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BOOKLIST

187

MAY 2018

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BOOKLIST 187 CONTENTS NON-FICTION

AGRICULTURE PAGE 1

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PAGE 1

ANIMALS PAGE 1

ARCHITECTURE PAGE 1

ART PAGE 1

BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE 2

CUSTOMS, ETIQUETTE, FOLKLORE PAGE 2

DIET, COOKERY, FOOD, DRINK & C. PAGE 2

ECONOMICS, POLITICS, CURRENT AFFAIRS, BUSINESS PAGE 2

ENLIGHTENMENT SERIES PAGE 2

GENEALOGY, NAMES, INSIGNIA PAGE 3

HISTORY, EUROPE PAGE 3

HISTORY, GERMANY PAGE 3

HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN PAGE 3

HISTORY, IRELAND PAGE 5

HISTORY, ITALY PAGE 5

HISTORY, RUSSIA PAGE 5

HISTORY, SCANDANAVIA PAGE 5

HISTORY, SOUTH AFRICA PAGE 5

HISTORY, USA PAGE 6

HISTORY, WORLD PAGE 6

LEEDS PAGE 6

LIBRARY AND INFFORMATION SCIENCES PAGE 7

LITERARY HISTORY & CRITICISM PAGE 7

MEDICINE PAGE 8

MILITARY HISTORY PAGE 9

MUSIC PAGE 9

PERFORMING ARTS PAGE 9

PHILOSOPHY PAGE 9

POETRY AND DRAMA PAGE 9

POLITICAL SCIENCE PAGE 10

PSYCHOLOGY PAGE 10

SERIAL PUBLICATION PAGE 10

SOCIAL SCIENCES PAGE 11

SOCIAL WELFARE PAGE 11

SPORT & GAMES PAGE 11

THEOLOGY, RELIGION PAGE 12

TRANSPORT PAGE 12

TRANSPORTATION PAGE 12

TRAVEL AND GEOGRAPHY PAGE 12

FICTION CRIME PAGE 12

GENERAL PAGE 14

HISTORICAL PAGE 18

HISTORICAL CRIME PAGE 20

ROMANCE PAGE 20

SCI-FI / FANTASY PAGE 20

THRILLERS PAGE 21

CHECKLIST CHECKLIST PAGE 22

Booklist 187 was compiled by Helen Holdsworth, Nichola Holmes and Aidan Thackrey

Edited and produced by Anna Goodridge

Booklist 187 / Page 1

BOOKLIST 187

NON-FICTION

AGRICULTURE

1 WRIGHT (John) A natural history of the hedgerow and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls [viii, 376 p.]

N036824 D/635.9 (WRI)

One of Britain’s best known naturalists, John Wright introduces us to the natural and cultural history of hedges from the arrival of the first settlers in the British Isles to the modern day, when we have begun to recognise the importance of these unique ecosystems.

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

2 NORTON (Julian) A Yorkshire vet through the seasons [256 p.] N038912 D/636.089 (NOR)

Yorkshire vet, Julian Norton recounts more inspirational tales from his life, the animals he has treated and the people he has met, as well as taking us through the seasons.

ANIMALS

3 ROBERTS (Alice) Tamed : ten species that changed our world [[8], 360 p.] N038911 D/590.9 (ROB)

Alice Roberts uncovers the deep history of ten familiar species with incredible wild pasts. She reveals how becoming part of our world changed these animals and plants, and shows how they became our allies, essential to the survival and success of our own species.

ARCHITECTURE

Pevsner Architectural Guides

4 HARMAN (Ruth) and PEVSNER (Nikolaus) Yorkshire West Riding : Sheffield and the South [xviii, 841 p.]

N036900 L/206.3 (YOR)

5 JENKINS (Simon) Britain’s 100 best railway stations [x, 326 p.] N036880 DQ/725 (JEN)

Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections, the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations.

6 New Bodleian : making the new Weston Library [224 p.] N036887 DQ/727 (WES)

In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library site in Broad Street, Oxford in order to provide much-needed space for the growing numbers of books housed in the library and the number of readers using them. In 2009, thanks to a generous bequest from the Garfield Weston Foundation, plans got underway for a complete refurbishment of the building to meet the needs of twenty-first-century research and the Bodleian's expanding collections. This book tells the story of how the vision for the Weston Library was realized.

ART

7 CHANCELLOR (Alexander) The Oldie book of cartoons [160 p.] N036808 D/741.5 (OLD)

500 of the best cartoons out of the 8,000 which have been published by The Oldie.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

8 COLLINS (Michael) Books that changed history [256 p.] N036909 DQ/002 (COL)

A beautiful and enthralling guide to more than 80 of the world’s most celebrated, rare and important written works, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Anne Frank’s diary. Each chapter charts both the evolution and the legacy of every landmark book profiled.

9 HOLLINGSHEAD (Iain) Did anyone else see that coming …? : unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph

[xii, 195 p.] N036872 D/070.4 (HOL)

New in the best-selling series of Unpublished Letters, this is a year in review made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.

CUSTOMS, ETIQUETTE AND FOLKLORE

10 TOOLIS (Kevin) My father’s wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die [[10], 275 p.] N036899

D/393 (TOO)

Writer and filmmaker Kevin Toolis gives an intimate, eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, and explores the wider history of the Irish wake.

DIET, COOKERY, FOOD, DRINK & C.

11 MEADES (Jonathan) The plagiarist in the kitchen [176 p.] N036892 D/641.5 (MEA)

An anti-cookbook from provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades. He has been called ‘the best amateur chef in the world’ by Marco Pierre White and his contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality.

ECONOMICS, POLITICS, CURRENT AFFAIRS, BUSINESS

12 KYNASTON (David) Till time’s last sand : a history of the Bank of England 1694-2013 N036884

D/332.1 (KYN)

The first authoritative and accessible single volume history of the Bank of England, opening with the Bank’s founding in 1694 in the midst of the English financial revolution and closing in 2013 with Mark Carney succeeding Mervyn King as governor.

13 SKIDELSKY (Robert) and FRACCAROLI (Nicolò) Austerity vs stimulus : the political future of economic

recovery [xxiv, 183 p.] N036950 D/338.9 (SKI)

This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010, and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead.

ENLIGHTENMENT SERIES

The pamphlets listed below have been kindly donated by Emeritus Professor Jonathan Powers of the University of Derby who recently delivered the Priestley Lecture at Mill Hill Chapel. They were written to support the work of Derby Museum and Art Gallery and Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield.

