New books
Issue 43
January 2015
Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.
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Adult fiction
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Biography
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History
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Poetry
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Talking books
Adult fiction
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Children and young adult fiction
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Braille
All titles are for loan and sale unless otherwise stated.
Adult fiction
A champagne Christmas. 2013. Romance.
Containing three full-length modern Christmas novels, A Champagne
Christmas: The Christmas Love-Child, The Christmas Night Miracle, The
Italian Billionaire's Christmas. Stories of passionate romances in
glamorous international settings.
9v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24836405.
Abercrombie, Joe.The blade itself. 2007. Fantasy.
The first law; book 1. Inquisitor Glokta, a cripple turned torturer, would like
nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. Cutting treason out
of the heart of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for
friendships - and his trail of corpses could lead him straight to the rotten
heart of the government.
10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24689802.
Abercrombie, Joe. Before they are hanged. 2008. Fantasy.
The first law; book 2. Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen
north. In the south the Gurkish are massing to assault the city of Dagoska,
defended by Inquisitor Glokta. And to the east a small band of malefactors
travel to the edge of the world to reclaim a device from history - a Seed,
hidden for generations - with tremendous destructive potential.
10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24938403.
Abercrombie, Joe. Last argument of kings. 2009. Fantasy.
The first law; book 3. While the King of the Union lies on his deathbead,
the peasants revolt and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. The First
of the Magi has a plan to save the world, as he always does. But there are
risks. There is no risk more terrible, after all, than to break the First Law.
12v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24938503.
Binchy, Maeve. Chestnut Street. 2014. Short stories.
Here, the lives of the Chestnut Street’s residents are revealed: Bucket
Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to
protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for
six weeks every summer and turns Nessa's world upside down.
6v. £18.99. Order No: 24944103.
Cartwright, Justin. Lion heart. 2013. General fiction.
Richie Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart.
His father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and
found a document which was to prove this. He embarks on a quest of his
own to find the True Cross - and to discover whether or not everything in
his father's mind was a fantasy.
5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24939003.
Court, Dilly. A loving family. 2014. Family stories.
Stella Barry is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies
at sea and the family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. A year later,
Stella walks to London with a cake for her mother for mothering Sunday.
But she discovers the family has disappeared.
7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24938003.
Cussler, Clive. The Mayan secrets. 2013. Thriller.
A Fargo adventure; book 5. Husband and wife team Sam and Remi
Fargo are in Mexico when they come upon an astonishing discovery – the
skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a
Mayan book. The book contains astonishing information about the
Mayans, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some
people would do anything to possess them.
5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24937603.
Daly, Paula. Just what kind of mother are you? 2014.
Thriller.
She's gone and it's your fault. You were supposed to be watching your
best friend's daughter, and now she's missing. But you know that she's not
just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the second girl to be
abducted within a fortnight. You're going to have to figure out - who did it.
Because if you don't you'll never forgive yourself.
5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24944203.
Donoghue, Emma. Frog music. 2014. Historical fiction.
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have
engulfed the city. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars
of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of
Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric
outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and
leaving one of them dead.
7v. Price: £16.99. Order: 24944603.
Fforde, Katie. The perfect match. 2014. Romance.
Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart
over Dominic, the man she fell in love with but couldn't have. Now she's
made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent.
Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil. And when Dominic
turns up unexpectedly in search of his dream house, she begins to wonder
if home is really where the heart is. But she's over him, isn't she?
5v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24944803.
Goodwin, Rosie. Home front girls. 2013. Family stories.
Dotty, Lucy and Annabelle all turn up for work at Coventry's department
store at the same time as war is declared. Dotty has never known a life
outside of the orphanage where she grew up. Lucy is the sole carer of her
little sister. Annabelle has led a life of privilege but everyone's having to
pinch the pennies at the moment. As the trials and devastating effects of
war come to bear on the three women, their bond deepens.
7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24944903.
Griffiths, Elly. The outcast dead. 2014. Crime fiction.
Ruth Galloway; book 6. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has
excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle. She believes the
body may be that of infamous Victorian murderess Mother Hook, hanged
in 1867 for the murder of five children in her care. Immersed in the case of
three dead infants, DCI Harry Nelson is convinced that a family member is
responsible. Then a child goes missing. Could the abduction be linked to
the long-dead Mother Hook?
5v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24944703.
Harry, Lilian. Moonlight and lovesongs. 1998. Family stories.
April Grove; book 4. As the Second World War enters its final year, the
spirit of the close -knit community in April Grove, Portsmouth refuses to
die. Teenager Carol Glaister, forced to give up her baby son, becomes
increasingly obsessed by the need to find him again. Ambitious, sexy
Diane Shaw leaves the aviation factory for a career in the WAAFs but
discovers she is up against far more than she bargained for – in both work
and love. And Olive Harker struggles to stay true to a husband she has
barely seen since the war began, her love challenged in a way she would
never have dreamed possible.
9v. Price: £2.60. Order No: 25004603.
Jewell, Lisa. The house we grew up in. 2013. General fiction.
One Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family. It is so devastating
that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass
and the children become adults and it's almost as though they've never
been a family at all. But something has happened that will call them home,
back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that
Easter weekend all those years ago.
6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24928303.
Jensen, Martin. The king's hounds. 2013. Historical fiction.
1018. Halfdan, half Danish, half Saxon, finds an unlikely ally in Winston, a
former monk. When the pair's arrival in court coincides with news of a
murder, the king enlists their help. In their search for the killer, Halfdan
and Winston find seduction, adventure, and scandal in the wild early days
of Cnut's rule.
5v. Price: £8.82. Order No: 24938203.
Kane, Ben. Spartacus: Rebellion. 2013. Historical fiction.
Spartacus; book 2. Continuing the epic story of Spartacus, this is a novel
about one of the most extraordinary turning points in history, in which one
remarkable man found immortality and became a legend.
8v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24918403.
King, Stephen. Christine. 2011. Horror.
Christine, a '58 Plymouth Fury, was broken down but not finished. She
was Arnie's obsession; Christine was eating into his mind, borrowing into
his unconscious. There was still power in her - a frightening power that
leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that
corroded and turned ownership into possession.
11v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24943903.
King, Stephen. IT. 2011. Horror.
It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly
different. Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget.
Until they are called back, one more to confront IT as it stirs, reaching up
again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
24v. Price: £8.99. Order: 25063703.
Lane, Harriet. Alys, always. 2012. General fiction.
Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her routine, colourless
existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the
aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte.
When Alys's family makes contact in an attempt to find closure, Frances is
given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one of privilege and
possibility.
4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24944503.
Lawrence, Mark. Prince of Thorns. 2012. Fantasy.
Broken empire; book 1. From being a privileged royal child, Jorg Ancrath
has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim
band of outlaws. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but
there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's
castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24938803.
Lawrence, Mark. King of thorns. 2013. Fantasy.
Broken empire; book 2. A six nation army marches toward Jorg's gates,
led by a champion beloved of the people. Every decent man prays this
shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. But King Jorg is not
a good king. Faced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that
he cannot win a fair fight. But playing fair was never part of Jorg’s plan.
7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24938903.
Lawrence, Mark. Emperor of thorns. 2014. Fantasy.
Broken empire; book 3. I will take the throne no matter who stands against
me, living or dead, and if I must be the last emperor then I will make of it
such an ending. These are the last miles, my brothers. Don't look to me to
save you. Follow me, and I will break your heart.
7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24938603.
Leonard, Elmore. The complete Western stories of Elmore
Leonard. 2007. Short stories.
Set mainly in Arizona in the 1880s, these stories capture the Spanish
influence, and the stand-offs and shoot-outs between Apache Indians and
the US cavalry at that time.
10v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24908205.
Also available in uncontracted braille. 13v. Order No: 24908203.
MacBride, Stuart. Blind eye. 2010. Crime fiction.
DS Logan McRae; book 5. Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under
attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered
on building sites – eyes gouged out and the sockets burned.
8v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24940103.
McCaffrey, Anne. Restoree. 1970. Science fiction.
Sara is walking in Central Park, when she is suddenly overcome by the
smell of dead sea creatures, blackness and memories of excruciating
pain, severed bodies and dismembered limbs. When she awakes she
finds that she is no longer in her own body. She has become a Restoree.
5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24979003.
Mallory, Sarah. Lady beneath the veil. 2014. Romance.
When Gideon Albury lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes this dark-haired dab of a girl isn't the blonde beauty he's been courting!
Stunned, Gideon resolves to seek an annulment at the earliest
opportunity, but to do so he must first make sure Dominique Rainault's
virtue stays intact... But despite their good intentions the marital bed
beckons - and a stolen kiss could prove to be their undoing!
5v. Price: £4.99. Order No: 24898305.
Also available in uncontracted braille. Order No: 24898303.
May, Peter. The blackhouse. 2011. Crime fiction.
Lewis trilogy; book 1 A Brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis.
Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something
sinister. As Detective Fin Macleod investigates, old skeletons begin to
surface, and soon he, the hunter, becomes the hunted.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24941303.
May, Peter. The Lewis man. 2012. Crime fiction.
Lewis trilogy; book 2. A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of
Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be
over 2,000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24979203.
May, Peter. The chess men. 2013. Crime fiction.
Lewis trilogy; book 3. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately
owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal gamehunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler
Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a
long-buried secret.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24979103.
May, Peter. Entry Island. 2014. Crime fiction.
Travelling as part of an investigation team, Sime Mackenzie's destination
lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only two kilometres wide and three long,
Entry Island is home to a population of around 130: the wealthiest of which
has just been discovered murdered.
7v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24940503.
Mills, Mark. The long shadow. 2014.Thriller.
When screenwriter, Ben Makepeace, is invited up to Stoneham Park in
Oxfordshire to meet someone who wants to bankroll his latest script, he
jumps at the chance. Victor Sheldon is a hedge fund billionaire yet when
Ben meets him he's bemused, for Victor is actually old school friend
Daniel, last seen some 25 years ago. Ben soon finds himself caught up in
a vicious endgame with roots buried deep in the past of his childhood.
6v. Price: £7.99 Order No: 24927603
Moran, Caitlin. How to build a girl. 2014. General fiction.
It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV
that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and
reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero
and full -time Lady Sex Adventurer! But what happens when Johanna
realises she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall
full of posters and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl?
6v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 24941203.
Moyes, Jojo. The one plus one. 2014. Romance.
