre of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women.Read by Madeleine Brolly. 16 hours 19 minutes. Fforde, Jasper. One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing. 2011. Fantasy. TB23233.Thursday Next: book 6. It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. A week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? at the end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very BookWorld itself.Read by Gabrielle Kruger. 9 hours 14 minutes. Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 2016. Chick Lit. TB23514.Bridget Jones: book 4. As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, tortured by Smug Mothers miming her ticking biological clock, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy but just not quite as intended. It's a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question 'who's the father?’Read by Samantha Bond. 4 hours 7 minutes. French, Dawn. According To Yes. 2015. Humorous Fiction. TB23490.The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy, otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side, has its own rigid code of behaviour. So when an unconventional thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England bounces into their inflexible lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises she hasn't read the rule book. And for the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive.Read by Dawn French, Jennifer Woodward, Garrick Hagon, Thomas Judd, Luke Thompson. 9 hours 16 minutes. Gale, Patrick. A Place Called Winter. 2015. Historical Fiction. TB23240.A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence, until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, he signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. But, remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England.Read by Patrick Gale. 11 hours 8 minutes. Goddard, Robert. Sight Unseen. 2011. Crime. TB23274.In the summer of 1981, in the tourist village of Avebury, a PhD student witnesses the abduction of a two-year-old girl. The tragedy begins at Avebury. But it does not end there. In 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter reproaching him for botching the original investigation, which leads him to track down the witness and enlist him in searching for the culprit.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 32 minutes. Graham, Lynne. Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride. 2016. Mills And Boon Romance. TB23179.The last thing Gaetano Leonetti wants is to be shackled in marriage, but his grandfather has decreed that if he’s to become CEO of the family’s bank Gaetano must find a nice, ordinary woman to wed. Convinced his grandfather is mad, Gaetano sets about proving him wrong with housekeeper Poppy Arnold. With her outspoken nature and unusual dress sense, she’s definitely not wife material! But it’s not long before hard-working, self-sacrificing Poppy charms his grandfather, and Gaetano’s stuck with a union he didn’t want and a bride he sinfully craves!Read by Eilidh Beaton. 5 hours 40 minutes. Harris, Robert. Conclave. 2016. Thriller. TB23518.The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.Read by Roy McMillan. 8 hours 22 minutes. Hickson, Joanna. First Of The Tudors. 2016. Historical Fiction. TB23647.Jasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up far from the intrigue of the royal court. But after he and his brother Edmund are summoned to London, their half-brother, King Henry VI, takes a keen interest in their future. Bestowing Earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes devoted to her and is devastated when Henry arranges her betrothal to Edmund. Read by Tom Clegg and Non Haf. 14 hours 58 minutes. Hill, Suzette A. Bones In The Belfry. 2012. Crime. TB23180.Francis Oughterard: book 2. Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Rev. Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. As before, his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, and redoubtable bone -grinding ally, the dog Bouncer.Read by David Thorpe, Terence Wilton, Christopher Oxford. 10 hours 5 minutes. Hornby, Nick. Funny Girl. 2014. General Fiction. TB23492.Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts. Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. The show's success continues rocketing and the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it's time to change the channel?Read by Emma Fielding. 10 hours 21 minutes.Hughes, Kathryn. The Letter. 2015. General Fiction. TB23241.Tina struggles with her marriage to alcoholic Rick. As a brief respite from his physical and sexual abuse she spends her Saturdays volunteering at a charity shop. Whilst she is there, sorting second-hand clothes, she finds a sealed envelope in a suit jacket pocket and, unable to resist the pull of curiosity, opens it; it is a decision that is about to alter the course of her life forever.Read by Rachel Atkins. 9 hours 12 minutes. Iggulden, Conn. Trinity. 2014. Historical Fiction. TB23494.Wars of the Roses: book 2. 1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year. His loyal wife and Queen, Margaret, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father. Richard Duke of York extends his influence throughout the kingdom with each month that Henry slumbers. The Earls of Salisbury and Warwick make up a formidable trinity with Richard, and they seek to break the support of those who would raise their colours in the name of Henry and his Queen. But when the King recovers his senses and returns to London to reclaim his throne, the balance of power is thrown into turmoil.Read by Roy McMillan. 12 hours 11 minutes. Iggulden, Conn. Bloodline. 2015. Historical Fiction. TB23495.Wars of the Roses: book 3. Winter 1461. