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Love in colour / Bolu Babalola.

Bolu Babalola recreates the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and retells them with new incredible detail and vivacity. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from South Asia, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world. Babalola is inspired by tales that truly show the variety and colours of love around the globe.
Author: Babalola, Bolu
Published: London : Headline, 2021.
x, 290 pages ; 20 cm

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Happiness FM / Mary Dickins.

'Happiness FM' will take you on an exhilarating ride, travelling at breakneck speed from the everyday to the transcendental and back again. But as you read between the layers of laughs, jaunty rhythms and irresistible rhymes, you'll discover an understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work.
Author: Dickins, Mary
Published: Bristol : Burning Eye Books, 2020.
40 pages ; 21 cm

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The lost spells / Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris.

As in 'The Lost Words', these 'spells' take their subjects from relatively commonplace, and yet underappreciated, animals, birds, trees and flowers - from barn owl to red fox, grey seal to silver birch, jay to jackdaw. But they break out of the triptych format of 'The Lost Words', finding new shapes, new spaces and new voices with which to conjure. 'The Lost Spells' summons back what is often lost from sight and care, and inspires protection and action on behalf of the natural world. Above all, it celebrates a sense of wonder, bearing witness to nature's power to amaze, console and bring joy.
Author: Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
Published: UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2020.
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 19 cm

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The salt path / Raynor Winn.

In one devastating week, Raynor and her husband Moth lost their home of 20 years, just as a terminal diagnosis took away their future together. With nowhere else to go, they decided to walk the South West Coast Path: a 630-mile sea-swept trail from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall. This ancient, wind-battered landscape strips them of every comfort they had previously known. With very little money for food or shelter, Raynor and Moth carry everything on their backs and wild camp on beaches and clifftops. But slowly, with every step, every encounter, and every test along the way, the walk sets them on a remarkable journey. They don't know how far they will travel, but - to their surprise - they find themselves on a path to freedom.
Author: Winn, Raynor
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
viii, 274 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

20 copies

The lido / Libby Page.

Rosemary has lived in Brixton all her life. But now everything she knows is changing - the library where she used to work has closed, the family fruit and veg shop has become a trendy bar, and her beloved husband George is gone. Kate has just moved and feels alone in a city that is too big for her. She's at the bottom rung of her career as a journalist on a local paper, and is determined to make something of it. So when the local lido is threatened with closure, Kate knows this story could be her chance to shine. And Rosemary knows it is the end of everything for her. Together they are determined to make a stand, to show that the pool is more than just a place to swim - it is the heart of the community. Together they will show the importance of friendship, the value of community, and how ordinary people can protect the things they love.
Author: Page, Libby
Published: London : Orion, 2019.
394 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

12 copies

Calypso / David Sedaris.

When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realisation: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. With 'Calypso', Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation toward middle age and mortality.
Author: Sedaris, David
Published: London : Abacus, 2019.
259 pages ; 20 cm

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Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens.

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. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
Author: Owens, Delia
Published: London : Corsair, 2019.
370 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (6 reviews)

21 copies

The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse / Charlie Mackesy.

Enter the world of Charlie's four characters and unlikely friends - the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse - discover their touching story, and their most poignant and universal life lessons.
Author: Mackesy, Charlie
Published: London : Ebury Press, 2019.
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm

16 copies

Before the coffee gets cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In this novel, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
Author: Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-
Published: London : Picador, 2019.
213 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (6 reviews)
1 reserve

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Six foot six / Kit de Waal.

It's an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It's the third of November, and it's Friday, and it's his 21st birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy's help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. Timothy has never had a job before - or no work that he's kept for more than a day. But when Timothy and Charlie have to collect money from a local thug, things don't exactly go according to plan. Over the course of one day, Timothy's life will change forever.
Author: De Waal, Kit
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2018.
79 pages ; 20 cm.
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life.
Author: Honeyman, Gail
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
385 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (8 reviews)

16 copies

Sour heart / Jenny Zhang.

These seven startling stories of family, femininity, sexuality and otherness will plunge you into the tender and chaotic hearts of narrators you won't easily forget. Centred on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life on the poverty line in 1990s New York City, the stories that make up 'Sour Heart' examine the many ways that family and history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother's role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these vibrant, raw and powerful stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.
Author: Zhang, Jenny
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2018.
320 pages ; 20 cm

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The stranger on the bridge : my journey from despair to hope / Jonny Benjamin and Britt Pflüger ; foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge.

In 2008, 20 year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness launch a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery. More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast shows picked up the story until the stranger, whose name is Neil Laybourn, was found and - in an emotional and touching moment - the pair reunited and have remained firm friends ever since. 'The Stranger on the Bridge' is a memoir of the journey Jonny made both personally, and publicly to not only find the person who saved his life, but also to explore how he got to the bridge in the first place and how he continues to manage his diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder.
Author: Benjamin, Jonny
Published: London : Bluebird Books for Life, 2018.
209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

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Living life to the full : key life skills to change your life / by Dr. Chris Williams.

Wanting to feel happier, find time for you, overcome problems and keep calm in the face of difficulty? This book teaches you powerful wellbeing strategies based on the tried and trusted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach.
Author: Williams, Chris, 1964-
First edition.
Published: [Clydebank] : Five Areas Limited, 2018.
267 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm

24 copies

Why mummy drinks : family isn't a word, it's a sentence! / Gill Sims.

It is Mummy's 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like 'Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?' But Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who 'live for their children' and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring's extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering 'FML' over and over again. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she's had.
Author: Sims, Gill
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
343 pages ; 20 cm

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Notes on a nervous planet / Matt Haig.

Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? How do we stay human in a technological world? How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious? After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him.
Author: Haig, Matt, 1975-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2018.
310 pages ; 19 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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Three things about Elsie / Joanna Cannon.

There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing - might take a little bit more explaining. 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; and, if the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died 60 years ago?
Author: Cannon, Joanna (Psychiatrist)
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2018.
455 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

19 copies

Clownfish / Alan Durant.

Dak's dad has been dead for seven days when suddenly he reappears. He's the same in almost every way, with one startling exception: Dad has turned into a clownfish, and now lives in a tank at their local aquarium. Dak is delighted by the news - he has Dad back, even if he isn't quite as he was before. Deciding to keep Dad's transformation a secret, Dak visits him at the aquarium as often as he can, and ends up spending so much time there that they offer him a job. This is how he comes to meet Violet, the owner's prickly but kindhearted niece; when the aquarium is threatened with closure, the pair must work together to save it. For Dak, the stakes couldn't be higher - after all, if the aquarium shuts down, what will happen to the fish?
Author: Durant, Alan, 1958-
Published: London : Walker Books, 2018.
218 pages ; 20 cm

27 copies

Dear Mrs Bird / A.J. Pearce.

London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy instead finds herself employed as a typist for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt at Woman's Friend magazine. Mrs Bird refuses to read, let alone answer, letters containing any form of Unpleasantness, and definitely not those from the lovelorn, grief-stricken or morally conflicted. But the thought of these desperate women waiting for an answer at this most desperate of times becomes impossible for Emmy to ignore. She decides she simply must help and secretly starts to write back - after all, what harm could that possibly do?
Author: Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Published: London : Picador, 2018.
308 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

16 copies

The keeper of lost things / Ruth Hogan.

Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners. But the final wishes of the Keeper of Lost Things have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters.
Author: Hogan, Ruth, 1961-
Published: London : Two Roads, 2017.
307 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

17 copies

The sun and her flowers / Rupi Kaur.

From Rupi Kaur, the top 10 Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Milk and Honey', comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, 'The Sun and Her Flowers' is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.
Author: Kaur, Rupi
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
248 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

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The road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island / Bill Bryson.

In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, 'Notes from a Small Island', became one of the most loved books of recent decades, and was voted in a BBC poll as the book that best represents Britain. Now, Bill Bryson sets out on a brand-new journey, on a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis on the south coast to Cape Wrath on the northernmost tip of Scotland. Once again, he will guide us through all that's best and worst about Britain today - while doing that incredibly rare thing of making us laugh out loud in public.
Author: Bryson, Bill
Published: London : Black Swan, 2016.
476 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm

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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend / Katarina Bivald ; translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies.

Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it's time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody. Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short, this is a town in need of a bookshop. With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel's first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara.
Author: Bivald, Katarina, 1983-
Published: London : Vintage, 2016.
376 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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The reader on the 6.27 / Jean-Paul Didierlaurent ; translated by Ros Schwartz.

Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. And it's this release of words into the world that starts our hero on a journey that will finally bring meaning into his life. For one morning, Guylain discovers the diary of a lonely young woman: Julie. A woman who feels as lost in the world as he does. As he reads from these pages to a rapt audience, Guylain finds himself falling hopelessly in love with their enchanting author.
Author: Didierlaurent, Jean-Paul
Published: London : Pan Books, 2016.
193 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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The woman who walked in sunshine / Alexander McCall Smith.

Mma Ramotswe is not one to sit about. Her busy life gives her little time for relaxation (apart from the drinking of tea, of course, which is another matter altogether). Nonetheless, she is persuaded to take a holiday from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. But Mma Ramotswe finds it impossible to resist the temptation to follow the cases taken on by her business partner, Mma Makutsi, and to interfere in them - at one remove. This leads her to delve into the past of a man whose reputation has been called into question. Meanwhile, Violet Sephotho, Mma Makutsi's arch enemy, has had the temerity to set up a new secretarial college - one that aims to rival that great institution, the Botswana Secretarial College. Will she get her comeuppance? It will be a close-run thing.
Author: McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
Published: London : Abacus, 2016.
246 pages ; 20 cm.
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series

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The house at Pooh corner / A.A. Milne ; with decorations by E.H. Shepard.

A.A. Milne's 'Winnie-the-Pooh' stories need no introduction. They have been loved by generations of children ever since Pooh, Christopher Robin, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo, and Eeyore made their first appearance.
Author: Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
[New edition].
Published: London : Egmont, 2016.
178 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm

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The penguin lessons / Tom Michell.

Tom Michell is in his roaring 20s: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentinian boarding school and endless summer holidays. He even has a motorbike! What he doesn't need is a pet. What he really doesn't need is a pet penguin. Set against Argentina's turbulent years, following the collapse of the corrupt Perónist regime, this is the heart-warming story of Juan Salvador the penguin, rescued by Tom from an oil slick in Uruguay just days before a new term. When the bird refuses to leave Tom's side, he has no choice but to smuggle it through customs, across the border and back to school, where it soon transforms the lives of all they meet.
Author: Michell, Tom
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2016.
224 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
3 reserves

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The road to Little Dribbling [sound recording] / Bill Bryson.

Tiny beautiful things : advice on love and life from someone who's been there / Cheryl Strayed.

Rich with humour, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - this book is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, 'Wild'.
Author: Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-
Published: London : Atlantic Books, 2013.
ix, 353 pages ; 20 cm

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A man called Ove / Fredrik Backman ; translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch.

There is something about Ove. At first sight, he is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?
Author: Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Published: London : Sceptre, 2015.
295 pages
1 reserve

13 copies