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New books Issue 73March 2020Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.BrailleTalking books Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 03457 950 950Press 1 for Business or registered charityPress 7 for anything else(including to set up a business collection including ad-hocCollections)Newer 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 ContentsBrailleAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyDramaEconomicsFood and DrinkGardeningHealth and FitnessHistoryPetsPoetryPolitics and GovernmentPopular ScienceSocietyTravel and TourismWarfare and DefenceChildren and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading Age05+ Suggested Reading Age07+ Suggested Reading Age09+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTalking BooksAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyBiographyA Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult fictionAdult non-fictionAutobiographyEnvironment and EcologyHistoryHumourLiteratureMusicNatural HistorySelf HelpTransportTravel and TourismChildren and young adult fiction07+ Suggested Reading Age 09+ Suggested Reading Age13+ Suggested Reading AgeTo borrow booksTo buy booksBrailleAdult fictionArcher, Geoffrey. Dark Angel. 2005. Thriller.In 1948 Tom's sister is brutally murdered. A tramp is arrested for the crime. Marcus Warwick was Tom's neighbour and best friend until the murder. They cross paths again when sent to the Korean War together. Tom retains his suspicions that Marcus had something to do with the murder. Only years later, when Tom stumbles across his sister's secret diary, do the events of 1948 begin to make sense and allow him to seek final justice for her murder.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26439803Bagley, Desmond. Flyaway. 2017. Adventure.Max Stafford: book 1. Security consultant, Max Stafford, looks into the disappearance of Paul Billson, clerk in an engineering firm. Stafford goes after Billson, who has impulsively taken off for the Sahara. A newspaper smear implied Billson's father was involved in an insurance scandal forty years earlier. Billson is intent on clearing his father's name but someone is determined to stop him.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431703Also;Bagley, Desmond. Windfall. 2017. Adventure.Max Stafford: book 2.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431803Baldacci, David. Long Road To Mercy. 2018. Crime.Atlee Pine: book 1. It is thirty years since FBI special agent Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was kidnapped from the room they shared as young children. She never saw Mercy again. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. Now, Atlee is called in to investigate a case in the Grand Canyon when a mule is found dead with strange carvings on its body, and its rider missing. It soon becomes clear that she will need to put her skills to the ultimate test in this investigation.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26423003Brett, Simon. Dead Giveaway. 1985. Crime.Charles Paris: book 11. Charles Paris, failed actor but brilliant detective, is now reaching the lowest form of showbiz life, taking part in the pilot programme for yet another television quiz show. When he and his vast audience least expect it, the presenter, Barrett Doran, is murdered in the studio, right in front of the cameras. Charles unexpectedly finds he has a complex mystery to unravel.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431903Broom, Isabelle. One Winter Morning. 2019. Chick lit.Genie isn't feeling very festive this December. It's been a whole year since she lost her adoptive mother, who took her in as a baby and raised her as her own. She's never felt more alone, until she discovers her birth mother's identity. Travelling to New Zealand could be Genie's one chance to meet the woman who gave her up. But will she find the answers she has been looking for? Or something she could never have expected?UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26434903Cameron, W. Bruce. A Dog's Purpose. 2011. Animal stories.Dog's purpose: book 1. This is the remarkable story of one dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of eight-year-old Ethan. But this life as a family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders if he will ever find his purpose?UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26428203Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Irish Princess. 2019. Historical romance.Ireland, 1160. Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit, King of Leinster, is brutally deposed. Her family is forced to flee Southern Ireland into English exile. Diarmit seeks help from King Henry II, an alliance that leads him to the charismatic Richard de Clare. Diarmit promises Richard wealth, lands, and Aoife's hand in marriage in return for his aid. Aoife has her own thoughts on the matter. She is not a pawn and she will play the game to her own advantage.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26435203Chevalier, Tracy. A Single Thread. 2019. General fiction.1932. Violet Speedwell is mourning her fiance and her brother, casualties of the First World War. Regarded by society as a `surplus woman' unlikely to marry, she resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone in Winchester. Violet falls in with a disparate group of women charged with embroidering kneelers for the Cathedral. She is soon entwined in their lives and their secrets. As the threat of a Second World War appears on the horizon Violet collects a few secrets of her own that could just change everything.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26450203Child, Lee. A Wanted Man. 2012. Thriller.Jack Reacher: book 17. When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia. At last he's picked up by three strangers, two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything. Then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys. Will they get through because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 23377805Christie, Agatha. The Moving Finger. 2016. Classic crime.Miss Marple: book 3. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets. Even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said ‘I can’t go on’. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner’s verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431003Christie, Agatha. Towards Zero. 2017. Classic crime.What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. It’s all part of a carefully paid plan for murder.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431403Cleeves, Ann. The Long Call. 2019. Crime.Two rivers: book 1. In North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home. His team’s investigation will take him straight back into the community he left behind, and the deadly secrets that lurk there.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26434803Coe, Jonathan. Middle England. 2018. Literary fiction.This is the story of modern England: a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage. Newlyweds Ian and Sophie disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship. Doug is a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse; his radical teenage daughter will stop at nothing in her quest for social justice. Benjamin Trotter embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age while his father Colin's last wish is to vote in the European referendum.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26477903Cole, Daniel. Ragdoll. 2017. Crime.Fawkes and Baxter: book 1. A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a ragdoll. Assigned to the case are Detective William 'Wolf' Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Helen Baxter. The 'Ragdoll Killer' releases a list of names to the media, and the dates on which he intends to murder them. With six people to save, can Fawkes and Baxter catch a killer?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26448203Also; Cole, Daniel. Hangman. 2018. Crime.Fawkes and Baxter: book 2.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26448403Cole, Daniel. Endgame. 2019. Crime.Fawkes and Baxter: book 3.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26448603Cookson, Catherine. The Dwelling Place. 2016. Family stories.County Durham, 1830s. Fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera. Poor but strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for her nine brothers and sisters. When Cissie attracts the unwanted attentions of a local landowner, her world seems to collapse. Can love, when it arrives, teach her not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place?UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26431503Cookson, Catherine. The Wingless Bird. 2018. Family stories.Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite twenty-two-year-old Agnes Conway. Agnes is the manager of her feckless father's sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past. These come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, an attachment to Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own pious family by proposing marriage.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26457603Court, Dilly. A Mother's Promise. 2009. Historical fiction.Set in turn-of-the twentieth-century London. When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. She longs for something better out of life than the daily grind of making matchboxes for a pittance. With the help of friends she sells hot potatoes on the streets and things begin to look up for them all. But when the tallyman comes calling, they are faced once more with a future full of hardship and despair.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26439503Daish, Elizabeth. Ebbtide at Coppins Bridge. 1990. Family stories.Coppins Bridge: book 3. Now adults, the Darwen children still come to their mother whenever a crisis looms in their lives. And there are plenty! Jane's inner strength and Irish sense of humour help her to see them through, as she watches her offspring live out the prophecies foretold her by the gypsy matriarch, Mrs. Lee.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26471503Deaver, Jeffery. The Never Game. 2019. Thriller.Colter Shaw: book 1. Nineteen-year-old Sophie disappears one summer afternoon. Sophie’s distraught father calls in the one man who can help find his daughter: unique investigator Colter Shaw. Raised in the wilderness by survivalist parents, he is an expert tracker with a forensic mind trained to solve the most challenging cases. Soon a blogger called Henry is abducted and the whole case gets turned on its head. Because this killer isn’t following the rules; he’s changing them. One murder at a time.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26411303Delderfield, R. F. To Serve Them All My Days. 1995. General fiction.Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school, controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent. He begins to find peace, and is able to adjust to the changes which are overwhelming society. But soon he will have to face up to the prospect of another terrible war.UEB. 13v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26473603Dickens, Charles. The Signalman & Other Ghost Stories. 1990. Classic.Charles Dickens would entertain and alarm guests at his soirees with his imaginary creations. This collection of stories contains a selection of his spine-chilling masterpieces. Many of these phantom-filled stories originally appeared in Dickens's periodicals like 'All the Year Round' and 'Master Humphrey's Clock' and in such novels as 'The Pickwick Papers' and 'Nicholas Nickleby'.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26371903Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. 