Item category 2: City of Literature

The sequel to 'Martha's Girls', this novel is a moving wartime saga that takes the reader to the very heart of a close-knit, fiery, loving family - perfect for fans of Maureen Lee, Mary Larkin, and Pam Weaver.

There's trouble in store for Brenda in this second outing for Whitby's fearless supernatural investigators. Poison pen letters are flying about and the garden furniture at the Hotel Miramar seems to be possessed. Brenda has no choice but to pull herself back together. quite literally!

No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda. It's hardly surprising with secrets like hers. When her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late night phone in show it can only mean one thing - and sure enough best friend Effie soon finds herself up to...

The third part of Neil Campbell's 'Manchester Trilogy,' in which our struggling young writer finds love with a girl called Cho. Where a love song to Manchester becomes a love song to Cho. 'Lanyards' explores how the jobs we wear around our necks dictate the ways we are identified. Building on the...

In this volume of adventures for Brenda and Effie we uncover the mystery of both Elephant Men and meet Tolstoy the Long-Eared Bat out of Hell! Brenda goes back to her roots with Baron Frankenstein, and there's even an investigation at the Christmas Hotel with the famous Sherlock Holmes.

Oscar-winning Raphael's wickedly funny memoir progresses into years of controversy in literary and film worlds. Raphael records observations of a life lived in Hollywood and London.

Jackie Kay's first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit - one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. 'Bantam' brings three generations into sharp focus - Kay's own, her father's, and his own father's - to show us how the body holds its own story. Kay shows ...

In this revelatory and redemptive book Jackie Kay tells the story of her own life. It is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny and what makes us who we are.

A father desperate to be with his young son escapes from a secure psychiatric hospital, knowing he has just one chance for the two of them to start a new life together. His goal is to snatch the three-year-old - a diabetic who needs insulin to stay alive - and run away to France - but first he mu...