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Lost and never found / Simon Mason.

Oxford, city of rich and poor. A city of lost things - and buried crimes. At three o'clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. 'This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.' An hour later, the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild. For some reason, news of Zara's disappearance prompts homeless woman Lena Wójcik to search the camps, nervously, for the bad-tempered vagrant known as 'Waitrose'. But he's nowhere to be found either. Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn't think Ray would be happy. He isn't. And when legendary cop Chester Lynch takes a shine to Ray - and takes against Ryan - things are only going to get even messier.
Author: Mason, Simon, 1962-
Published: London : riverrun, 2024.
345 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

High Street Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 19 Sep 2024 - 1620095929

Sociopath : a memoir / Patric Gagne.

Here is an utterly compelling, drily funny, and, at times, jaw-dropping account of life as a diagnosed sociopath from a music manager who retrained as a therapist to better understand her condition, and help other sociopaths.
Author: Gagne, Patric
Published: London : Bluebird, 2024.
368 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Westhoughton Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult non-fiction - 616.858 - In-transit from Farnworth Library to Horwich Library (Set: 06 Sep 2024) - 1620083734

You like it darker / Stephen King.

King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in 'You Like it Darker', readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024.
484 pages ; 25 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)
1 reserve

Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 30 Sep 2024 - 1620082665
Farnworth Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 19 Sep 2024 - 1620083807
High Street Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - On reserve shelf at Little Lever Library - 1620083157

I was there : dispatches from a life in rock and roll / Alan Edwards.

A raucous, funny and deeply insightful memoir from the godfather of modern music PR in Britain.
Author: Edwards, Alan
Published: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2024.
320 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Breightmet Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult non-fiction - 338.477 - Available - 1620092490

The antique hunter's guide to murder / C.L. Miller.

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya's estranged mentor, has died. When a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur's journals are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she'd sworn to leave behind. But beware, trust no-one. Your life depends on it.
Author: Miller, C. L. (Cara L.)
Published: Oxford : ISIS, 2024.
348 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Farnworth Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Large print adult fiction - Available - 1614830752

1984 : the year pop went queer / Ian Wade.

In '1984', writer and musician Ian Wade charts where these artists, including Queen, George Michael, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Madonna - who all enjoyed chart success in 1984 - were during that epoch-making year. It studies the impact these groundbreaking musicians had before, during and after on the gay community and popular culture, and it demonstrates how they were able to break down barriers, raise consciousness and set in motion the first nascent ripples in a pond that are still being felt today. As a backdrop, it explores the strides made in the name of the cause and how the wider surrounding culture reacted with equal parts glee, bafflement and disgust.
Author: Wade, Ian
Published: London : Nine Eight Books, 2024.
160 pages ; 22 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult non-fiction - 781.66 WAD - On reserve shelf at Central Library - 1620093918

A death in Cornwall / Daniel Silva.

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study.
Author: Silva, Daniel, 1960-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
416 pages ; 24 cm.
Gabriel Allon series
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Blackrod Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 19 Sep 2024 - 1620092296
Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 30 Sep 2024 - 1620091346
Harwood Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 30 Sep 2024 - 1620093047
High Street Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 21 Sep 2024 - 162009180X

As long as the lemon trees grow / Zoulfa Katouh.

Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She was even supposed to be meeting a boy to talk about marriage. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. She knows that she should be thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country if she doesn't? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has lost. But even with Khawf pressing her to leave, when she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy she was supposed to meet on that fateful day, she starts to doubt her resolve in leaving home at all. Soon, Salama must learn to see the events around her for what they truly are.
Author: Katouh, Zoulfa
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2022.
414 pages ; 21 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 18 Sep 2024 - 1622506225
Farnworth Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Available - Recently returned - 1622516115
Westhoughton Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Available - 1622516123

Nothing more to tell / Karen M. McManus.

