Set in Liverpool and written by a former nun, this is a novel about a 16-year-old girl who decides (to everyone's dismay) to become a nun. Convent life turns out to be not quite as she expected.

Going in

Literature & Fiction

Newman, Jenny

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton Limited

Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders

Hawksmoor

ACKROYD, Peter

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The War Zone

Alexander Stuart

Pride, Greed, Anger, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy parade before our startled eyes. And there is lust.

Seven Deadly Sins

SCARFE, Gerald

Dying Young.

LEIMBACH, Marti

A novella and a collection of short stories in one volume. The novella is a tale of an eccentric sculptress and her quarrel with her petty-minded neighbours. Some of the stories explore how casual cruelty or envy can destroy and others develop the theme of obsessive meticulousness.

Endangered Happiness & Other Stories

Bennett, Penelope

Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there is was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve - the start of his longest night's work of the year! This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.

Father Christmas

Children's Books

BRIGGS, Raymond

Holidays & Celebrations

Claude Rawlings, a poverty-stricken young man, feels stymied by life, until he finds an old piano and embarks on a musical odyssey that takes him into a world of wealth, power, and fame

Body and Soul

Frank Conroy

In Harm's Way: Reflections of a War Zone Thug

In harm's way

BELL, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

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