2003. Classic.When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for murder; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. In a world where the lines between good and evil blur, the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer.UEB. 24v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26364503 Douglas, Donna. A Nightingale Christmas Wish. 2014. Family stories.Nightingale girls: book 5. As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season. Staff Nurse Helen Dawson wants to find happiness again after the death of her husband Charlie. Matron Kathleen Fox struggles to keep up morale but it's for her own future that Kathleen truly fears. By the time next Christmas comes, nothing at the Nightingale Hospital will be the same again.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26418803Also;Douglas, Donna. Nightingales At War. 2015. Family stories.Nightingale girls: book 6.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26422903Ellis, Bella. The Vanished Bride. 2019. Historical crime.Bront? mysteries: book 1. Yorkshire, 1845. A young woman has gone missing from her home, Chester Grange, leaving no trace, save a large pool of blood in her bedroom and a slew of dark rumours about her marriage. A few miles away across the moors, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront? are intrigued. Desperate to find out more, the sisters visit Chester Grange. Together, the young women realise that if they don't attempt to find out what happened to Elizabeth Chester, no one else will.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26456403Elton, Ben. Identity Crisis. 2019. Humorous fiction.A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard of hashtags, his already complex investigation is further impeded by the fact that he simply doesn’t ‘get’ a single thing about anything anymore.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26456303Fenwick, Liz. One Cornish Summer. 2018. Family stories.Hebe receives a life-changing diagnosis at only 53. With memories slipping away by the day, she flees to the one place she has always felt at peace, the house in Cornwall her family spent so many summers in. Lucy is having her own crisis, and seizes the chance to follow her aunt to Cornwall. Lucy has to battle with the secret she has kept since her family's last summer there more than ten years ago. Can both women find their way back to the things that are truly important to them?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26412203Francis, Dick. 10-lb Penalty. 1998. Thriller.Seventeen-year-old Benedict Juliard's ambitions of becoming a steeplechase jockey are dashed when he's falsely accused of taking drugs. His powerful father's machinations are behind his ill fortunes. Juliard Senior is a wealthy businessman running for a parliamentary by-election in Dorset and needs his son to help his campaign. Then an attempt is made on George's life. Benedict has to keep his father alive long enough to stay in the race.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26498503Goodwin, Rosie. Dilly's Hope. 2016. Family stories.Dilly's story: book 3. Hardworking widow Dilly Carey has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Dilly is still troubled by the one secret she must never share. Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave away at birth, cannot find out the real truth about her parentage. It's time for Dilly to make her peace with the choice that she was forced to make. Dilly finds the strength and courage to visit her son's grave on the battlefields of the Great War. Will she also find a way to a new happiness and a new love?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26422803Grace, Evie. The Seaside Angel. 2019. Historical romance.Margate, 1884: When seventeen-year-old Hannah Bentley fled the family home, she never dreamed she'd find her feet working as a nurse on the children's ward at the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary. She adores her patients and the sea air and looks forward to a time when she'll have put away enough money so her younger sister can join her. But when her sister suddenly turns up, she brings more trouble than Hannah bargained for. As Hannah is forced to risk everything to keep her sister out of trouble, she must somehow find the strength to save herself too.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26440003Graham, Winston. Jeremy Poldark, 1790-1791. 2008. Historical fiction.Poldark: book 3. Cornwall 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not least George Warleggan, the powerful banker, whose personal rivalry with Ross grows ever more intense.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25551605Griffiths, Elly. The Woman In Blue. 2016. Crime.Ruth Galloway: book 8. Cathbad, is house-sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. The next morning, the woman's body, dressed in white nightdress and blue dressing-gown, is found in a ditch outside Walsingham. Then another woman, a priest, is murdered. Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is drawn into an unholy investigation.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26459103Hardy, Thomas. The Return Of The Native. 1999. Classic.Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage. She longs for the excitement of city life. Clym Yeobright who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster seems to offer everything she dreams of escape. However, Clym's ambitions are quite different from hers. Marriage only increases Eustacia's destructive restlessness, drawing others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26424503Harper, Jane. The Lost Man. 2018. Thriller.Aaron Falk: book 3. Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle farms. In an isolated part of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbour, their homes three hours' drive apart. Their middle brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. Something had been on Cam's mind. Did he choose to walk to his death? If he didn't, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26451403Harris, Robert. The Second Sleep. 2019. Historical fiction.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts, coins, fragments of glass, human bones, which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes about himself, his faith and the history of his world is tested to destruction.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26429403Higgins, Jack. Thunder Point. 2012. Thriller.Sean Dillon: book 2. In the inky depths beneath Thunder Point a diver discovers a priceless treasure: a German U-boat sunk in American waters three weeks after the end of the Second World War. Inside is final proof that Martin Bormann escaped Hitler's bunker, and that he took with him the most explosive secrets of the Reich. Among them: the names of British Nazi sympathisers and the devastating document known as the Windsor Protocol. For the sake of national security, the U-boat must be destroyed.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26450103Hill, Susan. The Comforts Of Home. 2018. Crime.Simon Serrailler: book 9. DC Simon Serrailler’s devastating last case was nearly the death of him. Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn’t last long. When a woman’s body is washed ashore, Simon is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police who are desperate for help. But it's when Simon returns to Lafferton and a cold case is reopened that things start to get dangerous.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26428403Hislop, Victoria. Those Who Are Loved. 2019. General fiction.Civil war follows the end of the Nazi occupation of Greece. As a young woman, Themis joins the Communist army. Eventually imprisoned on the islands of Makronisos and then Trikeri, Themis encounters another prisoner whose life will entwine with her own. She finds she must weigh her principles against her desire to escape and live. As she looks back on her life, Themis realises how tightly the personal and political can become entangled.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26417803Jacobs, Anna. Destiny's Path. 2011. Historical fiction.Blake sisters: book 3. 1866. Three Blake sisters remain in the Swan River Colony in Australia. Two of the sisters, Cassandra and Maia, are quite happy to forge new lives for themselves there. The third, Xanthe, yearns to see the world. But even if she could afford to travel, could she persuade her beloved twin Maia to let her go?UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26418403Jakes, John. Love And War. 1985. Historical fiction.North and South: book 2. The Hazards and Mains are two families linked by friendship, love and loyalty yet now torn apart as civil war engulfs the nation. It was supposed to be over in days but instead it dragged on for five weary years. The horrors of the battlefield destroyed old ties and swept aside a whole way of life forever. It was a time of mixed fortunes yet, ultimately, hope.UEB. 23v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26445103Also;Jakes, John. Heaven And Hell. 1987. Historical fiction.North and South: book 3.UEB. 15v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26445203James, Henry. The Europeans. 2008. Classic.After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths. The Wentworths are overawed by their European cousins and their frivolous lifestyle. A comedy of manners unfolds that contrasts the apparently sophisticated and lighthearted Europeans with the serious and puritanical Americans.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26424603Jewell, Lisa. The Making Of Us. 2011. General fiction.Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other, yet. They live very different lives but each of them has always felt that something is missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It is a letter containing a secret that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26407103Jewell, Lisa. The Third Wife. 2014. General fiction.Adrian and Maya had only recently married. His children from his two previous marriages loved her and Maya loved them. She had a job she enjoyed, she had plenty of friends, and she and Adrian were trying for a baby. They seemed to have the perfect life. Why then might she have wanted to kill herself? When Adrian finds a hidden stash of poisonous emails on Maya's laptop he begins to identify the dark cracks in her life.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413103Lagercrantz, David. The Girl Who Lived Twice. 2019. Thriller.Millennium: book 6. Lisbeth Salander's mentor Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been gone from Stockholm since his funeral. All summer, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist has been plagued by the fear that Salander's enemies will come after her. In the pocket of an unidentified homeless man, who died with the name of a Swedish government minister on his lips, the police find a list of telephone numbers. Among them, the contact for Millennium magazine and Mikael Blomkvist. Soon Blomkvist will need Lisbeth's help. But first, she has an old score to settle.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26423203Mackintosh, Clare. After The End. 2019. General fiction.Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. Only now they're facing the most important decision of their lives and they don't agree. Their two year old son Dylan has brain damage as a result of a tumour. Max and Pip now face the unenviable task of deciding between giving Dylan treatment which may prolong his life but not cure him or providing him with palliative care until he dies. As the consequences of an impossible choice threaten to devastate them both, nothing will ever be the same again.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26437403Macomber, Debbie. Window On The Bay. 2019. Romance.Jenna Boltz has spent the last twenty years raising two children on her own but now they start to embark on their own lives. When Jenna's elderly mother suffers an accident, Dr Rowan Lancaster saves the day. Though he keeps to himself, he is immediately smitten with Jenna. Jenna is determined to remain friends. Until her children approach her with shocking news that makes her question everything.