https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=SVL(JUBILEE)%20-%20MINOR%3AITD16&QRYTEXT=The%20Big%20Jubilee%20Read&SETLVL=SET&CF=BIB&SORTS=DTE.DATE1.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3222703&CF=BIB There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak. The many voices of 'The Promise' tell a story in four snapshots, each one centred on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria. Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept. There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak. The many voices of 'The Promise' tell a story in four snapshots, each one centred on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria. Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Galgut, Damon, 1963-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[London] : Vintage, 2022.<br />293 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016019653213<br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016019653239<br />Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 38016019653247<br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016019653254<br />Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016019653320<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3252219&CF=BIB It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Arudpragasam, Anuk<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Granta, 2022.<br />290 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019663386<br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019664582<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3267011&CF=BIB Laying bare the lives at the heart of an Indian city, 'The Blue Bedspread' opens as an old man is asked to collect his sister's baby from the hospital in Calcutta where his sister has just died. Laying bare the lives at the heart of an Indian city, 'The Blue Bedspread' opens as an old man is asked to collect his sister's baby from the hospital in Calcutta where his sister has just died.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Jha, Raj Kamal, 1966-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Picador, 2022.<br />240 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019673534<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3265001&CF=BIB This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre.There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak ...The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept ... This audiobook includes bonus content of Damon Galgut in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre.There is nothing unusual or remarkable about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to us speak ...The many voices of The Promise tell a story in four snapshots, each one centered on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept ...<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Galgut, Damon<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Digital, 2021<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3053272&CF=BIB Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded into respectable citizens, and to escape the dangers of the outside world. In the elite school run by white nuns, the young ladies learn, eat, sleep and gossip together. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the girls try on their parents' preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycee into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once playful and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling toward horror. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded into respectable citizens, and to escape the dangers of the outside world. In the elite school run by white nuns, the young ladies learn, eat, sleep and gossip together. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the girls try on their parents' preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycee into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once playful and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling toward horror.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mukasonga, Scholastique<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Daunt Books Originals, 2021.<br />250 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019674136<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3075545&CF=BIB It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Stuart, Douglas, 1976-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Picador, 2021.<br />430 pages ; 20 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">2 reserves</span><br /><br />Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 Jul 2024 - 38016019565722<br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016019565730<br />Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 38016019565748<br />Hattersley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 Jul 2024 - 38016019565755<br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 Jul 2024 - 38016019579988<br />Mossley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 05 Jul 2024 - 38016019565771<br />Mossley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 05 Jul 2024 - 38016019579996<br />Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 08 Jul 2024 - 38016019580002<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3104664&CF=BIB Rose and her stepmother Flo live in Hanratty, across the bridge from the good part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing hope of outgrowing her beginnings. Rose and her stepmother Flo live in Hanratty, across the bridge from the good part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing hope of outgrowing her beginnings.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Munro, Alice, 1931-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, 2021.<br />256 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019674276<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3121159&CF=BIB Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.White Teeth, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are white. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. Visit the Penguin Readers websiteRegister to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook). Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.White Teeth, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are white. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. Visit the Penguin Readers websiteRegister to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Smith, Zadie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2021<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br />Penguin Readers<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3134592&CF=BIB Gorgeous 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams's pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, stunningly illustrated throughout by Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell. It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and a book inscribed in large, friendly letters: DON'T PANIC.The book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the weekend has only just begun . . .Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with physics and twists time, but most importantly it's very, very funny. Gorgeous 42nd Anniversary gift edition of Douglas Adams's pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, stunningly illustrated throughout by Costa Award-winner Chris Riddell. It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and a book inscribed in large, friendly letters: DON'T PANIC.The book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the weekend has only just begun . . .Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with physics and twists time, but most importantly it's very, very funny.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Adams, Douglas<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Macmillan Children's Books, 2021<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3071999&CF=BIB Michael Ondaatje lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of World War II.Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper – each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories – of the North African desert, of explorers and tribes, of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal – illuminate the story and leave all the characters for ever changed. Michael Ondaatje lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of World War II.Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper – each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories – of the North African desert, of explorers and tribes, of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal – illuminate the story and leave all the characters for ever changed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Ondaatje, Michael<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3248344&CF=BIB Listen to the exciting new rendition of Wolf Hall, read by Ben Miles who was personally cast by the author and played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. The winner of the Man Booker Prize and captivating first book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy..England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage. Listen to the exciting new rendition of Wolf Hall, read by Ben Miles who was personally cast by the author and played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. The winner of the Man Booker Prize and captivating first book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy..England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mantel, Hilary<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Clipper Audiobooks, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br />Thomas Cromwell Trilogy ; 1<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2918109&CF=BIB Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery. After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced there still haunts her present. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin is determined to find out the truth - wherever it might lead - after his grandmother makes a surprising confession on her deathbed, one she never meant Kevin to hear, setting in motion a chain of events he could never have foreseen. Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery. After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced there still haunts her present. In the year 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin is determined to find out the truth - wherever it might lead - after his grandmother makes a surprising confession on her deathbed, one she never meant Kevin to hear, setting in motion a chain of events he could never have foreseen.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Lee, Jing-Jing, 1985-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Oneworld, 2020.<br />343 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019673286<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2922640&CF=BIB One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed. This edition contains bonus material from the Douglas Adams archive, and an introduction by Russell T. Davies. One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed. This edition contains bonus material from the Douglas Adams archive, and an introduction by Russell T. Davies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001<br />42 anniversary edition / foreword by Russell T. Davies.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Pan Books, 2020.<br />ix, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.<br />Hitchhiker trilogy ; 1.<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Science fiction paperback - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 38016019809310<br />Hattersley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Science fiction paperback - Onloan - Due: 30 May 2024 - 38016019547092<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2962565&CF=BIB Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction. Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Stuart, Douglas<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Picador, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2962570&CF=BIB Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good―her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits―all the family has to live on―on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is “no right,” a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her―even her beloved Shuggie.A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell. Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good―her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits―all the family has to live on―on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is “no right,” a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her―even her beloved Shuggie.A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Stuart, Douglas<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Picador, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3044714&CF=BIB Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling missed connections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling missed connections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Shields, Carol<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : World Editions, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2904086&CF=BIB 'Girl, Woman, Other' follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, across the country and through the years. 'Girl, Woman, Other' follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, across the country and through the years.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Penguin Books, 2020.<br />453 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 07 Jun 2024 - 38016021102548<br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 38016021102555<br />Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016021099736<br />Hattersley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016021099744<br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016021102571<br />Mossley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016021102589<br />Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback / Readers' Groups - Available - 38016021099728<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2905706&CF=BIB In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother's debts. One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. As time runs out for Ren's mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin's paths will cross in ways they will never forget. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever. Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother's debts. One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. As time runs out for Ren's mission, a series of unexplained deaths occur amid rumours of tigers who turn into men. In their journey to keep a promise and discover the truth, Ren and Ji Lin's paths will cross in ways they will never forget.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Choo, Yangsze<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Quercus, 2020.<br />474 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016021074606<br />Mossley Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016021075074<br />Stalybridge Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016021074630<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2910462&CF=BIB As Rehana awakes one morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. But none of the guests at Rehana's party can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family is about to change forever. As Rehana awakes one morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. But none of the guests at Rehana's party can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of war. And this family is about to change forever.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Anam, Tahmima, 1975-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2007<br />290 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm<br />Canons<br /><br />Denton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019674144<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2915682&CF=BIB Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Evaristo, Bernardine<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2907120&CF=BIB ‘I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.’Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction. ‘I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.’Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and desire. As she recalls her pre-revolution life in flashbacks, Offred must navigate through the terrifying landscape of torture and persecution in the present day, and between two men upon which her future hangs.Masterfully conceived and executed, this haunting vision of the future places Margaret Atwood at the forefront of dystopian fiction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Atwood, Margaret<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br />The Handmaid's Tale ; 1<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2836375&CF=BIB Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her sixties, whom he takes into his home. The two form a deep and abiding relationship. But the haven they have created for themselves proves to be a fragile one. Racist violence enters their world and Srinivas's life changes irrevocably - as does his dream of England as a country of tolerance and equality. Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in south London suburb for thirty years. After the death of his son, and later his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her sixties, whom he takes into his home. The two form a deep and abiding relationship. But the haven they have created for themselves proves to be a fragile one. Racist violence enters their world and Srinivas's life changes irrevocably - as does his dream of England as a country of tolerance and equality.