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims himself England's rightful king. Factions form and tear apart as snow falls. Through blood and treason, through broken men and vengeful women, brother shall confront brother, king shall face king. Two men can always claim a crown. Only one can keep it.Read by Roy McMillan. 11 hours 43 minutes. Jacobs, Anna. Salem Street. 2015. Family Stories. TB23290.Gibson family: book 1. Banished from her home by a jealous stepmother, annie Gibson finds work in a doctor's household where she learns about the fascinating world outside Salem Street. When her sweetheart asks her to marry him she thinks her dreams are coming true. But suddenly everything turns upside-down. Abandoned and pregnant, Annie returns to Salem Street, where an unexpected offer gives her independence. One day, she vows, she will move into the wider world again.Read by Sherry Baines. 16 hours 4 minutes. Jefferies, Dinah. The Tea Planter's Wife. 2015. General Fiction. TB23496.Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, and determined to be the perfect wife and mother. Gwen soon falls pregnant and her husband is overjoyed, but she has little time to celebrate. In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice, one she knows no one in her upper class set will understand - least of all Laurence. Forced to bury a secret at the heart of her marriage, Gwen is more isolated than ever. When the time comes, how will her husband ever understand what she has done?Read by Avita Jay. 16 hours 3 minutes. Khan, Vaseem. The Unexpected Inheritance Of Inspector Chopra.2015. Crime. TB23219.Baby Ganesh agency investigation: book 1. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs.Read by Sartaj Garewal. 7 hours 14 minutes. Kristian, Giles. God Of Vengeance. 2016. Historical Fiction. TB23527.Rise of Sigurd: book 1. Norway aD785. A land of petty kingdoms and ambitious men. When King Gorm betrays Jarl Harald and puts his family to the sword, he makes a terrible mistake - he doesn't kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd. Now on the run, hunted by powerful men and hiding in a sacred fen, Sigurd believes the gods have turned their backs on his family. Yet all men know that Odin is drawn to chaos and bloodshed, as a raven is to the slaughtered dead. And Sigurd means to spill blood.Read by Phillip Stevens. 15 hours 32 minutes. Law, J. S. Tenacity. 2015. Thriller. TB23235.Lieutenant Danielle Lewis: book 1. Lieutenant Danielle Lewis, renowned within the navy for her professional record with the investigative team KILL, is drafted in to investigate a suicide on board a navy submarine. As she digs further, she becomes increasingly convinced she's dealing with murder. Dan must find out the truth, but if the killer's on board, will she even make it off the submarine?Read by Lisa Coleman. 10 hours 40 minutes. Lightfoot, Freda. Always In My Heart. 2016. Family Stories. TB23649.Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. Brenda Stuart's life is in ruins. Illegitimately pregnant, jobless and alone, Brenda is forced to sleep rough, until one fateful day when she is found by Prue, who takes her home for a breakfast and a bath. As a friendship forms between the two women, they make a pact to help each other rebuild their lives and finally find the happiness they both deserve.Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 10 hours 29 minutes. Lupton, Rosamund. The Quality Of Silence. 2015. Thriller. TB23245.On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrived in Alaska. Within hours they were driving alone across a frozen wilderness where nothing grows, where no one lives, where tears freeze and night will last for another 54 days. They are looking for Ruby's father. Travelling deeper into a silent land. They still cannot find him. And someone is watching them in the dark.Read by Rachel Atkins and Harriet Carmichael. 9 hours 11minutes. McBeth, Colette. The Life I Left Behind. 2015. Thriller. TB23239.Everyone tells her she's a survivor. No-one knows she's dead inside. Six years ago Melody was left for dead. When the body of another woman, Eve, is discovered, Melody knows her attacker is still out there. The only way she can survive is to follow the clues of the life that Eve left behind.Read by Imogen Church. 13 hours 26 minutes. Macomber, Debbie. Three Brides, No Groom. 2006. Canadian Library Fiction. TB23070.They were college friends with plans to become blushing brides. Gretchen had the beauty, Maddie had the brains and cheerleader Carol had the bounce. And they each had a man to marry. But suddenly there is trouble in paradise. The grooms were suddenly getting cold feet. And now, these three women have decided they aren't going to get mad; instead, they're going to get even!Read by Joy Fukushima. 6 hours 53 minutes. Maitland, Karen. The Raven's Head. 2015. Historical Fiction. TB23236.Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails and he finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately carved silver raven's head. Any attempt to sell the head fails, until he tries to palm it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain, a powerful alchemist with an all-consuming quest. Once more Vincent's life is in danger because Sylvain and his neighbours, the menacing White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 14 hours 11 minutes. Moorcroft, Sue. The Christmas Promise. 2016. Romance. TB23648.On a snowy December evening, Sam Jermyn steps into the life of bespoke hat maker Ava. Sparks fly, and not necessarily the good ones. Times are tough for Ava; she's struggling to make ends meet, her ex-boyfriend is a bully, and worst of all, it's nearly Christmas. So when Sam commissions Ava to make a hat for someone special, she makes a promise that will change her life. She just doesn't know it yet.Read by Laura Kirman. 