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26439603Maugham, W. Somerset. The Razor's Edge. 2000. Classic.Larry Darrell is a pilot, wounded and traumatized in the first world war. He turns his back on a normal life to wander the world in search of meaning and happiness. His wanderings eventually land him in Paris, where he reconnects with his former fiancé Isabel and her new husband Gray, a victim of the 1929 stock market crash. In a place where none of them quite belong, they all must discover how to find happiness in their lives and with each other.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397103Moran, Caitlin. How To Be Famous. 2018. General fiction.How to build a girl: book 2. 19-year-old Johanna Morrigan lives in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. She decides to use her new monthly column for The Face to write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name. But when her two-night-stand with edgy comedian Jerry Sharp goes wrong, people start to know Johanna's name for all the wrong reasons.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26452003Nicholls, David. Sweet Sorrow. 2019. General fiction.1997. 16-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father. Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26435303Overton, Hollie. The Runaway. 2018. Thriller.Becca Ortiz, Los Angeles Police Department psychologist, is fostering teenage runaway Ash. But Ash can't bring herself to trust a cop. Her boyfriend Nate introduces her to the Tribe, his street-smart crew of delinquents and runaways. Ash finally feels like she's found a home among the homeless, so one night, she disappears. And as Becca frantically searches for her missing foster daughter, Ash begins to realise that there may be no way to leave the Tribe without paying a deadly price.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26438103Patterson, James. The Inn. 2019. Thriller.Ex-Boston homicide detective Billy Robinson is struggling to cope following the death of his beloved wife. He has retreated to a quiet life on the New England coast where he now runs the inn that Siobhan took care of so well. The small town is in the grips of a growing opioid epidemic. When a young resident gets hooked into the crisis, Billy knows he must act to save the people in the inn. With his secretive past in Boston catching up to him, can Billy survive long enough to save the town, and its beloved inn, from ruin?UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26440103Pearse, Lesley. You'll Never See Me Again. 2019. Historical crime.Betty dreams of settling down to an ordinary life with her husband. But when he returns broken and haunted from the Great War, she finds herself persecuted by his distraught mother. Fleeing to Bristol and changing her name to Mabel Brook, she seeks a new life. Penniless and alone, Mabel suffers a brutal attack before being rescued by a psychic named Nora Nightingale. She gets her first taste of those who receive messages from the dead and realizes she may have this power herself. Soon Mabel receives her own message and is forced back to the very place she has escaped.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397503Rayner, Claire. Gower Street. 1974. Historical fiction.Performers: book 1. The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lackland and Lilith Lucas and their families become inextricably entwined as they are destined for the vastly different worlds of medicine and the theatre.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26432103Schott, Ben. Jeeves And The King Of Clubs. 2018. Humorous fiction.In this new homage to P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Schott leads Jeeves and Wooster on an humorous adventure of espionage. The Junior Ganymede Club (Jeeves's association of butlers and valets) is revealed to be an arm of the British intelligence service. Jeeves must ferret out a fascist spy, and only his hapless employer can help. Unfolding in the background are school-chum capers, affairs of the heart, and drawing-room escapades.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26438003Steel, Danielle. Beauchamp Hall. 2018. Romance.Winona Farmington can't help but feel that life is passing her by in her backwater Michigan town. She hates her job and her boyfriend won't commit. But she escapes the dreariness of everyday life with her favourite TV show, Beauchamp Hall, an English period drama. When she makes a shocking discovery, Winona knows it's time to make a change and travels to the picturesque English village that's home to the world of Beauchamp Hall.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26439703Stirling, Jessica. The Spoiled Earth. 1998. Family stories.Stalker trilogy: book 1. The Lanarkshire colliery village of Blacklaw is a harsh and unforgiving place, but it is home to the ambitious, hard-working Stalker family. Until one morning in March 1875, when a mining disaster takes a hundred lives and changes their life forever. The underground explosion kills their menfolk, but not their spirit. Drew Stalker is the young man on whom their hopes rest. But it is on his sisters Kate and Mirren that the burden of saving their family will fall.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26473003Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Newcomes. 1995. Classic.Set in the 1830s and 1840s, 'The Newcomes' considers the fortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. At its centre is Thomas Newcome, a retired Colonel in the Indian Army. In a world of men on the make, of social mobility, and of the buying and selling of women in an aristocratic marriage market, it is the Colonel's old-fashioned gentlemanliness that stands out from a self-seeking society.UEB. 21v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26369703Trollope, Anthony. Dr Wortle's School. 1999. Classic.Mr Peacocke has come to Broughtonshire as a schoolmaster, along with his beautiful American wife. The brother of her first husband appears at the school gates to blackmail them with the claim that her first husband is still alive. Ostracised by the community, the pair seem trapped in a hopeless situation. Then the combative but warm-hearted headmaster of the school, Dr Wortle, offers his support. Mr Peacocke embarks upon a journey to America that he hopes will lay to rest the accusations once and for all.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26396603Walsh, Rosie. The Man Who Didn't Call. 2018. Chick lit.Imagine you one day meet a man and the two of you spend the next seven days together. By the end of that time you've fallen in love, and you know that he feels the same. After the week is over, he leaves for a holiday booked long ago. He promises to phone you on his way to the airport. But he never calls. Finally you discover that the reason for his silence is the one thing you can't change. The reason is you.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26437303Willett, Marcia. Reflections. 2019. Chick lit.After her husband dies, Cara goes to stay with her brother in Salcombe, Devon. There, she begins to look back at her life and reflect. Cosmo has also escaped, temporarily, from his life in the city. But is he being entirely truthful about what he's left behind? Just out of uni, Sam is set to follow in his naval father's footsteps. His future is secure but he feels cast adrift. Cara, Cosmo and Sam learn that for everything lost, there is something to be gained.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26422603Wodehouse, P. G. What Ho!: the best of P.G. Wodehouse. 2011. Humorous fiction.This bumper anthology brings you the cream of the crop of stories by P.G. Wodehouse. There are favourites aplenty in this selection. There is also additional material including novel extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26428303Adult non-fictionAutobiographyCraven, John. Headlines And Hedgerows. 2019.As the presenter of Newsround, John Craven brought us the headlines and breaking news of our childhood. Later on Countryfile he helped us discover the magic and wonder of the British countryside. In this memoir, John writes about his childhood, his career and the people, events, and animals, that have shaped his life.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26455603Gann, Ernest Kellogg. Fate Is The Hunter. 2011.'Fate is the Hunter' is an account of some of the more memorable experiences Ernest K. Gann had in the air. He's flown in both peace and war and come close to death many times. Here he reveals the characters he's known and the dramas he's experienced, portraying fate (or death) as a hunter constantly in pursuit of pilots. This is a fascinating account of both the history of aviation and one man's life in the air.UEB. 8v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26417603Herriot, James. Vet In A Spin. 2006.All creatures great and small: book 6. Strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, Herriot has swapped his wellingtons and breeches for sheepskin boots and a flying suit. This is the sixth volume of memoirs from the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. 'Vet in a Spin' sees the vet-turned-airman dreaming of the day when he can rejoin his wife Helen, little son Jimmy, veterinary partner Siegfried, and the eternal student Tristan back in the Yorkshire Dales.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26418303John, Elton. Me. 2019.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, Elton John was performing his first gig in America. Elton writes about his music and his relationships. Elton also covers his drug addiction and getting clean and changing his life, finding love with David Furnish and becoming a father.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26456103Johnson, Alan. In My Life. 2018.Music has always been an integral part of Alan Johnson's life. He recalls being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s. In 1977 going out to work as a postman, he was humming 'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello. 'In My Life' vividly transports us to a lost world of Dansettes and jukeboxes, of heartfelt love songs and heart-broken ballads, of smoky coffee shops and dingy dance halls.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26455303Kennedy, Lena. The Last Of The Shackdwellers. 2018.'The Last of the Shackdwellers' is the evocative autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists. Lena Kennedy was sixty-four before her first novel, 'Maggie', was accepted. It was among the shackdwelling community of the woods that she began to realise her growing need to express her feelings through writing. This autobiography examines the inspirations for each of her novels, as well as describing Lena's long search for a publisher, her joy at finding success and her road to fame.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26453303Rossi, Francis. I Talk Too Much. 2019.Status Quo have sold over 100 million records worldwide, including 65 hit singles and 32 hit albums. In 'I Talk Too Much', Rossi will reveal the truth behind one of the biggest rock bands of all time, as well as the personal highs and lows of a career spanning over 50 years. Rossi comes clean about the time he almost left the band, what he really thinks about the music industry today and the complexities of his fifty-year friendship with Rick Parfitt.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26452903Thomas, Dave. Dave Thomas. 2019.Former England international Dave Thomas is the first top level footballer to be registered blind and awarded a guide dog. Dave describes coping with a catalogue of obstacles that began with a defining moment, the withdrawal of his driving licence. Dave's positive approach to life, as he negotiates everyday tasks with the help of his Labrador guide dog, Hannah, makes for an inspirational read.