Ramsey Library : New Books June 2016
Leonard Abrahamson
Room
DVD
Brie Larson stars in this drama adapted by
Emma Donoghue from her own novel about a
mother and son who have been held captive for
five years. Joy 'Ma' Newsome (Larson) and her
five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) have
been living in a small room since Jack was born,
meaning he has no knowledge of the outside
world.
Jo Baker
A country road, a tree
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the
footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the
Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived
from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last
cigarette with his lover before the city they know
is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and
those of his loved ones in mortal danger by
joining the Resistance.
Christine Barley
The gut health diet plan
641.5631
It is now widely recognised that gut health is
critical to our overall health and that many
major health concerns can be linked to an
irritated or unhealthy gut. In fact, an
unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of
chronic health disorders such as autoimmune conditions,
allergies, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression and
mood swings.
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Mark Billingham
Die of shame
Every Monday evening, six people gather in a
smart North London house to talk about addiction.
There they share their deepest secrets: stories of
lies, regret, and above all, shame. Then one of
them is killed - and it's clear one of the circle was
responsible.
Robin Blake
Skin and bone
1743. The tanners of Preston are a pariah
community, plying their unwholesome trade
beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many
Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock.
When the body of a newborn child is found in one
of their tanning pits, Cragg's enquiry falls foul of a
cabal of merchants, dead set on modernising the
town's economy and regarding the despised tanners - and
Cragg's apparent championship of them - as obstacles to their
plan.
J. Blakeson
The 5th wave
.When
DVD
an aeroplane falls from the sky, high
school student Cassie (Chloe Grace Moretz)
starts to notice strange things happening
around her. Learning that a mysterious wave
has hit the Earth wiping out the world's
electronic signals, word starts to spread of
possible extraterrestrial activity.
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Jim Buttress
The people’s gardner
635.092
Jim Buttress regales tales from his long career
and the curious characters he has met along the
way: from the fierce rivalry that's rife in the Britain
in Bloom competition he judges, to his
relationships with fellow celebrity gardeners Alan
Titchmarsh and Monty Don, and why he truly believes his own
garden would never win anything higher than a 'commended'.
Noam Chomsky
Who rules the world?
327.73
Drawing on examples ranging from expanding
drone assassination programmes to the civil war in
Syria and the continued violence in Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine, philosopher,
political commentator and activist Noam Chomsky
here offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of
imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.
Stephen Clarke
Merde in Europe
Does Brussels really want to outlaw bingo,
bagpipes and smoky bacon crisps? Are Eurocrats
trying to rename the Channel? And can the ink in
euro notes really make men impotent? No. Well,
not exactly. But it is true that the EU is a seriously
flawed institution. And it's about to become even
more so as Englishman Paul West goes to
Brussels to work for a French MEP, and gets an insider's view of
what really goes on in the madhouse that is the EU Parliament.
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Ryan Coogler
Creed
DVD
Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan star
in this boxing drama, a spin-off of the 'Rocky'
film series.
Diney Costeloe
The girl with no name
This is the story of a young girl who escapes from
Nazi Germany to England on the Kindertransport.
Lisa is adopted by a childless couple and then
bullied at school. But worse is to come when the
Blitz blows her new home apart and she wakes up
in hospital with no memory of who she is, or where
she came from.
Paul Craine
Isle of Man population atlas
304.6
This atlas captures and presents the population
through more than 130 imaginative maps and
graphs and offers an authoritative commentary
on a wide range of population issues.
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Don Delillo
Zero K
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in
his 60s with a younger wife, Artis Martineau,
whose health is failing. Ross is the primary
investor in a remote and secret compound where
death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are
preserved until a future time when biomedical
advances and new technologies can return them
to a life of transcendent promise.
Frank Dikotter
The cultural revolution
951.056
Written with unprecedented access to previously
classified party documents from secret police
reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership
speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's
extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People
Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the
People's Republic of China.