9 hours 36 minutes. Moran, Beth. I Hope You Dance. 2015. Chick Lit. TB23089.Ruth Henderson has moved back in with her parents, something she swore she would never do, especially not at the age of thirty-three. But in the face of the mountain of debt left by her late-partner and the fact that her teenage daughter, Maggie, is expressing her grief through acts of delinquency, there was really only one option. But then, reunited with her old friend Lois, Ruth is persuaded to go along to a monthly girls' night. Here she meets a bunch of incredible women and for the first time since leaving home at eighteen, Ruth begins to make some genuine friends.Read by Emma Pallant. 13 hours 10 minutes. Moyes, Jojo. The One Plus One. 2014. Chick Lit. TB23503.Suppose your life sucks. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime opportunity - that you can't afford to pay for. So imagine you found and kept some money that didn't belong to you, knowing it would pay for your daughter's happiness. But how do you cope with the shame? Especially when the man you've lied to decides to help you out in your hour of need. Read by Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot, Nicola Stanton, Steven France.Playing time 13 hours 8 minutes. Moyes, Jojo. After You. 2015. Romance. TB23502.Me before you: book 2. Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did 18 months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does.Read by Anna Acton. 11 hours 12 minutes.Muriel, Oscar De. The Strings Of Murder. 2015. Historical Crime. TB23489.Frey & McGray: book 1. Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room, and no way in or out, the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray, actually believes in such supernatural nonsense.Read by Andy Secombe. 11 hours 32 minutes. O'Farrell, Maggie. This Must Be The Place. 2016. General Fiction. TB23243.Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with 20 years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?Read by Thomas Judd, Penelope Rawlings. 14 hours 10 minutes. Oswald, James. The Book Of Souls. 2013. Crime. TB23504.Inspector McLean mysteries: book 2. Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée, but the killer made a mistake and McLean put an end to the killing spree. 12 years later, the Christmas killer is murdered. But with the festive season comes a body; naked, washed, and with her throat cut.Read by Ian Hanmore. 10 hours 57 minutes. Penman, Sharon Kay. A King's Ransom. 2015. Historical Fiction. TB22955.Lionheart: book 2. Travelling home from the bloody battlefields of the Holy Land, the Crusader King Richard the Lionheart is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean after an encounter with pirates. He is betrayed and captured by the Duke of Austria and is immediately claimed by the Holy Roman Emperor. Richard is to spend fifteen months imprisoned. Meanwhile, his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is moving heaven and earth to raise a staggering ransom, travelling across Europe herself to buy the release of her favourite son.Read by Christopher Oxford. 34 hours 49 minutes. Potter, Alexandra. Love From Paris. 2015. Romance. TB23185.Love detective: book 2. When new boyfriend Jack stands her up at the airport, Ruby Miller dries her tears, jumps on the Eurostar and heads to Paris. A locked apartment where time has stood still, a bundle of long -lost love letters and a flirtatious French lawyer sweep Ruby into a mystery that spans over seventy years. Why did the owner of the apartment close up the shutters and flee Paris before the war, never to return? As the mystery deepens, Ruby turns love detective but it's not long before the ghosts of the past throw her own love affair into jeopardy.Contains swear words.Read by Una Byrne. 10 hours 49 minutes. Raven, Jaime. The Alibi. 2016. Thriller. TB23657.A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi. Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth - and she's not afraid of bending the rules to get there. When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband – the notorious gangster, Danny Shapiro. Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price.Read by Genevieve Swallow. 11 hours 54 minutes. Robotham, Michael. Life Or Death. 2014. Thriller. TB23247.Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of his gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that he knows where it is. For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by fellow inmates and prison guards, who all want an answer to the same question. When Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released, everybody wants to find him. But he's not running, instead he's trying to save a life, and not just his own.Read by John Chancer. 13 hours 56 minutes. Sansom, C. J. Lamentation. 2015. Historical Crime. TB23593.Shardlake: book 6. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. The Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake's old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen.Read by Steven Crossley. 25 hours 22 minutes. Scarrow, Simon. The Eagle's Prophecy. 2012. Historical Fiction. TB23242.Cato: book 6. It is spring AD 45 and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates operating from the Illyrian coast. With him were scrolls vital to the safety of the Emperor and the future of Rome. Macro and Cato must find the pirate base to avert a disaster that could destroy the Emperor.Read by Russell Boulter. 13 hours 53 minutes. Scarrow, Simon. Young Bloods. 2016. Historical Fiction. TB23244.Wellington and Napoleon: book 1. Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led by a king, he heads for battle against the French Republic, to restore the fallen monarchy. Bonaparte joins the French military on the eve of the Revolution. When anarchy explodes in Paris he's thrust into the revolutionary army poised to march against Britain. As two mighty Empires embark on a bloody duel, Wesley and Bonaparte prepare to face a sworn enemy, unaware that the fate of Europe will one day lie in their hands.Read by Jonathan Keeble. 19 hours 33 minutes. Shemilt, Jane. Daughter. 2014. Thriller. TB23506.Jenny is a successful doctor, the mother of three teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a search with no success. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. Everyone she’s trusted, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised.Read by Sophie aldred. 11 hours 10 minutes.Simsion, Graeme C. The Rosie Effect. 2014. Humorous Fiction. TB23507.Rosie: book 2. With the Wife Project complete, Don settles into a new job and married life in New York. But it's not long before certain events are taken out of his control and it's time to embark on a new project. As he tries to get to grips with the requirements of starting a family, his unusual research style gets him into trouble. To make matters worse, he has invited his closest friend to stay with them, but Gene is not exactly the best model for marital happiness.Read by Dan O'Grady. 9 hours 12 minutes. Smart, Michelle. Talos Claims His Virgin. 2015. Mills And Boon Romance. TB23139.Kalliakis crown: book 1. Talos Kalliakis, the youngest Prince of Agon, has found the perfect gift for King Astraeus’s Jubilee Gala – the talents of exquisite violinist Amalie Cartwright. This warrior Prince crossed Europe to find his perfect candidate, and he won’t take no for an answer. But rumour has it that Amalie won’t perform, and now Talos has her hidden away in his villa, where sources suggest he’s claimed the most private of performances. With tensions running high, surely it can’t be long before they start changing their tune to the royal wedding march!Read by Gloria Sanders. 6 hours 18 minutes. Spring, Neil. The Ghost Hunters. 2013. Ghost Stories. TB23097.Welcome to Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. It is 1926 and Sarah Grey is personal assistant to Harry Price, London's most infamous ghost hunter. Harry has devoted his life to exposing the truth behind England's many 'false hauntings'. So when Harry and Sarah are invited to Borley Rectory they're sure that this case will be just like any other. But when night falls and no artifice can be found, the ghost hunters are forced to confront the possibility that the ghost may be real.Read by Lucy Scott, Charles armstrong. 15 hours 29 minutes.Swanson, Peter. The Kind Worth Killing. 2015. Thriller. TB23098.Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched. Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future?Contains swear words.Read by Jeff Harding, Kathryn akin, Christopher Ragland, Nura Nas. 9 hours 45 minutes. Swift, Graham. Mothering Sunday: A Romance. 2016. General Fiction. TB23162.It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades. How, shaped by the events of this day, will her future unfold?Contains sex scenes. Contains swear wordsRead by Roger D Watson. 3 hours 50 minutes. Thomas, Jo. The Olive Branch. 2015. Chick Lit. TB23237.You can buy almost anything online these days. For Ruthie Collins, it was an Italian farmhouse. As she battles with a territorial goat and torrential rain just to get through the door of her new Italian home, Ruthie is determined to turn things around and live the dream. First, though, she must win over her fiery neighbour, Marco Bellanouvo, and his family. Then there's the small matter of running an olive farm. As the seasons change and new roots are put down, olives and romance might just flourish in the warmth of the Mediterranean sun.Read by Rachel atkins. 9 hours 46 minutes. Tóibín, Colm. Nora Webster. 2014. Literary Fiction. TB23508.It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself. As Nora returns to memories of the happiness of her early marriage, something more painful begins to intrude: memories of her own mother and what brought about the terrifying distance between them.Read by Fiona Shaw. 11 hours 21 minutes. Tyner, Liz. The Notorious Countess. 2016. Mills And Boon Romance. TB23282.After escaping an unhappy marriage, Beatrice, Lady Riverton enjoys her notoriety, even if her reputation isn’t deserved. But when she’s caught in a most compromising position with Andrew Robson, for the first time the truth is even more scandalous than the rumours! and yet in Andrew’s arms, Beatrice finds she’s no longer defined by her reputation, and is free to be the woman she truly is. Is it time for Beatrice to trust in Andrew, and end her reign of scandal once and for all?Read by Abigail Gallagher. 7 hours 8 minutes. Vermes, Timur. Look Who's Back. 2014. Humorous Fiction. TB23234.Summer 2011. Berlin. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People recognise him though - as a brilliant, satirical impersonator who refuses to break character. The inevitable, happens, and the ranting Hitler takes off, goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, becomes someone who people listen to.Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 11 hours 13 minutes. Welsh, Louise. The Girl On The Stairs. 2012. Thriller. TB23232.Jane Logan is six months pregnant and has moved to Berlin to live with her long-term lover, rich banker, Petra. She conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard and begins to suspect something sinister is happening in the flat next door, where gynaecologist Alban Mann lives with his teenage daughter Anna. Petra believes her lover's pregnancy is affecting her judgement, but Jane is increasingly convinced that all is not well. Her decision to turn detective has devastating results when her past collides with the past of the building and its inhabitants.Read by Jane Wymark. 