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26411103Urquhart, Alistair. The Forgotten Highlander. 2011.This is the extraordinary and moving story of a young man, who survived three very close separate encounters with death. Alistair Urquhart was the last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He survived working on the Bridge on the River Kwai, being on a Japanese 'hellship' which was torpedoed, and working in a mine near Nagasaki.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26453703BiographyHarris, Warren G. Clark Gable. 2003.Clark Gable was the archetypal male star of Hollywood's heyday. He gambled, he drank and he womanised on an heroic scale. Born in 1901, the son of an unsuccessful Ohio oil prospector, Gable was a country boy who got bitten by the acting bug at the age of 17. Warren Harris's biography reveals details of his private life such as his two illegitimate children and a clandestine fourth marriage. It also describes an incredibly long, varied and successful acting career that included a best actor Oscar.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26417703DramaShakespeare, William. The Tempest. 2011.This edition of The Tempest provides a clear and authoritative text and includes an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare's sources for the play and examines his treatment of colonial themes. It looks at Julie Taymor's ground-breaking 2010 film starring Helen Mirren as "Prospera." Alden and Virginia Vaughan's edition of The Tempest is much valued for its authority and originality.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26383603EconomicsRaworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways To Think Like A 21st-century Economist. 2017.Economics is broken. Its theories have created a world where millions of people live in extreme poverty, even as the personal wealth of the super -rich grows year on year. With human activity causing unprecedented degradation of the planet, climate change now poses an existential threat to everyone on Earth. Economists seem unable to explain the financial crises that periodically shake the foundations of our societies. Is there another way of running things?UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413703Food and DrinkAllinson, Kate. Pinch of Nom: 100 Slimming, Home-style Recipes. 2019.Pinch of Nom shows both novice and experienced home cooks alike how to slim down while enjoying healthy, easy to make and full of flavour meals. There are 100 recipes in the book, 33 of which are vegetarian. Whether it’s Cumberland Pie, Mediterranean Chicken Orzo, Mexican Chilli Beef or Chicken Balti, this food is so good you’ll never guess the calorie count.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26455403Hussain, Nadiya. Time To Eat. 2019.Nadiya has crafted over 100 recipes that will teach you how to be time -smart in the kitchen. Spin leftovers into completely new meals, learn the most effective way to use your freezer and discover just how easy it can be to batch cook without needing to have the same meal every night. Recipes include: Raspberry Cheesecake Croissants; Jackfruit Curry & Speedy Naan; Chia Yoghurt & Granola Trifle; Peanut Chicken Traybake; and many more.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26404303Oliver, Jamie. Veg: Easy & Delicious Meals For Everyone. 2019.Discover all the simple but inventive veg dishes from Jamie's Channel 4 series including: Roasted Black Bean Burgers with zingy salsa, yoghurt, sliced mango and avocado; Double Corn Salad with crunchy iceberg lettuce and creamy cheese dressing; and Amazing Tomato Curry with fragrant spices, saffron & coconut sauce and toasted almonds. With chapters on Soups and Sarnies, Brunch, Pies Parcels and Bakes, Curries and Stews, Salads, Burgers & Fritters, Pasta, Rice & Noodles, and Traybakes there's something tasty for every occasion.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26440203Smart, Denise. Veganeasy: Amazing Food In Just 5 Ingredients. 2018.Enjoy delicious and inspiring vegan recipes every day of the week. The quick and easy recipes are made with only 5 ingredients that you can buy in your local supermarket. This cookbook is divided into 3 sections: Breakfast & Brunch; Light & Hearty Mains; and Baking & Sweets. There are recipes for Thai red curry; katsu aubergine curry; salted chocolate brownies; Thai mango ice cream and much more.UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413803GardeningGoulson, Dave. The Garden Jungle. 2019.'The Garden Jungle' explores the environmental harm inadvertently done by gardeners who buy intensively reared plants in disposable plastic pots, sprayed with pesticides and grown in peat cut from the ground. Dave Goulson argues that gardens could become places where we can reconnect with nature and rediscover where food comes from. With just a few small changes, our gardens could become a vast network of tiny nature reserves, where humans and wildlife can thrive together in harmony rather than conflict.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413503Health and FitnessO'Mara, S. M. In Praise Of Walking. 2019.Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara celebrates the full sweep of human walking, from its origins deep in time, through to how the brain and nervous system performs the mechanical magic of walking. As our lives become increasingly sedentary, we risk all this. We must start walking again, whether it’s up a mountain, down to the park, or simply to school and work. We, and our societies, will be better for it.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413403HistoryArnott, Paul. Windrush: A Ship Through Time. 2019.Hamburg, 1930. The German-Jewish shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser that they christen the Monte Rosa. Auschwitz, 1942. Forty-six Jews wait at the gates, after the Monte Rosa had transported them from Oslo. In 1945 the Monte Rosa is captured by the British and given a new name: Empire Windrush. In 1948 the Empire Windrush docks in England, carrying 600 migrants from the Caribbean. Paul Arnott explores the epic story of a vessel that played a part in some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century, and whose fateful 1948 voyage continues to have personal and political consequences today.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26405903Dalrymple, William. The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company. 2019.In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army. The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, and answerable only to its distant shareholders.UEB. 13v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26456203Maiklem, Lara. Mudlarking. 2019.Lara Maiklem left the countryside for London in her twenties. Yearning for the solace she had known growing up among nature, she discovered mudlarking on the banks of the River Thames. Mudlarking involves scavenging in the mud for items discarded by past generations. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it reaches the sea in the east, this is the story of the Thames and its people as seen through these objects.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26440303PetsFelix The Railway Cat. 2017.Felix the cat is a much-loved 'employee' at Huddersfield Railway Station. Felix seems to have a remarkable ability to save the day time and again from bringing a boy with autism out of his shell to providing comfort to a runaway child shivering on the platform one night. This book is full of moving stories that show the bond between this very special cat and thestation's staff and commuters.UEB. 4v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26404503PoetryDonne, John. Collected Poetry. 2012.This is a collection of John Donne's endlessly innovative and fascinating verse, from the witty conceit of 'The Flea' to the intense spirituality of his divine poems. Donne (1572-1631) is regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets. He breathed new vigour into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived. His poems remain among the most passionate, profound and spiritual in the English language.UEB. 11v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26352403Marvell, Andrew. The Complete Poems. 2005.Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most important poets of the seventeenth century. This edition of Marvell's complete poems is based on a study of the extant manuscripts, with modern translations provided for Marvell's Greek and Latin poems. It also includes a chronology, further reading, appendices, notes, and indexes of titles and first lines, with a new introduction by Jonathan Bate.UEB. 7v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26393903Omar Khayyam. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. 2010.In the 'rubáiyát' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám, Edward FitzGerald saw a challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Omar is neither a translation nor an independent poem. Although the poem's vision is bleak, it is conveyed in some of the most beautiful and haunting images in English poetry.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26405603Politics and GovernmentMachiavelli, Niccolo?. The Prince. 2009.Based on Machiavelli's own first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, 'The Prince' analyses the usually violent ways by which men seize, retain and lose political power. The key themes are that adaptability is the key to success and that effective leadership is sometimes only possible at the expense of moral standards.UEB. 2v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26424703Popular ScienceBryson, Bill. The Body: A Guide For Occupants. 2019.We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and stories this book is an attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.UEB. 10v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26454303Lovell, Jim. Apollo 13. 1995.April 13, 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are hurtling towards the moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when an explosion rocks the ship. The cockpit grows dim, the air grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out. Moments later, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the tiny lunar module, designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard and they are four days from home.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26417303SocietyCriado-Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women. 2019.Caroline Criado Perez shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. She Caroline brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are excluded from the very building blocks of the world we live in, and the impact this has on their health and wellbeing.UEB. 9v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26413603Travel and TourismBackshall, Stephen. Expedition. 2019.There are still dark corners of our planet that are yet to be explored. Steve Backshall offers an unflinching account of his adventures into these uncharted territories around the globe, in search of world firsts. Each location brings its own epic challenges, whether it's the first climb of an arctic ice fall in Greenland, the first recorded navigation of a South American river, or the first exploration of the world's longest cave system in Mexico.UEB. 6v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26423303Warfare and DefenceLewis, Damien. War Dog. 2013.In the winter of 1939, Robert Bozdech, a Czech airman, was flying for the French Air Force but soon to be bound for the RAF. After being shot down during a daring mission over enemy lines he stumbled across a tiny German Shepherd. He hid the dog inside his flying jacket as he made his escape. In the months that followed the pair would save each other's lives countless times as they fled France and flew together with Bomber Command. By the end of the war Robert and his puppy Ant had become very British war heroes, and Ant was awarded the Dickin Medal, the ‘Animal VC'.UEB. 5v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 26397803Children and young adult fiction0-4 Suggested Reading AgeCummins, Lucy Ruth. A Hungry Lion. 2016.The very hungry lion is all set to enjoy an exciting day with his other animal pals. But all of a sudden his friends start disappearing at an alarming rate! Is someone stealing the hungry lion's friends, or is the culprit a little closer to home?