Jenny Diski
In gratitude
362.16
In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with
inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three'
years to live. Being a writer, she decided to write
about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of
this), and also tell a story she has not yet told: that
of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris
Lessing, and the subsequent 50 years of their
complex relationship.
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Steven Dunne
Death do us part
DI Damen Brook is on a rare period of leave and
determined to make the most of it by reconnecting with his daughter Terri. But with her
heavy drinking proving a challenge, Brook takes
the opportunity to visit a local murder scene
when his help is requested.
Judith Durrant
wonders
Crochet one-skein
746.43
Sometimes it's impossible to pass up a
beautiful skein of yarn, even if there's no
plan for using it. Now crocheters have a
stunning collection of 101 projects to
choose from - each using just one skein of
yarn!
Louise Erdrich
LaRose
Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of
the property bordering his own. But he
mistakenly shoots his neighbour's son. Dusty
Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with
Landreaux's
five-year-old
son,
LaRose.
Landreaux is horrified at what he's done. The
next day he and his wife Emmaline deliver
LaRose to the bereaved Ravich parents. Standing on the
threshold of the Ravich home, they say, 'Our son will be your son
now'.
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Chris Ewan
Long time lost
Nick Miller and his team provide a unique and
highly illegal service, relocating at-risk individuals
across Europe with new identities and new lives.
Nick excels at what he does for a reason: he's
spent years living in the shadows under an
assumed name. But when Nick steps in to
prevent the attempted murder of witness-in-hiding
Kate Sutherland on the Isle of Man, he triggers a chain of events
with devastating consequences for everyone he protects.
Peter de Figueiredo
111 places in Liverpool
that you shouldn’t miss
914.2753
An insider's guide to Liverpool which covers
interesting and unusual places not found in
traditional travel guides.
Richard Fortey
Wood for the trees
508.41
From one of our greatest science writers, this
biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through
diverse moods and changing seasons combines
stunning natural history with the ancient history of
the countryside to tell the full story of the British
landscape.
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Jean Fullerton
Wedding bells for
Nurse Connie
It's 1948 and the nurses of the East End of
London are making the most of life post-war. For
Connie in particular, things are looking rosy as
she looks forward to planning a future with her
sweetheart, Malcolm.
Iain Gale
Conspiracy
Wellington has handed Keane his least favourite
job: he is to get himself captured by the French,
escape from captivity once in France and make
his way to Paris to work undercover there. There
are rumours of unrest against Napoleon's regime
and Keane's task is to work out which, if any, the
British should support.
Dr Leo Galland
The allergy solution
616.97
In this ground-breaking book, award-winning
doctor Leo Galland reveals the shocking rise of
hidden allergies that lead to weight gain, fatigue,
brain fog, depression, joint pain, headaches,
ADHD, digestive problems and much more.
Astonishing new research shows how each of these is linked to
the immune imbalance that is at the root of allergy.
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Sabrina Ghayour
Sirocco
641.5956
From the golden girl of Middle Eastern cookery,
'Sirocco' will bring tastes of the East to
Western-style dishes in a collection of 100
delicious and accessible recipes. With an
emphasis on simple ingredients and strong
flavours, Ghayour will bring her modern
inspirational touch to a variety of dishes ranging
from classics and comfort food to spectacular salads and sweet
treats.
John Grisham
The scandal
Theodore Boone, young lawyer, has had a lot to
deal with in his thirteen years, everything from
kidnapping to murder. But he's come through it all
and, with the law on his side, justice has always
prevailed.
Pamela Haag
The gunning of America
338.4
Americans have always loved guns. This special
bond was forged during the American Revolution
and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is
because of this exceptional relationship that
American civilians are more heavily armed than
the citizens of any other nation. Or so we're told.
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Claudia Hammond
Mind over money
332.024
A day doesn't go by without money coming in to
our interactions. But how much do we really
understand it? We know we need money. We tend
to want more of it. But why do we behave so
strangely with it? And why does it have such a
hold on us?
