New books Issue 51 May 2016
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Adult non-fictionAutobiography and biographyAlbright, Madeleine Korbel. Prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948. 2013. TB22507.Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the near-total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on her memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly available documents, Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. Read by Liza Ross. 16 hours 45 minutes. Baker, Danny. Going to sea in a sieve: the autobiography. 2012. TB22415.Danny Baker was born in Deptford, in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine 'Sniffin' Glue', alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows (Win, Lose or Draw, Pets Win Prizes, TV Heroes), as well two television commercials which made him a household name - Daz and Mars Bars. This book charts Danny's showbiz career, the highs and lows, and everything in between, including the accusation that he killed Bob Marley. Read by Danny Baker. 9 hours 53 minutes. Byrne, Eugene. Brunel. 2014. TB22034.In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill. It's often claimed that through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways Brunel played a critical role in creating the modern world. Never tied to a dusty office, he crammed enough work, adventure and danger into a single year to last a lesser person a lifetime. He was also a brilliant showman, a flamboyant personality and charmer who time and again succeeded in convincing investors to finance schemes which seemed impossible. Read by Greg Wagland. 3 hours 3 minutes. Byrne, Fergus. More lives than one: the extraordinary life of Felix Dennis. 2015. TB22555.Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, Felix Dennis was a true one-off. When he died in 2014 he was a multi-millionaire. Yet he spent his last months writing poetry and planting the millionth tree in his own forest. Journalist Fergus Byrne got to know him well and was granted exclusive access to Dennis's archives and papers. He found everything had been kept and, along with hours of interviews with girlfriends, family, staff and friends the world over, he here presents the only authorised biography of a man who described himself as lucky to have led several lives. Read by Mike Ahern. 13 hours 26 minutes. Carton de Wiart, Adrian. Happy odyssey: the memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart V.C., K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. 2007. TB22643.This is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. Adrian Carton de Wiart was wounded eight times (including the loss of an eye and a hand), won the VC during the Battle of the Somme, was mentioned in despatches six times, and was the model for Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in the Sword of Honour trilogy of Evelyn Waugh. Read by Mark Elstob. 8 hours 33 minutes. Coles, Richard. Fathomless riches. 2014. TB22414.The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single: the Communards' 'Don't Leave Me This Way' topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year. Fathomless Riches is his remarkable memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock -and-roll life of sex and drugs to a life devoted to God and Christianity. Read by Richard Coles. 10 hours 1 minute. Condon, Eddie. We called it music: a generation of jazz. 1992. TB22649.Eddie Condon (1905 - 1973) pioneered a kind of jazz popularly known as Chicago-Dixieland, though musicians refer to it simply as Condon style. Played by small ensembles with driving beat, it was and is an informal, exciting music, slightly disjointed and often mischievous. The same could be said of Condon's autobiography, We Called It Music, a book widely celebrated for capturing the camaraderie of early jazz. Read by Paul Birchard. 10 hours 13 minutes. Greenberg, Joel. Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's architect of ultra Intelligence. 2014. TB22738.Gordon Welchman was one of Bletchley Park's most important figures. Like Turing, his pioneering work was fundamental to the success of Bletchley Park and helped pave the way for the birth of the digital age. Yet, his story is largely unknown to many. This book draws on Welchman's personal papers and correspondence with wartime colleagues which lay undisturbed in his son's loft for many years. Packed with fascinating new insights, including Welchman's thoughts on key Bletchley figures and the development of the Bombe machine, this book sheds light on the clandestine activities at Bletchley Park. Read by Bob Rollett. 