7 hours 17 minutes. Willett, Marcia. Forgotten Laughter. 2003. General Fiction. TB22511.When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible elderly mother, Frummie. Amid the peace of Dartmoor, Louise tries to forget her haunting memories, but an unexpected visitor forces her to remember. Forgotten Laughter is a novel of love, loss and reconciliation.Read by Charlie Norfolk. 15 hours 13 minutes.Winman, Sarah. A Year Of Marvellous Ways. 2015. General Fiction. TB23238.Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something, she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid.Read by Sarah Winman. 7 hours 57 minutes. Wilson, Elizabeth. The Girl In Berlin. 2013. Spy Stories. TB23189.Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts. Speculation is at fever pitch when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party who has been in Germany for several years, turns up to see his old friends Dinah and Alan Wentworth. He has news: he has fallen in love with a girl in East Berlin, and is coming home - with her – for good. Meanwhile, Jack McGovern, who sometimes feels like the only decent man in Special Branch, has a rendezvous with a real spy. Miles Kingdom thinks there's a mole at MI5, and he wants McGovern's help.Read by Crawford Logan. 9 hours 45 minutes. Adult non-fictionAutobiography And BiographyCourtenay, Tom. Dear Tom: Letters From Home. 2001. TB23147.Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to him every week and when her letters became more intimate in response to Tom's unhappiness he kept everyone, not knowing that after her early death they were to become his most treasured possession. Tom has selected the best of them and interwoven with them a portrait of what was going on in his life at the time, in the early Sixties when young working-class actors were coming to the fore for the first time.Read by Raymond Sawyer. 13 hours 28 minutes. Hegarty, Neil. Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography. 2015. TB23519.Sir David Frost, who died suddenly in august 2013, was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. Written in collaboration with Sir David Frost's wife and three sons, this work features many unpublished writings from Frost and exclusive access to his vast archive. It also offers opinions on Frost from his extraordinary list of friends. It is an epic story of personal achievement set amidst a rapidly changing world, encountering the great and the good that have dominated news and entertainment over the last 50 years.Read by Michael Fenner, Rory Bremner, Lady Karina Frost, George Frost,Wilfred Frost. 13 hours 16 minutes. Hilling, Wendy. My Life In His Paws: The Story Of Ted And How He Saved Me. 2016. TB23181.Wendy has a rare skin condition which means her skin is very delicate. Every moment is difficult and causes pain. It affects the body inside and out: her throat is very narrow and she can stop breathing at any time. But 8 years ago Wendy's met Ted, a golden retriever, and he became her full-time carer. He has saved her life more times than she can remember, always watching and listening, and she is now entirely reliant on him. This is the story the unique relationship between a human and animal, and the extraordinary things animals are capable of.Read by Carolanne Lyme. 6 hours 32 minutes. Jones, Tom. Over The Top And Back. 2015.TB23497.In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock and pop to country, blues and soul. The one constant throughout has been his unique musical gift and unmistakable voice. Tom revisits his past, both personal and professional, exploring the twists of fate that took a boy from a poor Welsh coal-mining family to global celebrity status.Read by Jonathan Price. 12 hours 28 minutes. Kerman, Piper. Orange Is The New Black: My Time In A Women's Prison. 2013. TB23277.With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut. From her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships.Contains swear words.Read by Regina Reagan. 10 hours 54 minutes. Phinn, Gervase. Road To The Dales: The Story Of A Yorkshire Lad. 2011. TB23160.Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This title is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s - reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal journey – of school days and holidays as well as his tentative steps into the adult world.Read by Ric Jerrom. 17 hours. Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe: The Hidden History Of The Women Who Took The Measure Of The Stars. 2016. TB23653.In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed astronomy, the women turned to studying images of the stars captured on glass photographic plates, making extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided them into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 11 hours 55 minutes. Thomasson, Anna. A Curious Friendship: The Story Of A Bluestocking And A Bright Young Thing. 2015. TB23046.The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of fifty-one, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a nineteen-year-old art student, life was just beginning. Together, they embarked on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, in a corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton and John Betjeman. Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 21 hours 13 minutes. Walker, Adam. Man Vs Ocean: The Inspirational Story Of A Toaster Salesman Who Sets Out To Swim The World's Deadliest Oceans And Change His Life Forever. 