Charlaine Harris
Night shift
At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying
off the shelves - only to be used in sudden and
dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in
town. Who better to figure out why blood is being
spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while
translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes
Midnight the town it is.
John Hart
Redemption Road
Elizabeth Black is a hero. She is a cop who
single-handedly rescued a young girl from a
locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers
dead. But she's also a cop with a history, a
woman with a secret. And she's not the only one.
Adrian Wall is finally free after 13 years of torture
and abuse. In the very first room he walks into, a
boy with a gun is waiting to avenge the death of his mother.
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David Hewson
Little sister
Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old
when their family was killed. The sisters were
accused of murdering the lead singer of a worldfamous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of
Volendam, believing him to be responsible for
their family's deaths. The evidence seemed
irrefutable at the time and the sisters were
imprisoned in Marken, a local psychiatric institution.
James Holland
Burma ’44
940.542591
Back in February 1944, a rag-taggle collection of
clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base
troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen
and a handful of tank crews managed to hold out
against some of the finest infantry in the
Japanese Army, and then defeat them in what
was one of the most astonishing battles of the
Second World War.
Paul Hollywood
The weekend baker
641.815
Paul Hollywood's book contains over 100 sweet
and savoury recipes inspired by cities around
the world including Paris, Copenhagen, Miami,
New York and Naples. From Madeleines to
Foccacia, Caprese Cake to Chelsea Buns and
Zwiebelkunchen to Marble Bundt Cake, take some weekend time
out in the kitchen and bake the world with Paul to uncover some
new favourites.
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Conn Iggulden
Ravenspur
'Ravenspur' is the fourth and final novel in Conn
Iggulden's epic 'War of the Roses' series.
Peter James
Love you dead
An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two
dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's
achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic
surgeon, and now she's working hard on the
second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you
can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's
getting rid of the husband afterwards that's
harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect.
Quintin Jardine
Private investigations
Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner has
uncovered his fair share of crime scenes over his
30-year career. But few have affected him quite
as much as the horrifying sight he finds stowed in
the back of a stolen car that collides with his own
on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
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Thomas Keneally
Napolean’s last island
On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic
ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It
is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a
blind eye is turned to relations between colonials
and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected
to vicious and petty treatment by his captors, but
he forges an unexpected ally: a rebellious British
girl, Betsy, who lives on the island with her family and becomes
his unlikely friend.
A. L. Kennedy
Serious sweet
Set in 2014, this is a novel of our times. Poignant,
deeply funny and beautifully written, it centres
around two decent, damaged people trying to
make moral choices in an immoral world; ready to
sacrifice what's left of themselves for honesty,
and a chance at tenderness.
Lars Kepler
Stalker
A video-clip is sent to the National Criminal
Investigation Department. Someone has secretly
filmed a woman through her window from the
garden. The next day she is found dead after a
frenzied knife-attack. The police receive a second
film of another unknown woman. There is no way
of identifying her before time runs out.
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Si King & Dave Myers
fast food
The hairy dieters
641.5635
The Hairy Bikers return with more fantastic
recipes to help food lovers lose weight for life.
Dorothy Koomsom
When I was invisible
In 1988, two girls with identical names and the
same love of ballet meet for the first time. They
seem destined to be best friends forever and to
become professional dancers. Years later,
however, they have both been dealt so many cruel
and unexpected blows that they walk away from
each other into very different futures - one enters a
convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity.
John Lawton
The unfortunate Englishman
Having shot someone in what he believed was
self-defence in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Joe
Wilderness finds himself locked up with little
chance of escape. But an official pardon through
his father-in-law, Burne-Jones, a senior agent at
MI6, means he is free to go - although forever in
Burne-Jones's service.
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Michael Layton
Police dog heroes
363.2
The British Transport Police was the first police
force in the UK to establish a dog section when
Airedale terriers began to patrol the docks of Hull
in 1908. Since then, dogs from the force have
served in two world wars, aided police in
combating terror attacks, and hunted down
countless criminals.