11 hours 1 minute. Pollard, A. J. Henry V. 2014. TB22036.Henry V is the best-known military hero in English history: better known than Marlborough or Wellington. He enjoyed more success against the French than any of them, coming close to conquering that vast country and imposing an English dynasty. He was a military genius, yet his megalomania was not always in the best interests of his own kingdom, let alone the people of France who suffered at his hands. Behind the carefully constructed nationalist myth was a cold, calculating, ruthless ruler who, before his early death, revealed ominous tyrannical tendencies. Read by Greg Wagland. 2 hours 51 minutes. Richards, Keith. Life. 2010. TB20676.With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The notorious Redlands drug bust. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'Some Girls'. Ever increasing fame, isolation and addiction. Read by Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley, featuring Keith Richards. 23 hours 5minutes. Skinner, Dennis. Sailing close to the wind: reminiscences. 2015. TB22652.Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions as on the first day he entered the House of Commons back in 1970. These are his memoirs. Read by Philip Bretherton. 9 hours 27 minutes. Smith, Verity. The groper's guide. 2014. TB22556."The Groper's Guide" gives an eye opening insight into the hidden world of the unseen, in which the wonders of Verity's world are bumped into, tripped over, scratched, sniffed and fallen in love with. The book gives a humorous account of the travels and tribulations that she experiences while growing up as a blind explorer, whose perspective of the world adds a new dimension to an already colourful planet. We follow her journey through a wonderland and watch as, just as they did for Alice, things for Verity become 'curiouser and curiouser'. Read by Lucy Scott. 7 hours 58 minutes. Souhami, Diana. Mrs Keppel and her daughter. 2013. TB22057.Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. She partnered the King for yachting at Cowes and helped him choose presents for his wife Queen Alexandra while remaining calmly married to her complaisant husband George. But for her daughter Violet, passionately in love with Vita Sackville-West, romance proved tragic and destructive. Mrs Keppel used all the force at her command to repress the relationship in a breathtakingly cruel display of hypocrisy. Read by Helen Bourne. 14 hours 33 minutes. Suchet, John. The last waltz: the Strauss dynasty and Vienna. 2015. TB22523.The intriguing story of two generations of the Viennese family that produced some of the best known and best loved music of the 19th century. From nowhere they produced two waltz kings, and literally hundreds of instantly recognisable and enduring melodies. Yet this was also a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, and those involved lived in an Austria that witnessed seismic upheavals. Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose waltzes to which the Viennese - anxious to forget their troubles - danced and drank champagne, as their country hurtled toward WWI, and oblivion. Read by Sean Baker. 8 hours13 minutes. Watson, Fiona J. Robert the Bruce. 2014. TB22035.Robert Bruce proved to the medieval world that superior military might could be overcome even in battle by a well-disciplined, tactically innovative and brilliantly led force. His approach to warfare gave food for thought to many on the opposing side, and helped to inspire the evolution of English military tactics over the following century, contributing to their extraordinary performance during the Hundred Years war with France. Read by Greg Wagland. 2 hours 50 minutes. Wilson, Andrew. Alexander McQueen: blood beneath the skin. 2015. TB22250.When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the youngest child of an East London taxi driver to scale the heights of fame, fortune and glamour. But behind the confident facade and bad-boy image, lay a sensitive soul who struggled to survive in the ruthless world of fashion. As the pressures of work intensified, so McQueen became increasingly dependent on the drugs that contributed to his tragic end. Read by Simon Bubb. 12 hours24 minutes. Winehouse, Mitch. Amy, my daughter. 2012. TB22503.Using exclusive extracts from his own personal diaries, Amy’s father and confidant Mitch celebrates what influenced his daughter. Documenting her early years from Sylvia Young to the Brit School, and the darker side of her life as she struggled to cope with her addictions under the glare of the media spotlight, he gives new insights. Read by Rupert Farley, Mitch Winehouse. 