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New books Issue 61January 2018Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleMusicGiant printTalking books.uk Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Don’t press 1 for personal customer, but wait for optionsSelect Option 3 - advice on setting up one of our products or services including ad-hoc collectionsSelect Option 1 - to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollectionsNewer books!It’s much easier to keep up to date with new additions to our librarycollection if you access our website. Don’t wait for the next edition of New Books; choose your books from our up to the minute online catalogue at TOC \o "1-5" \h \z \u ContentsBrailleAdult fictionQuick ReadsAdult Non-FictionAutobiographyBiographyDramaHistoryMusicPetsPsychologyReligionTravel And TourismWarfare and DefenceChildren And Young Adult Fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age11+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading Age15+ Suggested reading AgeGiant printAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyHistoryPsychologyReligionTravel and TourismWarfare and defenceChildren and young adult fiction7+ Suggested Reading Age9+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested reading Age15+ Suggested reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyEnvironment and EcologyHistoryLiteraturePolitics and governmentPopular ScienceChildren and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Suggested reading age 7+Suggested reading age 9+Suggested reading age 11+Suggested reading age 13+Suggested reading age 15+To borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionAchebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 2006. General fiction.African trilogy: book 1. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone, even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. Will the great man's dangerous pride destroy him? UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25860603Armstrong, Ross. The Watcher. 2016. Thriller.Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily knows that she has to act but as she starts to get close to the truth her own life comes under threat.UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25724803Atkinson, Kate. Started Early, Took My Dog. 2011. Crime.Jackson Brodie: book 4. One moment of madness is all it takes for security chief Tracy Waterhouse's humdrum world to be turned upside down. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25745803Atwood, Margaret. Hag-seed: The Tempest Retold. 2016. Literary fiction.After an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his lost daughter, Miranda. He is also brewing revenge, which finally arrives after 12 years in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25822303Bell, Josephine. The Port of London Murders. 1987, c1938. Classic crime.The port area of London's River Thames is a tough neighbourhood but it is nevertheless shocked when Mary Holland is found dead, an apparent suicide using Lysol poison. Detective Sergeant Chandler believes it was murder and he makes investigations, but then he unaccountably disappears.UEB. 5v. Price: ?3.95. Order No: 25819603Bolton, Sharon. Now You See Me. 2012. Crime.Lacey Flint: book 1. A savage murder on London's streets, 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case. Now she must outwit a brilliant psychopath whose infamous role model has never been found.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25822503Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. 2000. Short stories.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25872103Brooks, Terry. Bearers Of The Black Staff. 2011. Fantasy.Legends of Shannara: book 1. 500 years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished.UEB. 8v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25778903Chambers, Kimberley. Billie Jo. 2009. Thriller.Billie Jo is the adored only child of wealthy villain, Terry, and Michelle, the drunken wife he hates. Knowing how much Billie Jo dreads her parents’ fights, Terry imagines that she’ll understand when he tells her he is going to leave Michelle to marry his pregnant secretary. But fate is about to deal a terrible hand and change everything. UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25736903Colgan, Jenny. Little Beach Street Bakery. 2014. Chick lit.Little Beach Street bakery: book 1. Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. She has to move miles away from everyone to a sleepy little seaside resort in Cornwall. Polly takes out her frustrations on her favourite hobby: making bread. As she pours her emotions into kneading and pounding the dough people start to hear about her baking.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25839403Collard, Paul Fraser. The Devil's Assassin. 2015. Historical fiction.Jack Lark: book 3. Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic but fraudulent past is discovered by Major Ballard, the army's intelligence officer. Ballard needs a man like Jack on his side. In Persia, the Shah is moving against British territory and seeks to conquer the crucial city of Herat. As the British march to war, Jack learns that secrets crucial to the campaign's success are leaking into their enemies' hands. Ballard has brought him to the battlefield to uncover thetraitor.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25860703Cornick, Nicola. The Phantom Tree. 2016. General fiction.Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait. The woman in the portrait is Mary Seymour, 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. But Alison's quest to unlock the mystery surrounding Mary's disappearance soon takes a dark turn.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25724303Cornwell, Bernard. Copperhead. 2013. War fiction.Starbuck Chronicles: book 2. Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. Starbuck’s journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly high command of the northern army.UEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25860203Also;Cornwell, Bernard. Battle Flag. 2013. War fiction.Starbuck Chronicles: book 3. UEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25860303Cornwell, Bernard. The Bloody Ground. 2013. War fiction.Starbuck Chronicles: book 4. UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25860503Daoud, Kamel. The Meursault Investigation. 2015. Literary fiction.He was the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name – Musa – and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. The Meursault Investigation is a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria.UEB. 2v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25819403Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul. The Reader On The 6.27. 2016. Humorous fiction.Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence, working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie - a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does - that his journey will truly begin.UEB. 2v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25823003Douglas, Donna. Nightingales On Call. 2014. General fiction.Nightingale Girls: book 4. 1937 and Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their training. And there are new faces. Jess is the feisty eldest daughter of a notorious East End family. New trainee nurse Effie can't wait to escape her small Irish village and make her way as a nurse in London. But Effie's sister Katie soon begins to worry that Effie's behaviour is out of control.UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25869003Dunmore, Helen. Exposure. 2016. Spy stories.London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25822203Fforde, Katie. A Vintage Wedding. 2016. Chick lit.Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings. They find themselves living in the same small Cotswold country town. So they set up in business together, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings. Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days. What none of them know is that their own romances lie waiting, just around the corner.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25839903Follett, Ken. The Pillars Of The Earth. 2014. Historical fiction.Pillars of the Earth: book 1. In twelfth-century England, a time of civil war, famine, religious strife, and battles over royal succession, a magnificent cathedral was being built at Kingsbridge. Against this backdrop are the intertwined lives of Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts the curse.UEB. 22v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25869103Gerritsen, Tess. Harvest. 2010. Thriller.At Bayside Hospital, Dr. Abby DiMatteo's career is in serious jeopardy when it is discovered that she helped divert a donor heart to a dying teenager. When a new heart for the intended recipient, a wealthy woman, suddenly appears, Abby questions its origin. Now every move she makes creates a furious backlash, and nothing can prepare her for the grisly final reckoning.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25851203Gibson, Mary. Bourbon Creams And Tattered Dreams. 2017. Family stories.Handsome Frank Rossi took Matty Gilbie away from her working class roots in Bermondsey, East London and promised her fame and fortune. In America, she would become a movie star. But the Wall Street Crash of 1929 puts paid to all that. As Frank becomes more violent and unstable, Matty flees in the dead of night. Once home in Bermondsey, she finds work at a biscuit factory. Then Matty learns that Frank is on the move, determined to get her back.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25872503Goodwin, Rosie. Dilly's Sacrifice. 2015. Family stories.Dilly's Story: book 1. Dilly is devastated. With her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. She heads into the night to deliver her baby girl to the Farthing family at the big house. Having just lost their own daughter to measles, the Farthings adopt the baby and offer Dilly a lifeline: a job as a maid. Dilly fights to keep her family together in the face of poverty, hardship and the horrors of the First World War.UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25872203Goodwin, Rosie. Mothering Sunday. 2017. Historical fiction.Days Of The Week: book 1. It's 1884 and 14-year-old Sunday Small has been in the Nuneaton workhouse since she was abandoned at birth. The regime is cruel, but Sunday has the lovely Miss Beau who comes in every week to teach the inmate children their letters, and her dear little friend Daisy. She's attracted the unwelcome attention of the workhouse master, who will stop at nothing to get her alone. It's time for Sunday to strike out alone in the world.UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25872403Grey, Zane. Riders of the purple sage. 2008. Western.Riders Of The Purple Sage: book 1. Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared disobey the Mormons who ordered her to marry grim, brutal Elder Tull. Now her stock was being stampeded and her men disappearing. Then the mysterious gunslinger called Lassiter rode into town.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25869303Grisham, John. The Whistler. 2016. Thriller.Lacy Stoltz investigates judicial misconduct by Florida's one thousand judges. She meets Greg Myers, an indicted lawyer with an assumed name, who is representing a whistle blower who knows of a judge involved in organised crime. Under Florida law, those who help the state recover illegally acquired assets stand to gain a large percentage of them. Myers and his whistle blower friend could make millions. But first they need Lacy to start an investigation and pit herself against the most corrupt judge in American history.UEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25869703Grylls, Bear. Burning Angels. 2017. Adventure.Ghost Flight: book 2. A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood. A jungle island overrun by rabid primates, escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone. A massive hidden seaplane packed with a Nazi cargo of mind-blowing evil. A penniless orphan kidnapped from an African slum, holding the key to the world's survival. These are four terrifying journeys and only one man to attempt it – Will Jaeger, the hunter.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25869203Harry, Lilian. Surprises In Burracombe. 2016. Country life fiction.Burracombe Village: book 10. Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. The engagement party at the Barton is finally a chance for her and David to celebrate their good news with friends and family. But with obstacles springing up from all angles, there may be more than the dress and the venue to arrange before they can consider walking down the aisle. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25715205Henderson, Meg. A Scent of Bluebells. 2007. Family stories.Alice McInally, beautiful and beloved by her childhood sweetheart, hadn’t anticipated the outcry when they announced their betrothal. She was Protestant and he was Catholic. Cast out by their well-to-do families somehow Alice will win respectability for the children in her care, even if that means telling a lie with the best of intentions.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25872703Henry, Veronica. How To Find Love In A Book Shop. 2016. Chick lit.Emilia has just returned to her idyllic Cotswold hometown to rescue the family business, a book shop called Nightingale Books. Emilia's customers have their own tales to tell. There's the lady of the manor who is hiding a secret close to her heart; the single dad looking for books to share with his son but who isn't quite what he seems; and the desperately shy chef trying to find the courage to talk to her crush.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25745703Kehlmann, Daniel. F. 2015. General fiction.One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes.UEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25736303Meyrick, Denzil. Whisky From Small Glasses. 2015. Crime.DCI Daley: book 1. DCI Jim Daley is sent from the city to investigate a murder after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland. Far away from urban resources, he finds himself a stranger in a close-knit community. Love, betrayal, fear and death stalk the small town, as the investigation becomes more deadly.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25819103Montefiore, Santa. Last Voyage Of The Valentina. 2014. General fiction.Alba always feels like an outsider. She hardly knew her Italian mother and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. On board the houseboat named after her dead mother, Alba's life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. But the discovery of her mother's portrait sends Alba back to Italy to find her family and the truth about Valentina. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25869603Morgan, C. E. The Sport Of Kings. 2016. General fiction.Hellsmouth, a wilful thoroughbred filly, has the legacy of the Forge family riding on her. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour to breed the next superhorse. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges’ history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view.UEB. 13v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25823103Norton, Graham. Holding. 2016. Crime.The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. When human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke - a former lover of two different inhabitants - the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated Sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret.UEB. 4v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25822403Perry, Sarah. The Essex Serpent. 2016. Historical fiction.Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, two people are drawn together and torn apart. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of Aldwinter, and Will is the local vicar. They meet as their village is engulfed by rumours that the mythical Essex Serpent has returned.UEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25822703Raven, Jaime. The alibi. 2016. Thriller.