14 Henry Cavendish : the man who weighed the earth N038750 PAMBOX 31

15 Benjamin Franklin and Darwin’s lunaticks N038722 PAMBOX 31

16 Evolution evolving : part I : Erasmus Darwin N038730 PAMBOX 31

17 John Whitehurst’s theory of the earth N038726 PAMBOX 31

18 The philosopher lecturing on the orrery : the identity of the man in Joseph Wright’s famous painting

N038734 PAMBOX 31

19 Searching for the philosopher’s stone : the story behind Joseph Wright’s alchymist N038746

PAMBOX 31


20 Experimentising the bird in the air pump : Joseph Wright’s most dramatic and disturbing painting

N038754 PAMBOX 31

21 Mapping the heavens : Flamsteed’s influence from Newton to Neptune N038738

22 Nature power and liberty : Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury and Derbyshire N038742

GENEALOGY, NAMES, INSIGNIA

23 COSKI (John M.) The Confederate battle flag : America’s most embattled emblem flag [xiv, 401 p.]

N036890 D/929.92 (COS)

Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history. He reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War and shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon.

HISTORY, EUROPE

24 MAZOWER (Mark) What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home [[10], 382 p.] N034903

D/940 (MAZ)

Some years before Mark Mazower’s father died, he sat with him and recorded his stories of the things he liked to talk about most, the war, his childhood, history and Russia. This is the remarkable story he uncovered of a family, and the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants.

HISTORY, GERMANY

25 BOYD (Julia) Travellers in the Third Reich : the rise of Fascism through the eyes of everyday people

[viii, 456 p.] N036919 D/943.086 (BOY)

An extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear and even breathe the atmosphere.

HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN

26 BALLS (Ed) Speaking out : lessons in life and politics [xvi, 430 p.] N036602 D/941.086 (BAL)

A life in and out of politics – from the despatch box to the stage on Strictly – by one of Britain’s most influential and well-loved political figures.

27 CADBURY (Deborah) Queen Victoria’s matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe [[8], 387 p.]

N036913 D/941.081 (CAD)

Travelling through the most glittering, decadent palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions to enthralling effect, Deborah Cadbury gives a captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power, that of matchmaking grandmother.

28 COOPER (Wallace) and SAVAGE (Stephen) Earthly glory : three lost churches of Bradford [16 p.] N036898

D/942.817 (COO)

A fascinating story of St Jude’s, St Mary Magdalene’s and Holy Trinity in Bradford. They were all built in the mid-19th century and all served the people of the area through charity and service as well as worship.


29 DAVIES (Hunter) A life in the day : memories of sixties London, lots of writing, the Beatles and my

beloved wife [[8], 374 p.] N036837 D/941.085 (DAV)

In this much anticipated sequel to The Co-op’s got bananas, Hunter Davies looks back across the five decades of his successful writing career to reflect on life in London during the height of the Swinging Sixties. As well as a colourful memoir of what it was like to be at the centre of Britain’s artistic heart, it is also an emotional, moving tribute to family, friends and colleagues.

30 DE COURCY (Anne) The husband hunters : social climbing in London and New York [x, 307 p.] N036918

D/941.08 (DEC)

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. Dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age.

31 FERRY (Julie) The transatlantic marriage bureau : husband hunting in the gilded age how American

heiresses conquered the aristocracy [311 p.] N036835 D/941.081(FER)

Focusing on a single year, this book tells the story of a group of wealthy American heiresses seeking to marry into the English aristocracy.

32 HEFFER (Simon) The age of decadence : Britain 1880-1914 [xii, 899 p.] N036901 D/941.08 (HEF)

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. Yet things were very different below the surface. Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

33 RICKS (Thomas E.) Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom [[12], 340 p.] N036946 D/941.084 (RIC)

Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and politics. In Churchill & Orwell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas E. Ricks masterfully argues that these extraordinary men are as important today as they ever were.

34 LOWE (Keith) The fear and the freedom : how the Second World War changed us [xiv, 561 p.] N036886

D/940.53 (LOW)

The bestselling, prize-winning author explores the impact of the Second World War - for nations, cities and families around the world.

35 SINCLAIR (Iain) The last London : true fictions from an unreal city [[12], 324 p.] N036922

D/942.1 (SIN)

Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. He strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to make a final reckoning with a capital stretched beyond recognition.

36 TOMALIN (Claire) A life of my own [xii, 334 p.] N036800

D/941.085 (TOM)

As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. In this enthralling memoir she looks at her own life. It follows her through triumph and tragedy. From the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. When he was killed on assignment as a war correspondent she was left to bring up their four children and at the same time make her own career.

37 WALSH (Andrew) Yorkshire dragons, giants and other folk tales [iv, 87 p.] N039070 D/942.8 (WAL)

A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire.


38 WEIR (Alison) Queens of the Conquest : England’s Medieval queens 1066-1167 [xxvi, 468 p.] N036888

D/942.02 (WEI)

Five of England’s medieval queens come to life in the first volume of an epic new series from the bestselling historian.

39 WILLES (Margaret) The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn [xx, 282 p.] N036931

D/941.06 (WIL)

An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history. Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times.

40 WILLIAMS (Thomas) Viking Britain ; an exploration [xxiv, 408 p.] N036925 D/941.01 (WIL)

In Viking Britain, Thomas Williams has drawn on his experience as project curator of the British Museum exhibition of Vikings: Life and Legend to show how the people we call Vikings came not just to raid and plunder, but to settle, to colonize and to rule.

HISTORY, IRELAND

41 KEANE (Fergal) Wounds : a memoir of war and love [[12], 356 p.] N036896 D/941.5 (KEA)

After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. It is a family story of war and love, and how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present. This is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922.

HISTORY, ITALY

42 HOLLINGSWORTH (Mary) The Medici [480 p.] N036894 D/945.05 (HOL)

The definitive account of the Medici in which Mary Hollingsworth explodes our gilded image of them to reveal how they exploited the arts as propaganda for their cause and created the myth that has successfully masked our knowledge of an extraordinary and entirely unscrupulous family.

HISTORY, RUSSIAN

43 KOTKIN (Stephen) Stalin : volume II : waiting for Hitler, 1928-1941 [xxx, 1154 p.] D/947.084 (STA)

Like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, this book is a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art. Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.

HISTORY, SCANDINAVIA

44 RUSSELL (Helen) The year of living Danishly : uncovering the secrets of the world’s happiest country

[xxx, 354 p.] N036907 D/948.9 (RUS)

Given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, Helen Russell discovers a startling statistic: Denmark often thought of as a land of long dark winters, cured herring and Lego, is the happiest place in the world. This is a funny and poignant journey.

HISTORY, SOUTH AFRICA

45 MANDELA (Nelson) and LANGA (Mandla) Dare not linger : the Presidential years [xx,

359 p.] N038915 D/968 (MAN)

The story of Mandela’s presidential years which draws heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to conclude his term of office but was unable to finish. Now acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela’s unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding and a wealth of unseen archive material.


HISTORY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

46 CLINTON (Hillary Rodham) What happened [xvi, 495 p.] N036876 D/973.93 (CLI)

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

47 TYE (Larry) Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon [xxiv, 581 p.] N036882 D/973.92 (KEN)

Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure.

HISTORY, WORLD

48 COLLINGHAM (Lizzie) The hungry empire : how Britain’s quest for food shaped the modern world

[xviii, 367 p.] N036832 D/909 (COL)

Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey. In twenty meals she tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes.

