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Postal collectionsTo arrange a collection of books to return to the library, call Royal Mail and follow the selections as follows:Call 08457 950 950Don’t press 1 for personal customer, but wait for optionsSelect Option 3 - advice on setting up one of our products or services including ad-hoc collectionsSelect Option 1 - to set up a business collection including ad-hoccollectionsBrailleAdult fictionAhern, Cecelia. The year I met you. 2014. Chick lit.Jasmine knows two things: one, she loves her vulnerable sister unconditionally. Two, she's only ever been good at one thing - her job helping business start-ups. So when she's sacked, Jasmine realises that she has nothing else to fill her life. She finds herself watching the antics of her neighbour, shock jock Matt. Jasmine has every reason to dislike Matt but not everything is as it seems, and soon Jasmine and Matt are forced to think again.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25168903Alleyn, Fredrica. Dark obsession. 2009. Erotic fiction.Ambitious young interior designer Annabel Moss is delighted when a new assignment takes her to Leyton hall - home of the very wealthy Lord and Lady Corbett-Wynne. But the grandeur of the house is a fa?ade for some shockingly salacious practices. Annabel is drawn into a world of decadence where anything is allowed as long as a respectable appearance prevails.Contains strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.UEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25369705Barclay, Linwood. Bad move. 2005. Crime.Zack Walker: book 1. Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. True, he masterminded a plot to trade his family's exciting city lifestyle for one of suburban tranquillity. When Zack realizes their two -faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower, he starts fighting hard to ignore the fact that Oakwood isn't the crime-free paradise he was hoping for. But his brief state of denial comes to an abrupt end when, during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25159003Barclay, Linwood. Bad guys. 2006. Crime.Zack Walker: book 2. Zack Walker is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing Crandall's high-end shops.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25159103Barclay, Linwood. Stone rain. 2007. Crime.Zack Walker: book 4. Metropolitan newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it's one that his good friend Trixie Snelling doesn't want told that's about to unleash a storm of trouble. Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side.UEB. 6v. Price: ?2.80. Order No: 25233503Berne, Suzanne. The dogs of Littlefield. 2013. General fiction.Full of psychologists and college professors, Littlefield, Massachusetts is proud of its fine schools and quaint village centre. In fact, a sociologist from the University of Chicago, Dr. Clarice Watkins, has moved to Littlefield for a year to study the elements of 'good quality of life'. Yet, no sooner has she arrived than someone begins poisoning the town dogs. Are the poisonings in protest to an off-leash proposal for Baldwin Park or the sign of a deeper disorder?UEB. 5v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25418703Bhutto, Fatima. The shadow of the crescent moon. 2013. General fiction.Fatima Bhutto's debut novel begins and ends one rain swept Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The second, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. And the youngest, the idealist, leaves for town on a motorbike. Three hours later their day will end in devastating circumstances.UEB. 3v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25418803Bourne, Sam. Pantheon. 2012. Thriller.Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism . James Zennor, a young Oxford don, returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving only a note declaring her continuing love. A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic and to one of America’s greatest universities. And in his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the darkest and deadliest secrets of a world at war.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25168603Cameron, Claire. The bear. 2014. Adventure.Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. Something big is moving in the shadows. Their father is terrified. Their mother is screaming. Then, suddenly, silence. Alone in the woods, it is Anna who has to look after Stick, battling hunger and the elements to stay alive.UEB. 3v. Price: ?9.99. Order No: 25418403Carter, Miranda. The strangler vine. 2014. Historical fiction.India. 1837. William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. A few months earlier the infamous and disgraced poet Xavier Mountstuart leaves Calcutta in order to track down the last of the remaining Thugs, a sinister secret fraternity notorious for strangling thousands of travellers. But after reaching the kingdom of Jubbulpore, Mountstuart mysteriously disappears.UEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25286703Celestin, Ray. The Axeman's jazz. 2014. Crime.New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer the Axeman stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. Though every citizen of the Big Easy thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggling to find leads. But Michael has a grave secret and if he doesn't find himself on the right track fast it could be exposed.UEB. 7v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25168703Clegg, Bill. Did you ever have a family?. 2015. General fiction.On the morning of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family - her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, she finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, held captive by memories and the mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke. In the turbulence of grief and gossip left in her wake we slowly make sense of the unimaginable.UEB. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25309103Cussler, Clive. The eye of heaven. 2015. Thriller.A Fargo adventure: book 6. Baffin Island: husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate -control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl - and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven - begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people...UEB. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25154803Dickinson, Miranda. When I fall in love. 2012. Romance.What happens when your happy ever after is suddenly and painfully taken away from you? Elsie Maynard has a whole new life she never expected to have. Can Elsie take the final step and lay her past to rest? Join Elsie as she battles to start again, with the help of a disastrous, newly-formed singing group and her father and sister armed with dating hopefuls.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25169503Ellroy, James. Perfidia. 2014. Crime.It is December 6 1941. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese –Americans, but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls – comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.SEB. 12v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25126703Enright, Anne. The green road. 2015. Literary fiction.The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25310003Faber, Michel. The book of strange new things. 2014. Science fiction.Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea.UEB. 10v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25238503FitzGerald, Helen. The cry. 2013. Thriller.He's gone, and telling the truth won't bring him back. When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25167103Franklin, Tom. The tilted world. 2014. General fiction.April 1927. After months of rain, the Mississippi River has reached dangerous levels and the little town of Hobnob, is at threat. Residents fear the levee will either explode under the pressure of the water or be blown by saboteurs from New Orleans, who wish to save their own city. Now Ingersoll, a blues -playing prohibition agent, and his partner Ham, must travel to Hobnob to investigate the strange disappearance of their predecessors. They can little imagine how events are about to change them and the great South forever.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25159703Green, Jane. Saving Grace. 2014. Chick lit.Grace Chapman has the perfect life, living comfortably with her husband, bestselling author Ted, in a picture -perfect farmhouse on the Hudson River in New York State. Then Ted advertises for a new assistant, and Beth walks into their lives. But Grace soon begins to feel sidelined in her home - and her marriage - by this ambitious younger woman. Is Grace just paranoid, as her husband tells her, or is there more to Beth than first thought?UEB. 5v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25154903Grisham, John. Gray mountain. 2014. Thriller.One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. Meth country. The law is different here. And standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line.UEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25157503Hannigan, Emma. The summer guest. 2014. Family stories.Lexie and her husband Sam have spent years lovingly restoring No. 3 Cashel Square to its former glory. So imagine Lexie's delight when a stranger knocks on the door, asking to see the house she was born in over sixty years ago. Kathleen is visiting from America, longing to see her childhood home. As Lexie and Sam battle over whether or not to have a baby, the two women realise their unexpected friendship will touch them in ways neither could have imagined.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25155303Hawkins, Paula. The girl on the train. 2015. Thriller.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25226803Hayes, Samantha. Until you're mine. 2014. Thriller.Claudia seems to have the perfect life. She's pregnant, has a loving husband and a beautiful home. And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia with her baby. But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom going through her possesions, Claudia's anxiety turns to fear.UEB. 6v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25154503Healey, Emma. Elizabeth is missing. 2015. General fiction.Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so and somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year -old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25154203Hickson, Joanna. The Agincourt bride. 2013. Historical fiction.Catherine de Valois: book 1. This is the epic story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois. Can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?UEB. 8v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25156203Holt, Anne. 1222. 2010. Crime.1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. As dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate.SEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 22701102Iggulden, Conn. Stormbird. 2013. Historical fiction.Wars of the roses: book 1. King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king and as storm clouds gather over England, King Henry and his supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at home.UEB. 8v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 24681305Joyce, Rachel. The love song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. 2014. General fiction.Harold Fry: book 2. When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note to him had explained she was dying from cancer. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold the truth. Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go.UEB. 5v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25238603Kane, Ben. Hannibal - fields of blood. 2013. Historical fiction.Hannibal: book 2. Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues. With him is a young solider, Hanno. Like his general, Hanno burns to vanquish Rome. Facing Hanno is his former friend, Quintus, whom Hanno met while in Roman captivity. A bitter quarrel with his father leads Quintus to join the Roman infantry under an assumed name. Among his legionaries, he finds that his enemies are not just the Carthaginians, but men of his own side.UEB. 8v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 24627505Kellerman, Jonathan. Killer. 2014. Thriller.Alex Delaware: book 29. Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. When her sister Cherie and the baby disappear, apparently on the run, Alex's search for answers leads him to aged rockers, charming homeboys and even Machiavellian judges.UEB. 5v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25164903Kidd, Sue Monk. The invention of wings. 2014. Historical fiction.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah’s eleventh birthday she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25164703Lackberg, Camilla. Buried angels. 2014. Crime.Patrik Hedstrom: book 8. A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valo outside of Fjallbacka. Are they victims of a crime or have they voluntarily disappeared? Years later Ebba returns to the island. She and her husband have recently lost their young son, and in an attempt to overcome their grief they have decided to renovate the house and open a B&B. The couple have barely settled in before they are subjected to an arson attempt.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25159803Lawrence, Kelly. Wicked games. 2013. Erotic fiction.‘I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of, and yet more intense than I could cope with'. This is the memoir of an intense, exciting and at times unsettling relationship. Alex is no billionaire playboy, and Kelly is no blushing virgin, rather an overworked teacher who has no time for games, certainly not the wicked games he leads her into - games that she ends up craving like a drug.UEB. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25346703McGrath, M. J. The bone seeker. 2014. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series: book 3. When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement Edie Kiglatuk enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered floating in a polluted lake Edie’s worst fears are realised. The Inuit community are convinced the culprits lie within the encampment of soldiers stationed nearby. Before long Sergeant Palliser finds evidence linking two of the men with the dead girl. But Edie and local lawyer Sonia Gutierrez remain unconvinced.SEB. 6v. Price: ?14.88. Order No: 25126003McGrath, M. J. White heat. 2012. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series: book 1. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk, a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, but when one of them is shot dead, the local Council of Elders is keen to dismiss it as an accident.SEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25120803Patterson, James. Burn. 2014. Thriller.Michael Bennett: book 7. Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the caller seriously.SEB. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25124703Quindlen, Anna. Still life with bread crumbs. 2014. General fiction.'Still Life with Bread Crumbs' begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.UEB. 3v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25418503Reichs, Kathy. Bones never lie. 2014. Crime.Temperance Brennan: book 17. For a decade, Temperance Brennan has been haunted by the one who got away. The killer of young women. The monster. And the one who has now come back. Feeding on fear, grief and rage. Killing again. Killing girls. Getting closer. Coming for Tempe.SEB. 5v. Price: ?18.99. Order No: 25126603Robinson, Marilynne. Lila. 2014. General fiction.Gilead: book 3. Lila, homeless and alone steps inside a small-town Iowa church and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, when Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25313603Roy, Anuradha. Sleeping on Jupiter. 2015. General fiction.The train stops at a railway station and young woman jumps off. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. The full force of the evil and violence beneath the serene surface of the town becomes evident when their lives overlap and collide.UEB. 4v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25309503See, Lisa. Dreams of Joy. 2012. Family stories.Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China, after having learned that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years. Joy arrives in Green Dragon Village, where families live in crowded, windowless huts and eke out a meagre existence from the red soil. Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home - if she can.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25347403Seymour, Gerald. A line in the sand. 2014. Thriller.In a village on the Suffolk coast, Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before he spied for the Government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapon installations. Now, Iran will have its revenge and has despatched their most deadly assassin to fulfil the task. Codenamed the Anvil, he will move with stealth towards his chosen objective unless Perry's protectors can reach him first. UEB. 8v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25157203Seymour, Gerald. In honour bound. 2014. Thriller.Barney Crispin, a Captain in the SAS, is as tough as they come. He is sent on an urgent mission to the Afghanistan border: to destroy one of the Soviet Mi-24 helicopters, a highly sophisticated and virtually invulnerable piece of military equipment, and retrieve the hardware. In order to do so, he needs the help of the Mujahidin resistance and must first train them in the ways of stealth and sabotage.UEB. 6v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25157303Seymour, Gerald. Rat run. 2014. Thriller.When Malachy Kitchen, an intelligence officer in Iraq, is accused of running away in the face of enemy fire, his career is left in tatters. Kicked out of the army, Malachy sinks into despair. He becomes an isolated recluse in a drug-infested London estate. But the mugging of an elderly widow by addicts draws him into a fight to regain his lost pride. UEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 25157103Smaill, Anna. The chimes. 2015. Science fiction.'The Chimes' is set in a reimagined London, in a world where people cannot form new memories, and the written word has been forbidden and destroyed. In the absence of both memory and writing is music. In a world where the past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphony, all appears lost. But Simon Wythern, a young man who arrives in London seeking the truth about what really happened to his parents, discovers he has a gift that could change all of this forever.UEB. 5v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25309703Strout, Elizabeth. The Burgess boys. 2013. Family stories.Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their hometown for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a legal aid attorney who idolises Jim, has always taken it in his stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan - the sibling who stayed behind - urgently calls them home.UEB. 5v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25418603Toon, Paige. Lucy in the sky. 2013. Chick lit.Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone, not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James.SEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25382202Unsworth, Cathi. Weirdo. 2013. Crime.20 years ago, a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth to try to discover what really happened all those years ago.SEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25125403Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses. 2010. General fiction.This biographical novel is the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no -nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane . And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25226703Williams, Tad. Happy hour in hell. 2014. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar: book 2. Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather at all costs. Problem three: Bobby has fallen in love with Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands, who just happens to be Eligor's girlfriend. Problem four: Eligor, aware of Problem three, has whisked Casimira off to the Bottomless Pit itself, telling Bobby he will never see her again unless he hands over the feather.SEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25121803Wilson, Laura. The riot. 2014. Crime.DI Ted Stratton: book 5. 1958: Notting Hill is sweltering in a heatwave. It's DI Stratton's new manor and a powder keg of racial tension. A rent collector is stabbed and a series of street fights between teddy boys and Caribbean immigrants sparks further unrest. Young runaway Irene, on the verge of prostitution finds her loyalties lie on both sides of the fight. Stratton must tread a path through the violence and prejudice to find the killer and save Irene before Notting Hill explodes.UEB. 9v. Price: ?8.99. Order No: 24898507Adult Non-FictionArt and DesignPerry, Grayson. Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood. 2014.How does the stuff we see in art galleries or the middle of roundabouts come to be made and valued? Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and tensions at the heart of modern art. 'Playing to the Gallery' hopes to give everyone the essential tools with which to understand and appreciate art.UEB. 2v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25165403AutobiographyBegley, Andrea. I didn't see that coming. 