The extraordinary first novel from the internationally acclaimed playwright.  Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. His Dad left home after falling in love with a five-string banjo; his fun-hating Gran believes she should have married Jean-Paul Sartre: 'I could never read his books, but y'could tell from his picture, there was nothing frivolous about Jean-Paul Sartre.' Felonious Uncle Jason and Appalling Aunty Paula are lusting after the satellite dish; frogs are flattened on Failsworth Boulevard; and Sickening Sonia's being sick in the majestic cathedral of words. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the flytrapping craze begins and, for Raymond and his Mam, nothing is ever quite so normal again.

THE WRONG BOY

Literature & Fiction

RUSSELL, Willy

Contemporary

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Bad Girls

Children's Books

JACQUELINE WILSON

Baptism of Fire: The Astonishing True Story of a Man of God

Collins, Frank

Biographies & Memoirs

"You look as if you've seen a ghost!" Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky, her loud, confident best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons, out running, or tentatively trying to make new friends, Vicky is determined to make her presence felt....

VICKY ANGEL

Wilson, Jacqueline. Sharratt, Nick (Illus.)

Physical description; 527 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Dylan, Bob 1941. Rock musicians - United States - Biography.

down the highway the life of Bob Dylan

Sounes, Howard

Arts & Literature

Charm School

ANNE FINE

How Many

Van der Meer, Ron (b. 1945-)

<b>To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon, a visually striking cornucopia of everything worth knowing about our closest neighbor in space. </b>Can you remember where you were on July 20, 1969, when, in one of the iconic moments of the twentieth century, Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon? The distant object that had fascinated mankind for millennia suddenly got much closer. Rick Stroud has been obsessed with the moon since childhood, and here provides the culmination of that passion—an utterly original and absorbing account of all things lunar, a book that celebrates the physics that created the moon and the technology that took us there as much as its magic and mystery. Opening with the debatable story of how the moon was formed (scientists still don’t agree on this), Stroud then turns to the stories of mankind’s fascination with Earth’s satellite—from Babylonian astronomers thousands of years before Christ, to the Greek, Roman, and Arab scientists who paved the way for the Renaissance, to the astronomers and astronauts of our time. He delves into the mythology and astrology that have inspired civilizations and cultures the world over, alongside the scientific and medicinal advances that have come from our lunar connection. Filled with original lists, intriguing statistics, and compelling images, <i>The Book of the Moon </i>draws us closer to the rocky orb that may hold the secrets of our own Earth’s beginnings.

The Book of the Moon

Stroud, Rick

The Blasphemer

On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice  should he save himself or the woman he loves? In a parallel narrative, it is 1917 and Daniels great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele. He, too, will have his courage tested, and must live with the moral consequences of his actions. Back in London the atheistic Daniel is wrestling with something his cold philosophy cannot explain  something unearthly he though he saw while swimming for help in the Pacific. But before he can make sense of it, the past must collapse into the present, and both he and Andrew must prove themselves capable of altruism, and deserving of forgiveness.

Farndale, Nigel

A History Of Loneliness

The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history.Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to “the good.”Forty years later, Odran’s devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people’s faith in the Catholic Church. He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and he grows wary of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store while looking for the boy's mother.But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family.A novel as intimate as it is universal, A History of Loneliness is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms John Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.

A History of Loneliness

Boyne, John.

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