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 notorious gangster husband, Danny Shapiro. There's just one problem: Danny has a watertight alibi. UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25723605Reeman, Douglas. In Danger's Hour. 1988. War fiction.Aged only 28, Ian Ransome was already a veteran of warfare. Captain of the fleet minesweeper HMS Rob Roy, he daily faced the ever-present risk of death, from the air or the sea, in waters strewn with lethal mines. But the summer of 1944 approaches and as the allies prepare for D-Day, Ransome must steer Rob Roy towards her most dangerous mission yet.UEB. 6v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25714203Revell, Nancy. The Shipyard Girls. 2016. Family stories.Shipyard Girls: book 1. After a bomb attack causes destruction in Sunderland, Polly starts working as a welder on the shipyard to help the war effort. It isn't long though before Polly's head is turned by enigmatic dock diver Tommy Watts. During the day, head welder Rosie teaches her fledgling flock of trainees their new trade, but at night she hides a secret life. And mother hen Gloria signs up to escape her brutal husband.UEB. 6v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25839503Also;Revell, Nancy. Shipyard Girls At War. 2017. Family stories.Shipyard Girls: book 2. UEB. 7v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25834803Roberts, Nora. The Next Always. 2011. Romance.Inn at Boonsboro trilogy: book 1. The historic hotel in Boonsboro is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. Beckett is the architect of the family, and he's got his eye on the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen. After losing her husband and returning to her hometown, Clare Brewster soon settles into her life as the mother of three young sons while running the town's bookstore. Clare is drawn across the street by Beckett's transformation of the old inn, wanting to take a closer look at the building and the man behind it.UEB. 6v. Price: ?13.99. Order No: 25869803Roberts, Nora. The Obsession. 2016. Thriller.Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Naomi has grown up strong, with a passion for photography and sets down roots in a new town, Sunrise Cove, but someone knows her terrifying secret and won't let her forget it.UEB. 8v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25822803Robinson, Peter. Watching The Dark. 2012. Crime.Inspector Banks: book 20. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks is brought in to investigate. His colleague DS Annie Cabbot, is back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. An English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case.UEB. 7v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 23433905Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness. 2017. Literary fiction.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is an aching love story. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope.UEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25876703Scull, Luke. Sword Of The North. 2015. Fantasy.Grim Company: book 2. It is the Age of Ruin, a time in desperate need of heroes. But heroes are in short supply. Former rebel Sasha is an unwilling envoy between the powerful. Eremul the Halfmage languishes in disgrace. Yllandris, sorceress of the High Fangs is servant to a demon lord. Davarus Cole, assassin of the immortal, lies on the brink of death. UEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25812103Seifert, Elizabeth. Doctor's Orders. 1962. General fiction.When Alexander Ward returned to his home town to be the surgeon at the Knapp Hospital, he anticipated the unwarranted interference he would meet from the rich and condescending Knapp family. What he had not counted on was a desperate struggle to keep faith with his own plans in the face of unexpected opposition from Cass, his young and attractive bride.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25822103Simsion, Graeme C. The Best Of Adam Sharp. 2017. Humorous fiction.On the cusp of fifty and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub-quiz and he and his partner Claire rumble along. He had an affair more than twenty years ago on the other side of the world with Angelina Brown. As he played piano and Angelina sang, the smart, sexy, strong-willed actress taught him for the first time what it meant to find and then lose love. Then out of nowhere, Angelina gets in touch. UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25839803Spufford, Francis. Golden Hill. 2016. Historical fiction.New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition - he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25728003Stuart, Keith. A boy made of blocks. 2016. General fiction.Thirtysomething dad Alex is estranged from his wife Jody. And he is struggling to find common ground with his eight-year-old autistic son Sam. But when Sam starts to play Minecraft, it opens up a place where Alex and Sam begin to rediscover both themselves and each other. Can one fragmented family put themselves back together, one piece at a time?UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25840503Sweeney, John. Elephant Moon. 2014. General fiction.This novel is based on a little-known true story of the Second World War when a herd of 53 elephants was used by a young English schoolteacher to rescue a band of orphans in Burma and transport them to the safety of India. She faces impossible odds because between her and India lie 1,000 miles of jungle. This is a story of courage and compassion.UEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25714303Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Children Of Time. 2016. Science fiction.The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilisations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive.UEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25840003Tolkien, Simon. The King Of Diamonds. 2012. Crime.Inspector Trave and Detective Clayton: book 2. David Swain is two years into his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. He escapes from prison and, hours later, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave of the Oxford police heads the manhunt. Once Swain is recaptured and put on trial for his life, a guilty verdict seems guaranteed. But Trave's investigation has taken an unexpected turn. UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25819503Trollope, Joanna. City Of Friends. 2017. General fiction.The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? Her new life is now long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home. And her long cherished friendships with career women Beth, Melissa and Gaby will be pushed to their limits.UEB. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25835303Tyler, Anne. Vinegar Girl: The Taming Of The Shrew Retold. 2016. Literary fiction.Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying, as usual, on Kate.UEB. 3v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25823403West, Rebecca. The Birds Fall Down. 1986. Historical fiction.One afternoon, in an early summer of this century, eighteen-year-old Laura overhears a conversation between her father, an English Member of Parliament, and her mother, Tania, the daughter of an exiled Russian royalist. Tania's decision to take Laura to Paris to visit her grandfather, Count Nikilai Diakonov, means that Laura will witness the momentous events leading up to the Russian Revolution.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25715603Willett, Marcia. The Songbird. 2016. Romance.When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he is not telling her. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love. UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25737303Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman Of The Plains. 2009. Western.The Virginian is dominated by the romance between the heroic Virginian and Molly Wood, a schoolteacher from Vermont. The story takes place in the Wyoming cattle country during the late 1800s when the Virginian was up against the outlaw Trampas.UEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25868703Quick readsBingham, Harry. Dead Simple. 2017.'Dead Simple' is a collection of short stories from some of the best crime writers around. This collection features original stories from Mark Billingham, Clare Mackintosh, James Oswald, Jane Casey, Angela Marsons, Harry Bingham, Antonia Hodgson and CL Taylor. UEB double line spacing, single sided. 8v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25757803Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 25757805Colgan, Jenny. A Very Distant Shore. 2017.Lorna lives on the tiny Scottish island of Mure, a peaceful place where everyone helps their neighbour. But the local GP is retiring, and nobody wants his job. Mure is too small and too remote. Far away, in a crowded camp, Saif is treating a little boy with a badly-cut hand. Saif is a refugee, but he's also a doctor: exactly what Mure needs. Over one summer, Saif will find a place to call home, and Lorna's life will change forever.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 9v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25756403Also available in uncontracted braille. 11v. Order No: 25756405Craig, Amanda. The Other Side Of You. 2017.Will must run, or die. He's seen a murder, and the gang on his estate are after him. Hurt, hungry and afraid, he comes to an abandoned house in a different part of the city. But when Will meets Padma, he must choose between his good side and his bad one. For the gang he left behind is still there. How can he live without becoming a killer? How can he love without being a thief? UEB double line spacing, single sided. 6v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25756903Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 25756905Jeffers, Susan J. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway. 2017.Is there something holding you back from becoming the person you want to be? Fear is all around us, from having a tricky talk with your boss to facing up to a problem at home. The simple, life-changing exercises in Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway will teach you how to turn anger into love and uncertainty into action. This is a Quick Reads version of the classic self-help book.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 7v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25757303Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 25757305Mitchell, Dreda Say. One false move. 2017.Hayley swore when she got out of prison that she would turn her life around. She spends her days looking after her daughter, and her nights collecting cash from people who can't get loans any other way. When she is robbed she has 24 hours to get the money back, or her boss will come for her.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 7v. Price: ?1.00. Order No: 25756303Also available in uncontracted braille. 9v. Order No: 25756305Patterson, James. Break Point. 2016.One point away from winning the French Open, tennis star Kirsten Keller breaks down and flees the court in tears. Keller has been receiving death threats. Terrified and desperate, she hires former Metropolitan police officer Chris Foster to protect her at Wimbledon. As the championship progresses, Keller's tormenter gets ever closer. And the threats become horrifyingly real.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 9v. Price: ?2.49. Order No: 25704803Also available in uncontracted braille. 11v. Order No: 25704805Adult non-fictionAutobiographyBelfort, Jordan. The Wolf of Wall Street. 2013.By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king.UEB. 11v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25738203Haig, Matt. Reasons To Stay Alive. 2016.Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. Struggling with depression and anxiety, he could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, this is more than a memoir: it is a book about making the most of your time on Earth.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25841103Jackson, Michael. Moonwalk. 2010.Moonwalk is the only book about his life that Michael Jackson ever wrote. It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. It details his songwriting process; describes how he developed his signature dance style, including the Moon Walk; and opens the door to his very private personal relationships with his family and famous stars.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25841203Miller, Andy. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and two not-so-great ones) Saved My Life.2015.Andy Miller has been living a lie. But then again, who hasn't? How many books have you claimed to have read but never actually finished, or started, or even heard of? Books you've really wanted to read, or should have read, but never had the time, or the inclination? Tackling the canon single -handedly, Miller decides to rectify his twenty odd years of lies.UEB. 5v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25806103Milne, Jo. Breaking The Silence: My Journey Of Discovery As I Heard For The Very First Time. 2016.Jo Milne had already lived a lifetime surrounded by silence, profoundly deaf from birth, when she began to lose her sight. Just before turning 30, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. Jo has always been determined to live her life to the full. In 2014 she had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25727403Springsteen, Bruce. Born To Run. 2016.Since 2009, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger and darkness that fuelled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'the Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. UEB. 10v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25738103BiographyCarew, Keggie. Dadland. 2017.Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. Tom Carew was a member of the Jedburghs, an elite SOE unit, in the Second World War. But his wartime exploits are only the start of it, and Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace and war, into surprising and shady corners of history, her rackety English childhood, the poignant breakdown of her family, the corridors of dementia and beyond.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25726603Cooper, Artemis. Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. 2016.Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Artemis Cooper's biography explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her writing.UEB. 9v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25746603Jones, Bill. Alone: The Triumph And Tragedy Of John Curry. 2015.One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. He was awarded the OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry had changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was, and would always remain, an absolute mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25714803Krakauer, Jon. Into The Wild. 2007.In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitch-hiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. Four months later, he was found dead. This book uses McCandless's restless progress around Alaska to explore the call of the wild and the mentality of those who succumb to it.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25870003Lagnado, Lucette. The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World. 2009.Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman who makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee and plunged into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.UEB. 7v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25861503Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: The True Story Of A Friendship Spanning Four Decades Of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 2008.In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, Palestinian Bashir, returned to visit his childhood home in town of Ramla in Israel. He was met at the door by a young woman named Dalia, who invited him in. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, Bashir sees a symbol of occupation; Dalia sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust.UEB. 10v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25851303DramaWilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. 1995.Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.UEB. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25868603HistoryRees, Laurence. The Holocaust: A New History. 2017.This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. He combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research.UEB. 14v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25840903Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. 