• Books

    • Jump to Kids, Dutch, Graphic novels, Poetry, Audio.

    • Library
      • JK Rowling. Orphans of the tide. The infinite, Ali Cross, Lion, witch and the wardrobe , city of bones, book thief, Philip Pullman, Derek Landy? Looking for Alaska, Malorie Blackman. Terry Pratchett. Dan Abnett. Adrian Tchaikovsky. A monster calls. Anthony Horowitz. Daylighters (eBooks - Borrowbox)
      • Forty rules of love Elif Shafak
      • Hanif Abdurraqib they canÕt kill us until they kill us - essays about US
      • Ken Liu paper menagerie - short stories, magical/scifi
      • Remote control, Nnedi Okorafor (African sci-fi!)
      • Eka Kurniawan, vengeance is mine
      • Fire from heaven Mary Renault
      • Eagle of the ninth, Rosemary Sutcliffe
      • Killer of men, Christian Cameron
        • li>Horus Rising, Dan Abnett (not in library but others by him)
      • Starship troopers, Robert Heinlein
      • Caves of steel, Isaac Asimov (not in library, but Greenhills has The Complete Robot)
      • Player of games, Iain Banks (not in library)
      • Children of time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (sci-fi, Greenhills)
      • Empowering women
        • How to be a woman, Caitlin Moran
        • Mad girl, Bryony GOrdon
        • Good night stories for rebel girls, Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
      • Now or never: a Dunkirk story. Bali Rai (YP)
      • Robert Macfarlane the lost words.
      • The murdererÕs ape
      • Peter Frankopan the silk roads - a new history of the world
      • The panopticon jenni fagan (YP?)
      • Waiting for the last bus Richard Holloway
      • Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive. How to stop time. A boy named Christmas
      • The occasional virgin, Hanan Al-Shaykh
      • Seasons of splendour, Madhur Jaffrey
      • Asha and the spirit bird
      • Monstress (graphic novel)
      • H is for hawk
      • My cat Yugoslavia, Pajtim Statovci
      • Max porter grief is the thing with feathers
      • Kate tempest let them eat chaos
      • Zadie Smith swing time
      • Annie Dillard the Abundance (essays)
      • Clancy Martin Love in Central America
      • Multiple choice Alejandro Zambra
      • Paul Beatty the Sellout (Booker winner)
      • Sarah Moss the Tidal zone
      • The transmigration of bodies
      • Ayelet Gundar-Goshen waking lions
      • Graeme McRae Burnet his bloody project
      • Walking lions, Gundar-Goshen
      • Rowland White, Into the black (space shuttle)
      • This too shall pass (Milena Busquets)
      • The post-birthday world Lionel Shriver
      • Gospel Prism (Gerald Weaver)
      • History of world 100 objects, neil macgregor
      • Alan Pauls, the Past
      • The shack, William P Young - God vs child murder
      • Resonate, by Nancy Duarte. public speaking
      • This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
      • Comfortable With Uncertainty by Pema Chodron
      • The Belgariad by David Eddings.
      • Why Look at Animals by John Berger
      • An exquisite sense of what is beautiful, J David Simons
      • Love crime, KS thomas erotic thriller
      • Norwegian by night, derek miller
      • Bedlam, brookmyre
      • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.
      • Neuromancer by William Gibson.
      • Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard
      • I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail by Ramsingh Urveti.
      • Perdido Street Station by China Miéville.[sci-fi]
      • The Family Virtues Guide: Linda Kavelin Popov. Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves by
      • Narrow Road to the Interior by Matsuo Basho - buddhist?
      • This Is a Book by Demetri Martin.
