Fiction Books
The Bee Hive
Simon
Adepetun
Eleven-year-old Daniel Jeremiah Chambers has parents Philip and Susan who love work and shopping and who just don't listen. Daniel is an only child ... no, he's lying ... he has a sister, Alice, who has a dolly fixation; Dan is sure she is an alien.
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Maze of Fates: A Dominion City Blues Story
by Geronimo Bosch
Agnise would do anything for her lover, Dolores, including selling sexual favours in the sleazy underworld of Dominion City. They work together out of The Elite Lounge, where their employer, Silla, has become entangled in their romantic affairs.
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A Vintage Summer
by Cathy Bramley
London has not been kind to Lottie Allbright. Realising it’s time to cut and run, she packs up and moves back home – but finds her family in disarray.
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It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s
by Lisa Blower
"Lisa Blower lifts that carpet to explore lives deemed superfluous by business, media and government. Her well-rounded and convincing characters have limited choices as they face deprivation, disappointment and a relentless struggle for survival."
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The Westbrook Affair
A R Dance
This book is set in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire between the years 1828 and 1867. It chronicles the lives of families from opposite ends of the social divide, and how a man-made disaster eventually leads to the discovery of a lost family fortune.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Hachette Children’s Group (Orion Children’s Books)
‘Christmas is the perfect time to share the magic of reading with your family and Scrooge’s journey to redemption is still as thrilling, moving and joyous over 175 years after it was written. This has to be the perfect Christmas book’ – Cressida Cowell
Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter and selfish old man, and worst of all . . . he hates Christmas! But this Christmas Eve there’s a surprise in store for Scrooge when four spooky ghosts pay him an unexpected visit. Over the course of the night, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come show Scrooge how his mean and nasty behaviour has affected everyone around him . . .
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Pleasantly Disturbed
Lee Stuart Evans
Fiction
The late 1980s.
Robin dreams of becoming Jim Kerr, singer in the best band in the world, Simple Minds, despite having no talent whatsoever.
Fliss is a musical genius, perhaps the East Midlands’ answer to Kate Bush, if only she had more confidence.
Until rock stardom inevitably descends upon him, Robin takes a job at the local garage, where for the first time in his life he finds a sense of purpose; while Fliss, pushed by her mother, reluctantly auditions for TV’s biggest talent show and proves an instant hit.
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The Blind Bowman 1
Shadow of the Wolf
Tim Hall
Fiction
Blinded by the Sheriff, he takes refuge in the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest, where primal powers and forgotten magicks reach out to him. But the wildwood itself is under threat, and the old gods face extinction.
Only the blind bowman, Robin Hood, together with his soulmate, Marian, can stand against the forces of darkness . . .
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The Darkest Hour
By Guy Jones
A private is on sentry duty the night before embarkation to the docks in preparation for D-Day. He is frightened, trying not to think about what lies ahead of him. He only has 2 cigarettes to see him through the night.
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The Gift
A Christmas Ghost Story
By Guy Jones
On the top floor of an old Victorian house, that should be empty, there is a light on. A low light. A candle light.
And next to the light, just visible ... or was it my ... a figure ... and was it ... was she looking straight at me?
She? Yes, it was a girl.
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Gobstoppers, Shrimps and Sour Monkeys
by Fosseway Writers
"This smorgasbord of stories and poems from the talented group of Fosseway Writers is by turns witty, dark and poignant - and deliciously moreish." Clare Harvey
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The Rumpelstiltskin Trilogy Part 1
For The Love of Goerge
by Guy Jones
Fiction
Trapped in a loveless marriage, is George the light at the end of the tunnel?
Her life changes when George walks in to the reproduction antique shop, she notices that the park fence needs painting and he persuades her to take a Biology A Level.
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The Wooden Box
by Guy Jones
Sam's Friend Tracey had a Grandmother who invented things. One of the the things she invented, just before she died was a large wooden box. Large enough to carry a person ...
two if they were intimate … it had a guide book with the instructions not to move it … BOTH NOW AND IN THE PAST
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Step Forward, Harry Salt
by Ross Lowe
Something strange is afoot in the Derbyshire hills. But what does that mean for Harry Salt? He’s a young man with a big secret. So big, that the Prime Minister wants a piece of him.
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
by Charlie Mackesy
A book to bring people together, Charlie Mackesy’s inspirational paintings and delicate calligraphic text are a celebration of kindness, compassion and understanding, conveying an essential message for our time.
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TRUST ME, I'M A THIEF
by Wilf Morgan
The Rogue's Run Trio are Arilon's greatest smugglers (so
it says on their leaflet, anyway). Join them as they embark
on their toughest job yet - and make their mark on the
events of Secret of Waterwhistle Part 2. Get involved with
this interactive story where YOU, the reader gets to
make the choices and direct the story.
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Nothing Really Matters in Life More Than Love : 14
Fernandez Paz, Agustin, Auladell, Pablo, Dunne, Jonathan
The ten stories in this magnificent collection “all talk of the importance of love, that feeling that can transform us more deeply than any other, and also of its absence, the void it leaves in people when the twists and turns of life make it impossible.”
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The Half Life of Valery K
by Natasha Pulley
In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life. But on one ordinary day, all that changes: Valery’s university mentor steps in and sweeps Valery from the frozen prison camp to a mysterious unnamed town hidden within a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted
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A Start In Life
by Alan Sillitoe
A revival of Sillitoe’s novel, first published in 1970, about a Nottingham boy who flees to London. With an introduction by D.J.Taylor. 342pp
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