2016. TB23048.Adam Walker is not your everyday record -breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet, to swim non-stop across seven of the world's deadliest oceans wearing only swim trunks, cap and goggles. It is not a test for the faint-hearted: swimmers face freezing temperatures, huge swells and treacherous currents, potentially deadly marine life (from sharks to Portuguese men o' war), vomiting and burning off a week's calories in a single swim.Read by David Thorpe. 7 hours 55 minutes. Walton, Janet. Six Little Miracles: The Heartwarming True Story Of Raising The World's First Sextuplet Girls. 2015. TB22961.Janet had been told she couldn't have children, so she and her husband Graham were overjoyed to find out she was pregnant. Then they told her the real news, it was not just one baby, but six! On 18 November 1983, Janet Walton gave birth to the world's first all-female sextuplets. Janet takes us through the reality of parenting six children of the same age, the extreme sleep deprivation, the bottle-feeding, and later the chaotic routine of getting six kids to school on time.Read by Laura Morgan. 9 hours 56 minutes. Wulf, Andrea. The Invention Of Nature: The Adventures Of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero Of Science. 2015. TB22963.Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid, even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps, Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today.Read by Fenella Fudge. 15 hours 54 minutes. DramaRowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016. Reading Age 9+. TB23637.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling.Read by Andy Secombe. 4 hours 9 minutes. Food And DrinkKerridge, Tom. Tom's Table: My Favourite Everyday Recipes. 2015.TB22666.Tom Kerridge is known for beautifully crafted food and big, bold flavours. 'Tom's Table' features 100 delicious everyday recipes so that anyone can achieve his cooking at home. This is the sort of food you'll cook again and again, whether you bring his hearty and delicious starter, side, main and dessert recipes to quick mid-week meals or weekend dinners.Read by Mike Aherne. 6 hours 53 minutes. HistoryBerton, Pierre. The Great Lakes. 2006. Canadian Library Nonfiction TB23071.Berton relates the history of the Great Lakes and the humans who have lived around them. From their birth during the Ice age to the fight to save them from pollution, Berton tells the many stories which their shores have witnessed. He discusses the various people who sought to tame the Lakes: missionaries, voyageurs, fur trappers, loggers, miners. And there are vivid accounts of shipwrecks and storms on the Lakes.Read by Geoffrey Pierpoint. 6 hours 9 minutes. Hawksley, Lucinda. March, Women, March. 2015. TB23084.This explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V's horse during the Derby and consequently sustained fatal injuries. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature and art, as well as the media reports of the day.Read by Harriet Dunlop. 7 hours 39 minutes. PoetryPlath, Sylvia. Ariel. 2002. Canadian Library Nonfiction. TB22583.The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.Read by Patricia Reid. 1 hour 40 minutes. Politics And GovernmentDanahar, Paul. The New Middle East: The World After The Arab Spring. 2015. TB23148.In 2011 the Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. The toppling of a generation of dictators left the region in turmoil. Has the promise of the Arab Spring been lost? What does the rise of religious extremism on Europe's doorstep mean for the West and its allies? Here BBC Bureau Chief Paul Danahar lays bare the forces that are shaping the region.Read by Chris Courtenay. 18 hours 34 minutes. PsychologyPeters, Steve. The Chimp Paradox. 2012. TB23536.Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your life? This is a personal development book by Dr Steve Peters, the British cycling team's psychiatrist, in which he shares his mind management programme. The Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific facts and principles, which have been simplified into a workable model for easy use. It will help you to develop yourself and give you the skills, for example, to remove anxiety, have confidence and choose your emotions. Read by Steve Peters. 9 hours 46 minutes. TravelBryson, Bill. The Road To Little Dribbling: More Notes From A Small Island. 2015. TB23510.In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The trip resulted in the book 'Notes from a Small Island'. Now, Bill sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath on the northernmost tip of Scotland. Once again, he will guide us through all that's best and worst about Britain today.Read by Nathan Osgood. 13 hours 59 minutes. True CrimeLee, Carol Ann. The Murders At White House Farm. 2015. TB22949.On 7th august 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons Nicholas and Daniel were discovered shot to death at White House Farm in Essex. The murder weapon was found on Sheila's body; a Bible lay at her side. It seemed a straightforward case of murder-suicide, but a dramatic turn of events was to disprove the police's theory. In October 1986, Jeremy Bamber was convicted of killing his entire family in order to inherit his parents' substantial estates.Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 14 hours 45 minutes. Warfare And DefenceThe War At Sea, 1939-1945: An Anthology Of Personal Experience. 2007. TB23049.Freedom's battle: book 1. This is the first volume in the 'Freedom's Battle' trilogy, which provides vivid accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land. The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism. Here is a generous selection of personal experience written by the men and women who were there: in the British and Commonwealth Navies, the Fleet air arm, the Merchant Navy, or ashore.Read by Jon Cartwright. 