9 hours 51 minutes. Yorke, Barbara. Alfred the Great. 2015. TB22033.Why is Alfred the 'Great'? A simple answer is that he has been seen as a man who saved England, invented English identity and pioneered English as a written language. He is the first Englishman for whom a biography survives so that we know more about Alfred and his ideals than we do for most people who lived over a thousand years ago. A slightly longer answer would say that things are a bit more complicated, and that one reason Alfred seems to be 'great' was that he made sure we were told that he was. To get the measure of Alfred we need to look at what he actually managed to achieve. Read by Greg Wagland. 2 hours 38 minutes. HistoryJohnson, Boris. Johnson's life of London: the people who made the city that made the world. 2012. TB22464.London, a city which has over the centuries, survived attack, fire and devastation, is a place where people feel enabled to create and empowered to invent. It is and always has been home to a great variety of remarkable men and women – whose lives have enriched the rest of the world. Boris Johnson’s book is a celebration of the people who, from the Romans to the present day, give the city its vibrant and exuberant character. From Boudicca to Chaucer, Shakespeare to Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill to Keith Richards. Read by Boris Johnson and Jot Davies. 11 hours 45 minutes. Mayo, Jonathan. Hitler's last day: minute by minute: 2015. TB22246.Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute is a chronological narrative, as seen through the eyes of those who were with Hitler in those last hours; those fighting in the streets of Germany; and those pacing the corridors of power in Washington, London and Moscow. It was a day of endings and beginnings when ordinary people were placed in extraordinary situations. President Truman, weighing up whether to use the atomic bomb; German officer Claus Sellier, on a last mission across the country to deliver vital documents or Allied aircrews dropping food parcels to feed the Dutch. Read by Richard Burnip. 10 hours 57 minutes. Natural historyBarkham, Patrick. Badgerlands: the twilight world of Britain's most enigmatic animal. 2014. TB22296.Britain is the home of the badger; there are more badgers per square kilometre in this country than in any other. Yet many of us have never seen one alive and in the wild. They are nocturnal creatures who vanish into their labyrinthine underground setts at the first hint of a human. Here, Patrick Barkham follows in the footsteps of his badger-loving grandmother, to meet the feeders, farmers and scientists who know their way around Badgerlands: the mysterious world in which these distinctively striped creatures snuffle, dig and live out their complex social lives. Read by David Learner. 10 hours 27 minutes. ParanormalFrancis-Cheung, Theresa. An angel called my name: incredible true stories from the other side. 2008. TB22646.This is a collection of heartwarming and inspiring real-life dramas about people who have had 'a little help' from the other side when they most needed it. Stories include: the shouting angel whose playful antics saved a young girl from falling down the stairs; the angel who prevented a woman's bad judgement becoming a tragedy and the laughing angel who helped a lost boy find his way home. Read by Sarah Whitehouse. 6 hours 39 minutes. ReligionAdam, David. The awesome journey: life's pilgrimage. 2015. TB22519.Drawing on a lifetime of Christian pilgrimage, David Adam reflects on biblical encounters with the divine and offers profound insights – on grief and glory, emptiness and fulfilment; repentance and forgiveness; loving and being loved - that will transform the way we live, and the way we relate to God, here and now. For example, God's question to Adam, 'Where are you?' is relevant to us all; Abraham's long journey of hearing and obeying (and learning the art of having no agenda) is ours too. Read by Bob Rollett. 4 hours 33 minutes. Sogyal. The Tibetan book of living and dying. 2008. TB22522.Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. Read by Duncan Steen. 20 hours 8 minutes. TravelHughes, Anna. Eat, sleep, cycle: a bike ride around the coast of Britain. 2015. TB22639.For Anna, a cycling enthusiast, the decision to ride 4,000 miles solo around the coast of the UK wasn't that hard. But after epic highs, incredible lows, unforgettable scenery and unpronounceable place names, her simple idea turns into a compelling journey of self-discovery, and an eye-opening insight into what makes the island where she lives so special. Read by Julie Stark. 