49 SCHAMA (Simon) Belonging : the story of the Jews 1492-1900 [[10], 790 p.] N036792 D/909 (SCH)

A magnificent cultural history spanning the centuries and continents.

LEEDS

50 BLASZCZYK (Regina Lee) Fashionability : Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global

market [viii, 360 p.] N036862 LD/677 (MOO)

This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion system of the past 200 years to examine the relationship between the textile mills of Yorkshire, the firms that provided the entire Western world with warm wool fabrics, and their customers. It is a micro history of a single firm, Abraham Moon and Sons Ltd and is the first book to connect Yorkshire tweeds to the fashion system.

51 FARRAR (Max) Celebrate : 50 years of Leeds West Indian Carnival [ix, 179 p.] N039135 DQ/942.819 (FAR)

A joyful celebration of a 50 year journey.

52 HUNTER (John) The spirit of self-help : a life of Samuel Smiles [viii, 318 p.] N036933 LD/306.3 (SMI)

This is the first full biography of the man who, in the industrial on-rush of the 19th century, gave the world the idea of self-help as a go-to strategy in an age of frenzied change. He wrote articles for the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and the Leeds Times, campaigning for parliamentary reform. In November 1838, Smiles was invited to become the editor of the Leeds Times, a position he accepted and filled until 1842. He was also a Leeds Library member.

53 SELLERS (David) In search of William Gascoigne : seventeenth century astronomer [x, 222 p.] N038772

LD/520.92 (GAS)

William Gascoigne (c.1612-44) was the inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer, instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy. His name is now known to historians of science around the world. For some considerable time after his tragic death at the age of 32 in the English Civil War, however, it seemed as if his achievements would be consigned to oblivion. Most of his papers were lost. This is the story of how his work was rescued.

54 WARD (Steve) Tales from the big house : Temple Newsam [xii, 168 p.] N036874 LD/728.8 (WAR)

1,000 years of its history and people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_Times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_1832


LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES

55 VAISEY (David) Bodleian Library treasures [232 p.] N036883 D/027.7 (VAI)

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has become home to treasures from throughout history and every corner of the globe. David Vaisey has selected more than one hundred treasures with a particularly story to tell.

LITERARY HISTORY & CRITICISM

56 AMIS (Martin) The rub of time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: essays and reportage, 1986-

2016 [xii, 356 p.] N036850 D/824 AMI

The essays in this collection range from superb critical pieces on Amis’s heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. It also includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016.

57 BOSTRŐM (Mattias) The life and death of Sherlock Holmes [[8], 597 p.] N036864 D/823 (BOS)

Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This is the fascinating and exciting tale of the man and people who created the Holmes legend.

58 FERRANTE (Elena) Frantumaglia [384 p.] N036891 D/853 (FER)

In this collection, renowned and reclusive Italian writer Elena Ferrante addresses subjects such as her choice to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, politics and culture, and the role of the writer (and the publisher) in modern society.

59 GOLDSTEIN (Bill) The world broke in two : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and the

year that changed literature [xii, 353 p.] N036859 D/823 (GOL)

'The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Full of surprising insights and original research, Bill Goldstein’s book chronicles the intertwined lives and works of these four writers in a crucial year of change.

60 GORDON (Lyndall) Outsiders : five women writers who changed the world [x, 338 p.] N038927

D/823 (GOR)

The stories of Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf and their famous novels.

61 HILL (Susan) Jacob’s room is full of books [[6], 266 p.] N036937 D/823 (HIL)

Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to the shelf.

62 LINDGREN (Astrid) A world gone mad : the wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi

Longstocking [235 p.] N036866 D/839 (LIN)

Before she became internationally known for her children’s books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. In these diaries, Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs.

63 LIVELY (Penelope) Life in the garden [[8], 199 p.] N038920 D/823 (LIV)

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens and an exploration of gardens in literature.


64 MENDELSOHN (Daniel) An Odyssey : a father, a son and an epic [[8], 309 p.] N036858 D/883 (MEN)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual.

65 MORRISON (Toni) The origin of others [xx, 113 p.] N038932 D/814 (MOR)

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics.

66 O’FARRELL (Maggie) I am, I am, I am : seventeen brushes with death [[12], 292 p.] N036926

D/823 (OFA)

This is a memoir with a difference. Maggie O’Farrell gives us seventeen near death experiences that have punctuated her life.

67 PFORDRESHER (John) The secret history of Jane Eyre : how Charlotte Bronte wrote her masterpiece

[254 p.] N036838 D/823 (BRO)

Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths, on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal her authorship from the press, the London literary establishment and even her closest friends? In his perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Brontë wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it.

68 PROUST (Marcel) Letters to the lady upstairs [xx, 91 p.] N036895 D/846 (PRO)

A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour.

69 SEDARIS (David) Theft and finding : diaries : volume one [[8], 517 p.] N036915 D/814 (SED)

A regular contributor to the New Yorker and BBC Radio 4, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary for four decades in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. In this book he brings us his favourite entries. Tender, hilarious, illuminating, and endlessly captivating, it is a rare look into the mind of one of our generation's greatest comic geniuses.

70 SPURLING (Hilary) Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time [xvi, 510 p.] N036796 D/823 (POW)

The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers. Anthony Powell the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectacular volumes and written over twenty-five years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing twentieth century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life.

71 SUTHERLAND (Kathryn) Jane Austen : writer in the world [208 p.] N038908 DQ/823 (AUS)

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen’s art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived.

MEDICINE

72 DU PREEZ (Michael) and DRONFIELD (Jeremy) Dr James Barry : a woman ahead of her time [xiv, 479 p.]

N036839 D/617 (BAR)

This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley, the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century.

73 KAY (Adam) This is going to hurt : secret diaries of a junior doctor [xvi, 268 p.] N036930 D/610.92 (KAY)

Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking, this is everything you wanted to know, and more than a few things you didn’t about life on and off the hospital ward.


MILITARY HISTORY

74 FRY (Helen) The London Cage : the secret history of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre

[x, 244 p.] N036860 D/940.54 (FRY)

Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighbourhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940, the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence treatment." Bringing dark secrets to light, this ground-breaking book at last provides an objective and complete history of the London Cage.

MUSIC

75 FABER (Toby) Stradivari’s genius : two violins, one cello and three centuries of D/787.2 (FAB)

enduring perfection [xviii, 267 p.] N038907

Antonio Stradivari was a perfectionist whose single minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music.

PERFORMING ARTS

76 HYTNER (Nicholas) Balancing acts : behind the scenes at the National Theatre [[6], 314 p.] N036854

D/792.0941 (HYT)

The story of twelve years at the helm of the National Theatre.

77 LAW (Phyllida) Dead now of course [[8], 133 p.] N036847 D/792.02 (LAW)

As well as being mother to actresses Sophie and Emma Thompson and a devoted carer to her own mother and mother-in-law, Phyllida Law is also a distinguished actress, and this book is a tale of her early acting career.