      • Ewan morrison, close your eyes
      • Gossip from the forest, sara maitland
      • Before I go to sleep - SJ Watson
      • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
      • Love and zen in the outer hebrides
      • I never knew that about the scottish, christopher winn
      • 52 weekends by the sea, brigid benson
      • Under fishbone clouds [China], sam meekings
      • 50 ways to leave your liver. Tom shields
      • Mrs scrooge (carol ann duffy)
      • Paper: tear fold rip
      • Noah's compass, anne tyler
      • Leaving Tangier, tahar ben Jelloun
      • Atul gawande (better) (performance in medicine)
      • Magic mountain, Thomas Mann
      • Mick imlah lost leaderPoetry
      • Little hut of leaping fishes, chiew-siah tei
      • Unpolished gem, alice pung
      • The sea, the sea-Irls murdoch
      • Dan Rhodes - Gold
      • Des dillon my epileptic lurcher
      • 1421 year china discovered the World
      • Non-violence, hlstory of a dangerous idea Mark kurlansky
      • 100 Favourite Scottish Poems to Read Out Loud,
      • Kidhapped & Catriona, RLS
      • Vonnegut Cat's cradle
      • Matthew kneale When we were romans
      • Dave eggers What is the what
      • Jay Grlffiths Wild: An elemental journey
      • The master bedroom Tessa hadley
      • José Eduardo Agualusa The Book of Chameleons
      • 10 days in the hills, jane smiley
      • Mothers milk, Edward St aubyn
      • Challenge of affluence, Avner Offer
      • The ode less travelled, Stephen Fry
      • The Wall, by Jeff Long, a climbing thriller.
      • women's history of the world Rosalind Miles
      • Paul Auster Brooklyn
      • James Kelman, Bus conductor Hines
      • Neil Ascherson, Stone voices
      • Alasdair Gray, Lanark
      • Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset song
      • Peter Davidson, the Idea of north
      • HOPE'S EDGE: The Next Diet for a Small Planet,Frances Moore Lapp?? and Anna Lapp??, Jeremy Tarcher, USA, 2002, ??17.42
      • Curious incident of dog in night time Mark Haddon
      • Hotel World, Ali Smith
      • Dear Francesca, Mary Contini
      • Soil and soul, alastair mcintosh
      • Calvino
      • Neil Gaiman, Coraline
      • Shiatsu
      • Harold Pinter, various voices
      • Paradiso Seasons (veg cooking), Denis Cotter
      • The Dinner Lady, jeanette Orrey
      • Hari Kunzru (Transmission).
      • Nicholas Royle (antwerp), thriller
      • Anne Tyler, the Amateur Murriage
      • Ln the picture, Graham-Dixon (art)
      • Reading pictures (Alberto Manguel)
      • Graham Obree
      • Flora celtica
      • John Gray, Straw dogs
      • The Oath, Khassan Baiev (Surgeon)
      • Looking in the distance, Richard Holloway ?Dad
      • White, Marie Darrieussecq
      • Harmony silk factory, Tash Aw
      • Pig that wants to be eaten + other thought experirents, Julian baggini
      • Planets, Dava Sobel
      • Empires of the word; language histoy Nicolas Ostler
      • Confederate colonel & cherokee chief (godbold & russell)
      • HolyMoly rules of modern life
      • Amaranta wright ripped&torn
      • Vikram chandra Sacred games
      • Ismail kadare (The File on H)
      • Silk, Alessandro baricco (romantic)
      • AN roquelaure - sleeping beauty books ,better than 50 shades
      • The land of decoration
      • Silver, andrew motion
      • The killer is dying, sallis
      • I spy on the farm
    • Graphic novels
      • alex ross (various marvel stories)
      • Batman - Long Halloween; RIP
      • Killing and dying, Adrian Tomine (graphic)
      • Building Stories by Chris Ware (graphic novel)
      • full metal alchemist
      • one piece - cartoonish, pirates, zany
      • Mushishi - supernatural bugs, man with powers over them
      • Hajime no Ippo - boxing
      • Gintama - ex-samurai, but goes sci-fi
      • Kino no Tabi - girl on motorcycle
      • Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) - ex-gang member becomes teacher
      • Bleach - teenage boy takes on ghosts
      • francois bourgeon historical comics, jean dufaux
      • Days of the Bagnold Summer Joff Winterhart, 52-year old librarian, her teenage son, Daniel, whose interests include crisps and heavy metal, and what happens when they're forced to spend the long holiday together. (Answer: it's all a bit funny and sad.)