9 hours 15 minutes. Winder, Simon. Germania: a personal history of Germans ancient and modern. 2011. TB22056.Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region’s history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, Winder describes Germany’s past afresh, taking in the story from the shaggy world of the ancient forests right through to the Nazis' catastrophic rise in the 1930s. He sees a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to eating some very strange food. This accessible, enthusiastic and startlingly vivid account is an introduction to the hidden wonders of Germany. Read by Kris Dyer. 18 hours 18 minutes. Warfare and defenceHamilton-Paterson, James. Marked for death: the first war in the air. 2015. TB22659.An account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces. Read by Chris Courtenay. 13 hours 4 minutes. Moorehead, Alan. Gallipoli. 2015. TB22509.The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The Allied commanders were ignorant of the terrain, and underestimated the Turkish army which had been bolstered by their German allies. By January 1916, the death toll stood at 21,000 British troops, 11,000 Australian and New Zealand, and 87,000 Turkish and the decision was made to withdraw, which in itself, ironically, was deemed to be a success. Read by Steve Hodson. 16 hours 16 minutes. Children and young adult fictionSuggested reading age 5+Lampard, Frank. Frankie vs the Pirate Pillagers. 2013. TB22668.Frankie's magic football; book 1. Frankie and his team love playing football and there's always time for a game. But when they win an old football at a carnival, they're going to be transported to a magical world of football they never knew existed! Can Frankie and his team beat the Pirate Pillagers and make their way home? Read by John Cormack. 47 minutes. Webb, Holly. The reindeer girl. 2014. TB22500.One Christmas, Lotta is visiting her grandmother in Norway. Soon, she finds herself drawn into a magical adventure, travelling by sledge, herding reindeer from the snowy mountains to the summer pastures. But when a mother reindeer is lost, Lotta must find her before her calf starves. Read by Clare Corbett. 1 hour 54 minutes. Suggested reading age 7+Blade, Adam. Sepron: the sea serpent. 2007. TB22641.Beast quest; book 2. Six fearsome beasts have been cast under an evil spell by the Dark Wizard Malvel, and are destroying the kingdom of Avantia. Our hero Tom and his friend Elenna must free the beasts from the spell and save the land. Let the battle commence! Read by Leighton Pugh. 1 hour 5 minutes. Davies, Katie. The great cat conspiracy. 2011. TB22651.The New Cat keeps bringing dead things into the house as presents for Tom. When he brings in the head of the vicar's very expensive Koi Carp and the Vicar makes Mum pay £200 for a replacement, Anna's Dad is so cross he locks the New Cat out of the cat-flap. Tom argues for the Cat to be let back in, but the flap is left shut overnight and when Dad finally concedes, the New Cat has disappeared altogether. Anna, Suzanne and Tom are convinced he has been kidnapped but who is responsible? Read by Emma Noakes. 2 hours 32 minutes. Nadin, Joanna. Penny Dreadful causes a kerfuffle. 2014. TB22486.Penny Dreadful; book 3. My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But this time I really wasn't trying to be DREADFUL... No. I was just trying to DO MY BEST, so it is completely not my fault that right now I am sort of blueish all over and so is my sister Daisy's swan outfit. Read by Jane McDowell. 59 minutes. Nadin, Joanna. Penny Dreadful cooks up a calamity. 2014. TB22487.Penny Dreadful; book 4. I didn't mean to get up to any SHENANIGANS on the school trip. Plus I worked extra-especially hard on the CAKE OF DREAMS for Mum's birthday...but somehow it still turned into a HUGE calamity. Three funny Penny Dreadful adventures in one fab book! Read by Jane McDowell. 57 minutes. Plowden, Sophie. Jack Dash and the magic feather. 2015. TB22564.Jack is not happy when his family move to the dull suburban town of Curtly Ambrose. But everything changes when Jack finds a magic feather inside a book. Jack's magic feather makes whatever he draws come to life. But his grand plans (for a dog, a car and loads of chocolate) don't go quite right and he ends up on the run from the Mayor and taking a sea lion on the bus. Even worse Jack is constantly being pestered by Coco, the girl next door who is very annoying and possibly insane. Read by Louise Jamieson. 2 hours 54 minutes. Webb, Holly. The case of the stolen sixpence. 