2003.What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why did the Republican cause collapse so violently? Hugh Thomas's classic account presents the most objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake.UEB. 28v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25739303Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Blood And Sand: Suez, Hungary And The Crisis That Shook The World. 2016.Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood and Sand is a history of these dramatic events. It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony.UEB. 10v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25811203MusicSuchet, John. Mozart: The Man Revealed. 2016.Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who fiercely worked him; unhappily married to a spendthrift woman; a musical genius who died young thus depriving the world of future glories. Suchet shows us the real Mozart, a man blessed with an abundance of talent yet sometimes struggling to earn a living. His mischievous nature and earthy sense of humour, his ease and confidence in his own incredible abilities; these were traits that never left him.UEB. 6v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25737703PetsHorowitz, Alexandra. Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, And Know. 2012.As a dog lover, Alexandra Horowitz is naturally curious about what her dog thinks and what she knows. As a cognitive scientist she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot say what they know or feel. This is a fresh look at the world of dogs, from the dog's point of view. It answers questions such as: What is a dog's sense of time? Does she miss me? Want friends? Know when she's been bad?UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25911803PsychologyKu?bler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death & Dying: What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy & Their Own Families. 2014.Exploring the five stages of death - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - Kübler-Ross provides a clearer understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve the patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25861203ReligionD'Arcy, Brian. And Catch The Heart Off Guard. 2015.Father D'Arcy reaches out to people to share something of his deep faith and his conviction of the boundless love of God. He speaks to people of faith and people of none, for what he has to say speaks to the heart and the great human longing for acceptance and love. This book offers a collection of thoughts, reflections and stories from the heart, to both challenge and comfort the reader.UEB. 2v. Price: ?12.50. Order No: 25851403Travel and TourismDu Maurier, Daphne. Vanishing Cornwall. 2012.Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination. In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history and its people, eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation. UEB. 4v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25738703Warfare and DefenceGillies, Midge. The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives Of Allied Prisoners Of War In The Second World War. 2012.The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is either of escape attempts or terrible brutality. But what did the men really do all day? The Barbed-Wire University shows British prisoners showed the most amazing ingenuity and determination to turn their camp into a hive of every kind of activity. UEB. 12v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25746003Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeDonaldson, Julia. The Gruffalo. 1999.A rhyming story about a clever little mouse and a monster. When mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest, he invents tales of a fantastic creature called a gruffalo to scare off his enemies. Imagine his surprise when he meets a real gruffalo!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25841403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25841405MacKenzie, Emily. Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar. 2015. Some rabbits dream about lettuces and carrots, others dream of flowering meadows and juicy dandelions, but Ralfy dreams only of books. In fact, he doesn't just dream about them, he wants to read them all the time. Soon his obsession sends him spiralling into a life of crime!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25758303Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25758305Simmons, Jane. Come On, Daisy. 2004.Daisy's mother told her to stay close. But Daisy didn't, and soon she found that she was lost and all alone. She was busy chasing dragonflies and bouncing on the lily pads.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25853603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25853605Stanton, Andy. Danny McGee Drinks The Sea. 2016.Can a boy drink the sea? Surely it's impossible! But Danny McGee does just that - and now he has his sights on other things. Soon he's swallowing trees, flies, fleas, peas, mountains - where will it end? His sister, Frannie, has a surprising way to stop the mayhem.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25841603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2584160507+ Suggested Reading AgeAnholt, 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.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 25859403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25859405Hoy, Chris. The Best Birthday Bike. 2016.Flying Fergus: book 1. Fergus Hamilton is a boy with a big imagination. Living with his mum and grandad and his dog, Chimp, he dreams of a state-of-the-art Sullivan Swift and becoming the most brilliant boy cyclist in the world. So when he gets a rusty second-hand bike for his ninth birthday he can't help feeling a bit disappointed. But then he discovers something amazing when he takes it for a ride.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25859303Murphy, Jill. The Worst Witch. 2013.Worst witch: book 1. Mildred Hubble was a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy and she was making an awful mess of it. She couldn't even ride a broomstick without crashing it and she was always getting her spells wrong. But she managed to get by until she turned Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy.UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25859503Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 25859505Riddell, Chris. Ottoline Goes To School. 2015.Ottoline: book 2. Meet Ottoline and her hairy, helpful friend Mr. Munroe. Ottoline is off to the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted, but she is rather worried that she doesn't have a special gift. Mr. Munroe is more worried about the ghost who is said to haunt the school halls at night. Does Ottoline discover her hidden talent and can they expose the spook?UEB double line spacing. 2v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25841703Winkler, Henry. Hank Zipzer, The World's Greatest Underachiever And The Crazy Classroom Cascade. 2012.World's greatest underachiever: book 1. According to ten-year-old Hank Zipzer, there are many reasons why he shouldn't have to do homework: every pen he owns has run out of ink; his thoughts are controlled by alien beings; he's allergic to lined paper - or could it just be that Hank has dyslexia and doesn't want to look stupid?UEB double line spacing. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25843203Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 2584320509+ Suggested Reading AgeBlyton, Enid. Five Go Off To Camp. 2015.The Famous Five: book 7. The Famous Five investigate spook trains in the dead of night. The trains seem to vanish into thin air, but where do they go? The Five discover an unusual underground tunnel system and a secret train-service.UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25736803Also;Blyton, Enid. Five Have Plenty Of Fun. 1997.The Famous Five: book 14. UEB. 3v. Price: ?3.99. Order No: 25841503Blyton, Enid. Five Get Into A Fix. 1992.The famous five: book 17. UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 25868803Bunzl, Peter. Cogheart. 2016.Cogheart adventures: book 1. Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25755503Cottrell Boyce, Frank. The Astounding Broccoli Boy. 2016.Rory Rooney isn't prepared when he suddenly and inexplicably turns green. Stuck in an isolation ward in a hospital far from home with two other remarkably green children, Rory's as confused by his new condition as the medics seem to be. But what if it's not in their genes, or a virus, or something they ate? What if turning green actually means you've turned into a superhero? UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25755403Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Friendship Fiasco. 2015.Emily Sparkes: book 1. Emily Sparkes best friend moving to Wales at the same time as her parents decide to have a new baby is enough trauma for her. But things go from bad to worse when she's paired with revolting Gross-Out Gavin for the school trip! Emily is determined to escape him, and glamorous new girl Chloe Clarke seems like the answer until everyone has gone Chloe Clarke mad and Emily finds her 'sworn enemy' Zuzanna has had the same idea.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25852303Also;Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Competition Calamity. 2015.Emily Sparkes: book 2. UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25852403Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Disco Disaster. 2016.Emily Sparkes: book 3. UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25852503Higgins, Chris. Alice In The Spotlight. 2012.Secrets Club: book 1. Join Alice, Tash, Dani and Lissa, the girls in The Secrets Club, as they begin their new lives at secondary school. They're making friends, facing their fears and choosing which secrets they share.UEB. 3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25739003Murray, Tamsyn. Star Reporter. pletely Cassidy: book 2. Cassidy is determined to discover a hidden talent to help her stand out from the crowd. So when her petition to let girls wear trousers gets her noticed by the editor of the school mag, she's thrilled. Could she be a star reporter? But her plans go pear-shaped when her investigations mysteriously end up online. Who's leaking her top-secret gossip?UEB. 2v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25853203Nicol, James. The Apprentice Witch. 2016.Arianwyn fluffs her witch's assessment. Awarded the dull bronze disc of an apprentice, she's sent to protect the remote, dreary town of Lull, to the glee of her arch-rival, Gimma. But her new life is far from boring. Turns out Gimma is the pompous mayor's favourite niece, and worse, she opens a magical rift in the nearby forest. As Arianwyn struggles with her spells, it's soon clear there's much more than her pride at stake.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25755303Palacio, R. J. Wonder. 2012.'Wonder' is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. This is a Bookbuzz 2017 title.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 23473515Also available in uncontracted braille. 6v. Order No: 23473517Ralphs, Matt. Fire Girl. 2015.Fire girl: book 1. 12-year-old Hazel Hooper has spent her whole life trapped in a magical Glade created by her mother, Hecate. More than anything, she wants to be a witch. But when her mother is kidnapped by a demon, it turns out that Hazel does have magic 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.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25739103Sedgwick, Marcus. Fright Forest. 2012.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.UEB. 2v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25738303Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. 1993.Black Beauty begins life in a loving home. But his owners are forced to sell him, and Black Beauty's fortunes change. He is moved from place to place and job to job, often suffering cruel treatment, until a chance encounter leads to a new turn of events.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25728203Also available in uncontracted braille. 5v. Order No: 25728205Welford, Ross. Time Travelling With A Hamster. 2016.On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life. Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2575600311+ Suggested Reading AgeBirchall, Katy. The It Girl: Superstar Geek. 2015.It girl: book 1. Painfully shy Anna Huntley is thrust into the spotlight, and onto the cover of every tabloid, when her father marries one of the world's most famous actresses. Her unexpected fame makes her want to find a closet to hide in with Dog (her pet Labrador). With the paparazzi moving in and the cool crowd being friendly for the first time ever, Anna must figure out who her real friends are, before her awkwardness is exposed to the whole world. This is a Bookbuzz 2017 title.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25814403Hargrave, Kiran Millwood. The Girl Of Ink & Stars. 2016.When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars and eager to navigate the island's forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, and her journey is fraught with danger.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25843603Horowitz, Anthony. Russian Roulette. 2015.Alex Rider: book 10. A gripping insight into the teenage life of Yassen Gregorovich, set against a backdrop of violence and corruption. Contract killer Yassen is given orders to kill Alex Rider. But Yassen knows a secret from the past that connects him to the fourteen-year-old spy. What is it that makes one of them choose to do evil, and what does it take to turn him into a killer?UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25843403Sachar, Louis. Fuzzy Mud. 2016.When Marshall takes a short cut home to avoid being beaten up by Chad, the school bully, he heads into the woods even though he knows it is forbidden. His friend Tamaya follows. But when Chad pursues them the three discover exactly why the woods are out of bounds. Hideously damaged by the peculiar mud that lies deep in the woods what hope do they have of survival? And will they always be enemies? This is a Bookbuzz 2017 title.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25815103Sands, Kevin. The Blackthorn Key. 2015.Blackthorn key: book 1. London, 1665. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe is apprenticed to master apothecary Benedict Blackthorn. Christopher learns of a mysterious cult preying on the most learned men in London. The murders are growing closer to home and soon Christopher is torn from the shop with only a page of cryptic clues from his master and the unambiguous warning: 'Tell no one'.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25843503Sugg, Zoe. Girl Online. 2015.Girl Online: book 1. Penny has a secret. Under the alias Girl Online, she blogs about school dramas, boys, her mad, whirlwind family and the panic attacks she's suffered from lately. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets the gorgeous, guitar-strumming Noah. Suddenly Penny is falling in love and capturing every moment of it on her blog. But Noah has a secret too. One that threatens to ruin Penny's cover, and her closest friendship, forever.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 2585980313+ 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 hoards of adoring fans. But it's not easy when his super-strict mum won't let him grow his hair. Josh has a diary with his hopes, dreams and frustrations. 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.UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25853503Cole, Stephen. Heads You Die. 2016.Young Bond: book 7. James's Cuban holiday has become a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has perfected 1,000 ways to kill. With corrupt cops and hired assassins hot on his heels, James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder. Fates will be decided with the flip of a coin.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25844403Higson, Charles. The Enemy. 2010.Enemy: book 1. When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician, every adult, fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under 14 remain, and they're fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London. Contains violence. Contains swear words.UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25853303Keplinger, Kody. Run. 2016.Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and an alcoholic mum. Agnes Atwood is legally blind and has never stayed out past 10 p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any of her parents' rules. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. When Bo shows up in the middle of the night, police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn't hesitate to take off with her. UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25755703Kincaid, S. J. The Diabolic. 2016.Diabolic: book 1. Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter, Sidonia. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court to serve as a hostage. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia in order to protect her.UEB. 9v. Price: ?10.99. Order No: 25844203Marriott, Zoe?. Barefoot On The Wind. 2016.A magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in a fairytale Japan. There is a monster in the forest. Everyone in Hana's remote village on the mountain knows that straying too far into the woods is a death sentence. When Hana's father goes missing, she goes in search of the beast, determined to kill it or be killed herself. But the forest contains more secrets, more magic and more darkness than Hana could ever have imagined.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25844103Mayo, Simon. Blame. 2016.Ant and her little brother Mattie are locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, but wider society wants them to do time for the unpunished 'heritage' crimes of their parents. Inside the London prison network Ant and Mattie call home, things finally erupt, and they realise they've got one chance to break out..UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25736603Sutherland, Krystal. Our Chemical Hearts. 2016.Henry Page, a hopeless romantic and film buff, is smitten as soon as Grace Town walks into his classroom. Grace looks in need of a good bath, is dressed in guy's clothing, and walks with a cane. She is unlike any leading lady Henry has ever obsessed over. And when Henry and Grace are both offered positions as editors of their high school newspaper, the mystery of Grace begins to captivate him. Contains swear words.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25844303Valentine, Jenny. The Double Life Of Cassiel Roadnight. 2010.Two boys. One identity. He can change his life if he says yes. The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight is the story of a boy who assumes the identity of a missing teenager and in-so-doing unearths a series of shattering family secrets and the truth about who he really is. This is a story about loss and betrayal, family secrets and personal identity.UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25843707Warga, Jasmine. My Heart & Other Black Holes. 2015.Aysel and Roman plan to commit suicide together in a month's time. Aysel knows why she wants to die: being the daughter of a murderer doesn't equal normal, well-adjusted teenager. But she can't figure out why handsome, popular Roman wants to end it all and why he's even more determined than she is. Then something starts to grow between Aysel and Roman but can it save them?UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2585270315+ Suggested Reading AgeEe, Susan. Angelfall. 2013.Penryn and the end of days: book 1. It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse destroyed civilisation. When enemy angels fly away with Penryn's little sister, she is forced to team up with Raffe, an injured angel who wants his wings back. Together, they journey to the heart of San Francisco and the angels' stronghold, where an unimaginable horror awaits them.UEB. 5v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25853003McKerrow, Anna. Crow Moon. 2015.Crow moon: book 1. Danny is a fun-loving 16-year-old who doesn't want to follow in his mum's witchy footsteps. Just as his community is being threatened by gangs intent on finding a lucrative power source to sell to the world, Danny discovers he is stunningly powerful. He falls for Saba, a gorgeous but capricious girl sorceress.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25736203Newman, Kim. The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School. 2015.A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new boarding school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Drearcliff girls are the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. When one of the girls in Amy's dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group, Amy forms the secret, Moth Club to rescue their friend. UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25819203Russo, Meredith. If I Was Your Girl. 2016.My name is Amanda. I'm 18. When you look at me, you might see that I'm pretty and popular, you might think my life is easy. But being me has never been easy, because I haven't always been Amanda. When I was born, I was named Andrew. Now, at my new school, I finally feel like myself. But do I owe my new friends the truth about my past?UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25860003Shannon, Samantha. The Bone Season. 2013.Bone season: book 1. 2059. 19-year-old Paige is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped. She is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 24697205Also;Shannon, Samantha. The Mime Order. 2017.Bone season: book 2. UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25819303Steinbeck, John. Of Mice And Men. 2000. Classic.George and Lennie are migrant American workers - one alert and protective, the other strong, stupid and potentially dangerous. This is the powerful story of their relationship and their dreams of finding a more stable and less lonely way of life.UEB. 3v. Price: ?5.99. Order No: 25132107Sullivan, Kiki. Midnight Dolls. 2015.Dolls: book 2. Eveny, Peregrine and Chloe are The Dolls: voodoo queens of Carrefour. When Eveny discovers she's heir to two magical traditions, her power doubles, but so does the threat from her enemies. And when Eveny's attacked at home, it's clear they're closing in. But the Dolls are ready to fight. For the people and town they love. And for their lives.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25852903Giant PrintAdult fictionAchebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 2006. General Fiction.African trilogy: book 1. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone, even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. Will the great man's dangerous pride destroy him?2v.Armstrong, Ross. The Watcher. 2016. Thriller.Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly neighbour Jean is found dead. Lily knows that she has to act but by finding the truth her own life is threatened.3v.Atkinson, Kate. When Will There Be Good News? 2009. Crime.Jackson Brodie: book 3. Six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for Dr Hunter who has gone missing. Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person and Jackson Brodie is on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.4v.Atkinson, Kate. Started Early, Took My Dog. 2011. Crime.Jackson Brodie: book 4. One moment of madness is all it takes for security chief Tracy Waterhouse's humdrum world to be turned upside down. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. 5v.Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold. 2016. Literary Fiction.After an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his lost daughter, Miranda. He is also brewing revenge, which finally arrives after 12 years in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. It's magic! 3v.Bell, Josephine. The Port Of London Murders. 1987, C1938. Classic Crime.The port area of London's River Thames is a tough neighbourhood but it is nevertheless shocked when Mary Holland is found dead, an apparent suicide using Lysol poison. Detective Sergeant Chandler believes it was murder and he makes investigations, but then he unaccountably disappears.3v.Bolton, Sharon. Now You See Me. 2012. Crime.Lacey Flint: book 1. A savage murder on London's streets, 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. A crime with all the hallmarks of a copycat killer. Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case. Now she must outwit a brilliant psychopath whose infamous role model has never been found.4v.Brooks, Terry. Bearers Of The Black Staff. 2011. Fantasy.Legends of Shannara: book 1. 500 years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished.4v.Chambers, Kimberley. Billie Jo. 2009. Thriller.Billie Jo is the only child of wealthy villain, Terry, and Michelle, the drunken wife he hates. Knowing how much Billie Jo dreads her parents’ fights, Terry imagines that she’ll understand when he tells her he is going to leave Michelle to marry his pregnant secretary. But fate is about to deal a terrible hand and change everything.4v.Cole, Martina. Betrayal. 2016. Thriller.Aiden O'Hara has been head of the family since he was kid, and he's going to keep it that way. Jade Dixon is the one who watches his back. Mother of his son. The one who makes him invincible. But Jade's been in the game a lot longer than Aiden. She knows no one's indestructible. And when you're at the top, that's when you've got to watch the hardest. Especially the ones closest to you.4v.Colgan, Jenny. Little Beach Street Bakery. 2014. Chick Lit.Little Beach Street bakery: book 1. Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. She has to move miles away from everyone to a sleepy little seaside resort in Cornwall. Polly takes out her frustrations on her favourite hobby: making bread. As she pours her emotions into kneading and pounding the dough people start to hear about her baking.4v.Collard, Paul Fraser. The Devil's Assassin. 2015. Historical Fiction.Jack Lark: book 3. Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic but fraudulent past is discovered by Major Ballard, the army's intelligence officer. Ballard needs a man like Jack on his side. In Persia, the Shah is moving against British territory and seeks to conquer the crucial city of Herat. 4v.Cornick, Nicola. The Phantom Tree. 2016. General Fiction.Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait. The woman in the portrait is Mary Seymour, 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. But Alison's quest to unlock the mystery surrounding Mary's disappearance soon takes a dark turn.4v.Cornwell, Bernard. Copperhead. 2013. War Fiction.Starbuck chronicles: book 2. Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. Starbuck’s journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, the battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly command of the northern army.5v.Also;Cornwell, Bernard. Battle Flag. 2013. War Fiction.Starbuck chronicles: book 3. 5v.Cornwell, Bernard. The Bloody Ground. 2013. War Fiction.Starbuck chronicles: book 4.5v.Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul. The Reader On The 6:27. 2016. Humorous Fiction.Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence, working at a book pulping factory, in a job he hates. Sitting on the 6:27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie - a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does - that his journey will truly begin.1v.Douglas, Donna. Nightingales On Call. 2014. General Fiction.Nightingale girls: book 4. 1937 and Dora and her old enemy Lucy are paired up on the children's ward for the final three months of their training. And there are new faces. Jess is the feisty eldest daughter of a notorious East End family. New trainee nurse Effie can't wait to escape her small Irish village, and make her way as a nurse in London. But Effie's sister Katie soon begins to worry that Effie's behaviour is out of control.5v.Dunmore, Helen. Exposure. 2016. Spy Stories.London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past that could carry with it an even greater penalty.3v.Fforde, Katie. A Vintage Wedding. 2016. Chick Lit.Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings. They find themselves living in the same small Cotswold country town. So they set up in business together, organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings. Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days. What none of them know is that their own romances lie waiting, just around the corner.4v.Follett, Ken. The Pillars Of The Earth. 2014. Historical Fiction.Pillars of the Earth: book 1. In twelfth-century England, a time of civil war, famine, religious strife, and battles over royal succession, a magnificent cathedral was being built at Kingsbridge. Against this backdrop are the intertwined lives of Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts the curse.14v.Gerritsen, Tess. Harvest. 2010. Thriller.At Bayside Hospital, Dr. Abby DiMatteo's career is in serious jeopardy when it is discovered that she helped divert a donor heart to a dying teenager. When a new heart for the intended recipient, a wealthy woman, suddenly appears, Abby questions its origin. Now every move she makes creates a furious backlash, and nothing can prepare her for the grisly final reckoning.5v.Goddard, Robert. Take No Farewell. 1991. Thriller.Clouds Frome was the best thing Geoffrey Staddon ever built as an architect. That did not stop him turning his back on the house as well as Consuela Caswell, the woman he loved. But when he reads that Consuela has been charged with murder, he knows instinctively that she cannot be guilty. Geoffrey cannot ignore the dangerous lure of the past any longer.7v.Goodwin, Rosie. Dilly's Sacrifice. 2015. Family Stories.Dilly's story: book 1. Dilly is devastated. With her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. She heads into the night to deliver her baby girl to the Farthing family at the big house. Having just lost their own daughter to measles, the Farthings adopt the baby and offer Dilly a lifeline: a job as a maid. 4v.Gregory, Philippa. The Boleyn Inheritance. 2007. Historical Fiction.Tudor Court: book 3. The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry the king of England but soon she senses a trap closing around her.5v.Grey, Zane. Riders Of The Purple Sage. 2008. Western.Riders of the purple sage: book 1. Jane ran her cattle business and bossed the cowboys who rode the expanse of purple sage around her prosperous Utah ranch. Then she dared disobey the Mormons who ordered her to marry grim, brutal Elder Tull. Now her stock was being stampeded and her men disappearing. Then the mysterious gunslinger called Lassiter rode into town.4v.Grylls, Bear. Burning Angels. 2017. Adventure.Ghost flight: book 2. A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood. A jungle island overrun by rabid primates, escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone. A massive hidden seaplane packed with a Nazi cargo of mind-blowing evil. A penniless orphan kidnapped from an African slum, holding the key to the world's survival. These are four terrifying journeys and only one man to attempt it – Will Jaeger, the hunter.4v.Harry, Lilian. The Bells Of Burracombe. 2006. Country Life Fiction.Burracombe village: book 1. When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. Orphaned as a child and brought up in a children's home, she was separated from her sister and has never been able to trace her.4v.Harry, Lilian. Surprises In Burracombe. 2016. Country Life Fiction.Burracombe village: book 10. Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. The engagement party at the Barton is finally a chance for her and David to celebrate their good news with friends and family. But with obstacles springing up from all angles, there may be more than the dress and the venue to arrange before they can consider walking down the aisle. 4v.Henderson, Meg. A Scent Of Bluebells. 2007. Family Stories.Alice McInally, beautiful and beloved by her childhood sweetheart, hadn’t anticipated the outcry when they announced their betrothal. She was Protestant and he was Catholic. Cast out by their well-to-do families somehow Alice will win respectability for the children in her care, even if that means telling a lie with the best of intentions.4v.Henry, Veronica. How To Find Love In A Book Shop. 2016. Chick Lit.Emilia has just returned to her idyllic Cotswold hometown to rescue the family business, a: book shop called Nightingale Books. Emilia's customers have their own tales to tell. There's the lady of the manor who is hiding a secret; the single dad looking for books to share with his son but who isn't quite what he seems; and the desperately shy chef trying to find the courage to talk to her crush.3v.Imrie, Celia. Not Quite Nice. 2016. Chick Lit.Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, fed up with babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her Highgate house and moves to the picture-perfect town of Bellevue-sur -Mer, just outside Nice. It is home to a close-knit set of expats including the suave Brian who catches Theresa's eye.3v.James, Erica. Song Of The Skylark. 2016. Chick Lit.Lizzie has lost her job at a radio station. With no money in the bank she's forced to return home to her parents. Her mother finds her work at the local care home for the elderly, and it's there that Lizzie meets Mrs Dallimore. In her nineties, Mrs Dallimore finds old age has finally caught up with her. With her life drawing to a close she gives in to the temptation to relive the past by sharing it with Lizzie.5v.Kehlmann, Daniel. F. 2015. General Fiction.One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. 3v.Meyrick, Denzil. Whisky From Small Glasses. 2015. Crime.DCI Daley: book 1. DCI Jim Daley is sent from the city to investigate a murder after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland. Far away from urban resources, he finds himself a stranger in a close-knit community. Love, betrayal, fear and death stalk the small town, as the investigation becomes more deadly.4v.Montefiore, Santa. Last Voyage Of The Valentina. 2014. General Fiction.Alba always feels like an outsider. She hardly knew her Italian mother and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. On board the houseboat named after her dead mother, Alba's life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. But the discovery of her mother's portrait sends Alba back to Italy to find her family and the truth about Valentina. 4v.Morgan, C. E. The Sport Of Kings. 2016. General Fiction.Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly, has the legacy of the Forge family riding on her. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour to breed the next superhorse. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges’ history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view.10v.Perry, Sarah. The Essex Serpent. 2016. Historical Fiction.Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, two people are drawn together and torn apart. Cora Seaborne is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of Aldwinter, and Will Ransome is the local vicar. They meet as their village is engulfed by rumours that the mythical Essex Serpent, has returned.4v.Raven, Jaime. The Alibi. 2016. Thriller.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 notorious gangster husband, Danny Shapiro. There's just one problem: Danny has a watertight alibi. 4v.Reeman, Douglas. In Danger's Hour. 1988. War Fiction.Aged only 28, Ian Ransome was already a veteran of warfare. Captain of the fleet minesweeper HMS Rob Roy, he daily faced the ever-present risk of death, from the air or the sea, in waters strewn with lethal mines. But the summer of 1944 approaches and as the allies prepare for D-Day, Ransome must steer Rob Roy towards her most dangerous mission yet.5v.Revell, Nancy. The Shipyard Girls. 2016. Family Stories.Shipyard girls: book 1. After a bomb attack causes destruction in Sunderland, Polly is working as a welder on the shipyard to help the war effort. It isn't long though before Polly's head is turned by enigmatic dock diver Tommy Watts. During the day, head welder Rosie teaches her fledgling flock of trainees their new trade, but at night she hides a secret life. And mother hen Gloria signs up to escape her brutal husband.4v.Revell, Nancy. Shipyard Girls At War. 2017. Family Stories.Shipyard girls: book 2. Sunderland 1941. It takes strength to work on the docks, but the women are doing their best for the war effort. The shipyards are proving tougher than Polly ever imagined, while she waits for her man to return home safely. Rosie is flourishing in her role as head-welder while a dashing detective is forcing her to choose between love and her duty. Gloria is hiding a secret. If revealed, it would threaten her job and her life.4v.Roberts, Nora. The Obsession. 2016. Thriller.Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Naomi has grown up strong, with a passion for photography and sets down roots in a new town, Sunrise Cove, but someone knows her terrifying secret and won't let her forget it.5v.Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness. 2017. Literary Fiction.Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her. 5v.Scull, Luke. Sword Of The North. 2015. Fantasy.It is the Age of Ruin, a time in desperate need of heroes. But heroes are in short supply. Former rebel Sasha is an unwilling envoy between the powerful. Eremul the Halfmage languishes in disgrace. Yllandris, sorceress of the High Fangs is servant to a demon lord. Davarus Cole, assassin of the immortal, lies on the brink of death. 5v.Seifert, Elizabeth. Doctor's Orders. 1962. General Fiction.When Alexander Ward returned to his home town to be the surgeon at the Knapp Hospital, he anticipated the unwarranted interference he would meet from the rich and condescending Napp family. What he had not counted on was a desperate struggle to keep faith with his own plans in the face of unexpected opposition from Cass, his young and attractive bride.3v.Simsion, Graeme C. The Best Of Adam Sharp. 2017. Humorous Fiction.On the cusp of fifty and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub-quiz and he and his partner Claire rumble along. He had an affair more than twenty years ago on the other side of the world with Angelina Brown. As he played piano and Angelina sang, the smart, sexy, strong-willed actress taught him for the first time what it meant to find and then lose love. Then out of nowhere, Angelina gets in touch. 3v.Spufford, Francis. Golden Hill. 2016. Historical Fiction.New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One rainy evening, a charming and handsome young stranger fresh off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a suspicious yet compelling proposition - he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? 4v.Steel, Danielle. Echoes. 2005. Family Stories.For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was a time of awakening. The quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart anyway. As Europe faces war, Beata must watch as Hitler's terror threatens her family.4v.Stirling, Jessica. The Asking Price. 2000. Family Stories.Nicholson family: book 2. Kirsty and Craig Nicholson find themselves drifting apart, held together only by their son. Kirsty finds herself drawn more and more to David Lockhart, the young minister who cares for her deeply. And Craig seeks comfort from Greta Taylor, a street woman from the slums, and his growing obsession with her threatens Kirsty and the future of his family too.4v.Sweeney, John. Elephant Moon. 2014. General Fiction.This novel is based on a little-known true story of the Second World War when a herd of 53 elephants was used by a young English schoolteacher to rescue a band of orphans in Burma and transport them to the safety of India. She faces impossible odds because between her and India lie 1,000 miles of jungle. This is a story of courage and compassion.3v.Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Children Of Time. 2016. Science Fiction.The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But new masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilisations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive.6v.Trollope, Joanna. City Of Friends. 2017. General Fiction.The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? Her new life is now long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home. And her long cherished friendships with career women Beth, Melissa and Gaby will be pushed to their limits.3v.Tyler, Anne. Vinegar Girl: The Taming Of The Shrew Retold. 2016. Literary Fiction.Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying, as usual, on Kate. 2v.West, Rebecca. The Birds Fall Down. 1986. Historical Fiction.On an early summer afternoon of this century, eighteen-year-old Laura overhears a conversation between her father, an English Member of Parliament, and her mother, Tania, the daughter of an exiled Russian royalist. Tania's decision to take Laura to Paris to visit her grandfather, Count Nikilai Diakonov, means that Laura will witness the events leading up to the Russian Revolution.6v.Willett, Marcia. The Songbird. 2016. Romance.When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he is not telling her. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love.3v.Adult Non-FictionAutobiography Belfort, Jordan. The Wolf Of Wall Street. 2013. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king. 6v.Haig, Matt. Reasons To Stay Alive. 2016.Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. Struggling with depression and anxiety, he could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, this is more than a memoir: it is a: book about making the most of your time on Earth.2v.Jackson, Michael. Moonwalk. 2010.Moonwalk is the only book about his life that Michael Jackson ever wrote. It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. It details his songwriting process; describes how he developed his signature dance style, including the Moon Walk; and opens the door to his very private personal relationships with his family and famous stars.2v.Miller, Andy. The Year Of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. 2015. Andy Miller has been living a lie. But then again, who hasn't? How many books have you claimed to have read but never actually finished, or started, or even heard of? Books you've really wanted to read, or should have read, but never had the time, or the inclination? Tackling the canon single-handedly, Miller decides to rectify his twenty odd years of lies.3v.Milne, Jo. Breaking The Silence: My Journey Of Discovery As I Heard For The Very First Time. 2016.Jo Milne had already lived a lifetime surrounded by silence, profoundly deaf from birth, when she began to lose her sight. Just before turning 30, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. Jo has always been determined to live her life to the full. In 2014 she had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time.3v.Springsteen, Bruce. Born To Run. 2016.Since 2009, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger and darkness that fuelled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'the Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. 5v.BiographyCooper, Artemis. Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence. 2016.Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Artemis Cooper's biography explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her writing.5v.Krakauer, Jon. Into The Wild. 2007.In April 1992, Chris McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitch-hiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. Four months later, he was found dead. This: book uses McCandless's restless progress around Alaska to explore the call of the wild and the mentality of those who succumb to it.3v.Lagnado, Lucette. The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World. 2009.Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman who makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, Leon loses everything and his family is forced to flee and plunged into hardship and poverty, as they take flight for any country that would have them.4v.Jones, Bill. Alone: The Triumph And Tragedy Of John Curry. 2015.One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. He was awarded the OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry had changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was, and would always remain, an absolute mystery to a world dazzled by his gift. 4v.Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: The True Story Of A Friendship Spanning Four Decades Of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 2008.In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, Palestinian Bashir, returned to visit his childhood home Ramla in Israel. He was met at the door by a young woman named Dalia, who invited him in. In the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, Bashir sees a symbol of occupation; Dalia sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust.5v.HistoryRees, Laurence. The Holocaust: A New History. 2017.This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. He combines their enthralling eyewitness testimony, a large amount of which has never been published before, with the latest academic research.7v.Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. 2003.What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939? Why did the British and US governments refuse to intervene? And why did the Republican cause collapse so violently? Hugh Thomas's classic account presents the most objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake.14v. Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Blood And Sand: Suez, Hungary And The Crisis That Shook The World. 2016.Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood and Sand is a history of these dramatic events. It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony.6v.PsychologyKu?bler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death & Dying: What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy & Their Own Families. 2014.Exploring the five stages of death - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - Kübler-Ross provides a clearer understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve the patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.4v.ReligionD'Arcy, Brian. And Catch The Heart Off Guard. 2015.Father D'Arcy reaches out to people to share something of his deep faith and his conviction of the boundless love of God. He speaks to people of faith and people of none, for what he has to say speaks to the heart and the great human longing for acceptance and love. This book offers a collection of thoughts, reflections and stories from the heart.2v.Travel And TourismDu Maurier, Daphne. Vanishing Cornwall. 2012.Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life. Its rugged coastline, wild terrain and tumultuous weather inspired her imagination. In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved, exploring its legends, its history and its people, eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation. 2v.Warfare And DefenceGillies, Midge. The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives Of Allied Prisoners Of War In The Second World War. 2012.The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is either of escape attempts or terrible brutality. But what did the men really do all day? The Barbed-Wire University shows British prisoners showed the most amazing ingenuity and determination to turn their camp into a hive of every kind of activity.6v.Children And Young Adult Fiction07+ Suggested Reading AgeWinkler, Henry. Hank Zipzer, The World's Greatest Underachiever And The Crazy Classroom Cascade. 2012.World's greatest underachiever: book 1. According to ten-year-old Hank Zipzer, there are many reasons why he shouldn't have to do homework: every pen he owns has run out of ink; his thoughts are controlled by alien beings; he's allergic to lined paper - or could it just be that Hank has dyslexia and doesn't want to look stupid?1v.09+ Suggested Reading AgeBunzl, Peter. Cogheart. 2016. Cogheart adventures: book 1. Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Murder, mayhem and mystery meet in this gripping Victorian adventure. 3v.Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Friendship Fiasco. 2015.Emily Sparkes: book 1. Emily Sparkes best friend moving to Wales at the same time her parents decide to have a new baby is enough trauma for her. But things get worse when she's paired with revolting Gross-Out Gavin for the school trip! Emily is determined to escape him, and glamorous new girl Chloe Clarke seems like the answer until everyone has gone Chloe Clarke mad and Emily’s finds her 'sworn enemy' Zuzanna has had the same idea.2v.Also;Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Competition Calamity. 2015.Emily Sparkes: book 2. 2v.Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes And The Disco Disaster. 2016.Emily Sparkes: book 3. 2v.Higgins, Chris. Alice In The Spotlight. 2012. Secrets Club: book 1. Join Alice, Tash, Dani and Lissa, the girls in The Secrets Club, as they begin their new lives at secondary school. They're making friends, facing their fears and choosing which secrets they share.2v.Ralphs, Matt. Fire Girl. 2015.Fire girl: book 1. 