New Books issue 41 – September 2014
Children and young adult non-fiction
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Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 9+Gifford, Clive. The who’s who of the Industrial Revolution.This series portrays some of the key figures in major historical periods, including politicians and leaders, as well as rebels, spies, industrialists, engineers and members of resistance movements. 2009. 1v. Steele, Philip. Men, women and children in the First World War.This title provides an introduction to the daily lives of men, women and children during the First World War for primary school children. 2010. 1v. Suggested reading age 11+Clarke, Catriona and others. Aztecs.Usborne Beginners level 2. This series provides an informative introduction to non-fiction subjects for young readers. Developed with reading experts, each title helps young readers to grow in confidence and to build their reading skills. 2007. 1v. Talking BooksAdult fictionAtkinson, Kate. Life after life. General fiction. TB 21151.What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? What if you could alter the events of history? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born a second time and this time lives to tell the tale of the turbulent events of the 20th century. 2013. Read by Fenella Woolgar. 15 hours 31 minutes. TB 21151. Barry, Sebastian. Annie Dunne. General fiction. TB 21111.Dunne family series; book 1. Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. Annie's nephew and his wife bring their two small children to spend the summer. A summer of adventure, pain, delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence, loss and reconciliation. 2002. Read by Caroline Lennon. 8 hours 18 minutes. TB 21111. Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the perfect paragon. Crime fiction. TB 21008.Agatha Raisin series; book 16. Agatha Raisin could do with some low-key cases so when Robert Smedley walks through the door, determined to prove his wife has been cheating on him, it seems like the ideal assignment. But unfortunately for Agatha, murder is again just around the corner. 2010. Read by Penelope Freeman. 6 hours 38 minutes. TB 21008. Bennett, Anne. If you were the only girl. Family story. TB 21007.When Lucy's family is plunged into poverty, she is forced to become a housemaid for the Hetherington's. When their son, Clive, decides to volunteer to fight in the Spanish Civil War and is then injured, Lucy tends his wounds. The two fall in love, but war is approaching. 2013. Read by Madeleine Brolly. 13 hours 44 minutes. TB 21007. Billingham, Mark. From the dead. Crime fiction. TB 21012.Tom Thorne series; book 9. When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life. Because she's just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder. When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be one man responsible and hires Anna Carpenter, a determined young private investigator, to find him and she contacts DI Tom Thorne who worked on the Alan Langford case. Contains strong language. 2010. Read by Mark Elstob. 10 hours 42 minutes. TB 21012. Chadwick, Elizabeth. The running vixen. Historical fiction. TB 21106.Wild hunt series; book 2. 1126. Heulwen, daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles, has grown up with her father's ward, Adam de Lacey. There has always been a spark between them, but when Heulwen marries elsewhere, to Ralf le Chevalier, a devastated Adam absents himself on various diplomatic missions for King Henry I. 2009. Read by Karen Cass. 11 hours 46 minutes. TB 21106. Chadwick, Elizabeth. The leopard unleashed. Historical fiction. TB 21099.Wild hunt series; book 3. Renard, Lord of the Ravenstow estate and Crusader knight, returns from Antioch, but he does not return alone. He brings with him a mistress. Renard has returned home because of his father's ill health and imminent death. Also there is tension locally caused by the dispute over the succession to England's throne. 2010. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 11 hours 38 minutes. TB 21099. Coben, Harlan. One false move. Thriller. TB 21100.Myron Bolitar series; book 5. Myron Bolitar meets Brenda Slaughter, one of the hottest female sports stars around who seems to have mislaid her agent. But when her father disappears, and the Mob starts leaning on her, it soon becomes apparent that potent forces are at work. 2009. Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 9 hours 58 minutes. TB 21100. Connelly, Michael. The reversal. Thriller. TB 21022.Mickey Haller series; book 3. When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's a defence lawyer but the high-profile case of Jason Jessup is an intriguing one. Contains strong language. 2011. Read by Christopher Ragland. 11 hours 19 minutes. TB 21022. Cornwell, Bernard. 1356. Historical fiction. TB 20464.Thomas of Hookton, a veteran of Crecy and many other battles, is the leader of a mercenary company of bowmen and men-at-arms who ravage the countryside east of Gascony. The Black Prince is assembling an army to fight the French once more but before Thomas can join, he must fulfil an urgent task. 2013. Read by Jack Hawkins. 12 hours 1 minute. TB 20464. Courtenay, Bryce. The potato factory. Historical fiction. TB 20992.The Australian trilogy; book 1. Ikey Solomon is in the business of thieving and he's very good at it. Ikey's partner in crime is his mistress, the forthright Mary Abacus, until misfortune befalls them. They are parted and each must make the harsh journey from thriving 19th century London to the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land. 2006. Read by Gordon Griffin. 28 hours. TB 20992. Cussler, Clive. Treasure. Thriller. TB 21006.Dirk Pitt series; book 9. The President of the United States had reason to be grateful. Dirk Pitt had unearthed the greatest storehouse of knowledge in the ancient world: the Alexandrian Library. 2005. Read by Jeff Harding. 18 hours 5 minutes. TB 21006. Dunn, Carola. A colourful death. Crime fiction. TB 21026.Cornish mysteries; book 2. Charity shop worker and amateur sleuth Eleanor Trewynn has a murder to investigate. Rival artists have clashed and when one is found murdered the finger of suspicion lies with the other one. 2013. Read by Emma Powell. 10 hours 21 minutes. TB 21026. Ford, Ford Madox. Parade's end. Classic fiction. TB 20989.Tietjens is the last of a breed, the Tory gentleman, which the Great War, marriage and qualities inherent in his nature define and unravel. Opposite him is MacMaster, a Scot, different in class and culture, at once friend and foil. 1928 (first published). Read by Christopher Oxford. 