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26450703Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26450705Fletcher, Tom. The Dinosaur That Pooped A Planet!. 2013.Danny and Dinosaur are going to space. But when Danny realises he's forgotten Dino's lunch box, the very hungry dinosaur eats everything in sight, including their only way home: the rocket. How will Dino get them back home? There's poop, planets and pandemonium in this supersonic space adventure.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26423403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26423405Goodhart, Pippa. Chapatti Moon. 2017.Mrs Kapoor and a whole host of animals and friends give chase to a cheeky chapatti in this hilarious modern take on the runaway pancake story. Follow the trail of the chapatti as it bounces and bursts through the book. Where will its adventure end?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26449003Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26449005Guillain, Adam. The World Book Day Monster. 2019.Anna can’t decide what to dress up as on World Book Day. Anna's dad takes her to a bookshop where a friendly bookseller helps her to pick out the perfect book for her. Now she knows exactly what to dress up as! But when she goes to school in her monster costume, no one knows what character Anna is supposed to be. Can Anna find someone to share her favourite story with and discover just how much magic is hiding inside a book?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26449803Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26449805Walliams, David. The Bear Who Went Boo!. 2015.At the top of the world, surrounded by snow and ice, lives a very cheeky polar bear cub who loves to go BOO! But this little bear cub doesn't always know when to stop. This is a story packed with snow and surprises!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26442903Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26442905Walliams, David. Boogie Bear. 2017.Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can't get any worse. But they can, much worse! This is a story with a message about celebrating difference, in all its forms.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26443403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26443405Walliams, David. The First Hippo On The Moon. 2014.This is the tale of two big hippos with one enormous dream: to be the very first hippo on the moon. One hippo is enormously rich. Hercules Waldorf -Franklin III pays for a gigantic hippo space centre to blast him to the moon. The other hippo, Sheila, decides to make a space rocket. Who can make it to the moon first?UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26444003Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26444005Walliams, David. Geronimo. 2018.Meet Geronimo, the baby penguin who has one dream and one dream only, and that is to fly! But everyone knows penguins can’t fly. With a little help from his dad and friends, baby Geronimo discovers that even the wildest of dreams can come true.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26444103Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26444105Walliams, David. The Slightly Annoying Elephant. 2015.One day there was a loud knock on the door. Sam ran down the stairs to open the door. At the door was a great, big, gigantic, enormous elephant. The elephant proves to be slightly annoying!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26444403Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2644440505+ Suggested Reading AgeDolan, Elys. Santa's Wonderful Workshop. 2018.Step inside Santa's workshop and experience Christmas like never before. With more toys to make than ever it's going to be the busiest Christmas yet, but luckily Santa and his elves have everything under control. Well, everything except for the rampaging polar bear, a toy factory that will only make toasters, and some very pesky visitors from the South Pole!UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26417203Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26417205Grey, Mini. The Adventures Of The Dish And The Spoon. 2007.Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon, the little dog laughed, to see such fun, and the dish ran away with the spoon. That's the bit we know but have you ever wondered what happened next? This tale is part love story and part crime caper. It's the rags-to-riches and back again tale of the most dazzling crockery-cutlery duo of all time.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26448803Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26448805Van Allsburg, Chris. The Polar Express. 2015.Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26450603Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 26450605Willis, Jeanne. Field Trip To The Moon. 2019.Blast-off on a field trip to the moon and discover what happens to one student when they're accidentally left behind. Alone on the moon, the student sits down to draw. But could there be an even bigger surprise when she realises she’s not alone? What would someone that lived on the moon even look like? Summer Reading Challenge 2019.UEB double line spacing, single sided. 1v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26417103Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 2641710507+ Suggested Reading AgeDavies, Justin. Help! I Smell A Monster. 2019.When Alice is sent to stay with her Uncle Magnus, she soon realises that his job agency isn't quite normal. It helps monsters find work that makes the most of their unique talents. Alice is shocked to discover that monsters are everywhere. There's even a Cyclops working in the castle as a pastry chef. But when he suddenly disappears, Alice smells something fishy. Can she and her uncle sniff out the missing monster before it's too late?UEB double line spacing. 6v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26438203Also available in uncontracted braille. 7v. Order No: 26438205East, Nick. Agent Weasel And The Fiendish Fox Gang. 2019.Agent Weasel: book 1. Strange things are happening in the United Woodlands. Rabbit warrens have been peppered with itching powder. Squirrels' nuts are missing. Even Badger's bottom has been shaved! All the clues point to the Fiendish Fox Gang. It's time to call Agent Weasel, woodland super-spy. But before they can even finish their stakeout picnic, Weasel and his trusty dormouse friend Doorkins are captured by the villainous Vixen von Fluff. Can our heroes escape?UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26437103Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 26437105Gray, Kes. Rise Of The Hairy Horror. 2017.Jack Beechwhistle: book 2. Jack Beechwhistle might look like an ordinary boy but he's a junior secret agent. Jack notices something strange and suspicious about the hairdresser in town, Valentino. Every time Valentino cuts someone's hair, he sweeps the hairs up and collects them in a big plastic bag. Everything points to Valentino being an evil enemy agent! And Jack Beechwhistle's on the case.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26437003Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 2643700509+ Suggested Reading AgeDeary, Terry. Ruthless Romans. 2009.'Ruthless Romans' reveals the grim truth behind the greatest empire of all time. Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Ruthless Romans, including which emperor enjoyed eating camel's heels, who were the terrible twins who founded Rome and which evil emperors made murder a sport. Get the gory details about the cruel Colosseum and the people and animals who were massacred there.UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26442803Also available in uncontracted braille. 2v. Order No: 26442805Cowell, Cressida. The Wizards Of Once. 2017.Wizards of once: book 1. Once there was Magic, and the Magic lived in the dark forests. Until the Warriors came. Xar is a Wizard boy who has no Magic, and will do anything to get it. Wish is a Warrior girl, but she owns a banned Magical Object, and she will do anything to conceal it. Xar and Wish must forget their differences if they're going to make it to the dungeons at Warrior Fort, where something that has been sleeping for hundreds of years is stirring.UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26438803Also;Cowell, Cressida. Twice Magic. 2018.Wizards of once: book 2.UEB. 4v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26442703Gleitzman, Morris. Once. 2006.Felix and Zelda: book 1. Felix lives in a convent orphanage high in the mountains in Poland, but he is convinced his parents are still alive and will come back to get him. When a group of Nazi soldiers come and burn the nuns' books, Felix is terrified that his Jewish, bookseller parents will also be in danger. After escaping from the orphanage, Felix embarks on a long and dangerous journey through Nazi occupied Poland, befriending a little orphan girl called Zelda and a kindly dentist, Barney, who hides and cares for Jewish children.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 23531011Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 23531013Also;Gleitzman, Morris. Then. 2009.Felix and Zelda: book 2.UEB. 3v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26438703Also available in uncontracted braille. 3v. Order No: 26438705Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. 2008.The Wind in the Willows is Kenneth Grahame's much-loved classic tale of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. Mole enjoys a quiet life but when spring comes, his longing for adventure takes him to the river. There, he meets Water Rat and his friends Otter, Badger and Toad. With messing about in boats and Toad's love of fast cars, Mole's life is no longer quiet, especially when the friends have to join forces against the animals from the Wild Wood.UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26436603Also available in uncontracted braille. 7v. Order No: 26436605King-Smith, Dick. Mr Ape. 2018.Abandoned by his bossy wife and children, old Mr Ape finds himself living all alone in his huge and rambling house. And then he gets a brilliant idea: he can fill the house with animals the pets his wife and children would never let him have. But pets have a habit of increasing and increasing and soon every room is stuffed to the brim with animals. Something has to change.UEB. 2v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26423503Wilson, Jacqueline. Rose Rivers. 2018.World of Hetty Feather: book 2. Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has beautiful dresses, horse-riding lessons, and books but she's not satisfied. Why can't she be sent away to a good school like her twin brother or learn to become an artist? A young girl, Clover Moon, joins the household as a nursemaid to Rose's troubled sister Beth. Rose finds a true friend for the first time and she starts to learn more about the world outside.UEB. 9v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 2643860313+ Suggested Reading AgeBlackman, Malorie. Crossfire. 2019.Noughts and crosses: book 5. 34 years have passed since the love between Sephy, a Cross, and Callum, a Nought, destroyed their world and changed society forever. For the first time ever, a Nought Prime Minister, Tobey Durbridge, is in power. But Tobey's just been framed for murder. The only way to free himself is to turn to his oldest friend, Callie-Rose. And when two young people are kidnapped, their lives, and everything they've fought for, are put in the crossfire.UEB. 7v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26419003Also available in uncontracted braille. 