2013.Andrea Begley stunned the nation with her unique voice and was the brilliant winner of series two of The Voice UK. This is the exclusive story of her journey to the top. From her childhood in Ireland, coming to terms with the loss of 90% of her vision, to her university days and her passion for politics and above all, music.SEB. 3v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 24660003Also available in uncontracted braille. 4v. Order No: 24660005Cleese, John. So, anyway .... 2014.This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve -racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via scriptwriting for Peter Sellers, David Frost, Marty Feldman and others to the heights of Monty Python.SEB. 8v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25122503Johnson, Alan. Please, Mister Postman. 2014.Born in condemned housing in West London in 1950, with no heating, no electricity and no running water, Alan Johnson did not have the easiest start in life. But by the age of 18, he was married, a father and working as a postman in Slough. This sequel to Alan's bestselling memoir 'This Boy', describes the next period in Alan's life with every bit as much honesty, humour and emotional impact as his bestselling debut.UEB. 5v. Price: ?16.99. Order No: 25165503Pietersen, Kevin. KP: the autobiography. 2014.The life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket. This autobiography tells the stories behind the many highs and lows of his incredible career.UEB. 5v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25238403BiographyDickinson, Matt. Bobby Moore: the man in full. 2014.We all know that Bobby Moore was an extraordinary captain and defender, but alongside his legendary feats on the pitch he also knew scandal. He divorced after a long affair, was rumoured to have friends in the East End underworld, and he loved a drink. Tracing his journey from the East End to a pedestal outside Wembley Stadium, this biography looks at Moore's life from all sides.SEB. 7v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25136603Palin, Michael. Travelling to work: diaries 1988-1998. 2014.This is the third volume of Michael Palin's widely acclaimed diaries. After the Python years and a decade of filming, writing and acting, Palin's career takes an unexpected direction into travel, which will shape his working life for the next 25 years. The book opens in September 1988 with Michael travelling down the Adriatic on the first leg of a modern-day AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. SEB. 13v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25138103HistoryCorrigan, Gordon. A great and glorious adventure: a military history of the Hundred Years War. 2014.The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The real and abiding significance of the war lies in the fact that, at its end, the English had become English, as opposed to Anglo-French, and France too had set out on the road to nationhood.SEB. 7v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25137903Hay, Denys. Annalists and historians: western historiography from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries. 1977.A book which attempts, for the first time, to present an accurate and acceptable account of the history of history. This book also draws together histories in the vernacular and those in Latin and Greek. Chapters include the Bible, the humanist historian in fifteenth-century Italy and the birth of the medieval chronicle.SEB. 5v. Price: ?5.49. Order No: 25104303Tombs, Robert. The English and their history. 2014.The English have acquired ancestors by legend, conquest and migration. Here, in a single volume, is a fresh, completely up-to-date account of the long history of an island and its peoples; of its conquerors, kings and queens; of the social, the political and the cultural; of the mythological and the legendary, and of the extraordinarily true. This is the history of the English, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them.SEB. 26v. Price: ?30.00. Order No: 25122203MusicGolden treasury of songs and lyrics: Fifth book. Nineteenth century. 1933.The original Golden Treasury, first published in 1861, was designed to contain all the best songs and lyrics in our language up to the year 1850. This book focuses on songs and lyrics from the nineteenth century.SEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25137103Natural HistoryMacdonald, Helen. H is for hawk. 2014.In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier and much, much harder to see. As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, 'The Goshawk'. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk.UEB. 6v. Price: ?14.99. Order No: 25226403PoetryBerry, Liz. Black Country. 2014.Liz Berry takes us home: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Bilston; to the summer where she first learned to talk; to the woods where the secrets are hidden. But her poems also transport us into other, different worlds of the poet's imagination: the memories and magic of childhood to the dawning of adulthood and the dark, sweet mysteries of love and sexuality.UEB. 1v. Price: ?10.00. Order No: 25362303ReligionSardar, Ziauddin. Mecca: the sacred city. 2014.Ziauddin Sardar unravels the significance of Mecca, the heart of Islam. Tracing its history, from its origins as a 'barren valley' in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious centre of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have powerfully shaped Muslim culture.SEB. 8v. Price: ?25.00. Order No: 25095303Self HelpJohnson, Spencer. The present: the secret to enjoying your work andlife, now!. 2006.This is a story of a young man's journey to adulthood, and his search for The Present, a mysterious and elusive gift he first hears about from a great old an. The Present will help you focus on what will make you happy and successful in your work and in your personal life. Like the young man, you may find that it is the best gift you can ever give yourself.SEB. 1v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25376102SportRedknapp, Harry. A man walks on to a pitch: stories from a life in football. 2014.Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years. Whether he likes it or not Harry's been so long in the game, his bestselling autobiography 'Always Managing' could only get to grips with the most basic dramas of his 50-odd years in football. So here is the story of the decades Harry has spent watching, playing and managing in football, of those he's met and what he has seen come and go in that time.SEB. 6v. Price: ?20.00. Order No: 25123003Warfare and DefenceOvery, R. J. The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945. 2013.A history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The Bombing War is the first book to examine seriously not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts – the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities.SEB. 23v. Price: ?30.00. Order No: 24929803Children and young adult non-fiction07+ suggested reading ageBarker, Geoff. The Shang dynasty of ancient China. 2014.History detective investigates: Discover the answers to fascinating questions in these new titles from the 'History Detective Investigates' series. Follow Sherlock Bones on the detective trail and find out more about the past and start a history project of your own.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25134009Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25134011Davis, Kelly. Ancient Sumer. 2014.Sumer is the earliest known civilisation located in the area that is now Southern Iraq, from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. The Sumerians date back to 5000 BC settling in a land between two rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. Discover how the Sumerians invented the wheel, the sailboat and built the first cities.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25093307Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25093309Harman, Alice. Benin 900-1897 CE. 2014.The history detective investigates: The Benin Empire, one of the Yoruba Kingdoms, was at its height between 1300 and 1700. It was a highly organized society with a strict social hierarchy. Benin was an area located near modern southern Nigeria, which was founded by the Edo speaking people.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25152511Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25152509Hibbert, Clare. Mayan civilization. 2014.The history detective investigates: The early Mayans date back to 1800 BC however the golden age of Mayan civilization was around AD 250. The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar -making and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25152215Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25152213Hibbert, Clare. The Vikings. 2014.The history detective investigates: The Vikings came from Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. They invaded and settled in Northern Scotland and the East of England looking for farmland. The Viking age in Europe ran from around AD 700 to 1100. This title is ideally suited for readers age 8+ or teachers who are looking for books to support the new curriculum for 2014.UEB. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: BR25152307Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25152305Martin, Claudia. Early Islamic civilization. 2014.Between 632 and around 1250, the Islamic Empire was one of the world's most advanced civilizations. The home of Islam was the Arabian Peninsula, but it grew to encompass Syria, North Africa and Spain. It was Muhammad who unified the various Arab tribes to create the Islamic Civilization. The beliefs of Muhammed grew into the Qur'an which summoned all Arabs to submit to God's will.UEB double line spacing. 1v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25151109Also available in uncontracted braille. 1v. Order No: 25151111Nesb?, Jo. Doctor Proctor's fart powder. 2015.Doctor Proctor's fart powder: book 1. Doctor Proctor has finally created something to help him fulfil his dream of becoming a famous inventor – a super-strength fart powder that can propel people into outer space! But ruthless twins Truls and Trym are determined to get hold of the powder for themselves. Their plot to spoil the Doctor's plans sparks a fart-filled adventure involving a firework extravaganza, a trip to prison and an escaped anaconda.UEB double line spacing. 3v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2532380309+ suggested reading ageBennett, Sophia. The castle. 2014.Peta Jones is an ordinary girl struggling with the loss of her father, an ex-army hero who died in mysterious circumstances. When she receives clues that he may still be alive, she embarks on a dangerous rescue across the Mediterranean to a clifftop castle, home to an exiled billionaire. Soon she discovers that what some people will do for money, Peta will do for love.UEB. 7v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25021403Mayo, Simon. Itchcraft. 2014.Itch: book 3. Itchingham Lofte, teenage element hunter and unlikely hero, has had enough excitement to last him a lifetime. Stumbling across an unknown radioactive element and trying to keep it out of the hands of those who want to use it for their own ends was hard enough. But when a school trip to Spain ends in exploding currency and rioting locals, he knows that he has to continue to look for answers.UEB. 8v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25136803Montgomery, Ross. The Tornado Chasers. 2014.When Owen Underwood's family move to Barrow, it's because there's nowhere safer in the Valleys. Especially when the threat of tornadoes and giant bears is constant. But in Barrow, safety is taken to extremes. Children have to wear bright yellow at all times and are never allowed outside except to go to school. In secret, Owen and his friends form the Tornado Chasers. Their mission: to get as close to a Grade 5 tornado as possible. It's time for them to face their fears!UEB. 4v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 25323703Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. 2014.Harry Potter: book 3. When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss.UEB. 9v. Price: ?6.99. Order No: 2532050311+ suggested reading ageDuncan, Lois. Stranger with my face. 2011.Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy. More mysterious sightings convince Laurie someone very real is out there, watching her. The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. She has learned how to haunt Laurie, but the visits soon become perilous. UEB. 6v. Price: ?5.27. Order No: 25226503Miller, Sarah Elizabeth. Miss Spitfire: reaching Helen Keller. 2010.Filled with the tension, animosity, and determination that Annie Sullivan felt upon meeting Helen Keller, this novel portrays that most important month in their relationship, March 1887. Her anger at Helen for her contrary ways is matched only by her disgust at the Kellers for allowing the girl to control everyone in the family and have her way. In spite of her own temper, the fierce love Annie feels, almost immediately, for Helen, is evident throughout.UEB. 4v. Price: ?5.30. Order No: 2522660313+ suggested reading ageAlmond, David. A song for Ella Grey. 2014.Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards; of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. UEB. 3v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25156703Cole, Stephen. Shoot to kill. 2014.Young Bond: book 6. Expelled from Eton and determined never to trust again, James Bond's plans for a solitary summer are dashed by the discovery of a gruesome film reel – a reel someone is willing to kill for. His friends are in danger and his life is on the line; James must find a way out.UEB. 6v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25166603Condie, Allyson Braithwaite. Atlantia: a novel. 2014.Set within a civilization that lives deep beneath the sea, twin sisters, Rio and Bay, are about to make the most important decision of their lives. For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamed of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all Rio’s hopes for the future are shattered when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected choice, stranding Rio Below. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.UEB. 6v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25154703Higson, Charles. The hunted. 2014.Enemy: book 6. The sickness struck everyone over 14. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - crazed and hungry. Now Ella's all -alone except for her silent rescuer, Scarface - and she's not even sure if he's a kid or a grown-up. Back in London, Ed's determined to find her. But getting out of town's never been more dangerous.UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25165103Shakespeare, William. Much ado about nothing. 2005.Cambridge school Shakespeare: 'Much Ado About Nothing' includes new and revised activities throughout, and a larger glossary providing extra support with the language of Shakespeare. Numerous revivals, in the theatre and on screen, have displayed the lively variety and interpretative openness of this comedy.UEB. 5v. Price: ?4.95. Order No: 25132305Stratton, Allan. The dogs. 2015.Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years. His father is hunting them. At least, that's what Cameron's been told. When they settle in an isolated farmhouse, Cameron starts to see and hear things that aren't possible. Soon he's questioning everything he thought he knew and even his sanity.UEB. 4v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 2524000315+ suggested reading ageClare, Cassandra. City of ashes. 2008.The mortal instruments: book 2. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York’s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. As the battle begins, Clary must face her darkest fears – and come to terms with her feelings for a boy she wishes wasn’t her brother.UEB. 7v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25158703Clare, Cassandra. City of glass. 2009.The mortal instruments: book 3. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentine's hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace and the Lightwoods are recalled to Idris, the Shadowhunters' remote and hidden home country, where a search has begun for the last of the Instruments, the Mortal Glass. Meanwhile, Jace and Clary have their own decision to make: should they pursue the love they know is forbidden?UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25158403Clare, Cassandra. City of lost souls. 2012.The mortal instruments: book 5. Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace's soul. Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she trust him? What price is too high to pay, even for love?UEB. 8v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25158503Clare, Cassandra. City of heavenly fire. 2014.The mortal instruments: book 6. Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Who will survive the explosive sixth and final instalment of the 'Mortal Instruments' series?UEB. 10v. Price: ?11.99. Order No: 25158903Coben, Harlan. Found. 2014.Micky Bolitar: book 3. It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey's sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers - until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.UEB. 4v. Price: ?12.99. Order No: 25125303Doctorow, Cory. For the win. 2011.In the twenty-first century, it's not just capital that's globalized: labour is too. Workers in special economic zones are trapped in lives of poverty with no trade unions to represent their rights. But a group of teenagers from across the world are set to fight this injustice using the most surprising of tools - their online video games.UEB. 9v. Price: ?7.99. Order No: 25158205MusicBraille MusicOrchestral musicWilliams, John. ET: Flying Theme. The flying theme from the 1982 film.Full score. 1 volume. Price: ?1.13; ?3.15; ?10.00. Order no: 25296302.PianoClassics to moderns : Book 4. Compiled and edited by Denes Agay. A selection of original music spanning more than 3 centuries. Suitable for pianists from Grade 4 standard.Contents: Little prelude / J.S. Bach - Toccata / Leo - German dance / Haydn - Theme and three variations / Mozart - Bagatelle / Beethoven- Three l?ndler / Schubert - Romanze / Mendelssohn - Hunting song / Schumann - Prelude op. 28 no. 6 / Chopin - Prelude op. 28 no. 7 / Chopin - Rêverie / Tchaikovsky -To a wild rose / MacDowell - The little negro / Debussy - Promenade / Prokofieff - Sonatina / Kabalevsky - Constante / Lobos.Bar-over-bar. 1 volume. Price: ?0.88; ?2.65; ?7.50. Order no: 25322502Vocal musicBritten, Benjamin. A ceremony of carols: op. 28 : Pour 3 voix egales et harpe. [Soprano Parts (Chorus and Solo)] For 3 treble voices and harp. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order no: 25352102.Bach, Johann Sebastian. Christmas Oratorio = Weihnachts-Oratorio. Barenreiter Kassel, 1989. [Soprano part]The backbone of the text of the work is the Bible narrative of the birth ofJesus, the angelic annunciation, the adoration of the shepherds, the naming of Jesus, and the coming of the wise Men from the East.Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?1.02; ?2.65; ?8.50. Order no: 25308002.Goodall, Howard. Eternal Light : a Requiem. [1st Soprano chorus part]For soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order no: 25345402 .MacMillan, James. The Strathclyde Motets 2. 2011. [1st Tenor Part]This second volume of MacMillan's popular motets contains 14 communion motets for specific liturgical occasions. All unaccompanied, composed from 2005-2011.Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.Order no: 24968402Mealor, Paul. Stabat mater: for solo soprano, SATB, divisi chorus and piano [1st Soprano Part]. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?3.00. Order no: 25348502Stainer, John, The crucifixion : a meditation on the sacred passion of the Holy Redeemer for two solo voices and chorus and interspersed with hymns. [Soprano chorus part] Words selected and written by W J Sparrow Simpson. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4. Order no: 25128402.Shearing, George. Songs and sonnets : 2001.[Bass part].7 songs from Shakespeare written for SATB chorus. Open score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4. Order no: 25357702 .WoodwindHeath, Dave. Out of the Cool : for flute (or violin) and piano.[Flute part]Single line. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.26; ?3.00. Order no: 25397002.McDowall, Cecilia. Seven impressions : for piccolo and piano.Accompanied piccolo music for grades 5 – 6.Single line and accompaniment with outline. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order no: 25331102 Rose, Pete. Bass Burner : Fur einen Blockflotenspieler (Bass-, Altblockflote, Tamtam) [For Bass and Alto Recorder and Gong]An engaging and entertaining work in the blues idiom, technically demanding for advanced or high-intermediate players. Single line and full score. 1 volume. Price: ?0.76; ?1.51; ?4.00. Order no. 25356302Giant PrintAdult fictionAlbom, Mitch. The time keeper. 