39 hours 33 minutes. TB 20989. Fox, Essie. The goddess and the thief. General fiction. TB 21023.Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is drawn into a plot to steal the priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond, claimed by the British Empire. In the midst of all this madness, Alice must discover a way to regain control of her life and fate. 2013. Read by Avita Jay. 15 hours 44 minutes. TB 21023. Gabaldon, Diana. The Scottish prisoner. Historical fiction. TB 21147.Lord John series; book 3. London, 1760, and Lord John Grey - aristocrat, soldier and sometimes spy - finds himself in possession of a packet of papers that might as well have come equipped with a fuse, so explosive are their contents. The documents reveal a damning case of corruption and murder against a British Officer. 2012. Read by Tom Carter. 14 hours 26 minutes. TB 21147. Gale, Patrick. A perfectly good man. General fiction. TB 21150.When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest. 2012. Read by Greg Wagland. 14 hours 10 minutes. TB 21150. Garner, Alan. Boneland. Fantasy. TB 21153.An adult conclusion to the children’s novels, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the Moon of Gomrath. Fifty years on, Colin can’t remember anything before the age of thirteen. Finally, a new force enters Colin’s life - a therapist who might be able to unlock what happened to him when he was twelve and what happened to his sister. 2012. Read by Robert Powell. 4 hours 57 minutes. TB 21153. Gray, Alex. Shadows of sounds. Crime fiction. TB 21033.Lorimer and Brightman series; book 3. The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know they are set to be outplayed by the sequence of events happening backstage. 2006. Read by Angus King. 9 hours 28 minutes. TB 21033. Hearne, Kevin. Hounded. Fantasy. TB 20834.The iron druid chronicles; book 1. Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound and his magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer. Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword. 2013. Read by Christopher Ragland. 9 hours 25 minutes. TB 20834. Hill, Joe. NOS-4R2: 1938: a novel. Horror. TB 21075.Vic McQueen is able to travel on her Raleigh Burner across a portal to a world hidden behind our own. These worlds are also well-travelled by the evil Charlie Manx who kidnaps children in his black 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith after promising them a visit to Christmasland; a place where every day is Christmas Day and every night is Christmas Eve. Contains strong language and violence. 2013. Read by Robert G. Slade. 22 hours 36 minutes. TB 21075. Hope, Maggie. A daughter's duty. Family story. TB 21081.Young Rose Sharpe's dreams of independence are ruined by her domineering father and constantly ailing mother. It falls to Rose to bring up her young sister and run the household with little thanks from either of her parents. But just as Rose has almost given up hope, she realises she has a secret admirer of her own. 2014. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 10 hours 56 minutes. TB 21081. Hore, Rachel. The silent tide. General fiction. TB 21074.When Emily commissions an account of novelist Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a path between Morton's widow who's determined to protect his secrets and the charming and ambitious Joel Richards. But someone is sending Emily messages about Hugh Morton's past and she discovers a buried story that has to be told. 2013. Read by Joan Walker. 13 hours 30 minutes. TB 21074. Howard, Elizabeth Jane. All change. Family story. TB 21029.The Cazalet chronicles; book 5. It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets’ beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her the last remnants of a world of great houses and servants, of class and tradition in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. 2013. Read by Helen Bourne. 18 hours 26 minutes. TB 21029. L'Amour, Louis. Jubal Sackett. Western. TB 21063.Sacketts series; book 4. Jubal Sackett journeys westwards into the vast wilderness of 17th century America and discovers the perils of the frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess. 2010. Read by Matthew Hendrickson.12 hours 19 minutes. TB 21063. Le Carre, John. The secret pilgrim. Thriller. TB 21064.George Smiley series, book 9. The Berlin Wall has come down. The Cold War is over. Ned, who learned his tradecraft at Smiley's feet, has been put out to grass at Sarratt, known otherwise as the Nursery, the training school for young entrants to the British Secret Service. 2011. Read by Steve Hodson. 16 hours 20 minutes. TB 21064. Lee, Maureen. Lime Street blues. Family story. TB 20976.It is the 1960s and three Liverpool families are bound together by just one thing: music. The children are seduced by the glamour that surrounds the city and soon put their hearts and souls into achieving success. But the future holds a few surprises. 2003. Read by Laura Dos Santos. 12 hours 39 minutes. TB 20976. Mansell, Jill. Don't want to miss a thing. Romance. TB 21040.Dexter Yates loves his fun, care-free London life but everything changes overnight when his sister dies, leaving him in charge of her eight-month-old daughter Delphi. Dex moves to Briarwood and he and Molly, a comic-strip artist with a patchy relationship history, become neighbours. There’s no denying there’s a connection but is it enough? 2013. Read by Karina Fernandez, 12 hours 48 minutes. TB 21040. Moggach, Deborah. Heartbreak Hotel. General fiction. TB 20671.Russell 'Buffy' Buffery erstwhile thespian and thrice-married B and B owner has hit on an idea: run residential courses for divorcees to learn how to do what your partner did before. Join Buffy and his raggle-taggle group of singletons and divorcees as they seek solace and late-flowering love. 2013. Read by Penelope Freeman. 10 hours 6 minutes. TB 20671. Montefiore, Santa. The French gardener. General fiction. TB 21095. Miranda and David move out of London into a country house with a magical garden. But Miranda insists on tottering across the wet lawn in kitten heels, David is never there, and the kids won't tear themselves away from the telly. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives and begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? 2013. Read by Sherry Baines. 15 hours 37 minutes. TB 21095.
