New books
Issue 46
July 2015
Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.
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Talking books
Adult fiction
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
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Food and drink
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Music
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Politics
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Children and young adult fiction
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Braille Fiction
Adult Fiction
Arlidge, M. J. Pop goes the weasel. 2014. Crime fiction.
Helen Grace series; book 2. The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red light district - horrifically mutilated, with his heart removed. The media call it Jack the Ripper in reverse; revenge against the men who lead sordid double lives visiting prostitutes.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25102905.
Baxter, Lily. In love and war. 2014. Romance.
August 1914. When the opportunity arises Elsie joins the foreign office, travelling to France as an undercover agent. And on the battlefields of Europe, she must find the courage to help save lives, each day hoping that one day she'll be reunited with the man she loves.
6v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25102803.
Binchy, Maeve. Circle of friends. 2000. Family Stories.
Best friends since girlhood in the town of Knockglen, Benny and Eve discover a very different world in the excitements of University College, Dublin. With attractive and ambitious Nan and the good-looking charmer, Jack, they form an intimate circle of friends.
11v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25204502
Binchy, Maeve. Tara Road. 1998. General fiction.
Ria Lynch lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is constantly filled with the family and friends on whom she depends. Marilyn Vine lives in a college town in Connecticut, New England, absorbed in her career, an independent and private woman. Unlikely friends. Yet a chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes for the summer, while they each sort out their problems. By the time they eventually meet, they find that their lives have altered for ever.
12v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25204602.
Booth, Stephen. Black dog. 2001. Crime fiction.
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series; book 1. When teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a full-scale search operation. As the investigation twists and turns, local DC Ben Cooper and new DI Diane Fry discover that no one is entirely innocent and pain and suffering can be the only outcome.
7v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25101803.
Cantero, Edgar. The supernatural enhancements. 2014. Horror.
When A. inherits a beautiful but eerie estate set deep in the woods, he is both sceptical and curious. He never even knew he had a 'second uncle, twice removed' named Ambrose. Much less that the poor man committed suicide – under similar circumstances to many other strange and curious deaths. A. quickly realises that he has inherited a lifetime of secrets, and a curse.
5v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25102203.
Christie, Agatha. A murder is announced. 1950. Classic crime.
Miss Marple series; book 4. A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm." So runs the advertisement in that day's local paper. Miss Blacklock, the owner of Little Paddocks, is not unduly surprised when, towards the appointed hour, several of her neighbours find themselves drawn to call upon her...
5v. Price: £5.99. Order No: 25206702.
Coelho, Paulo. Adultery. 2014. General fiction.
A meeting with a politician, and ex-boyfriend, reawakens a side of Linda that she - respectable wife, devoted mother and ambitious journalist - thought had disappeared. She embarks on a relationship that is addictive, dangerous and undeniably exciting. But the consequences are far-reaching.
4v. Price: £14.99. Order No: 25107903.
Cole, Martina. The ladykiller. 1993. Crime fiction.
George Markham has an obsession, one that erupts into an orgy of vicious sexual depravity. Patrick Kelly is the most feared man in London. His one soft spot is his daughter, Mandy. And when she falls victim to the sadistic rapist nicknamed the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge - with or without police help.
13v. Price: £7.19. Order No: 25204802.
Cox, Josephine. Let it shine. 2001. Family stories.
Many years ago, Ada Williams did something that has tormented her ever since. Her greedy son, Peter, overhears a conversation and plans a terrible deed. In nearby Blackburn, happily married Sylvia Bolton lives with her family. No one, least of all Sylvia, can foresee the events about to unfold.
5v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25205202.
Dexter, Colin. The jewel that was ours. 1991. Crime fiction.
Inspector Morse series; book 9. Chief Inspector Morse investigates the murder of an American tourist at Oxford's Randolph Hotel. The Wolvercote Tongue, due to be handed over to the Ashmolean Museum, is missing, and a corpse is found in the Cherwell.
5v. Price: £7.19. Order No: 25198202.
Fisher, Carrie. Postcards from the edge. 2011. General fiction.
Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a 'drug hospital.' Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers – and delights - of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.
4v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25097103.
Forsyth, Frederick. The fist of God. 1994. Thriller.
Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who can pass for Arab, is sent to Kuwait to report on Iraqi strength and to help the resistance. What is revealed makes the allies delay their invasion for four days, while Martin undertakes his most dangerous assignment ever, to find and destroy the Fist of God.