Suppose your life sucks. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your
stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime
opportunity - that you can't afford to pay for. So imagine you found and
kept some money that didn't belong to you, knowing it would pay for your
daughter's happiness. But how do you cope with the shame? Especially
when the man you've lied to decides to help you out in your hour of need.
7v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 24979303.
Patterson, James. First love. 2014. Romance.
When Axi spontaneously invites Robinson to come with her on an
impulsive cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in
her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree to out of control after
the teens find themselves on the run from the police. And when Robinson
suddenly collapses, Axi has to face the truth that this trip might be his last.
3v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 24978603.
Pelecanos, George P. The double. 2013. Crime fiction.
Spero Lucas; book 2. Spero is trying to find a painting belonging to a sexy
young woman who was scammed out of it by a super-smooth con artist,
part of a team of ruthless thugs. Spero tracks the painting down but the
woman is brutally attacked to warn him off. Spero goes on the attack and
takes the gang out one by one in their isolated house in the woods prompting the question: have his experiences in Iraq turned him into an
amoral killer no better than the crooks he's up against?
4v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24927503.
Pratchett, Terry. Raising steam. 2013. Fantasy.
Discworld ; book 40. Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork - Discworld's first
steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself
with a new and challenging job.
6v.Price: £20.00. Order No: 24978903.
Renault, Mary. The charioteer: a novel. 2013. General fiction.
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is
sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he
befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as
an orderly. Soon their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance.
7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24925703.
Robb, J D. Concealed in death. 2014. Crime fiction.
In death series; book 38. When billionaire Roarke knocks down a wall on
his new property, he uncovers the body of a girl. In fact, 12 dead girls
concealed behind a false wall. Luckily for Roarke, he is married to the best
police lieutenant in town. Eve Dallas is determined to find the killer especially when she discovers that the building used to be a sanctuary for
delinquent teenagers.
6v. Price; £18.99.Order No: 24899103.
Roberts, Nora. Black Hills. 2010. Thriller.
Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan pretty much the first time she
saw him. Each year, with Coop's summer visit, their friendship deepens but then abruptly ends. Now they must work together to unearth a killer of
twisted and unnatural instincts who has singled them out as prey.
8v. £6.99. Order No: 24978503.
Sebag Montefiore, Simon. One night in winter. 2014. General
fiction.
Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler,
shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But
this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the
children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive
school in Moscow.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24928103.
Schaefer, Jack. Shane. 1983. Western.
In this classic tale, a 15-year-old boy tells the story of the mysterious,
foreboding stranger who rides into the Starretts' Wyoming ranch in the
summer of 1889.
3v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24986303.
Weeks, Brent. The blinding knife. 2013. Fantasy.
The light bringer series; book 2 Gavin Guile is dying. As he loses control
of his magic, all magic is running wild, threatening to destroy the Seven
Satrapies. The old gods are being reborn. The only salvation may be the
brother whose freedom and life Gavin stole 16 years ago.
14v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24941403.
Winspear, Jacqueline. Leaving everything most loved. 2014.
Crime fiction.
Maisie Dobbs; book 10. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by
an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out
who killed his sister two months ago. The case becomes even more
challenging when another Indian woman is murdered just hours before a
scheduled interview.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order no: 24940903.
Adult non-fiction
Biography
Beacom, Brian. The real Mrs Brown: the Brendan O'Carroll
story. 2014.
This is the magical story of how a loveable Irishman with a wig and a wit
as caustic as battery acid surprised everyone - most of all himself - by
becoming one of the best-loved comedians in the world.
4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24979403.
Mackenzie, Tom H. The last foundling. 2014.
A deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the
Foundling Hospital, London. It stands as a testament to the love that
ultimately led a family back together.
4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24941003.
Martin, Guy. Guy Martin: my autobiography. 2014.
In his own words, this is Guy Martin's full story - from the boy who learned
to prep bikes with his dad, to the spirited team mechanic, paying his way
by collecting glasses, to the young racer at the start of his first race and
the buzz he's been chasing ever since.
6v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24998803.
Nolan, Coleen. No regrets. 2014.
Coleen's first memoir was embraced by the nation. Her life since has been
splashed across the tabloids. Coleen reveals the truth behind the
headlines, sharing her most intimate fears and hopes for the future.
4v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24978703.
Northup, Solomon. 12 years a slave: a true story. 2014.
Born a free man in New York State, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in
Washington, DC in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a
Louisiana cotton plantation, during this time. Against all odds, Northup
eventually manages to get word to his family. The ensuing rescue and
legal cases are no less shocking and intriguing than the rest of the tale.
6v. Price: £2.50. Order No: 24939903.
Prentis, Evelyn. A nurse and mother: my life as a post-war
nurse. 2012.
At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy
Street their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children.
Soon Evelyn realised she had to find work to make ends meet, and to her
astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital.
4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24978103.
Health and fitness
Marsh, Henry. Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain
surgery. 2014.
In this powerful, gripping and brutally honest account, one of the country's
top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in the face of the life-anddeath situations he encounters daily.
5v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24940203.
Magnusson, Sally. Where memories go: why dementia
changes everything. 2014.
Sally Magnusson cared with her two sisters for her mother, Mamie, during
her long struggle with dementia, until her death in 2012. This moving and
honest account of losing a loved one day by day to an insidious disease is
both deeply personal and a challenging call to arms.
5v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24941103.
History
Corrigan, Gordon. Waterloo: a new history of the battle and
its armies. 2014.
This history of the Battle of Waterloo details the campaign and the battle,
its armies and their commanders, and brings fresh insight to this epic
conflict.
7v. Price: £30.00. Order No: 24928703.
Harding, Thomas. Hanns and Rudolf: the German Jew and
the hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz. 2014.
Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators of the British
War Crimes Investigation Team, Rudolf Hoss, the Kommandant of
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, his most elusive target. In this book
Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account
of Hoss' capture.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24915803.
Higgins, Charlotte. Under another sky: journeys in Roman
Britain. 2014.
What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical
remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in
story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins has traced these tales by
setting out to discover the remains of Roman Britain for herself.
6v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24938303.
Travel and tourism
Fermor, Patrick Leigh. The broken road: from the Iron Gates
to Mount Athos. 2013.
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first
two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that
Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland
to Constantinople. This book completes the extraordinary journey.
7v. Price: £25.00. Order No: 24917403.
Poetry
Dante Alighieri. The divine comedy. 2013.
The divine comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a
guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love,
Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven.
8v. Price: £25.00. Order No: 24928603.
Transport
Holland, Julian. Britain's lost railways. 2013.
Exploring Britain's Lost Railways gives the historical background to 50
lost railway lines, along with details of the route today and clear directions
for the walker and cyclist.
5v. Price: £30.00. Order No: 24938703.
Porter, Richard. Top Gear epic failures: 50 great motoring
cock-ups. 2014.
The automotive industry is responsible for some of the most beautiful
designs ever to grace the face of the planet. But it's had its fair share of
bad days at the office too. The list of great motoring cock-ups of our time
is a long and distinguished one - and the time has come to name and
shame.
1v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24979503.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
Pichon, Liz. A tiny bit lucky. 2014.
Tom Gates; book 6. Me, Derek and Norman need some serious band
practice for the Rockwekly bandbattle audition. But I'm not panicking
because we have loads of time ... (I think?).
Uncontracted braille. 2v. Price: £10.99. Order No: 24978203.
Suggested reading age 13+
Green, John. The fault in our stars. 2013.
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few
years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter
inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus
Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is
about to be completely rewritten.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24927803.
Lake, Nick. Hostage three. 2014. Thriller.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing: a girl on a yacht with her super-rich banker
father; a chance for the family to heal after a turbulent time. But as a group
of Somali pirates seize the boat, the family becomes a commodity in a
highly sophisticated transaction.
UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24916503.
Smale, Holly. Model misfit. 2013.
Geek girl; book 2. Harriet knows that modelling won't transform you. She
knows that being as uniquely odd as a polar bear isn't necessarily a bad
thing (even in a rainforest). And that the average person eats a ton of food
a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this.
What Harriet doesn't know is where she's going to fit in once the new baby
arrives. With summer plans ruined, modelling in Japan seems the perfect
chance to get as far away from home as possible. Can geek girl find her
place on the other side of the world or is Harriet lost for good?
UEB2. 5v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24986603.
Suggested reading age 15+
Meehan, Gary. True fire. 2014. Fantasy.
Megan discovers a terrifying truth - that the destruction of her old life is
inextricably linked to her unborn child. The feared witch soldiers,
vanquished a generation ago, have returned to see the fulfilment of a
prophecy: one that will put Megan and her new friends at the heart of the
greatest war her world has ever known.
Uncontracted UEB. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24978003.
Music
Music tuition CDs
For UK loan only.
Performed and taught by Bill Brown, the following audio tutorials are
designed for people who cannot read music. Each piece is broken down
into chunks which are then played and explained, building up to being able
to play the piece as a whole.
Piano by ear
Late beginner level
The Skater's Waltz by Waldteufel.
He Hears Me: a lesson on the style of Hilary Weeks.
Frosty the Snowman.
Hallelujah Chorus by Handel.
O Holy Night.
O Come All Ye Faithful.
Intermediate level
Trumpet Tune by Jeremiah Clarke.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Trumpet Voluntary by Purcell.
Theme from Handel’s Water Music.
Theme to Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, op. 23 by
Tchaikovsky.
Guitar by ear
Level 1
Hallelujah: a lesson in the style of Leonard Cohen.
China Grove: a lesson in the style of The Doobie Brothers /.
Everybody Talks: a lesson in the style of Blink 182.
Level 1.5
Listen to the music: a lesson in the style of The Doobie
Brothers.
Level 2
Sweet Home Chicago: a lesson on the style of Luther
Tucker.
Level 2.5
Mambo Number 5: a lesson in the style of Carlos BarbosaLima.
Windy and Warm: a lesson in the style of Chet Atkins.
City of New Orleans: a lesson in the style of Chet Atkins.
Level 3
Caravan: a lesson in the style of The Ventures.
I'll see you in my dreams: a lesson in the style of Django
Reinhardt.
Giant print – 24 point
Adult fiction
A champagne Christmas. 2013. Romance.
Containing three full-length modern Christmas novels, “A champagne
Christmas” features stories of passionate romances in glamorous
international settings.
5v.
Allen, Louise. From ruin to riches. 2014. Romance. Mills and
Boon historical.