2013. General fiction.The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.2v.Barclay, Linwood. Bad move. 2005. Crime.Zack Walker; book1. Zack wouldn't blame you for thinking he's safety-obsessed. Just ask his wife, Sarah, or his teenage kids, who endure their share of lectures. When Zack realizes their two-faced developer sent a petty thief to fix their leaky shower, he starts fighting hard to ignore the fact that Oakwood isn't the crime-free paradise he was hoping for. But his brief state of denial comes to an abrupt end when, during a walk by the creek, he stumbles across a dead body. 4v.Barclay, Linwood. Stone rain. 2007. Crime. Zack Walker; book 4. Newspaper writer Zack Walker has a knack for stumbling onto deadly stories. But it's one that his good friend Trixie doesn't want told that's about to unleash a storm of trouble. As a professional dominatrix in the suburbs, Trixie has her share of secrets, but Zack has no idea what she's really hiding not until Zack finds a dead body strapped to the bondage cross in her basement dungeon. Now Zack is implicated in a murder, Trixie is missing, and everything he thought he knew about his friend, his town, even his own marriage, reveals a darker side.4v.Burton, Jessie. The miniaturist. 2014. Historical fiction.In 1686, 18-year-old Nella knocks at the door of a house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come to begin a new life as the wife of trader Johannes Brandt, but she is met by his sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist. Nella is at first mystified by the world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await. 4v.Carol, James. Watch me. 2014. Thriller.Jefferson Winter; book 2. Eagle Creek, Louisiana. Lawyer Sam Galloway is burned alive in an apparently motiveless attack. The sheriff's department calls in former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter to consult on the case. So far there's just one body, a deadline has been set, the clock is ticking, and Winter has just thirteen and a half hours to track down the killer, before he strikes again.4v.Carter, Miranda. The strangler vine. 2014. Historical fiction.India. 1837. William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. Nine months later he hasn't learnt a word of Hindoostani, is in terrible debt, and longs to return home. A few months earlier the disgraced poet Xavier Mountstuart leaves Calcutta to track down the last of the remaining Thugs, a sinister fraternity notorious for strangling thousands of travellers. But after reaching the kingdom of Jubbulpore, he mysteriously disappears.4v.Celestin, Ray. The Axeman's jazz. 2014. Crime.New Orleans, 1919. As a serial killer the Axeman stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. Though every citizen of the Big Easy thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot, is struggling to find leads. But Michael has a grave secret and if he doesn't find himself on the right track fast it could be exposed.4v.Clark, Mary Higgins. I'll walk alone. 2012. Thriller.Two years after the day that her son, Matthew, was kidnapped, Alexandra finds herself torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would have been Matthew's fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Alexandra kidnapping her own child. Then, as her bank accounts are suddenly drained, Alexandra begins to suspect that someone is using her credit cards to steal her identity. 3v.Cleeves, Ann. Thin air. 2014. Crime.Shetland Island; book 6. A group of university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends. But late on the night of the wedding, one of them disappears - apparently into thin air. The following day, Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email. It appears to be a suicide note, saying she'll never be found alive. And then Eleanor's body is discovered, lying in a small loch close to the cliff edge. Detectives Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves are dispatched to Unst to investigate.4v.Coleman, Rowan. The memory book. 2014. General fiction.The name of your first-born. The face of your lover. Your address. What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? Is it possible to rebuild your life? When Claire starts to write her memory book, she already knows that this scrapbook will soon be all her daughters and husband have of her. But how can she hold onto the past when her future is slipping through her fingers?3v.Crompton, Richard. The honey guide. 2013. Crime.Detective Mollel; book 1. Meet Mollel, a former Maasai warrior whose beloved wife died in the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. Mollel has been assigned to the investigation of the brutal murder of a local prostitute. Despite the resistance of his colleagues, Mollel soon begins to uncover something more far-reaching. But are his warrior's instincts correct?3v.Cussler, Clive. The eye of heaven. 2015. Thriller.A Fargo adventure; book 6. Baffin Island: husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved - and filled with pre-Columbian artefacts from Mexico. As they plunge into their research, clues begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people...4v.Deaver, Jeffery. The October list: a novel in reverse. 2014. Thriller. Gabrielle is sitting in an apartment in Manhattan, watching the clock. Her daughter has been kidnapped, she's shot and killed a man, she is trying to evade the police and negotiate with the kidnapper, a stone-cold killer. He wants the October List, and he wants money. The doorbell rings. That is the end of Gabrielle's story, and the first chapter of this novel.3v.Ellroy, James. Perfidia. 2014. Crime.It is December 6 1941. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans – but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls – comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.8v.Faber, Michel. The book of strange new things. 2014. Science fiction.Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea.6v.Franklin, Tom. The tilted world. 2014. General fiction.April 1927. After months of rain, the Mississippi River has reached dangerous levels and the little town of Hobnob, situated at a sharp bend in the river, is at threat. Residents fear the levee will either explode under the pressure of the water or be blown by saboteurs from New Orleans, who wish to save their own city. Now Ingersoll, a blues-playing prohibition agent, and his gregarious partner Ham, must travel to Hobnob to investigate the strange disappearance of their predecessors, and then get out while they can. 3v.Green, Jane. Saving Grace. 2014. Chick lit.Grace Chapman has the perfect life, living comfortably with her husband, in a picture-perfect farmhouse on the Hudson River in New York State. Then Ted advertises for a new assistant, and Beth walks into their lives. Organised, passionate and eager to learn, Beth quickly makes herself indispensable to Ted and his family. But Grace soon begins to feel sidelined in her home by this ambitious younger woman. Is Grace just paranoid, as her husband tells her, or is there more to Beth than first thought?4v.Griffiths, Elly. Dying fall. 2013. Crime.Ruth Galloway; book 5. Ruth's old friend Dan thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever, but he needs Ruth's help. Then, Dan is killed in a fire, leaving Ruth with one clue: the tomb of the Raven King. DCI Nelson is also rediscovering the past. He meets his friend Sandy, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances around Dan's death.4v.Grisham, John. Gray mountain. 2014. Thriller.One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats. The law is different here. Standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line.4v.Groves, Annie. Child of the Mersey. 2014. Family stories.Kitty Fisher has plenty on her plate to keep her busy. Since her mother died when she was just a child, she's cooked, cleaned and scraped to make ends meet for her drunken father and her headstrong brothers. Rita Kennedy, living with her husband under the roof of his spiteful mother-in-law, is desperate for their own home. Perhaps that will help them get their marriage back on the rails again? For the two women, and others like them, the threatening clouds of war will bring heartache and tragedy.3v.Hannigan, Emma. The summer guest. 2014. Family stories.A little magic is about to come to sleepy Caracove Bay. Lexie and her husband Sam have spent years lovingly restoring No. 3 Cashel Square to its former glory. So imagine Lexie's delight when a stranger knocks on the door, asking to see the house she was born in over sixty years ago. Kathleen is visiting from America, longing to see her childhood home and also longing for distraction from the grief of losing her husband. 4v.Healey, Emma. Elizabeth is missing. 2015. General fiction.Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud.3v.Hickson, Joanna. The Agincourt bride. 2013. Historical fiction.Catherine de Valois; book 1. This is the story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois. Mette and the child forge a bond, but as Catherine approaches womanhood, her unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the Duke of Burgundy both use Catherine to further the cause of France. 5v.Hill, Susan. A question of identity. 2013. Crime.Simon Serrailler; book 7. One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex. DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature. Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Their killer does not exist.4v.Hislop, Victoria. The sunrise. 2014. General fiction.In 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean. Tourism and commerce boom, with Greek and Turkish Cypriots living side by side. Elsewhere on the island, there has been a decade of violence between the communities and in 1974, following a Greek military coup, Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority. Famagusta is shelled, its population flees, in the now deserted city, just two families are left behind. 'The Sunrise' tells the story of this small group living in hiding.4v.Hore, Rachel. A week in Paris. 2014. Romance.21-year-old Fay Knox cannot remember her early childhood in London, before she moved to a Norfolk village with her mother, Kitty. Though she has seen a photograph of her father, she does not recall him either. He died, she was told, in an air raid, and their house destroyed along with all their possessions. Why then, on a visit to Paris, does a strange series of events suggest that she spent the war there instead? There is only one clue to follow, an address on the luggage label of an old canvas satchel. 4v.Kellerman, Jonathan. Killer. 2014. Thriller.Alex Delaware; book 29. Psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't be from the Beverley Hills doctor, for Connie is soon discovered brutally slain. 3v.Lackberg, Camilla. Buried angels. 2014. Crime.Patrik Hedstrom; book 8. A family vanishes without trace from the island of Valo. The dinner table has been exquisitely set, but everyone except the one year-old daughter Ebba is gone. Are they victims of a crime or have they voluntarily disappeared? Years later Ebba returns to the island. She and her husband have lost their son, in an attempt to overcome their grief they have decided to renovate the house and open a B&B. The couple have barely settled in before they are subjected to an arson attempt.5v.Lawrence, Kelly. Wicked games. 2013. Erotic fiction.'I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of, and yet more intense than I could cope with'. This is the memoir of an intense, exciting and unsettling relationship. Alex is no billionaire playboy, and Kelly no blushing virgin, rather an overworked teacher with no time for games, not the games he leads her into - games that she ends up craving like a drug.2v.McGrath, Melanie. White heat. 2012. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series; book 1. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk, a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, but when one of them is shot dead, the local Council of Elders is keen to dismiss it as an accident.4v.McGrath, M. J. The bone seeker. 2014. Crime.Edie Kiglatuk Arctic Crime Series; book 3 When young Inuit Martha goes missing her teacher, enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered in a polluted lake on the site of a decommissioned Radar Station, Edie’ s worst fears are realised. As the investigation into Martha's murder begins, the Inuit community are convinced the culprits lie within the encampment of soldiers stationed nearby. Sergeant Palliser finds evidence linking two of the men with the dead girl. But Edie and local lawyer Sonia Gutierrez remain unconvinced.4v.Patterson, James. Burn. 2014. Thriller.Detective Michael Bennett series; book 7. Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the caller seriously - and is drawn into an underground criminal world of terrifying depravity.3v.See, Lisa. Dreams of Joy. 2012. Family stories.Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China, after having learned that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in China all these years. Meanwhile, Pearl returns to China to bring her daughter home. Joy must rely on her skill as a painter and Pearl must use her contacts from her decadent childhood in 1930s Shanghai to find a way to safety, and a chance of joy for them both.5v.Seymour, Gerald. A line in the sand. 2014. Thriller.In a village on the Suffolk coast, Frank Perry waits for his past to arrive. A decade before he spied for the Government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapon installations. Now, Iran will have its revenge and has despatched their most deadly assassin to fulfil the task. Codenamed the Anvil, he will move with stealth towards his chosen objective unless Perry's protectors can reach him first. But against a faceless adversary, there seems little chance that the past will not have its day. 5v.Seymour, Gerald. In honour bound. 2014. Thriller.Barney Crispin, a Captain in the SAS, is as tough as they come. He is sent on a mission to the Afghanistan border: to destroy one of the Soviet Mi-24 helicopters, a highly sophisticated and virtually invulnerable piece of military equipment, and retrieve the hardware. He needs the help of the Mujahidin resistance and must first train them in the ways of stealth and sabotage.4v.Seymour, Gerald. Traitor's kiss. 2014. Thriller.An English trawler strays into Russian waters. When it returns, the captain has a package to deliver to British intelligence. For the next four years a high-ranked Russian officer, Viktor Archenko, passes valuable information to MI6. Suddenly the flow of information stops. The time has come to get him out. But the new breed playing the spy game have no interest. One veteran agent realises that there is much more at stake than one man's life. 5v.Sherez, Stav. Eleven days. 2013. Crime.Carrigan and Miller; book 2. Eleven days before Christmas and a suspicious fire rages through a small convent in West London. DI Carrigan and DS Miller are called in to investigate. As they try to tread carefully amid the politics of the force and of the Catholic Church, their investigation seems to uncover more questions than answers: why did the 10 nuns not try to escape the fire? Where is Father McCarthy? And who is the mysterious 11th victim?4v.Stirling, Jessica. A corner of the heart. 2011. Family stories.Susan Hooper is secretary to bestselling author, Vivian Proudfoot. Well-spoken she soon learns how to hold her own with London's literary sophisticates. But the attentions of Mercer, a handsome agent with a notorious reputation and a shady past, are more than a docker's daughter can cope with and she finds herself falling in love. Her friends and family are shocked at the circles in which Susan finds herself where pimps and gangsters rub shoulders with wealthy fascist sympathisers in support of the war in Spain. 4v.Smith, Wilbur. Elephant song. 2011. Adventure.In the blinding light of Zimbabwe's Chiwewe National Park, Dr Daniel Armstrong, films the slaughter of a herd of elephants. In London, anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into confrontation with the shareholders of the most powerful conglomerate in the City of London, warning them of the destruction of an African country. Together, Armstrong and Kinnear forge a passionate alliance - and begin the fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to save.6v.Thomas, Matthew. We are not ourselves. 2014. General fiction.The product of a stormy upbringing in an Irish Catholic enclave of New York City, Eileen craves stability. Coming of age in the sixties she marries a young scientist named Edmund. But while Eileen wants more for her family, Ed won't give up teaching for a better-paid job. Eileen starts to climb her own career ladder in nursing. She pushes Ed into finding a new home, but it becomes clear that his resistance is part of a deeply troubling psychological shift.7v.Walls, Jeannette. Half broke horses. 2010. General fiction.This biographical novel is the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense and resourceful grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town, riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy.3v.Williams, Tad. The dirty streets of heaven. 2013. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar; book 1. Bobby Dollar would like to know what he was like when he was alive, but too much of his time is spent working as an extremely minor functionary for the heavenly host judging recently departed souls. Until the day a soul goes missing, presumed stolen by 'the other side'.5v.Williams, Tad. Happy hour in hell. 2014. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar; book 2. Bobby Dollar has a problem or four of epic proportions. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather that also happens to be evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather. Problem three: Bobby has fallen in love with Casimira, Countess of Cold Hands, who just happens to be Eligor's girlfriend. Problem four: Eligor, aware of Problem three, has whisked Casimira off to the Bottomless Pit itself, telling Bobby he will never see her again unless he hands over the feather.5v.Williams, Tad. Sleeping late on judgement day. 2014. Fantasy.Bobby Dollar; book 3. Bobby Dollar thinks he's seen it all - after all, he's been to Hell and back again. Literally. But he has another thing coming. His love life is still a mess and there are one too many people who have it out for him. Bobby's going to have to pull himself together and make a few tough decisions before time runs out. The problem is, time could run out at any moment.5v.Adult non-fictionArt and DesignPerry, Grayson. Playing to the gallery: helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood. 2014.Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and tensions at the heart of modern art, with many visual aids along the way. From the slippery subject of quality to the problem of rebelling in a world that thrives on rebellion to the tricky question of what can or can't be a work of art, 'Playing to the Gallery' hopes to give everyone the essential tools with which to understand and appreciate art.1v.Autobiographies and BiographiesCleese, John. So, anyway.... 2014.This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve -racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman. And so on to his dizzying ascent via writing for Peter Sellers and others to the heights of Monty Python.5v.Coles, Richard. Fathomless riches, or, how I went from pop to pulpit. 2014.Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single which topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year. In this remarkable memoir he divulges with honesty his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life to a life devoted to God.3v.Dickinson, Matt. Bobby Moore: the man in full. 2014.We all know that Bobby Moore was an extraordinary captain and defender, but alongside his legendary feats on the pitch he knew scandal, death threats, bankruptcy business and the sack. He divorced after a long affair, was rumoured to have friends in the East End underworld, and he loved a drink. Tracing his journey from the East End to a pedestal outside Wembley Stadium, this biography looks at Moore's life from all sides.4v.Farthing, Pen. Wylie: the brave street dog who never gave up. 2014.For a street dog born in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan Wylie, the gentle, cropped-eared ball of fur, miracles seemed to happen. Beaten and abused while being used as a bait dog, Wylie suffered terrible injuries that needed urgent treatment. He was attended to by soldiers who feared he would not last the night. A lifeline came when he was handed over to animal welfare charity Nowzad and flown to Britain in the hope of finding a new life. 3v.Macdonald, Helen. H is for hawk. 2014. As a child Helen was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, 'The Goshawk', which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel and takes her home. This book is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming. 3v.Redknapp, Harry. A man walks on to a pitch: stories from a life in football. 2014.Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years. Whether he likes it or not Harry's been so long in the game, his bestselling autobiography 'Always Managing' could only get to grips with the most basic dramas of his 50-odd years in football. He has so many more tales and observations about the game to share. So here is the story of the decades Harry has spent watching, playing and managing in football, of those he's met and what he has seen come and go in that time.4v.Stein, Rick. Under a mackerel sky: a memoir. 