78 MACKRELL (Judith) Bloomsbury ballerina : Lydia Lopokova, imperial dancer and Mrs John Maynard

Keynes [xx, 476 p.] N036917 D/792.8 (LOP)

The story of the Russian dancer who ruffled the feathers of the Bloomsbury set and became the wife of the world renowned economist, John Maynard Keynes.

PHILOSOPHY

79 GROS (Frédéric) A philosophy of walking [x, 227 p.] N036829 D/128 (GRO)

An entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.

POETRY & DRAMA

80 COHEN (Leonard) Book of longing [[8], 231 p.] N036833 D/811 (COH)

Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. This collection of poems is enhanced by his own illustrations, and show the full range of one of the most influential and enigmatic writers of his generation.

81 MCMILLAN (Ian) To fold the Evening Star : new and selected poems [x, 246 p.] N036938

D/821 (MCM)

Ian McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. This book gathers work from eight key collections. It will satisfy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike, providing an ample,lively assortment of the work.

82 MAXWELL (Glyn) Drinks with dead poets: the Autumn term [[8], 345 p.] N036903 D/821 (MAX)

A funny, touching, readable and thought-provoking hybrid: part fiction, part memoir, part defence of poetic form, part love story.

83 MAXWELL (Glynn) Pluto [[6], 56 p.] N036831 D/821 (MAX)

A book about the before and after of love, the aftermath of loss, changes of status and station, home and place.


84 UGLOW (Jenny) Mr Lear: a life in art and nonsense [x, 598 p.] N036788 D/821 (LEA)

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.

85 WALSH (Tony) This is the place: choose love, Manchester [120 p.] N036879 DQ/821 (WAL)

The day after the horrendous Manchester Arena attack, Tony Walsh read his now famous poem 'This Is The Place' at a vigil outside the town hall. Now, over 60 Manchester creatives have collaborated, each taking a line from the poem to inspire unique pieces of art, illustration, design and photography. Their work is now presented in this one-of-a-kind book with proceeds going to charitable causes.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

86 ALYOKHINA (Maria) Riot days [[8], 197 p.] N036958 D/323 (ALY)

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.

87 STOCKER (Paul) English uprising : Brexit and the mainstreaming of the far right [239 p.] N038923

D/320.54 (STO)

On the morning of Friday 24 June 2016, the United Kingdom entered a new political era. Britons awoke to the news that 52% of the country had voted to leave the European Union. 'Brexit' reflected perhaps the biggest vote of no confidence in the political establishment in modern British history. Despite the vote leading to shock and dismay across the globe, this backlash against the political elite had been decades in the making. But how did we get here?

88 TOYNBEE (Polly) and WALKER (David) Dismembered : how the attack on the state harms us all

[[6], 330 p.] N036846 D/320.941 (TOY)

Toynbee and Walker travelled around Great Britain, gathering the voices of the people who make up the state, nurses and patients, teachers and parents, policemen and civilians. They lay bare the deliberate dismantling of the public sector and its consequences.

89 X (Malcolm) The autobiography of Malcolm X [[8], 512 p.] N036911 D/320.5 (MAL)

Malcolm X is one of the twentieth century’s most controversial figures. Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, he inspired as many people in the United States as he caused to fear him. This is one of the fundamental texts of the civil rights movement; it is also the fascinating story of a man who refused to allow anyone to tell him who or what he was.

PSYCHOLOGY

90 BREARLEY (Mike) On form [viii, 408 p.] N036942 D/158.1 (BRE)

Former England cricket captain and psychoanalyst Mike Brearley, examines many of the elements of being in and out of form across a number of disciplines – not only in cricket and psychoanalysis, but also in finance, music, philosophy, medicine, teaching, tree surgery and drama.

91 MCCRUM (Robert) Every third thought: on life, death and the endgame [[10], 245 p.] N036914

D/155.9 (MCR)

With the words of McCrum’s favourite authors as travel companions, this book takes us on a journey through a year and towards a better understanding of death.

SERIAL PUBLICATIONS

92 The very best of the Oldie 1992-2017 [192 p.] N036851 DQ/052 (OLD)

A look back at the articles from The Oldie magazine over the last twenty five years.


SOCIAL SCIENCES

93 ARMSTRONG (Stephen) The new poverty [xiv, 242 p.] N038919 D/362.5 (ARM)

In the UK, 13 million live in poverty. The new poor, however, is an even larger group than these official statistics suggest. More often than not, these people are the working poor, living precariously and betrayed by austerity. In this book, Stephen Armstrong tells the stories of the most vulnerable in British society.

94 BEARD (Mary) women and power: a manifesto [xii, 116 p.] N038931 D/305.42 (BEA)

Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women.

95 BLACKMON (Douglas A.) Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil

War to World War II [xii, 468 p.] N036929 D/305.896 (BLA)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, he unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter.

96 GARDINER (Juliet) Joining the dots: a woman in her time [[8], 194 p.] N036921 D/305.4 (GAR)

From Britain’s leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women’s lives since 1940, told with examples from her own life. The book provides an intimate, brilliant account of feminism over the last 6 decades.

SOCIAL WELFARE

97 RENWICK (Chris) Bread for all: the origins of the welfare state [[8], 323 p.] N036954 D/361.65 (REN)

This landmark new history tells the story of one of the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life – the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive help, to just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibility for people’s housing, education, health and family life.

SPORT & GAMES

98 CHALKE (Stephen) In sunshine and in shadow : Geoff Cope and Yorkshire cricket [256 p.] N036959

D/796.358 (COP)

The story of Geoff Cope, a man who played cricket for Yorkshire and England, who helped to save his county club from bankruptcy and who, in recent years, has raised more than £200,000 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

99 CONN (David) The fall of the house of FIFA [[8], 328 p.] N036870 D/796.334 (CON)

FIFA was founded in 1904 to unite the football-playing world, its first congress stating that 'no person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit'. A little over a century later, a judge in a Brooklyn courtroom called FIFA a 'Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise' - a term originally coined for the mafia. This is the definitive story of FIFA's rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.

100 FRITH (David) Frith’s encounters : personal insights and friendships from Rhodes to Roebuck [244 p.]

N038936 D/796.358 (FRI)

David Frith recounts meetings with many famous cricketers over the years.

101 HAIGH (Gideon) On Warne [[6], 212 p.] N038935 D/796.358 (WAR)

Gideon Haigh assesses this sportsman as cricketer, character, comrade, newsmaker and international figure.


THEOLOGY, RELIGION

102 GREENBLATT (Stephen) The rise and fall of Adam and Eve [[8], 419 p.] N036828 D/233 (GRE)

The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires. What is it about Adam and Eve’s story that fascinates us?

103 JONES (Dan) The Templars: the rise and fall of God’s holy warriors [xviii, 494 p.] D/271 (JON)

N038916

The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Dan Jones charts every stage of their 200 year history in this rigorously researched book.

104 WILLIAMS (Rowan) Holy living: the Christian tradition for today [[6], 225 p.] N036905 D/248.4 (WIL)

Rowan Williams offers perhaps his most accessible account of Christian life yet, appealing to all ages, faiths and cultures.