Ruined and on the run, Julia Prior is in desperate straits when she meets
a gentleman with a shocking proposal. Certain he is close to death,
William Hadfield, Lord Dereham, believes Julia to be the perfect woman to
care for his beloved estate when he is gone -if she will first become his
wife.
2v.
Archer, Jeffrey. Be careful what you wish for. 2014. Family
stories.
Clifton Chronicles book 4. Harry Clifton and his wife rush to hospital to
learn the fate of their son Sebastian, involved in a fatal car accident. But
who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is
forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma
Clifton wants to replace him.
4v.
Cartwright, Justin. Lion heart. 2013. General fiction.
Richie’s father believed that Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood had
met and found a document which was to prove this. Richie travels to
Jerusalem where he falls in love with a journalist who is kidnapped in
Cairo. Richie discovers that the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was
recovered by Richard's knights.
3v.
Chambers, Kimberley. The trap. 2013. Thriller.
The Trap book 1. The Butlers are the kings of the East End, Vinny and
Roy are the apple of their mum's eye. Queenie knows they can play dirty,
but when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud.
But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are
marked.
5v.
Court, Dilly. A loving family. 2014. Family stories.
Stella is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies at sea.
Leaving her family in the slums of London's docklands, she goes to a big
country house outside London. A year later, having not seen them in all
that time, Stella walks to London with a cake for mothering Sunday, she
discovers the family has disappeared.
4v.
Cox, Josephine. The runaway woman. 2014. General fiction.
With her 40th birthday approaching, Lucy discovers that her good-fornothing husband is having an affair with her sister, a double-betrayal for
Lucy, and it shatters her. Mustering up all of her courage she decides to
leave her family she's devoted so many years to, she decides to go out
into the world and start a new life.
3v.
Dunmore, Helen. The lie. 2014. General fiction.
Cornwall, 1920. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea.
He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lies
terror of the trenches and the most intense relationship of his life. He is
about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the
terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?
3v.
Forbes, Emily. The honourable army doc. 2014. Romance.
Mills and Boon medical.
Quinn Daniels is hooked by Dr Alisha Jansson's exotic beauty, but
relationships are out for the ex-army doc as he prepares for life as single
parent to his twin daughters. His honourable intentions are tested especially when he sees clouds in those hypnotic eyes. Can two bruised
hearts find happiness together?
2v.
Harris, Joanne. The gospel of Loki. 2014. Fantasy.
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.
3v.
Jensen, Martin. The king's hounds. 2013. Historical novels.
The newly crowned King Cnut of Denmark has conquered England and
rules his new empire from Oxford. The year is 1018 and the war is finally
over, but the unified kingdom is far from peaceful. Halfdan's mixed lineage
- half Danish, half Saxon - has made him a pauper in the new kingdom.
3v.
Kane, Ben. Clouds of war. 2014. Historical novels.
Hannibal book 3. A veteran of the war since its beginning, Quintus is
ready to give his life in the service of the Republic. Dangers face him from
within his own ranks as well as from the enemy. Two friends on opposing
sides, a woman caught between them. They are about to meet in one of
the most brutal sieges of all time.
5v.
Kendrick, Sharon. The housekeeper. 2013. Romance.
Cathy is used to making the beds, not slipping between their sheets.
Arrogant Prince Xaviero has one rule: once he's taught Cathy everything
he knows, their affair will be over. Daisy catches billionaire Ethan
Cartwright's eye amongst the throngs of designer-clad Australian
socialites during an afternoon at the races.
5v.
King, Stephen. The drawing of the three. 2012. Fantasy.
This second volume in the epic series 'The Dark Tower' both stands alone
and continues the adventures of Roland of Gilead. He has mysteriously
stepped through the doorway in time to 1980s America, where he meets
Eddie Dean and Odetta Holmes.
5v.
Lawrence, Mark. Emperor of thorns. 2014. Fantasy.
Broken Empire book 3. The world is cracked and time has run through,
leaving us clutching at the end days. These are the last miles, my
brothers. Don't look to me to save you. Run if you have the wit. Pray if you
have the soul. Stand your ground if courage is yours. But don't follow me.
Follow me, and I will break your heart.
5v.
Lee, Rachel. Defending the eyewitness. 2014. Romance.
A killer lies in wait. The note wasn't exactly a threat but to Corey Donahue,
who witnessed her mother’s murder as a child, it felt menacing. The one
person she trusted to show the note to was a man merely renting a room
from her, Austin Mendez. With a killer closing in, two souls were
discovering the trust they'd lost.
3v.
Locke, John. Follow the stone. 2011. Western.
Emmett Love book 1. Set in 1860, this is the story of a former gunslinger
and his crablike scout, who journey West with a mail order bride, a witch,
and a wagon full of prostitutes.
2v.
Mallory, Sarah. Lady beneath the veil. 2014. Romance.
Mills and Boon historical.
When Gideon lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes - this darkhaired girl isn't the blonde beauty he's been courting! Blackmailed into
marrying Gideon Dominique is just as keen to keep her distance from her
unsettling husband. But despite their good intentions the marital bed
beckons.
3v.
McDermott, Andy. The Valhalla prophecy. 2014. Thriller.
Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase series book 9. Secrets from the past emerge to
threaten archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, former SAS soldier
Eddie Chase, when a Viking runestone is stolen by a gang of raiders. The
stone holds the key to an ancient evil concealed in one of Norse
mythology's holiest places: Valhalla.
5v.
Moran, Caitlin. How to build a girl. 2014. General fiction.
It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV
that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and
reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero
and full -time Lady Sex Adventurer! She will save her poverty stricken
family by becoming a writer.
4v.
Mortimer, Carole. Tall, dark and gorgeous. 2013. Romance.
To Marry McKenzie Logan McKenzie liked his life - with no surprises, and
without a wife. Then he learned that Darcy, his very pretty stepsister-to-be,
was in need. So he lent a hand - and his carefully controlled existence
was turned upside down! Also includes: To Marry McCloud and To Marry
McAllister.
6v.
Parris, S J. Treachery. 2014. Thriller.
Giordano Bruno book 4. Summer, 1585. As English ships are held captive
in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, built by King Philip II.
Giordano Bruno, philosopher and spy, accompanies his friend Sir Philip
Sidney to Plymouth to oversee Drake's departure. Unbeknownst to Bruno,
Sidney intends to join the mission.
6v.
Perry, Tasmina. The proposal. 2013. Romance.
When Amy's boyfriend ends their relationship before Christmas she
replies to an advertisement requesting a companion for a 'Manhattan
adventure'. Whisked to New York with eccentric British aristocrat Georgia
Hamilton Amy discovers a painful secret in her mentor's past, a story that
only Amy has the power to put right.
3v.
Powers, Richard. Orfeo. 2014. General fiction.
Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one
evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab: the latest
experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns
beyond the ear's ability to hear, has come to the attention of Homeland
Security.
4v.
Robb, J D. Concealed in death. 2014. Crime.
In Death book 38. Billionaire Roarke supervising work on his new property
takes a swing at the first wall to be knocked down uncovering the body of
a girl. Luckily for Roarke, he is married to the best police lieutenant in
town. Eve Dallas is determined to find the killer.
4v.
Russell, Leigh. Cold sacrifice. 2013. Crime.
DS Ian Peterson book 1. When three dead bodies are discovered in quick
succession on his home patch in Kent, DI Ian Peterson becomes too
embroiled in a complex murder investigation to worry about his
forthcoming promotion or the state of his marriage.
4v.
Thynne, Jane. The winter garden. 2014. Thriller.
Clara Vine is deeply entrenched in the secret services in pre-war Berlin.
Trusted for her good work and quick thinking she finds herself in a Nazi
Bride School, where innocent young German women are schooled on the
art of being a wife - and their future husbands are the top ranking officials
of the Nazi Party.
5v.
Trollope, Joanna. Balancing act. 2014. General fiction.
Susie Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly
profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the
business. But what of the men in the family? Susie's husband, a musician
and artist, has always seemed happy to take a back seat.
3v.
York, Rebecca. Diagnosis - attraction; Relentless. 2014.
Romance. Mills and Boon intrigue.
Diagnosis: Attraction - Dr Matt Delano is more deeply connected to his
beautiful amnesia patient Elizabeth Forester than he thought humanly
possible. Relentless - When former NCIS agent Ben Tanner saves nurse
Jocelyn Raine from a brutal attacker, he embarks on his most challenging
mission yet.
4v.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiographies and biographies
Mahoney, Rosemary. For the benefit of those who see:
dispatches from the world of the blind. 2014.
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's 'The Island of the Color-blind', Rosemary
Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the
blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who
founded the school.
3v.
Prentis, Evelyn. A nurse and mother: my life as a post-war
nurse. 2012.
At the end of the Second World War, as husbands came back to Civvy
Street their wives had the luxury of staying at home with the children. For
a short while at least. Soon Evelyn realised she had to find part-time work
to make ends meet, and to her astonishment she was offered part-time
hours at her old hospital.
2v.
Food and drink
Henry, Diana. A change of appetite: where healthy meets
delicious. 2014.
What happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change
of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created, less meat and
heavy food, more vegetable, fish and grain-based dishes. Often inspired
by the food of the Middle East and Far East, but also drawing on cuisines
from Georgia to Scandinavia.
4v.
Health
Magnusson, Sally. Where memories go: why dementia
changes everything. 2014.
Sally Magnusson cared with her two sisters for her mother, Mamie, during
her long struggle with dementia, until her death in 2012. This moving and
honest account of losing a loved one day by day to an insidious disease is
both deeply personal and a challenging
call to arms.
3v.
History
Corrigan, Gordon. Waterloo: a new history of the battle and
its armies. 2014.
Fought on Sunday 18th June 1815 by some 220,000 men over rainsodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an
end to 23 years of almost continual war. This history details the campaign
and the battle, its armies and their commanders, and brings fresh insight
to this epic conflict.
4v.
Self-help
Burgess, Mary. Overcoming chronic fatigue: a self-help
guide using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2009.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a seriously debilitating illness characterised
by extreme exhaustion and severe flu-like symptoms. This text provides a
breakthrough self-help treatment for this major health problem.
1v.
Butler, Gillian. Overcoming social anxiety and shyness: a
self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques.
2009
Most people occasionally fear doing something embarrassing or
humiliating, but when social anxiety grows it makes people sure that
others are judging or criticising them. This text aims to provide help for
those suffering from such anxieties.
1v.
Cole, Frances. Overcoming chronic pain: a self-help guide
using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2005.