Moriarty, Liane. The husband's secret. General fiction. TB 21071.Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive! 2013. Read by Helen Cashin. 12 hours 14 minutes. TB21071. Riley, Lucinda. The midnight rose. General fiction. TB 21089.The story of the extraordinary life of Anahita Chavan which begins in 1911 and spans four generations, sweeping from glittering palaces in India to stately homes in England and uncovering unbreakable ties of love, family and friendship. 2014. Read by Avita Jay. 25 hours 3 minutes. TB 21089. Rimington, Stella. Dead line. Thriller. TB 21055.Liz Carlyle series; book 4. MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting. The Syrians have learned that two individuals are planning to disrupt a high-profile peace conference at Gleneagles in a spectacular way and lay the blame at Syria's door. Is the whole story a carefully laid trail of misinformation? It is Liz's job to find out. 2009. Read by Annie Aldington. 9 hours 34 minutes. TB 21055. Sanghera, Sathnam. Marriage material. General fiction. TB 21046.To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind – a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions and uncovering the betrayals and loyalties, loves and regrets that have played out in the shop over more than fifty years. 2013. Read by Chetan Pathak. 10 hours 12 minutes. TB 21046. Scarrow, Simon. When the eagle hunts. Historical fiction. TB 21048.Cato series; book 3. After a series of bloody battles, the Emperor has returned to Rome, leaving the fearless Centurion Macro and his young Optio, Cato, to rest and regroup, along with the rest of the Second Legion. Their leader General Plautius hears word that the ship carrying his family to join him was wrecked in a storm and his wife and children have fallen into the hands of a dark sect of Druids. Will Cato and Macro find some way to rescue them before time runs out? 2008. Read by Chris Courtenay. 12 hours 14 minutes. TB 21048. Setterfield, Diane. Bellman and Black. Ghost story. TB 21060.As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. Indeed, he seems to be a man blessed by fortune with a wife and family. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman is forced to enter into a bargain. 2013. Read by Philip Bretherton. 10 hours 30 minutes. TB 21060. Sherez, Stav. A dark redemption. Crime fiction. TB 20951.Carrigan and Miller series; book 1. DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller are forced to face up to past fears and confront future paths as they investigate the brutal rape and murder of a young Ugandan student. They discover that the murdered girl's studies at a London College may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret. 2012. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 35 minutes. TB 20951. Simms, Chris. The edge. Crime fiction. TB 21086.DI Jon Spicer; book 5. DI Jon Spicer receives a phone call saying that his younger brother has been found murdered on the moor. The only clue on the corpse is a message on his mobile from his girlfriend Zoe. She and Dave were involved with some bad people, and with him gone, they want their pound of flesh from her. Contains strong language. 2009. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 25 minutes. TB 21086. Stedman, M L. The light between oceans. General fiction. TB 20981.Would you accept a chance for happiness even if it wasn't yours to have? This is a story about a lighthouse keeper and his wife, who live on a lonely island with just seagulls, stars and buffeting winds for company. It's a story about right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same. 2012. Read by Brigid Lohrey. 13 hours 23 minutes. TB 20981. Stirling, Jessica. The welcome light. Family story. TB 21087.Nicholson quartet; book 4. Only love for their son holds Kirsty and Craig Nicholson's stormy marriage together. But when a crippling disease strikes the child Kirsty, drained by worry and overwork, seeks comfort in the arms of her new business partner. Only a series of near-tragic events brings Kirsty to a decision where her heart really lies. 1992. Read by Sally Armstrong. 15 hours 43 minutes. TB 21087. Stock, Jon. Dirty little secret. Thriller. TB 21077.Daniel Marchant series; book 3. The special relationship between London and Washington lies in tatters. Salim Dhar, the world's most wanted terrorist, has disappeared after an audacious attack on an American target in the UK. The CIA believes Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, was involved. But Marchant has a bigger secret. 2013. Read by Leighton Pugh. 12 hours 10 minutes. TB 21077. 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