` Vickers sees with a clear eye & writes with a light hand; she`s a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.` Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children`s librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the local married GP, & her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour`s son & her landlady`s neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job & the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all. The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading & the power of books to change & inspire us all.` Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War Engl&, there are stern & spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story.` Frank Cottrell Boyce` Vickers has a formidable knack for laying open the human heart` Sunday Times ...

Gromov is merely a forgotten writer of Soviet propagandist novels. But he has left behind his Books & the powers they impart
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`A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the reader a total immersion in the rimy realms she explores. Glaciers, Arctic floe, verglas, frost & snow
- I can think of no better or warmer guide to the icy ends of the Earth` Dan Richards, author of Climbing Days A vivid & perceptive book combining memoir, scientific & cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape & place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin & Olivia Laing. Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, acclaimed poet & writer Nancy Campbell sets out from the world`s northernmost museum
- at Upernavik in Greenland
- to explore it in all its facets. From the Bodleian Library archives to the traces left by the great polar expeditions, from remote Arctic settlements to the ice houses of Calcutta, she examines the impact of ice on our lives at a time when it is itself under threat from climate change. The Library of Ice is a fascinating & beautifully rendered evocation of the interplay of people & their environment on a fragile planet, & of a writer`s quest to define the value of her work in a disappearing landscape.` The Library of Ice instantly transported me elsewhere... This luminous book is both beautifully written & astute in its observations, turning the pages of time backwards & revealing, like the archive of the earth`s climate stored in layers of solidified water, the embedded meanings of the world`s icy realms. It is a book as urgently relevant as it is wondrous` Julian Hoffman, author of The Heart of Small Things ` An extraordinary work not only for the perspicacity & innate experience of the author who leads the reader carefully across intertwined icy tracks of crystallised geographics, melting myths & frozen exploration histories, but through her own tender diagnostics of what reading ice can show us in these times.. . Perilous in its scope, exacting in its observation, wild in intellect, The Library of Ice captures the reader`s attention almost as if caught in ice itself` Kirsten Macgillivray, poet ` This is travel writing to be treasured. A biography of ice, the element that has another life, with hard facts thawed & warmed by a poet`s voice. Campbell`s writing is companionable, curious, deeply researched & with no bragging about the intrepidity that has taken her between winter-dark Greenl&, Polar libaries, Scottish curling rinks, Alpine glaciers & Henry Thoreau`s pond at Walden` Jasper Winn, author of Paddle


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The Library at Trinity College Dublin dates back to the establishment of the college by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592. The library is the largest in Irel&, containing more than 6.2 million volumes & an extensive collection of early manuscripts, including the internationally famous Book of Kells, which attracts around 1 million visitors annually from around the world. A visit to the Book of Kells

Includes:: a visit to the Long Room, the main chamber of the Old Library, & one of the most beautiful & impressive libraries & architectural spaces in the world. In this, the first of a new series called Pocket Photo Books, photographer Harry Cory Wright explores the richness of the architecture & collections of the Long Room, resulting in a book that brings the reader close to the sense of being there. With a brief introduction by Trinity`s Librarian & College Archivist, Helen Shenton, about her own experience of the Long Room, this beautifully designed book of exquisite photographs will appeal to all visitors to Trinity College Dublin, & to anyone keen to explore in detail one of the most awe-inspiring libraries & architectural spaces in the world.

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This spectacular book is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world. Throughout the ages, book collections have served to symbolize their owners culture & learning, & the wealthy & powerful have spent lavishly on buildings to house them. In its highest form the library became a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture & architecture into seamless, dramatic spaces. The finest libraries are repositories not just of books, but of learning, creativity & contemplation; they embody some of the highest achievements of humankind. This book recounts that history in text & images of truly outstanding quality. ...

`THE LIDO is a joyous & uplifting debut
- a testament to kindness & friendship & all those values society must hold dear` SARAH
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Nadia & Susanne have just met. They look uncannily alike, practically doppelgangers, but one is filthy rich, with a husband & a lover, & the other dirt poor & single. When Nadia eventually asks Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband how can she refuse the outrageous fee on offer? Nadia wants to spend a few days with her lover & convinces Susanne that the subterfuge will work. Nadia & her husband barely speak to each other, sleep in separate bedrooms, & he will be working in the office most of the weekend. So Susanne changes her hairstyle & clothes &, one Friday afternoon, drives Nadia`s wine-red Alfa to her beautiful suburban villa with its indoor pool, glass doors opening on to the sloping lawn. What appears to be a harmless game becomes a deadly web of lies. ...

Set during & just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory & devastating loss by one of the UK's most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headl&, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless & without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements & terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but the horror & passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie? ...

Nominated for the Folio Prize & shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historial Fiction Set during & just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory & devastating loss by one of the UK`s most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headl&, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless & without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements & terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but the horror & passion of the past seem more real than the quiet fields around him. He is about to step into the unknown. But will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie? ...

` Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny` India Knight` As satisfying a novel as I have read in years` Sarah Perry` Absolutely magnificent` Marian Keyes Quentin & Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can`t afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can`t afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize & move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant & adulterous, Quentin can`t understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated & humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Mud, mice & quarrels are one thing
- but why is their rent so low? What is the mystery surrounding their unappealing new home? The beauty of the landscape is ravishing, yet it conceals a dark side involving poverty, revenge, abuse & violence which will rise up to threaten them. Sally Verity, happily married but unhappily childless knows a different side to country life, as both a Health Visitor & a sheep farmer`s wife; & when Lottie`s innocent teenage son Xan gets a zero-hours contract at a local pie factory, he sees yet another. At the end of their year, the lives of all will be changed for ever. A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate & enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, & the potentially lethal interplay between money & marriage.
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