Helping readers to overcome longstanding and disabling conditions, both
psychological and physical, this work provides a clinically proven self -help
approach to pain management based on the authors' work with sufferers
at Bradford Hospital.
2v.
Cooper, Peter J. Overcoming bulimia nervosa and bingeeating: a guide to recovery. 2009.
A source of information and understanding for sufferers as well as for
those, such as family and friends, who need to develop a better
understanding of the illness. It includes an account of the illness, an
explanation of the nature of disturbances in eating habits and the
problems they cause.
1v.
Crowe, Michael. Overcoming relationship problems: a selfhelp guide using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2005.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) treats disorders by changing patterns
of behaviour and thought that may be unhelpful. This guide uses the
proven success of CBT methods to provide and effective self-help way to
overcome difficulties in close relationships.
2v.
Davies, William Henry. Overcoming anger and irritability: a
self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques.
2009.
This is a self-help manual for those who find that they are spoiling the lives
of both themselves and those around them with their almost constant
irritability and flashes of bad temper. It speaks to those who find
themselves saying and doing things they later regret.
1v.
Espie, Colin A. Overcoming insomnia and sleep problems: a
self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques.
2006.
Being unable to sleep is one of the most common health problems. This
manual explains; how to ensure your bedroom encourages a good night's
sleep, developing good pre-bedtime routines, establishing a new sleeping
and waking pattern, how to deal with a racing mind, and dealing with
special problems.
1v.
Fennell, Melanie J. V. Overcoming low self-esteem: a selfhelp guide using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2009.
This work provides a complete self-help recovery programme to help
combat low self-esteem. It includes insights on how to build and enhance
self-image and self-acceptance.
2v.
Gilbert, Paul. Overcoming depression: a guide to recovery
with a complete self-help programme. 2009.
This book provides a guide to recovering from sadness, loss and
depression. It explains how the mind and body interact and how our
thinking affects our brains. Case histories are used to show how others
have overcome their problems.
2v.
Kennerley, Helen. Overcoming anxiety: a self-help guide
using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2009.
This book offers expert advice on managing the worries, fears and
anxieties that can impair the quality of one's life. Each problem is
discussed and explained, and there is a self-help guide for those who wish
to tackle their difficulties alone.
1v.
Silove, Derrick. Overcoming panic and agoraphobia: a selfhelp guide using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2009
This volume presents a step-by-step treatment providing the skills to
overcome and prevent panic attacks and associated agoraphobia. It
emphasises the more practical and interactive elements, with a self-help
program and monitoring sheets.
1v.
Veale, David. Overcoming obsessive compulsive disorder: a
self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques.
2005.
Obsessive compulsive disorder is the fourth most common mental health
problem in the West. In this book, therapists Dr David Veale and Robert
Willson provide a self-help approach to overcoming the condition.
2v.
Willson, Rob. Overcoming health anxiety: a self-help guide
using cognitive behavioural techniques. 2009.
Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For
some the anxiety becomes chronic, and they may spend many hours
checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the
internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the
doctor.
2v.
Travel
Holland, Julian. Exploring Britain's lost railways. 2013.
This gives the historical background to 50 lost railway lines, along with
details of the route today and clear directions for the walker and cyclist.
Follow the routes of over 50 long-closed railways across some of our most
beautiful countryside and discover the lost railways of Britain.
3v.
Warfare and defence
Harding, Thomas, Hanns and Rudolf: the German Jew and
the hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz. 2014.
The first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt
down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the
world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead
investigators, Rudolf Hoss his most elusive target. Harding reveals the full,
exhilarating account of Hoss' capture.
4v.
Children and young non-adult fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
1D, where we are: our band, our story: 100% official. 2014.
Calling all One Direction fans! This is the only official book from 1D,
charting their journey over the last year and a half - from the places
they've visited and fans they've met, to their thoughts and feelings, hopes
and dreams, highs and lows. It has been a phenomenal year - and this is
a phenomenal story.
1v.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 11+
Rosoff, Meg. Picture me gone. 2014.
Mila is on a road trip across the USA with her father. They are looking for
his best friend, but Mila discovers a more important truth. Sometimes the
act of searching reveals more than the final discovery can.
2v.
Suggested reading age 13+
Johnson, Maureen. The boy in the smoke. 2014.
Shades of London. On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to the Eton
boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him along
the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction - leading
him to London, to two new friends, and to a world of shadows and
mystery.
1v.
Talking books
Adult fiction
Abercrombie, Joe. The blade itself. 2007. Fantasy. TB 21309.
The first law; book 1. Inquisitor Glokta, a cripple turned torturer, would like
nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. Cutting treason out
of the heart of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for
friendships - and his trail of corpses could lead him straight to the rotten
heart of the government.
Read by Andy Secombe. 26 hours 38 minutes.
Albom, Mitch. The first phone call from heaven. 2014.
General fiction. TB 21416.
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention
when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the
greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken
single father, is determined to find out.
Read by Mitch Albom. 7 hours 41 minutes.
Allen, Louise. From ruin to riches. 2014. Romance. TB
21312.
Mills and Boon historical romance. Ruined and on the run, Julia Prior is in
desperate straits when she meets a gentleman with a shocking proposal.
Certain he is close to death, William Hadfield, Lord Dereham, believes
Julia to be the perfect woman to care for his beloved estate when he is
gone - if she will first become his wife - and as Lady Dereham she can
finally escape her sins. Until three years later, when the husband she
believes is dead returns as handsome and strong as ever and intent on
claiming the wedding night they never had!
Read by Olivia Mace. 8 hours 14 minutes.
Anderson, Kevin J. Hellhole inferno. 2014. Science fiction.
TB 21512.
Hellhole series; book 3. After the events of 'Hellhole Awakening', the
people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans scramble to rally against the
threat from the still-living rogue Xayans. Back on Sonjeera, the Monarchy
is in an uproar after their surprising defeat and the breakaway of the Deep
Zone planets.
Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 17 hours 13 minutes.
Archer, Jeffrey. Be careful what you wish for. 2014. Family
stories. TB 21300.
Clifton chronicles; book 4. Harry Clifton and his wife Emma are rushing to
hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in
a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
Machinations continue in the shipping company and back in London,
Harry and Emma's adopted daughter wins a scholarship to the Slade
Academy of Art.
Read by Alex Jennings. 11 hours 53 minutes.
Baker, Jo. Longbourn. 2013. Historical fiction. TB 21417.
It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's
hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs is about to be
disturbed by the arrival of a new footman smelling of the sea, and bearing
secrets. In Georgian England, there is a world the young ladies in the
drawing room will never know, a world of poverty, love, and brutal war.
Read by Patience Tomlinson. 13 hours 32 minutes.
Barker, Margaret. Her miracle twins. 2014. Romance. TB
21271.
Mills and Boon medical romance. Dr Chantal Winstone was shocked when
her gorgeous but aloof boss Dr Michel Devine coolly proposed that he
would give her the baby that she had always longed for. After the death of
his beloved wife he was withdrawn and emotionally detached. However,
after only one unexpected and passionate night Chantal finds herself
pregnant with twins! Can the miracle of giving life to two tiny babies heal
their damaged hearts?
Read by Charlotte Strevens. 5 hours 19 minutes.
Beckett, Simon. Whispers of the dead. 2009. Crime fiction.
TB 21301.
David Hunter; book 3. In America to escape the violence that nearly killed
him, forensics expert David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in
Tennessee. He needs to know whether he's still up to the job of
confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms. He agrees to visit the
scene of a crime but is unprepared for the state of the victim’s body that
awaits him in the remote cabin. The death toll rises. Has he met his
match?
Read by David Thorpe. 10 hours 51 minutes.
Bennett, Anne. To have and to hold. 2006. Family stories. TB
21233.
Carmel Duffy is the eldest child of a brutal and abusive marriage, and she
can’t wait to leave home. She’s equally determined to have no husband or
children of her own what she wants more than anything is to be a nurse.
As soon as she turns eighteen, she heads for Birmingham and begins her
training. But when World War Two looms those years will change
everything. Carmel will find that the future is very different to the one she
thought she wanted for so long.
Read by Penelope Freeman. 15 hours 11 minutes.
Binebine, Mahi. Horses of god. 2014. General fiction. TB
21105.
On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of
SidiMoumen, where Yachine and his ten brothers grew up in the aimless
chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, and despair. They played
football amongst the rocks, detritus and buried skeletons of the dump but
they dreamed of becoming the best football players of all time. Then their
dreams changed. Yachine's older brother Hamid started growing a beard
and attending religious meetings with Sheikh Abou Zoubeir who beguiled
them into believing that there was a better world in the afterlife, where
their faith in Allah would be rewarded.
Read by Harry Jardine. 3 hours 39 minutes.
Blake, Fanny. The secrets women keep. 2014. Chick lit. TB
21467.
Rose is waiting for her friends and family to arrive at their villa in Pisa
when a casual glance at her husband's phone tips her world upside down.
The text reads simply: “Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.” As their
friends and family gather for a summer break, Rose's faith in Daniel is
shaken. How well does she really know him?
Read by Jane McDowell. 13 hours 25 minutes.
Booth, Stephen. One last breath. 2005. Crime fiction. TB
21276.
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 5. 14 years ago Mansell Quinn
was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's
out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been
murdered. As the son of the officer responsible for putting Quinn behind
bars, Ben Cooper realizes his own life could be in danger.
Read by David Thorpe. 15 hours 49 minutes.
Brody, Frances. Dying in the wool. 2010. Crime fiction. TB
21418.
Kate Shackleton; book 1. Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a
measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton –
amateur sleuth extraordinaire! Joshua Braithwaite went missing in
dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again but now his daughter
is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding him. As Kate taps
into the lives of the Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some
would kill to keep closed.
Read by Sandra Hunt. 11 hours 23 minutes.
Cartwright, Justin. Lion heart. 2014. General fiction. TB
21375.
Richie Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart.
His father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and had
found a document which was to prove this. Richie obtains a research
grant and travels to Jerusalem in his father's footsteps where he discovers
that the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small
band of Richard's knights. He embarks on a quest of his own to find the
True Cross - and to discover whether or not everything in his father's mind
was a fantasy.
Read by Robin Bowerman. 9 hours 52 minutes.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The wild hunt. 2008. Historical fiction.
TB 20696.
Wild hunt; book 1. In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young
lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord
of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of
Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands - but they have yet to meet.
Read by Karen Cass. 12 hours.
Cole, Martina. Revenge. 2014. Thriller. TB 21163.