12-year-old Hazel Hooper has spent her whole life trapped in a magical Glade created by her mother, Hecate. More than anything, she wants to be a witch. But when her mother is kidnapped by a demon, it turns out that Hazel does have magic 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.3v.Welford, Ross. Time Travelling With A Hamster. 2016.On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life. Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer.3v.11+ Suggested Reading AgeHargrave, Kiran Millwood. The Girl Of Ink & Stars. 2016.When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars and eager to navigate the island's forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, and her journey is fraught with danger.2v.Sands, Kevin. The Blackthorn Key. 2015.Blackthorn key: book 1. London, 1665. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe is apprenticed to master apothecary Benedict Blackthorn. Christopher learns of a mysterious cult preying on the most learned men in London. The murders are growing closer to home and soon Christopher is torn from the shop with only a page of cryptic clues from his master and the unambiguous warning: 'Tell no one'.3v.13+ Suggested Reading AgeCole, Stephen. Heads You Die. 2016.Young Bond: book 7. James's Cuban holiday has become a nightmare mission to save an old friend from a villain who has perfected 1,000 ways to kill. With corrupt cops and hired assassins hot on his heels, James must travel through Havana and brave Caribbean waters to stop a countdown to mass murder. Fates will be decided with the flip of a coin.3v.Kincaid, S. J. The Diabolic. 2016. Diabolic: book 1. Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator's daughter, Sidonia. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia's father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court to serve as a hostage. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia in order to protect her.4v.Marriott, Zoe?. Barefoot On The Wind. 2016.A magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in a fairytale Japan. There is a monster in the forest. Everyone in Hana's remote village on the mountain knows that straying too far into the woods is a death sentence. When Hana's father goes missing, she goes in search of the beast, determined to kill it or be killed herself. But the forest contains more secrets, more magic and more darkness than Hana ever imagined.3v.Mayo, Simon. Blame. 2016. Ant and her little brother Mattie are locked up in a new kind of family prison. None of the inmates are themselves criminals, but wider society wants them to do time for the unpunished 'heritage' crimes of their parents. Inside the London prison network Ant and Mattie call home, things finally erupt, and they realise they've got one chance to break out. 4v.Stuart, Keith. A Boy Made Of Blocks. 2016. Thirty-something dad Alex is estranged from his wife Jody. And he is struggling to find common ground with his eight-year-old autistic son Sam. But when Sam starts to play Minecraft, it opens up a place where Alex and Sam begin to rediscover both themselves and each other. Can one fragmented family put themselves back together, one piece at a time?4v.Sutherland, Krystal. Our Chemical Hearts. 2016.Henry Page, a hopeless romantic and film buff, is smitten as soon as Grace Town walks into his classroom. Grace looks in need of a good bath, is dressed in guy's clothing, and walks with a cane. She is unlike any leading lady Henry has ever obsessed over. And when Henry and Grace are both offered positions as editors of their high school newspaper, the mystery of Grace begins to captivate him. Contains swear words3v.Valentine, Jenny. The Double Life Of Cassiel Roadnight. 2010.Two boys. One identity. He can change his life if he says yes. The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight is the story of a boy who assumes the identity of a missing teenager and in-so-doing unearths a series of shattering family secrets and the truth about who he really is. This is a story about loss and betrayal, family secrets and personal identity.2v.Warga, Jasmine. My Heart & Other Black Holes. 2015. Aysel and Roman plan to commit suicide together in a month's time. Aysel knows why she wants to die: being the daughter of a murderer doesn't equal normal, well-adjusted teenager. But she can't figure out why handsome, popular Roman wants to end it all and why he's even more determined than she is. Then something starts to grow between Aysel and Roman but can it save them?2v.15+ Suggested Reading AgeMcKerrow, Anna. Crow Moon. 2015. Crow moon: book 1. Danny is a fun-loving 16-year-old who doesn't want to follow in his mum's witchy footsteps. Just as his community is being threatened by gangs intent on finding a lucrative power source to sell to the world, Danny discovers he is stunningly powerful. He falls for Saba, a gorgeous but capricious girl sorceress.3v.Ee, Susan. Angelfall. 2013.Penryn and the end of days: book 1. It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse destroyed civilisation. When enemy angels fly away with Penryn's little sister, she is forced to team up with Raffe, an injured angel who wants his wings back. Together, they journey to the heart of San Francisco and the angels' stronghold, where an unimaginable horror awaits them.3v.Newman, Kim. The Secrets Of Drearcliff Grange School. 2015. A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new boarding school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Drearcliff girls are the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians. When one of the girls in Amy's dormitory is abducted by a mysterious group, Amy forms the secret Moth Club to rescue their friend. 4v.Russo, Meredith. If I Was Your Girl. 2016.My name is Amanda. I'm 18. When you look at me, you might see that I'm pretty and popular, you might think my life is easy. But being me has never been easy, because I haven't always been Amanda. When I was born, I was named Andrew. Now, at my new school, I finally feel like myself. But do I owe my new friends the truth about my past?2v.Shannon, Samantha. The Mime Order. 2017. Bone season: book 2. It is a dark time for clairvoyants. Scion is in league with the Rephaim, an extraordinarily powerful, otherworldly race that intends to make humans its slaves. In an unprecedented feat of bravery, Paige Mahoney has succeeded in leading a mass break-out from the brutal camp, Sheol I.5v.Sullivan, Kiki. Midnight Dolls. 2015.Dolls book: 2. Eveny, Peregrine and Chloe are The Dolls: voodoo queens of Carrefour. When Eveny discovers she's heir to two magical traditions, her power doubles, but so does the threat from her enemies. And when Eveny's attacked at home, it's clear they're closing in. But the Dolls are ready to fight. For the people and town they love and for their lives.3v.Talking Books Adult fictionAlderman, Naomi. The Lessons. 2016. General fiction. TB23873.Mark Winters rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. In his crumbling Georgian mansion Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of Oxford students. For a time they live in a charmed world of learning and parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes they are entirely unprepared.Read by Jot Davies. 11 hours 35 minutes. Amis, Kingsley. Difficulties With Girls. 1988. General fiction. TB007363.Patrick and Jenny have just moved into their south-of-the-river-flat, and the only thing they have in common with their fellow-tenants is difficulties with girls. Tim embarks on a quest to convince himself that he is queer; Eric and Stevie, the queens who share the fourth floor flat, have more difficulties with each other than most do with girls and Patrick himself is affected by every pretty girl he sees. Jenny alone knows what she wants. Read by Raymond Adamson. 10 hours 46 minutes. Andrews, V. C. Tarnished Gold. 2003. Family stories. TB24004.Landry family series; book 5. Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is happy. Then rich cannery owner, Octavious surprises her near a secluded pond and shatters her world. Pregnant and desolate, Gabriel agrees to let Mrs Tate claim the baby for her own. But after her baby is taken from her, Gabriel's life is shattered again, until the mysterious Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas comes to the bayou.Read by Elisa Berkeley. 10 hours 56 minutes. Asher, Neal L. War Factory. 2017. Science fiction. TB23883.Transformation; book 2. Spear's only goal is to get his revenge on the rogue artificial intelligence, Penny Royal. The AI apparently left him to die and killed thousands of his comrades in the process. But things aren't as clear-cut as they seem. Can he truly rely on his own version of events? Has Penny Royal been meddling with his memories and his very identity?Read by Jonathan Yen. 21 hours 7 minutes. Auster, Paul. 4 3 2 1. 2017. Literary fiction. TB24153.On March 3, 1947, in Beth Israel Hospital in New Jersey, Archibald Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley, is born. From that beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four boys, who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.Read by Paul Auster. 36 hours 56 minutes. Barton, Fiona. The Child. 2017. Thriller. TB24164.When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it's impossible to ignore. For one woman, it's a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For another, it's the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered. And for a journalist, it's the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth.Read by Adjoa Andoh, Clare Corbett, Finty Williams, Fenella Woolgar and Steven Pacey. 10 hours 50 minutes. Beckett, Chris. Daughter Of Eden. 2017. Science fiction. TB24158.Dark Eden; book 3. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground, a dangerous era has dawned for Eden. After generations of division and disagreement, the two populations of Eden have finally broken their tentative peace. Angie must flee with her family across the pitch black of Snowy Dark to the place where it all started, the stone circle where the people from Earth first landed.Read by Imogen Church. 15 hours 3 minutes. Bristow, Su. Sealskin. 2017. General fiction. TB24118.Donald is a young fisherman eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous and makes a terrible mistake. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence? Read by Angus King. 7 hours 18 minutes. Clark, Mary Higgins. A Cry In The Night. 2004. Canadian library fiction.TB23627.When Jenny meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger, whose landscapes are making him a huge success, is handsome, sensitive and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm. Soon, she gets caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, unearthing a past more terrifying than she dares imagine.Read by Cathy Dinsmore. 8 hours 22 minutes. Cooper, Glenn. Near Death. 2015. Thriller. TB23875.It is the most complex investigation that Cyrus O'Malley has ever faced. The FBI special agent looks at photos of the victims for the umpteenth time and wonders why, after being strangled, the serial killer has drilled a tiny hole through their skull. For Cyrus the case becomes an obsession. To solve it he will be forced to give up everything he holds dear.Read by Oliver Wyman. 11 hours 54 minutes. Croft, Kathryn. While You Were Sleeping. 2017. Thriller. TB24063.Tara Logan's happiness is shattered when she wakes in her neighbour Lee Jacobs' bed, with no memory of how she got there or what happened between them. Even worse, Lee has been stabbed to death. Convinced she didn't kill Lee, Tara flees home. But as her daughter spirals out of control and her husband becomes increasingly distant, Tara starts to wonder if someone in her own life knows what really happened that night.Read by Julie Maisey. 9 hours 3 minutes. Daoud, Kamel. The Meursault Investigation. 2015. Literary fiction. TB23894.He was the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Angry at the world and his own solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name – Musa – and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. The book is a meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria.Read by Fajer Al-Kaisi. 4 hours 10 minutes. Dhand, A. A. Girl Zero. 2017. Crime. TB24161.DI Harry Virdee; book 2. Detective Inspector Harry Virdee is a man perilously close to the edge. Standing over the body of his murdered niece, it feels like the beginning of the end. And although his boss is already removing him from the case, Harry knows there no such thing as too close. He needs to dive into the murky depths of the Bradford underworld and find the monster that lurks there who killed his flesh and blood.Read by Muzz Khan. 9 hours 30 minutes. Ellis, Mark. Merlin At War. 2017. Crime. TB24162.Frank Merlin; book 3. Summer 1941. Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a young girl killed in a botched abortion; a French émigré shot in a seedy Notting Hill flat; and a mysterious letter written by a British officer, gunned down in Crete. With action spanning Buenos Aires, New York, Cairo and Occupied France, Merlin and his team are plunged into a dark world of espionage, murder, love and betrayal. Read by Matt Addis. 15 hours 53 minutes. Farmer, Philip Jose. Dayworld Rebel. 1989. Science fiction. TB24038.Dayworld; book 2. In the America of the future the answer to the population explosion is that each person lives only one day out of seven, while the others await in suspended animation. Jefferson Caird's unique abilities allow him to assume a different identity for each day. With a rebel group he journeys to Los Angeles and contacts a larger subversive organization bent on radical change.Read by Jeff Harding. 11 hours 27 minutes. Forsyth, Frederick. The Cobra. 2010. Thriller. TB24056.The Cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels. Ex-CIA special ops Paul Devereaux is given what seems to be the impossible task of defeating them. He has men, resources, money. Up to now world governments have played by the rules. The rules no longer apply and a dirty war on drugs is about to get a whole lot dirtier.Read by John Chancer. 11 hours 12 minutes. Fridlund, Emily. History Of Wolves. 2017. Literary fiction. TB24120.Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices. So when the perfect family move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit. She is drawn into secrets she doesn't understand. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 8 hours 47 minutes. Goddard, Robert. Take No Farewell. 2011. Thriller. TB24073.Clouds Frome was the best thing Geoffrey Staddon ever built as an architect. That did not stop him turning his back on the house as well as Consuela Caswell, the woman he loved. But when he reads that Consuela has been charged with murder, he knows instinctively that she cannot be guilty. Geoffrey cannot ignore the dangerous lure of the past any longer.Read by Mark Elstob. 18 hours 24 minutes. Golden, Christopher. Ararat. 2017. Horror. TB23961.Meryam and Adam are the first to reach a massive cave in Mount Ararat, Turkey. They discover an ancient ship, buried in time, believed by some to be Noah's Ark. Deep in its recesses stands a coffin. Inside is a twisted, horned cadaver. Outside a storm threatens to break. Is it the raging blizzard that chases them down the mountain or something far worse?Contains swear words. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 10 hours 12 minutes. Griffith, Mari. Root Of The Tudor Rose. 2017. Historical romance. TB24174.1421: Henry V and his bride, Catherine de Valois, are blessed with the birth of a son but their happiness is short-lived. Catherine is widowed and when her father, the French king, also dies, her ten month old son, Henry VI, inherits the crowns of France and England. A foreigner at the English Court, Catherine finds true friendship with a young Welshman named Owen Tudor. However, their liaison must be kept secret at all costs.Read by Kelly Clare. 12 hours 33 minutes. Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. 2017. Literary fiction. TB24142.In a city swollen by refugees but not yet openly at war, Saeed and Nadia share a cup of coffee, and their story begins. Before too long, the time will come for Nadia and Saeed to leave their homeland. When the streets are no longer useable and all options are exhausted, this young couple will join the great outpouring of those fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.Read by Ashley Kumar. 4 hours 29 minutes. Harry, Lilian. Corner House Girls. 