      • Jerusalem Guy Delisle makes breathtakingly light work of the world's most complex political situations.
      • Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me (Harvey Pekar explores the ways in which Zionism let him down)
      • Rainbow orchid, garen ewing - old-school adventure stories
    • Kids books
      • The dark lady, Akala. [Victorian]
      • The loop, Ben Oliver (YP)
      • The Girl of Ink & Stars (kids)
      • The explorer, Katherine Rundell (YP)
      • The dark is rising, Susan Cooper
      • Terry Pratchett Discworld - start with the first, the COlor of magic, then SOul Music, then Lords and Ladies, Thief of time, Men at Arms, Interesting times, Mort, Guards! Guards! Small GOds has a poke at religion, mind
      • Shadow of the wolf, Tim Hall (teen)
      • The knife of never letting go, Ness (teen)
      • Blood red road, Moira Young (teen)
      • His dark materials - philip pullman
      • A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L'Engle) - a pair of kids searching time and space for their father.
      • Keys To The Kingdom (Garth Nix) - One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. (series)
      • Feed (MT Anderson) - teen, scifi: internet implant linked directly into his brain Ð to do his thinking for him.
      • Aristotle and Dante discover (Benjamin Alire Saenz) - teen sexuality!.
      • The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian - really is! Teen
      • the book with no pictures, Novak
      • Once upon an alphabet, Oliver Jeffers
      • Shhh, we have a plan , Chris haughton [3-5]
      • For 6+, willy's stories, Browne
      • Attack of the giant robot chickens, McCall - pre-teen: The city of Aberdeen is being terrorised by giant robot chickens who want to peck out every last sign of human resistance. The streets are empty, the adults have vanished -- and those left behind are fighting for survival. Jesse and his friends are desperate to save their families and stop the feathered fiends. They hatch a master plan...but can a gang of kids REALLY defeat an army of angry robot chickens? A hilarious, weird and wonderful adventure from a cracking new author
      • The wrong side of the Galaxy, Thomson - pre-teen? vol 2: Harry was just an ordinary teenage boy from Croydon when he was abducted by aliens and accidentally became the captain of their starship. His quest to get back home to Earth continues - but now he's acquired an alien 'son' and a new spacecraft, and he's being pursued by an eight-foot robot bounty hunter...
      • 20 Ways to Draw a ... series [cat, tree etc]
      • Spooks apprentice, joseph delaney Ð (older?)
      • Because . . . by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Vladimir Radunsky.
      • My side of the mountain, craighead george - (Ages 9 to 12) Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel as his companions, and his wits as his tool for survival.
      • The Red Tree by Shaun Tan. [metaphysical! 6-11]
      • Big Questions from Little People by Gemma Elwin Harris.
      • Henri?s Walk to Paris by Leonore Klein and Saul Bass. [out of print?]
      • goblins, philip reeves 9+ - The squabbling goblins who live in the great towers of Clovenstone spend their time fighting and looting. Only clever young Skarper understands that dark magic created by a vanquished sorcerer is rising again. From the lands of men come fortune-seekers - and trolls, giants, cloud-maidens, boglins, swamp monsters, tree-warriors and bloodthirsty goblins are swept into a fabulous magical conflict.
      • oh the places you'll go
      • brothers lionheart
      • Ronia robber's daughter
      • Weirdstone of Brisingamen - When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them Ð Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen Ð has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power.
      • Mister magnolia Quentin Blake
      • voyage ofthe QV66 Penecope lively - In The Voyage of QV66, humankind has deserted the planet due to mass flooding, leaving the animals behind. the efforts of the animals and the journey in a small boat called QV66 to get to London Zoo and see if there are other Stanleys there that make the book as charming as it is.
      • tom's midnighT garden
      • Kid's kitchen, barefootbooks.com
      • Stardust, neil gaiman
      • Kensuke's kingdom
      • Alfie books Shirley hughes
      • Owl babies
      • Children of greene knowe
      • Mairi Hedderwick, Katie Morag series for kids
      • Tiger who came to tea, judith kerr
      • Spring/Autumn Nature Activities for Children Irmgard Kutsch and Brigitte Walden Floris Books, UK, 2006/2005, ??12.99
      • Julia Donaldson, giant?