14v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25204702
Franklin, Ariana. The assassin's prayer. 2011. Historical crime.
Mistress of the art of death series; book 4. Adelia Aguilar is to accompany 10-year -old Princess Joanna on her thousand -mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. They must take with them the legendary sword Excalibur. And so Adelia sets sail with the golden princess and her lavish procession of nobles, musicians, servants, laundresses, grooms, luggage and treasure. But when members of the procession begin to die and it looks as though Adelia is to blame, there are dangerous accusations of witchcraft.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25102303.
Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. 2014. General fiction.
When Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage on a stunning island in the Outer Hebrides, they discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb - a mermaid child. When Ruth researches the history of the house, she uncovers the heart-breaking story of Reverend Alexander Ferguson, an amateur evolutionary scientist.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25102503.
Gregory, Philippa. The king's curse. 2014. Historical fiction.
The cousins' war; book 6. The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England.
10v. Price: £20.00. Order No: 25080703.
Grisham, John. The rainmaker. 1995. Thriller.
Desperate for money, and although not yet a member of the bar, Rudy Baylor takes on a case which turns out to be only the tip of the iceberg, and he finds himself up against a battery of million dollar lawyers who will do anything to stop him.
11v. Price: £6.39. Order No: 25206102
Hore, Rachel, The glass painter's daughter. 2013. General fiction.
Taking her sick father's place in his stained-glass shop, Fran and his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission – to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass, they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past, sparked by the window's creation.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25101103.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Confusion. 1993. Family stories.
Cazalet Chronicles; book 3. This is the third book in the series following the fortunes of the Cazalet family, from the spring of 1942, through the dark, middle period of the war.
10v. Price: £6.74. Order No: 25196902
James, Peter. Want you dead. 2014. Crime fiction.
DS Roy Grace series; book 10. When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency their love blossoms. But everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror.
7v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25102403.
King, Stephen. The dark half. 1989. Horror.
Thad Beaumont had written a number of best-selling thrillers under the pseudonym, George Stark, but now decides to kill him off. But George Stark doesn't want to die! Impossibly, terrifyingly, in an orgy of violence, he appears to have returned from the dead.
10v. Price: £7.19. Order No: 25206802.
Koontz, Dean R. From the corner of his eye. 2000. Thriller.
Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.
15v. Price: £8.99. Order No: 25206002.
McEwan, Ian. Atonement . 2001. General fiction.
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.
8v. Price: £6.74. Order No: 25198802.
McDermid, Val. The torment of others. 2004. Thriller.
Tony Hill series; book 4. A prostitute is murdered in a particularly grotesque and stomach-churning way, a killing that matches in every detail a series of murders that took place a couple of years previously. A series of murders for which Derek Tyler was tried, convicted and sentenced. There has never been any doubt about his guilt. But now the ghost of his crimes has risen again.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25198002.
Mankell, Henning. An event in autumn. 2014. Crime fiction.
Kurt Wallander series; book 11. Wallander uncovers the skeleton of a middle-aged woman in the garden of his new house. But when another discovery is made in the garden, Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past.
2v. Price: £9.99. Order No: 25068903.
Matthew, Christopher. The Amber Room. 1995. Adventure.
In 1941 the Germans take the amber panels from Catherine Palace in Leningrad. They later disappear completely. When ex-army officer and journalist, Miles Maltby, joins a press trip to the Swiss Alps, an extraordinary story sets him off on a journey of high adventure.
8v. Price: £12.00. Order No: 25206202
Mezrich, Ben. Seven wonders. 2014. Thriller.
When the reclusive mathematician Jeremy Grady goes missing, it's up to his estranged brother Jack to find out why. With the help of scientist Sloane Costa, they discover a conspiracy to hide a roadmap to the Garden of Eden - and the truth behind a mythological ancient culture.
6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25066303.
Morrall, Clare. After the bombing. 2014. General fiction.
On the night of May 3rd, 1942, 15-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter. 21 years on, Alma teaches music at her old school. A new student starts - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942, when he played a pivotal role in her life.
6v. Price: £18.99. Order No: 25104103.
Mosse, Kate. The taxidermist's daughter. 2014. Historical fiction.
Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.
5v. Price: 16.99. Order No: 25097203.
Moyes, Jojo. The ship of brides. 2005. General fiction.
Based on a true story. The year is 1946, in Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England - aboard HMS Victoria, which carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined.