New books Issue 45 May 2015
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Braille fiction
All titles are for loan and sale unless otherwise stated.
Adult fiction Billingham, Mark. The dying hours. 2014. Crime fiction.
Tom Thorne series; book 1. Tom Thorne is back in uniform. He becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly in London is something more sinister. His concerns are dismissed by the Murder Squad he was once part of and he is forced to look into it alone.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005703.
Bloom, Tracy. No-one ever has sex on a Tuesday. 2014. Chick lit.
Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten - until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby.
4v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24945103.
Bolton, Sharon. Sacrifice. 2009. Thriller.
Deep in the peat soil of her field, Tora Hamilton is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed. Tora then uncovers disturbing links to an ancient Shetland legend.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005903
Bradshaw, Rita. Beyond the veil of tears. 2014. Family stories.
Naive and innocent, Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald Golding who is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his womanizing has caused. On her wedding night, Angeline enters a nightmare from which there is no awakening.
7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25107203.
Buchan, Elizabeth. I can't begin to tell you. 2014. General fiction.
British-born Kay Eberstern lives in Nazi-occupied Demark. Her husband Bror is desperate to preserve his family home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy. Lured by British Intelligence into the world of Resistance, her betrayal of Bror is complete as she puts her family in danger.
8v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 25005403
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The love knot. 1999. Historical fiction.
The year is 1140 and England is torn by the strife of civil war. After her village is raided, Catrin is rescued by Oliver Pascal and taken to Bristol Castle. There she meets Ethelreda, who offers to teach her the art of midwifery. But a midwife's life is fraught with dangers.
8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24989903
Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. Romance.
When Rachel receives the news that her estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns home after twenty years away. But the town blames her for a past tragedy and amongst the hostility and gossip she is forced to seek out old allies and new passions.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005203.
Chambers, Kimberley. Payback. 2013. Thriller.
The trap series; book 2. In the Butlers’ world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's cousin's death comes out, it rocks the Butlers to the core. Vinny's friends and family are turning against him. Then, the unimaginable happens - Vinny's little daughter Molly goes missing.
7v. Price: 12.99. Order No: 24759803.
Carter, Chris. One by one. 2014. Crime fiction.
Robert Hunter series; book 5. After an anonymous call, Detective Robert Hunter must watch as an unidentified victim is murdered live over the internet. During the next call the killer tells him he has upgraded his game into a live murder reality show, where anyone can cast the deciding vote.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005803.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. Shadows and strongholds. 2013. Historical fiction.
Nine-year-old Fulke FitzWarin leaves his family for the household of Joscelin de Dinan, Lord of Ludlow. Joscelin's youngest daughter, Hawise, befriends Fulke when he most needs it. But as the years pass, an enemy to Ludlow forces them onto opposite sides of a cruel divide.
9v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24989603.
Cumming, Charles. A foreign country. 2013. Thriller.
Amelia Levene; book 1 Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her quickly and quietly.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order no: 25004305
Cussler, Clive. The bootlegger. 2014. Thriller.
Isaac Bell; book 8. It is 1920. When a witness to a shooting is executed in a manner peculiar to the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these were no ordinary bootleggers. Bell is facing a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs.
5v. Price: £13.99. Order No: 24945003.
Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. Crime fiction.
Cormoran Strike series; book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives.
9v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24945203.
Harkness, Deborah E. The book of life. 2014. Fantasy.
All souls trilogy; book 3. Diana and Matthew return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency.
11v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 25005603.
Hassel, Sven. Comrades of war. 2014. War.
So severely wounded as to earn a respite from the dreaded Eastern Front, Sven, the Legionnaire and Tiny - having miraculously survived the freezing cattle-truck journey and the surgeons' butchery - find themselves safe behind the lines in a Hamburg hospital.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25004503.
Herries, Anne. The rebel captain's royalist bride. 2014. Romance.
Babette Harvey must suffer in silence when her uncle gives shelter to a band of Rebels - though her Royalist blood boils! But other dangerous passions must also be quieted - including those aroused by the handsome and commanding Rebel leader Captain James Colby.
