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|  Biblioteka/Library:  Alcott, Louisa May - ' Good Wives' C.A1.1 Austen, Jane - ' Pride And Prejudice' C.A2.1 Austen, Jane - ' Northanger Abbey' C.A2.2. Beckett, Samuel - ' Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980' C.B1.1 Bronte, Emily - ' Wuthering Heights' C.B2.1 Burnett, Frances Hodgson - ' The Secret Garden' C.B3.1 Caldwell, Erskine - ' The Courting Of Susie Brown' C.C1.1 Carroll, Lewis - ' Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' C.C2.1 Celine, Louis-Ferdinand - ' Journey To The End Of The NIGHT' C.C3.1 Chaucer, Geoffrey - ' The Canterbury Tales' C.C4.1 Chaucer, Geoffrey - ' Troilus And Criseyde' C.C4.2 Conrad, Joseph - ' Lord Jim' C.C5.1 Defoe, Daniel - ' Moll Flanders' C.D1.1 Dickens, Charles - ' Great Expectations' C.D2.1 Dickens, Charles - ' Oliver Twist' C.D2.2 Eliot, T.S. - ' The Wastle Land' C.E1.1 Forster, E.M. - ' A Room With A View' C.F1.1 Hardy, Thomas - ' Jude The Obscure' C.H1.1 Hardy, Thomas - ' The Return Of The Native' C.H1.2 Hawthorne, Nathaniel - ' The Scarlet Letter' C.H2.1 Hemingway, Ernest - ' The Old Man And The Sea' C.H3.1 James, Henry - ' Roderick Hudson' C.J1.1 James, Henry - ' The Ambassadors' C.J1.2 James, Henry - ' The Europeans' C.J1.3 James, Henry - ' The Spoils Of Poynton' C.J1.4 James, Henry - ' The Wings Of The Dove' C.J1.5 Lawrence, D.H. - ' England, My England' C.L1.1 Lawrence, D.H. - ' Love Among The Haystacks And Other Stories' C.L1.2 Lawrence, D.H. - ' St Mawr and The Virgin And The Gipsy' C.L1.3 Lawrence, D.H. - ' The Mortal Coil' C.L1.4 Lawrence, D.H. - ' The Princess' C.L1.5 Lawrence, D.H. - ' The Woman Who Rode Away' C.L1.6 Lawrence, D.H. - ' Three Novellas' C.L1.7 Lawrence, D.H. - ' The Prussian Officer' C.L1.8 Lewis, C.S. - ' The Lion,The Witch And The Wardrobe' C.L2.1 Mansfield, Katherin - ' The Escape' C.M1.1 Maupassant de, Guy - ' Selected Short Stories' C.M2.1 Plato - ' The Republic' C.P1.1 Pound, Ezra - ' Selected Poems' C.P2.1 Shakespeare, William - ' The Taming Of The Shrew' C.S1.1 Shakespeare, William - ' Hamlet' C.S1.2 Shakespeare, William - ' Julius Caesar' C.S1.3 Shakespeare, William - ' The Sonnets' C.S1.4 Shakespeare, William - 'Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello' C.S1.5 Stevenson, Robert Louis - ' Kidnapped' C.S2.1 Stevenson, Robert Louis - ' Treasure Island' C.S2.2 Svevo, Italo - ' Confessions Of Zeno' C.S3.1 Thackeray, William - ' Vanity Fair' C.T1.1 Thomas, William - ' Mill' C.T2.1 Trollope, Anthony - ' Can You Forgive Her?' C.T3.1 Wilde, Oscar - ' The Picture Of Dorian Gray' C.W1.1 Wilde, Oscar - ' The Complete Ilustrated Works' C.W1.2 Wilde, Oscar - ' The Importance Of Being Earnest' C.W1.3 Woolf, Virginia - ' Orlando' C.W2.1 Wordsworth, William - ' Selected Poems' C.W3.1 Yeats, W.B. - ' Selected Poetry' C.Y1.1 Zola, Emile - ' Germinal' C.Z1.1 Barclay, James ' Shadowheart' SF.B1.1 War has come… It has been smouldering for years but now the conflict between Balaia's four colleges of magic has finally blazed into furious life. Xetesk, the dark College, determined to impose its rule, now faces an alliance of Lystern and Dordova. Julatsa is crippled, still struggling to find Elven mages to raise its Heart and remake its link to Balaia's constant flow of Mana. And so the armies mass, the people flee and the barons play the lethal game of promise and betrayal... Barclay, James 'Noonshade' SF.B1.2 An apocalyptic spell has been cast, an ancient evil banished. And now the land of Balaia, still riven by war, must live with the consequences. The spell has torn a rip in the sky, a pathway to the dragon dimension. As war sweeps the land, the legendary mercenary band The Raven must fight the invading Wesman hordes and the betrayals of those that should be friends. And if they fail, Balaia will fall beneath the wings of countless dragons.. Cornell, Paul 'British Summertime' SF.C1.1 Alison Parmeter can read anything: body language; expressions; where to find a chip shop in a strange town.Which means that when she starts worrying about the End of the World, it might mean something more than a wet weekend in Bath. Squadron Leader Leyton is a pilot from a utopian future; he's dropped back in time, but it's startlingly different from anything he learned in history lessons... Duane, Diane 'Star Trek the Next Generation - Dark Mirror' SF.D1.1 24th century. One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned, thankful that the accident which had brought them there could not be duplicated - or so they thought. But now the scientists of that empire have found a doorway into our universe. Their plan: to destroy from within, to replace one of our Starships with one of theirs. Their victims: the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, who now find themselves engaged in combat against the most savage enemies they have ever encountered ... themselves. Erskine, Barbara 'Daughters of Fire' SF.E1.1 The Romans are landing in Britannia… Cartimandua, the young woman destined to rule the great tribe of the Brigantes, watches the invaders come ever closer. From the start her world is a maelstrom of love and conflict, revenge and retribution. Cartimandua's life becomes more turbulent and complicated as her power grows, and her political skills are threatened by her personal choices. she has formidable enemies on all sides as she faces a decision which will change the future of all around her... Ford, John M. 