TRANSPORT

105 FULLER (Gavin) Leaves on the line: letters on trains to the Daily Telegraph [vi, 250 p.] N036622

D/385 (FUL)

Gavin Fuller has put together the best letters on trains to the paper over the years in this fascinating and hilarious selection.

TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY

106 KASSABOVA (Kapka) Border: a journey to the edge of Europe [xviii, 382 p.] N036855 D/914 (KAS)

Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of the triple borders of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history. This is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe, and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries, between cultures, between people, and within each of us.

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BOOKLIST 187

FICTION CRIME

107 COBEN (Harlan) Don’t let go [351 p.] F022011

Fifteen years ago in a small New Jersey town, a teenage boy and girl were found dead. Most people considered it

a tragic suicide. The dead boy’s brother, Nap Dumas, did not. Nap is now a cop who plays by his own rules, and

now he must make peace with the past by finding the person responsible for the murder of his brother.

108 HOROWITZ (Anthony) The word is murder [390 p.] F022091

The first in a new series featuring Detective Daniel Hawthorne who solves mysteries in collaboration with his

“writing partner” Horowitz. Diana Cowper seems to have had foreknowledge of her murder, even making

arrangements for her own funeral on the day she died. Hawthorne ropes in his author to analyse the clues.

109 KELLERMAN (Jonathan & Jessie) Crime scene [381 p.] F022051

The first in a new collaboration between father and son crime novelists. Deputy coroner Clay Edison is intrigued

by an apparently straightforward accidental death case and moves beyond his remit to investigate on behalf of the

victim’s daughter.

110 LEMAITRE (Pierre) Three days and a life [254 p.] F022031

Antoine lives with his divorced mother in a small, unremarkable French town surrounded by forest. When a six-

year old neighbour goes missing, Antoine feels responsible, and as he grows up, becomes unable to reconcile the

shocking events with his own role in the mystery.

111 LOCKE (Attica) Bluebird, bluebird [305 p.] F022120

Darren Matthews is a Texas Ranger working in the backwoods towns of Highway 59. Darren is called to the small

town of Lark, where two bodies have washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from Chicago, then three days

later, a local white woman. Darren must solve the crimes before the racial tensions in Lark erupt.

112 LUNDE (Maja) The history of bees [343 p.] F022056

Three interlinked stories set in 1852, 2007 and 2098 explore the parent/child bond through the bee-related work of

the characters: a biologist, a beekeeper and a pollen painter.

113 MACBRIDE (Stuart) Now we are dead [388 p.] F021915

Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel has been demoted after being caught setting up Jack Wallace. Now Jack

is back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Steel knows Wallace is guilty, and the longer he gets

away with it, the more women will suffer.

114 MANKELL (Henning) After the fire [399 p.] F021947

Frederik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he

lives alone on an island. One night he wakes up to find his house on fire. Frederik escapes and all that remains is

a smouldering ruin and evidence of arson. Without a suspect or any motive the police begin to think he started the

fire himself. The last novel from Henning Mankell.

115 MILNE (A.A.) The Red house mystery [198 p.] F021756

Mark Ablett is hosting a party at his luxurious country mansion. In attendance are a number of characters who will

play crucial roles in this locked room mystery. Mark’s long-lost brother returns from Australia he is found murdered

from a gunshot wound, but when Tony Gillingham arrives unexpectedly, he begins to search for clues and

speculate as to who may be responsible for this violent crime.


116 MORIARTY (Liane) Truly madly guilty [470 p.] F022032

A suburban barbecue spirals out of control, leaving chaos and death in its wake.

117 NESSER (Håkan) The darkest day [534 p.] F022089

In the Swedish town of Kymlinge, the Hermansson family are celebrating the father’s and eldest daughter’s

birthday. Before the weekend is over, two members of the Hermansson family are missing, and it’s up to Inspector

Barborotti – a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases

– to determine exactly what happened. The first in a new series.

118 PEARSE (Lesley) The woman in the wood [387 p.] F022079

Maisy Duncan’s 15 year old twin brother disappears in the New Forest, and with other boys found murdered, the

local police seem to accept that Duncan is longer alive. However, Maisie isn’t going to give up on him, she wants

to talk to the reclusive Grace Deville who lives alone in the wood.

119 SYMONS (Julian) The man who killed himself [187 p.] F022016

Arthur Brownjohn never gets anything right. The murder of his wife was a disaster, even after consulting all the

experts in field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistake, he enlists

the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing.

120 TEY (Josephine) The singing sands [236 p.] F020467

On his return journey from Scotland, Inspector Grant learns that fellow passenger, Charles Martin, has been found

dead. It would seem to most people a tragic accident, but Inspector Grant is not certain. When Grant finds a

strange poem composed by the deceased he is intrigued to find out what really happened to Mr Martin.

121 THEORIN (Johan) The quarry [476 p.] F022067

Two bodies are found in the ashes of a house fire deep in the Swedish forest. The owner’s son tries to find out

why they were there but soon realises that his elderly father has dark secrets best left undisturbed. This is the

third in a quartet of novels set on the island of Öland. The others are also in the Library’s stock.

122 VISKIC (Emma) Resurrection bay [282 p.] F022097

Caleb Zelic is on the hunt for his friend’s killer. His childhood friend has been brutally murdered at his home in

Melbourne. Caleb vows to track down the killer. But he’s profoundly deaf, and missed words and misread lips can

lead to confusion and trouble.

123 WARE (Ruth) The lying game [374 p.] F022052

Isa receives a text message late at night saying only “I need you”. Isa takes her baby and heads straight to the

town of Salten. Isa spent a significant time at boarding school in the town and at school Isa and her three best

friends used to play the lying game. They would compete to convince people of the most outrageous stories.

When Isa returns she must confront the most outrageous secret that she and her friends concocted.

GENERAL

124 BANVILLE (John) Mrs Osmond [376 p.] F022060

Isabel Osmond has fled to London, putting herself at physical distance from her husband’s betrayal and her failing

marriage. She needs to reassess her future, knowing she must resolve the moral ambiguity of her circumstances.

125 BARTON (Fiona) The child [397 p.] F022019

When a single paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a

single glance. But three strangers find it impossible to ignore. For one woman, it’s a reminder of the worst thing

that ever happened to her. For another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be

uncovered. And for the third, a journalist, it’s the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth.


126 BINET (Laurent) The 7th function of language [390 p.] F021996

In February 1980, the philosopher Roland Barthes is knocked down in Paris. History tells us it was an accident.

But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of global importance? A document

explaining the illusive 7th function of language, an idea so powerful that whoever masters it will possess the ability

to control all who listen.

127 BRUNET (Raymond) The accident on the A35 [256 p.] F022111

Published posthumously in 2016, this is a semi-autobiographical novel set in the author’s French backwater town,

and is an examination of rural society when a local tragedy comes under investigation. Translated with an

introduction by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

128 CAPOTE (Truman) The grass harp [191 p.] F020529

Two elderly sisters living in a small town in the Deep South take in their 11 year-old nephew when his mother dies.