4v. Price: £4.99. Order No: BR24907605
Kernick, Simon. Siege. 2012. Thriller.
People are dead and many more lives hang in the balance as gunmen storm the Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. They have given the government 5 hours to meet their demands before blowing up the building. The guests are all are united by one thing: fear for their lives.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005303.
Lawson, Mary. Road ends. 2014. General fiction.
One winter’s day in 1966 Megan Cartwright sets out for London. But left behind, her family begins to unravel. Disturbing letters from home begin to arrive and torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice.
6v. Price: £13.96. Order No: 25005503.
Lewis, Susan. Never say goodbye. 2014. General fiction.
How would you cope with the threat of losing someone you love? Josie's life couldn't be more different to Bel's. But three years ago, tragedy tore Bel's life in two. Now it's happening to Josie. And faced with uncertainty and heartbreak, they come to treasure their growing friendship.
8v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 24943803.
Lewis, Susan. No child of mine. 2013. General fiction.
When the case of three-year-old Ottilie Wade comes to her attention, Alex Lake finds herself unable to detach from the child the way she should. She feels an overpowering need to make a real difference in little Ottilie's life, but no one is prepared to believe that Ottilie is in danger.
9v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25006003.
Ley, Rosanna. Return to Mandalay. 2014. General fiction.
When Eva's job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to Mandalay, her grandfather Lawrence finally breaks his silence about his wartime in Burma and asks her to return a mysterious artefact of his own to its rightful owner. But in Burma Eva’s mission proves complicated.
8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25005103.
McCaffrey, Anne. Red star rising. 1997. Fantasy.
Dragonriders of Pern; book 4. For two hundred years there had been peace on Pern, but now the signs were ominous. Violent winter storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the coming of the second Pass of Thread.
6v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25003603.
McDermott, Andy. Kingdom of darkness. 2014. Thriller.
Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase; book 10. Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are warned about a planned raid on Alexander's newly-discovered tomb in Egypt. But before the man can explain more, he is assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal - who has barely aged in seventy years.
8v. Price: £19.99. Order No: 25010703.
Mackay, Malcolm. The night the rich men burned. 2014. Thriller.
Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney become involved in one of Glasgow’s darkest and most dangerous trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts.
6v. Price: £16.99. Order No: 24999403.
Maitland, Karen. The vanishing witch. 2014. Historical fiction.
The reign of Richard II is troubled, and in a world where nothing can be taken at face value, who can you trust? And when people start dying unnatural deaths and the peasants decide it's time to fight back, it's all too easy to spy witchcraft at every turn.
10v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24997803.
Malpas, Jodi Ellen, This man. 2013. Erotic fiction.
Jesse Ward - a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. Ava doesn't want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can't control the overwhelming desire he stirs in her. Jesse wants her and is determined to have her.
8v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24928903.
Norman, Charity. The son-in-law. 2014. General fiction.
This is the story of Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event. Of Zoe's parents, Hannah and Frederick, who are bringing up the children and can't forgive Joseph. They slowly adjust to life without Zoe, until the day Joseph is released from prison.
6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24929003.
North, Freya. The way back home. 2014. Chick lit.
Oriana has returned to the village she grew up in for the first time in years. But as she finds herself increasingly drawn to Windward, the huge house that was the chaotic artists' community where she was born, it becomes clear that there is more to be untangled from the past than the present.
5v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25107103.
Patterson, James. Invisible. 2014. Thriller.
Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, everyone thinks FBI Reseacher Emmy Dockery is crazy. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence they can't afford to ignore. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes?
5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24987303.
Pelecanos, George P. The cut. 2012. Thriller.
Spero Lucas; book 1. Spero Lucas has made name for himself as the kind of person who gets jobs done quietly and effectively, usually just on the right side of the law. A quick case for a criminal defence attorney leads him into the world of a high-profile marijuana dealer.
4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24929703.
Rendell, Ruth. The girl next door. 2014. Crime fiction.
When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long-buried crime of passion begins. The grisly discovery leads a group of friends, who played together as children, to question their pasts.
