Recommended Reads for Adults
1405278420 
Paperback 
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Electric Monkey
Resource type: Physical
Note: Two young women from different backgrounds become close friends through their roles in WWII, one as a pilot, the other as an SOE agent.
000830369X 
Paperback 
Year: 2018
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Resource type: Physical
Note: This hauntingly prophetic novel centres around a not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, individuals and scholars are outcasts and books are burned by a special task force of firemen.
0141199075 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Pride and Prejudice is one of the best loved and most intimately known of Jane Austen's novels. Her sense of comedy and satire makes this an enduring classic of English literature.
0008195595 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: A social satire and a milestone in 20th century literature, 'The Great Gatsby' peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
1407103482 
Hardback
Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Scholastic
Resource type: Physical
Note: A young orphan searches for the truth behind the automaton he has found
1784752630 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arrow Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s.
1785031139 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Del Rey
Resource type: Physical
Note: I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a habitat designed to last 31 days. If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death.
0241950430 
Paperback
Year: 2010
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: A 16-year-old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?
1784162124 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Resource type: Physical
Note: Set in 1939 Nazi Germany. Liesel Meminger's life changes when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow at brother graveside, left there by accident , its her first book of thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words.
1529157145 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit.
1785652508 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Titan Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.
0099554798 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: Orange Prize longlist 2012 In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black & white, Le Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths. But behind the scenes a dangerous game is being played out by two young magicians, who are forced to test the limits of the imagination & love.
0241341655 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Resource type: Physical
Note: The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze of Big Brother, Winston Smith yearns for intimacy and love - 'thought crimes' that, if uncovered, would mean imprisonment, or death. But Winston is not alone in his defiance, and an illicit affair will draw him into the mysterious Brotherhood and the realities of resistance
1398515698 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Resource type: Physical
Note: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Monique is not exactly on top of the world.
1784751375 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arrow Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Previous published as 'Cross Stitch'. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743.
1408891387 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
1472154665 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Corsair
Resource type: Physical
Note: How long can you protect your heart? For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. When two young men from the town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life, until the unthinkable happens.
Recommended Reads for Children and Young People
0330543806 
Paperback 
Year: 2012
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Children's
Resource type: Physical
Note: A teenager who can time travel has to try and use his ability to save the girl he loves before they meet.
0192737465 
Paperback 
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
1780620209 
Paperback
Year: 2012
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Indigo
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 2073 on the romote and secretive island of Blessed, where munour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a ritual sacrifice takes place
0192734504 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: The stroke of thirteen on the clock brings an escape to a magical, secret place for Tom.
1848771916 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Templar Pub
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Charlie falls down a hole whilst looking for his dog, he finds he has travelled all the way back to ancient Rome
1848770979 
Paperback
Year: 2011
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Templar Pub
Resource type: Physical
Note: Schoolboy hero, Jack Christie, travels back in time to foil the plot to assassinate Elizabeth I.
000815631X 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Costa Children's Award 2016 Shortlist 'Time Travelling with a Hamster' is a race-against-time story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident, and save his father's life.
0141354933 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'.
085763898X 
Paperback
Year: 2018/8
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally titled "A Mirror in Time " The old gilt-edged mirror has hung in Alex's aunt's house for as long as he can remember. Alex hardly notices it, until the day he and his sister are pulled through the mirro, back into 1912. It's the same house, but a very different place to live, and the people they meet need their help. Soon they are caught up in an action-packed adventure, solv
0141326921 
Paperback
Year: 2009
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is book one in Alex Scarrow's exciting science fiction TimeRiders series.Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand . . .'But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.