Michael Flynn learns the rules of the Life from the best and when his
mentor, legendary Face, Patrick Costello, is taken out, no one questions
that Michael is his natural successor. For Michael, loyalty - and crime pays. Michael rises to heights beyond anything the criminal underworld
has seen. He owns everyone and no one would dare challenge him. Then
the unthinkable happens.
Read by Annie Aldington. 14 hours 18 minutes.
Courtenay, Bryce. Tommo and Hawk. 2007. Historical fiction.
TB 21333.
The Australian trilogy; book 2. Brutally kidnapped and separated in
childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart.
Together, they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into
manhood.
Read by Gordon Griffin. 25 hours 20 minutes.
Daly, Paula. Just what kind of mother are you? 2013.
Thriller. TB 21464.
She's gone and it's your fault. You were supposed to be watching your
best friend's 13-year-old daughter, and now she's missing. But you know
that she's not just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the
second girl to be abducted within a fortnight. And the first was found on a
busy high street, naked and traumatised. No one expects the next to be so
lucky. You're going to have to figure this out - who did it. Because if you
don't, then Lucinda will be next. And you'll never forgive yourself.
Read by Laura Brattan. 9 hours 45 minutes.
Dickinson, Margaret. The clippie girls. 2013. Family stories.
TB21319.
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the
sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their
grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is
declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes
in their lives are inevitable.
Read by Maggie Mash. 13 hours 52 minutes.
Dobbs, Michael. A ghost at the door. 2014. Thriller. TB
21419.
Harry Jones; book 6. "Tell me about your father." Five short, razor-edged
words that rip the world of Harry Jones to pieces. He barely knew his
father Johnnie and hated what little he did know, yet no man is able to
escape the shadows of the past. Harry has already lost almost everything
- his seat in parliament, his reputation, his fortune. There is little left apart
from his love for the headstrong Jemma, and now he must risk losing her
and even his own life to uncover the truth about his dead father.
Read by David Thorpe. 10 hours 57 minutes.
Donoghue, Emma. Frog music. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21463.
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have
engulfed the city. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars
of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of
Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric
outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and
leaving one of them dead.
Read by Khristine Hvam. 12 hours 44 minutes.
Donaldson, Stephen R. The last dark. 2013. Fantasy. TB
20959.
The last chronicles of Thomas Covenant; book 4. Compelled step by step
to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent,
Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the
magical reality known only as 'the Land'. Now they face their final crisis.
Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their
true power - and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the
World's End from unmaking Time.
Read by John Chancer. 33 hours 15 minutes.
Drabble, Margaret. The pure gold baby. 2014. General
fiction. TB 21420.
Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is happy, always
willing to smile at the world around her, but she also presents profound
challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early 20s, her arrival will prove
life-transforming. Over the course of decades while Anna herself will
remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a
period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes
towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another.
Read by Julia Franklin. 10 hours 34 minutes.
Fforde, Katie. The perfect match. 2014. Romance. TB 21462.
Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart
over Dominic Thane, the man she fell in love with but couldn't have. Now
she's made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate
agent. Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil - although
recently he's been preoccupied, and she's starting to question if he is a
perfect match. Then someone from the past turns up looking for a house.
Read by Jilly Bond. 8 hours 56 minutes.
Flynn, Gillian. Dark places. 2010. Thriller. TB 21207.
Libby Day was just seven years old when her brother massacred her
family while she hid in a cupboard. Ever since then she has been drifting,
but now the money is running out. When she is offered $500 to do a guest
appearance, she feels she has to accept, unaware that the infamous Kill
Club's members believe her brother was innocent.
Read by Helene Wilson. 14 hours 32 minutes.
Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21461.
Cormoran Strike; book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his
wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just
completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost
everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives. When
Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a
race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer unlike
any he has encountered before.
Read by Robert Glenister. 17 hours 18 minutes.
George, Elizabeth. Careless in red. 2008. Crime fiction. TB
21296.
Inspector Lynley series; book 15. It is barely three months since the
murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast
Path, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from
his loss. On the 43rd day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his
death - a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. The
case brings Barabara Havers from London and they must sift through
jealousy, betrayal and revenge in the small local community in their search
for the killer.
Read by Crispin Redman. 21 hours 48 minutes.
George, Elizabeth. This body of death. 2010. Crime fiction.
TB 21297.
Inspector Lynley series; book 16. While DI Thomas Lynley is still on
compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is
brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a
body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle the chance to make
her mark with a high profile murder investigation. But persuading Lynley
back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is
fiercely loyal to him and Isabelle needs them - and especially Barbara
Havers - on side.
Read by Terry Wale. 26 hours 24 minutes.
Grafton, Sue. T is for trespass. 2008. Crime fiction. TB
21425.
Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 20. When an elderly neighbour, Gus, has
an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse
for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up
anything suspicious but Kinsey's not convinced, especially when Gus
seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care.
Read by Liza Ross. 12 hours 46 minutes.
Grafton, Sue. U is for undertow. 2010. Crime fiction. TB
21426.
Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 21. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a
child is kidnapped and never returned. When the case is reopened after
20 years, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for
help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which
just might provide the key to the mystery. While stepping back into the
past, Kinsey uncovers more about her own history too.
Read by Liza Ross. 13 hours 51 minutes.
Groves, Annie. Where the heart is. 2010. Family stories. TB
21294.
Campion family series; book 4. The changes the war has brought are
affecting everybody, not least the Campion family. Luke, son of the
household and battle-scarred veteran of Dunkirk, is away fighting, while
twins Lou and Sasha grow further apart. The Campions, along with the
rest of the nation, must face their fears and endure their darkest hour.
Read by Christine Dawe. 13 hours.
Hearne, Kevin. Tricked. 2013. Fantasy. TB 21489.
The iron druid chronicles; book 4. Druid Atticus O'Sullivan hasn't stayed
alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So
when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for
payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote,
lets them think that they've chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.
Read by Christopher Ragland. 10 hours 21 minutes.
Hearne, Kevin. Trapped. 2013. Fantasy. TB 20838.
The iron druid chronicles; book 5. After twelve years of secret training,
Atticus O'Sullivan is finally ready to bind his apprentice, Granuaile, to the
earth and double the number of Druids in the world. But on the eve of the
ritual, the world that thought he was dead abruptly discovers that he's still
alive, and they would much rather he return to the grave.
Read by Christopher Ragland. 8 hours 55 minutes.
Hearne, Kevin. Hunted. 2013. Fantasy. TB 20839.
The iron druid chronicles; book 6. For a 2000-year-old Druid, Atticus
O'Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he's being chased
by not one but two goddesses of the hunt - Artemis and Diana - for
messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus,
Granuaile, and his wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across
modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Read by Christopher Ragland.12 hours 3 minutes.
Heller, Mandasue. Broke. 2013. Thriller. TB 21169.
Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best but someone else wants Mark for
herself, and she is ready to steal Amy's man, her self-respect and even
her children. As the stakes rise, Amy will either lose everything, or she will
have to learn how to be as hard and ruthless as her enemies.
Read by Peter Kenny. 8 hours 25 minutes.
Hickson, Joanna. The Tudor bride. 2014. Historical fiction.
TB 21268.
King Henry V's new French Queen, Catherine believes herself invincible
as she gives birth to an heir. Tragedy strikes when King Henry is struck
down by fever and dies. The regency council in England removes the new
young king from Catherine's care, and she retires to her dower estates,
taking the King's harper, Owen Tudor, with her as Steward.
Read by Frances Jeater. 18 hours 45 minutes.
Higgins, Jack. The judas gate. 2011. Thriller. TB 21295.
Sean Dillon series; book 18. A disturbing tape has made its way to British
intelligence. It contains battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan,
in which 12 US Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of
the Taliban voices are Afghan, but the voice of the commander bears an
Irish accent. Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down.
Read by Jonathan Oliver. 9 hours 32 minutes.
Hodgson, Antonia. The devil in the Marshalsea. 2014.
Historical fiction. TB 21466.
Tom Hawkins; book 1. London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall
from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into a hell of a
debtor's prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple
rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may
survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and
disease. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, as
brought further terror to the gaol.
Read by Nigel Peever. 13 hours 34 minutes.
Hope, Maggie. Molly's war. 2014. Family stories. TB 21468.
When Molly Mason's father dies in a pit accident, she is left penniless and
alone. The only source of light in her world is her brother, Harry, and his
best friend Jackson. But with both boys away in the army, Molly is left to
find work in a local factory and cheap lodgings. However, when Molly
rejects her new landlord's advances, his revenge is swift: she finds herself
accused of theft and thrown in prison.
Read by Claire Jones. 9 hours 46 minutes.
Hurley, Graham. Touching distance. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21422.
Jimmy Suttle series; book 2. A sniper is turning the quiet Devon
countryside into a killing ground. Jimmy Suttle is facing a case that could
end his career. And his life. Jimmy has barely got his feet under the desk
at his new job. Having flown in the face of his superiors on his first big
case he now finds himself trying to track down a random, hugely skilled
killer before another innocent dies and before the media tear the force
apart.
Read by Jonathan Keeble. 10 hours 50 minutes.
Iggulden, Conn. Stormbird. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21423.
Wars of the roses series; 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. Yet there are those
who believe England must be led by a strong king if she is to survive. With
England's territories in France under threat, and rumours of revolt at
home, fears grow that Henry and his advisers will see the country slide
into ruin.
Read by Roy McMillan. 13 hours 48 minutes.
King, Stephen. Just after sunset. 2012. Short stories. TB
21149.
What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an
instant? In this collection of twist -in-the-tale stories of suspense you can
feel the everyday become the unexpected. Contains strong language.
Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 55 minutes.
Koomson, Dorothy. The flavours of love. 2014. General
fiction. TB21336.
It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to
finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he
died. Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him - they have no idea
what I've been hiding or what I did back then to protect my family. But now
that my 14-year-old daughter has confessed a devastating secret, and my
husband's killer, who was never caught, has started to write to me, I know
it's only a matter of time before the truth about me and what I've done will
be revealed. My name is Saffron Mackleroy and this is my story.
Read by Janine Haynes. 16 hours 30 minutes.
Koomson, Dorothy. The ice cream girls. 2013. General
fiction. TB 21173.
Aged 18, Poppy and Serena were witnesses to a tragic event. Amid
heated public debate and scrutiny, the teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream
Girls' by the press and forced to go their separate ways. Now, years later,
Poppy is keen to set the record straight, while Serena wants no one in her
present life to find out about her past.