'The Dragon Waiting' SF.F2.1 The Wars of the Roses have put Edward IV on the throne of England; Lorenzo de Medici's court shines brilliantly. But this is a changed world, and Europe is dominated by the threat from the Byzantine Empire, while from Milan, Sforza, the Vampire Duke, marshals his forces for his long-planned attack on Florence. Holdsotck, Robert 'Celtika' SF.H1.1 In the centuries before we will meet Arthur, Merlin is both immortal and young. He journeys across the world - and worlds unknown. He becomes a friend of the Greek hero Jason, who seeks the Golden Fleece, and later of his wife, the enchantress Medea. When hate and treachery drive them apart, marlin wanders until a chance meeting leads him to find and raise the hulk of the Argo, which contains the spirit of Jason. Thus a great quest begins, which ends in unlooked-for ways and causes Merlin to travel for the first time to the land which will become England Kluger, Jeffrey ' Journey beyond Selene' SF.K1.1 Remarkable expeditions to the ends of the Solar System and its 63 moons. For more than 40 years, JPL's (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) scientists and engineers have been hammering together unmanned spaceships, mounting them on top of rockets, and flinging them not just to our own moon - the nearby world the Greeks called Selene - but to the ends of the solar system. In the course of their journeys, theses robot spacecraft have visited seven of the eight other planets and - more important - the sparkling swarms of multicoloured moons hat circle them. What they have found is astonishing... Manfredi. Valerio Massimo 'The Last Legion' SF.M1.1 The camp was quiet. Mist shrouded the plains and the Nova Invicta Legion, the legendary warriors charged with protecting the last Emperor of Rome, settled in for another cold and bitter night. Then, through the fog, the barbarians appeared. In the space of a few hours all was lost: the Imperial family was executed and the young Emperor, Romulus Augustus, deposed and imprisoned. The Roman Empire lay in ruins... Nix, Garth 'The Ragwitch' SF.N1.1 The person in front of Paul was a hideous mixture of girl and doll: half flesh, half cloth, and the eyes and face had nothing of Julia left at all, only the evil features of the doll. When Julia finds the ugly doll in the strange ball of feathers on the beach, Paul instinctively knows that his sister has meddled with something that is going to cause trouble. But already it's too late - the power behind the doll has his sister in its thrall and, later that night, the Ragwitch claims Julia for its won. Fighting against his natural urge to run from this hideous being, Paul is drawn into the creature's own world. Can he save his sister - or even himself? Paolini, Christopher 'Eragon' SF.P1.1 When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands. Pratchett, Terry 'Equal Rites' SF.P2.1 The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power tot he eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex... Pratchett, Terry 'Going Postal' SF.P2.2 Moist von Lipwig is a con artist… and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. Pratchett, Terry 'Guards! Guards!' SF.P2.3 This is where the dragons went. They lie… not dead, not asleep, but … dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there is a key... Pratchett, Terry 'Lords and Ladies' SF.P2.4 The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth… Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming… Pratchett, Terry 'Moving Pictures' SF.P2.5 The alchemists of the discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel to find out... Pratchett, Terry 'Thief of Time' SF.P2.6 Time is a resource. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will be the start of everyone's problems. Pratchett, Terry 'Wyrd Sisters' SF.P2.7 Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe... Pullman, Philip "Northern Lights' SF.P3.1 When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her demon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientist's is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about. Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights. Pullman, Philip 'The Subtle Knife' SF.P3.2 Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own , on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance. Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all cost. Rowling, J.K. 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' SF.R1.1 Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last… Rowling, J.K. 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' SF.R1.2 It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful - there are unexpected dangers lurking... Rowling, J.K. 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' SF.R1.3 Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts. Unusually for a schoolboy, however, Harry is not enjoying his summer holidays. He is feeling neglected by his friends, and, as ever, the Dursleys are making his life a misery. But Harry has had enough. he's beginning to think he must do something, anything to change his situation. Then the summer holidays come to an unexpectedly dramatic end, and Harry is thrown back into life at Hogwarts. What Harry is about to discover at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down... Rowling, J.K. 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' SF.R1.4 Harry Potter thinks he's an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD! Rowling, J.K. 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' SF.R1.5 Harry Potter, along with his bets friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. But when he gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. there's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school... Scott, Melissa 'Star Trek Voyager - the Garden' SF.S1.1 Desperately in need of vital nutritional supplies, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager must risk dealing with an enigmatic race known as the Kirse, legendary for the bountiful crops of their world - and for their secretive ways. Despite Neelix's warnings, Captain Janeway leads an Away Team to the Kirse homeworld. But when the hostile Andirrim attack the Kirse, Janeway finds herself caught in a deadly situation. Forced to fight alongside the Kirse, Janeway and her crew can only hope that their strange, new allies are not more dangerous than their common foe. Young, Robyn 'Brethren' SF.Y1.1 As the crusades rage, a secret war begins… Will Campbell longs to become a Knight Templar, but first he must serve as apprentice to the foul-tempered scholar Everard, a man of dangerous secrets. Amir Baybars has fought his way from slavery to become a fearsome commander, driven by an unquenchable desire to free his people from the European invaders of the Holy Land. these two men are destined to collide, in that extraordinary clash of civilizations known in the west as the Crusades. Tolkien, J.R.R. - ' The Hobbit' SF.T1.1 Seldom has a story been as widely praised as THE HOBBIT. By parents, teachers, reviewers, and especially by children themselves. Within a few years its hero, Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals: Alice, Pooh, Toad... As with all such classics enjoyment burgeons at each successive reading, and grown-ups as much as children feel the potency of its spell. Tolkien, J.R.R. ' The Lord of the Rings' SF.T1.2 Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him the Rings of Power - the means by which he will be able to rule the world. All he lacks in his plan for dominion is the Ruling Ring, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Aldridge, Alan and Boyett, Steve 'The Gnole' SF.A1.1 ' The Gnole' Fungle is a Gnole: an intelligent mole-like creature living deep in the wild woods of the Smoky Mountains, far from man's ever-growing empire. But Fungle has noticed the tell-tale signs of human approach and knows his world is threatened as never before. The time has come for him to leave his beloved forest for the concrete jungle of manhattan - on a bold quest to save the planet and humankind from its own destruction. Feist, Raymond E. and Wurts Janny 'Servant of the Empire' SF.F1.1 Servant of the Empire' Mara of Acoma, Ruling lay of her house, is a force to be reckoned with when playing the bloody politics of the Game of the Council. She's made great grains of her followers within the Empire, including valuable new lands. But they need cultivating, and slaves are in short supply due to the incessant war effort against Midkemia. Enter the mysterious world of Kelewan, where murder is as rife as false diplomacy. Enter a world of sweeping imagination and magical intrigue from two of the greatest writers of modern fantasy. Ahern, Cecilia - 'If You Could See Me Now' W.A1.1 In the Town of Hearts, one woman has hers under lock and key...
Everything in Elizabeth Egan's life has its place, from the espresso cups in her gleaming kitchen to the swatches and paint pots of her interior design business.
Order and precision keep life under control - and keep Elizabeth's heart from the pain and hurt she has suffered in the past.