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-2004<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : HopeRoad Publishing, 2019.<br />384 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019676222<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2843119&CF=BIB Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel 'Small Island,' adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain. Andrea Levy's epic novel 'Small Island,' adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Edmundson, Helen, 1964-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Nick Hern Books, 2019.<br />130 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Non Fiction - 822.92 - Available - 38016019631854<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2885490&CF=BIB Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed. Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and steal. But one night, in a moonlit grove of bluegum trees, a woman he attempts to rape forces a shoebox into his arms. The box contains a baby, and his life is inexorably changed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Fugard, Athol<br />New edition / introduction by Jonathan Kaplan.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Edinburgh : Canongate, 2019.<br />256 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Dukinfield Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019673971<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2888462&CF=BIB Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of Peckham) to blend in at her posh university. Northumberland, 2017. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is visiting Hattie who's in her nineties, who used to be young and strong, who fights to remain independent, and who still misses Slim every day. Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly black - who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible. Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of Peckham) to blend in at her posh university. Northumberland, 2017. Morgan, who used to be Megan, is visiting Hattie who's in her nineties, who used to be young and strong, who fights to remain independent, and who still misses Slim every day. Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly black - who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years. With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country: ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Evaristo, Bernardine<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2896535&CF=BIB Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, was an immediate success following its publication in 1981. The winner of both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize that year, it also went on to win the Booker best all-time prize in both 1993 and 2008. Written in the magical-realist style that Rushdie is renowned for, Midnight’s Children follows Saleem Sinai – a child gifted with extraordinary powers after being born at the exact moment India becomes independent. The captivating events that unfold act as an allegory for India’s transition from colonialism to independence as Saleem finds himself 'handcuffed to history', with his fate entwined with that of his newly independent state. Midnight’s Children is both comedy and tragedy, blending the real with the surreal as an enthralling family saga unwinds against the backdrop of a postcolonial India. A stunning story, rich with vibrant images and delightful characters, it thoroughly deserves its place as a modern masterpiece and an inspiration for a whole generation of future Indian writers.About the authorOne of the most celebrated and controversial authors in modern literature, Salman Rushdie is a multi-award-winning British Indian novelist whose writings on magical realism and postcolonialism have inspired and enchanted millions of people around the world. Born in Bombay in 1947, his early years were spent in India before moving to England and eventually reading history at King's College, University of Cambridge. Rushdie first gained fame following the publication of his second novel, Midnight’s Children, but it was the publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, that resulted in global notoriety. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him which resulted in death threats and the banning of the book in 13 countries. A winner of dozens of the highest awards in literature, Rushdie was also the recipient of a knighthood in the UK in 2007. Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children, was an immediate success following its publication in 1981. The winner of both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize that year, it also went on to win the Booker best all-time prize in both 1993 and 2008. Written in the magical-realist style that Rushdie is renowned for, Midnight’s Children follows Saleem Sinai – a child gifted with extraordinary powers after being born at the exact moment India becomes independent. The captivating events that unfold act as an allegory for India’s transition from colonialism to independence as Saleem finds himself 'handcuffed to history', with his fate entwined with that of his newly independent state. Midnight’s Children is both comedy and tragedy, blending the real with the surreal as an enthralling family saga unwinds against the backdrop of a postcolonial India. A stunning story, rich with vibrant images and delightful characters, it thoroughly deserves its place as a modern masterpiece and an inspiration for a whole generation of future Indian writers.About the authorOne of the most celebrated and controversial authors in modern literature, Salman Rushdie is a multi-award-winning British Indian novelist whose writings on magical realism and postcolonialism have inspired and enchanted millions of people around the world. Born in Bombay in 1947, his early years were spent in India before moving to England and eventually reading history at King's College, University of Cambridge. Rushdie first gained fame following the publication of his second novel, Midnight’s Children, but it was the publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses, that resulted in global notoriety. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him which resulted in death threats and the banning of the book in 13 countries. A winner of dozens of the highest awards in literature, Rushdie was also the recipient of a knighthood in the UK in 2007.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Rushdie, Salman<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2660131&CF=BIB To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape. To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Desai, Anita, 1937-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage Classic, 2018.<br />192 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Hyde Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019673203<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2693917&CF=BIB London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life. London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. Soon Thornhill, a man no better or worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Grenville, Kate, 1950-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Edinburgh : Canongate, 2018.<br />xvi, 349 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.<br />Canons<br /><br />Ashton Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016015766993<br />Droylsden Library - (Tameside) - Adult Fiction - Adult paperback - Available - 38016019547084<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2709715&CF=BIB In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour.A stunning novel based on the extraordinary true story of German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler, who came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden – Schindler’s Jews – to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour.A stunning novel based on the extraordinary true story of German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler, who came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden – Schindler’s Jews – to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Keneally, Thomas<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : ABC Audio, 2018<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://tameside.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2807452&CF=BIB Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Smith, Zadie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2018<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Tameside) - Digital Resource - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br />