Read by Adjoa Andoh, Julie Maisey and Sean Barrett. 13 hours 27
minutes.
Leather, Stephen. Cold kill. 2006. Thriller. TB 21232.
Spider Shepherd; book 3. People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and
attempted murder. It's all in a day's work for undercover cop Dan
Shepherd. But what starts as a run-of -the-mill investigation quickly turns
into a matter of life and death when he uncovers a terrorist cell on a
mission of death and destruction.
Read by Martyn Read. 14 hours 42 minutes.
Lewis, Susan. Never say goodbye. 2014. General fiction. TB
21427.
How would you cope with the threat of losing someone you love? Josie
Clarke is a loving wife and mother. She and her husband Jeff don't have
much and it's often difficult to make ends meet. Bel Monkton seems to
have everything going for her, but she's lonely. And she's let the shadows
from her past cloud her future. Three years ago, tragedy tore Bel's life in
two. Now it's happening to Josie. And faced with uncertainty and
heartbreak, they come to treasure their growing friendship.
Read by Julia Franklin. 14 hours 56 minutes.
Locke, John. Follow the stone. 2011. Western. TB 21394.
Emmett Love series; book 1. Set in 1860, this is the story of a former
gunslinger and his crablike scout, who journey West with a mail order
bride, a witch, and a wagon full of prostitutes. Contains strong language
and passages of a sexual nature.
Read by Paul Birchard. 4 hours 55 minutes.
Lucas, Jennie. The sheikh's last seduction. 2014. Romance.
TB 21273.
Mills and Boon modern romance. When Sheikh Sharif offers Irene Taylor
more money than she has ever made before to be chaperon to his sister
she can't refuse - finally she can safeguard her family. The Sheikh wants
to enjoy his freedom until his engagement is announced but Irene is
determined to resist his skilled seduction.
Read by Victoria Grove. 6 hours 10 minutes.
MacBride, Stuart. Blind eye. 2009. Crime fiction. TB 21407.
DS Logan McRae series; book 5. It's summer in the Granite City, but even
the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters.
Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial
offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites –
eyes gouged out and the sockets burned.
Read by Stuart MacBride. 12 hours 18 minutes.
MacKay, Sue. From duty to Daddy. 2014. Romance. TB
21251.
Mills and Boon medical romance. Army medic Marshall Hunter has never
been able to get beautiful Charlie Lang out of his head after an
unforgettable fling. Two years on he's unable to pass up one last
opportunity to see Charlie again! Except the little girl playing in her garden
proves that she's been able to move on even if he hasn't. Only, Charlie
has a life-changing surprise in store for Marshall.
Read by Nicolette McKenzie. 5 hours 47 minutes.
Mansell, Jill. The unpredictable consequences of love. 2014.
Romance. TB 21485.
When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from
sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he's immediately smitten.
Sophie's pretty, she's funny, she has lots of friends but there's just one
problem: she has very firmly turned her back on love. And no one will tell
him why.
Read by Jane Collingwood. 12 hours.
Marillier, Juliet. Seer of Sevenwaters. 2011. Fantasy. TB
21211.
Sevenwaters series; book 5. The young seer Sibeal is visiting an island of
elite warriors, prior to making her final pledge as a druid. There she finds
Felix, a survivor of a Viking shipwreck, who's lost his memory. The
scholarly Felix and Sibeal form a natural bond. As Felix fully regains his
memory, Sibeal has a runic divination showing her that Felix must go on a
perilous mission-and that she will join him. The rough waters and the sea
creatures they will face are no match for Sibeal's own inner turmoil. She
must choose between the two things that tug at her soul – her spirituality
and a chance at love.
Read by Lara Hutchinson and Brian Fenton. 18 hours 39 minutes.
Martin, George R R. A feast for crows. 2012. Fantasy. TB
21262.
A song of ice and fire; book 4. Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the
Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king
Tommen. But fear and deceit are in the air: their enemies are poised to
strike. The Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead, and the heir
of King Balon of the Iron Isles is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail.
Contains passages of a sexual nature.
Read by Roy Dotrice. 33 hours 31 minutes.
Mina, Denise. The end of the wasp season. 2011. Crime
fiction. TB 21435.
Alex Morrow; book 2. When millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs
himself from the oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no
sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial
hangover. But the legacy of a lifetime of self-serving is widespread, the
carnage most acute among his family.
Read by Sally Armstrong. 13 hours 11 minutes.
Montanari, Richard. The stolen ones. 2013. Crime fiction. TB
21484.
Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne; book 7. Destroyed by fire years ago,
the infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for
the criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks
Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen.
By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey.
Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre
murder scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his
head and left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning
of a trail of evil that leads back to the hospital and the nightmares it still
contains.
Read by William Hope. 13 hours 10 minutes.
Murray, Annie. Birmingham Rose. 1995. Family stories. TB
13295.
Birmingham series; book 1. Life is limited and hard for Rose, born into a
large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. Through her friendship
with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle-class Mosley, she learns to
aspire to a different existence. After a childhood marked by tragedy, Rose
eventually finds and loses the love for which she has striven so hard. But
Rose will not be defeated and she, too, is determined to rise once again
above the devastation of her life.
Read by Penelope Freeman. 13 hours 10 minutes.
Patterson, James. Private London. 2012. Thriller. TB 21436.
Private series; book 2. For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American
student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles,
when Jack Morgan, owner of Private - the world's most exclusive detective
agency - saved her from a horrific death. The terror has followed her to
London, and now it is down to Dan Carter, head of Private London, to
save her all over again. But the clock is ticking... Private may be the
largest and most advanced detection agency in the world, but the only
thing they don't have is the one thing they need - time.
Read by Paul Thornley. 7 hours 22 minutes.
Patterson, James. Private games. 2013. Thriller. TB 21481.
Private series; book 3. July 2012. The Games have arrived in London and
the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting
excellence. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London
Olympic organising committee, is found brutally murdered, Peter Knight,
head of Private London, is called to the scene. Denton was also the fiancé
of Knight's mother and it soon becomes clear that this is no isolated
incident. The killer is targeting the Games itself, and the lives of everyone
involved are under threat.
Read by Paul Thornley. 9 hours 28 minutes.
Reilly, Matthew. The tournament. 2013. Historical crime
fiction. TB 21323.
England, 1546. The Black Death stalks the land and with it deadly
conspiracies against the young Princess Elizabeth. In the midst of this
fevered atmosphere comes an unprecedented invitation from the Sultan in
Constantinople. He seeks to assemble the finest players of chess from the
whole civilised world and pit them against each other. The prize is the
honour of Christendom. Roger Ascham, Elizabeth's teacher and mentor,
resolves to take Elizabeth with him when he accompanies the English
chess champion to the Ottoman capital – to both keep her out of harm’s
way and continue her education in the art of power and politics. But once
there, the two find more danger than they left behind.
Read by Helen Bourne. 11 hours 52 minutes.
Renault, Mary. The charioteer: a novel. 1953 (first
published). General fiction. TB 21364.
After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is
sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he
befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as
an orderly. Soon their friendship blooms into a discreet, chaste romance.
Read by Greg Wagland. 16 hours 40 minutes.
Robinson, Peter. Friend of the Devil. 2012. Crime fiction. TB
21483.
Inspector Banks series; book 17. When Karen Drew is found sitting in her
wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut, DI Annie Cabbot gets
lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same morning, 19-year-old
Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of
narrow alleys, and DCI Alan Banks is called in.
Read by Richard Burnip. 15 hours.
Romero, George A. Dawn of the dead. 2012. Horror. TB
20347.
The world is being devastated by zombies. No one knows how far they
have spread, or how to stop them. Society has collapsed. But four people
escape the chaos of Philadelphia City, finding refuge in a shopping mall.
They watch the undead scrape at the doors and they wait.
Read by Christopher Ragland. 7 hours 18 minutes.
Russell, Leigh. Cold sacrifice. 2013. Crime fiction. TB 21275.
DS Ian Peterson series; book 1. When three dead bodies are discovered
in quick succession on his home patch in Kent, DI Ian Peterson becomes
too embroiled in a complex murder investigation to worry about his
forthcoming promotion or the state of his marriage.
Read by Peter Wickham. 9 hours 38 minutes.
Ryan, Donal. The spinning heart. 2013. General fiction. TB
21342.
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface
in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between
public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices,
each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale
unfolds. Contains strong language.
Read by Karen Cogan and John Cormack. 5 hours 5 minutes.
Sheffield, Jack. Dear teacher. 2010. General fiction. TB
21482.
Jack Sheffield series; book 3. In 1979 Jack Sheffield returns for his third
year as headmaster of the village school. Jack and his staff struggle to
keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school
terms, as once again the official school log fails to record what is really
going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine.
Read by Jack Sheffield. 10 hours 28 minutes.
Sidebottom, Harry. Fire in the East. 2009. Historical fiction.
TB 21263.
Warrior of Rome series; book 1. AD 255. The Roman Imperium is
stretched to breaking point, its authority challenged along every border.
The most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the forces of
the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. One man is sent to marshal
the defences - a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista.
Read by Stephen Thorne. 16 hours 19 minutes.
Sidebottom, Harry. King of kings. 2010. Historical fiction. TB
21321.
Warrior of Rome series; book 2. AD 256 - a battle-bloodied Ballista returns
to the Roman imperial court at Antioch from the now ravaged city of Arete.
There he discovers men who would rather see him dead than alive. Even
his courage and loyalty to Rome and the emperor are not above
suspicion.
Read by Stephen Thorne. 15 hours 12 minutes.
Slaughter, Karin. Unseen. 2013. Thriller. TB 21487.
Will Trent series; book 8. Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide.
Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton - the woman he loves – to find
out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And
he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a
young Macon patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront
the past and a woman she hoped never to see again.
Read by Penelope Rawlins. 15 hours 15 minutes.
Smith, Ali. How to be both. 2014. General fiction. TB 21498.
Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary
double-take, this is a fast -moving genre-bending conversation between
forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s.
There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice
twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful,
knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real – and all life's givens get given
a second chance.
Read by John Banks. 8 hours 30 minutes.
Tartt, Donna. The goldfinch. 2014. General fiction. TB 21261.
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely
absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart.
Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a
wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother,
and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small,
strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal
underworld. Read by David Pittu. 32 hours 27 minutes.
Taylor, Marsali. Death on a longship. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21538.