2014. TB22499.Maisie Hitchins; book 1. Maisie Hitchins longs to be a detective. She's sure there are lots of mysteries to solve on the streets of Victorian London, if only she weren't so busy running errands for her grandmother. When Maisie rescues an abandoned puppy, he quickly leads her to her first case. George, the butcher's boy, has been sacked for stealing, but Maisie's sure he's innocent. Read by Victoria Fox. 01:45 hours minutes. Suggested reading age 9+Burne, Cristy. Takeshita demons. 2011. TB22636.Takeshita demons; book. Miku Takeshita and her family have moved from Japan to live in the UK, but unfortunately the family's enemy demons have followed them! Miku knows she's in trouble when her new supply teacher turns out to be a Nukekubi – a bloodthirsty demon who can turn into a flying head and whose favourite snack is children. That night, in a raging snowstorm, Miku's little brother Kazu is kidnapped by the demons, and then it's up to Miku and her friend Cait to get him back. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 2 hours 45 minutes. Burne, Cristy. The filth licker. 2011. TB22379.Takeshita demons; book 2. Miku is going to School Camp in the forest, with her friend Cait and the rest of her class. It should be fun. But Miku has premonitions of danger, and when Oscar goes down with a festering rash, and a rushing wind blows out the bonfire, she's sure something bad is going on. Read by Becky Wright. 4 hours 4 minutes. Burne, Cristy. Monster matsuri. 2012. TB22380.Takeshita demons; book 3. Trouble is brewing again for Miku and her friends, Cait and Alex. There's a violent quilt spirit in Alex's bedroom and a mysterious visitor has been in the Takeshitas' house, drinking tea from their best cups. And then Kazu is stolen for the second time. Miku, Cait, Alex and the little Filth Licker must solve the trail of clues. Read by Becky Wright. 3 hours 49 minutes. Dennis, H. L. The Knights of Neustria. 2013. TB22550.Secret breakers; book 3. Team Veritas are back at Bletchley Park where a secret message hidden in a Shakespeare Portfolio pulls them into a new code-cracking adventure. Their investigations lead them to the writings of Sir Francis Bacon. Soon, they uncover the history of the Knights of Neustria, a brotherhood that goes back to the time of King Arthur charged with protecting a legendary secret. But are they any closer to their goal - to unravel the secret behind the ancient coded Voynich Manuscript? Read by Natalie Castka. 8 hours 8 minutes. Hatfield, Ruth. The book of storms. 2015. TB22459.Book of storms; book 1. Eleven-year-old Danny's parents are storm chasers, which sounds fun and exciting, and it is, so long as you aren't the son who has to wait behind at home. And one night, after a particularly fierce storm, Danny's parents don't come back. Stranger still, the old sycamore tree in Danny's yard seems to have been struck by lightning, and when he picks up a fragment of wood from the tree's heart, he finds he can hear voices, including that of next door's rather uppity cat, Mitzy. Read by Thomas Eyre. 7 hours 36 minutes. Judge, Malcolm. The hamburgers of doom. 2015. TB22368.Jonny Jakes investigates. Meet Jonny Jakes, undercover schoolboy reporter for 'The Woodford Word.' He offends everyone he writes about and hates anyone finding out his real name. It's not Jonny Jakes. After only half a term of Jonny's diligent reporting, Mr Hardy is retiring as Head Teacher. Just who is his replacement, Mr Jones? With a suspiciously normal name like that, Jonny knows something's up. He just didn't expect it to be so out of this world. Read by David Thorpe. 3 hours 45 minutes. McCaughrean, Geraldine. The middle of nowhere. 2014. TB22479.When her mother dies from a snakebite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes forever. As her father retreats into his work, Comity turns to Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy, who becomes her only friend. But then a new assistant arrives who delights in playing cruel games. As Fred becomes his target, events spiral dangerously out of control. Read by Ailsa Joy. 6 hours 40 minutes. McCombie, Karen. The girl who wasn't there. 2014. TB22340.Maisie’s dad has a new job as live-in caretaker of a Victorian secondary school. Finding it hard to make friends, things change when Maisie tells her new classmates about something strange she saw the night before - a girl's face in the window of a gothic tower. Kat seems captivated by what Maisie has seen, and they quickly become close. Maisie comes across a tin box full of photos and notes. It's plainly decades old, and, squinting at the photos - belonged to a smiling girl who looks exactly like Kat. Read by Bethany Minelle. 