New Books
Issue 47
September 2015
Your regular update of new titles available for loan and sale from RNIB.
Contents
Braille 3
Adult Fiction 3
Adult Non-Fiction 9
Autobiography and Biography 9
Child Care 11
Food and Drink 11
History 11
Pets 12
Poetry 12
Braille books for loan only 13
True Crime 15
Children and young adult fiction 15
Children and young adult non- fiction 24
Music 26
Braille music 26
Music tuition CDs 27
Piano by ear 27
Guitar by Ear 28
Giant Print 29
Adult fiction 29
Adult non-fiction 38
Autobiographies and Biographies 38
Food and Drink 39
History 39
Language 40
Poetry 40
Religion 40
Sport 41
Transport 41
Travel 41
Warfare and Defence 41
Children and young adult fiction 42
Children and young adult non-fiction 46
Talking Books 47
Adult fiction 47
Adult non-fiction 56
Autobiography and biography 56
Business and Management 58
History 58
Personal Improvement 60
Poetry 60
Sport 61
Travel 62
Children and young adult fiction 62
Children and young adult non-fiction 74
Books narrated by volunteers 76
Adult fiction 76
Adult non-fiction 76
Autobiography and biography 76
Food and Drink 77
History 77
Literature 78
Natural History 78
Philosophy 78
Poetry 78
Politics 79
Self help 79
Transport 79
Warfare and defence 79
Braille
Adult Fiction
Arlidge, M. J. Eeny meeny. 2014. Crime fiction.
Helen Grace series; book 1. Pairs of victims are being abducted, imprisoned then forced to make a terrible choice. Which would you sacrifice - your life or your conscience? For DI Helen Grace there is now an unseen killer to be hunted down.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order number: 25080503.
Barclay, Linwood. No safe house. 2014. Thriller.
Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of two elderly locals. But when daughter Grace follows her boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive.
7v. Price: £16.99. Order number: 25107503.
Bennett, Alan. Four stories. 2014. Short stories.
Father! Father! Burning Bright is the savage satire on a dying man's family reaction as he still asserts control over them from the hospital bed. The Clothes They Stood Up In is the painful story of what happens to an elderly couple when their flat is stripped completely bare. The Laying on of Hands tells of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous that goes horribly wrong. The Lady in the Van is the true story of the eccentric old lady invited by Alan Bennett to live in his garden who stays for fifteen years.
4v. Price: £12.99. Order Number: 25085003.
Bolton, S. J. A dark and twisted tide. 2014. Thriller.
Lacey Flint series; book 4. Ex-Detective Lacey Flint has quit the police for a safer, quieter life. But danger won't leave Lacey alone. When she finds a body floating in the river, wrapped in white burial cloths, she can't resist asking questions. Who is this woman and why was she hidden in the fast-flowing depths?
9v. Price: £6.99. Order number: 25106903.
Boyne, John. A history of loneliness. 2014. General fiction.
After forty years, Odran's devotion to the priesthood has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation.
6v. Price: £14.99. Order number: 25107403.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Marsh King's daughter. 2006. Historical fiction.
While fighting King John's troops, rebellious noble Nicholas de Caen is captured, but during the trip back both Nicholas and King John's treasure are lost in the marshes. Nicholas is injured and ends up at a nunnery where he is nursed by Miriel of Wisbech. News of the lost treasure comes to them and the nuns realise the young man probably knows something about this...
7v. Price: £6.99. Order Number: 24990203.
Flynn, Katie. A family Christmas. 2014. Family stories.
Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find themselves entrusted to the far from tender care of a hated neighbour, Mrs Huxtable. They hope their father will rescue them when his ship comes into port but this does not happen and when Cyril Huxtable is seen by the children hiding 'a wad of notes' away, a wad which subsequently disappears, they realise they are in deep trouble. Cyril accuses them of theft and threatens a terrible revenge so they decide to leave Liverpool and try to find their mother's family in Wales.
5v. Price: £19.99. Order No: 25084903.
Follett, Ken. Edge of eternity. 2014. General fiction.
Century trilogy; book 3. East German teacher, Rebecca Hoffmann,
finds herself pursued by the secret police. Her brother, Walli, longs to escape to Britain. In America, George Jakes is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement - as is Verena, who works for Martin Luther King, Jr. Russian activist, Tania Dvorkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet. Her brother, Dimka, is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party.
20v. Price: £20.00. Order number: 25071003.
Gayle, Mike. Seeing other people. 2014. General fiction.
Father of two Joe Clarke, is sure he's just had an affair but he can’t remember anything at all about the night in question. When his adored wife leaves him, things start to take a turn for the decidedly strange. Joe is told for a fact that he didn't have an affair after all and the person who told him was the mean -spirited GHOST of his least favourite ex-girlfriend.
6v. Price: £17.99. Order No: 25082103.
Harding, John. The girl who couldn't read. 2014. Thriller.
New England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin work as an assistant. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor?
5v. Price: £14.99. Order number: 25081903.
Hobb, Robin. Fool's assassin. 2014. Fantasy.
Fitz and the fool series; book 1. Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably with his beloved wife Molly these many years, on the estate which was a reward to his family for loyal service to the crown. But Tom Badgerlock is actually FitzChivalry Farseer, bastard scion of the Farseer line, convicted user of Beast-magic, and assassin. Suddenly Fitz's violent old life erupts into the peace of his new world, and nothing and no one is safe.