5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24998703.
Sanderson, Brandon. Words of radiance. 2014. Fantasy.
The stormlight archive; book 2. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artefacts from a past civilization that can win wars.
22v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 24879403.
Saintcrow, Lilith. The Ripper affair. 2014. Fantasy.
Bannon and Clare; book 3. A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath in the service of Britannia, in the care of Emma Bannon, sorceress Prime. Clare needs a measure of calm to repair his faculties of Logic and Reason. Without them, he is not his best. 5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25010503.
Shaw, Rebecca. Trouble in the village. 2000. General fiction.
Turnham Malpas; book 8. When Willie Biggs, the Verger, retires, his successor Tom Nicholls appears to be just the man for the job until events in Tom's past return to haunt him and bring violence and danger to the peaceful village.
5v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 24985803.
Shaw, Rebecca. Village rumours. 2014. General fiction.
Turnham Malpas; book 18. While clearing out the rectory's loft,
Reverend Peter Harris makes an unsettling discovery and a dark secret is exposed that soon sets tongues wagging in the village.
4v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24998603.
Simmons, Dan. The abominable. 2014. Thriller.
In June 1924 George Mallory vanishes on the slopes of Everest. Explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in his footsteps. But some dark creature is tracking them up the mountain. Soon they will discover what happened to Mallory's crew - but can they escape the same hideous fate?
12v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24929903.
Steel, Danielle. Lightning. 1996. Romance.
As a partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and three-year-old child. Then lightning strikes – a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news.
8v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 24998503.
Steel, Danielle. Power play. 2014. Romance.
Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company. Marshall Weston basks in the fruits of his achievements. To maintain his position, he harbours secrets that could destroy his life at any moment. Both must fight off those who are jealous of their success.
5v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 24987403
Stevens, Chevy. Never knowing. 2011. Thriller.
At 34 Sara Gallagher is happy. Now she wants to find her birth parents. But Sara's mother rejects her - again - and her father turns out to be an infamous killer who's been slaying women every summer for over 30 years. And he's found out about Sara too.
6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 24930403.
Stratmann, Linda. The poisonous seed. 2013. Crime Fiction.
Frances Doughty; book 1. When a customer of William Doughty’s chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William’s daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father’s reputation.
6v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 24929103
Tessaro, Kathleen. The perfume collector. 2013. General fiction.
Eva Dorsey names Grace Chief Beneficiary in her will but Grace has never heard of Eva. An abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, a woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24998903.
Titchmarsh, Alan. Bring me home. 2014. General fiction.
Charlie Stuart welcomes his guests to the annual party. Friends and neighbours come together to toast the laird's happiness and prosperity. But Charlie sees the truth behind the façade. The past, with its dark secrets of love, death, loyalty and betrayal, is about to catch up with him.
4v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25010603.
Vyleta, Dan. The crooked maid. 2014. General fiction.
Vienna, 1948. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier. Travelling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather's sickbed and the secrets of his family's past.
7v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24986803.
Wecker, Helene. The golem and the djinni. 2014. Fantasy.
Chava is a golem. When her master dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899. Ahmad, a djinni, is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.
10v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 24940403.
Weeks, Brent. The broken eye. 2014. Fantasy.
Lightbringer series; book 3. As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism. Meanwhile, the Color Prince's army continues its inexorable advance, having swallowed two of the seven satrapies, they now invade the Blood Forest.
16v. £18.99. Order No:24986903
Welsh, Irvine. The sex lives of Siamese twins. 2014. General fiction.
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, Lucy becomes a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client.
7v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 24986703.
Whitehouse, Lucie. Before we met. 2014. Thriller.
A whirlwind romance followed by a picture-perfect marriage. However, one day Hannah Reilly’s husband fails to come home. Are the secrets that Mark has been keeping designed to protect him or protect her? And can you ever really know what happened before you met?
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25010303
Young, Louisa. The heroes' welcome. 2014. General fiction.
1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But long shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering.
5v. £12.99. Order No: 25010803
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