The only cloud on the horizon is her sister Saoirse. A red-haired whirlwind, she is always leaving behind pieces which Elizabeth struggles to pick up - including her six-year-old son Luke. Being a reluctant mother while trying to keep her business on track is a full-time job, one which leaves little room for error - or fun.
Until, one day, a stranger unexpectedly comes into their lives. Ivan is carefree, spontaneous and always looking for adventure - everything that Elizabeth is not. In no time at all, he has crept under her skin and started to change her life in ways she could never have imagined.
But Elizabeth knows little about Ivan - who he is and whether he is everything he seems. And whether there is a future for their blossoming relationship...
Full of Cecelia Ahern's trademark warmth and poignancy, If You Could See Me Now is a story with heart - and just a little bit of magic.
Ahern, Cecilia - 'PS, I Love You' W.A1.2 Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry.
Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.
Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed 'PS, I Love You'.
As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before.
Ashworth, Sherry - 'Let's Get Physical' W.A2.1 Fit not Fat... words that strike terror into Cassie's ample bosom. But she has no choice; she loses either her excess weight or her gall bladder. With the scalpel of Damocles hanging over her, she joins the gym for the first time in her life, and learns that health is the new religion.
Meanwhile Jane, the manager at the Fit not Fat Health Club, has her work cut out. It's her task to win over the
former staff, all of whom resent her appointment - sulky Siobhan, Jekyll-and-Hyde Jodie and gorgeous Garth. Workaholic Jane is beset by problems - does she have the stamina to win through? It's a race against time for Jane to prove herself and Cassie to lose those pounds. But is there a price to pay for the single-minded pursuit of fitness? And why are we all so obsessed by health? Bagshawe, Louise - 'Monday's Child' W.B1.1 Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround script-reader and wannabe movie-maker Anna Brown — from her deranged glamour-queen boss to her perfect, pouting flatmates. For Anna, being less than beautiful is very hard to bear.
In fashion-and-beauty-crazed London, perhaps being talented just isn't enough. Enter Mark Swan, Britain's hottest director Rugged, reclusive and powerful, he could be Anna's ticket to the top, but how can she ever hope to snag such a bright star?
Fed up with being downbeat and dowdy, Anna decides to chase her dreams and, with a little help from her friends, embarks on a madcap scheme to get just what she's after..
Barker Raffaella - 'Green Grass' W.B2.1 Laura Sale has become invisible in her own life. Her domestic existence in North London with thirteen-year-old twins Dolly and Fred, and their father, the fascinating but ridiculously demanding Inigo, seems relentless, while her professional life fostering Inigo's career as Britain's most successful conceptual artist is frustrating and unfulfilling. What does she really like? What makes her laugh? Is a passionate existence passing her by?
A chance encounter with Guy, the man she nearly married twenty years ago, is the catalyst she needs. Change comes in mysterious guises, and Laura finds herself confronting old ghosts, ferrets, a goat and a collapsing relationship, back in the rural Norfolk of her childhood holidays. As she starts to savour the space she has craved, she begins a new stage of her life with its own surprises, demons and delights. Taking control of her destiny, Laura finds it lit with possibility. Barker, Raffaella - 'Hens Dancing' W.B2.2
Wnen Venetia Summer's husband runs away with his masseuse, suddenly tbe pastoral paradise she has created for her family begins to seem less than perfect.
Hens Dancing follows a year in the life of her decidedly bohemian household. It is a story of wayward gardens, nits and traumatic bathroom conversions, but also of the pleasures of the Norfolk seasons, pink shoes and fun fur, a splendid baby daughter and perhaps, amongst it all, the promise of new love...
Bernardo, Jose Raul - 'The Wise Women of Havana' W.B3.1 SET against the exotic background of Cuba in 1938, The Wise Women of Havana is the deeply moving, lyrical, and yet earthy story of three remarkable women whose lives are suddenly intricately intertwined.
WHEN Marguita, a beautiful and voluptuous young girl, marries Lorenzo, they find their dream home in a cozy apartment in Havana. But that dream is soon shattered. Lorenzo's once-wealthy parents, now in dire need of financial help because of the Great Depression, ask the newlyweds to move into the family's crumbling mansion with them. Marguita is hardly settled with her in-laws when Lorenzo's older sister, the spinster Lolo, behaves in a shocking way toward the young couple, seriously injuring Marguita's sense of honor and causing a dangerous rift between the two. In despair, Marguita flees to her mother, Dolores, a truly wise woman, whose love, generosity, and resourcefulness provide the glue that promises to mend the break.