2014.Rick Stein's formative years were shaped by the Oxfordshire farm he was brought up on and their holiday home in Cornwall. His father's suicide when Stein was 18 precipitated his escape for two years to Australia. However, after graduating from Oxford, success followed hopelessness, and his career as a restaurateur was followed by those of broadcaster, food champion and writer.3v.HistoryLowe, Keith. Savage continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II. 2013.This is a portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a shocking portrait of an until now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.7v.PoetryBerry, Liz. Black Country. 2014. Liz Berry takes us home: to Wrens Nest, Bilston; to the summer where she first learned to talk; to the woods where the secrets are hidden. A parade of riotous characters abound: the Bone Orchard Wench, Carmella 'Ower Lady of the Hairdresser'. But her poems also transport us into, different worlds of the poet's imagination: the memories and magic of childhood to the dawning of adulthood and the dark, sweet mysteries of love and sexuality.1v.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 5+Bentley, Sue. Spellbound at school. 2009.Magic puppy; book 11. Never in Lola's wildest dreams had she imagined having a magic puppy for a friend. So when Storm, a fluffy black and white shih-tzu puppy suddenly appears, Lola's lonely school days come into a whole magical class of their own!1v.Breslin, Theresa. Trick or treat? 2007.Midden the Messy Witch and her team of helpers run the famous magic factory in Starling Castle. All sorts of people go there to buy spell ingredients, or just for helpful advice. In Trick or Treat? there's a bad tempered imp determined to spoil a party, a box of magical tricks mixed up by some mischievous children, and a startling air display by the Terrible Twins.1v.Suggested reading age 7+Cassidy, Cathy. Shine on, Daizy Star. 2009.Daizy Star; book 1. Meet the one and only Daizy Star! She's quirky and cool and loving life in Year Six with her best friends Willow and Beth. When Dad hatches a mad plan that will turn life upside-down, Daizy is too horrified to tell anyone at all and pretty soon she finds herself tangled up in a knot of secrets and lies.1v.Cox, Pamela. The third form at St Clare's. 2005.School life has never been so splendid. The holidays are over and twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan are dying to get back to school. The big question on everybody's lips is who will be head girl? There are plenty of candidates to choose from but then a terrible accident shows the true leaders, and reveals the cheats and cowards too.1v.Nesb?, Jo. Doctor Proctor's fart powder. 2015.Doctor Proctor's fart powder; book 1. Doctor Proctor has finally created something to help him fulfil his dream of becoming a famous inventor – a super-strength fart powder that can propel people into outer space! With the help of his new neighbour Nilly, and Nilly's friend Lisa, Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder is ready to go worldwide! But ruthless twins Truls and Trym are determined to get hold of the powder for themselves. Their plot to spoil the Doctor's plans sparks a fart-filled adventure involving a firework extravaganza, a trip to prison and an escaped anaconda.1v.Suggested reading age 9+Black, Holly. The iron trial. 2014. Magisterium; book 1. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister. 3v.Colfer, Eoin. The hangman's revolution. 2014. WARP; book 2. Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a fascist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. It is up to Chevie and Riley, the boy magician, to find Colonel Clayton Box, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.5v.Suggested reading age 11+Blackman, Malorie. Words last forever: short stories. 1998."It's only words", Malorie Blackman shows how true this is in these nine stories which range from a gruesome story of prejudice and revenge to a love of a teenage daughter for her mother, from a shocking story of parental rejection to a new interpretation of a Greek myth, and stories which mirror what it is like to be disabled or blind.1v.Duncan, Lois. Stranger with my face. 2011.Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy. More mysterious sightings convince Laurie someone very real is out there, watching her. The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. She wants something from Laurie-her life!3v.Wooding, Chris. Pale. 2015. Barrington Stoke teen.The Lazarus Serum can bring you back from the dead - but when you come back you've changed - you're a Pale, an outcast. It's the last thing Jed wants, but an accident changes everything and Jed's forced to discover the true cost of living forever.1v.Suggested reading age 13+Almond, David. A song for Ella Grey. 2014.Claire is Ella’s best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a landscape of gutted shipyards and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. She bears witness to a love so complete that not even death can prove final.2v.Blackman, Malorie. Double cross. 2009.Noughts & crosses; book 4. Tobey wants a better life for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few "deliveries", just this once, would it hurt to say "yes"?3v.Higson, Charles. The hunted. 2014.The enemy series; book 6. The sickness struck everyone over 14. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - crazed and hungry. The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ella's all alone except for her silent rescuer, Scarface. Back in London, Ed's determined to find her4v.McLachlan, Jenny. Flirty dancing. 2014.Bea Hogg is shy but fiery inside. When national dance competition Starwars comes to her school looking for talent, she wants to sign up. It's just a shame her best friend agreed to enter with school super-cow Pearl Harris. Bea will fight back! But when school hottie, Ollie Matthews, who also happens to be Pearl's boyfriend, decides to enter the competition with Bea, she will have more than a fight on her hands.1v.Suggested reading age 15+Coben, Harlan. Found. 2014. Micky Bolitar; book 3. It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey's sophomore year of high school brings on a new set of troubles. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers - until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.3v.Clare, Cassandra. City of heavenly fire. 2014.The mortal instruments; book 6. Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian - but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance. Who will survive the explosive sixth and final instalment of the 'Mortal Instruments' series?7v.Doctorow, Cory. For the win. 2011.In the twenty-first century, it's not just capital that's globalized: labour is too. Workers in special economic zones are trapped in lives of poverty. But a group of teenagers from across the world are set to fight this injustice using the most surprising of tools - their online video games. They're all being exploited but can do little about. Until they begin to realize that their similarities outweigh their differences, and agree to work together to claim their rights to fair working conditions.6v.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 9+Stowell, Louie. The Usborne official astronaut's handbook. 2015.Here, readers can find out about astronauts, including the training they must undertake, how they travel into space, and what they do when they're up there. The book also features a foreword from ESA astronaut Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to embark on a mission to the International Space Station.1v.Talking BooksAdult fictionAbercrombie, Joe. Half a king. 2014. Fantasy. TB22207.Shattered sea; book 1. Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could. But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi's path may end as it began - in twists, and traps and tragedy.Read by Ben Elliot. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB22207.Abercrombie, Joe. Half the world. 2015. Fantasy. TB22208.Shattered sea; book 2. Thorn Bathu was born to fight. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself named a murderer. Fate places her life in the hands of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi as he sets out to cross half the world in search of allies against the ruthless High King. Beside her is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. A failure in her eyes and his own, the voyage is his last chance at redemption. But warriors can be weapons, and weapons are made for one purpose. Will Thorn always be a tool in the hands of the powerful, or can she carve her own path? Is there a place outside of legend for a woman with a blade?Read by Ben Eliott. 12 hours 10 minutes. TB22208.Adams, Will. Newton's fire. 2013. Thriller. TB22423.Luke Hayward is adrift. Blacklisted out of academia, he is in no position to refuse when a client asks for his expert help in recovering some lost Isaac Newton papers. But a chance discovery in a dusty attic plunges Luke into a race to uncover the truth behind some seemingly random scribblings - a race which pits Luke against a fundamentalist madman with dangerously powerful friends. Luke discovers connections between Oxford, London and the Old City of Jerusalem in a breathless chase to uncover a secret hidden in the eccentric ramblings of a mathematical genius; a secret that, in the wrong hands, could be used to spark the holy war to end all holy wars. Read by Andrew Cullum. 10 hours 46 minutes. TB22423.Ahern, Cecelia. The year I met you. 2014. Chick lit. TB22210.Jasmine knows two things: one, she loves her vulnerable sister unconditionally, and will fight to the death to protect her from anyone who upsets her. Two, she's only ever been good at one thing - her job helping business start-ups. So when she's sacked and put on gardening leave, Jasmine realises that she has nothing else to fill her life. Insomnia keeps her staring out of her bedroom window, and she finds herself watching the antics of her neighbour, shock jock Matt, with more than a casual eye. Matt is also taking a forced leave of absence from work, after one of his controversial chat shows went too far. Jasmine has every reason to dislike Matt, and the feeling appears to be mutual. But not everything is as it seems, and soon Jasmine and Matt are forced to think again. Read by Remie Purtill-Clarke. 10 hours 35 minutes. TB22210.Andrews, Lyn. The White Empress. 2009. Family stories. TB22085.Cat Cleary is a sixteen-year-old Irish 'slummy' arriving in Liverpool to seek and make her fortune. Joe Calligan, a young steam-packet deckhand, think she's the loveliest girl he's ever seen and hasn't the heart to tell her that Liverpool is full of people tramping the streets looking for work. And then Cat sees the White Empress, the huge luxury liner. In that moment her ambition is born - to be chief stewardess on the world's great liner. In spite of her poverty, her lack of education, her family background, Cat Cleary sets about realising her incredible dream.Read by Melanie McHugh. 11 hours 24 minutes. TB22085.Binchy, Maeve. Chestnut Street. 2014. Family stories. TB21415.Chestnut Street is a place in Dublin where neighbours come and go. Behind their doors, we encounter very different people with different life circumstances, occupations, sensibilities and stories. Maguire, the window cleaner, must do more than he bargained for in order to protect his son. Nessa Byrne’s aunt visits from America every summer, turning Nessa’s house and world upside down. Lilian, a generous girl with a big heart, has a fiancé whom no one approves of. Melly’s gossipy ways help Madame Magic, a self-styled fortune -teller, get everyone on the right track. And Dolly, an awkward young girl, discovers more about her perfect mother than she ever wanted to know. Read by Kate Binchy. 12 hours 31 minutes. TB21415.Booth, Stephen. The dead place. 2005. Crime. TB21947.Ben Cooper and Diane Fry; book 6. When a caller taunts the police with talk of a 'dead place' and the threat of an imminent killing, most think it's a sick hoax. But Detective Diane Fry is sure there's a murderer at work. And when the voice calmly invites them to meet the 'flesh eater', Fry fears it may be too late. Meanwhile, her colleague DC Ben Cooper is investigating Derbyshire's first case of body snatching, entering the macabre world of those whose lives revolve around the deceased and their disposal. But does an obsession with death make for a killer? And what horrors will greet them when they finally find the dead place? Read by Laurence Mitchell. 14 hours 37 minutes. TB21947.Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Cavendon Hall. 2014. Family stories. TB22214. Cavendon Hall; book 1. Opening on the eve of the First World War, set around a stately home, Cavendon Hall, its owners the aristocratic Ingham family and the Swann family who serves them. Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. The Earl and Countess rely on their faithful retainers Alice and Walter Swann as their young family grows up. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes their future forever, and threatens the Ingham name . Yet life as the families of Cavendon Hall know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse season feasts and a full servants' hall - is about to alter beyond recognition as the storm clouds of war gather.Read by Anna Bentinck. 13 hours 14 minutes. TB22214. Bradford, Barbara Taylor. The Cavendon women. 2015. Family stories. TB22215. Cavendon Hall; book 2. On a summer weekend in 1926 the Ingham family gathers at Cavendon Hall, the great house in Yorkshire that has been their family home for centuries, summoned by the Earl. With them are the Swanns who have served the house for generations - and know all their secrets. The estate is under threat; the aftermath of the Great War has left Cavendon facing ruin. Its heir is pushing for divorce so he can follow his heart. And the Earl has a surprise of his own. Four young women from both sides of the house will be the ones to shape its future - Daphne, fighting to modernise her ancestral home; Cecily Swann, forging a path as a fashion designer in London; Deidre, the career girl; and Dulcie, the outspoken debutante. They will change the estate's future for good or ill as the roaring twenties burn towards the Great Depression.Read by Anna Bentinck. 14 hours 25 minutes. TB22215.Bramah, Ernest. 12 cases for Max Carrados. 2010. Classic crime. TB22291.The twelve earliest Max Carrados mystery stories (first published in the UK in 1913) are collected here. Carrados, a blind detective, was intelligent, resourceful, and used his highly-developed senses to track down criminals, often in aid of his friend, the private detective Mr. Carlyle. Read by Christopher Oxford. 12 hours 57 minutes. TB22291.Bright, Anna Lia. Fire and water. Adventure. TB22346.Fire and water; book 1. Beth, a scientist, is on expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, when she is attacked by a whale. She crashes into the life of a firefighter working with the SFPD on a murder by arson case. Travelling from the Florida Keys to her home in Copenhagen and then onwards to investigate an emerging island in the Red Sea, Beth seeks the solution to a question she can't seem to answer: if you have the chance to live two lives, can you choose both of them?Read by A L. Bright. 8 hours 22 minutes. TB22346.Byrne, Tanya. Heart-shaped bruise. 2012. Thriller. TB22432.They say I'm evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who sigh on the six o'clock news and say they always knew there was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes it. Including you. But you don't know. You don't know who I used to be. Who I could have been. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever shake off my mistakes or if I'll just carry them around with me forever like a bunch of red balloons. Awaiting trial at Archway Young Offenders Institution, Emily Koll is going to tell her side of the story for the first time.Read by Joan Walker. 6 hours 16 minutes. TB22432.Campbell, Angus Peter, The girl on the ferryboat. 2014. General fiction. TB21719."I loved her from the moment I saw her, and that love has never wavered. It has encased every choice I have ever made, and I have never done anything in my life which didn't involve her image somewhere. I'm so sorry for it all." This is a vividly evoked Scottish tale of chance encounters and of family memories, regret, love and loss. This novel combines myth, music and linguistics to recount the memory of a hazy summer's day on the Isle of Mull.Read by Angus Peter Campbell. 7 hours 8 minutes. TB21719.Chandler, Frank. A fistful of dollars. 1980. Western. TB22297.San Miguel was a town with two bosses, and that was one too many. Then the tall stranger rode in and saw in the set up the chance to make himself a fistful of dollars. He set the rival families and their gangs against each other and managed to survive the bloodshed, unscathed, while each side paid his hire. Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 10 minutes. TB22297.Claydon, Annie. Daring to date her ex. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22031.When Dr Thea Coleman catches sight of new consultant Dr Lucas West, it takes every ounce of her self-control not to run from the room! Seven years ago Thea was left brokenhearted by him. Now Lucas is back, and as single dad to an adopted daughter it’s clear he’s changed. But it’s also clear that the attraction between them burns stronger than ever. Thea must now face an impossible decision: does she dare take a chance on love and date her ex?Read by Melissa Woodbridge. 5 hours 5 minutes. TB22031.Clement, Jennifer. Prayers for the stolen. 2015. General fiction. TB22294.On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town, Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don’t come back. Ladydi is determined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to survive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the cities are no safer than the mountains. Read by Stephanie Cannon. 6 hours 50 minutes. TB22294.Connelly, Michael. The fifth witness. 2011. Thriller. TB22417.Mickey Haller ; book 4. Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey's for eight months and although so far he'd managed to stop the bank from taking her house, the strain and sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll, and the bank had recently got a restraining order to prevent her protesting. But now the bank's CEO, Mitchell Bondurant, has been found in the car park with a bullet in his brain, and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder. For Mickey, its back to what he does best , but if he thought defending Lisa Trammel was going to be a walk in the park, he'd be wrong. Not only is he about to learn some startling truths about his client, but also about himself, and by the time the verdict is in, Mickey's whole world will have been turned upside down. Read by Peter Giles. 13 hours 57 minutes. TB22417.Cox, Josephine. Lonely girl. 2015. Family stories. TB22217.Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother’s rage. His sudden death leaves Rosie thrust into a harsh reality, grieving and alone. But secrets will out, and Rosie must uncover the shocking truth behind her mother’s cruelty before she can hope for the love and happiness she deserves.Read by Carol Boyd. 7 hours 34 minutes. TB22217.Cumming, Charles. A foreign country. 2012. Spy stories. TB22219.Amelia Levene; book 1. Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he’s ever known. Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different and the consequences worse than anyone imagines.Read by Jot Davies. 9 hours 33 minutes. TB22219.Edwards, Martin. The coffin trail. 2005. Crime. TB22515. Lake District mystery; book 1. Oxford historian, Daniel Kind, and his partner, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy a cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District. But though they hope to live the dream, the past soon catches up with them. Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, suspected of a savage murder. Daniel and DCI Hannah Scarlett, in charge of the Cold Cases Review Team, find themselves risking their lives as they search for a ruthless murderer, who is prepared to kill again to hide a shocking secret. Read by Philip Bretherton. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB22515.Erskine, Barbara. The darkest hour. 2014. General fiction. TB22195.In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist, and she wants his parents to have something to remember him by in case it all goes wrong in the war. Seventy years later, and art historian Lucy uncovers the mystery surrounding a painting in her home – and accidentally ends up stirring up a hornet's nest of history. Read by Sandra Duncan. 20 hours 28 minutes. TB22195.Fluke, Joanne. Chocolate chip cookie murder. 2011. Crime. TB22062.Hannah Swensen; book 1. Hannah already has her hands full trying to dodge her mother's attempts to marry her off while running The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden's most popular bakery. But once Ron LaSalle, the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, her life just can't get any worse. Determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn't watch her back, Hannah's sweet life may get burned to a crisp.Read by Kelly Burke. 12 hours 1 minute. TB22062.Forester, C S. The general. 2015. War fiction. TB22021.Best known for his Hornblower novels, C .S. Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War. 1914 finds him an honourable, decent, brave and wholly unimaginative colonel. Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion. By 1916, he commands 100,000 British soldiers, whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele. Read by Ric Jerrom. 10 hours 24 minutes. TB22021.Fullerton, Alexander. The blooding of the guns. 1998. Sea stories. TB22270.Nicholas Everard; book 1. Jutland, 1916. In the grey windswept North Sea, Sir John Jellicoe sails with his battle squadrons out of Scapa and Cromarty whilst Sir David Beatty with his battlecruisers from Rosyth await the challenge of the Kaiser's High Sea Fleet. Over a hundred thousand men took part. This novel covers the excitement, fear and anxiety of those who fought at Jutland and how it felt to be in a tiny destroyer racing to launch torpedoes into a line of dreadnoughts' blazing guns.Read by Leighton Pugh. 9 hours 29 minutes. TB22270.Gabaldon, Diana. Written in my own heart's blood. 2014. Historical fiction. TB22409.Outlander; book 8. June 1778, and as the American War of Independence nears its turning point, time-travelling lovers Jamie and Claire find themselves torn apart by the warring forces. As sons fight against fathers and whole families are splintered by the conflict, even Claire's foreknowledge of the future can only help her so much. Caught in the maelstrom of historical events, once again Jamie and Claire must battle to survive.Read by Davina Porter. 44 hours 44 minutes. TB22409.Graham, Margaret. Easterleigh Hall. 2014. Historical fiction. TB22048.Easterleigh Hall; book 1. When Evie Forbes starts as an assistant cook at Easterleigh Hall, she goes against her family’s wishes. For ruthless Lord Brampton also owns the mine where Evie’s father and brothers work and there is animosity between the two families. But Evie is determined to better herself. And her training at the hall offers her a way out of a life below stairs. Evie works hard and gains a valued place in the household. And her dream of running a small hotel grows ever closer. Then War is declared and all their lives are thrown into turmoil.Read by Elizabeth Proud. 14 hours 34 minutes. TB22048.Greene, Vanessa. The vintage teacup club. 2013. Romance. TB22450.At a car boot sale in Sussex, three very different women meet and fall for the same vintage teaset. They decide to share it and form a friendship that changes their lives. Jenny can't wait to marry Dan. Then, after years of silence, she hears from the woman who could shatter her dreams. Maggie has put her broken heart behind her and is gearing up for the biggest event of her career until she's forced to confront the past once more. Alison seems to have it all: married to her childhood sweetheart, with two gorgeous daughters. But as tensions mount, she is pushed to breaking point. Read by Clare Whitehead. 8 hours 20 minutes. TB22450.Gregory, Susanna. A plague on both your houses. 1996. Historical crime. TB22265.Matthew Bartholomew; book 1. 1348 and the inhabitants of Cambridge live under the shadow of the Black Death. Physician Matthew Bartholomew is also a teacher of Medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the fledgling University of Cambridge, and is shocked at the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse. A death the University authorities do not want investigated. When three more scholars die in mysterious circumstances, Bartholomew begins his own enquiry. And then the Black Death finally arrives and he is dragged into a quagmire which threatens not only his life, but the continued existence of the University and the future of the town.Read by Charles Armstrong. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB22265.Groves, Annie. Child of the Mersey. 2014. Family stories. TB22196.For the ordinary people of Empire Street, life will never be the same again. Kitty Fisher has plenty on her plate to keep her busy. Since her mother died when she was just a child, she's cooked, cleaned and scraped to make ends meet for her drunken father and her headstrong brothers. Rita Kennedy, living with her husband under the roof of his spiteful mother-in-law, is desperate for their own home. Perhaps that will help them get their marriage back on the rails again? For the two women, and others like them, the threatening clouds of war will bring heartache and tragedy.Read by Noreen Leighton. 10 hours 55 minutes. TB22196.Gunn, Alastair. The advent killer. 2013. Crime. TB22288.Antonia Hawkins; book 1. At first they said it was coincidence. Number one drowned; number two beaten to death. But when a third woman is murdered at exactly one am on a third consecutive Sunday, DCI Antonia Hawkins finds herself on the hunt for a cold, careful killer whose victims seem to be chosen at random. As public panic spreads in the weeks before Christmas, Hawkins and her team have to stop a killer whose twisted motives can only be guessed at before another week brings another victim. Read by Cally Lawrence. 10 hours 54 minutes. TB22288. Hardy, Kate. A promise ... to a proposal? 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22263. Pretty, Petite Midwife Seeks Friendship and Romance! If they hadn’t written matching online dating profiles midwife Ruby Fisher would never have admitted her attraction to gorgeous Dr Ellis Webster. He promised her late husband he’d look after her and he’s the last guy she should fall for. Ellis doesn’t do permanent, he’s due in Africa soon. He must shake off this uncomfortable desire for lovely Ruby. Except his plan to help her start dating again fails spectacularly because she’s the only woman he just doesn’t want to let go.Read by Emma Powell. 5 hours 9 minutes. TB22263. Harris, Joanne. The gospel of Loki. 2015. Fantasy. TB21392.With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. Demon-born, he is viewed with deepest suspicion by his fellow gods, who will never accept him as one of their own and for this he vows to take revenge. While Loki is planning the downfall of Asgard and the humiliation of his tormentors, greater powers are conspiring against the gods and a battle is brewing that will change the fate of the worlds.Read by Allan Corduner. 10 hours 7 minutes. TB21392.Hawkins, Paula. The girl on the train. 2015. Thriller. TB22561.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's much more than just the girl on the train. Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, and India Fisher. 10 hours 59 minutes. TB22561.Hickson, Joanna. The Agincourt bride. 2013. Historical fiction. TB22222.Catherine de Valois; book 1. This is the epic story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois. Mette and the child forge a bond, but as Catherine approaches womanhood, her unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the dark and sinister, Duke of Burgundy will both use Catherine to further the cause of France. Can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?Read by Catherine Harvey. 16 hours 44 minutes. TB22222.Horowitz, Anthony. Trigger mortis. 2015. Spy stories. TB22693.A James Bond novel. In lethal world of Grand Prix an attempt is made by the Russians to sabotage a race at Nèurburgring, the most dangerous track in Europe. Bond is in the driving seat but events swiftly take an unexpected turn, pitching him into an entirely different race with implications that could change the world.Read by David Oyelowo. 9 hours 34 minutes. TB22693.Horowitz, Anthony. Moriarty. 2014. Crime. TB22694.Sherlock Holmes; book 2. Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction , Frederick Chase must forge a path through the darkest corners of the capital to shine light on this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt and Derek Jacobi. 10 hours 48 minutes. TB22694.Howard, Audrey. All the dear faces. 1993. Family stories. TB21937.Osborn family trilogy; book 2. In Edwardian Liverpool, Mara O'Shaughnessy, eighth of thirteen children, longs to escape from the crowded tumult of her family. Woodall Park, two-thousand-acre home of Elizabeth Woodall and her parents, could be a million miles away. Along with their neighbours, the Osbornes of Beechwood Hall, they live their lives of servanted ease, country pursuits and suitable marriages. However, in the golden years before World War I, Liverpool Irish and English gentry are to become fatefully, passionately entangled.Read by Laura Dos Santos. 23 hours 38 minutes. TB21937.Howard, Audrey. There is no parting. 1994. Family stories. TB22015.Osborne family trilogy; book 3. Callum O' Shaughnessy is Liverpool Irish. Ninth child of the family, he has 'got on', working his way up by sheer hard work and dedication to be master of his own ship. Maris Woodall's family know about ships as well. They own them. Along with their kin, the Osbornes, they live the comfortable life of the landed gentry. Callum and Maris, from families that seem fated to meet and collide, are so different in class, experience and even age; ill-matched yet passionately attracted. But as the Depression years of the 1930's give way to World War, everything around them is in a state of violent upheaval that echoes their own stormy love. Read by Emily Stott. 21 hours 30 minutes. TB22015.Iggulden, Conn. Conqueror. 2011. Historical fiction. TB22241.The conqueror; book 5. From a young scholar to one of history’s most powerful warriors, Conqueror tells the story of Kublai Khan – an extraordinary man who should be remembered alongside Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte as one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known. Kublai dreams of an empire stretching from sea to sea. But to see it built, this scholar must first learn the art of war. He must take his nation’s warriors to the ends of the known world. And when he is weary, when he is wounded, he must face his own brothers in a bloody civil war. Read by Richard E Grant. 18 hours. TB22241.Jonasson, Jonas. The girl who saved the king of Sweden. 2014. Humorous fiction. TB22224.On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill: the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast and die early in her poverty-stricken township, be it from drugs, from alcohol, or just from plain despair. But Nombeko takes a different path. She finds work as a housecleaner and eventually makes her way up to the position of chief advisor, at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects. Here is where the story merges with, then diverges from, reality. South Africa developed six nuclear missiles in the 1980s, then voluntarily dismantled them in 1994. This is a story about the seventh missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed.Read by Peter Kenny. 11 hours 56 minutes. TB22224.Lagercrantz, David. The girl in the spider's web. 2015. Thriller. TB22706.Millennium series; book 4. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story – and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker. It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves. Read by Saul Reichlin. 16 hours 49 minutes. TB22706.L'Amour, Louis. The man from Skibbereen. 2004. Western. TB22028.Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who’d left his tiny fishing village for the vast American frontier . Headed west to join a railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station and a mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered the floor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayo stepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no way of knowing the course of his life would change forever and that he would become entangled with a band of Civil War veterans with a score to settle against the government…and a feisty young woman who’d risk anything to save the people she loved. Cris Mayo, who had never backed away from a fight in his life, was about to have his courage put to the ultimate test.Read by Kasper Michaels. 6 hours 41 minutes. TB22028.Lawrence, Kim. Her nine month confession. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB22542.The merest glimpse of handsome, sophisticated Benedict Warrender was once enough to make wallflower Lily Gray blush. But since a life-altering night together, it is the memories that make her cheeks burn. Lily fled the next morning when news broke of Benedict’s engagement to another woman. She dealt with the consequences of that night alone. Three years later, for their daughter’s sake, will Benedict sacrifice everything? Read by Katy Sobey. 5 hours 29 minutes. TB22542.MacBride, Stuart. Birthdays for the dead. 2012. Crime. TB22206.Ash Henderson; book 1. Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: home-made, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front – Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him ‘The Birthday Boy’. He’s been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his home-made cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn’t told anyone about Rebecca’s birthday cards – they all think she’s just run away from home – because if anyone finds out, he’ll be taken off the investigation. And he’s sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter’s killer gets what he deserves.Read by Ian Hanmore. 14 hours 16 minutes. TB22206.McNamara, Ali. From Notting Hill to New York - actually. 2014. Romance. TB21617.Actually; book 2. Scarlett O'Brien is convinced Sean is Mr Right, but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn't quite like the movies. With Sean away on business, Scarlett and her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York. But while there Scarlett finds herself strangely drawn to a man called Jamie. Read by Finty Williams. 9 hours 4 minutes. TB21617.Malpas, Jodi Ellen. This man. 2013. Erotic fiction. TB22418. Young interior designer Ava O'Shea has no idea what awaits her at the Manor. A run-of-the-mill consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely, but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward - a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. Ava doesn't want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can't control the overwhelming desire he stirs in her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Jesse is not willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her.Read by Edita Brychta. 17 hours 18 minutes. TB22418.Millard, Joe. The good, the bad and the ugly. 1980. Western. TB22399.The Good One - the bounty hunter who rode out after the biggest prize whether it was a man with a price on his head or a fortune with an army on its trail. The Bad One - the hired killer whose name was known and feared from Texas to the Tetons. The Ugly One - the bandit who was disgraced by the small reward offered for his capture. Together the unholy three blazed a crooked trail across the war-torn southwest.Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 23 minutes. TB22399.Millard, Joe. For a few dollars more. 1980. Western. TB22398.There were two of them. The tall stranger they called the Man With No Name, and the grey-haired colonel with the fancy guns. Each moving across the violent West, killing outlaws for a price. Each unaware of the other. Until El Indio. The Mexican bandit, worth $10,000 dead or alive. Then the two hunters stalked the same prey...Read by William Roberts. 4 hours 18 minutes. TB22398.Mosse, Kate. The taxidermist's daughter. 2014. Historical fiction. TB22410.Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed animals that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.Read by Clare Corbett. 10 hours 32 minutes. TB22410.O'Hagan, Andrew. The illuminations. 2015. General fiction. TB22453.Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was, in her youth, a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki.Read by Cathleen McCarron. 9 hours 13 minutes. TB22453.Palmer, Michael. Fatal. 2003. Thriller. TB22271. In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more than flu- like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into lethal paranoia. In West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers. Finding the link between these events could prove Fatal. Five years ago emergency specialist Matt Rutledge returned to his West Virginia home to marry his high-school sweetheart and open a practice. Now he has identified bizarre new incidences of illness - caused he is certain, by the mines careless disposal of toxic chemicals. All he needs is proof.Read by Peter Brooke. 15 hours 53 minutes. TB22271.Plaidy, Jean. Beyond the Blue Mountains. 1973. Historical fiction. TB22013.Late eighteenth century, early nineteenth century. Three women profoundly affected by the times they live in. Kitty Kennedy loses her lover before Carolan is born; Katharine, Carolan's child, chooses what must inevitably be a life of danger; but it is Carolan, sensitive and proud, bold and reckless , who must suffer most deeply. She survives the East End, Newgate Jail and the foul women's quarters on the prison ship transporting her to Australia. She is taken to the house of Masterman of Sydney, where Carolan finds that her experiences have changed her from an innocent girl to a ruthless woman, determined to establish herself in the Masterman household, and her method of doing so is such as will haunt her for the rest of her life.Read by Madeleine Hyland. 20 hours 10 minutes. TB22013.Quinn, Julia. Romancing Mr Bridgerton. 2006. Historical romance. TB22014.Bridgerton; book 4. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty -headed charmer, tired of everyone's preoccupation with the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him in the first paragraph. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl haunting his dreams. But when he discovers that Penelope has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide whether she his biggest threat - or his promise of a happy ending?Read by Karen Cass. 11 hours 18 minutes. TB22014.Rankin, Ian. Even dogs in the wild. 2015. Crime. TB22692.Inspector Rebus; book 20. Retirement doesn't suit John Rebus. He wasn't made for hobbies, holidays or home improvements. Being a cop is in his blood. So when DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on a case, Rebus doesn't need long to consider his options. Clarke's been investigating the death of a senior lawyer whose body was found along with a threatening note. On the other side of Edinburgh, Big Ger Cafferty - Rebus's long-time nemesis - has received an identical note and a bullet through his window. Now it's up to Clarke and Rebus to connect the dots and stop a killer.Read by James MacPherson. 11 hours 12 minutes. TB22692.Robinson, Marilynne. Lila. 2014. General fiction. TB22301.Gilead; book 3. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain – and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood of itinerant work. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand-to-mouth but their shared life is laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Read by Liza Ross. 9 hours 49 minutes. TB22301.Sacheri, Eduardo A. The secret in their eyes. 2011. Thriller. TB21949.Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom . While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, Sacheri’s tale reveals the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War and takes on the question of justice—what it really means and in whose hands it belongs.Read by Gordon Griffin. 9 hours 56 minutes. TB21949.Sansom, Ian. Death in Devon. 2015. Crime. TB22232.County Guides to Murder; book 2. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter Miriam and his assistant Stephen Sefton pack up the Lagonda for a trip to the English Riviera. Morley has been invited to give the Founder’s Day speech at All Souls School in Rousdon. But when the trio arrive they discover that a boy has died in mysterious circumstances. Was it an accident or was it – murder? Join Morley, Sefton and Miram on another adventure into the dark heart of 1930s England.Read by Mike Grady. 7 hours 53 minutes. TB22232.Saramago, Jose. Seeing. 2007. General fiction. TB22274. Blindness; book 2. Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. The final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. José Saramago explores the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. Read by James Parsons. 10 hours 42 minutes. TB22274.Tevis, Walter S. Mockingbird. 2007. Science fiction. TB22023.The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth.Read by John Chancer, Robert G Slade and Stephanie Cannon. 10 hours 31 minutes. TB22023.Wecker, Helene. The golem and the djinni. 2013. Fantasy. TB22237.Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free - an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world. Read by George Guidall. 19 hours 44 minutes. TB22237.Wilson, Edward. The darkling spy. 2011. Spy stories. TB22253.Catesby; book 1. London, 1956. A generation of British spies are haunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitors. Henry Bone, a Mandarin spymaster, is convinced that a man code-named 'Butterfly' is the Holy Grail of Cold War Intelligence. In reality, however, Butterfly is an aristocratic pervert whose political tastes are as ugly as his sexual preferences. Worst of all, Butterfly has the ability to identify each traitor - and every serving British spy who helped them. Catesby, a spy with his reputation in tatters, is pressured to become a fake defector in order to track down Butterfly. Read by Steve Hodson. 14 hours 2 minutes. TB22253.Wilson, Edward. The midnight swimmer. 2011. Spy stories. TB22040.Catesby; book 2. October 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will no longer exist. London dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. London has authorised Catesby to offer Moscow a secret deal to break the Cuban Missile Crisis deadlock - but before that can happen, Catesby meets the Midnight Swimmer, who has a chilling message for Washington.Read by Alex McConnell. 