2001. General fiction. TB24041.Corner House girls; book 1. When cousins Jo and Phyl decide to become Lyons Corner House waitresses they have no idea how their lives are about to change. They soon make friends with both waitresses and customers. There are boyfriends, lovers and fiancés, friendship and romance, but as the Second World War becomes increasingly imminent, the future of these men and women seems more and more uncertain.Read by Beverley Klein. 15 hours 50 minutes. Also;Harry, Lilian. Kiss The Girls Goodbye. 2001. General fiction. TB24042.Corner House girls; book 2. Read by Beverley Klein. 15 hours 37 minutes. Hill, Susan. The Bird Of Night. 2017. Literary fiction. TB24062.Francis Croft, the greatest poet of his age, was mad. His world was a nightmare of internal furies and haunting poetic vision. Harvey Lawson watched and protected him until his final suicide. From his solitary old age Harvey writes this brief account of their 20 years together and then burns all the papers to shut out an inquisitive world.Read by Cameron Stewart. 8 hours 4 minutes. Hill, Susan. The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories. 2017. Ghost stories. TB24112.From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this collection of ghost stories. In the title story, on a murky evening in a club off St James, a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building.Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 4 hours 22 minutes. Jordan, Neil. Carnivalesque. 2017. Fantasy. TB24088.To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out and rejoins his parents, leaving Andy trapped inside the glass. And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town.Read by Conor Sheridan. 7 hours 43 minutes. Kutscher, Volker. The Silent Death. 2017. Crime. TB24110.Gereon Rath; book 2. Berlin, 1930. Sound film is conquering the big screen, leaving many by the wayside. Investigating the violent on-set death of actress Betty Winter, Inspector Rath encounters the dark side of glamour and an industry in turmoil. Trapped in the machinations of rival film producers, he roams Berlin’s Chinese quarter and the city’s underworld as he works ever closer to the edge of legality.Read by Mark Meadows. 16 hours 34 minutes. Langmead, Oliver. Metronome. 2017. Fantasy. TB24171.Once a feted musician, William Manderlay is living his twilight years in an Edinburgh care home. In dreams, maps are made from music and it just might be that one of William Manderlay's forgotten compositions holds the key to unleashing the nightmare that holds the world of dreams in balance. The Sleepwalkers are zoning in on him. He might be their saviour, or his music might be their damnation.Read by James Cameron Stewart. 8 hours 25 minutes. Lee, Maureen. The Old House On The Corner. 2005. Family stories. TB24055.Victoria Macara is 27 and lives alone in the old house on the corner that was once home to the family removal business. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by a small estate of new properties called Victoria Square. The newcomers who move in around her bring with them their own dramas. But it is to Gareth, trapped in a hopeless marriage, that Victoria is particularly drawn.Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 14 hours 55 minutes. Lightfoot, Freda. Fools Fall In Love. 2006. Family stories. TB24046.Champion Street market; book 2. Patsy Bowman is a newcomer to theChampion Street market. Riddled with insecurities, her impudence and cheek win her enemies as well as many new friends. Her curiosity soon starts to unravel secrets that the Higginson sisters would much rather keep hidden. Meanwhile, when the market is threatened Belle Garside has to decide whether to campaign to save it.Read by Emma Swan. 14 hours 36 minutes. Linskey, Howard. Hunting The Hangman. 2017. War fiction. TB24111.In 1942 two men were trained by the British SOE to parachute back into their native Czech territory to kill the man ruling their homeland. Jan and Josef risked everything for their country. Their attempt on Reinhard Heydrich's life was one of the single most dramatic events of the Second World War, with horrific consequences for thousands of innocent people.Read by Damian Lynch. 8 hours 59 minutes. Lunnon-Wood, Mike. Let Not The Deep. 2017. Sea stories. TB24119.British military quartet; book 1. A crippled cargo ship drifts helplessly in the face of an oncoming hurricane-force storm. On board, a passenger whose presence means the world is watching. Only the skill, determination and raw courage of a lifeboat crew and the British military forces despatched to save them offer any hope of survival. But set against the savagery of the Atlantic even that might not be enough.Read by John Telfer. 11 hours 13 minutes. Mackay, Neil. The Wolf Trial. 2017. Historical crime. TB24127.The second half of the 16th century, lawyer Paulus Melchior, travels to theisolated German town of Bideburg where local landowner, Peter Stumpf, is accused of brutally murdering dozens of people. The townsfolk clamour for the killer to be tried as a werewolf. Paulus must fight superstition, thecruelty of those who fear what they don't understand, and a zealous church determined to retain its grip on the souls of Bideburg.Read by Toby Longworth. 15 hours 4 minutes. Mackintosh, Anneliese. So happy it hurts. 2017. Chick lit. TB24168.Ottila McGregor is thirty years old. She’s going to quit drinking, stop cheating and finally find true happiness. Thales, the Greek guy who works in the hospital cafeteria, is probably the best, most dangerous person Ottila’s ever met. To make sense of it all, Ottila keeps a scrapbook of everything: emails, receipts, tickets, letters, her therapy transcripts, a boyfriend's note rescued from the bin.Read by Colleen Prendergast. 8 hours 42 minutes. May, Peter. Chinese Whispers. 2004. Thriller. TB24087.Li Yan; book 6. His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions, he wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart.Contains violence. Contains swear words.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 13 hours 8 minutes. Meyrick, Denzil. The Rat Stone Serenade. 2017. Crime. TB24167.DCI Daley; book 4. It's December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. When heavy snow cuts off Kintyre, DCI Jim Daley and DS Brian Scott areassigned to protect their illustrious visitors. As an ancient society emerges from the blizzards, and its creation, the Rat Stone, reveals grisly secrets, ghosts of the past come to haunt the Shannons. Read by David Monteath. 10 hours 36 minutes. Also;Meyrick, Denzil. Well Of The Winds. 2017. Crime. TB24173.DCI Daley; book 5. Read by David Monteath. 10 hours 13 minutes. Mitford, Nancy. The Blessing. 2010. General fiction. TB23867.It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi finally join her dashing husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed French women, and shocked by their gossiping and bed hopping. When she discovers her husband's tendency to lust after every pretty girl he sees, it looks like trouble. Things get even more complicated when Sigi steps in.Read by Jenny Agutter. 8 hours 56 minutes. Moss, Sarah. Night Waking. 2011. General fiction. TB23868.Historian Anna has a book to write. She also has a toddler, a seven-year-old, and a frequently absent husband who has brought them all to Colsay, an island in the Hebrides. Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders.Read by Jane Lambert. 13 hours 10 minutes. Mozley, Fiona. Elmet. 2017. Literary fiction. TB24152.Daniel is heading north. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and his sister Cathy has turned sour and fearful. Sometimes Daddy disappeared, and would return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.Read by Gareth Bennett-Ryan. 7 hours 40 minutes. Nevill, Adam L. G. Under A Watchful Eye. 2017. Horror. TB24047.Seb is being watched. When the sudden appearance of a dark figure shatters his idyllic coastal life, he soon realises that the murky past he thought he'd left behind has far from forgotten him. Seb fears his stalker is not working alone, but rather is involved in a wider conspiracy that threatens everything he has worked for.Read by Charles Armstrong. 10 hours 31 minutes. Neville, Carl. Resolution Way. 2017. General fiction. TB24116.Writer Alex Hargreaves stumbles across the work of an unknown author from the early 1990s named Vernon Crane. Presuming the missing Crane is dead, Alex decides to pass off Crane's work as his own. The novel he wishes to plagiarize has been split among Crane's scattered group of friends. Hargreave's mission to track down Crane's work sets in motion a series of encounters alternately tragic, redemptive and liberating.Read by Damian Lynch. 10 hours 55 minutes. Pulley, Natasha. The Bedlam Stacks. 2017. Fantasy. TB24159.It is 1859 and India is ravaged by malaria. The hunt for a reliable source of quinine is critical. The India Office orders Merrick Tremayne to bring back cinchona cuttings at any cost. He is dispatched, against his own better judgement, to the holy town of Bedlam, deep in uncharted Peru. There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettlingly familiar stories of impossible disappearances and living stone. Read by David Thorpe. 13 hours 26 minutes. Rendell, Ruth. The Vault. 2011. Crime. TB23870.Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery; book 23. A chance meeting in a London street brings Chief Inspector Reg Wexford out of retirement. Tom Ede is a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an advisor on a difficult case. The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None of the corpses carry identification.Read by Nigel Anthony. 8 hours 42 minutes. Also;Rendell, Ruth. No Man's Nightingale. 2013. Crime. TB23871.Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery; book 24. Read by Nigel Anthony. 8 hours 46 minutes. Roberts, Michele. The Walworth Beauty. 2017. General fiction. TB24058.2011: When Madeleine loses her job she decides to move to Apricot Place, where she senses the past encroaching. 1851: Joseph has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. He seeks answers in Apricot Place. As these entwined stories unfold, alive with the sensations of London, the two eras brush against each other.Read by Jenny Coverack. 12 hours 13 minutes. Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 2017. General fiction. TB24143.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is an aching love story. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, mended by love-and by hope.Read by Arundhati Roy. 16 hours 39 minutes. Sawyer, Robert J. Quantum Night. 2017. Science fiction. TB23887.Experimental psychologist Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from 20 years ago, a dark time during which he committed heinous acts. Jim is reunited with Kayla, his forgotten girlfriend and now a quantum physicist who has made a discovery about the nature of human consciousness. They combine forces to see if they can change human nature before the entire world descends into darkness.Read by Scott Aiello. 10 hours 33 minutes. Shamsie, Kamila. Home Fire. 2017. General fiction. TB24141.After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother'sdeath, Isma is finally studying in America. But she can't stop worrying about her sister Aneeka, - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in order to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. The son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to – or defy.Read by Avita Jay. 8 hours 34 minutes. Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. 2016. General fiction. TB24144.Two brown girls dream of being dancers-but only one, Tracey, has talent. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighbourhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where the women dance just like Tracey.Read by Pippa Bennett-Warner. 13 hours 46 minutes. Sykes, Plum. Party Girls Die In Pearls. 2017. Crime. TB24114.Oxford girl; book 1. In 1985, Ursula Flowerbutton, a studious country girl, arrives for her first term at Oxford. She anticipates days spent poring over history books. But when she discovers a body, Ursula is catapulted into a murder investigation. Determined to bag her first scoop for the famous student newspaper, Ursula enlists the help of glamorous American student Nancy Feingold to unravel the case.Read by Sarah Winter. 10 hours 22 minutes. Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Children Of Time. 2017. Science fiction. TB24124.The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But new masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilisations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive.Read by Mel Hudson. 16 hours 34 minutes. Tempest, Kate. The Bricks That Built The Houses. 2017. General fiction. TB24122.Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in Southeast London, the place they have always called home.Read by Kate Tempest. 9 hours 59 minutes. Tie Me Up. 2013. Erotic fiction. TB24036.This is a collection of twenty erotic short stories from Xcite Books. Read on for a selection of sexy schoolgirl roleplaying, passionate threesomes with ropes and handcuffs, eager toyboys, and mischievous lesbians with a penchant for teasing. Whether you like your domination light and playful or rough and ready this book aims to please.Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words.Read by Penny Hardcastle, Annie Aldington, Emma Carter, Suzie Grimsdick and Kris Dyer. 6 hours 52 minutes. Towles, Amor. A Gentleman In Moscow. 2017. Literary fiction. TB23963.In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. He must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. His reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.Read by Leighton Pugh. 15 hours 31 minutes. Voss, Louise. Are You My Mother? 2017. General fiction. TB24113.From the age of 19, Emma Victor has had to bring up her much younger sister, Stella. Now Stella is almost grown up, and Emma's nurturing instincts extend to her work as an aromatherapist and inform her relationship with the unreliable but irresistible Gavin. But something is missing, and Emma has to confront her deepest need and embark on a search for her birth mother.Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 13 hours 5 minutes. Voss, Louise. Games People Play. 2017. General fiction. TB24129.All Rachel wants is to be the most successful British tennis player ever and to keep a boyfriend. All her mother wants is her second husband to come back from the woman he has left her for. All Rachel's grandmother, Gordana, wants is for her family to be happy. But sometimes what you want is not what makes you happy.Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 14 hours 19 minutes. Walker, Martin J. Black Diamond. 2011. TB24057.Bruno, Chief of police; book 3. France’s Périgord region is the home of the black truffle and the ‘Black Diamond’ is a treasured local asset. When reports come in that this delicacy is being adulterated with a cheaper Chinese version, Captain Courrèges is asked to investigate. But a horrific murder occurs, and Bruno has to find the connection between present crimes and long-buried ones that are linked to France’s colonial past.Read by Bill Wallis. 9 hours 10 minutes. Wells, Christine. The Traitor's Girl. 2017. Spy stories. TB24172.After receiving a mysterious summons from her long-lost grandmother, Australian teacher Annabel Logan agrees to visit her home in the Cotswolds. When she arrives the local villagers have no idea where the reclusive Caroline Banks might be. Journalist Simon Culpepper reveals that Caroline was once a spy and agent provocateur for MI5 during the Second World War. As Annabel investigates it becomes more difficult to know who to trust.Read by Jennifer Vuletic. 11 hours 55 minutes. Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. 2016. Literary fiction. TB24145.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina. Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Read by Bahni Turpin. 10 hours 45 minutes. Williams, Dee. Sunshine After Rain. 2007. Family stories. TB23889.Emily Dalton's happy world is shattered in 1912, when her husband William takes a trip to America that ends in tragedy. Life then changes beyond recognition when war breaks out. Her daughter Connie, recently married to a much older man, goes to work on the trams when her husband is sent away. Her other daughter Jenny decides to become a nurse and soon finds herself facing the horrors of the front line.Read by Kim Hicks. 