John Lewis-Stempel
The running hare
577.46
Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven
cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last
20 years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and
the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is
all but extinct in England. And the hare is running
for its life.
Marina Lewycka
The Lubetkin legacy
Hopeless failed actor Berthold is exactly the same
age as George Clooney (they share a birthday),
but still lives with his mum. When he realises at
her deathbed that he may lose his mother's lovely
council flat, built in the 1960s by celebrated
architect Lubetkin, he niftily adopts the old lady in
the hospital bed next door and takes her home to
impersonate his mum. That's when all the trouble begins!
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Jack Ludlow
Hawkwood
The Hundred Year's War is over and newlyknighted Sir John Hawkswood is headed for
France to make his fortune as a freebooter.
Violence and extortion are rife, and the
freebooters will stop at nothing to capture the
Papal City of Avignon. But this is only the
beginning: Italy beckons, and with it, yet more
battles against rival mercenaries, powerful cities and the Papal
State.
Alexander McCall Smith My Italian bulldozer
Food writer Paul Stuart is heading to the idyllic
town of Montalcino in the Tuscan hills to escape a
failed relationship and to finish an already late
book. But on arrival in Italy things quickly take a
turn for the worse when he discovers that his hire
car is nowhere to be found and it looks like he will
be stuck at the airport.
Thomas McCarthy
Spotlight
DVD
Drama about the Boston Globe's uncovering of
a widespread sex abuse scandal within the
Catholic Church. Reporters of the paper's
Spotlight Team, Michael Rezendes (Mark
Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and
Matt Carroll (Brian d'Arcy James), and their team
editor Walter 'Robby' Robinson (Michael Keaton)
work to satisfy the Globe's new top editor (Liev Schreiber)'s
demands for an impactful local story.
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Adam McKay
The big short
DVD
Financial drama starring Brad Pitt, Steve
Carell, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling. The
film follows eccentric financial analyst Michael
Burry (Bale) as he uncovers an impending
crash in the housing market and puts together
a plan to profit from it.
Dan Mazer
Dirty Grandpa
DVD
Before his upcoming nuptials to Meredith
Goldstein (Julianne Hough), Jason Kelly (Zac
Efron) finds himself unwittingly taking his
recently widowed grandpa Dick (Robert De
Niro), who is eager to find some young, hot
women despite having just buried his wife, to
Daytona Beach during spring break.
Giles Merritt
troubled future
Slippery slope: Europe’s
341.2422
This title provides a hard-hitting warning that
Europe's prospects are gloomy unless Europeans
awake from their torpor and embrace the often
difficult changes necessary to flourish in the 21st
century world.
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Stephen Moss
Highlands
508.4115
In the very north of Britain, far from the
bustling cities and picturesque countryside to
the south, lies Western Europe's greatest
wilderness: the Scottish Highlands. This is a
land shaped by the flow of ancient ice,
where snow-capped mountains tower over
ink-black lochs, golden eagles soar over
heather-clad moors, and red deer stags engage in mortal combat
for the right to win a mate.
Frank Muir
Blood torment
When a three-year old girl is reported missing,
Andy Gilchrist is assigned the case and soon
suspects that the child's mother - Andrea Davis may be responsible. The case becomes politically
sensitive when he learns that Andrea is the
daughter of former MSP Dougal Davis.
Andrew Nagorski
In pursuit
364.138
More than seven decades after the end of the
Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is
drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off.
Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety.
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Philip Norman
Paul McCartney
782.42
Philip Norman is one of our greatest biographers
and Paul McCartney is one of the greatest of
subjects: cofounder of the world's most
celebrated band and composer of immortal
songs.
Claire North
The sudden appearance of hope
My name is Hope Ardern, and you won't know
who I am. I am the girl the world forgets. It started
when I was sixteen years old. A slow declining, an
isolation, one piece at a time. A father forgetting
to drive me to school. A mother setting the table
for three, not four. A teacher who forgets to chase
my missing homework. A friend who looks straight
through me and sees a stranger.
