As Seen on Screen

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As Seen on Screen

It’s a new year. We’ve packed away the decorations, eaten all the Christmas chocolates and watched all the hit shows on our streaming services.

Fancy spending the new year reliving all the moments from the screen in book form?

Take a look at our recommended film and tv tie-ins to enjoy this month and during the winter ahead.

As Seen on Screen

The day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the exhilarating story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late.

1963.

An anonymous Englishman is hired by the Operations Chief of French terrorist organisation O.A.S. to murder the French president, General Charles de Gaulle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to reach.

Only one man could do the job: an assassin of legendary talent known only as The Jackal.

This remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped. But he is a man without a name, without an identity; a lethal spectre.

How can you stop an assassin nobody can identify? The task falls to the best detective in France - and the price of failure is unthinkable...

The mirror and the light
Hilary Mantel

'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'

England, May 1536.

Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.

As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.

The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.

Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future.

But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin?

New to Cheshire East Libraries

Sunday Times bestselling author, Freida McFadden, took the psychological thriller world by storm with The Housemaid series - and all of her thrillers are filled with fast-paced plots and jaw-dropping twists.  

McFadden is a doctor who specialises in brain injuries, and her medical knowledge is visible throughout her work, deftly weaved into her plots to create tales as intelligent as they are gripping.

Published in paperback for the first time, Ward D will be hitting our shelves in 2025.

Ward D
Freida McFadden

Ward D is the hospital's mental health unit and as a medical student, Amy is required to gain experience on the floor. But little do her colleagues know it may force her to confront a past she's fought hard to forget.

The night starts.

The countdown begins.

As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within the ward's tightly secured walls.

When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.

Amy never wanted to spend the night on Ward D.

Now she might not make it out alive.

The perfect couple
Elin Hilderbrand

It's wedding season on Nantucket.  The beautiful island is overrun with summer people - an annual source of aggravation for year-round residents.

And that's not the only tension brewing offshore.

When one lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin - with the bride-to-be discovered dead in Nantucket Harbour just hours before the ceremony - everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect.

As Chief of Police Ed Kapenash digs into the best man, the maid of honour, the groom's famous mystery novelist mother, and even a member of his own family, the chief discovers that every wedding is a minefield - and that no couple is perfect.

Rivals
Jilly Cooper

British television is all about power, a time when the affluent elite exist in a bubble of immense wealth and influence, and will use any means to get what they want.

Lord Baddingham is desperate to retain his Corinium TV franchise, and to do so he's hired Declan O'Hara, an Irish talk show mega-star.

Baddingham has also enticed on board Cameron Cook, a gorgeous and brash executive, to produce Declan's program - but Declan and Cameron detest each other, soon provoking a storm of controversy.

Enter into the fray everyone's favourite hate-to-love-him bad-boy, Rupert Campbell-Black.

As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and everyone is competing - in bed and in the boardroom - to come out on top.

Slow horses
Mick Herron

Spooks are supposed to be stealthy.

But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up.

Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal.

In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days.

Not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.

So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch.

And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.

Romancing Mr Bridgerton
Julia Quinn

Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London.

Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for - well, it feels like forever.

After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret - and fears she doesn't know him at all.

Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning him.

But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope Featherington! The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams.

Dissolution
C. J. Sansom

England, 1537.

It is a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church.

The country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers it has ever seen.

And under the orders of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent throughout the country to investigate the monasteries.

There can only be one outcome: dissolution.

But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control.

Cromwell's commissioner, Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege.

Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell to uncover the truth behind the dark happenings at Scarnsea.

But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything that he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes...

The winter king
Bernard Cornwell

In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land.

Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead.

His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country's lesser kings seek to claim the crown for themselves. 

While they squabble and spoil for war, a host of Saxon armies gather, preparing for invasion.

But no one has counted on the fearsome warlord Arthur.

Handed power by Merlin and pursuing a doomed romance with the beautiful Guinevere, Arthur knows he will struggle to unite the country - let alone hold back the Saxon enemy at the gates.

Yet destiny awaits him...

Apples never fall
Liane Moriarty

Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them.

So when Joy Delaney vanishes - no note, no calls, her bike missing - it's natural that tongues will wag.

How did Stan scratch his face?  Why no answers from the police?  And who was the stranger who entered and suddenly left their lives?

What are they all hiding?

But for the Delaney children there is a much more terrifying question - did they ever know their parents at all?

Because the closer the family, the bigger the lie.

It ends with us
Colleen Hoover

Lily has come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up. She graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business.

So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant and has a total soft spot for Lily.

Lily can't get him out of her head, but Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing.

Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his no dating rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan, her first love and a link to the past she left behind.

When Atlas suddenly reappears everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

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Everything you need to know about holds:
how to reserve a book

When you're looking for a specific book, it can be disappointing when it's not on the shelf at your local library.  Not to worry - our easy-to-use holds system has you covered.

• When you place a hold on a book, if we have a copy on the shelf at another of our libraries, we'll send it over to your local library for you to collect.
• If all of our copies are on loan, you will join a queue and when it's your turn, we'll send a copy over to your local library for you to collect.
• You'll receive an e-mail when your hold is ready to collect, and you have 13 days after the hold arrives to collect it.
• Holds are free for children, and a small charge is made for adults.  
• You can place up to 20 holds on your library account.
• You can place holds online - all you need is your library card number and password.
• Alternatively, our friendly staff are always happy to place holds for you.
  You can ask in the library, or e-mail us with your request at: libraries@cheshiresharedservices.gov.uk

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