Bingham, Charlotte - 'In Distant Fields' W.B4.1 When Kitty is invited to stay with her friend Partita at Bauders Castle she is sure she must refuse. Her mother, however, sees it as an undreamed-of opportunity for her daughter to escape from the dark presence of her notorious father, and pawns her engagement ring to enable Kitty to go. Partita's parents are enchanted by Kitty and she soon becomes part of their privileged and glamorous lifestyle.
It seems that the family's grand way of life is unassailable, but it is not. After one last idyllic seaside holiday, war is declared.
The young men cannot wait to volunteer, while the girls go on nursing courses, and the castle becomes a convalescent home.
They are sure that the war will be over in a few weeks, but once the wounded start arriving from the Front, the harsh reality of conflict becomes clear to them all, none more so than Kitty and Partita.
Brookmyre, Christopher - 'One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night' W.B5.1 One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night brings Christopher Brookmyre's distinctive, heart-warming style to the touching story of what unfolds when the former pupils of an ordinary Glasgow high school are reunited after fifteen long years; reminiscence, reconciliation, old secrets, rekindled passions, joy, laughter, hijackers, murder, vengeance, machine-guns, rocket-launchers ... that sort of thing.
Welcome to the party. Dress casual. Bring your own bullets. Burgh, Anita - 'Lottery' W.B5.1 If you scooped over a million on the lottery ... what's the first thing you'd change?
Peggy Alder knows she's fortunate and believes that her family is close, loving and loyal. But when their financial problems reach crisis point, some unsettling cracks begin to appear...
Then out of the blue, she wins over a million pounds on the National Lottery, and with it the chance to solve everyone's problems. Or so she thinks. Only when her dreams have come true does Peggy really begin to count the assets that cash just can't buy ... Colgan, Jenny - 'Talking to Addison' W.C1.1 Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn't exactly seem to be coming up roses...
Fleeing the houseshare from hell, she moves in with Josh, a nice rich boy with a terminal case of sexual confusion; Kate, a city high-flyer with talons to match; and the gorgeous Addison, who spends his days communicating only with his computer and those who worship at the altar of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Holly's desperate to have a one-to-one with Addison, but can she drag him away from his monstrously ugly, not to say jealous internet 'girlfriend' Claudia, or will they just continually get their wires crossed?
Cookson, Catherine - 'A Dinner of Herbs' W.C2.1 A legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life, over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may prevail. Catherine Cookson explores this theme in a major novel that will absorb and involve her vast company of readers as irresistibly as any she has written: a book to rank with Katie Mulholland and the celebrated Mallen and Tilly Trotter trilogies as one of her most outstanding achievements as a story-teller.
Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met a violent death and the boy left with all memory gone of his past life. So he came to be adopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace whose special brand of country wisdom made many think of her as a witch. But among his own contemporaries, Roddy found his closest companions in Hal Roystan and Mary Ellen Lee. Hal was also without a family, his father missing and believed to have robbed his employers. It was a belief Hal bitterly rejected, and he became filled with a growing determination both to make his way in life and to bring retribution where the real guilt lay. As for Mary Ellen, even as a young girl she was said to have "a tongue that would clip clouts" and already displayed all the spirit and forthrightncss that would stamp her as a woman.
These three stand at the heart of a richly eventful narrative that spans the first half of the nineteenth century, their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and sometimes cruel destiny which reflects the truth of the ancient proverb: "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
Cooper, Jilly - 'Emily' W.C3.1 If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met the impossible, irresistible Rory Balniel -never have married him and been carried off to the wild Scottish island of Irasa to live in his ancestral home along with his eccentric mother,Coco,and the dog, Walter Scott. She'd never have met the wild and mysterious Marina, a wraith from Rory's past, nor her brother, the disagreeable Finn Maclean; never have spent a night in a haunted highland castle, or been caught stealing roses in a see-through nightie... Yes, it all started at Annie Richmond's party... Cooper, Jilly - 'Rivals' W.C3.2 JILLY COOPER'S outrageous new novel is a riotous story, of life behind the television screen. It marks the return of Rupert Campbell-Black, the unscrupulous hero of RIDERS, and explores the machinations and pleasures of the very rich, from the agonies of obsession to the passions and betrayals of men and women used to getting what they want.
