CASE HISTORIES (X Rated)

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM

Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Ruby tells the story of the lives of the women in her family, painting a vivid and comic portrait of happiness and heartbreak. Whitbread Book of the Year Winner. Some explicit sexual content.

FESTIVE SPIRITS

Three festive tales from the brilliant pen of Kate Atkinson, which offer a good introduction to the author's work and her quirky sense of humour.

A GOD IN RUINS

Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, - navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.

HUMAN CROQUET

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here lived the Fairfaxes at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. But Isobel Fairfax, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

LIFE AFTER LIFE

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? What if there were, in fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

NORMAL RULES DON'T APPLY

In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him. With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.

ONE GOOD TURN (X Rated)

People queuing for a show at the Edinburgh Festival witness a road-rage incident, which changes their lives. One innocent bystander, ex-police officer Jackson Brodie finds himself a suspect as subsequent events link the cast of characters. X rated, contains offensive language.

SHRINES OF GAIETY

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.

STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG

It's a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down.

WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?

As a six-year-old Joanna Mason witnessed a gruesome crime, now she’s an Edinburgh GP who has gone missing and only her young nanny seems to be worried. Meanwhile ex-detective Brodie Jackson is on his way back to the same city on a journey that will end in carnage. Richard & Judy Bookclub