4 hours 30 minutes. McCombie, Karen. Angels next door. 2014. TB22376.Angels next door; book 1. Riley's best friend has gone away forever and Lauren 'Queen of Everything' Mayhew is making school a nightmare. It looks like Riley's on her own, until the three Angelo sisters move in next door. Colourful and sparkly, they stand out, especially at school and since they've arrived there have been loads of strange coincidences. Read by Janine Haynes. 4 hours 32 minutes. McCombie, Karen. Angels in training. 2014. TB22377.Angels next door; book 2. Riley's life has changed a lot since she discovered the Angelo sister's secret. You see, her new neighbours are a little bit - magical. They know things that no-one else does, and that's why she thinks they can help her find out about mum. But just as she's about to get some answers, mysterious events start happening at school. Read by Janine Haynes. 4 hours16 minutes. McLoughlin, Jane. The Crowham Martyrs. 2015. TB22381.Between growing up and boy trouble Maddy Deeprose may seem like your average 13-year-old girl, but there's something different about Maddy – she can see ghosts. The new school term starts at Crowham Martyrs, but Maddy can sense that something is wrong. She begins to have disturbing visions and nightmares of suffering and pain and when her best friend goes missing and nobody will listen to her, Maddy knows it is up to her to uncover the truth and stop history repeating itself. Read by Una Byrne. 7 hours 20 minutes. Nix, Garth. Castle. 2008. TB22324.Seventh tower; book 2. Tal, a Chosen, and Milla, an Icecarl, have been thrown together on a dangerous quest to gain a Sunstone. They must reach the Castle of the Seven Towers, home for Tal, but a dangerous and strange place for Milla. From the deadly Hall of Nightmares to the magical chambers of Tal's great-uncle Ebbitt, they must navigate the Castle without being discovered. Sinister forces are conspiring against them and it will take all their strength just to survive. Read by John Cormack. 4 hours 53 minutes. Nix, Garth. Aenir. 2009. TB22325.Seventh tower; book 3. The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment or death. Tal and Milla continue on their quest together, travelling to the magical land. There they must find the Codex, a mysterious book that details the entire history of their Dark World and will ultimately decide their fate. It is an almost impossible task. In addition to the spells and curses that permeate Aenir, there are evil powers that do not want Tal and Milla to succeed and they will stop at nothing to see that they do not. Read by John Cormack. 5 hours 1minute. Sparkes, Ali. A life and death job. 2013. TB22517.Unleashed; book 1. A group of very special teenagers, each with an incredible power, they live together, protected by the government. Out in the ordinary world they know they must not use their powers. Lisa is one such extraordinary teenager. Every day she can hear the dead talking, and they never leave her alone. Then a brilliantly planned kidnap thrusts Lisa into the role of reluctant rescuer alongside Michael, a famous TV psychic. Together they set out to find a missing girl and walk straight into mortal danger. Lisa is in fear for her own life, is there anyone to help her? Read by Dawn Murphy. 5 hours. Sparkes, Ali. Mind over matter. 2013. TB22518.Unleashed; book 2. A group of special teenagers, each with an incredible power. They live together and learn how to use their abilities, protected from those who wish to harm them. Gideon and Luke are spending some quality family time, playing at being normal teenagers for once. They have no real reason to use their telekinetic powers in the small seaside town, and there are enough bodyguards around to keep them safe, right? Wrong. Someone is stalking them. Read by Dawn Murphy. 4 hours 43 minutes. Watson, Victor. Operation blackout. 2015. TB22565.It is December 1940 and Hannah Conway is ten. She is evacuated to the countryside after a bomb leaves her completely alone in the world. Settling into her new life Hannah realises someone is following her. And when she and her new friends discover something in their sleepy village, they put themselves in even greater danger. Meanwhile in Germany, 12 year -old Konrad is faced with a proposition he cannot refuse. Read by David Thorpe. 