      • Michael mapurgo? Kensky
      • The Thing that Mattered Most: Scottish poems for children (Checked)
      • doodle book, tavo jomi (Checked)
      • The lion unicorn + me, Jeanette winterson
      • Dutch books
        • For teenagers
          • Soldaten huilen niet - Rindert Kromhout
          • De donkere kamer van Damokles -classic spy thriller
          • Rotmoevie - Marian De Smet
          • Trash - Andy Mulligan
        • Simon van der Geest - Spinder 9+
        • Jan Paul Schutten - Het raadsel van alles wat leeft - en de stinksokken van Jos Grootjes uit Driel-10+ (and audio)
        • Bette Westera - Doodgewoon 9+
        • Drew Daywalt - De krijtjes staken! (oliver jeffers) <6
        • Daan Remmerts de Vries - Soms laat ik je even achter <6
        • HŒkon ¯vreŒs - Bruno wordt een superheld 7-9
        • Sylvia Vanden Heede - Een afspraakje in het bos <6
        • Sjoerd Kuyper - Hotel De Grote L 10+
        • Dirk Weber - De goochelaar, de geit en ik 9+
        • Stine Jensen - Lieve Stine, weet jij het? 7+ philosophy
        • Annet Huizing - Hoe ik per ongeluk een boek schreef 10+
        • Jean Reidy - Wij samen op stap 0-6
        • Bette Westera - Held op sokken 0-6
        • Jef Aerts - Groter dan een droom 6-9 (death)
        • Stian Hole - Garmanns straat 5+
        • Jef Aerts - Vissen smelten niet 9+
        • Emiel de Wild - Broergeheim 13+
        • Hans Hagen en Monique Hagen - Ik zoek een woord 4+ poetry
        • Gil vander Heyden - Kleine stemmen 10+ poetry
        • Kim Fupz Aakeson - Zondag <6 new baby
        • Imme Dros - Zoveel als de wereld hou ik van jou <6 but v wordy
        • Anne Provoost - Springdag 6+ death, random!?
        • Bart Moeyaert - Wie klopt daar? 6+ xmas
        • Gideon Samson - Zwarte zwaan
        • Liesbet Ruben & Babette van Ogtrop - De slipper van Maria Bonita
        • Wouter van Reek - Keepvogel en Kijkvogel
        • Sjoerd Kuyper - O rode papaver, boem pats knal!
        • Siri Kolu - Ik en de rovers 9+
        • Edward van de Vendel - Toen kwam Sam
        • Truus Matti - Mister Orange 10+
        • Harm de Jonge - Vuurbom
        • Jacqueline van Maarsen - Je beste vriendin Anne
        • Ted van Lieshout - Driedelig paard
        • Zondag Ð Kim Fupz Aakeson (Querido) - tot 6 jaar
        • Zoveel als de wereld hou ik van jou Ð Imme Dros (Querido) - tot 6 jaar
        • Springdag Ð Anne Provoost (De Eenhoorn) - vanaf 6 jaar
        • Wie klopt daar? Ð Bart Moeyaert (De Eenhoorn) - vanaf 6 jaar
        • Zwarte zwaan Ð Gideon Samson (Leopold) - vanaf 9 jaar
        • De slipper van Maria Bonita Ð Liesbet Ruben & Babette van Ogtrop (KIT Publishers) - informatief
        • Aan de kant, ik ben je oma niet! (Bette Westera).Gouden Penseel
    • Poetry
      • War reporter, dan o'brien (poetry)
      • Picking brambles, Des Dillon
      • Handfast, scot poetry library
      • poet Sophie Hannah.
      • Iain Bamforth, A place in the world
      • Stewart Conn
      • Open world: poems of Kenneth White
      • Norman McCaig Collected inc CD (Checked)
      • Thomas Gunn? Poet
      • Prodigal - derek Walcott
      • When then is now brendan kennelly
      • Douglas Dunn, Elegies
      • Audio
        • Adrian Tchaikovsky - various