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The no-show / Beth O'Leary.

8.52 a.m. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something, so where is he? 2.43 p.m. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place: she's been dating Carter for five months now and things are getting serious. But why hasn't he shown up? 6.30 p.m. Joseph Carter agreed to be Jane's fake boyfriend at a colleague's engagement party. They've not known each other long but their friendship is fast becoming the brightest part of her new life in Winchester. Joseph promised to save Jane tonight. But he's not here. Meet Joseph Carter. That is, if you can find him.
Author: O'Leary, Beth
Published: London : Quercus, 2023.
392 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82807833
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Strong female character / Fern Brady.

This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like. 'Strong Female Character' is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity. Fern Brady will use her voice as a neurodivergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page. It will take a sledgehammer to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope which is mistakenly applied to neurodiverse women. It will also look at how her lack of regard for social expectations ultimately meant she surpassed any limitations of what a Scottish working-class woman can do.
Author: Brady, Fern
First edition.
Published: London : Brazen, 2023.
287 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
3 reserves

Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 792.760.BRA - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 82847215
Timperley Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 792.76028 BRA - Onloan - Due: 09 May 2024 - 82873860

Maame / Jessica George.

Meet Maddie. To her mostly-absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer - even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It's time to become the woman she wants to be. The kind who wears a bright yellow suit, says yes to after-work drinks and flirts with a thirty-something banker. Who doesn't have to Google all her life choices. Who demands a seat at the table. But to put ourselves together, sometimes we have to fall apart.
Author: George, Jessica, 1994-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
391 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82816867

How to kill men and get away with it / Katy Brent.

Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That's how it all started. The killing spree, I mean. I sort of tripped into this role. Literally. The first one was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn't leave me alone. I pushed him, he stumbled, and fell onto his own broken wine bottle. Oops. It was such a waste of a good house white. But now I can't seem to stop and nor do I want to. I've got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I'm killing it. A deliciously dark, hilariously twisted story about friendship, love, and murder.
Author: Brent, Katy
Published: London : HQ, 2023.
374 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2024 - 82831041

Spare / Prince Harry.

It was one of the most searing images of the 20th century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
Author: Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1984-
Published: London : Bantam, 2023.
410 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

13 copies

Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros.

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away - because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2023.
498 pages : maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
10 reserves

Partington Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - 813.6 FICTION - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - 82853436
Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 82859884
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 08 Apr 2024 - 82864500

I heard what you said / Jeffrey Boakye.

Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye's is a journey of exploration - from the outside looking in. In 'I Heard What You Said', he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system.
Author: Boakye, Jeffrey
Published: London : Picador, 2023.
ix, 373 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 371.82996 BOA - Available - 82830711

Carrie Soto is back / Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did.
Author: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
369 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 82838739
Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 82839220
Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82839891

Playful wonders / Katie Still.

Everything you need to feed your child's curiosity and inject more play into their day. With this book you'll see that there's playtime for any place or occasion, whether it's during bath time, in the kitchen, or on a walk through the park. Find out how kitchen rolls can be turned into a car garage or how forgotten toys can be repurposed for fun activities, whether that's rescuing them from jelly or searching for them in a torch-lit scavenger hunt. Using household items, with photographs of each activity and easy-to-follow instructions, it's never been easier for kids to interact imaginatively with their environment.
Author: Still, Katie
Published: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2023.
63 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Non Fiction - 745.5 - Junior - Available - 8246555X

The satsuma complex / Bob Mortimer.

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn't catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: 'The Satsuma Complex'. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary's quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life.
Author: Mortimer, Bob, 1959-
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
298 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - 82843554
Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - 82844062
Woodsend Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 82844801

Berserker! / Adrian Edmondson.

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household - and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools - end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his berserker heritage? With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious heritage.
Author: Edmondson, Adrian, 1957-
Published: London : Macmillan, 2023.
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 791.45028 EDM - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 82874107
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 791.45028 EDM - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 82858721

No brainer / by Jeff Kinney.

Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realises this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
Author: Kinney, Jeff
Published: London : Puffin, 2023.
217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Diary of a wimpy kid
Average rating: (1 review)
38 reserves

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 11 May 2024 - 82501815
Coppice Avenue Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - On reserve shelf at Altrincham Library - 82532850
Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - On reserve shelf at Coppice Avenue Library - 82511764
Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - Onloan - Due: 10 May 2024 - 82510210
Partington Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 82513341
Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 82510695
Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - On reserve shelf at Altrincham Library - 82532818
Timperley Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - In-transit from Hale Library to Old Trafford Library (Set: 05 Apr 2024) - 82512183
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Fiction - FICTION - Junior - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - 82511268

Running up that hill : 50 visions of Kate Bush / Tom Doyle.

Comprising 50 chapters or 'visions', 'Running Up That Hill' is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Featuring details from the author's one-to-one conversations with Kate, as well as vignettes of her key songs, albums, videos and concerts, this artful, candid and often brutally funny portrait introduces the reader to the refreshingly real Kate Bush. Along the way, the narrative also includes vivid reconstructions of transformative moments in her career and insights from the friends and collaborators closest to Kate, including her photographer brother John Carder Bush and fellow artists David Gilmour, John Lydon and Youth. This title is a vibrant and comprehensive re-examination of Kate Bush and her many creative landmarks.
Author: Doyle, Tom, 1967-
Published: London : Nine Eight Books, 2023.
358 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 DOY - Available - 82854890

Iron flame / Rebecca Yarros.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. The new vice commandant has made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is - unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College - and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2023.
623 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Empyrean series
Average rating: (2 reviews)
7 reserves

Partington Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - On reserve shelf at Sale Library - 82872791
Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 02 May 2024 - 82880131
Timperley Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 03 May 2024 - 82886377

The woman in me / Britney Spears.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. She reveals for the first time her incredible journey - and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candour and humour, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love - and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Author: Spears, Britney
Published: London : Gallery Books UK, 2023.
277 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
10 reserves

Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 SPE - In-transit from Old Trafford Library to Sale Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 82861099
Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 SPE - On reserve shelf at Urmston Library - 82882975
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 782.42164 SPE - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 82874514

The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams.

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word 'bondmaid' flutter to the floor unclaimed. Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women's experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Author: Williams, Pip, 1969-
Published: London : Vintage, 2022.
422 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 82740259
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 24 Apr 2024 - 82777721

How to kill your family / Bella Mackie.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother's pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one - and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love. and murder. But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn't commit.
Author: Mackie, Bella
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2022.
359 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - On reserve shelf at Hale Library - 82758174

Freckles / Cecelia Ahern.

Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside. The trouble is, Freckles doesn't know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She's left her unconventional father and her friends behind for a bold new life in Dublin, but she's still an outsider. Now, in a quest to understand, she must find not one but five people who shape her - and who will determine her future.
Author: Ahern, Cecelia, 1981-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
372 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82792992
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Verity / Colleen Hoover.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night their family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father.
Author: Hoover, Colleen
Published: London : Sphere, 2022.
321 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (3 reviews)
7 reserves

Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - On reserve shelf at Urmston Library - 82757534
Timperley Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 27 Apr 2024 - 82758859

The Atlas six / Olivie Blake.

Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction. Welcome to the Alexandrian Society. When the world's best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each could join the secretive Alexandrian Society, whose custodians guard lost knowledge from ancient civilizations. Their members enjoy a lifetime of power and prestige. Yet each decade, only six practitioners are invited - to fill five places. Contenders Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona are inseparable enemies, cosmologists who can control matter with their minds. Parisa Kamali is a telepath, who sees the mind's deepest secrets. Reina Mori is a naturalist who can perceive and understand the flow of life itself. And Callum Nova is an empath, who can manipulate the desires of others. Finally there's Tristan Caine, whose powers mystify even himself.
Author: Blake, Olivie
Published: London : Tor, 2022.
556 pages ; 20 cm.
Atlas six trilogy
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - In-transit from Urmston Library to Lostock Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 82848769

The whistling / Rebecca Netley.

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scottish island of Skelthsea. Her charge, Mary, is a strange child. Distracted and secretive, she hasn't uttered a word since the sudden death of her twin, William - just days after their former nanny disappeared. With her charge defiantly silent, Elspeth turns to the islanders. But no one will speak of what happened to William. Just as no one can explain the hypnotic lullabies sung in empty corridors. Nor the strange dolls that appear in abandoned rooms. Nor the faint whistling that comes in the night. As winter draws in and passage to the mainland becomes impossible, Elspeth finds herself trapped. But is this house haunted by the ghosts of the past? Or the secrets of the living?
Author: Netley, Rebecca
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
376 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Hale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Horror - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - 82794421

Still life / Sarah Winman.