Their relationship develops as they spend time living in a tree house experiencing nature around them, notably the

wind through the grass.

129 CARR, (J.L.) Harpole & Foxberrow F022268

The story of the rise and fall of Harpole & Foxberrow, general publishers, told through anecdotes, business

documents and diary entries.

130 COPLETON (Jackie) A dictionary of mutual understanding [294 p.] F022137

A stranger visits elderly Japanese mother Amaterasu in her retirement home, claiming to be her grandson. She

knows that her daughter died in Nagasaki and has spent a lifetime trying to come to terms with her loss. The

unwelcome intrusion into her grief reopens old wounds, forcing her to confront her past.

131 EGAN (Jennifer) A visit from the Goon Squad [351 p.] F022064

A novel of intertwining lives, detailing moments of temptation and loss as the characters attempt to make sense of

their chaotic lives in modern American society.

132 ERPENBECK (Jenny) Go, went, gone F022134

Richard has retired from his literary professorship and decides to go out and explore his home city of Berlin. He

meets a group of African asylum seekers and finds his social mores challenged as he gets to know them.

133 FLANAGAN (Richard) First person [392 p.] F021927

A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is contacted by the notorious con man and corporate criminal,

Sigfried Heidl, to see if Kif will ghost write his memoir. When Kif accepts, he commences work, but fears he is

being conned by this devious individual.

134 GARNIER (Pascal) Low heights [186 p.] F021956

Cantankerous retiree Édouard Lavenant lives in his mountain home with his nurse, Thérèse. He is attempting to

add the finishing touches to his memoirs when a visitor calls claiming to be his long-lost son. Jean-Baptiste’s

presence seems to bring about a softening of Édouard’s temper, but the family reunion is soon threatened by the

local vultures circling overhead…

135 GREENE (Graham) The comedians [281 p.] F021751

Three men meet on a ship heading for Haiti; a country controlled by the corrupt dictator “Papa Doc” and his violent

secret police the Tontons Macoute. Brown the hotelier, Smith the clueless American and the confidence man

Jones are the three comedians in Graham Greene’s 1966 novel, The Comedians.

136 INGRAM-BROWN (Daniel) Stories from the forests of Leeds [72 p.] F022123

A collection of strange tales by Leeds authors which are fantastically illustrated by local artist Si Smith.


137 LAIRD (Nick) Modern gods [309 p.] F021955

Alison Donnelly is still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born. Her sister Liz, is a college

professor who lives in New York City, and is returning to Ulster for Alison’s second wedding. Both sisters’ lives

begin to change dramatically; Alison finds out her new husband has a past that is encroaching on their future, and

Liz is working in Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world’s newest religion.

138 LEE (Tom) The alarming palsy of James Orr [153 p.] F022124

When James Orr wakes up one morning to find he has undergone a strange transformation, he is unsure of what

to do or what has caused this alteration. Unable to go to the office as usual, and the doctor being unable to help,

James must wait for this unusual affliction to pass. But this initial change is only the first of many.

139 MACLAVERTY (Bernard) Midwinter break [243 p.] F022027

Retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore are having a long weekend break in Amsterdam, but being away from

their home in Scotland highlights the tensions in their marriage. Perhaps this is a chance to deal with their

anxieties and rediscover the love that has kept them together through their shared history.

140 MCDERMOTT (Alice) The ninth hour [247 p.] F022308

On a February afternoon Jim send his wife Annie out to do the shopping before dark. He seals their apartment,

unhooks the gas tube inside the oven and inhales. Sister St. Saviour, a Little Nursing Sister of the Sick Poor,

catches the scent of fire and hurries to the scene. When the sister sees the distraught and pregnant young widow

she is moved by the girl’s plight. The nun kindly finds Annie work in the convent’s laundry, where Annie and her

child will live together for many years.

141 MARR (Andrew) Children of the master [391 p.] F022135

The Labour party has won an unexpected majority, but the new government is weak and divided, with an

unpopular leader in the eyes of the public and most of the party. A group of eminent figures from the party’s past

see an opportunity to re-establish their control and replace the current leader with one they can control.

142 MARTIN (Charles) The mountain between us [328 p.] F022080

Dr. Ben Payne charters a plane to fly him home around a weather front which has grounded his scheduled flight

home from Salt Lake City. He offers the spare seat to authoress Ashley Knox, but when the plane crashes into the

wilderness they are badly injured and have to rely on each other to survive, even though they have only just met.

The film of this book is now on general release in the cinema, starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet.

143 MESSUD (Claire) The burning girl [213 p.] F022007

When childhood friends Julia Robinson and Cassie Burns enter adolescence their paths diverge. When Cassie’s

mother, Bev, becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels abandoned. Angry and desperate

for answers, Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.

144 MIDDLETON (Stanley) Harris’s requiem [196 p.] F021951

Thomas Harris, a miner’s son and provincial schoolmaster, is on the brink of success as a classical composer.

When his father dies, Thomas decides to write a great requiem for the forgotten dead and the neglected living.

145 MOSS (Sarah) Cold earth [279 p.] F022130

On the west coast of Greenland, a team of six archaeologists has assembled to unearth traces of lost Viking

settlements. As the Arctic winter approaches the archaeologists lose their communications with the outside world.

The team must struggle to survive in the harshest conditions any of them have ever faced.

146 MOZLEY (Fiona) Elmet [311 p.] F022063

A debut novel examining the relationship between Daniel, Cathy and their strange and violent father who are living

a feral life in rural Yorkshire apart from contemporary society.


147 MUKHERJEE (Neel) A state of freedom [277 p.] F022128

Exploring the themes at the forefront of society today – displacement and migration – A State of Freedom shows

us five characters who experience the dislocation and the desire for a better life, inherent with migration.

148 MYTTING (Lars) The sixteen trees of the Somme [407 p.] F021998

Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. Edvard wishes

to uncover the story about his parent’s mysterious deaths. He follows an enigmatic trail of clues from Norway to

the Shetlands and finally to the battlefields of France.

149 OSBORNE (Lawrence) Beautiful animals [295 p.] F022014

When Samantha – a young and impressionable American – meets Naomi – a Brit with a taste for danger – they

build a relationship which quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun and heat of the idyllic Greek island of

Hydra they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore. Their simple plan to help Faoud quickly goes

wrong and a series of terrible consequences is set in motion.

150 OSBORNE (Lawrence) Hunters in the dark [339 p.] F022009

Robert Grieve is eager to escape from his life as a small-town teacher. When he decides to go missing he heads

for Thailand and crosses the border into Cambodia. When he arrives in Cambodia a cast of characters and

strange coincidences make his disappearance into more of an adventure than he planned.

151 PHILLIPS (Caryl) The lost child [260 p.] F022059

Monica Johnson is cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner and she struggles to raise her sons

on the wild moors of the north of England. Intertwined with her modern narrative is the ragged childhood of Emily

Brontë’s Heathcliffe, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys.

