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Issue 60
November 2017
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Contents
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Biography
History
Music
Poetry
Politics And Government
Society
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Children And Young Adult Fiction
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13+ Suggested Reading Age
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Poetry
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To borrow books
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Braille
Adult fiction
Alderman, Naomi. The Lessons. 2011. General Fiction.
Mark Winters rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. In his crumbling Georgian mansion, Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of Oxford students. For a time they live in a charmed world of learning and parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes they are entirely unprepared.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25806003
Auster, Paul. 4 3 2 1. 2017. Literary Fiction.
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives.
UEB. 18v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25865203
Bennett, Arnold. Clayhanger. 2017. Classic.
Clayhanger: book 1. No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the test by challenges from Edwin's domineering father, the stifling constraints of society, and an unusual young woman.
UEB. 11v. Price: £9.99.Order No: 25820003
Betts, Charlotte. The House In Quill Court. 2016. Historical Romance.
1813. Venetia Lovell lives by the sea in Kent with her family. A handsome but antagonistic stranger, Jack Chamberlaine, arrives at the Lovell's cottage just before Christmas bringing terrible news. Venetia, her mother and brother, have to move to London, to the House in Quill Court. Here, Venetia's courage and creativity are tested to breaking point, and she discovers a love far greater than she could have ever imagined.
UEB. 7v. Price: £8.99.Order No: 25812303
Binchy, Maeve. Evening Class. 1996. General Fiction.
The new Italian evening class at Mountainview School in Dublin has its own special qualities - the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twelve weekly lessons. But they all learn far more than they ever bargained for and, by the time they are ready to set off on a trip to Italy at the end of the year, everyone's destiny has changed utterly.
UEB. 10v. Price: £16.99.Order No: 25811403
Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Everything To Gain. 1995. Romance.
Mallory Keswick must rebuild her life when violent tragedy destroys her family. Torn by grief, Mal flees to a village on the Yorkshire moors. Returning to Connecticut, Mal opens a cafe and shop selling gourmet food and kitchenware and turns it into a highly successful venture. But there still remains an aching void until she meets Richard Markson, who shows her that she has everything to gain, if she has the courage to take it. Contains sex scenes.
UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99.Order No: 25788903
Brown, Benita. Fortune's Daughter. 2007. Family Stories.
Daisy Belle, a gifted singer from the Tyneside backstreets, is devastated when her baby daughter Rose goes missing. Little does she know Rose has been taken by her ruthless agent Jack Fidler and given to a wealthy woman who renames her Rosina. Years later, when tragedy strikes, Rosina runs away to join a theatrical troupe and her natural talent for singing wins the hearts of the crowds.
UEB. 7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25812203
Carrington, Sam. Saving Sophie. 2016. Thriller.
Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out, drunk and accompanied by police officers, but Sophie remembers nothing about how she got into such a state. Twelve hours later, Sophie's friend Amy still has not returned home. Then the body of a young woman is found. Karen becomes convinced that Sophie is not only involved but also in danger.
UEB. 5v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25723803
Cline, Emma. The Girls: A Novel. 2016. General Fiction.
Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. Until she sees them. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords mix with rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, and teen runaways. Is Evie too enthralled by the girls to see that her life is about to be changed forever?
UEB. 4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25805903
Collins, Ciarán. The Gamal. 2014. General Fiction.
Meet Charlie. People think he's crazy. But he's not. People think he's stupid. But he's not. People think he's innocent. He's the Gamal. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not 'til he's worked out where the beginning is. This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, and how there is nothing a person will not do for love.
UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25714903
Cornwell, Bernard. The Flame Bearer. 2016. Historical Fiction.
Last kingdom: book 10. Britain is at an uneasy peace. After their bloody defeat of Danish-held East Anglia, the West Saxons stand victorious while the Mercians have taken back their land on the border of Northumbria, the last kingdom of Britain still ruled by the pagan northmen. A precarious truce exists between Aethelflaed’s Mercia and Northumbria, now ruled by Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s son-in-law, Sigtryggr. Under the cover of this fragile calm, Uhtred must begin his campaign that will end with the assault on Bebbanburg.
