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Author: Nicholas Sparks
Condition: 5/10
Published Date: 2001

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago.  Missy had been his first love, and Miles Feverently believes she will be his last.  As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice.

From 1917 to the 1980's

Paul Johnson begins this dramatic account of the last six decades with ehe end of the First World War, which saw the destruction of the traditional European order, the triumph of Einstein's new cosomology, the full impact of Freudianism, the establishment of the First Marxist state and the genesis of the great Marxist heresy, Fascism.  He traces the interplay of these forces during the aracdian Twenties, the desparate Thirties and the catastrophe of the Second World War.  Within the framework of the ingenious organisational structure, which allows ample space for the vivid incident and telling anecdote, de describes the rise of the two super - powers, locked in Cold War, the Communist revloution in China, the deconilization of Africa and Asia and the tragic aftermath of independence, the stunning recovery of democracy and capitalism in Western Europe, the rise of the Pacific enterprise economies led by Japan, the radicalizing of Latin America, the expansion of the Soviet Russia as a global military power, the hegemony of the United States followed by its attempted suicide in the years 1965-1980.

Author: Kerry Jamieson 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date:  2005 
Pages: 346
 Charles Lindbergh thrilled the world by becoming the first lone pilot to cross the Atlantic. Soon after he landed, however, the flight log from the Spirit of St Louis was stolen from the aeroplane's cockpit. That much is fact...Pica Koll, the heroine of Kerry Jamieson's new novel, first encounters the charismatic young flier in Minnesota in 1923 - long before he becomes an international celebrity - and falls in love with him.

Author: Kathy Braidhill
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 1993

The Grisly True story of the Lamb Funeral Home Scandal in Southern California.

Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at the life-giving beliefs and ideas that have been made visible and audible through the medium of art. From the collapse of the Roman Empire, he concentrates on the crucial episodes that produced the ideas, books, buildings,works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation.

Author:  Richard Mooney
Condition:  4/10
This books Published Date:  1975
Pages:  274
Man's unearthly origins - a shattering new perspective on human history.

David Dirkse has to tell his story to unravel the complex web of histories which have woven him into the moment of liberation and transition in South Africa. He needs a women to hear him out because he has become confused not only about the meaning and import of the freedom - struggle for him as a 'coloured' of Griqua descent, but also about what women mean to him.

Author: David Bodanis
Condition: NEW
Published Date: 2006

A technological odyssey complete with heroes and villians, triumph and tragedy - a true scientific adventure.

Author: Matthew Kneale 
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 462

It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden.  But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.

Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Condition: 4/10

Published date: 1980

 A master of both the comic and the serious, her richly ripe Indian comedy of manners

Author: Ken Follett
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2002
Pages: 582
From the master storyteller, a startling new thriller set amidst the Danish Resistance It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast of Denmark, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their elderly parents. Meanwhile, a network of MI6 spies is attempting to decipher an encrypted Luftwaffe radio signal which mentions the new Freya-Gerat - a rudimentary form of German radar equipment. Arne's relationship with Hermia Mount, an MI6 analyst draws him into underground politics, putting him under surveillance by the Danish security forces - and by one man in particular who has a personal motive to see Arne fall

Author: Julia Baird 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 316

Until now, the true story of John Lennon`s childhood has never been told. John`s sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties - as well as the happier times - living inside John Lennon`s family brought.

Author: Nadine Gordimer 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 236

Nadine Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as "a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in". The collection of essays, articles and addresses encompass Gordimer's own evidence of the inequities of apartheid as she saw them in 1956, her account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a free country.

Author: Philip Boast
Condition: 5/10
Published Date: 1987

The saga of a turn-of -the centuary foundling.

Author: Helon Habila 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 383
A novel of ardent loyalty, encroaching modernity, political desire, and personal liberation, Measuring Time is a heart-wrenching history of Nigeria, portrayed through the eyes of a single family.

Author:  Jacqueline Wilson 
Condition:  9/10
This books Published Date:  2003
Pages:  192

Violet has always been in the shadow of her mesmerizing, controlling brother Will - by turns delightful and terrifying. But now Will has learned a shocking secret about his own past, and things seem to be getting worse. Violet retreats into fantasies based on the fairy characters created by her absolute favourite author, Casper Dream.

Author: Carol Lefevre 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 320

Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story of three people seeking shelter; it is also a story of home, of belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where- ever and how- ever you can.

Author: Leon Uris
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2003
Pages: 394

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is haunted by a secret - one that may force him to choose between a career in the Corps or a life with a woman who fulfils his desires.

Author: Andrew O'Hagan 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 2003
Pages: 325