152 QUINDLEN (Anna) Miller’s Valley [257 p.] F022114

The Millers have lived in the valley which bears their name for many generations of almost imperceptible change.

Now that the town is threatened, Mimi Miller realises the complexity of the environment which has shaped her life

so far and the love which surrounds her.

153 QUINN (Anthony) Eureka [391 p.] F022001

In London during the summer of 1967, German director and wunderkind, Reiner Werther Kloss, is working on his

mystery film, Eureka. Surrounding Reiner is a cast of wannabe artists who take too many drugs and are incapable

of creating anything of merit.

154 RAISIN (Ross) Waterline [263 p.] F022288

Mick Little used to build ships on the Clyde, bringing home a good wage for his family. Thirty years later the yards

are closed, his children have grown and his wife has recently died. Mick abandons Glasgow and heads for London

hoping that he can disappear from the world.

155 SALINSKY (John) North by East coast [172 p.] F021916

Alvin Green has accidentally committed a violent crime and is now on the run. The police are after him and so is

his victim, determined to take revenge. Alvin decides to flee on a train from Kings Cross to Edinburgh; but he soon

discovers that, it is populated by glamorous young women from Alfred Hitchcock’s films who want to draw him into

their schemes. Can this be a real train? Or the creation of an aspiring novelist?

156 SMITH (Ali) Winter [322 p.] F021911

Winter is the second novel in Ali Smith’s Seasonal cycle. When four people, both strangers and family, converge

on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for a Christmas holiday, will there be enough space for everyone to relax

and enjoy themselves?


157 STEINBECK (John) To a God unknown [188 p.] F020520

First published in 1933, this is one of Steinbeck’s early novels, exploring man’s relationship to nature and destiny.

Joseph Wayne creates a flourishing farm in California but when his extended family move in conflicts soon arise.

158 STRIPE (Adelle) Black teeth and a brilliant smile [248 p.] F022197

Adelle Stripe (pseudonym for Andrea Dunbar) is best known for her black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob too. This

new literary portrayal features a cast of characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw estate

during the Thatcher era.

159 TANEJA (Preti) We that are young [556 p.] F022085

A family saga set in India, being a modern-day King Lear with a family feuding over their father’s corporate

kingdom.

HISTORICAL

160 CONNOLLY (John) he [453 p.] F021952

John Connolly reimagines the life of Stan Laurel and recreates the golden age of Hollywood.

161 CORREA (Armando Lucas) The German girl [357 p.] F022004

Hanna Rosenthal has until recently lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with

red, white, and black. Hannah must escape on the SS St Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage

out of Germany. The German Girl covers seven decades and follows the Rosenthal family from Nazi Germany to

New York in the twenty-first-century.

162 D’SILVA (Renita) A daughter’s courage [443 p.] F022107

1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage

over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee plantation owner James, she travels to her new home in India. Lucy

is happy in her new home and is entranced by the jewel-coloured fabrics and the exotic spices of India, but her

curiosity soon leads her into trouble.

163 EGAN (Jennifer) Manhattan beach [439 p.] F022138

Anne Kerrigan is working in the Brooklyn Naval Yard repairing Allied shipping while the male workforce is at war.

When she meets the mysterious Dexter Styles she begins to uncover the story of her father’s disappearance.

164 FORRESTER (C.S.) The gun [186 p.] F022133

When a group of Spanish partisans come across a cannon abandoned by the Spanish army, the partisans see a

chance to drive the French invaders back to their own country. But first they must take the three ton cannon a

hundred miles across the mountains with only a few donkeys and a half-starved oxen.

165 FREMANTLE (Elizabeth) Queen’s gambit [465 p.] F021992

Katherine Parr, widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, is obliged to return to the court of Henry VIII. She is

suspicious and afraid of the ageing king and the treacherous dealings of those who surround him, but she must

reluctantly obey. Katherine is soon seduced by the dashing Thomas Seymour, and she hopes to final marry for

love. But Henry Tudor has his own plans for Katherine Parr.

166 FREMANTLE (Elizabeth) Sisters of treason [486 p.] F022099

Fearing traitors amongst her court, Queen Mary orders the execution of her cousin Lady Jane Grey. Mary’s

younger sisters, Katherine and Mary, must now face the perils of the Tudor court alone.

167 FREMANTLE (Elizabeth) Watch the lady [485 p.] F022095

The Devereux family was powerful once. Penelope’s mother was the gem of Elizabeth’s court, until she married

the wrong man and became an outcast. Penelope must now play the game with cunning and ensure her safety in

these dangerous times.


168 HOLLINGHURST (Alan) The Sparsholt affair [452 p.] F021920

In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman he attracts

the attention of lonely and romantic Evert Dax. While the Blitz rages in London, nightly blackouts in Oxford

conceal the secret liaisons between David and Evert. During a single term, David and Evert build a friendship that

will alter their lives for decades.

169 JEFFERIES (Dinah) The tea planter’s wife [418 p.] F021995

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married the seductive and mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in

colonial Ceylon. When she joins Laurence at his tea plantation, Gwendolyn is filled with hope for their life together.

But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful and the neighbours and her

sister-in-law are treacherous. But most troubling are the unanswered questions surrounding Laurence’s first

marriage.

170 HARRIS (Robert) Munich [342 p.] F022003

September 1938, Chamberlain and Hitler head to Munich for discussions about Germany’s attempts to annex

portions of Czechoslovakia. As the leaders of Great Britain and Germany meet, two special agents travel with

terrible and important secrets. The future of Europe is decided at the Munich conference and when the paths of

these two agents finally cross.

171 MCCALL SMITH (Alexander) The good pilot Peter Woodhouse [247 p.] F022272

World War II. England is under threat and everybody has a part to play, no matter how small. Val works on a farm

supplying produce to the local air force base where she meets an American aviator. Their lives become

intertwined as they do their part for the war effort. Even Val’s sheepdog, Peter Woodhouse, is caught up in the

conflict when he becomes the American’s mascot.

172 MCGRATH (Patrick) The wardrobe mistress [314 p.] F022117

January 1947, London is in ruins, and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Charlie Grice, one of the great stage

actors of the day, suddenly dies. His widow Joan discovers her husband’s dark secret, and realises that though

fascism might hide, it never dies.

173 MAHURIN (Paulette) The seven year dress [326 p.] F022040

The story of a holocaust survivor of Auschwitz. Helen Stein was imprisoned as a teenager but managed to rise

above her horrific circumstances to see the good in the human spirit.

174 MARK (D.M.) The Zealot’s bones [248 p.] F022035

The first historical crime novel from the author of the DS McAvoy series. Set in Hull, in 1849 where a former

soldier, Mesach Stone is acting as bodyguard for a Canadian academic hunting for the bones of Simon the Zealot.

175 RICHARDSON (Matthew) My name is Nobody [326 p.] F022039

The debut novel from this journalist and parliamentary researcher. Spy Solomon Vine is suspended from duty but

when a longstanding colleague and friend is abducted, Vine is called to investigate.