23 hours 49 minutes. The War In The Air, 1939-1945: An Anthology Of Personal Experience. 2007. TB23032.Freedom's battle: book 2. From the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden. Described by the men in the British and Commonwealth air Forces who did the fighting. We accompany them in the desperate days of the fall of France; during the Battle of Britain; throughout the agony of Bomber Command; over the high seas, Malta, the desert battles and in the struggle with Japan.Read by Jon Cartwright. 16 hours 19 minutes. Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 7+Blade, Adam. Tagus: The Horse-Man. 2007. TB23284.A mysterious force has been creeping over the plains of Avantia. The animals are stampeding, and brush fires sweep the prairie. Tom and Elenna speed to the plains to stop Tagus the Night Mare before he can do any more damage. But Tom ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time and is mistakenly thrown in jail. Can he win the trust of the people, and his own freedom, before it's too late to stop Tagus?Read by John Hopkins. 1 hour 3 minutes. Hutchison, Barry. The Swivel-Eyed Ogre-Thing. 2015. TB23086.Benjamin Blank: book 2. In an alternate 15th century, where dragons roam, sailing ships transform into submarines, and blacksmiths build steampunk robots, ten-year-old orphan Benjamin Blank battles monsters, rescues maidens, and discovers new lands, but never quite manages to get his homework handed in on time.Read by David Monteath. 2 hours 26 minutes. Ince, Russell. Santa Claus: The Book Of Secrets. 2013. TB23572.After centuries of closely guarding ancient secrets, Santa Claus has decided that the time has come to share the magical mysteries behind Christmas. All of the miraculous happenings that contribute towards making Christmas the most remarkable time of the year are finally to be revealed to the world. Who is Santa Claus and how did he first get his job? Who are the Elves and what magic do they possess? Read by David Graham. 1 hour 15 minutes. Michaels, Anne. The Adventures Of Miss Petitfour. 2016. TB23209.In these five captivating stories of gentle adventure, meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour. She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth, catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure – with her many cats dangling paw-to-tail behind her.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 1 hour 45 minutes. Suggested reading age 9+Edge, Christopher. Shadows Of The Silver Screen. 2013. TB23177.A mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn Montgomery Flinch's sinister stories into motion pictures. With Monty installed as the star of his production, filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. As Monty pleads with Penny to help him, she is drawn into the mystery, but soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare penned by her own hand. Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late?Read by Louise Jameson. 6 hours 29 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. The Third Wheel. 2012. TB20638.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 7. A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love.Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 45 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. The Long Haul. 2014. TB23498.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 9. A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun, unless, of course, you're the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig – not exactly Greg Heffley's idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure and this is one the Heffleys won't soon forget.Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 50 minutes. Kinney, Jeff. Old School. 2015. TB23499.Diary of a wimpy kid: book 10. Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?Read by Dan Russell. 1 hour 54 minutes. Mabbitt, Will. The Unlikely Adventures Of Mabel Jones. 2015. TB23500.Unlikely adventures of Mabel Jones: book 1. When Mabel Jones unknowingly commits 'The Deed' she finds herself swiftly bundled into a sack and carried off to the pirate ship the Feroshus Maggot. Crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you would ever want to meet and captained by the dreaded Idryss Ebeneezer Split (a wolf with a false leg carved from a human thighbone, a rusty cutlass sheathed in his belt and a loaded pistol tucked in his pants with no fear of the consequences), the Feroshus Maggot whisks Mabel Jones off on the adventure of a lifetime.Read by Toby Jones. 3 hours 49 minutes. Matson, Stacey. A Year In The Life Of A Total And Complete Genius. 2015. TB23101.Arthur Bean: book 1. Arthur Bean is a genius - it's just that no one else realises this quite yet. He's going to be a world-famous author, even if he's an outcast who is only confident whilst writing. What he writes is pretty funny, but it gets him into trouble, too - with his English teacher; the editor of the school newspaper; the beautiful girl in his class, Kennedy; and with his number one nemesis, Robbie Zack. Read by James Sobel Kelly. 5 hours 8 minutes. Ralphs, Matt. Fire Girl. 2015. TB23292.Fire girl: book 1. 12-year-old Hazel has spent her whole life trapped in a magical Glade created by her mother, Hecate. She's desperate to find out about the world. And, more than anything, she wants to be a witch. But when her mother is kidnapped by a demon, everything changes. It turns out that Hazel does have magic, she's just not very good at controlling it. And she may have accidentally created a grumpy familiar in the form of a dormouse called Bramley. Determined to rescue her mother, the young witch and her mouse set out to track down the demon and find Hecate.Read by Perry Moore. 6 hours 51 minutes. Rowling, J. K. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: The Original Screenplay. 2016. TB23637.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone. Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling.Read by andy Secombe. 4 hours 9 minutes. Rundell, Katherine. The Girl Savage. 2011. TB23157.Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an african farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls.Read by Helen Bourne. 6 hours 52 minutes. Schlitz, Laura Amy. Fire Spell, Or, Splendours And Glooms. 2012. TB22902.In London, 1860, Clara celebrates her twelfth birthday with a puppet show, run by sinister puppetmaster Grisini, assisted by his two apprentices. Grisini traps her in the form of a marionette and then promptly goes missing. His two assistants realise what has happened, all three children find themselves caught up in a terrible struggle for supernatural eminence between Grisini and a dying witch of extraordinary power.Read by Juliette Burton. 15 hours 2 minutes. Sedgwick, Marcus. Fright Forest. 2012. TB23293.Elf Girl and Raven Boy: book 1. Raven Boy has short black spiky hair, amazing night vision and can talk to animals. Elf Girl is light of foot, sharp of mind and elfish all over. She hadn't expected to meet Raven Boy; it's not that often someone falls out of the trees and squashes your home flat like Raven Boy did. Before they know it they are plunged into some very strange, creepy, altogether spooky and hilarious adventures as they save their world from trolls, ogres, witches and things that slither and slide in the fiendish forest.Read by Andy Secombe. 2 hours 38 minutes. Walliams, David. The Midnight Gang. 2016. TB23650.Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning. When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children's ward. But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey. Read by David Walliams, Peter Serafinowicz, Morwenna Banks, EllenThomas, and Nitin Ganatra. 6 hours 11 minutes. Suggested reading age 11+Harris, M. G. Zero Moment. 2014. TB23153.The Joshua files: book 3. Now that he has the ancient device that once belonged to the Itzamna of Mayan legends, Josh Garcia thinks he has discovered the key to time travel. Should he use it to jump back in time and save his father? His betrothed, Ixchel knows what he intends to do. Should she stop him? Before they can decide, Ixchel is kidnapped by a rival secret society, a cabal who intend to make certain that a prophecy predicting the end of the world in 2012 comes true. Read by Ryan Watson. 8 hours 29 minutes. Higson, Charles. The Sacrifice. 2013. TB23023.Enemy: book 4. The sickness destroyed everyone over the age of 14. All across London diseased adults are waiting, hungry predators with rotten flesh and ravaged minds. Small Sam and his unlikely ally, The Kid, have survived. They're safe with Ed and his friends at the Tower of London, but Sam is desperate to find his sister. Their search for Ella means Sam and The Kid must cross the forbidden zone. And what awaits them there is more terrifying than any of the horror they've suffered so far.Read by Robert Nairne. 8 hours 12 minutes. Walter, Jon. My Name's Not Friday. 2015. TB23188.A tale of the American Civil War from the perspective of an educated orphan boy sold into slavery. "This boy has bought me. This white boy who don't even look as old as I am. He owns me body and soul, and my worth has been set at six hundred dollars." Samuel's an educated boy. He was never supposed to be a slave. He's a good boy too, thoughtful and kind. The type of boy who'd take the blame for something he didn't do, if it meant he could save his brother. Read by Christopher Ragland. 10 hours 28 minutes. Suggested reading age 13+Davis, Ben. The Private Blog Of Joe Cowley: Return Of The Geek.2015. TB23078.Joe Cowley: book 2. Things are looking up for Joe. For one thing, he has a real life girlfriend, who actually likes 'Star Trek' almost as much as he does! It all seems too good to be true and for disaster-prone Joe, it's only a matter of time before things go wrong in spectacularly hilarious fashion!Read by Tom Stanley. 7 hours 28 minutes. Maslin, Helen. Darkmere. 2015. TB23033.Leo has invited Kate and a few friends to spend the summer at his inheritance, Darkmere Castle, a place as wild and remote as it is beautiful. Kate thinks it will be the perfect opportunity for her and Leo to get together. Instead, she's drawn into the dark story of a young 19th-century bride who haunts the castle's tunnels and towers and whose curse now hangs over them all.Read by Esme Sears, Gemma Lawrence. 9 hours 14 minutes. Suggested reading age 15+Hussey, William. Jekyll's Mirror. 2015. TB23205.Sam is a tortured soul, but his darkest hour is yet to come, when he’s invited to take part in Project Hyde, a new social networking site where users can enjoy total anonymity. It’s exhilarating at first, until Sam notices that the other users are becoming obsessed, addicted to the cruelty they are inflicting online. Sam watches with a growing sense of horror as his classmates turn into something unrecognisable.Read by David Thorpe. 8 hours 38 minutes. Lindstrom, Eric. A Tragic Kind Of Wonderful. 2016. TB23656.How can you have a future if you can't accept your past? Mel Hannigan doesn't have it easy. Mourning the death of her firework of a brother, trying to fit back into a school she's been conspicuously absent from and struggling to deal with the loss of three friendships that used to mean everything. Struggling to deal with a condition that not even her closest friends know about. So Mel tries to lock away her heart. Until someone new shows her that it can be worth taking a risk. Read by Katharine Mangold. 6 hours 20 minutes. 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