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And the winner is...
This month we bring you a selection of recent award winners.
Here you’ll find the winners of the Booker Prize, the Nero Book Awards and the British Book Awards amongst others.
Keep reading to find a new favourite!
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David Nicholls
Marnie is stuck.
Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by.
Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.
But can it survive the journey?
WINNER: Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2024
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In the blink of an eye
Jo Callaghan
In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye.
DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts.
Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificial Intelligence Detective Entity) Lock, Kat's instincts come up against Lock's logic.
But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal.
AI versus human experience.
Logic versus instinct.
With lives on the line can the pair work together before someone else becomes another statistic?
WINNER: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024
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Arriving soon in Cheshire East Libraries
After a six-year hiatus for the Detective Inspector Logan McRae series, Stuart MacBride triumphantly returns with This House of Burning Bones - the highly anticipated thirteenth instalment in the bestselling series.
We first met Detective Inspector Logan McRae's in the award winning Cold Granite in 2005, and MacBride's new thriller will plunge you straight back into the gritty streets of Aberdeen.
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This house of burning bones
Stuart MacBride
It's not going well for Aberdeen's NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave has been cancelled, someone has firebombed a hotel full of migrants and there's a massive protest march happening this Saturday.
With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.
It doesn’t help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she’s more than happy to fan the flames.
But, as bad as everything seems, things are about to get much, much worse.
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Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the Earth.
They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.
Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home.
They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams.
So far from Earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it.
WINNER: Booker Prize 2024
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None of this is true
Lisa Jewell
Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for Alix's series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Alix agrees to a trial interview. Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging.
Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has inveigled her way into Alix's life - and into her home. Soon she begins to wonder who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
WINNER: Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2024
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Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
Athena Liu is a literary darling.
Juniper Hayward is literally nobody.
When Athena dies in a freak accident, Juniper steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name June Song.
But as evidence threatens Juniper's stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.
WINNER: Book of the Year, The British Book Awards 2024
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Close to death
Anthony Horowitz
Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life.
At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his four gas-guzzling cars, his loud parties and his plans for a new swimming pool in his garden. His neighbours all have a reason to hate him and are soon up in arms.
When Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, all of them come under suspicion and his murder opens the door to lies, deception and further death. The police are baffled. Reluctantly, they call in former Detective Daniel Hawthorne. But even he is faced with a seemingly impossible puzzle.
How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?
WINNER: Dagger in the Library award, Crime Writers' Association 2024
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Wild houses
Colin Barrett
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.
When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's bruised, sullen, teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch.
Jostled by his nefarious cousins, goaded by his dead mother's dog and struck by spinning lights, Dev is unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy.
Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll.
Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina.
WINNER: Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction 2024
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Death under a little sky
Stig Abell
For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London.
But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle - he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start.
At first, life in the middle of nowhere is everything Jake could wish for. His new home is beautiful, his surroundings are stunning, and he enjoys getting back to nature.
But then, what starts as a fun village treasure hunt turns deadly, when a young woman's bones are discovered.
And Jake is thrust once again into the role of detective, as he tries to unearth a dangerous killer in this most unlikely of settings.
WINNER: Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award 2024
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Munichs
David Peace
February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport.
On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them.
Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more were critically injured.
Twenty-four hours later, Jimmy Murphy, the assistant manager of Manchester United, faced the press at the Rechts der Isar Hospital: 'What of the future, you ask? It will be a long, hard struggle. It took Matt Busby, Bert Whalley and myself twelve years to produce the 1958 Red Devils. It was long, hard, tiring work, but we succeeded. At the moment, I am so confused, so tired and so sad, I cannot think clearly, but what I do know is that the Red Devils will rise again.'
'Munichs' is the story of how Manchester United rose again.
LONGLIST: William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2024
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Take a scroll through our upcoming releases and bestsellers - all available to order.
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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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