Congratulations to all who took part in the Isle of Arts events and World Book Night at Ventnor Library – see you next year!
Other activities in the library
Children’s Chess with Jane & Thomas – Saturdays from 2-3pm.
Rhymetime for babies, toddlers and whoever they bring – Friday at 11am.
Woolly Minded Craft Club – Wednesdays 2-4pm – not just knitting!
Free Internet access everyday and a dedicated Universal Jobsearch line on Friday mornings
Interested in sharing your thoughts on books? Join our Reading Group (once a month on a Wednesday evening) or start your own! Contact the Library for details
DVDs
Jack Reacher – Tom Cruise as James Patterson’s hero
American Mary – “..stylish, artful and darkly funny..”
Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
The Magic Test – from the makers of Peppa Pig
Fiction
Julie MYERSON, The Quickening – horror novel
Jenny COLGAN, The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
Lynda LA PLANTE, A Face in the Crowd – a prime suspect novel
Richard MONTANARI, The Killing Room – crime novel
Stephanie LAURENS, And Then She Fell – historical novel
Tracy CHEVALIER, The Last Runaway – historical novel
Karen MAITLAND, The Falcons of Fire and Ice – historical novel
Debra WEBB, Power – crime and mystery
Anne RICE, The Wolf Gift – horror novel
Scott SNYDER and Scott TUFT, Severed – adult graphic novel
Graham JOYCE, Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Jodi PICOULT, The Story teller – love and war, murder and mercy, betrayal and forgiveness
Mo HAYDER, Popper – the new Jack Caffery thriller
Dan ABNETT & INJ CULBARD, The New Deadwardians – graphic novel
Aimee BENDER, Willful Creatures – short stories
Simon MORDEN, The Curve of the Earth – science fiction
Elizabeth Jane HOWARD, The Light Years – the Cazalet Chronicle, book 1
Elizabeth Jane HOWARD, Marking Time – the Cazalet Chronicle, book 2
James PATTERSON & Maxine PAETRO – Private, No 1 Suspect – thriller and adventure
Rebecca TOPE, Malice in the Cotswolds – suspicion and secrets in Snowshill
James P. BLAYLOCK Lord Kelvin’s Machine – Steampunk sci-fi
M.C.BEATON Rainbird’s Revenge – A ‘House for the Season’ novel
Staci MCLAUGHLIN All Natural Murder- An organic thriller!
Sam MILLS The Quiddity of Will Self
John LUTZ Darker Than Night- ‘A town kept awake by terror…’
Jefferson BASS The Bone Yard – in the Body Farm secrets won’t stay buried
Mandasue HELLER Lost Angel – her family is deadly…
Lloyd SHEPHERD The English Monster – spin on an old tale of terror…
Brett BATTLES The Silenced – Jonathan Quinn keeps people’s secrets…
Kate Kerrigan City of Hope – from the author of Ellis Island
G J MOFFAT Protection – even a serial killer needs a bodyguard
Ian HAMILTON The Deadly Touch of the Tigress
and some new westerns and Agatha Christie’s!
Non-fiction
Ross BARTLETT Earth Angel – true story of a young psychic
John CORNWELL Hitler’s Pope – secret history of Pius XII
Peter STANFORD, How to Read a Graveyard – journeys in the company of the dead
Mike SKINNER, The Story of The Streets – modern memoir of music
Hugh BARKER, Hedge Britannia – a curious history of British obsession with hedges
Shane SPALL, The Voyages of Princess Matilda – an adventure on a Dutch barge
Diana SOUHAMI, Natalie and Romaine – the love life of Natalie Barney & Romaine Brooks
Christian GUILTENANE, Lady Gaga – the unauthorised biography
Philip STRIANO, Anatomy of Running – A Guide to Running Right
Gavin NEWSHAM, Sportonomic$ – the statistical truths behind world sport
Sue PALMER, 21st Century Girls – how to raise bright, balanced girls
Val PIERCE, Cutest Ever Toddler Knits
Collins NICHOLSON, Severn, Avon & Birmingham Waterways Guide
Sara WHEELER, O My America!, Second Acts in a New World
Daniel CHAMOVITZ, What a Plant Knows, a field guide to the senses of your garden
Rob MAIER & John STERN, Youth Cricket Coaching – how to play, coach and win
William FORTHERINGHAM, Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike – a remarkable athlete
Samantha BRICK, Head Over Heels in France – falling in love in the Lot
Malcolm CASTLE, Great Bales of Fire – further tales of a country fireman
David BRANDON & Alan BROOKE, Bankside – London’s original district of sin
Claire ARROWSMITH & Alison SMITH, Puppy Bible
Cassandra EASON The Magick of Faeries : Working with the Spirits of Nature
Diarmaid MACCULLOCH Silence: A Christian History
Robert WINDER The Little Winder:The Remarkable History of Wisden
David SEKERS A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill
David WINNER Al Dente:Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
Andrew GODDARD Rowan Williams – his legacy
Martyn JOHNSON What’s tha up to? – memories of a Yorkshire Bobby
James KAPLAN Frank – the making of a legend
Hans SEIDLER Hitler’s Boy Soldiers – Images of War
Baby and Toddler Knits
Charlotte LIDDLE Handmade Glamping – camping goes glam!
Genecieve TAYLOR A good egg – a year of recipes from an urban hen-keeper
Bruce HOOD The self illusion – who do you think you are?
David LEEMING Medusa – in the mirror of time
Charlotte REES The complete wedding plan
John Jeremiah SULLIVAN Blood Horses – notes of a sportswriters son
Kirsty GRAY Tracing your West Country Ancestors – Find My Past
and lots more new children’s books!
