5 April 2013
Call no: 800
Genre: contemporary fiction
Setting: Parla
7 Stars
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Life is different when you live on an island. The sea is all important, whether or not you make you living from it. The sea can be heard everywhere, and to be without it is unthinkable. The sea also brings … Continue reading
29 August 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: Britain - modern, suburbia, Yorkshire
7 Stars
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17 Orchard Lane, in Bishopthorpe is a quiet, residential spot. Home to the respectable types; doctors and architects. You know that sort of *respectable* English street. But one of the families resident here is keeping a secret. A secret the … Continue reading
Cassy lives with her grandmother. Her practical, sensible, responsible grandmother. Her mother is a dreamer, unable to look after herself let alone her daughter. And her father, well, no one ever talks about him. Cassy has learned that if she … Continue reading
24 January 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: Netherlands
7 Stars
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ISBN: 9781406303940 In the end, it was her grandfather, William Hyde, who gave the unborn child her name. It is World War II and two Dutch men are in England learning everything they can about the Dutch resistance. Dart and … Continue reading
26 June 2010
Genre: biography, graphic novel
Setting: Pennsylvania
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Like many father, mine could occasionally be prevailed on for a spot of ‘airplane’.
This is the memoir of Alison Bechdel, her recollections of growing up in an emotionally-distant family, the role of literature in her, and her father’s, life, her identifying as a lesbian at college and coming out, by letter, to her parents. It is the story of growing up in a house that can seem more like a museum than a home. Of living in a funeral home. Of trying to connect with her father. All told in graphic form.
12 November 2007
Cast: Alan Tudyk, Andy Nyman, Daisy Donovan, Ewen Bremner, Jane Asher, Keeley Hawes, Kris Marshall, Matthew MacFadyen, Peter Dinklage, Rupert Graves
Script: Dean Craig
Genre: comedy, drama
6 Stars
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You never quite know what to hope for when you go to see a so-called black comedy/farce. I mean, the trailers might give you an idea of some of better moments, but you just don’t know whether the whole thing … Continue reading
26 April 2005
Call no: 800
Genre: general fiction
7 Stars
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Sondogs is the tale of seven days in the life of Conor, he has come home to see his father while getting a visa for his return to the states. He has been away for years searching for his mother, … Continue reading