7 hours 42 minutes. Suggested reading age 11+Earle, Phil. The bubble wrap boy. 2014. TB22389.All my life I've been tiny Charlie from the Chinese Chippie, whose only friend is Sinus, the kid who stares at walls. But I believe that everyone's good at something. I've just got to work out what my something is... Charlie's found his secret talent: skateboarding. It's his one-way ticket to popularity. All he's got to do is practice, and nothing's going to stop him - not his clumsiness, not his overprotective mum, nothing. Except Charlie isn't the only one in his family hiding a massive secret, and his next discovery will change everything. Read by Duncan Barrett. 5 hours 23 minutes. Suggested reading age 13+Cannon, Katy. Love, lies & lemon pies. 2014. TB22391.16-year-old Lottie is on a mission to protect her biggest secret, and it'll take every lie and every baking trick she can muster. Since her dad died, life hasn't been the same for Lottie. When the school suggests she joins Bake Club to get her back on track, Lottie reluctantly agrees. But Lottie's uncertainty about Bake Club melts away as she rekindles her love of baking and gets caught up with Mac, school rebel and another unwilling Bake Club member. As the end-of-year Bake Off approaches, the tension rises. Can Lottie keep up the facade of her perfect life? And can her bubbling romance with Mac survive the pressure? Read by Una Byrne. 6 hours 46 minutes. Cole, Cathy. The new girl. 2014. TB22648.Heartside Bay; book 1. Lila Murray is desperate for a fresh start after her family moved from London to Heartside Bay. It's the perfect chance to leave her past mistakes behind. Day one at Heartside High School brings a whole new set of problems, and one very big new crush. Why did the first boy she met have to be Ollie? The hottest boy in school. And the boy that the school 'it' girl Eve has already claimed as her own. Eve is not someone Lila needed to make an enemy, but it's already too late. Read by Gloria Sanders. 4 hours 7 minutes. Davis, Ben. The private blog of Joe Cowley. 2014. TB22388.14-year-old Joe Cowley didn't think his luck could get any worse. But then he finds out he has to share a bedroom with his new step-brother – wedgie -giving school bully Gav James – and Joe realizes all his worst nightmares are about to come true! Brilliantly funny and packed with doodles, this book will make you cry with laughter. Read by Tom Stanley. 7 hours 36 minutes. Lange, Erin Jade. Butter. 2013. TB22392.The story of a lonely 423-pound boy everyone calls 'Butter'. Worse than being ridiculed for his size at school, he is simply ignored. Desperate, he pledges to eat himself to death live on the Internet. When he makes this announcement online, he expects insults, or possibly sheer indifference. Instead, his classmates become morbid cheerleaders for his deadly plan. Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. But what happens when Butter reaches his suicide deadline? Contains strong language. Read by James Sobol Kelly. 6 hours 59 minutes.
Robinson, Jon. Nowhere. 2013. TB22390.Nowhere; book 1. Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are 100 teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free? Read by Daniel Philpott. 5 hours 9 minutes. 15+ suggested reading ageLake, Nick. There will be lies. 2015. TB405421.Shelby Jane Cooper is 17, pretty and quiet. Her mom likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn’t go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it’s not just her leg that’s broken: Shelby’s world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect her and drives off into the night, like Thelma and Louise. And somehow, everywhere she looks, there’s a coyote watching her, talking to her, telling her not to believe. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize 2016. Read by Kelly Burke. 12 hours 5 minutes.
Children and young adult non-fictionSuggested reading age 5+Harris, Gemma Elwin. Why can't I tickle myself? 2013. TB22382.Children have a knack of asking great questions: Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why did dinosaurs go extinct and not other animals? What is global warming? Imagine if we could turn to a leading expert and ask them to answer in simple terms. Read by Sarah Whitehouse, Mark Elstob. 6 hours 10 minutes. Suggested reading age 7+Symons, Mitchell. Do igloos have loos? and other cool questions answered! 2011. TB22361.That's so gross! Ever wondered . . . Why are slugs so slimy? Why does your skin go wrinkly in the bath? How clever is your right foot? What is the best thing to do if you fall into quicksand? And do igloos have loos? Mitchell Symons knows the answers . . . and now you will too! Read by Kris Dyer. 3 hours 18 minutes. World Book Day titlesReading age 0-4Hendra, Sue. Supertato hap-pea ever after. TB22922.Supertato is back and facing his nemesis in a new adventure. It’s bedtime in the supermarket but the peppers are playing, the carrots are crazy and the bananas are going berserk! What these over-tired veggies need is a story. But what’s this? All the books have disappeared! Is there anyone who can help? Supertato to the rescue! Read by James Parsons. 