8v. Order No: 26419005Pullman, Philip. The Secret Commonwealth. 2019.Book of dust: book 2. Lyra is now an undergraduate at St. Sophia's College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The events of Lyra's own past come into question when she learns of Malcolm Polstead's role in bringing her to Jordan College. Now Lyra and Malcolm will travel far beyond the confines of Oxford searching for a city haunted by daemons, and a desert said to hold the truth of Dust.UEB. 14v. Price: ?4.99. Order No: 26447503Talking BooksAdult FictionAlharthi, Jokha. Celestial Bodies. 2019. Literary fiction. TB25028.In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves. These women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a changing Oman, a country evolving from a slave-owning society into its complex present.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 8 hours 8 minutes. TB25028.Archer, Jeffrey. Nothing Ventured. 2019. TB24981.William Warwick: book 1. William has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a barrister, he will join the Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard's arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt, he meets Beth Rainsford, who he falls hopelessly in love with. Read by George Blagden. 9 hours 20 minutes. TB24981.Birch, Penny. American Blue. 2008. Erotic fiction. TB24897.Penny Birch discovers that her niece Jemima has been seduced into making a working tour of some of the USA's most notorious pornographers. She feels she has no choice but to save her from the clutches of these dangerous men. But Jemima is not to be dissuaded, and as aunt and niece travel west from New York they get themselves into all kinds of kinky trouble. Contains sex scenes, swear words and violence.Read by Emma Carter. 7 hours 25 minutes. TB24897.Cleeves, Ann. The Long Call. 2019. Crime. TB25014.Two Rivers: book 1. In North Devon Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in this region. A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: Read by Ben Aldridge. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB25014.Cole, Martina. The Life. 2013. Thriller. TB20657.The Bailey brothers are gangsters determined to make their mark in the world. Peter and Daniel are chalk and cheese - Peter's calm exterior belies his ruthless nature, while Daniel's penchant for spectacular violence is legendary - but together they are unstoppable. It seems no one can touch the powerful Baileys. Although it's never easy at the top; there is always someone waiting to take you down. Read by Annie Aldington. 12 hours 20 minutes. TB20657.Deaver, Jeffery. The Cutting Edge. 2018. Crime. TB24840.Lincoln Rhyme: book 14. A brutal triple murder in Manhattan's Diamond District shocks the city. As more crimes follow, it becomes clear that the killer's target is not gems, but engaged couples themselves. The Promisor vows to take the lives of men and women during their most precious moments. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, newly married themselves, are on the hunt.Read by Jeff Harding. 14 hours 20 minutes. TB24840.Goodwin, Rosie. Dilly's Hope. 2018. Family stories. TB25006.Dilly's story: book 3. Hardworking widow Dilly has struggled out of poverty to make a successful life for herself. Surrounded by her children and grandchildren, Dilly should be content, but she is still troubled by the one secret she must never share. Olivia, the daughter Dilly gave away at birth, cannot find out the real truth about her parentage. It's time for Dilly to make her peace with the choice that she was forced to make. Read by Charlie Sanderson. 12 hours 54 minutes. TB25006.Graves, Robert. Wife To Mr Milton. 2011. Literary fiction. TB24818.Marie is sixteen when her father marries her to the poet John Milton in payment of a debt. They move to a pretty garden-house in London but Marie struggles to adjust to her new life. Her husband is high-minded and unyielding. He makes Marie long for the man she really loves. As Civil War sweeps across England and the King is killed, a battle starts to rage between husband and wife, one that only the powerful can win.Read by Olivia Mace. 17 hours 36 minutes. TB24818.Helm, Kate. The Secrets You Hide. 2018. Thriller. TB24925.Georgia Sage can see evil in people. As a courtroom artist she uses her skills to help condemn those who commit terrible crimes. But when she is drawn back into the trial that defined her career she realises that her own reckless pursuit of justice may have helped the guilty go free. As Georgia gets closer to the truth behind that case of family betrayal, her career and sanity are threatened.Read by Emma Powell. 10 hours 46 minutes. TB24925.Jabour, Bridie. My Not So Functional Family. 2019. Chick lit. TB24933.Claudia is getting married in week. Arriving back at her childhood home, she is faced with spending the week with her arguing siblings, dramatic mother, and nuisance aunt. Claudia starts to doubt her engagement and question her past relationships. She hopes her best friend Nora can help her resolve her doubts. However, Nora is hiding secrets of her own.Read by Sarah Kants. 8 hours 26 minutes. TB24933.James, Peter. Dead At First Sight. 2019. Crime. TB25015.DS Roy Grace: book 15. A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar for his first date with his soulmate. Neither woman exists. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny. D S Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman and discovers there is a global empire built on internet scams. Read by Daniel Weyman. 12 hours 24 minutes. TB25015.McKay, Shirley. Friend & Foe. 2015. Historical crime. TB24866.Hew Cullan: book 4. St Andrews, 1583. The young king James VI is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. At St Mary's college, the reformer Andrew Melville is unsettled by a series of unnatural events. Hew is called to investigate a mysterious incident and finds suspicion falling upon him as he is ensnared in a world of superstition, subterfuge and death.Read by David Monteath. 11 hours 17 minutes. TB24866.Nicholls, David. Sweet Sorrow. 2019. General fiction. TB25005.On one life-changing summer 16-year-old Charlie meets Fran. Charlie is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. Then Fran bursts into his life and Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must accept a challenge that will lose him the respect of his friends and almost require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. Read by Rory Kinnear. 13 hours 8 minutes. TB25005.Penman, Sharon Kay. The Reckoning. 1992. Historical fiction. TB24804.Welsh princes: book 3. "Never forget, Llewelyn, that the world's greatest fool is a Welshman who trusts an English king. " His father's words haunt Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, who has been ruling uneasily over his fractious countrymen. Llewelyn fears that his dream of an independent, united Wales might be lost to Edward I's desire to expand his English empire. Read by Andrew David. 32 hours 54 minutes. TB24804.Phinn, Gervase. The School At The Top Of The Dale. 2018. Country life fiction. TB24853.School at the top of the dale: book 1. Newly qualified teacher Tom has been given his first post in Risingdale, a sleepy village at the very top of the Yorkshire Dales. With pupils who know more about sheep than they do arithmetic, Tom has his work cut out. Add to that an altercation with the beautiful but stand-offish Miss Fairborn and an argument with the local squire's son, and Tom's first term proves a baptism of fire. Read by Gervase Phinn. 13 hours 39 minutes. TB24853.Rankin, Ian. Westwind. 2019. Thriller. TB24996.Europe, 1990. As the US begins to pull out its troops Britain is torn between its loyalties to the USA and its continental neighbours. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing. Martin Hepton, an English ground control technician watches as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. A colleague of Hepton's who suspects something strange is going on is signed off sick, and never comes back. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 9 hours 21 minutes. TB24996.Saunders, Kate. Night Shall Overtake Us. 2011. Historical fiction. TB24834.In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season, the bonds between Rory, Eleanor, Jenny and Francesca hold fast. But nothing can withstand the onslaught of the First World War – and as the best of an entire generation is extinguished on the battlefields of Europe, a schoolgirl pledge, too, lies broken. Contains sex scenes.Read by Frances Jeater. 26 hours 13 minutes. TB24834.Swan, Karen. The Spanish Promise. 2019. Romance. TB25017.One of Spain's richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Charlotte is asked to travel to the troubled family's home in Spain to get to the bottom of the mysterious bequest. But in Madrid, things don't go to plan when the woman denies knowing anything about the gift. Read by Yolanda Kettle. 11 hours 34 minutes. TB25017.Adult Non-fictionAutobiographyJohn, Elton. Me. 2019. TB25013.Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, Elton John was performing his first gig in America. Elton writes about his music and his relationships. Elton also covers his drug addiction and getting clean and changing his life, finding love with David Furnish and becoming a father.Read by Taron Egerton. 11 hours 49 minutes. TB25013.Spencer, Caitlin. Please, Let Me Go: The Horrific True Story Of A Girl's Life In The Hands Of Sex Traffickers. 2019. TB24935.From the age of 14, Caitlin was controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on to new gangs over and over again. The majority of her abusers were Pakistani men, they often collected her from school or home, to be taken to flats, family homes, or hotels to be horrifically and systematically abused. 'Please, Let Me Go' is Caitlin's shocking story of abuse and survival.Read by Rachel Atkins. 5 hours 31 minutes. TB24935.Owens, Samantha. Pimped: The Shocking True Story Of The Girl Sold For Sex By Her Best Friend. 2019. TB24930.By the age of thirteen, vulnerable teenager Samantha had fallen through the cracks in the care system. Bounced around foster carers after her home life became too chaotic, Samantha thought she had found a friend in Amanda. Over the course of the next few months, Samantha was plied with alcohol and drugs and pimped out to over fifty men for Amanda's gain. With her abusers jailed, Samantha tells her story.Read by Emma Swan. 6 hours 58 minutes. TB24930.BiographyHalberstam, David. Ho. 2007. TB24862.Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh. He was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam.Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 11 minutes. TB24862.A Selection Of Harper Collins TitlesAdult FictionAngelo, Megan. Followers. 2020. Science fiction. TB704911.2051. Marlow and her mother, Floss, have been handpicked to live their lives on camera, in the closed community of Constellation. Unlike her mother, who adores the spotlight, Marlow hates having her every move judged by a national audience. But she isn't brave enough to escape until she discovers a shattering secret about her birth. Now she must unravel the truth around her own history in a terrifying race against time.Read by Jayme Mattler. 13 hours 29 minutes. TB704911.Bennett, Sarah. Starlight Over Bluebell Castle. 2020. Romance.TB704915.Bluebell Castle: book 3. Jessica’s life has just been turned upside-down! So when blast-from-the-past Tristan invites her to stay at Bluebell Castle and transform it into a winter wonderland, it's the perfect distraction for Jess and her two children. Jess is used to planning the most elaborate events, but she didn't expect to be working so closely with Tristan at the castle or that she could find him quite so handsome after all this time! Read by Rachel Bavidge. 