13v. Price; £20.00. Order number: 25084503.
Kinghorn, Judith. The last summer . 2012. Historical fiction.
It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper at Deyning Park, she is dazzled. Tom is handsome and enigmatic ; he is also an outsider. Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa. As their friendship deepens, the world - and all that they know - is rocked irrevocably by a war that changes their lives for ever.
7v. Price: £6.99. Order No: 25021907.
Lette, Kathy. Courting trouble. 2014. Modern Romance.
Matilda has the day from hell when she's sacked from her barristers' chambers and then discovers her husband in bed with her best friend. She and her daughter escape to Matilda's mother, Roxy - an exuberant lawyer who comes up with a radical plan for their future - they'll set up a new-style law firm mainly for women.
5v. Price: £14.99. Order: 25085103.
McDermid, Val. The skeleton road. 2014. Crime fiction.
When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones. As Karen's investigation gathers momentum, she is drawn deeper into a world of intrigue, spanning the dark days of the Balkan Wars.
5v. Price: £18.99. Order number: 25108203.
McEwan, Ian. The children act. 2014. General fiction.
Fiona Maye is a respected High Court judge, renowned for her exactitude and calm professionalism. Her new case is an urgent matter of life and death, bringing science and religion into direct conflict - and at its centre is a beautiful adolescent boy with the whole of his life ahead of him.
3v. Price: £16.99. Order number: 25063909.
McKenzie, Sophie. Trust in me. 2014. Thriller.
United 18 years ago by grief at the brutal murder of Livy's sister, Kara, Julia and Livy have always told each other everything. So when Julia is found dead in her home, Livy cannot come to terms with the news that she chose to end her own life. Troubled by doubt but alone in her suspicions, Livy sets out to prove that Julia was in fact murdered.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order number: 25064603.
McNab, Andy. Silencer. 2014. Thriller.
A Nick Stone thriller; book 15. Nick is in Moscow; semi-retired; devoted father of his newborn son. But when the boy falls ill & the doctor who saves him comes under threat, Nick finds himself back in the firing line.
6v. Price: 7.99. Order number: 25106803.
Mantel, Hilary. The assassination of Margaret Thatcher: and other stories. 2014. Short stories.
In these ten tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit.
3v. Price: £14.99. Order number: 25096503.
Marr, Andrew. Head of state: a political entertainment. 2014. General fiction.
It's September 2017, and the United Kingdom is on the verge of a crucial referendum that will determine, once and for all, if the country remains a member of the European Union. But there is a shocking secret at the very heart of government that, were it to become known, would change everything in an instant.
5v. Price; £18.99. Order number: 25066203.
Mina, Denise. The Red Road. 2014. Crime fiction.
Alex Morrow series; book 4. Rose Wilson is 14, but looks 16. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend', she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. Then Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. But a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences.
5v. Price: £7.99. Order number: 25068803.
Montefiore, Santa. The beekeeper's daughter. 2014. Romance.
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin’s father dies and leaves her alone. Alone, that is, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts. Massachusetts , 1973: Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable boy. Both mother and daughter are searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them.
6v. Price: £12.99. Order No: 25065603.
Quinn, Julia. Ten things I love about you. 2010. Romance.
Bevelstoke series; book 3. Sebastian Grey is in limbo. He is the heir to the Earl of Newbury, unless the current earl, a widower, can find a bride who will bear him a son. Newbury is in his 60s, but as an earl he's considered quite a catch. Sebastian, on the other hand, is 29 and extremely handsome, but in no hurry to find a wife.
5v. Price; £7.99. Order number: 25065203.
Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the perils of the night. 2014. Classic crime.
The Grantchester mysteries; book 2. Sidney Chambers is called to investigate the fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel; a case of arson at a glamour photographer's studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester's finest spin bowler.
6v. Price: £7.99. Order No: 25095703.
Ryan, Chris. Hunter killer. 2014. Thriller.
Danny Black series; book 2. Following a suicide bombing in central
London, SAS hero Danny Black is recruited to be part of a squad tasked with hunting down and killing the terrorist cells believed to be planning further atrocities. A trail of clues takes Danny to a training camp in the Yemen, but just as he has the enemy in his sights, he discovers that they are somehow one step ahead of him.
7v. Price: £18.99. Order number: 25107003.
Simsion, Graeme C. The Rosie effect. 2014. General fiction.
Rosie series; book 2. With the Wife Project complete, Don settles into a new job and married life in New York. As he tries to get to grips with the requirements of starting a family, his unusual research style gets him into trouble.
6v. Price: £14.99. Order number: 25106703.
Trow, M. J. Maxwell's house. 2013. Crime fiction.
One of Peter Maxwell’s Sixth Form is found dead in a derelict house in Leighford. Then there is another murder – another pupil from Leighford High School; did the boy know too much?
5v. Price: £9.99. Order number: 25069103.
Wood, Mary. Proud of you. 2014. Family stories.
Alice, an upper-class Londoner, is recruited into the SOE and sent to Paris where she meets Gertrude, an ex -prostitute working for the Resistance Movement. Together they discover that they both have a connection to the same man, Ralph D'Olivier, and vow to unravel the mystery of his death.