HAVE YOUR BOOKED a team spot yet for the Library’s annual Summer Quiz. The theme for this year’s quiz is ‘Growing Up in the 1950s’, so if you spent some of your childhood in the 50s then this is for you.
Chillers, thrillers and killers vye for your attention
STALWARTS OF THE crime genre occupy pride of place in the latest of the new titles making their way on to the Library shelves this month. British writer Sophie Hannah’s offering is a psychological chiller, American Patricia Cornwell has her popular character Dr Kay Scarpetta facing a race against time, while Danielle Steele offers a romantic slant to her latest tale of mystery.
More big-name offerings
THE LATEST CROP of books added to the Library shelves include titles from three of the most prolific pens of the 20th and 21st centuries. The books of Wilbur Smith, James Patterson and the much-loved Maeve Binchy, who sadly died back in 2012, have collectively sold close on half a billion copies worldwide.
Desert God
by Wilbur Smith
EGYPT IS UNDER THREAT; Taita, a freed slave and the Pharaoh’s closest advisor, must create a master plan to crush the kingdom’s historic enemy and return Egypt to its former glory.
Deighton thriller added to shelves
WHAT would have happened if Hitler’s air force had won the Battle of Britain and the British were forced to surrender in the face of the overwhelming forces lined up against them?
That’s the intriguing question posed by one of the best thriller writers of modern times, Len Deighton, whose novel SS-GB is now on the Library shelves, together with the DVD of the excellent BBC-made television series of the same name.
Join us on a literary world tour
TAKE A WORLD TOUR with the latest selection of new titles added to the Library shelves, starting in London with the petty politicking that surrounded the early days of Queen Victoria’s reign and ending with a murder thriller set in the US city of Atlanta, Georgia.
En route, our tour will take in the unique and beautiful city of Venice for a bit of soul searching, before moving on for an odyssey in Greece, courtesy of the imaginative writings of Victoria Hislop.
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