New books
Issue 43
January 2015
Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.
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Talking books
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Country life
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Children and young adult fiction
Children and young adult non-fiction
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
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Autobiographies and biographies
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History
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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.