UEB. 6v. Price: £20.00 Order No: 25811303
Cumming, Charles. A Colder War. 2015. Spy Stories.
Thomas Kell: book 2. Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6’s top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrives. Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident. In Istanbul, Kell soon discovers that there is a traitor inside Western Intelligence. From London to Greece and into Eastern Europe, Kell tracks the mole.
UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25820503
Dick, Philip K. The Man In The High Castle. 2015. Science Fiction.
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. The author of an underground bestseller offers an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated. Does 'reality' lie with him, or is his world just one among many others?
UEB. 5v. Price: £8.99.Order No: 25840303
Eastland, Sam. Eye Of The Red Tsar. 2010. Crime.
Inspector Pekkala: book 1. Inspector Pekkala was the most famous detective in all Russia. Now, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission is to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar's treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom; the price of failure will be death.
UEB. 6v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25805203
Fridlund, Emily. History Of Wolves. 2017. Literary Fiction.
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune by a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices. When the perfect family moves into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit and is drawn into secrets she doesn't understand.
UEB. 5v. Price: £12.99.Order No: 25865403
Greene, Graham. The Ministry Of Fear. 2001. Classic.
For Arthur Rowe, the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.
UEB. 4v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25736403
Groves, Annie. Christmas On The Mersey. 2014. Family Stories.
Empire Street: book 2. The phoney war is over and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on the city of Liverpool. Rita Kennedy is forced to face some unpalatable truths about her husband, Charlie. For Kitty Callaghan, burying herself in her work distracts from the constant worry about her brothers. With a Christmas of rationing and ‘going without’ to look forward to, the women of Empire Street are being tested like never before.
UEB. 6v. Price: £6.99.Order No: 25820203
Hickson, Joanna. First Of The Tudors. 2016. Historical Fiction.
Jasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up far from the intrigue of the royal court. But after he and his brother Edmund are summoned to London, their half-brother, King Henry VI, takes a keen interest in their future. Bestowing Earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes devoted to her and is devastated when Henry arranges her betrothal to Edmund. But passion turns to jeopardy for them both as the Wars of the Roses wreak havoc on the realm.
UEB. 8v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25724203
Jacobs, Anna. Salem Street. 2015. Family Stories.
Gibson family: book 1. Banished from her home by a jealous stepmother, Annie Gibson finds work in a doctor's household where she learns about the fascinating world outside Salem Street. When her childhood sweetheart asks her to marry him, she thinks her dreams are coming true. But suddenly everything turns upside-down.
UEB. 8v. Price: £6.99.Order No: 25746103
James, Erica. Song Of The Skylark. 2016. Chick Lit.
Lizzie has lost her job at a radio station. With no money in the bank, she's forced to return home to her parents. Her mother finds her work at the local care home for the elderly, and it's there that Lizzie meets Mrs Dallimore. In her nineties, Mrs Dallimore finds old age has finally caught up with her. With her life drawing to a close, she gives in to the temptation to relive the past by sharing it with Lizzie.
UEB. 8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25869403
McCormack, Mike. Solar Bones. 2017. Literary Fiction.
Once a year, on All Souls' Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. 'Solar Bones' is the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again. Mike McCormack captures, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.
UEB. 4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25865703
McGregor, Jon. Reservoir 13. 2017. Literary Fiction.
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
UEB. 5v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 25866103
Mitford, Nancy. The Blessing. 2016. General Fiction.
When Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard in France after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bed hopping. When she discovers her husband's tendency to lust after every pretty girl he sees, it looks like trouble. And things get even more complicated when little Sigi steps in.
UEB. 4v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25805803
Moss, Sarah. Night Waking. 2012. General Fiction.
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has a toddler, a seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides. Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders.
UEB. 7v. Price: £7.99.Order No: 25805303
Mozley, Fiona. Elmet. 2017. Literary Fiction.
Daniel is heading north. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and his sister Cathy has turned sour and fearful. Sometimes Daddy would disappear, and return with a rage in his eyes. But when he was at home, he was at peace. He told them that the little copse in Elmet was theirs alone. But that wasn't true. Local men, greedy and watchful, began to circle like vultures. All the while, the terrible violence in Daddy grew.