7 hours 11 minutes. TB704915.Berry, Ellen. Snowdrops On Rosemary Lane. 2019. Romance. TB704888.Lucy fell in love with Rosemary Cottage as a child. So thirty years on, when she loses her job and discovers the cottage is for sale, it feels like fate. She'll raise her children and transform the cottage into a B&B with her husband. But a year can change everything... Now Lucy is juggling two children and a B&B, but on her own. Christmas looks set to be their last on Rosemary Lane until she meets James, a face from her past. Read by Katie Scarfe. 10 hours 32 minutes. TB704888.Brittany, Amanda. Traces Of Her. 2020. Thriller. TB704889.When Rose's flighty stepsister Willow disappears to Cornwall, she can't help but roll her eyes. Willow is always taking off and there is always some kind of emergency. Two days later, when a package arrives at Rose's house containing a series of four polaroids of four different men, Rose knows that Willow is in trouble. Each photograph a possible murder suspect, their family life begins to unravel. Read by Rose Robinson. 7 hours 23 minutes. TB704889.Brooke, Amanda. The Widows' Club. 2020. Thriller. TB704907.When April joins a support group for young widows, she's looking for answers after her husband's sudden death. What she finds instead is a group in turmoil. Set up by well-meaning amateurs, the founders are tussling for control of the group, and everyone's on edge. Added to that, secret relationships springing up between members and another new member, Nick, seems more than a little bit shady. Read by Chloe Massey. 9 hours 56 minutes. TB704907.Byrne, Paula. Mirror, Mirror. 2020. General fiction. TB704896.She is the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the glamour of Los Angeles. She becomes a superstar of the silver screen and Hollywood's darling, but nothing perfect lasts forever. Evocative and deeply moving, Mirror, Mirror is based on Marlene Dietrich's glittering life, a dramatic novel set in Hollywood's golden age.Read by Joyce Springer, Christopher Oxford. 10 hours 26 minutes. TB704896.Castle, A. M. The Perfect Widow. 2020.Crime. TB704918.Louise has the perfect life. A loving husband, Patrick and two adorable children. So when PC Becca Holt arrives to break the news that Patrick has been killed in an accident, she thinks Louise's perfect world is about to collapse. But Louise doesn't react in the way Becca would expect. And there are only three plates set out for dinner, as if Louise already knew Patrick wouldn't be home that night. Read by Imogen Church and Rebecca Courtney. 11 hours 1 minute. TB704918.Diamond, Katerina. Woman In The Water. 2020. Crime. TB704892.DS Imogen Grey: book 6. When a woman's body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won't disclose her name, or what happened to her - even when a second body is discovered. Detectives Miles and Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking for answers. But the more they dig into the couple's lives, the less they understand about them. Read by Stevie Lacey. 9 hours 27 minutes. TB704892.Everett, Felicity. The Move. 2020. General fiction. TB704897.Karen has packed up her life and is making The Move. She's on her way to the idyllic country cottage which her husband has renovated for her. They're escaping the London bustle. And they're escaping their past. A fresh start in a peaceful village. It will be different here, right? But something is awry. Karen is cut off from her old friends and family, she can't help wondering if her husband has plans of his own. Read by Jennifer Ness. 9 hours. TB704897.Fisher, Tarryn. The Wives. 2019. Thriller. TB704904.Thursday's husband has two other wives. She loves him so much she doesn't care. Or at least that’s what she's told herself. Then one day she finds out about an unknown third wife Hannah. Thursday tracks her down and, under false pretences, strikes up a friendship. Then Thursday realizes Hannah is being abused by her husband. Who exactly is her husband, and how far will she go to find the truth?Contains sex scenes and swear words.Read by Lauren Fortgang. 8 hours 59 minutes. TB704904.Frost, Abbie. The Guesthouse. 2020. Thriller. TB704906.You use an app, called Cloud BNB, to book a room online. And on a cold afternoon you arrive at The Guesthouse, a dramatic old building on a remote stretch of hillside in Ireland. You are expecting a relaxing break, but you find something very different. Because a killer has lured you and six other guests here and now you can't escape. One thing's for certain: not all of you will come back from this holiday alive.Read by Gloria Sanders. 9 hours 11 minutes. TB704906.Gratton, Tessa. Lady Hotspur. 2020. Gay fiction. TB704881.The Lady Knights promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded - or retake the throne, and take up arms against the newest heir, Hal Bolingbrooke, Mora's own childhood best friend and sworn head of the Lady Knights. Read by Jessica Hayles. 29 hours 4 minutes. TB704881.Green, Amy K. The Prized Girl. 2020. Crime. TB704916.Days after a young pageant queen named Jenny is found murdered, her small town grieves the loss alongside her picture-perfect parents. At first glance, Jenny's tragic death appears clear-cut. The most obvious suspect is one of her fans, an older man who may have gotten too close for comfort. But Jenny's half-sister, Virginia - the black sheep of the family - isn't so sure of his guilt and takes matters into her own hands. Read by Alex McKenna, Taylor Meskimen. 11 hours 46 minutes. TB704916.Hambly, Barbara. Dragonsbane. 2019. Fantasy. TB704871.Winterlands: book 1. When the Black Dragon seizes the capital of Bel, the young noble, Gareth, must journey into the decaying Northlands to find John Aversin, Dragonsbane the only living man ever to slay a dragon. Upon arrival, Gareth also meets Jenny the half-taught sorceress and mother of Aversin's sons. A bargain is struck: witch and dragonkiller agree to rid the city of its monster in return for the king’s aid. Read by Nicholas Camm. 11 hours 6 minutes. TB704871.Hess, Annette. The German House. 2019. General fiction. TB704869.Frankfurt, 1963. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhn, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jurgen Schoorman, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva's plans are turned upside down when an American investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial.Read by Nina Franoszek. 10 hours 54 minutes. TB704869.Hickson, Joanna. The Lady Of The Ravens. 2020. Historical fiction.TB704910.Queens of the Tower: book 1. Two women, two very different destinies, drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London: Elizabeth of York, her life tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII. Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Read by Sophie Bentinck. 15 hours 21 minutes. TB704910.Higgins, Jack. Wrath Of God. 2019. Adventure. TB704864.Mexico in the 1920s. A year after the Revolution, violent unrest still simmers across rural Mexico. In the northern foothills of the Sierra Madre, the country's most renowned assassin turned psychotic bandit has dispensed with any need for rules. Plenty of men had tried to take Tomas de la Plata. But never another trained killer, who is fighting to escape the death sentence.Read by A. W. Dickson. 6 hours 29 minutes. TB704864.Hudson, Melanie. The Last Letter From Juliet. 2019. General fiction. TB704878.A daring WWII pilot, Juliet’s life was one of courage, adventure – and a love torn apart by war. Every nook of her Cornish cottage is alive with memories just waiting to be discovered. Katherine has escaped to Cornwall for Christmas, but she soon finds there is more to her holiday cottage than meets the eye. And on the eve of Juliet’s 100th birthday, Katherine is enlisted to make an old lady’s Christmas wish come true…Read by Stephanie Beattie. 10 hours 10 minutes. TB704878.Hussain, Nadiya. The Hopes And Triumphs Of The Amir Sisters. 2020. Family stories. TB704921.Amir Sisters: book 3. Mae has watched as her three older sisters have gone through the process of finding their place in the world and faced the challenges of parenthood head on. Now ready to spread her wingsbeyond her close-knit family, Mae is ready to take the world by storm. But a series of events will shake the strong self-belief Mae has always had in herself and will leave her questioning where she really fits in. Read by Avita Jay. 9 hours 14 minutes. TB704921.Jones, Sadie. Fallout. 2014. General fiction. TB22465.Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic, fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East. In London, he meets Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, Leigh. Luke, Paul and Leigh set up a radical theatre company. Nina is a fragile actress, bullied by her mother and in thrall to a controlling producer. When Luke meets Nina he recognises a soul in danger and everything is drawn into the heat of their collision.Read by Daniel Weyman. 10 hours 52 minutes. TB22465.Linfoot, Jane. A Cosy Christmas In Cornwall. 2019. Romance. TB704901.Christmas in a Cornish castle? Sign Ivy up! Hired to kit out the holiday rental as the world's most Instagramable festive dreamland, there's only one thing standing in the way of her hefty paycheque - the lord of the manor. Bill could give Scrooge a run for his money but Ivy is firmly #TeamChristmas even if her handsome host seems to be doing everything he can to sabotage her staging. Read by Pene Herman-Smith. 15 hours 2 minutes. TB704901.Lynch, Carissa Ann. My Sister Is Missing. 2019. Thriller. TB704841.A twenty-year-old local mystery that has never been solved. A bone-chilling VHS tape depicting a horrific crime. Neighbors with something to hide. And a sister who is missing. Emily has to find out the truth. But is her sister Madeline the victim...or the one to blame?Read by Kelly Burke. 7 hours 37 minutes. TB704841.Mistry, Liz. Last Request. 2019. Crime. TB704870.DS Nikita Parekh: book 1. When human remains are discovered under Bradford's derelict Odeon car park, DS Nikita Parekh and her team are immediately called to the scene. Distracted by keeping her young nephew out of trouble, Nikki is relieved when the investigation is transferred to the Cold Case Unit. But after the identity of the victim is revealed, she's soon drawn back into the case.Read by Shaheen Khan. 11 hours 32 minutes. TB704870.Newton, Lana. Her Perfect Lies. 2020. Thriller. TB704883.When Claire Wright wakes in hospital, she doesn't recognise the person staring back at her in the mirror. She's told that she has the perfect life: she's beautiful, famous, with a husband and a house to die for. As Claire discovers the person she used to be she must also unravel the mystery that surrounds the accident. But the more Claire uncovers, the more she will be forced to face up to the dark secrets from her life before.Read by Jan Cramer. 8 hours 32 minutes. TB704883.Paris, B A. The Dilemma. 2020. Thriller. TB704908.It's Livia's 40th birthday and she's having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who's studying abroad. Livia needs to tell Adam something about their daughter but she's waiting until the party is over. Adam wants everything to be perfect for Livia so he's secretly arranged for Marnie to come home and surprise her. Read by Beth Eyre and Peter Noble. 9 hours 8 minutes. TB704908.Reekles, Beth. It Won't Be Christmas Without You. 2019. Romance.TB704902.Eloise, a self-confessed Christmas obsessive, can't wait for the big day. She's organising the school nativity play and even her gorgeous Grinch of a neighbour, James, can't get her down. Her workaholic twin sister, Cara, on the other hand, plans to work over the holiday. The sisters used to be close but since Cara moved to London, everything's been different. Eloise isn't giving up just yet. Read by Danielle Farrow. 