8 hours 47 minutes. Wouk, Herman. The Winds Of War. 2013. General fiction. TB23972.Henry family; book 1. From the siege of Warsaw to the attack on Pearl Harbour, Herman Wouk recreates the tragedy and the folly that tore nations and their people apart. People like the Henrys, an American family with a tradition of service in the regular navy and the Jastrows, Jewish intellectuals caught in the European holocaust. The Henrys and Jastrows are two families whose lives are interwoven in this epic story.Read by Kevin Pariseau. 45 hours 48 minutes. Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyAaronovitch, David. Party Animals: My Family And Other Communists. 2017. TB24165.David Aaronovitch grew up in a family of devout British Communists. In this idiosyncratic blend of memoir, history and biography, David Aaronovitch uncovers the story of his family's life by picking through letters, diaries and secret service files, which in turn unleash vivid childhood memories of a lost and idealistic world. Party Animals is about one family's search for meaning in the 20th century.Read by David Aaronovitch.10 hours 50 minutes. Beasley, Robert. José Mourinho: Up Close And Personal. 2017. TB24163.Granted privileged access to José Mourinho's inner sanctum, Robert Beasley tells the story of Mourinho, up close and personal. Delving into the workings of the famed manager's mind, as well as the backroom antics and transfer sagas at the game's greatest clubs, we see the world from José's point of view. How close Mourinho came to getting the England and Tottenham jobs and his sometimes tumultuous working relationships are revealed.Read by Ric Jerrom. 10 hours 31 minutes. Beeson, Sarah. The New Arrival: The Heartwarming True Story Of A 1970sTrainee Nurse. 2014. TB24065.On a summer’s day in 1969, 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London’s East End. Britain is changing and the everyday life of the nurses and patients plays out against a backdrop of a failing government, strikes, immigration and women’s lib. Beeson's memoir captures both the heartache and happiness of hospital life and 1970s London through the eyes of a gentle but determined young nurse.Read by Annie Aldington. 8 hours 13 minutes. Davies, Hunter. William Wordsworth: A Biography. 1980. TB3739.William Wordsworth told his story through his verse. This work on the poet's entire life and times, draws upon the letters and diaries of Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, and of their contemporaries Coleridge and Southey. Hunter Davies also draws upon his own knowledge of the Lake District, which featured so strongly in Wordsworth life, to present a complete portrait of the poet.Read by Garard Green. 16 hours 11minutes. Harris, Bob. Still Whispering After All These Years: My Autobiography. 2015. TB23885.In this fully revised and updated autobiography, Bob tells his story of over 40 years of broadcasting with the BBC, from the young, passionate music fan who moved to London determined to make music his life, to being presented with an OBE for his services to music broadcasting. Bob also reveals all about working with the big names of rock, including the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie.Read by David Rintoul. 11 hours 4 minutes. Hynde, Chrissie. Reckless. 2016. TB23522.Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Wrapped up in the Kent State University riots and getting dangerously involved in the local biker and drug scenes, she escaped to Mexico, Canada, and Paris. Finally in London she caught the embryonic punk scene and formed her own band, the Pretenders. She tells of the long and crooked path to stardom, and for the Pretenders, ultimately, tragedy. Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words.Read by Amy Finegan. 9 hours 19 minutes. Hytner, Nicholas. Balancing Acts: Behind The Scenes At The National Theatre. 2017. TB24125.This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as The History Boys, War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors. The author recounts the opening of the doors of the National Theatre to a broader audience than ever before, and changing the public’s perception of what theatre is for.Read by Nicholas Hytner. 11 hours 9 minutes. Last, Nella. Nella Last In The 1950s: Further Diaries Of Housewife, 49.2010. TB23918.'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person… can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. This volume sees Nella, now in her 60s, writing about the 1950s and revealing more about life with her increasingly troublesome husband.Contains swear words.Read by Maggie Mash. 12 hours 35 minutes. Miller, Andy. The Year Of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (And Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. 2014. TB23879.Andy has been living a lie. But then again, who hasn't? How many books have you claimed to have read but never actually finished, or started? Books you've really wanted to read, or should have read, but never had the time, or the inclination? Tackling the canon single-handedly, Miller decides to rectify his twenty odd years of lies.Read by Andy Miller. 9 hours 5 minutes. Potter, Vanessa. Patient H69: The Story Of My Second Sight. 2017. TB24115.Imagine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly completely blind. This is what happened to Vanessa. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. Going blind led Vanessa to turn science sleuth to uncover the reality behind her unique condition. With the help of a team of psychologists and neuroscientists, we follow Vanessa's story. Read by Vanessa Potter. 9 hours 20 minutes. Environment and ecologyAleksievich, Svetlana. Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle Of The Future.2016. TB23912. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana spent years collecting testimonies, crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. Contains swear words.Read by Di Langford. 13 hours 32 minutes. HistoryAdkins, Roy. Eavesdropping On Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago. 2014. TB23823.This explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. From forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to boys and girls working down mines or as chimney sweeps, this social history reveals how our ancestors worked, played and struggled to survive.Read by Charlotte Strevens. 15 hours 34 minutes. Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: Milestones To Disaster. 2007. TB23843.The Second World War; book 1. Churchill's history of the Second WorldWar is the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction. First published in six unabridged volumes and then later in four condensed volumes. The first condensed volume is Milestones to Disaster.Read by Christian Rodska. 10 hours 44 minutes. Also;Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance. 2008. TB23845.The Second World War; book 3. The third volume is The Grand Alliance.Read by Christian Rodska. 9 hours 54 minutes. Johnson, Marilyn. Lives In Ruins: Archaeologists And The Seductive Lure Of Human Rubble. 2015. TB23917.Lives in Ruins is a look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu, and excavates their lives. What drives these archaeologists is their passion for the stories that would otherwise be buried and lost.Read by Stephanie Cannon. 8 hours 47 minutes. Mieville, China. October: The Story Of The Russian Revolution. 2017. TB24126.In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions? This is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals, in February and October.Read by John Banks. 11 hours 39 minutes. Tallis, Nicola. Crown Of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance Of Lady Jane Grey. 2017. TB24086.Following Lady Jane Grey's journey from the deadly intrigues of her childhood that led inexorably through to her trial and execution at the age of 17, Nicola Tallis explores new evidence that brings fresh insight to the life of the Nine Days Queen. She reveals the human and emotional story that has thus far been ignored, introducing us to a young woman and religious radical who ultimately became a martyr for her faith.Read by Charlotte Strevens. 12 hours 25 minutes. Tinniswood, Adrian. The Long Weekend: Life In The English Country House Between The Wars. 2016. TB23922.Life in the English country house during the 1920s and 1930s was by turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious. Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and gives a voice to the people who inhabited this world.Read by Richard Burnip. 14 hours 25 minutes. LiteratureHill, Susan. Howards End Is On The Landing: A Year Of Reading From Home. 2017. TB24130.Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read or wanted to re-read. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books. Hill revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 7 hours 33 minutes. Politics and governmentFukuyama, Francis. Political Order And Political Decay: From The Industrial Revolution To The Globalization Of Democracy. 2014. TB23877.This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after the French and American Revolutions. It is also the story of how, in the United States and in other developed democracies unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law andinstitutions of democratic accountability.Read by Jonathan Davis. 23 hours 59 minutes. Marshall, Tim. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics. 2017. TB24061.All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. To follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. 'Prisoners of Geography' looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential guide to geopolitics, one of the major determining factors in world history.Read by Ric Jerrom. 10 hours 33 minutes. Popular scienceNewman, Rob. Rob Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia Of Evolution. 2016. TB24060.Newman takes the listener on a whirlwind tour from caring, vampire bats to intelligent slime mould; from the invisibility cloak of the bobtail squid to Francis "DNA" Crick's belief that life on Earth began with alien spaceships. The only comedian ever credited in a paper published in the science journal Nature, Newman explores how stunning scientific breakthroughs have turned received ideas of evolution upside down.Read by Rob Newman. 4 hours 10 minutes. Children and young adult fictionSuggested Reading Age 0-4Donaldson, Julia. Spinderella. 2016. TB24092.Spinderella the spider has a passion for football! She tries to play with her brother and sisters, but she doesn't know how many should be on each team and she can't count the goals. With the help of her Hairy Godmother, Spinderella finds she can divide her brother and sisters into two equal teams and keep score.Read by Joan Walker. 13 minutes. Suggested Reading Age 7+Gray, Kes. Attack Of The Giant Slugs. 2016. TB23966.Jack Beechwhistle; book 1. You would be in danger if Jack Beechwhistle wasn't around to protect the world from alien attacks, zombie sweet-shop owners, and exploding conkers - with a bit of help from his trusty sidekicks, Colin and Harry (as long as it's not past Colin and Harry's bedtime). Their missions are daring, dangerous, and deadly. They even have top-secret headquarters (the shed by the rhubarb patch). Read by Ryan Watson. 1 hour 43 minutes.Grylls, Bear. Tracks Of The Tiger. 2010. Adventure. TB24076.Mission: survival; book 4. Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded and must flee from red-hot lava and molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to stay alive, he must make his way across the jungle to safety, travelling right through the heart of tiger territory.Read by Philip Elstob. 4 hours 15 minutes. Hargreaves, Adam. Dr. Twelfth. 2017. TB24095.Doctor Who meets Mr Men and Little Miss series. The greatest mash-up in the entire Whoniverse is here! 'Doctor Who' meets Roger Hargreaves' 'Mr Men' in this new series of stories. Here, join the Twelfth Doctor and Missy on an amazing new adventure through time and space.Read by David Monteath. 7 minutes. Suggested Reading Age 9+Freedman, Dan. The Kick Off. 2016. TB24069.Jamie Johnson; book 1. Jamie's desperate to become Highwood School's star football player (and in his dreams, Hawkstone United's too). But after he wrecks his chances at the trials, the pressure's on to prove himself.Read by Ryan Watson. 2 hours 56 minutes. Gamble, Paul. The Ministry Of Strange, Unusual And Impossible things. 2016. TB23965.Ministry of SUITs; book 1. The Ministry of SUITs tells the story of a secret Ministry hidden away in the far reaches of the Ulster Museum. 12-year-old Jack and his frenemy Trudy are the Ministry's newest recruits. Their first mission is to find out where all the school oddbods are disappearing to. Read by John Cormack. 9 hours 34 minutes. Haddon, Mark. Agent Z And The Killer Bananas. 2014. TB24094.Agent Z; book 4. Ben's repulsive cousin, T.J., comes to stay. He discovers an incriminating videotape of Agent Z activities and blackmails Ben into becoming his slave. Meanwhile, Ben, Jenks and Barney embark on their first film, entitled Invasion of the Killer Bananas, in which T.J. unwittingly has a starring role. When T.J. disappears, however, the film points towards Ben, Jenks and Barney as murder suspects!Read by Philip Elstob. 4 hours 8 minutes. Rundell, Katherine. The Wolf Wilder. 2015. TB23861.Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, to fight, and to be wary of humans. When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run.Read by Nicolette McKenzie. 5 hours 43 minutes. Walter, Jon. Close To The Wind. 2015. TB24052.Malik's mother has been missing for days, his home has become unrecognisable, and his grandfather is insisting that they leave on the next and final ship: The Samaritan. This journey will take them to a country which promises safety and a new life. The only problem is, they don't have a ticket, and people are stopping at nothing to get a place on board. Luckily Papa has a secret that could change everything.Read by David Thorpe. 6 hours 24 minutes. Suggested Reading Age 11+Bradford, Chris. The Way Of The Dragon. 2017. TB24128.Young samurai; book 3. June 1613. Japan is threatened with war and Jack is facing his greatest battle yet. Samurai are taking sides and, as the blood begins to flow, Jack's warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His survival, and that of his friends, depends upon him mastering the Two Heavens, the secret sword technique of the legendary samurai Masamoto Takeshi. Read by Joe Jameson. 16 hours 34 minutes. Suggested Reading Age 13+Caine, Rachel. The Dead Girls' Dance. 2010. Fantasy. TB23884.Morganville vampires; book 2. Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire -hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.Read by Katherine Fenton. 10 hours 43 minutes. Conaghan, Brian. The Bombs That Brought Us Together. 2016. TB23893.14-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country and Little Town changes for ever. Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things.Contains swear words.Read by Thomas Judd. 7 hours 37 minutes. Keplinger, Kody. Run. 2016. TB23886.Bo is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and an alcoholic mum. Agnes Atwood is legally blind, has never stayed out past 10 p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any of her parents' rules. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. When Bo shows up in the middle of the night, police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn't hesitate to take off with her. Read by Em Eldridge and Elizabeth Evans. 7 hours 31 minutes. Mandanna, Sangu. The Lost Girl. 2012. TB23929.Eva's life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination, an echo. She was made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her "other," if she ever died. Eva spends every day studying that girl from far away so when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready. Read by Avita Jay. 12 hours 45 minutes. Suggested Reading Age 15+Clare, Cassandra. Lady Midnight. 2017. TB24117.Dark artifices; book 1. It's been five years since the Shadowhunters were brought to the brink of oblivion. Emma is a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents. Together with her parabatai, Julian, Emma investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.Read by Morena Baccarin. 19 hours 46 minutes. To borrow booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or email library@.ukTo buy booksCall RNIB on 0303 123 9999or online at .uk/shop? 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