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1983 / by Cox, Tom,1975-author.(CARDINAL)422871;
"Benji is an imaginative eight-year-old boy, living with his parents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire amidst the spoil heaps and chip shops that characterise the last industrially bruised outposts of the Midlands, just before Northern England begins. His family are the eccentric neighbours on a street where all the houses are set on a tilt, slowly subsiding into the excavated space below. Told through Benji's voice and a colourful variety of others over a deeply joyful and strange twelve month period, it's a story about growing up, the oddness beneath the everyday, what we once believed the future would be, and those times in life when anything seems possible."
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Schoolboys; Families; Imagination; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Nineteen eighties; Families; Village communities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The girls who disappeared : a novel / by Douglas, Claire(Journalist)Author(DLC)nb2016024704;
"In a rural Wiltshire town lies the Devil's Corridor--a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one--Olivia--was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren't happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia"--.
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Women journalists; Missing persons; Traffic accidents; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Village communities;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 19
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The girls who disappeared / a novel / by Douglas, Claire(Journalist),author.(CARDINAL)355757;
"In a rural Wiltshire town lies the Devil's Corridor--a haunted road which has witnessed eerie happenings, from unexplained deaths to the sounds of a child crying in the night. In this bucolic stretch of Southwest England famous for its otherworldly sites, nothing is more puzzling than the Olivia Rutherford case. Four girls were driving home. After their car crashed only one--Olivia--was found. What happened to the girls who disappeared? On the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy, journalist Jenna Halliday has arrived in Wiltshire to cover the case. The locals aren't happy with this outsider determined to dig into the past. Least of all Olivia"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Women journalists; Missing persons; Traffic accidents; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Village communities;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 23
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If necessary alone / by Knox, V. M.,author.;
Britain 1941. Still reeling from the greatest loss of his life, the Reverend Major Clement Wisdom is called on again to serve his nation in its time of need. Under the cover of taking up a new parish in far northern Scotland, Clement is sent to the remote village of Huna, in Caithness, to locate a possible enemy agent who is sending out encrypted radio messages. Arriving in the depths of winter, Clement quickly finds it isn't only the temperature that is unnervingly cold. Perched on the edge of Great Britain, the isolated community is wary of strangers. Struggling to gain trust from the locals and where even his assigned Government contact, the local Postmistress, is antagonistic, he becomes entangled in a web of silence. When the husband of his contact is found dead, the body horrifically impaled on a shard of window glass, Clement is at first unsure if it is an unfortunate accident, or a gruesome warning. As more deaths are uncovered, Clement realises he is facing not only an enemy spy but a ruthless killer. With limited time, Clement must act quickly, and, if necessary, alone.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Fiction.; Wisdom, Clement (Fictitious character); Clergy; Village communities; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mrs Griffin sends her love : and other writings / by Read,Miss.(CARDINAL)153080; Dereham, Jenny,editor.(CARDINAL)499897;
Includes bibliographical references.From organising the school summer fete...'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand'...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood: 'I collect stones with holes in them'. Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters (never before published)
Subjects: Pastoral fiction.; Short stories.; Country life; Donated by Betty Jean King.; Village communities;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The littlest library : a novel [sound recording] / by Alexander, Poppy,author.(CARDINAL)816876; Cass, Karen,narrator.(CARDINAL)348059;
Performed by Karen Cass.When her grandmother dies and she loses her job at the local library, Jess's life is turned upside down. But she discovers she's now the owner of an old red phone box which she turns into the littlest library in England.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Women librarians; Life change events; Village communities; Books and reading; Libraries; Buildings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Answers from the heart : practical responses to life's burning questions / by Nhất Hạnh,Thích.;
Subjects: Village des pruniers (Buddhist community); Religious life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Experience-worlds of mountain people : institutional efficiency in Appalachian village and hinterland communities / by Matthews, M. Taylor(Martin Taylor),1902-(CARDINAL)418579;
Subjects: Appalachians (People); Sociology, Rural.; Community life.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My village, my life : portrait of an Indian village / by Mohanti, Prafulla.(CARDINAL)829214;
Subjects: Case studies.; Community life.; Villages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Whisper the dead / by Cameron, Stella,author.(CARDINAL)341130;
When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder. A new year arrives and winter holds Britain's Cotswold Hills in its icy grip once more. But it's the construction of a new housing development that's causing the residents of Folly-on-Weir most concern. As she passes the site late one afternoon, pub owner Alex Duggins is confronted by the terrifying scene of a construction trailer on fire and a man desperately trying to break the door down. Her efforts to help - and the subsequent findings of the police forensic pathologist - draw Alex and her friend Tony Harrison into a major murder investigation whose tentacles will reach right to the heart of the tight-knit Folly community - and into Alex's own past ...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Duggins, Alex (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Forensic pathologists; Murder; Village communities;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 29
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