4 hours 37 minutes. TB704902.Simants, Kate. Lock Me In. 2019. Crime. TB704885.By day, Ellie has a normal life. She has a stable home, a loving boyfriend, a future. But at night, she suffers from a sleep disorder. She becomes angry and violent. Her mother locks Ellie in her bedroom every night, to keep them both safe. Then one morning, Ellie wakes up, to find the lock on her bedroom door smashed from the inside. She is covered in injuries, unable to remember anything about the night before. Read by Pene Herman-Smith. 15 hours 32 minutes. TB704885.Taylor, Andrew. The Second Midnight. 2019. War fiction. TB704834.1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission for the British Intelligence Service. Travelling to Prague, he takes his troubled young son, Hugh, as cover. When Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, Alfred is given an ultimatum by the Czech Resistance. They will arrange for him to return to England, but only if he leaves his son Hugh behind as collateral. Hugh is soon taken under the wing of a Nazi colonel, Helmuth Scholl.Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB704834.Thomas, Terry Lynn. The House Of Secrets. 2019. Historical crime. TB704241.Sarah Bennett: book 2. Sarah has two secrets: she sees ghosts, and she is in love with a spy. When Sarah takes a job with occult expert Dr Geisler, he promises to help her understand the sorrowful spirit that seems to have attached itself to her. As Sarah struggles to cope with the ghostly presence, she runs into Zeke, the man who left her six months earlier and is recovering from injuries suffered in an alleged accident.Read by Danielli Acitelli. 6 hours 52 minutes. TB704241.Toye, Joanna. Wartime For The Shop Girls. 2020. Family stories. TB704920.Shop Girls: book 2. It's 1942 and as shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily is thrilled to step up to sales junior in her job at Marlow's department store. But bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Read by Becky Wright. 8 hours 25 minutes. TB704920.Tremayne, S. K. The Assistant. 2019. Thriller. TB704887.Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friend's spare room. The high-tech flat is managed by a meticulous Home Assistant, called Electra, that takes care of the heating, the lights - and sometimes Jo even turns to her for company. Until, late one night, Electra says one sentence that rips Jo's fragile world in two: `I know what you did.' And Jo is horrified. Because in her past she did do something terrible. Read by Laura Kirman. 10 hours 50 minutes. TB704887.Wake, Jules. Notting Hill In The Snow. 2019. Romance. TB704886.Viola plays in an orchestra but this year she's been asked to stretch her musical talents to organising Notting Hill's local nativity. Nate isn't looking forward to Christmas but as his daughter, Grace, has the starring role in the show, he's forced to stop being a Grinch and volunteer with Viola. With the sparks between them hotter than the chestnuts roasting in Portobello market, Nate and Viola can't deny their feelings. Read by Stephanie Beattie. 11 hours 1 minute. TB704886.Adult Non-fictionAutobiographyCrockett, Sophie. Against My Will. 2020. TB704893.Sophie spent most of her childhood suffering from crippling anxiety. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, she became a prisoner in her own home. After battling with depression, eating disorders and self-harm, Sophie had the courage to re-enter society in her late teens. She was just 17 when she fell prey to ST, a violent bully who exploited her vulnerability and cruelly assumed complete coercive control over her life. Read by Janine Cooper Marshall. 7 hours 54 minutes. TB704893.Wiener, Anna. Uncanny Valley. 2020. TB704894.Anna was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. Within a year she had moved to San Francisco to take up a job at a data analytics start-up in Silicon Valley. But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech start-ups as surveillance companies. Out of sixty employees, only eight of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. Read by Suehyla El-Attar. 8 hours 45 minutes. TB704894.Environment and EcologyLetters to the Earth: Writing To A Planet in Crisis. 2019. TB704861.2019 was the year nurses, poets, nine-year olds and grandparents came together to say: we know the truth about climate change, now it is time to act. Earlier this year, Culture Declares Emergency invited people from all around the world to find those words by writing a letter to the earth. This brings together the voices of children and the public with authors, scientists and playwrights in the first creative project of its kind.Emma Thompson, Mark Rylance, Andrew Scott and Juliet Stevenson. 5 hours 10 minutes. TB704861.HistoryKyte, Holly. Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists Of British History. 2019. TB704857. This tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths. From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do. Read by Helen Keeley. 14 hours 2 minutes. TB704857.LiteratureChild, Lee. The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human. 2019. TB704852. Child demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us? Read by Jeff Harding. 1 hour 17 minutes. TB704852. MusicMarsden, Bernie. Where's My Guitar? An Inside Story Of British Rock And Roll. 2019. TB704854.A fascinating insight into the golden-age of 1970s and 80s rock and roll told through the eyes of music legend Bernie Marsden and, most notably, his role in establishing one of the world's most famous rock bands of all time - Whitesnake. Packed with stories and encounters with the likes of Ringo Starr, Elton John, Cozy Powell, Ozzy Osborne, B.B. King and Jon Lord.Read by Richard Trinder. 8 hours 12 minutes. TB704854.Natural historyBaker, J A. The Peregrine. 2019. TB704845.Reissue of J. A. Baker's classic, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands, peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons. Read by David Attenborough. 8 hours 56 minutes. TB704845.Self HelpDay, Elizabeth. How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong. 2019. TB704207.Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.Read by Elizabeth Day. 9 hours 42 minutes. TB704207.Pepin, Charles. Self-Confidence: A Philosophy. 2020. TB704891.Pepin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence and argues that above all, to live a life of confidence is to live a life of action. Drawing on the collective wisdom of philosophers, psychologists and the lives of people we encounter on a daily basis, Pepin invites us to probe the mystery and mastery of self-confidence.Read by Chris Courtney. 5 hours 18 minutes. TB704891.Ravikant, Kamal. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It. 2020.TB704905.Kamal Ravikant knows misery well. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It is the powerful story of Kamal's radical self-growth journey and his specific practice for readers. Dynamic, vulnerable, page-turning and ultimately life-changing, these pages hold a universal appeal for anyone who has ever struggled to get out of bed in the morning or smile through profound sadness.Read by Kamal Ravikant. 4 hours 6 minutes. TB704905.TransportRossant, John. Hop, Skip Go How The Transport Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives. 2019. TB704837.Human mobility, dominated for a century by cars and trucks, is facing a dramatic transformation. Over the next decade, new networked devices, from electric bikes to fleets of autonomous cars, will change the way we move. Hop, Skip, Go is about us: billions of people on the move. Underlying each stage of mobility, from foot to horse to cars and jets, are the mathematics of three fundamental variables: time, space and money.Read by John Moraitis. 9 hours. TB704837.Travel and TourismCrowden, James. The Frozen River: Seeking Silence In The Himalaya. 2020. TB704895.In 1976 James left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. This is his account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and tourism. When butter traders invite James on their journey down the frozen river Leh, he soon realises that this way of living, comes with a very human cost.Read by James Crowden. 12 hours 1 minute. TB704895.Children’s and young adult07+ suggested reading ageFogle, Ben. Mr Dog And The Faraway Fox. 2020. TB704890.Mr Dog: book 4. You can always count on Mr Dog to help an animal in trouble. When Mr Dog takes a trip into town, he doesn't expect to stay for long. But then he meets a fox who needs his help - a fox who's very far from home.Read by Ben Fogle. 1 hour 2 minutes. TB704890.McLaughlin, Tom. The Day I Became The Most Wanted Boy In The World. 2019. TB24867.Nine year old Pete loves sitting at home, being quiet and watching the snooker. But then he accidentally bumps into a local gangster. Pete and his super annoying next-door neighbour, Sammy, are caught up in a series of events that get worse at every turn. Now Pete is in a race against time to prove his innocence but everyone thinks he's the most wanted boy in the world.Read by Chris Dickins. 1 hour 32 minutes. TB24867.09+ suggested reading ageColfer, Eoin. The Fowl Twins. 2019. TB704815.Fowl twins: book 1. Myles and Beckett are twins. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles is neat, has an IQ of 170, and 3D prints a fresh suit every day. After their eleventh birthday the twins are left in the care of house security system, NANNI, for a night. In that time, they befriend a troll on the run from a nobleman and a nun both of whom need the magical creature for their own gain.Read by Nathaniel Parker. 8 hours 55 minutes. TB704815.Jones, Diana Wynne. Howl's Moving Castle. 2019. TB704903.In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility exist, Sophie catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, she makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls. Read by Kristin Atherton. 8 hours 57 minutes. TB704903.Noble, Paul. Learn French For Kids With Paul Noble - Complete Course. 2020. TB704913.This step-by-step French course follows the relaxed approach of bestselling language coach, Paul Noble, who guides children gently through the basics, with no mention of grammar or textbooks. The only requirement is to listen carefully, repeat and most of all, have fun! Short bite-sized topics to listen to at home or on the go. Scenarios and phrases to try out on holiday, at school or just to show off to grown-ups!Read by Paul Noble. 8 hours 51 minutes. TB704913.Torday, Piers. There May Be A Castle. 2017. TB24836.Mouse is travelling to see his grandparents on Christmas Eve with his mother and two sisters. The car crashes and Mouse is thrown from the car. When he wakes, he's not in his world any more. So begins a quest to find a castle in a world of wonder. As the cold grows, we realise it might just have something to do with the family he's left behind; and that Mouse's quest is more important than ever.Read by Kris Dyer. 6 hours 42 minutes. TB24836.Walliams, David. The Beast Of Buckingham Palace. 2019. TB704899.It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace. But when strange goings-on breach its walls and stalk the corridors in the dead of night, he is thrust into a world of mystery, adventure and monsters. And when his mother, the Queen, is dragged away to the Tower of London, Alfred must screw up his courage and battle to save her and the entire city.Read by David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Fiona Shaw, Andy Serkis, Lizzie Waterworth, James Goode and Nitin Ganatra. 5 hours 21 minutes.13+ Suggested Reading AgeBurge, Rachel. The Twisted Tree. 2019. TB24926.Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fell from the tree at her grandma's cabin and became blind in one eye. Determined to understand her strange ability, Martha sets off to visit her grandmother, Mormor. She discovers Mormor is dead, a peculiar boy is in her cabin and a terrifying creature is on the loose. Then the spinning wheel starts creaking, books move around and terror creeps in.Read by Kate Okello. 6 hours 44 minutes. 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