John Julius Norwich
Sicily
945
This is a colourful and lavishly illustrated history
(fifty years in the making) of the Mediterranean's
largest and most turbulent island from much-loved
historian John Julius Norwich.
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Maggie O’Farrell
This must be the place
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated
life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he
has children he never sees in California, a father
he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who
is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at
anyone who ventures up their driveway.
Yewande Omotoso
The woman next door
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are
neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are
successful with impressive careers. Both have
recently been widowed. And both are sworn
enemies, sharing a hedge and hostility and
pruning both with a vim that belies the fact they
are over 80. But one day an unforeseen event
forces the women together.
Susanne O’Sullivan
It’s all in your head
616.08
Most of us accept the way our heart flutters when
we set eyes on the one we secretly admire, or the
sweat on our brow as we start the presentation we
do not want to give. But few of us are fully aware
of how much more dramatic and extreme our
body's reactions to emotions can sometimes be. Up to a third of
people who go to see their GP have symptoms that are medically
unexplained; in the vast majority of these cases an emotional
cause is suspected.
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Amanda Owen
A year in the life of the
Yorkshire shepherdess
636.30092
In this work, Amanda Owen describes the age-old
cycles of a farming year and the constant
challenges the family faces, from being cut off in
winter to tending their flock on some of
Yorkshire's highest, bleakest moors - land so
inaccessible that in places it can only be reached on foot.
Chris Packham
Fingers in the sparkle jar
508.092
An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his
obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham
was only at home in the fields and woods around
his suburban home. But when he stole a young
kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a
friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that
would change him forever.
Julian Parish
driving in Europe
The essential guide to
796.7
This easy to use guide helps you to prepare for
your European trip, and check the information
you require on the road. It provides the key facts
you need to drive in 50 countries across Europe
- as well as general advice to help you deal with
the unexpected, no matter where you are.
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Ralph Pegram
Beyond the spitfire
629.1092
Reginald Mitchell's death at just 42, soon
followed by the defence of Britain by
pilots flying his finest creation, the
Spitfire, elevated him to legendary
status. He spent his whole career as a
designer with Supermarine, whose products came from his pen
or those that worked under him. This title looks at the entirety of
Mitchell's portfolio.
Robert Penn
out of trees
The man who made things
684.08
Ash is the tree we have made the greatest and
most varied use of over the course of human
history. Journeying from Wales across Europe
and Ireland to the USA, Robert Penn finds that
the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties
of ash, developed over millennia making wheels
and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead.
Chris Petit
The butchers of Berlin
Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full
of questions with no easy answers. Why is he
being called out on a homicide case when he
works in financial crimes? Why did the old
Jewish soldier with an Iron Cross shoot the block
warden in the eye then put a bullet through his
own head?
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John Plender
and markets
Capitalism: money, morals
330.122
In the aftermath of the financial crisis and the
deepest recession since the 1930s, capitalism is
once again the subject of heated debate. While
the end of the Cold War destroyed the credibility
of the only systemic alternative, many in the
developed world remain profoundly uncomfortable with the
workings of capitalism.
Jean Lucey Pratt
A notable woman
828.912
In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt began writing a
journal. She continued to write until just a few
days before her death in 1986, producing well
over a million words in 45 exercise books over the
course of her lifetime. For sixty years, no one had
an inkling of her diaries' existence, and they have remained
unpublished until now.
Douglas J.Preston
The lost island
Gideon Crew is living on borrowed time. When
his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an
eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to
refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the
priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New
York City and protected by unbreakable security.
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Lyn Rigby
Lee Rigby: a mother’s story
941.08
The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, who
was murdered in Woolwich High St in May 2013,
tells her personal story of grief and horror.
