New Castle County Staff Picks - April 2024

Updated March 26, 2024
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Talking at night
Daverley, Claire
Paper Book
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer, destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and any possibility of them being together shatters. ...
The underground library : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
Paper Book
Inspired by the true story of Bethnall Green Library. When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front and The...
This other Eden : a novel
Harding, Paul
Paper Book
'Masterful . . . has much to say to our times' Guardian 'Begs to be read' Spectator 'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife,...
Kill show : a true crime novel
Sweren-Becker, Daniel
Paper Book
'A fun, clever read on our obsession with true crime. I loved it' THE OBSERVER 'I raced through Kill Show. Gripping, fast-paced and oh so twisty' LOUISE JENSEN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIFT THE NATION IS OBSESSED. WHAT...
The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade
Durkin, Hannah
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 'Gripping ... remarkably wide-ranging' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose...
3 shades of blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the lost empire of cool
Kaplan, James
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestseller, the story of jazz, told through the journeys of three towering artists
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Bo-reum, Hwang/ Tan, Shanna (TRN)
Paper Book
**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK WOMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms will adore' Red
Shakespeare's sisters : how women wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie
Paper Book
'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph 'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper '[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York Times A New...

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