Recent Additions
Recent Additions – Non Fiction
A Teaspoon and an Open Mind : the science of Doctor Who
by Michael White
How the popular science fiction programme is based on genuine ideas. Will time travel ever be possible? Read and find out!
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The Orange Order : a contemporary Northern Irish history
by Eric P. Kaufmann
A social history of the Orange Order from its peak in the 1960s to its present day crisis.
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Gay life and culture : a world history
by Robert Aldrich
Beginning with ancient Greece and Rome, an account of changing attitudes to homosexuality and the gradual emergence of a gay identity in the 20th century. Fully illustrated |
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The Mabinogion
by Sioned Davies
A new translation of the great Welsh medieval tale cycle first popularised by Lady Charlotte Guest in the 19th century |
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Collected poems
by Tony Harrison
Harrison is a major voice in modern English poetry, born in Leeds in 1937. A pioneer of the film poetry genre, his Collected Film Poetry is also in stock.
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Stones of Adoration : sacred stones and mystic megaliths of Ireland
by Christine Zucchelli
The myths, legends and folktales associated with the sacred stones and stone monuments of Ireland. The author, an Austrian, now lives in west Clare. |
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The Cult of the Amateur : how today's internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy
by Andrew Keen
How blogs, Wikipedia, YouTube and similiar sites serve to confuse rather than inform. Not the ideal book to promote on a website, but this much is true...Keen's book is available through your local library! |
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Running with Reindeer : encounters in Russian Lapland
by Roger Took
The great Arctic port of Murmansk, the mining towns, the nomadic lives of the Saami or Lapp families, Took is the first Westerner since the 1920s to describe this unique part of Europe. |
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Recent Acquisitions – Fiction
Life class
by Pat Barker
The lives of a group of art students in London are transformed by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. A new novel by the Booker prize winner and author of the Regeneration trilogy.
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If you liked school, you’ll love work
by Irvine Welsh
A new collection of short stories by the author of Trainspotting, now based in Dublin
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Land of the Headless
by Adam Roberts
A science fiction novel about a fundamentalist society which punishes those found guilty of immorality by beheading, but the headless are then fitted with a neck valve, ordinator and basic sensory equipment, and sent out into the world again.
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Lean Mean Thirteen
by Janet Evanovich
The thirteenth in the series featuring private eye Stephanie Plum. Plum’s former husband Dickie Orr is found dead, and she is drawn into a fast-paced and dangerous adventure.
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Bedtime Eyes
by Amy Yamada
Three linked novellas by an exciting contemporary author from Japan, each involving the relationship between a Japanese woman and an African-American man. Published in Japan in 1985, this is the first English translation.
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End Games
by Michael Dibdin
The last novel to feature Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, as Dibdin died last April. Zen, a Venetian, is doing duty for an injured colleague in Calabria, in the toe of Italy , and finds it hard to break through the code of silence which binds together a traditional and tightly-knit community.
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The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
Every week a train of camels arrives in an African village bringing the world of books and reading to the scattered inhabitants of the bush. Every book must be returned each week or else the bookmobile will come no more. One week a book is stolen. Inspired by a real-life mobile library service in Kenya .
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Rules for Saying Goodbye
by Katherine Taylor
Twelve-year old Katherine is enrolled in a prep school far away from the provincial town where she has spent her childhood, and takes on the difficult job of growing up.
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