11 hours 22 minutes. TB22040.Wilson, Edward. The Whitehall mandarin. 2015. Spy stories. TB22041.Catesby; book 3. British intelligence has a deep penetration mole in the KGB. When that mole reports that a Soviet spy ring in London is no longer sending intelligence to Moscow, MI6 are worried. Catesby is sent on a mole hunt that leads him through the seamy sex scandals of 1960s London to the jungles of Vietnam. In a world of political and sexual ambiguity, where no one is who they seem to be, the tectonic plates of world power are shifting. The Whitehall Mandarin reveals the US government’s most deeply held secret its investigation into the People’s Republic of China, and its concurrent rise to world domination. It is a secret that Catesby may not live to share. Read by Alex McConnell. 12 hours 20 minutes. TB22041.Zweig, Stefan. The collected stories of Stefan Zweig. 2013. Short stories. TB21768.Translated by Anthea Bell, this collection brings together 23 ofStefan Zweig's short stories, three of them translated here by Bell for thefirst time. Written in Zweig's typically flowing and readable style, these tales are characterized by their pacing, their psychological insightfulness, and above all, their pervading humanity. The very best and worst of human nature are captured with sharp observation, understanding and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to faith restored and hoperegained, these stories present a master of the short story.Read by Steve Hodson and Ali Smith. 29 hours 22 minutes. TB21768.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyCoveney, Michael. Maggie Smith: a biography. 2015. TB22695.No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. Read by Sian Thomas. 14 hours 13 minutes. TB22695.Dunham, Lena. Not that kind of girl: a young woman tells you what she's "learned". 2014. TB22220.Lena Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one’s way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. Not That Kind of Girl is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up. Contains strong language.Read by Lena Dunham. 6 hours 11 minutes. TB22220.Gardner, Nuala. All because of Henry: my story of struggle and triumph with two autistic children and the dogs that unlocked their world. 2013. TB22528.'All Because of Henry' picks up the lead from 'A Friend Like Henry', which traced the childhood journey of Dale, the Gardner family and, of course, their amazing golden retriever Henry, who has finally helped Dale to communicate with the world. Now, we meet Dale again, aged 17. He is no longer the victim of severe classical autism, but a young man facing a challenging and uncertain future. Autism changes, but it never goes away. Dale is ready for the world, but is the world ready for him and for his peers?Read by Maggie MacRitchie. 10 hours 24 minutes. TB22528.Holland, Irene. Tales of a Tiller Girl: my true story of dancing in wartime London. 2014. TB22205.Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her off into another world away from the harsh realities of life - the horrors of WW2, the grief of losing her father and missing her mother who she didn’t see for three years while she was drafted to help with the war effort. Finally it led to her winning a place as a Tiller Girl; the world’s most famous dance troupe, the epitome of glitz and glamour. Read by Kate Lee. 7 hours 49 minutes. TB22205.Jacobi, Derek. As luck would have it: my seven ages. 2013. TB21413.The world of theatre could not have been further from Sir Derek Jacobi’s childhood: an only child, born in Leytonstone, London, his father was a department store manager and his mother a secretary. Nonetheless he always knew he was going to be an actor. He has worked continuously throughout his career, but it is his numerous Shakespearean roles that have gained him worldwide recognition. Funny, warm and honest, Jacobi brings us his insider's view on the world of acting. Read by Derek Jacobi. 9 hours 48 minutes. TB21413.Lovell, Mary S. A scandalous life: the biography of Jane Digby. 1996. TB22516.A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England’s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior. Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby’s diaries both a portrait of a rare woman and a glimpse into the centuries -old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.Read by Lisa Milne Henderson. 17 hours 27 minutes. TB22516.Lynch, Lisa. The C-word: just your average 28-year-old ... friends, family, Facebook, cancer. 2015. TB22049.The last thing Lisa Lynch had expected to put on her 'things to do before you're 30' list was beating breast cancer, but it became the priority. So with her life on hold, and her mind stuffed with unspoken fears, questions and emotions, she turned to her computer and started blogging about the frustrating, life-altering, sheer pain -in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at the age of 28. The C-Word is an unflinchingly honest and darkly humorous account of Lisa's battle with The Bullshit, as she came to call it. From the good days when she could almost pretend it wasn't happening, to the bad days, when she couldn't bear to wake up, Lisa's story is emotional, heartbreaking and often hilarious. The C-Word will make you laugh and cry, and ultimately reaffirm your faith in life.Read by Olivia Mace and Laurence Mitchell. 10 hours 18 minutes. TB22049.Macdonald, Helen. H is for hawk. 2015. TB22558.As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, 'The Goshawk', which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. This is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming.Read by Helen Macdonald. 11 hours 9 minutes. TB22558.Tyson, Mike. Undisputed truth: autobiography. 2013. TB22193.Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighbourhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behaviour. Yet, even after hitting rock bottom, the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Read by Joshua Henry. 20 hours 10 minutes. TB22193.HistoryHastings, Max. Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914. 2013. TB22221.In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century’s first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. He finds the evidence overwhelming, that Austria and Germany must accept principal blame for the outbreak. While what followed was a vast tragedy, he argues passionately against the ‘poets’ view’, that the war was not worth winning. It was vital to the freedom of Europe, he says, that the Kaiser’s Germany should be defeated. Read by Nigel Carrington. 29 hours 1 minute. TB22221.Livingstone, Natalie. The mistresses of Cliveden. 2015. TB22189.In the three hundred years before the Profumo scandal, Cliveden was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned political campaigner; and Nancy Astor, the consummate controversialist who became the first woman to take a seat in parliament. Under the direction of these women, Cliveden provided a stage for political plots and artistic premieres , hosted grieving monarchs and republican radicals, was idealised as a family home, and maligned as a threat to national security. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 16 hours 21 minutes. TB22189.Macintyre, Ben. A foreign field: a true story of love and betrayal during the Great War. 2010. TB22009.Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most movingly, the soldiers’ last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs a story of love, duplicity and shame.Read by Jon Cartwright. 8 hours 19 minutes. TB22009.Nicholson, Virginia. Perfect wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s. 2015. TB22054.This is the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompasses rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. This is their story.Read by Sherry Baines. 17 hours 36 minutes. TB22054.PoetryDuffy, Carol Ann. The world's wife. 2000. TB22254.In this collection of poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife. This is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wondered, for example, how exactly Darwin came up with his theory of evolution, or what, precisely, Frau Freud thought about her husband – then this is the book for you, as the wives of the great, the good, the not so good, and the legendary are given a voice. Contains strong language.Read by Lizzie Hopley. 1 hour 52 minutes. TB22254.ReligionThe Holy Bible: Authorised King James version. 2011. TB18505. Produced by Torch Trust for the Blind in conjuction with RNIB. Due to the amount of navigation levels that this DAISY book utilises, it will not work well with the smaller portable DAISY players. Read by multiple narrators. 98 hours 8 minutes. TB18505.ScienceClynes, Tom. The boy who played with fusion: extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star. 2015. TB22533.By the age of 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. At the age of 17 Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the US. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what can Wilson's story teach parents and teachers about how to support high-achieving children? Science journalist Tom Clynes follows Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey.Read by Paul Birchard. 11 hours 16 minutes. TB22533.TravelFiennes, Ranulph. Cold: extreme adventures at the lowest temperatures on Earth. 2014. TB22249.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold. The loss of many of his fingers to frostbite is a testament to the horrors man is exposed to at such perilous temperatures. Despite our technological advances, the Arctic, the Antarctic and the highest mountains on earth, remain some of the most dangerous and unexplored areas of the world. This book reveals the chequered history of man's attempts to discover and understand these remote areas of the planet, including Sir Ranulph's own extraordinary feats. Read by Greg Wagland. 22 hours 40 minutes. TB22249.Fort, Tom. Channel shore: from the White Cliffs to Land's End. 2015. TB22245.The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. Tom Fort takes us on a journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us and what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land and seawater. Stories of smugglers and shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers and samphire gatherers, gold diggers and fossil hunters abound.Read by Ian Redford. 10 hours 59 minutes. TB22245.True CrimeClark, Chris. Yorkshire Ripper - the secret murders: the true story of how Peter Sutcliffe's terrible reign of terror claimed at least twenty-two more lives. 2015. TB22530.The Yorkshire Ripper's reign of terror is well known, but many remain unaware of the full truth behind the brutal attacks that shocked the nation many years ago. Countless crucial details of murder, manipulation and miscarriages of justice have been hidden from the public, and the true extent of the Ripper's crimes still remain hidden to this day. This book exposes the twist in the tale of the most notorious British serial killer of the last 100 years. Read by Bob Rollett. 11 hours 35 minutes. TB22530.Warfare and DefenceClostermann, Pierre. The big show. 2005. TB22050.Pierre Clostermann was a Free French fighter ace who flew with the RAF during the Second World War. Over the course of five years he engaged in hundreds of dog-fights, shot down scores of Luftwaffe planes, escorted American bombers on some of the most dangerous raids of the war, and watched many of his friends falling to their deaths in the skies over the Channel. In The Big Show, his account of the air war over Britain and France , there are descriptions of wartime Britain, stories of in-the-cockpit action, and all the drama and bravery of a man fighting a desperate war thousands of feet above the ground.Read by Chris Courtenay. 16 hours 43 minutes. TB22050.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 0-4Moomin and the birthday button; based on the original stories by Tove Jansson. 2010. TB22664.Moomintroll wakes up full of excitement . It's his birthday! But when it appears that his friends have forgotten all about his special day, Moomintroll is very upset. Even Moominmamma finds it hard to comfort him! Then there's a knock at the door, who can it be and what will happen next?Read by Lucy Scott. 8 minutes. TB22664. Cobb, Rebecca. Lunchtime. 2013. TB22277.At lunchtime, Mum said, "Eat up." I said, "No thanks, I'm a bit too busy." It's lunchtime for one little girl, but she's just not hungry. A visiting crocodile, bear and wolf, however, are starving. It's just as well that children taste revolting!Read by Emma Powell. 5 minutes. TB22277.Cole, Babette. Dr. Dog. 1996. TB22647.Meet Doctor Dog, he's the Gumboyle family's favourite pet and their very own trusty physician. When Doctor Dog jets off to a medical conference in Brazil the Gumboyles decide they can't survive without him and so he returns to rescue them from all sorts of ailments: itchy nits, tickly tonsils and worms to name but a few.Read by Lucy Scott. 7 minutes. TB22647.Kemp, Anna. The worst princess. 2012. TB22350.Once upon a time, in a tower near you, Lived a sad princess; the Princess Sue . "Some day," she sighed, "my prince will come, But I wish he'd move his royal bum." But when Princess Sue's prince finally does arrive, he's not quite what she had in mind. Find out how the feisty princess escapes the clutches of her twit of a prince in this funny twist on the traditional princess tale.Read by Jilly Bond. 8 minutes. TB22350.Mitton, Tony. Bumpus jumpus dinosaurumpus! 2003. TB22276.There's a quake and a quiver and a rumbling around. It makes you shiver. It's a thundery sound. Shake, shake, shudder ... near the sludgy old swamp. The dinosaurs are coming. Get ready to romp! Join in with Triceratops, Stegosaurus and their friends as the dinosaurs stir up a dinosaurumpus! Read by Beth Chalmers. 8 minutes. TB22276.Mitton, Tony. Down by the cool of the pool. 2001. TB22303.Join sprightly Frog and his energetic farmyard friends frolicking down by the cool of the pool - flipping and flopping, splishing and splashing, stomping and stamping in their watery wonderland.Read by Charlie Norfolk. 6 minutes. TB22303.Mitton, Tony. All afloat on Noah's boat! 2007. TB22304.Life aboard Noah's boat is busy and noisy, and it's not long before the animals begin to get grouchy. Clever old Noah hatches a plan for an incredible creature cabaret to get the Ark swinging again - but what amazing act will appear for the finale? Read by Charlie Norfolk. 9 minutes. TB22304.Vere, Ed. Bedtime for monsters. 2011. TB22351.What if a monster was looking for a bedtime snack? And what if that snack happened to be you? Gulp! The monster is getting closer, and his tummy is rumbling really loudly. But all this monster actually wants is a lovely, monster-sized goodnight kiss. Nighty night!Read by Andy Secombe. 7 minutes. TB22351.Suggested reading age 5+Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The moonshine dragon. 2014. TB22356.When a tiny silver dragon is chased out of Patrick's storybook by an equally tiny knight, all sorts of mayhem breaks loose! Soon moonshine magic has shrunk Patrick too, and he is forced to hole up inside his toy castle as the knight attacks the 'fire worm'. Can Patrick defeat the knight and make it to morning? Read by Lucy Scott. 21minutes. TB22356.Gray, Jennifer. Guinea pigs online. 2012. TB22358.Guinea pigs online. Fuzzy and Coco are guinea pigs who live with their kindly owners, Ben and Henrietta Bliss. Coco likes to spend her days pampering herself and listening to harp concertos while Fuzzy is a passionate cook. So when Fuzzy spots an ad run by glamorous local chef Scarlet Cleaver stating 'Guinea Pigs Wanted', he is enormously excited. When Coco's not looking, Fuzzy sneaks off to find the restaurant. And so Coco has to get online to try track Fuzzy down. But when Micespace reveals that guinea pigs from all over town have been taken away in a van by Scarlet Cleaver herself, Coco must set off on a rescue mission to prevent Fuzzy from ending up as main course on The Meat Cleaver's menu! Read by Lucy Scott. 1 hour 22 minutes. TB22358.Gray, Jennifer. Christmas quest . 2013. TB22359.Guinea pigs online. It's Christmas in Strawberry Park and our squeaky pals are decorating the hutch and rocking around their broccoli Christmas tree! But when Henrietta's mother is called to investigate the mystery of missing Inca gold, the furry friends find themselves on their way to Peru! Eduardo is thrilled to be back home with his family. But when he discovers that their precious Christmas Cocoa Bean has been stolen, he realizes he has a mission too. Can the pals find the Cocoa Bean and save Christmas? Read by Lucy Scott. 1 hour 14 minutes. TB22359.Gray, Jennifer. The ice factor. 2014. TB22360.Guinea pigs online. The weather outside is cold and snowy, but Fuzzy and Coco are as warm as toast in the house, enjoying their favourite TV shows. Fuzzy loves the cookery programmes, while Coco is a huge fan of The Ice Factor, a celebrity skating competition. But some of their furry friends are not so lucky - it's freezing out in the copse , and someone has been stealing the animals' food! Fuzzy and Coco have to do something - can they use the skills they've learnt from their favourite TV shows to help their friends?Read by Lucy Scott. 1 hour 17 minutes. TB22360.Page, Jan. The chocolate monster. 2013. TB22352.Lucy is always losing things. She loses her glasses, library books and swimming towels. And every time she does, Mum loses her temper. Lucy knows that things can't just vanish into thin air. The she discovers a strange little monster under her bed. He has taken all her things and won't give them back. But he might just swap them for . . . CHOCOLATE!Read by Jilly Bond. 19 minutes. TB22352.Rodgers, Frank. Pirate penguins and the sardines of doom. 2007. TB22311.Paisley, Posso, Kelty and Spott have a new mission. Three baby polar bears have been kidnapped by the dastardly pirate Goldflipper, and it's up to Paisley and his crew to save them. At the same time, the waters of the far north sea are getting warmer and warmer, with terrible consequences, and nobody can work out why. Could there be a connection? There's definitely something fishy going on. Can the pirate penguins get to the bottom of it?Read by James Parsons. 22 minutes. TB22311.Rodgers, Frank. The witch's dog. 1998. TB22283.Wilf wants to be a witch's dog. His friends don't think he can as witches don't usually have dogs as pets – they have cats, spiders and bats. But when Wilf sees an advertisement for a witch's pet he decides to apply. He disguises himself as a cat which nearly works until his disguise falls apart. But Weenie the witch hasn't had any other applicants and so decides to give Wilf a try. He helps Weenie with her flying and her spells and ends up as Witch's Pet of the Year at the Annual Show.Read by Beth Chalmers. 15 minutes. TB22283.Rodgers, Frank. The robodog. 2001. TB22355.Gary and Sue long to have a dog, but they can't because their father is allergic to dog fur. Mum has the answer when she builds a very special robot dog. Chip the Robodog, wants to be just like Rex, the thoroughbred dog next door. Rex's snooty owners laugh at Chip, but Gary and Sue love him just the way he is.Read by Andy Secombe. 20 minutes. TB22355.Rodgers, Frank. The robodog and the big dig. 2002. TB22549.Chip, the robodog, is fed up when no one will take him for a walk. Seeing Selina, the cat next door, makes him think it might be more fun to be a cat and he confuses everyone by beginning to behave like one. This causes chaos, but can Chip remember how to be a dog again? Chip's computer programme needs adjustment and soon he is back to his old doggy ways.Read by Andy Secombe. 20 minutes. TB22549.Strong, Jeremy. Just a bit of wind. 2002. TB22344.Pirate school. It's the first day at Pirate School for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand fighting. When out on the pirate ship a storm blows up, resulting in the children having to rescue Patagonia when she's swept overboard, and they learn that really Patagonia is not so scary after all!Read by Andy Secombe. 22 minutes. TB22344.Strong, Jeremy. The birthday bash. 2003. TB22345.Pirate school. Patagonia Clatterbottom, the headteacher of Pirate School, is having a birthday. She takes the children to shop for a party and they are ambushed by the children of the School for Young Highwaypersons who take all the food. But Master Skittershins, the dancing master, secretly trains them in high kicks, etc and they go back to fight-dance the highwaypersons. They get the party food back and all ends happily when the highwaypersons turn up at the ship - but this time to join in the party.Read by Andy Secombe. 19 minutes. TB22345.Strong, Jeremy. A very fishy battle. 2007. TB22551.Pirate school. Patagonia Clatterbottom is very cross. Other pirates have ambushed the Pirate School's food. So, she's going to teach the children – Smudge, Flo, Ziggy and Corkella – how to make a proper pirate attack and get their food back. But things go wrong, and all the teachers are captured! Luckily the children have a plan and some friendly dolphins are helping as well. Read by Andy Secombe. 23 minutes. TB22551.Suggested reading age 7+Anholt, Laurence. Ghostyshocks and the three scares. 2002. TB22317.Ghostyshocks is scared of the dark forest and vampire bears. She is extra -frightened when she gets lost in the woods with only one old house in sight . Could the scary bears live there? She has to knock on the door to find out. Read by Rebecca Cooper. 