Mike Ripley
Mr Campion’s fault
Following the death of the senior English master
in a tragic road accident, Mr Campion's son
Rupert and daughter-in-law Perdita are helping
out at Ash Grange School for Boys, where
Perdita's godfather is headmaster. When the
headmaster telephones Albert Campion to inform
him that Rupert has been arrested, Mr Campion
heads to Yorkshire to get to the bottom of the matter.
Mark Roberts
Dead Silent
Three nights. Three brutal murders. And a killer
with a warped imagination. In a smart part of
Liverpool, old men and women are being
murdered in their beds. DCI Eve Clay is baffled.
These people are all nearing the end of their
lives. Who would want to kill them?
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Charlotte Rogan
Now and again
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother and secretary
at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable
and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level
cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively
takes it, turning her world upside down. Propelled
by a desire to do good - and a new-found taste for
excitement - Maggie starts to see injustice
everywhere.
Lionel Shriver
The Mandibles
2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a
sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-yearold patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national
debt has grown so enormous that it can never be
repaid. Under siege from an upstart international
currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless
world war will wipe out the savings of millions of
American families.
Erica Spindler
Baby come back
The very handsome man sitting on Alice
Dougherty's sofa and asking for her advice was
none other than Hayes Bradford - the widowed
father she'd once come so close to marrying. It
seemed like yesterday that Hayes had broken
her heart, yet it had been 12 long years since
she'd seen him and his adorable son.
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Danielle Steel
The apartment
Four young women are sharing a loft apartment
in New York. They also share an ambitious
streak. But with the arrival of various challenges
to their relationships, careers and family lives, is
a bright future within their reach? Whatever
happens, the bonds created while living together
will stay with them forever.
Quentin Tarantino
The hateful eight
DVD
Quentin Tarantino writes and directs this
Western thriller featuring an all-star cast
including Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim
Roth and Walton Goggins. Set after the
American Civil War, the film follows bounty
hunter John 'The Hangman' Ruth (Russell) as he takes shelter in
a remote stagecoach stopover with his captive prisoner Daisy
Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
Rebecca Tope
The Hawkshead hostage
In 'The Hawkshead hostage', Persimmon 'Simmy'
Brown finds herself caught up in another murder
investigation.
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Rose Tremain
The Gustav sonata
It is the tutor who tells the young Gustav that he
must try to be more like a coconut - that he needs
a hard shell to protect the softness inside. This is
what his native Switzerland has perfected - a shell
to protect its neutrality, to keep its people safe.
But his beloved friend, Anton, doesn't want to be
safe - a gifted pianist, he longs to make his mark
on the world outside.
Douglas Ward
River cruising in Europe
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This guide tells you everything you need to know
about taking a cruise along Europe's beautiful
rivers and waterways. It gives unbiased advice
on the different kinds of river vessels and the
facilities they offer, helping you make an
informed choice.
Alison Weir
Katherine of Aragon
Alison Weir's enthralling account of Henry VIII's
first wife is based on extensive research and new
theories. It reveals a strong, spirited woman
determined to fight for her rights and the rightful
place of her daughter; a woman who believed that
to be the wife of a king was her destiny. History
tells us how she died: this captivating novel shows
us how she lived.
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David Wishart
Foreign bodies
June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has
requested Corvinus's help in investigating the
murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to
death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his
summer-house at Lugdunum.
Mary Wood
An unbreakable bond
It is 1913 and for best friends Megan and Hattie,
born at the turn of the century and brought up in a
convent orphanage in Leeds, the time has come
to make their way in the world. Megan is to
become an apprentice seamstress and Hattie is
to work as a scullery maid at Lord Marley's
country residence.
John Wright
hedgerow
A natural history of the
635.976
This is a guide to hedgerows past and present.
John Wright describes their origins and long
history in the life of the countryside, their natural
history, the crafts involved in their planting and
maintenance, and the huge variety in their ages,
sizes, shape, composition, and functions. He looks too at the
drystone walls of Scotland, Devon, Cornwall, the Cotswolds, and
the north of England, some of which date back thousands of
years.
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