'Still Life' is a beautiful, big-hearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood - and the ghost of E.M. Forster. We just need to know what the heart's capable of, Evelyn. And do you know what it's capable of? I do. Grace and fury. It's 1944 and in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together. Ulysses Temper is a young British solider and one-time globe-maker, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and relive her memories of the time she encountered E.M. Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view.
Author: Winman, Sarah, 1964-
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2021.
438 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Sale Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 30 Apr 2024 - 82700478
Woodsend Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - In-transit from Woodsend Library to Altrincham Library (Set: 24 Apr 2024) - 82731810

Daisy Jones & the Six / Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Daisy Jones & the Six rose from the 1970s LA music scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold out arenas from coast to coast. Their music defined an era and every girl in America idolised Daisy. But, in 1979, on the night of the final concert of their tour, they split. Nobody ever knew why. Until now. This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy's moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again.
Author: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Published: London : Arrow Books, 2020.
ix, 401 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
7 reserves

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - On reserve shelf at Timperley Library - 82650802
Coppice Avenue Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 08 May 2024 - 82650144

Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams.

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling. She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?
Author: Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-
Published: London : Trapeze, 2020.
392 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82657092
Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82656967

The secrets of sunshine / Phaedra Patrick.

Single dad Mitchell Fisher has said a firm goodbye to romance. He relishes his job cutting off the padlocks that couples fasten to his hometown's famous 'love story' bridge. Only his young daughter Poppy knows that behind his prickly veneer, Mitchell is deeply lonely - and he still grieves the loss of her mother. Then one hot summer's day, everything changes when Mitchell bravely rescues a woman who falls from the bridge into the river. He's surprised to feel an unexpected connection to her, but then she disappears. Desperate to find the mysterious woman, Mitchell teams up with her spirited sister Liza to see if she's left any clues behind. There's just one - a secret message on the padlock she left on love story bridge.
Author: Patrick, Phaedra
Published: London : HQ, 2020.
356 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Onloan - Due: 13 May 2024 - 82675244

The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab.

When Addie LaRue 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. Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day. Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him.
Author: Schwab, Victoria
Published: London : Titan Books, 2020.
545 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 15 Apr 2024 - 82822816
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - In-transit from Altrincham Library to Old Trafford Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 82708894

Black and British : a short, essential history / David Olusoga.

When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian's Wall right up to the present day.
Author: Olusoga, David
Published: London, England : Macmillan Children's Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
216 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Altrincham Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Non Fiction - 941.004 - Junior - Onloan - Due: 09 Feb 2024 - 8230503X
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Junior Non Fiction - 941.004 - Junior - In-transit from Sale Library to Urmston Library (Set: 25 Apr 2024) - 82305692

Such a fun age / Kiley Reid.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to help. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.
Author: Reid, Kiley
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
310 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Coppice Avenue Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82697248
Old Trafford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82697620
Stretford Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 82682925
Urmston Library - (Trafford Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FICTION - Available - 8268426X

Her body & other parties / Carmen Maria Machado.

In this volume, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders between magical realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. In this provocative debut, startling narratives map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited on their bodies. A wife refuses her husband's entreaties to remove the mysterious green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague spreads across the earth. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery about the store's prom dresses. One woman's surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted house guest.
Author: Machado, Carmen Maria
Published: London : Serpent's Tail, 2019.
245 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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Wyntertide / Andrew Caldecott ; illustrated by Sasha Laika.

The town of Rotherweird has been independent from the rest of England for 400 years - to protect a deadly secret. Sir Veronal Slickstone is dead, his bid to exploit that secret consigned to dust, leaving Rotherweird to resume its abnormal normality after the travails of the summer - but someone is playing a very long game. Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the uneasy covenant between town and countryside. Geryon Wynter's intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move.
Author: Caldecott, Andrew
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2019.
xiv, 476 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Rotherweird trilogy ; book two.
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