16 minutes. TB22317.Anholt, Laurence. Rumply Crumply Stinky Pin. 2002. TB22318.Once upon a time in a country where everyone had silly names (and the King had the silliest of all) there lived a miller by the name of Eyebrow Snailsocks. Eyebrow has a problem – he can't stop boasting about his daughter and soon the King decides to find out the truth. So one night, the miller's daughter finds herself locked in a room full of spaghetti which she must knit into vests by sunrise or else! Read by Rebecca Cooper. 16 minutes. TB22318.Broad, Michael. The robot dinner lady. 2007. TB22319.Jake Cake is an ordinary kid who likes writing and illustrating stories about his adventures. He swears they're all true, but no one ever believes him. In this collection of three stories, Jake discovers the school dinner lady is a robot, he has goblins in his garden, and he's tricked by a really tricky witch.Read by Pip Brignall. 1 hour 9 minutes. TB22319.Broad, Michael. The werewolf teacher. 2007. TB22362.Jake Cake. In this collection of three stories, Jake meets a werewolf, a monster and a real -life mummy. Read by Pip Brignall. 1 hour 2 minutes. TB22362.Broad, Michael. The visiting vampire. 2007. TB22547.Jake Cake. Jake battles with a vampire visiting his school (fangs and bats and zombies ), a demon hairdresser (arrrrrggggh!), and stays in a haunted castle (things that go CLANG in the night!). Read by Pip Brignall. 1 hour 7 minutes. TB22547.Brumpton, Keith. Terror on the training ground. 2010. TB22328.Dino FC; book 1. Terry Triceratops is the manager of Dinosaur FC. With the team at the bottom of the Premiership, the chairman brings in fitness trainer Hans Hadrosaur to whip the dinos back into shape. If the team drops out of the league, then Terry faces the sack. So the Dino FC players are determined to secure a win against Jurassic Park Rangers.Read by John Cormack. 49 minutes. TB22328.Brumpton, Keith. The missing fans. 2010. TB22329.Dino FC; book 2. Dino FC's manager, Terry Triceratops, wants to buy a sizzling young striker to help catapult the team to the top of the Dinosaur Premier League. But they've been doing so badly that their fans have deserted them and the club's strapped for cash. Terry's got great plans to attract new supporters... if only the rest of the players could remember his instructions! Read by John Cormack. 45 minutes. TB22329.Brumpton, Keith. The great kit catastrophe. 2010. TB22330.Dino FC; book 3. Dino FC's kit is worn, out-of-date, and coming apart at the seams. So when chairman Danny Deinonychus holds a competition to design a new kit, Dino FC hope their new look will help get them back in the game. Unfortunately, not only is the 'new' kit suspiciously similar to the old one - it doesn't fit. With Pteradonna goalkeeping in a kit that's too big and Marcus Diplodocus defending in too-small shorts, Dino FC really are fashion victims, losing 5-1 to Supersaurus Celtic. Disappointed, Terry gives the new kit away to some young Dino fans, and the team go back to their old shabby chic. But could the surprise appearance of their new fans at the next match give Dino FC the boost they need to inspire them to victory? After all, it isn't about the shirt, but about the dinosaur inside it.Read by John Cormack. 43 minutes. TB22330.Brumpton, Keith. Transfer trouble. 2011. TB22332.Dino FC; book 5. With the transfer deadline looming Terry wants to buy a new player, but to do that he needs to sell one of the Dino FC team. Negotiations are under way to transfer injury prone Jose Heterodontosaurus. But then word comes through that the deal's off and Terry's been sold instead. Both Terry and Jose are devastated – Terry because he doesn't want to leave his beloved Dino FC, Jose because he'd dreamed of glory playing for a bigger club at the top of the league. Clueless chairman, Danny Deinonychus, is convinced he can lead the Dino FC squad to victory, but Dino FC the players are determined to get Terry back onside. Read by John Cormack. 41minutes. TB22332.Brumpton, Keith. The unlucky striker. 2011. TB22333. Dino FC; book 6. Archie Opteryx, Dino FC's sizzling striker, has been playing a blinder all season and is a real contender for the Dinosaur Players Association Player of the Season award. But after scoring his thirteenth goal of the season, Archie’s luck runs out! It's crunch time for Archie. Can he return to form or is it all over for this rising dino star?Read by John Cormack. 37 minutes. TB22333.Donbavand, Tommy. Operation - golden bum. 2013. TB22342.Fangs vampire spy; book 1. Special Agent Fangs Enigma and his sidekick, werewolf Agent Puppy Brown, were recruited by secret intelligence agency MP1 (Monster Protection, 1st division) to stop the world's super(natural) villains and monster criminals from realising their evil plans. In 'Operation: Golden Bum', Agents Fangs and Brown are drafted in to investigate a string of high -profile robberies. The presence of an unidentifiable foul smell at all of the crime scenes leads MP1 to suspect that this is no ordinary robber but one with magical abilities. Can the world's greatest vampire spy and his sidekick sniff out the thief before he puts his stinker of a plan into action?Read by Aspen Reiss. 1 hour 56 minutes. TB22342.Donbavand, Tommy. Codename - The Tickler. 2013. TB22343.Fangs vampire spy; book 2. Special Agent Fangs Enigma and his sidekick, werewolf Agent Puppy Brown, were recruited by secret intelligence agency MP1 (Monster Protection, 1st division) to stop the world's super(natural) villains and monster criminals from realising their evil plans. In 'Codename: The Tickler', MP1's expensive mind-control technology, the Will Pill, has been stolen by an ogre named Snores. He is only a goon for hire, though - so who is the real culprit? Can Agents Enigma and Brown solve this ticklish case or will the mysterious Tickler have the last laugh?Read by Aspen Reiss. 1 hour 55 minutes. TB22343.Frost, Adam. A brush with danger. 2015. TB22357.Fox investigates; book 1. Solving Crime in Record Time! One priceless painting. A mysterious letter. Some cheese so stinky it's deadly. From the galleries of Paris to the palaces of Moscow, detective Wily Fox is on the trail of a stolen painting. But Dimitri Gottabottomitch is doing whatever he can to throw Wily off the scent. It seems there's more to this painting than meets the eye.Read by Leighton Pugh. 1 hour 29 minutes. TB22357.Lowe, Dave. My hamster is a genius. 2012. TB22405.Stinky and Jinks; book 1. Meet nine-year-old Benjamin Jinks and his grumpy hamster, Jasper Stinkybottom. Benjamin is a very normal boy who hates maths. Stinky is a genius hamster, who likes carrots. Together they are an unstoppable team! But can they overcome the evil scheming of Ben's maths teacher, Beardy McCreedy?Read by Lucy Scott. 50 minutes. TB22405.Ryan, Margaret. Catsup High Detective Agency. 2015. TB22395.Malarkey is worried. 'I'm worried,' he says to no-one in particular, because as owner and sole employee of the Catsup High Detective Agency, he is the only cat in the office. Cats have been going missing in Catsup and Malarkey needs to know why - so he decides to hire an assistant. The last thing he is expecting to walk through the door is a kitten (the advert clearly states 'cat'), but Sparkie is no ordinary kitten - he has special powers. Now a detective duo, Malarkey and Sparkie set out to solve the mystery.Read by Jilly Bond. 51 minutes. TB22395.Smiley, Sophie. Pup on the pitch. 2009. TB22683.Bobby and Charlton; book 5. Bobby's football team mascot is a dog, and Bobby wants one too. He dreams of a cuddly puppy who will join him as a defender on the pitch. But when a dog arrives next door, his love of dogs turns to terror. Can he overcome his fear? Will he be able to help his sister, Charlie, in her cup final, and even take on the local bully?Read by Charlotte Worthing. 28 minutes. TB22683.Strong, Jeremy. My dad's got an alligator! 2007. TB22314.Nicholas is used to his loopy father's antics. Some dads bring home rabbits. Or dogs. Or parrots. Not Nicholas’s dad. The latest member of their family is Crunchbag – the ALLIGATOR! Soon he’s running riot in the bathroom and on the roof and even in the park! But he wouldn’t eat poor defenceless Granny . . . would he? As mayhem ensues in the entire neighbourhood, Nicholas's mother has had enough. She gives Dad an ultimatum and Crunchbag is despatched to the zoo. Read by Pip Brignall. 1 hour 23 minutes. TB22314.Strong, Jeremy. My brother's famous bottom gets crowned! 2013. TB22353.Nicholas's neighbours are in a royal frenzy! They're celebrating the Queen's coronation and everyone's gone bonkers! Dad's dressing up as a banana and why has Cheese got a crown on his bottom? It's going to be the biggest street party they've ever had, until a letter from the Prince and Princess announcing the arrival of their very own twins adds an extra-special surprise!Read by Alexander Stutt. 2 hours. TB22353.Strong, Jeremy. The hundred-mile-an-hour dog goes for gold! 2012. TB22354.Hundred-mile-an-hour dog. Guess what's coming to town? The Animal Games! There'll be show jumping for horses AND rabbits and Discus for Dogs - so of course I have to enter Streaker. Mum says a CARROT is more obedient than my dog but I think she can do it - Streaker can go for Gold! Read by Alexander Stutt. 2 hours 2 minutes. TB22354.Strong, Jeremy. Lost! The hundred-mile-an-hour dog. 2008. TB22313.Hundred-mile-an-hour dog. Streaker the dog is lost. And not just a bit lost, but really lost. It wasn't even her fault! She wanted to protect some pies from the PIE ROBBER and suddenly she's miles from home and two -legged Trevor and she has to make friends with a cat. A CAT! But it gets a lot hairier when they find themselves face-to-face with a baboon. Will Streaker ever see her beloved pups again? And more importantly, will she ever eat another donut again? Read by Rebecca Cooper. 1 hour 49 minutes. TB22313.Suggested reading age 9+Fitzgerald, Ruth. Emily Sparkes and the friendship fiasco. 2015. TB22378.Emily Sparkes; book 1. Emily Sparkes thinks having your best friend move to Wales at the same time as your parents decide to have a new baby is probably more trauma than anyone should have to cope with. But things go from bad to worse when she's paired with revolting Gross-Out Gavin for the school trip! Emily is determined to escape him, and when glamorous new girl Chloe Clarke turns up it seems her prayers might be answered. Unfortunately, everyone has gone Chloe Clarke mad and Emily finds her 'sworn enemy' Zuzanna has had the same idea.Read by Rebecca Cooper. 4 hours 13 minutes. TB22378.Foxley, Janet. Muncle Trogg and the flying donkey. 2012. TB22280.Muncle Trogg; book 2. Muncle Trogg, the tiny giant, is worried. His home on Mount Grumble is about to erupt, and all the bigger giants can think about is celebrating the departure of the Smallings from down the mountain! Luckily for Muncle, his friend Emily hasn't abandoned him - and she has an idea. The giants might not listen to Muncle but they will listen to the wisest, most wondrous animal of all, a flying donkey.Read by Finty Williams. 3 hours 35 minutes. TB22280.Grylls, Bear. Gold of the gods. 2008. TB22321. Mission: survival ; book 1. Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost city of gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer - until now. When Beck gets lost in the Columbian jungle with no food, no compass, and no hope of rescue danger lurks ahead. But Beck is no ordinary teenager - he's the world's youngest survival expert. If anyone can make it out alive, he can. Read by John Sackville. 4 hours 4 minutes. TB22321.Grylls, Bear. Way of the wolf. 2009. TB22322.Mission: survival ; book 2. Beck Granger and his anthropologist uncle are on their way to visit Anakat Village, home to one of the native peoples of Alaska, when their tiny plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness. With his uncle badly injured and the plane way off its original flight path, Beck realises he can't wait around for rescue. He must find help across the mountains – but even if Beck survives the deadly cold, can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail? Read by John Sackville. 4 hours 34 minutes. TB22322.Grylls, Bear. Sands of the scorpion. 2009. TB22546.Mission: survival; book 3. When Beck Granger and his friend, Peter , join Beck's Uncle Al for a holiday in Africa, they aren't expecting to be stranded in the Sahara Desert. But when they stumble upon a smuggling ring and have to bail out of a plane over the desert, Beck knows their chances of survival are slim. They must find their way back to civilisation.Read by John Sackville. 4 hours 19 minutes. TB22546.Hands, Julia. Smuggled diamonds. 2013. TB22525.Set in Majorca and Edinburgh, with an English brother (Steve) and sister (Becky) befriending a Majorcan girl (Maria) when they holiday in the old fishing village of Puerto Pollensa, Majorca. Steve and Maria chance upon a diamond smuggling gang while looking at some rare black vultures on the cliffs, and they're tied up in an island cave and left to drown. They escape and help Maria's brother, who's in the police, track the criminals down. Read by James Bryce. 11 hours 14 minutes. TB22525.Jones, Terry. The saga of Erik the Viking. 1988. TB22335.This is the tale of a Viking warrior by the name of Erik. But Erik is no ordinary Viking. With his trusty band of men he sets sail in search of the land where the sun goes at night – but he finds much more! The wicked treachery of the Old Man of the Sea, the beguiling evil of the Enchantress of the Fjord, the ruthless and cold -blooded fury of the Dogfighters, and the challenge of Death are among the hazardous encounters facing Erik the Viking.Read by Andy Secombe. 5 hours 7 minutes. TB22335.LaFleur, Suzanne M. Eight keys. 2012. TB22383.Eleven-year-old Elise feels stuck. Her school locker-buddy squashes her lunch and laughs at her every day. She doesn't want to go to school and her best friend Franklin just makes things worse. One day Elise discovers an incredible secret, a secret that might just help her unlock her past, and take a chance on the future. Read by Kelly Burke. 5 hours 23 minutes. TB22383.Landy, Derek. The dying of the light. 2014. TB22228.Skulduggery Pleasant ; book 9. Valkerie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The end will come. The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection. The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive.Read by Stephan Landy. 18 hours 30 minutes. TB22228.Lingard, Joan. The Chancery Lane conspiracy. 2010. TB22363.Elfie and Joe; book 2. When Elfie's best friend, Joe, starts work as a clerk in her father's office , Elfie is delighted. Unfortunately, Joe's not the only new person working in the lawyer's office in Chancery Lane. Mr Trelawney's bigoted partner Mr Basildon-Blunt takes an instant dislike to Joe and worse, he seems to have some hold over Elfie's father.Read by Joan Walker. 4 hours 52 minutes. TB22363.Lingard, Joan. The stolen sister. 2011. TB22365.Elfie and Joe; book 3. When Elfie's half sister, Rosalind, is kidnapped, a ransom of ?10,000 is demanded. Alfred, unable to find that kind of money, is forced to appeal to his cold father-in-law, Mr Clarendon-Smythe, a man who despises him and resents his presence in his family.Read by Joan Walker. 4 hours 38 minutes. TB22365.Marshall, Jill. Jane Blonde, twice the spylet. 2007. TB22281.Jane Blonde; book 3. Janey Brown thought she was an only child. Now 'Joanie' has turned up claiming to be Janey's secret twin. But when Jane Blonde is posted to Australia to investigate a suspicious sheep farm, it becomes clear that Joanie isn't quite what she seems. Has Janey exposed an undercover cloning operation? Soon Janey's dodging more than boomerangs: there are multispies on the loose – including Jane Blonde’s own evil twin! Read by Ruby Thomas. 5 hours 42 minutes. TB22281.Maryon, Kate. Shine. 2011. TB22327. Twelve-year-old Tiff loves her mum, Carla, who is glitzy and fun and always coming home with shiny new amazing stuff. The trouble is, Tiff's mum doesn't buy things, she takes them. The fact is, Tiff's mum is a thief. When Carla gets caught, Tiff’s shiny life is ruined. She's packed off to a remote island to live with Carla's family. A family her mum never even talks about and that Tiff has never even met! How can she survive in this dull, dull place? But the island of Sark isn't as awful as Tiff imagined it would be. The islanders are kind and honest and she's happy spending time with them. So three months later, when it's finally time for her mum to join her, Tiff can't help feeling more than a little bit worried.Read by Imogen Wilde. 3 hours 51 minutes. TB22327.Maryon, Kate. Glitter. 2011. TB22326. Liberty Parfitt’s family is super-rich but when her dad loses his job, she has to learn that not all that glitters is gold. Liberty is sure there's more to life than getting good exam results and earning lots of money. Unfortunately her rich, workaholic dad doesn't agree; he thinks Liberty's love for music is a waste of time. But when Dad loses his job and falls into a deep depression, Liberty's talent may be the one thing that can save him.Read by Juliette Burton. 5 hours 9 minutes. TB22326.Murray, Kirsty. The four seasons of Lucy McKenzie. 2013. TB22397.Lucy McKenzie can walk through walls. Sent to stay with her Aunt Big in a hidden valley, Lucy discovers the old house is full of mysteries. One hot night, she hears a voice calling from inside a painting on the dining-room wall...On the other side of the painting, Lucy meets three children. Together they race horses through the bush, battle fires and floods, and make friendships that will last a lifetime. But who are April, Tom and Jimmy Tiger, and what magic has drawn Lucy to them? 11-year-old Lucy travels across the river of time to fight fires, battle floodwaters and discover the meaning of true friendship.Read by Brigid Lohrey. 4 hours 43 minutes. TB22397.Owen, Joanne. The alchemist and the angel. 2011. TB22394.Everything changes for orphaned Jan when his beloved uncle, Gustav, enlists his help in a quest to create a life-generating serum. When Gustav dies suddenly, it's up to Jan to continue his work. But little does he know that his beautiful, calculating aunt dreams of using the serum for her own purposes - eternal life.Read by Philip Pope. 5 hours 59 minutes. TB22394.Philip, Gillian. The lost children. 2014. TB22366.Mysteries of Ravenstorm Island; book 1. When Molly and her little brother Jack visit their rich relatives on Ravenstorm Island, Molly feels immediately on edge. An elderly butler gives them bizarre warnings, eerie statues of children are dotted around the island, and - worse - she's expected to be friends with her moody cousin, Arthur. But things become much worse when Jack disappears - and no one else on the island remembers he ever existed! Molly and Arthur must work together to save Jack. Read by Annie Aldington. 4 hours 29 minutes. TB22366.Philip, Gillian. The ship of ghosts. 2015. TB22367.Mysteries of Ravenstorm Island; book 2. Molly and Arthur already know that Ravenstorm Island is alive with magical secrets. So they soon suspect that the appearance of a ghostly pirate ship might have something to do with the terrifying storms battering the island. What is the story behind the grudge between the pirates and Ravenstorm's gargoyle guardians? And can the children break an ancient curse in time to save the island? Read by Annie Aldington. 4 hours 5 minutes. TB22367.Pielichaty, Helena. Do goalkeepers wear tiaras? 2009. TB22279.Girls FC; book 1. Nine-year-old Megan Fawcett loves football and is desperate to be on her school team. She tries everything to get the coach to notice her, even wearing a tiara! But nothing works. Then she has a brainwave - she'll set up her own team. An all-girls team. Now all she needs is a pitch, a coach and ten other players. Read by Di Langford. 1 hour 40 minutes. TB22279.Pritchett, Georgia. Wilf the mighty worrier saves the world. 2015. TB22396.Things Wilf was worried about before: stuffed animals, peanut butter, creepy crawlies that have waggly feeler things instead of eyes. Things Wilf is worried about now: the most evil man in the world, the most evil man in the world living next door, anyone called Alan. When Alan, a self-styled Evil Lunatic, moves in next door with his grumpy robot sidekick and his silent right-hand-dog, Kevin Phillips, Wilf knows he will have to find a way to overcome his fears. And soon he realises: only he can stop Alan's ridiculous yet still Quite Evil plan to destroy the world. Read by Jilly Bond. 1 hour 54 minutes. TB22396.Steinh?fel, Andreas. The pasta detectives. 2010. TB22320.Rico is an unusual boy. Sometimes he's laughed at because he mixes things up in his head and he doesn't know his left from his right. But Rico is brilliant at noticing the little things that nobody else does. Like a piece of pasta lying on the pavement. Or the strange goings on of his neighbours in the apartment block where he lives. But it isn't until his new friend, the gifted but anxious Oscar is kidnapped that Rico gets the chance to put all his special skills and tenacity to the test. Read by Pip Brignall. 4 hours 39 minutes. TB22320.Stewart, Trenton Lee. The mysterious Benedict Society and the perilous journey. 2010. TB22043.Mysterious Benedict Society; book 2. It should have been a celebration party , but now it's another mind-bending mission for the children of the Mysterious Benedict Society. Join Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance, as they race across the globe by train, bicycle and ship to save their beloved Mr Benedict. It's a perilous journey that will test all their unusual talents. Read by Jeff Harding. 