176 SJÓN From the mouth of the whale [271 p.] F022017

Iceland in 1635 is a place darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn’s

horn, and both books and men are burnt. Jónas Pálmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to

exile for heretical conduct. Living on a barren island, Jónas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse, the frenzied

massacre of innocent Basque whalers, and the death of all his children.

177 SJÓN Moonstone: the boy who never was [147 p.] F022013

In Iceland in 1918 the erupting volcano Katla is blacking out the sky. Yet life in Reykjavik carries on as usual.

Sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn lives for the cinema, but when the Spanish flu comes ashore killing hundreds and

forcing thousands into their sick beds, Máni’s whole life changes.


178 WALTERS (Minette) The last hours [549 p.] F022093

In 1348 the Black Death enters England. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and the speed with which it

spreads, people start to die in their thousands. In the estate of Develish, Lady Anne takes control of her people’s

future. Lady Anne decides to quarantine Develish by bringing the serfs inside the walls. The result is a sudden

overturning of the accepted social order and conflicts soon arise.

179 WEINE (Richard) Sea of ink [118 p.] F021903

In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the Ming Dynasty crumbles, Bada becomes an

artist, committed to capturing the essence of nature with a single brushstroke. Then the rulers of the succeeding

Qing Dynasty discover his identity and Bada must feign madness to escape.

HISTORICAL CRIME

180 MARTIN (Andrew) Soot [342 p.] F022140

York, 1799. A silhouette artist is found murdered in his home – stabbed with a pair of scissors. It soon becomes

clear that the culprit is one of the artist’s last sitters, and the people depicted in the last shades become the key

suspects. The police struggle to track down these silhouettes so clever but impoverished Fletcher Rigge is

contacted by the son of the murdered artist. As Fletcher is languishing in debtors’ prison he is quite willing to help.

But the police only give him one month to solve the case.

ROMANCE

181 COURT (Dilly) Ragged rose [489 p.] F020531

Rose Perkins is trying to keep her brother and sister safe in the dark world of 1870s London but taking work in an

East End music hall can’t prevent their descent into homelessness. Rose decides to take even more desperate

measures to avoid her family’s ruin.

182 EVEREST (Elaine) The Woolworth’s girls [435 p.] F020525

Sarah soon makes friends with her new colleagues at Woolworths and romance blossoms with the assistant

manager but 1938 is an uneasy time for the young people trying to make their way in the world.

183 GIBSON (Fiona) Pedigree mum [424 p.] F020534

Newly single mum Kerry gives in to pleas by her children for a pet dog. Unfortunately she gets no help with the

new pet or with settling into a new home and trying to make friends in an unfamiliar seaside town, until the dog

provides a way to move on with her life…

184 KEYES (Marian) The break [570 p.] F021999

Amy’s husband is heading to South East Asia to give their marriage a break. He says he will return and that he

still loves her but his mid-life crisis may get in the way of a happy reunion. Will Amy take her coward of a husband

back?

185 LONG (Sarah) Invisible women [391 p.] F022104

After Tessa responds to a Facebook message from an old flame she impulsively heads to the airport to wait for

her lost love.

186 VINCENZI (Penny) A question of trust [594 p.] F022076

Tom begins an affair with a fashion model, going against his own moral code and endangering his marriage and

political career. When his son becomes ill, he realises that he must make some hard decisions about his principles


SCI-FI / FANTASY / HORROR

187 HARRIS (Joanne M.) A pocketful of crows [236 p.] F021928

Joanne M. Harris has created a modern fable from a nameless and wild girl. Illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins.

188 THEORIN (Johan) The voices beyond [576 p.] F022024

Jonas Kloss arrives on the beautiful island of Öland. When he sees a ghostly ship mysteriously appear on the

moonlit sea, he cannot resist the chance to explore. What he finds on board is horrifying. Fleeing for his life, Jonas

arrives at the door of a retired sea captain, Gerlof Davidsson. Frightened by the look of fear in the young man’s

eyes, Gerlof realises that this will be a summer like no other.

189 PULLMAN (Philip) The book of dust [546 p.] F021940

Malcolm was the landlord’s son, and an only child. He was happiest spending time with his dæmon Asta in his

canoe, the La Belle Sauvage. Malcolm’s comfortable and happy life is interrupted when the forces of science,

religion and politics begin to clash. During this time Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life, taking

a baby Lyra on a life changing journey. Set in the world of His Dark Materials series, this is the first book in The

Book of Dust trilogy.

THRILLERS

190 AMBLER (Eric) Epitaph for a spy [220 p.] F020471

When Josef Vadassy takes his holiday photos to be developed at the local chemists, he is accused of working as

a Gestapo agent and is charged with espionage. To prove himself innocent to the French police he must discover

which of his fellow guests is responsible for these photographs.

191 CORNWELL (Bernard) Fools and mortals [369 p.] F021932

Richard Shakespeare dreams of a brilliant career in one of the London playhouses, a world dominated by his

older brother, William. When a priceless manuscript goes missing, suspicion falls upon Richard, forcing him to run

from his accusers.

192 ELGAR (Emily) If you knew her [371 p.] F021907

It appears as if Cassie lives the perfect life. But when Cassie is rushed into intensive care after falling into a coma,

it becomes clear that she has a dark secret waiting to be revealed. Frank, another coma patient, can see and hear

everything around him but cannot communicate. He understands that Cassie’s life is in danger and only he holds

the truth to Cassie’s current predicament.

193 GRISHAM (John) The Rooster Bar [352 p.] F021935

Third-year law students Mark, Todd and Zola realise they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a

law school which turns out to be so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the Bar exam or get work at

respectable law firms. When they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund

operator who also owns a bank specialising in student loans, it’s obvious that they have been caught in the great

law school scam. They begin plotting a way to escape their debt and expose the bank and its scam.

194 HERRON (Mick) Slow horses [328 p.] F022113

Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent’s Park, Jackson Lamb’s misfit crew of highly

trained operatives no longer run ops, they push paper. A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is

scheduled for live broadcast on the internet. And whatever the instructions of the Serice, Jackson Lamb and his

team will not just sit and watch. The first in the Jackson Lamb series.


195 HØEG (Peter) The Susan effect [345 p.] F021997

Susan Svendsen has a strange talent that allows her to hear people’s most intimate secrets. People feel oddly

compelled to confide in her. She has exploited this talent her whole life, but now her family are in trouble and she

must this unusual gift to help her relatives out of prison. A government official makes her a deal: use her power for

the purposes of the government and have all the charges dropped.

196 RICHMOND (Michelle) The marriage pact [418 p.] F021904

Jake and Alice sign up to a club which champions everlasting love and imposes rules ensuring they will never

divorce. When one of them breaks The Pact they discover that the contract will be ruthlessly enforced.

197 ROBOTHAM (Michael) The secrets she keeps [436 p.] F022102

Agatha envies Meghan her apparently perfect lifestyle, shaped as it is by a very different background. Agatha is

ready to do anything to change her circumstances but both women have destructive secrets which are about to

shatter both their lives.

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