Cooper, Jilly - 'Turn Right at the Spotted Dog'' W.C3.3 For the past six years Jilly Cooper has been living in Gloucestershire and writing regularly for The Mail on Sunday. The topics she covers in her inimitable style range from Hunt Balls and Henley to love and sex in the age of AIDS. She has interviewed Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Lord Hailsham, the cast of EastEnders and the proprietress of a famous brothel in the Nevada desert. She writes about her fellow human beings and their foibles provocatively, affectionately - sometimes outrageously. Her portraits of family life in the Cooper household remain the most ruthless and hilarious of all.
Dean, Louise -'Becoming Strangers' W.D1.1 Jan and Annemieke are going on their last holiday together. Thirty years their senior, Dorothy and George are on one of their first.
When these four people meet on an island in the Caribbean, they find more than an escape from their daily existence. They discover that it's not too late to save the rest of their lives.
Dewar, Isla - 'It Could Happen to You' W.D2.1 Rowan has always cherished an ambition to travel. She didn't just leave the small Scottish town where she grew up; she fled from it as fast as she could. Now she's become expert at metropolitan living; she could walk by a million faces and not notice any of them. And her dream is almost within her grasp.
When Rowan does start packing her bags, she has to find room for one very unexpected item. And she's headed not for exotic distant shores but back to Scotland. There, she feels at first like nothing more than a source of good gossip. But as she discovers that no one is quite who she lought they were, Rowan begins to see that home could e where she'll find what she was looking for after all...
Diamant, Anita - 'The Red Tent' W.D3.1 Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the Book of Genesis that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen sons. The Red Tent is an extraordinary and engrossing tale of ancient womanhood and family honour. Told in Dinah's voice, it opens with the story of her mothers - the four wives of Jacob - each of whom embodies unique feminine traits, and concludes with Dinah's own startling and unforgettable story of betrayal, grief and love. Deeply affecting and intimate, The Red Tent combines outstandingly rich storytelling with an original insight into women's society in a fascinating period of early history, and such is its warmth and candour, it is guaranteed to win the hearts and minds of women across the world.
Donleavy, J. P. - 'The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms' W.D4.1 Jocelyn Cuenevere Marchantiere Jones, sometime resident of Scarsdale, educated at Bryn Mawr, has been brought up always to behave like a lady. But what with chiselling divorce lawyers, fraudulent financial advisors and importunate and oversexed suitors, the patience of even the most impeccable lady might wear thin. Which is why Joy ends up with a pair of matching Purdey shotguns across her knees and a .38 Smith L Wesson under her pillow, waiting for the next lying bastard to cross her threshold. Trigger happy she may be, but a woman who will always follow her South Carolina granny's advice on the matter of clean rest rooms, Joy Cones is one of J. P. Donleavy's most inspired comic creations.
Evans, Nicholas - 'The Divide' W.E1.1 For many anguished months Ben and Sarah Cooper's daughter has been on the run from the FBI, wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism. But when Abbies body is found embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the family's devastation deepens into mystery. How did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?
In a journey of discovery and redemption that takes us from the streets of New York to the daunting grandeur of the West, The Divide tells the story of a family fractured by betrayal. It explores the pain we inflict on - those we love the most and charts the passions and needs, the dashed hopes and disillusionments, that connect and divide all men and women.
Fielding, Helen - 'Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason' W.F1.1 The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever.
Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Netting Hill to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of . Frankel, Valerie - 'Hex and the Single Girl' W.F2.1 Do you think that access to magical powers would help your love life?
Who doesn't?
Which is where good witch Emma Hutch comes in.
By day, she's just your average, stylish girl about town...
By night, she puts her witchy ways to the best possible use, casting spells to match Manhattan ladies to the men of their dreams - for a small fee, of course.
In fact, she's so good at her job that business is booming. The only snag is her own love life, which is distinctly lacking in sparkle. But when Emma is hired to match the city's most eligible bachelor with an evil scheming socialite, suddenly her supernatural work ethic is put to the test. And just maybe it's time to break the rules and turn a little magic onto herself...
Fredriksson, Marianne - 'Hanna's Daughters' W.F3.1 Restless and unable to sleep, Anna picks up a sepia photograph of her grandmother, Hanna, as a young Woman. It is like looking in a mirror and Anna sees not the tetchy old woman of family stories but a woman who might love, cry, hate, just as she does. For the first time, Anna sees herself and her mother, Hanna's daughter, not just as family, but as real people whose lives have rich and complex stories to t |
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