12 hours 50 minutes. TB22043.Walliams, David. Awful auntie. 2014. TB22236.From larger than life, tiddlywinks obsessed Awful Aunt Alberta to her pet owl, Wagner – this is an adventure with a difference. Aunt Alberta is on a mission to cheat the young Lady Stella Saxby out of her inheritance, Saxby Hall. But, with the help of Soot, the Cockney ghost of a chimney sweep alongside her, Stella is determined to fight back. And sometimes, a special friend, however different, is all you need to win through. Read by David Walliams. 5 hours 7 minutes. TB22236.Webb, Holly. Lily. 2011. TB22369.Lily; book 1. In a world where magic is outlawed, Lily runs wild and neglected. Once rich and powerful magicians, now Lily's family hide away in their crumbling house, while her older sister, Georgie, is trained secretly in magic. But when Lily discovers her parents' dark plan to use Georgie in a terrible plot to restore the country to its magical glory, she knows she must rescue her sister and flee. Read by Eilidh Beaton. 6 hours 10 minutes. TB22369.Webb, Holly. Lily and the shining dragons. 2012. TB22370.Lily; book 2. Lily and her sister, Georgie, are on the run. But in a world where magic is forbidden, two young magicians can't hide forever. Betrayed by someone they thought they could trust, Lily and Georgie find themselves trapped in a school where magical children are hidden away. But magic will always find a way and in the darkness, the shining dragons are stirring.Read by Eilidh Benton. 5 hours 47 minutes. TB22370.Webb, Holly. Lily and the prisoner of magic. 2012. TB22371.Lily; book 3. Lily and Georgie's father has been imprisoned for being a magician – and they must rescue him. Yet the hidden jail is protected by dark spells, and the girls' own magic isn't strong enough to break through. Searching for someone to help, Lily and Georgie voyage far from home, and find a powerful magician named Rose. But in a world of secrets, is she all that she seems? Read by Eilidh Benton. 5 hours 3 minutes. TB22371.Webb, Holly. Lily and the traitors' spell. 2013. TB22372.Lily; book 4. Having rescued their father from a terrible prison, Lily and Georgie now find themselves in greater trouble than ever. Their evil mother has filled Georgie with wicked spells and means to use her as an unwilling weapon to execute a deadly plot against the Royal Family. Lily must join forces with her father and friends to overcome evil. But faced with such powerful dark magicians, can they really hope to succeed?Read by Eilidh Benton. 4 hours 55 minutes. TB22372.Willoughby, Holly. First term at L'Etoile. 2013. TB22373.School for Stars ; book 1. On the first day of term at L'Etoile, School for Stars, twins Maria and Molly Fitzfoster meet Pippa Burrows who's won a song-writing scholarship to the school. The talented trio share the same dreams of super-stardom and become best friends. But will their friendship stand up against Lucifette Marciano's plans to wreck their chances and claim fame for herself?Read by Katie Pattinson. 3 hours 17 minutes. TB22373.Willoughby, Holly. Second term at L'Etoile. 2013. TB22374.School for Stars; book 2. Christmas is over and Molly, Maria and Pippa are back for their second term at L'Etoile, the exclusive School for Stars. They are reunited for another term full of fun and surprises. A midnight mystery, a precious lost rose, centenary celebrations, a playful puppy with a twinkle in its eyes, and a royal visit are just some of the things that make them friends for ever.Read by Katie Pattinson. 3 hours 19 minutes. TB22374.Willoughby, Holly. Third term at L'Etoile. 2014. TB22375.School for Stars ; book 3. Molly, Maria and Pippa are back at L'Etoile, the exclusive School for Stars, and there are plenty of new adventures in store for them. A television show comes to school and plans are afoot for a glittering end of term charity fundraiser. But there's never an adventure without a drama at L'Etoile, and with Molly's Hollywood audition, the dreaded summer exams and the return of Lucifette Marciano with her truly hideous friend , we're just not sure how the girls are going to survive.Read by Katie Pattinson. 3 hours 26 minutes. TB22375.Suggested reading age 11+Dennis, H L. The power of three. 2012. TB22384.Secret breakers; book 1. When Brodie Bray receives a coded message through the post her life changes for ever. She's drawn into a secret code and cipher society trying to crack the most complicated code in the world. Together with her new friends, Brodie must break the rules to break the code.Read by Natalie Castka. 7 hours 55 minutes. TB22384.Dennis, H L. Orphan of the flames. 2012. TB22385.Secret breakers ; book 2. A secret hidden in music, an orphan of the flames, a letter written in symbols. How do these connect to the ancient coded manuscript no one can read? Brodie, Hunter and Tusia have been chosen to break the most mysterious code in the world.Read by Natalie Castka. 8 hours 17 minutes. TB22385.Suggested reading age 13+Hoyle, Tom. Thirteen. 2014. TB22386.Thirteen; book 1. Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their 13th year. 12 boys have been killed so far. Coron, the crazy cult leader, will stop at nothing to bring in his new kingdom. And now he is planning a bombing spectacular across London to celebrate the sacrifice of his final victim: Adam.Read by Steve Hodson. 8 hours 11 minutes. TB22386.Hoyle, Tom. Spiders. 2014. TB22387.Thirteen; book 2. Adam may have survived once, but a cult still has him in its sights. And this time he may not escape with his life. Abbie's dad is an undercover agent, tasked with exposing dangerous cults. He's normally able to maintain his distance, but this time Abbie's worried he's in too deep. Megan was sure she and Adam were safe, but now he's gone missing on a school ski trip in Scotland and she's the only one who can help him. Read by Steve Hodson. 7 hours 17 minutes. TB22387.Hepburn, Sam. If you were me. 2015. Thriller. TB21961.Not long after Aliya's family escapes Afghanistan for Britain, her brother is accused of a bomb attack. Aliya is sure of his innocence, but when plumber's son Dan finds a gun in their bathroom, what's she to think? Dan has his own reasons for staying silent: he's worried the gun might have something to do with his dad. Thrown together by chance, they set out to uncover a tangled and twisted truth. Read by Avita Jay and Pip Brignall. 9 hours 51 minutes. TB21961.Lange, Erin Jade. Dead ends. 2014. TB22393.Dane Washington and Billy D couldn't be more different. Dane is a bully. He says he has 'standards': he doesn't hit girls, and he doesn't hit special ed kids. Billy D is too kind to hit anyone. He has Down syndrome and hangs out with teachers in his lunch break. But one chance encounter leads them to realise that they have more in common than they think.Contains swear words Read by Peter Brooke. 8 hours 36 minutes. TB22393.Roth, Veronica. Insurgent. 2012. TB22199.The divergent trilogy; book 2. "I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am." Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead. Read by Emma Galvin. 11 hours 24 minutes. TB22199.Roth, Veronica. Allegiant. 2013. TB22200. The divergent trilogy; book 3. The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered, fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature, and of herself, while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.Read by Emma Galvin and Aaron Stanford. 11 hours 53 minutes. TB22200.Sky, Sarah. Code red lipstick. 2014. TB22341.Jessica Cole, model spy; book 1. Jessica Cole is just your average teenager, except when she's strutting down the glamorous catwalks of Paris. When her father, a former spy, vanishes mysteriously, Jessica takes matters into her own hands. She's not just good at striking a pose, she's going to take on MI6 and beat them at their own game. Following her father's trail, Jessica's investigation lands her hot on the heels of a deranged former supermodel, Allegra Knight, who plans to unleash mayhem on an unsuspecting teenage population with the launch of her new miracle face cream, Teenosity.Read by Phoebe McIntosh. 6 hours 1 minute. TB22341.Smale, Holly. Picture perfect. 2014. TB22233.Geek girl ; book 3. Harriet Manners knows more facts than most. She knows that New York is the most populous city in the United States. She knows that its official motto is 'Ever Upward'. She knows that one in 38 people living in the US lives there. But she knows nothing whatsoever about modelling in the Big Apple and how her family will cope with life stateside. Or 'becoming a brand' as the models in New York say. And even more importantly, what to do when the big romantic gestures coming your way aren't from your boyfriend. Does geek girl go too far this time? Read by Katy Sobey. 8 hours 2 minutes. TB22233.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 5+PoetryAgard, John. Goldilocks on CCTV. 2014. TB22349."There she was on the news, Miss Goody Two-Shoes, caught on CCTV. Don't look so shocked! Of course you know who." Here are some amazing poems which are rooted in the world of fairy tale and legend. Wickedly witty, deliciously subversive and utterly modern, the poems are also affectionate and big -hearted tributes to the original tales and characters that inspired them. Read by Andy Secombe. 32 minutes. TB22349.Rearchived titles newly available in Daisy formatAdult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyFitzgerald, Penelope. The Knox brothers: Edmund ('Evoe'), 1881-1971, Dillwyn, 1883-1943, Wilfred, 1886-1950, Ronald 1888-1957. 1977. TB3318. Edmund Knox, Penelope Fitzgerald’s father, was one of the most successful editors of Punch. Dillwyn, a Cambridge Greek scholar, was the first to crack the Nazi's message decoding system, Enigma, and in so doing, is estimated to have shortened the Second World War by six months. Wilfred became an Anglo -Catholic priest and an active welfare worker in the East End of London. Ronald, the best known of the four during his lifetime, was Roman Catholic chaplain to Oxford University's student body, preacher, wit, scholar, crime-writer and translator of the Bible. Read by John Richmond. 12 hours 40 minutes. TB3318. More, Kenneth. More or less. 1978. TB3459. The actor Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. His father died when he was 17 and he applied to join the RAF, but failed the medical test for equilibrium. He went to Canada, intending to work as a fur trapper, but was sent back for lacking immigration papers. He became a film and stage actor, appearing in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gentand here he tells the story of his vivid and varied life.Read by Garard Green. 10 hours 3 minutes. TB3459.Children and young adult fiction Suggested reading age 7+Bull, Angela. Griselda. 1977. TB3294.Charlotte had never before had a friend like Griselda; separated by circumstances, they never ceased to look for each other. Charlotte was determined to find out what had happened to her special friend.Read by Carol Marsh. 6 hours 44 minutes. TB3294.Suggested reading age 9+Mayne, William. It. 1977. TB3308.A young English girl encounters a disturbing restless spirit which she doesn't understand but knows she can put to rest. Eleven-year-old Alice Dyson, looking at her home town from a distance, spies a hill she didn’t know existed, and resolves to explore it. At the top she finds an ancient, faintly-carved stone, similar in shape and design to three crosses that mark the boundaries of the town. Digging idly in the mud beneath it, Alice finds a dark hole. She puts her hand in - and feels another hand grasp it. When she withdraws her hand, she still feels the presence of that other hand; hers is “still haunted by what had held it”.Read by Carol Marsh. 6 hours 59 minutes. TB3308.Pearce, Philippa. Minnow on the say. 1955. TB3402.It's a great discovery. Right there, at the bottom of the garden, bobbing on the river, is a canoe. The Minnow. David can't help wishing he could keep her. The Minnow leads him to Adam, and an extraordinary summer begins. Armed with a mysterious, ancient clue, the two boys set out along the river by boat. They're determined to find the legendary lost treasure, hidden by one of Adam's ancestors hundreds of years before. But they are not the only people looking for treasure, and soon they are caught in a dangerous race against time. Read by Andrew Timothy. 8 hours 17 minutes. TB3402.Suggested reading age 11+Hamilton-Paterson, James. Hostage! 1978. TB3369.Mistakenly kidnapped by a guerrilla group, the son of an American oil executive discovers that as the weeks of his captivity pass he is less and less sure which side he wants to be on. Tewfiz and his fellow guerrillas kidnapped Wayne in mistake for his friend; then they decided to use him as a hostage and that was the start of a week of terror he was never to forget.Read by Malcolm Ruthven. 6 hours 32 minutes. TB3369.Books narrated by volunteersAdult fictionBinchy, Maeve. The return journey. 2010. Short stories. TB405396.This is a collection of Maeve Binchy's bestselling short stories about journeys with a special significance. A secretary’s silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man and a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each other's bags.7 hours 56 minutes. TB405396.McNab, Claire. Fall guy. 2004. Crime. TB405401.When Milton Ryce plunges to his death while sky diving, no one seems particularly surprised to find that he was murdered. D I Carol Ashton finds a long list of possible murderers. Then an elaborate practical joke is played out at Milton's funeral by his son, Ted, and more evidence begins piling up against him. Carol must act quickly to find out if Ted is indeed his father's killer or if he is simply being set up as yet another 'fall guy'.6 hours 20 minutes. TB405401.Simpson, Dorothy. Element of doubt. 1988. Crime. TB405394.Inspector Thanet; book 7. Mrs Nerine Tarrant has everything a woman could wish for, but when her body is discovered below the balcony of her country home, there is no shortage of suspects.8 hours 2 minutes. TB405394.Simpson, Dorothy. No laughing matter. 1994. Crime. TB405395.Inspector Thanet; book 12. Inspector Luke Thanet investigates the grisly death of Zak Randish, winemaker and owner of the Sturrenden Vineyard, whose jugular vein was severed when he was forced through a window pane.7 hours 2 minutes. TB405395.Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyLengyel, Olga. Five chimneys: the story of Auschwitz. 1972. TB405390.Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau. In a letter to Lengyel, Albert Einstein said, "You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten speak."7 hours 27 minutes. TB405390.Hobbies and gamesPritchard, D. Brine. The right way to play chess. 2008. TB405391.Since its first publication in 1950, The Right Way to Play Chess has taught chess to generations of beginners, taking them to the standard expected of good club players. It gives full details of exactly how to play the game, explains basic theory and includes many examples of play. Fully revised and updated by chess expert Richard James, a new chapter shows how to encourage and teach children to play the game.10 hours 6 minutes. TB405391.LiteratureShippey, Tom. Roots and Branches. 2007. TB405393.Professor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Over the years, he has written and lectured widely on Tolkien-related topics. The current volume unites a selection of his older essays together with some new articles.20 hours 41 minutes. TB405393.Yorke, John. Into the woods: how stories work and why we tell them. 2014. TB405404.We all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? John Yorke, creator of the BBC Writers' Academy, has brought a vast array of drama to British screens. Here he takes us on a journey to the heart of storytelling, revealing that there truly is a unifying shape to narrative forms, one that echoes the fairytale journey into the woods and, like any great art, comes from deep within. 10 hours 5 minutes. TB405404.PoliticsCronin, James E. New Labour's pasts: the Labour Party and its discontents. 2004. TB405388.New Labour has changed the face of Britain. Culture, class, education, health, the arts, leisure, the economy have all seen seismic shifts since the 1997 election that raised Blair to power. Cronin covers the full history of the party from its post war triumph through decades of shambolic leadership against ruthless and organised opposition to the resurgent New Labour of the 90s that finally took Britain into the new millennium.32 hours 14 minutes. TB405388.Seymour, Miranda. Noble endeavours: the life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories. 2013. TB405392.Nothing about the story of England and Germany is as simple as we might expect. A shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture. Miranda Seymour has written a rich and heart-breaking story: the extraordinary history, told through the lives of kings and painters, soldiers and sailors, sugar-bakers and bankers, crooks and saints, of two countries entwined.22 hours 34 minutes. TB405392.Williams, Zoe. Get it together: why we deserve better politics. 2015. TB405403.We all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively. Zoe addresses key questions including: has the NHS had its day; has an immigrant stolen your job; have you ever wondered why you can't afford a house; and who got us into this mess anyway? She offers up, in answer, a combination of fact, opinion and debate.12 hours 54 minutes. TB405403.ReligionIkeda, Daisaku. Unlocking the mysteries of birth and death: and everything in between. 2003. TB405397.This introduction to Nichiren Buddhism explores the philosophical intricacies of life and reveals the wonder inherent in the phases of birth, aging, and death. Core concepts of Nichiren Buddhism, such as the ten worlds and the nine consciousnesses, illustrate the profundity of human existence.8 hours 25 minutes. TB405397.Self helpKharitidi, Olga. Entering the circle: ancient secrets of Siberian wisdom discovered by a Russian psychiatrist. 1997. TB405399.Olga’s book is an account of her spiritual adventure in snowbound Siberia. Joining a friend on a trip to the Atai Mountains, Dr. Kharitidi is taken into apprenticeship by a native Shaman who guides her through bizarre, magical, and often terrifying experiences that open her eyes to a wellspring of deeper learning. 8 hours 53 minutes. TB405399.Warfare and defenceWakefield, Alan. Under the devil's eye: the British military experience in Macedonia 1915-18. 2011. TB405402.'The Devil's Eye' was the soldiers' name for the infamous Bulgarian observation post overlooking the British line at Doiran. The troops who fought in the Balkans, especially the British contingent, became a forgotten army and this book tells individuals' stories of camp life set against a wider perspective.16 hours 39 minutes. TB405402.Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 11+Beer, Bobs. Flight By Moonlight. 2015. TB405389.Seven-year-old Petros and his family lived in the Netherlands at a time of great danger. Their Spanish king was Catholic and wanted to rid his country of "heretics". Petros and his family were Protestant, in 1567 they fled to the safety of Norfolk. Pursued by the brutal Duke of Alva and his army, Petros comes up against thieves, pirates and other perils on his journey to safety.2 hours 5 minutes. TB405389.Suggested reading age 13+McKenzie, Sophie. Defy the stars. 2014. TB405400.Falling fast; book 4. Everyone thinks that River is building a future without Flynn. She has almost convinced herself that she is moving on. And then, one day, Flynn is back, bringing with him tales of his glamorous new life. River suspects his lucrative new work involves some form of criminal activity, will she let herself be drawn back into Flynn's world? Or is this the end of the line? 6 hours 30 minutes. TB405400.Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 9+Ocean. Children's encyclopaedia. 2013. TB405398. Discover the world's ocean and beyond with this highly visual encyclopaedia. Includes detailed information about coral reefs, seashores and marine life.6 hours 14 minutes. TB405398.DAISY Made to OrderDAISY Made to Order titles are packaged in a clear DVD case and are priced at ?9.99 each.For those who like to explore the Star Wars universe, we have the three titles that make up Timothy Zahn’s The Thrawn Trilogy:Heir to the Empire: Order no. 806210 (13 hours 10 minutes)Dark Force Rising: Order no. 806211 (14 hours 43 minutes)The Last Command: Order no. 806212 (16 hours 02 minutes)The following 3 titles were shortlisted for The 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction:A spool of blue thread by Anne Tyler: Order no. 806000 (12 hours 27 minutes)A little life by Hanya Yanagihara: Order no. 805997 (33 hours 46 minutes)The fishermen by Chigozie Obioma: Order no. 806102 (10 hours 20 minutes)Also new to our Made to Order range:44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith: Order no. 806046 (12 hours 47 minutes)How to be a woman by Caitlin Moran: Order no. 806045 (10 hours 6 minutes)Me before you by JoJo Moyes: Order no. 803440 (13 hours 1 minute)Armageddon's children by Terry Brooks: Order no. 802395 (13 hours 47 minutes)The vanishing point by Val McDermid: Order no. 804408 (13 hours 50 minutes)Paper towns by John Green: Order no. 805088 (9 hours 4 minutes) ................
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