Four years ago, Brynn quit Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favourite teacher. The case was never solved, but Brynn's sure that the three kids who found Mr. Larkin's body know more than they're telling. When Brynn gets the internship of a lifetime working on a popular true-crime show, she decides to investigate what really happened that day in the woods. But the further she dives into the past, the more secrets she uncovers. Four years ago someone got away with murder. But secrets have consequences.
Author: McManus, Karen M.
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2022.
358 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Blackrod Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Available - 1621498105
Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 23 Sep 2024 - 1621495297
Harwood Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Available - 1621497680
High Street Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 03 Sep 2024 - 1621495874
Horwich Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Young adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 19 Sep 2024 - 1621498962

A court of thorns and roses / Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill - the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price.
Author: Maas, Sarah J.
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
419 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Court of thorns and roses series
Average rating: (1 review)
9 reserves

Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 19 Sep 2024 - 1622621733
Harwood Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - On reserve shelf at Westhoughton Library - 1622701966
Westhoughton Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - On reserve shelf at Farnworth Library - 1622708987

A court of mist and fury / Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court - but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms - and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future - and the future of a world cleaved in two.
Author: Maas, Sarah J.
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
626 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Court of thorns and roses series
Average rating: (1 review)
2 reserves

Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 28 Sep 2024 - 1622577432
Little Lever Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 28 Sep 2024 - 1622547800

A court of wings and ruin / Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit - and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords - and hunt for allies in unexpected places.
Author: Maas, Sarah J.
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
703 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Court of thorns and roses series
Average rating: (1 review)

Little Lever Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 26 Sep 2024 - 1622547835

Camping Chaos! [electronic resource]

We're going to the woods! Just imagine all the adventures …· Doggy-paddling in the lake· Barking at raccoons· And my quest to find the greatest stick in the universe!But all my best plans are ruined when Iona Stricker the most miserable, cruel, and obedience-loving human you could ever hope not to meet – shows up, making any fun impossible.Until … a canine criminal, escaped from POOCH PRISON, sneaks into the camp and changes everything!This vacation might be fun after all!
Author: Patterson, James
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2020
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Dog Diaries ; 5
Average rating: (3 reviews)

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Iron gold / Pierce Brown.

Darrow was born a slave. He became a weapon. He ended centuries of Gold rule, broke the chains of an empire, and now he's the hero of a brave new republic. But at terrible cost. At the edge of the solar system, the grandson of the emperor he murdered dreams of revenge. In his hidden fortress in the oceans of Venus, the Ash Lord lies in wait, plotting to crush the newborn democracy. And, at home, a young Red girl who's lost everything to the Rising questions whether freedom was just another Gold lie. In a fearsome new world where Obsidian pirates roam the Belt, famine and genocide ravage Mars, and crime lords terrorise Luna, it's time for Darrow and a cast of new characters from across the solar system to face down the chaos that revolution has unleashed.
Author: Brown, Pierce, 1988-
Published: London : Hodder, 2018.
xvi, 601 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Red Rising novel
Average rating: (1 review)

Harwood Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1620017049

Knight's shadow / Sebastien De Castell.

The Greatcoats must protect the heir to the throne at any cost, but as Tristia becomes ever more corrupt, maintaining justice - and the King's dream - might cost them everything.
Author: De Castell, Sebastien
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2016.
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2016.
600 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Greatcoats ; book II.
Average rating: (1 review)

Horwich Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1620092954

Daisy in chains / Sharon Bolton.

Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets countless adoring letters every day. He's handsome, charismatic and very persuasive. His admirers are convinced he's innocent, and that he's the man of their dreams. Who would join such a club? Maggie Rose is different. Reclusive and enigmatic; a successful lawyer and bestselling true-crime writer, she only takes on cases that she can win. Hamish wants her as his lawyer, he wants her to change his fate. She thinks she's immune to the charms of a man like this. But maybe not this time. Would you?
Author: Bolton, S. J.
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2016.
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2016.
343 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Blackrod Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1619639767
Central Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Onloan - Due: 01 Oct 2024 - 1619639775
Farnworth Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1619638655
Westhoughton Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1619639783

Traitor's blade / Sebastien de Castell.

The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded and Falcio Val Mond and fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse - their employer could be lying dead on the floor while the three of them are forced to watch as the killer plants evidence framing them for the murder. Oh, wait, that's exactly what's happening.
Author: De Castell, Sebastien
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2014.
Published: London : Jo Fletcher Books, 2014.
372 pages ; 20 cm.
Greatcoats ; book 1.
Average rating: (2 reviews)

Harwood Library - (Bolton Libraries) - Adult fiction - Available - 1619633254