'Compelling reading... unputdownable' - BOOKS BY MAIL ''Absorbing and genuinely surprising' - THE GUARDIAN A fund manager for a London merchant bank, Nina Ogilvie vowed that love would struggle to have a place in her life. She has reaped the rewards and become one of the City's most brilliant - and most heartless - operators. When her firm decides a sojourn in South Africa is just the break she needs, Nina finds the Cape's beauty piercing her professional defences. Caught up in a romantic whirlwind with Wolf Moller, a wealthy German, she becomes pregnant and sacrifices her career for a man she deeply loves - but barely knows. Two years later, Wolf disappears with her beloved son, Nicky, exposing the reality of a man wanted by both Interpol and the CIA...

Sunstroke (CH)

Swindells, Madge

Romance

Charnwood Crown

'It would take a mile long essay to do justice to the many virtues of Sebastian Faulkes's wonderful new novel...' -INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'One of the finest novels of the last forty years' - MAIL ON SUNDAY It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier. From Edinburgh, Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south. In London she conceives a dangerous passion for an English airman. Charlotte goes to France on an errand for a British organisation helping the Resistance, and for her own private purposes. Unknown to her, she is also being manipulated by people with no regard for her safety. As the weeks go by, Charlotte finds that the struggle for France's soul is intimately linked to her battle to take control of her own life.

Charlotte Gray (CH)

Literature & Fiction

FAULKS, Sebastian

Contemporary

'Jeanne Whitmee has an unerring gift for portraying the emotional undertow of family life' - PIATKUS Fleur Sylvester, of mixed race, is abandoned by her middle-class mother and would-be rock star father and brought up by her loving grandparents. But on their death her life changes completely. Aged only nineteen, Fleur is left with nothing but the scrap of paper bearing her mother's last address, surely many years out of date. With no real hope of finding her mother, she decides that the small town of Elvemere is as good a place as any to start afresh. Life begins to feel good again - until one day Fleur's work brings her face to face with the woman who left her as a tiny baby...

Thursday's Child (CH)

Whitmee, Jeanne

<p>'Superbly written...a romantic novel that is romantic in the true sense of the word' - DAILY MAIL 'Charlotte Bingham's spellbinding saga is required reading' - COSMOPOLITAN When Hope Merriott's fourth daughter arrives, her birth coincides with the failure of her husband Alexander's newest business venture. And although Alexander's aunt offers to solve the family's financial worries by gifting Alexander her large house in Wiltshire, Hope is full of seemingly unreasonable foreboding. Overnight, the family moves from their cosy suburban life to the isolation of Wiltshire's rolling acres. All too soon, many of Hope's premonitions seem about to be realized when Jack Tomm, a neighbour, comes to call on her. Before long, Jack and Hope fall passionately in love - only to be faced with the ultimate tragedy.</p>

Love Song (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

BINGHAM, Charlotte

Erotica

'Lively prose and a fine gift for detailing' - PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Nella Fielden marries Jonas Townley believing he is the one man who deserves her hand and her fortune. The Lancashire colliery heiress, as proud and ambitious as any man, cannot believe the truth: that Jonas has married her for her money. He tries to be true to her. But soon, his heart belongs to another woman: Nella's protegee Leah Wood, the girl from Colliers Row. Torn between her loyalty to her protector and her love for Jonas Townley, Leah tries to be true to both. But she cannot cure Nella's broken heart - or avoid the tragedy that lies in wait for them all.

The Silence Of Strangers (CH)

Howard, Audrey

'An extraordinary saga' - ST MARTINS Dodge City was a businessman's dream. And a cattle drive north - with thousands of unbranded longhorns and a remuda of stolen Mexican horses - was a dream of Texans like Dan Ember, who'd come home from the war to find a rich man's hired guns living on his land. Now Dan and his neighbors would risk everything on a drive across the Llano. Killers would fight over them, the gunslinger Clay Allison would join up with them, and Quanah Parker's Comanches would try to thwart them - in a bold adventure fueled by the courage to face death, and the pride to keep going.

Dodge City Trail,the (book 8) (CH) (Trail Drive)

COMPTON, RALPH

Genre Fiction

Sequel to THE SILENCE OF STRANGERS. 'Lively prose and a fine gift for detailling' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Cosseted heiress Jenna Townley is used to getting her own way. And when she meets ambitious young Conal Macrae, she soon knows that this is the man she must marry, despite her father's disapproval. Their courtship is fiery and their marriage passionate. But their happiness is threatened by tragic and sinister family secrets which refuse to be buried. Is Jenna destined to repeat her mother's tragedy, or can she triumph over the past and keep both the Townley legacy and the man she was meant to love?

A World Of Difference (CH)

'Humorous, touching and very well written' - BOOKS BY MAIL David Burchell was just sixteen when he lost a leg in a train accident, and here he tells of his initial despair, his convalescence and rehabilitation. He was accepted for the Air Force in World War II, and after the war worked on cattle and sheep stations in the Australian outback. Returning to the city, he took up high diving and for fifteen years performed with the South Australian Diving Troupe. He then worked in a remote area for the Shell Company, and he describes life in an outback town. In 1960, he founded the Adelaide Skin Diving Centre and became involved in many exciting stunts and projects. Burchell tells his interesting story with humour.

A Life Downunder (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

Burchell, David

Biographies & Memoirs

'A delicious teasing love story' - ELIZABETH BUCHAN 'The charm and vivacity with which the author presents her scenario...make this an enjoyable read' - TIMES Miranda Stowe seems to have everything - looks, brains, three children and a beautiful manor house in Kent. When she finds her husband dead, shot in the chest, her friends' verdict is that Fortune has turned against one of her darlings. But throughout their marriage Jack had been constantly unfaithful, and his death forces Miranda to look anew at her life. She decides to take in paying guests. Among them are a dashing young Hungarian pianist and an elderly painter. Then there is her 'family': her childhood nurse, the acerbic Rose; Ivor, the gardener; and her three children, who react with alarming unpredictability to their father's death.

Past Mischief (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

Clayton, Victoria

'What a story...' - FAY WELDON 'An extraordinarily vivid portrait of how the world could look - and think - one hundred years from now' - BOOKS BY MAIL In the year 2099, the free world is dominated by the European Union, climate change and gene therapy. While 'cloning' is not mentioned in polite society, it's happening. 'NTs' (Nuclear Transplants) are fully integrated into society. America, however, has been captured by fundamentalists opposed to the medical advances. When Bill Strether is sent by the US President to represent his country in London, he comes to realise the full breathtaking extent of the official genetic programme, and finds it impossible to condemn. But when files go missing, a chromosome disintegrates, and a sinister lorry is seen leaving the laboratory late one night, the true dangers become apparent.

The Ambassador (CH)

CURRIE, Edwina

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