Cass Lynch series; book 1. When she wangles the job of skippering a
Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally
arrived - even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands,
which she ran away from as a teenager. Then the 'accidents' begin - and
when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she,
her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd
Detective Inspector Macrae.
Read by Patricia Mullin. 12 hours 47 minutes.
Thomas, Rosie. The illusionists. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21243.
London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited
means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Through her work as an
artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born
showman whose dream is to run his own theatre company. Devil's righthand man is the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf
with an enormous talent for all things magic and illusion.
Read by Joan Walker. 16 hours 13 minutes.
Thynne, Jane. The winter garden. 2014. Thriller. TB 21308.
Clara Vine is deeply entrenched in the secret services in pre-war Berlin.
Trusted for her good work and quick thinking she is asked to go deeper
undercover. She finds herself in a Nazi Bride School, where innocent
young German women are schooled on the art of being a wife - and their
future husbands are none other than the top ranking officials of the Nazi
Party. With danger on every corner, it will take everything Clara has to
survive.
Read by Karen Cass. 13 hours 51 minutes.
Trollope, Joanna. Balancing act. 2014. General fiction. TB
21486.
Susie Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly
profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the
business. But what of the men in the family? Most are happy to take a
back seat but one of her daughters has brought her husband into the
company – and they want to change things, much to Susie's distress. And
then, into the mix arrives Susie's father, an ageing hippy who abandoned
Susie as a baby. Now he's alone, and wants to build bridges, although
Susie's daughters are outraged at the idea.
Read by Julia Franklin. 9 hours 47 minutes.
Walker, Fiona. The summer wedding. 2013. General fiction.
TB 20645.
The hotly anticipated wedding of Iris Devonshire, ravishing teenage
daughter of celebrity couple Mia and Leo, is to be held in the gardens of
their grand Palladian pile alongside the Thames. But Mia and Leo worry
that she's rushing into the marriage.
Read by Karen Cass. 17 hours.
Wark, Kirsty. The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. 2014. General
fiction. TB 21404.
Seemingly on a whim, 95-year-old Elizabeth Pringle bequeaths Homelea,
her beloved house on Arran, to a woman she has never met. As the young
woman comes to take up Homelea she slowly unlocks the mysteries and
heartbreaking secrets of Elizabeth Pringle's true legacy, in a multi generational story of love and belonging.
Read by Sally Armstrong. 12 hours 8 minutes.
Waters, Sarah. The paying guests. 2014. General fiction. TB
21488.
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex -servicemen are disillusioned, the out of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a
genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers,
husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as
impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are
obliged to take in lodgers.
Read by Juliet Stevenson. 21 hours 32 minutes.
Wingfield, R D. A killing Frost. 2008. Crime fiction. TB 21437.
Jack Frost series; book 6. On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector
Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that
of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local
supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife
up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But it is when two
young girls are reported missing in quick succession that the Denton crime
wave reaches terrifying heights.
Read by Stephen Thorne. 13 hours 18 minutes.
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
O'Connor, Denis. Paw tracks at Owl Cottage. 2012. TB
21434.
When Denis O'Connor and his wife Catherine return to Owl Cottage, only
to find it in a dilapidated state, they decide to restore his former home. But
the memory of Denis's beloved cat, Toby Jug, still lingers on. On impulse,
he buys four Maine Coon kittens and names them Pablo, Carlos, Luis and
Max.
Read by Gordon Griffin. 6 hours 52 minutes.
Autobiography and biography
Ahlberg, Allan. The bucket: memories of an inattentive
childhood. 2013. TB 21322.
Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in
London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black
Country. Now one of the most successful children's book writers in the
world he describes an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial
town during the 1940s, in conditions which today we might describe as
'deprived'.
Read by Richard Derrington. 2 hours 28 minutes.
Coogan, Andy. Tomorrow you die: the astonishing survival
story of a Second World War prisoner of the Japanese. 2013.
TB 21302.
Andy Coogan was captured during the fall of Singapore and endured a
three-and-a -half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease,
imprisoned in the notorious Changi camp before being transported to
Taiwan, where he worked as a slave in a copper mine and was twice
ordered to dig his own grave.
Read by Nick McArdle. 10 hours 15 minutes.
Fraser, Christine Marion. Green are my mountains. 1991. TB
21328.
With warmth and good humour, Fraser relates the problems encountered
in her house in Argyllshire, her work as a successful author, and her
responsibilities as a wife and mother. She also looks back to her time in
the Govan tenements in Glasgow, where as a child in the 1950s she
contracted a rare muscular disease which confined her permanently to a
wheelchair but never diminished her spirit.
Read by Caroline Guthrie. 5 hours 13 minutes.
Northup, Solomon. 12 years a slave: a true story. 2014. TB
21215.
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was
kidnapped in Washington, DC, in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a
slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, during this time he was frequently
abused and often afraid for his life. Against all odds, Northup eventually
succeeds in contacting a sympathetic party and manages to get word to
his family.
Read by Tommie Earl Jenkins. 9 hours 38 minutes.
Redknapp, Harry. Always managing: my autobiography.
2013. TB 21475.
Harry Redknapp is without doubt one of the most charismatic, wellrespected football managers in the Premiership and here he tells of his
rollercoaster career full of colour, incident and controversy.
Read by David John. 13 hours 27 minutes.
Suchet, David. Poirot and me. 2013. TB 21431.
Hercule Poirot, is one of Agatha Christie's finest creations and through his
television performance in Agatha Christie's Poirot, David Suchet has
become inextricably linked with the “little Belgian”, a man whom he has
grown to love dearly through an intimate relationship lasting more than
twenty years.
Read by David Suchet. 9 hours 8 minutes.
Walsh, Mikey. Gypsy boy on the run. 2011. TB 21180.
Gypsy boy series; book 2. This story picks up from where Gypsy boy left
off, and tells the story of Mikey's battle to escape the Romany gypsy camp
he grew up on. Torn between his family and his heart, Mikey struggles to
come to terms with his ancient inheritance and dreams of finding a place
where he can really belong. Contains strong language.
Read by Robert Nairne. 8 hours 39 minutes.
Widdecombe, Ann. Strictly Ann: the autobiography. 2013.
TB 21406.
Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in
three government departments and the Shadow Cabinet in the 1990s, as
well as taking us back to her wandering childhood and explaining the roots
of her deeply held views.
Read by Jilly Bond. 16 hours 18 minutes.
Drama
Delaney, Shelagh. A taste of honey. 2014. TB 21385.
This depiction of harsh, working-class life in post-war Salford is shot
through with love and humour. The play was first presented by Theatre
Workshop at the Theatre Royal Stratford, London, on 27 May 1958. It tells
the story of teenager Jo who takes up with a black sailor after her Mother
runs off. He promises to marry her before he heads for the seas, leaving
her pregnant and alone.
Read by various narrators. 2 hours 1 minute.
Country life
Fleming, Kathleen. Thirty-five acres, a spade and a fork.
2013. TB 21334.
Kathleen Fleming, a Londoner by birth, married an Irish orphan, Sean
brought up by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity in Stillorgan, Dublin.
When he was fourteen, Sean was taken under the wing of the monk in
charge of the dairy at St Joseph's monastery in Tipperary and the seeds
were sown for Sean's dream to have his own farm. The Flemings
struggled to start farming in the fifties with no capital to realise this dream.
Read by Maggie Mash. 3 hours 51 minutes.
History
Edsel, Robert M. Monuments men. 2010. TB 21421.
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from 13 Allied nations
served in the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of the Allied
armed forces. This was the most ambitious effort in history to preserve the
world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as
“Monuments Men”. This is their story.
Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 1 minute.
James, Lawrence. Churchill and empire: portrait of an
imperialist. 2014. TB 21465.
An examination of Churchill’s political and military experiences that
shaped his views of Empire and ultimately led to his rejection by the
British voters after a Second World War in which he had – it was
universally felt – led the country brilliantly.
Read by Gareth Armstrong. 14 hours 8 minutes.
Mortimer, Barbara. Sisters. 2013. TB 21177.
'Sisters' features over 150 previously unpublished stories of wartime
nurses from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid,
poignant and riveting stories capture these nurses' incredible bravery and
touching friendships.
Read by Carolyn Bonnyman. 8 hours 48 minutes.
Nicholson, Virginia. Millions like us: women's lives in the
Second World War 2012. TB 21184.
Drawing on autobiographies, archives and living memory, the stories of
pioneering contributions by women to our national experience are told.
How women tried to re-make their world in peacetime, how they loved,
suffered, laughed, grieved and dared. And of how they would never be the
same again.
Read by Di Langford. 19 hours 28 minutes.
Porter, Linda. Crown of thistles: the fatal inheritance of Mary
Queen of Scots 2013. TB 21187.
An examination of the ancient and intractable power struggle between
England and Scotland. Crown of Thistles is the story of a divided family, of
flamboyant kings and queens, cultured courts and tribal hatred, rape and
sexual licence on a breath-taking scale, blood feuds and violent deaths.
Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
Read by Ruth Sillers. 19 hours 46 minutes.
Seymour-Jones, Carole. She landed by moonlight: the story
of secret agent Pearl Witherington: the real Charlotte Gray.
2014. TB 21405.
On the night of the 22nd of September 1943, Pearl Witherington, a 29year -old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive
(SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into occupied France. Like
Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: in
her case, to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love.
Read by Catherine Harvey. 13 hours 24 minutes.
Poetry
Egremont, Max. Some desperate glory: the First World War
the poets knew. 2014. TB 21452.
Historian and biographer Max Egremont unites the poetry and the history
of the First World War, so often treated separately, granting readers the
pride, strife, and sorrow of the individual soldiers experience coupled with
a panoramic view of the war's toll on an entire nation. It looks at the life
and work of the war poets including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon,
Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke.
Read by Bob Rollett. 8 hours 46 minutes.
Travel
Bewes, Diccon. Slow train to Switzerland :one tour, two
trips, 150 years - and a world of change apart. 2013. TB
21115.
Thomas Cook began his first ever tour in 1863 - the round trip would take
3 weeks and was a rail journey travelling from London to Lucerne. The
success of this tour meant that Cook became a household name and gave
rise to modern mass tourism. With the aid of a diary written by a female
passenger documenting the trip day by day, Diccon Bewes follows in the
footsteps of these early tourists.
Read by John Cartwright. 10 hours 13 minutes.
Warfare and defence
Overy, R J. The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945. 2013. TB
21359.