6 minutes. Inkpen, Mick. Kipper's Visitor. TB22921.Kipper has a visitor, a slightly dirty gosling in need of a bath. But the gosling doesn't say very much. 'Honk!' is about all he can manage! Created for World Book Day 2016 this charming story follows Kipper and an adorable gosling through a bubbly bathtime. Read by Kris Dyer. 5 minutes. Reading age 5+Dahl, Roald. The great mouse plot. TB22924.In this recounting, previously published as part of his autobiography Boy, the author recounts "The Great Mouse Plot". From the age of seven, Roald Dahl attended Llandaff Cathedral School in Cardiff. He and his friends had a grudge against the local sweet-shop owner, Mrs. Pratchett, a sour, elderly widow who gave no thought to hygiene. They played a prank on her by placing a dead mouse in a gobstopper jar. They were caned by the headmaster as a punishment, while Mrs. Pratchett watched, laughing and encouraging him to cane them harder. Read by Steve Hodson. 51 minutes. Gray, Kes. Daisy and the trouble with Jack. TB22923.Daisy can't believe it! Mrs Peters is making her sit next to Jack Beechwhistle, the naughtiest boy in the school, and possibly the whole world. Jack is so mad! Mrs Peters is making him sit next to Daisy Butters, she's such an annoying tell tale. As the school day goes on, Daisy and Jack think of more and more ways to get one up on each other. Then they both have a brilliant idea. Trouble is, Daisy and Jack might be more alike than they realized. Read by Gloria Sanders, Kris Dyer. 52 minutes. Reading age 7+Burnell, Cerrie. Harper and the sea of secrets. TB22928.The Songs of the Sea festival is about to start, but disaster has struck! The royal musicians will be performing, but all their instruments have disappeared. Will Harper and her friends have the courage to walk along the pitch-black smugglers' tunnels passing under the sea to find out who has stolen the instruments? Read by Gloria Sanders. 1 hour 1 minute. Scott, Cavan. The escape. TB22926.Star wars. Adventures in wild space; book . It is a dark time in a galaxy far, far away. When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them and to discover hope for the future. Read by James Parsons. 1 hour 4 minutes. Reading age 9+Baddiel, David. The boy who could do what he liked. TB22927.Billy has a routine. To be honest he has a lot of routines. But then one day Billy's babysitter is unavailable, and Billy's parents get Mrs Stokes instead. Mrs Stokes doesn't do routines. Instead, she just tells Billy to do what he likes. And that's when things start to go weird. Does everything get hilariously out of control? Yes. Does Billy learn a valuable lesson? Nah. This isn't that kind of story. Read by David Baddiel. 1 hour 6 minutes. Meres, Jonathan. Welcome to the world of Norm. TB22925.The world of Norm. Norm knew it was going to be one of those days when he woke up to find a half-Polish cockapoo sat on his head. But that's OK, because at least there's biking with his friend Mikey to look forward to. Or at least there was until Norm discovers he has to stay in and wait for some stupid parcel to arrive. Just as well he hasn't got two irritating little brothers and the world's most annoying next door neighbour. Oh wait a minute. He has. Welcome to the world of Norm? Read by Kris Dyer. 1 hour 5 minutes. Reading age 13+Dawson, Juno. Spot the difference. TB22929.Avery has always suffered at the hands of bullies, so when she's given a seemingly-miraculous opportunity to join the 'A-list' she grabs at it with both hands. But appearances can be deceiving, soon Avery's not so sure she likes this new version of herself. And it's only by overcoming her fears that she can learn the true meaning of being comfortable in your own skin. Read by Gloria Sanders. 2 hours 33 minutes. Rowell, Rainbow. Kindred spirits. TB22930.If you broke Elena's heart, 'Star Wars' would spill out. So when she decides to queue outside her local cinema to see the new movie, she's expecting a celebration with crowds of people who love Han, Luke and Leia just as much as she does. What she's not expecting is to be last in a line of only three people; to have to pee into a collectible 'Star Wars' soda cup behind a dumpster, or to meet that unlikely someone who just might truly understand the way she feels. Read by Christy Meyer. 1 hour 21 minutes. 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