The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War,
from the Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author. It 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.
Read by Leighton Pugh. 15 hours 52 minutes.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested interest age 0-4
Starr, Ringo. Octopus's garden. 2013. TB 21090.
Five children go on a magical journey through the Octopus's garden. The
playful Octopus takes them on a wondrous underwater adventure - riding
on the backs of turtles, playing pirates in a sunken city and sheltering from
a storm in the octopus's cave.
Read by Ringo Starr. 9 minutes.
Suggested reading age 7+
Banks, Tom. The Great Galloon. 2014. TB 21469.
Great Galloon; book 1. The Great Galloon is an enormous airship, built by
Captain Meredith Anstruther and manned by his crew, who might seem
like a bit of a motley bunch but who are able to fight off invading
marauders whilst drinking tea and sweeping floors! Stanley, a clever boy
with a small horn, and Rasmussen, a reluctant countess-to-be, are busy
waiting for an adventure to begin. Instead they have to fight off
BeheMoths, avoid enormous Seagles, encounter the terrifying (but nice
really) Brunt and save the Galloon from sinking!
Read by Tom Banks. 3 hours 18 minutes.
Grant, Sara. Flying high. 2014. TB 21472.
Magic Trix ; book 2. Trix can't wait to learn how to fly - maybe this will turn
her into a real witch! But it isn't as easy as it looks. As she and her magic
kitten, Jinx, grapple with broomsticks and try to help their friend while
outwitting mean girl, Stella, Trix finds her whole world turned upside down
- literally!
Read by Rosie Jones. 1 hour 49 minutes.
Smith, Jim. I am nit a loser. 2014. TB 21252.
Barry is auditioning to be in an advert for nit shampoo. But when it all goes
horribly wrong, Barry has a change of heart. It's time to stand up for all
insects and give a bug a hug!
Read by Daniel Philpott. 46 minutes.
Suggested reading age 9+
Blyton, Enid. Second form at Malory Towers. 2000. TB
13188.
Malory Towers series; book 2. Back to Malory Towers and in the Second
Form now, Darrell and her friends know that they should be a little more
grown-up. But sometimes sheer mischief gets the better of them... Are
they about to go one trick too far?
Read by Charlotte Strevens. 4 hours 59 minutes.
Briggs, Andy. The Greystoke legacy. 2014. TB 21470.
Tarzan; book 1. Escaping a dark secret, Robbie Canler joins an illegal
logging team in the Congo jungle. Now they're under siege from a sinister
force. When the daughter of the camp's boss, Jane Porter, goes missing
they assume bloodthirsty rebel soldiers have kidnapped her. Robbie sets
out on a rescue mission - unaware he is being watched. Are the rumours
of a feral man raised by wild apes true?
Read by Garrick Hagon. 7 hours 24 minutes.
Diamand, Emily. Ways to see a ghost. 2014. TB 21471.
Isis, the daughter of a charlatan psychic, can see ghosts – including that
of her dead little sister, Angel. Gray is the son of a UFO-chasing
conspiracy theorist. The two teenagers are forced together when their
parents start dating. Isis and Gray find themselves in grave danger
through their parent’s activities, and Isis is forced to use her ability to save
them both.
Read by Joe Coen. 7 hours 33 minutes.
Jones, Gareth P. The society of thirteen. 2014. TB 21473.
London, 1891. When orphans Esther and Tom are caught stealing by Lord
Ringmore, little do they realise the peril they are in. Rather than hand
them over to the police, the lord employs the children. But what does he
really want with them? He has in his possession a book that contains the
secret of true magic, but he cannot unlock its meaning alone. Only Tom
and Esther can help him unravel its terrible and dangerous secrets.
Read by David Thorpe. 7 hours 39 minutes.
Riordan, Rick. The mark of Athena. 2013. TB 21221.
Heroes of Olympus; book 3. Can Percy Jackson and the Half-blood
Heroes succeed on their quest to find The Doors of Death or will the
Greek Gods of chaos win their battle to stop them? Percy and his fellow
demi-gods face the most important quest of all - the Prophecy of Seva.
Read by Peter Brooke. 17 hours 7 minutes.
Suggested reading age 11+
Walden, Mark. The overlord protocol. 2011. TB 21274.
H I V E: Higher Institute of Villainous Education; book 2. Otto and Wing
have special permission to leave HIVE's secret island location to attend a
funeral (all too common in their line of business). But before they reach
their destination they are ambushed. Who would risk assassinating Otto
Malpense, star pupil of the Higher Institute of Villainous Education and
favourite of Number One, the most powerful villain alive?
Read by Simon Bubb. 8 hours 38 minutes.
Suggested reading age 13+
Baker, Nick. Split second. 1989. TB8646.
Gordon was 14 when he discovered he could split himself into identical
twins. At first he was frightened, then he begins to lead a double life as he
and his twin, George, form themselves into a juggling act. However as the
act becomes more daring, so Gordon becomes worried by the attention.
Contains strong language.
Read by Nick Baker. 3 hours 54 minutes.
Cast, P C. Burned. 2013. TB 21182.
House of Night; book 7. Zoey Redbird, vampyre High Priestess in training,
seems to have lost herself. Her awesome powers over the elements were
not enough to save someone close to her, and now her group must help
her reclaim her centre and find herself again. But evil has its own plans,
and these won't wait for Zoey to return to full power.
Read by Kelly Burke. 12 hours 44 minutes.
Delaney, Joseph. The spook's battle. 2009. TB 21119.
The Wardstone chronicles; book 4. In Pendle, the covens are rising and
the three most powerful witch clans are rumoured to be uniting in order to
conjure an unimaginable evil. Together, they will be capable of raising the
dark made flesh - the Devil himself. Tom and the Spook will need to set off
for Pendle quickly to avert the unthinkable.
Read by Laurence Mitchell and Rachael Louise Miller. 10 hours.
Johnson, Maureen. The boy in the smoke. 2014. TB 21287.
Shades of London series; book 1. On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to
the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him
along the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction leading him to London, to two new friends, and to a world of shadows and
mystery.
Read by Lucy Scott. 2 hours 8 minutes.
Ness, Patrick. More than this. 2013. TB 21343.
A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments,
losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. How is
that possible? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English
town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened
and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old
house is overgrown, covered in dust and completely abandoned. What's
going on?
Read by Damian Lynch. 11 hours 29 minutes.
Suggested reading age 15+
Blume, Judy. Forever. 2014. TB 21305.
Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted
to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they've decided
their love is forever, they make love. It's the beginning of an intense and
exclusive relationship, with a future all planned. Until Katherine's parents
insist that she and Michael put their love to the test with a summer apart.
Read by Sarah Borges. 4 hours 27 minutes.
Children and young adult non-fiction
Suggested reading age 13+
Weissová, Helga, Helga's diary: a young girl's account of life
in a concentration camp. 2014. TB 21178.
In 1941, aged twelve, Helga Weiss, her mother and father were interned in
the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin. For the next three years, Helga
documented her experiences there, and those of her friends and family, in
a diary. Then they were sent to Auschwitz, and the diary was left behind,
hidden in a wall. Helga survived the Holocaust, managed to retrieve her
diary and complete the journal of her experiences.
Read by Madelaine Brolly. 5 hours 56 minutes.
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
Burke, James Lee. The glass rainbow. 2010. Modern crime.
TB 405261.
Dave Robicheaux book 18. When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying
his ex-partner is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him
out is instinctive. Clete is the man who saved Dave's life by carrying him
down a fire escape with two bullets in his back.
16 hours 4 minutes. Read by female synthetic voice.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiographies and biographies
Smith, Arthur R. William Charles Cotton MA: priest,
missionary and bee master. 2006. TB 405260.
Rev Cotton, vicar from 1857 to 1879, had a great passion for bees. In
1841 he sailed to New Zealand with Dr Selwyn, the first Church of
England Bishop of New Zealand. Rev Cotton went on to play a full part in
establishing the Anglican church in New Zealand. He also shared best
practices in beekeeping with settlers and Maori.
8 hours 15 minutes.
Walczak, Yvette. Let her go! 2012. TB 405021.
The autobiography of a young girl whose brave journey of survival took
her through events of World War II that she wants the world never to
forget. Born in 1931, Yvette began life as a cosseted only child, Anglican
in faith and living in Poland. Her life changed with the Soviet invasion of
Eastern Poland in September 1939.
6 hours 4 minutes.
Food
Hollywood, Paul. Paul Hollywood's pies and puds. 2013.
TB 405250.
He puts his signature twist on the classics, with easy-to-follow, foolproof
and tantalising recipes for meat and potato pie, pork, apple and cider pie,
sausage plait and luxury fish pie. He will show you how to create inventive
dishes such as chicken and chorizo empanadas, chilli beef cornbread pies
and savoury choux buns.
4 hours 31 minutes. Read by female synthetic voice.
History
Orr, Aileen. Wojtek the bear: Polish war hero. 2010. TB
405262.
This is the inspiring true story of one of the Second World War's most
unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarette smoking, beer-drinking brown
bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek
soon took on a more practical role.
7 hours 17 hours minutes. Read by female synthetic voice.
Seaton, Sarah. The Derby book of days. 2013. TB 405253.
Taking you through the year it contains quirky, eccentric, shocking,
amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the
history of the city. Featuring snippets of information from the vaults of
Derby's archives and covering social, criminal, political, religious,
agricultural, industrial and sporting history.
10 hours 21 minutes.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The warmth of other suns: the epic story
of America's great migration. 2011. TB 405248.
One of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long
migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western
cities, in search of a better life. Isabel brilliantly captures their first
treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their
new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos.
27 hours 52 minutes. Read by female synthetic voice.
Literature
Culler, Jonathan. Literary theory: a very short introduction
[part work] 2000. TB 407548.
Very short introductions. What is literary theory? Is there a relationship
between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it
matter? These are the sorts of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in
a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often
perceived to be impenetrable.
5 hours 31 minutes.
Pets
Hamilton, Christina. The cat name book. 2013. TB 405249.
An illustrated A-Z history of famous cat lovers and the names of their cats.
From Cleopatra’s Charmain to Beyoncé’s Master P; from Harry Styles’
Dusty to Andy Warhol’s 25 cats named Sam - this book is full of
fascinating cat names and cat facts about cat lovers through history.
3 hours 10 minutes. Read by female synthetic voice.
New books issue 43, January 2015
© RNIB, 2015
RNIB charity nos. 226227, SC039316 and 1109