New Books
Our book buyers are always busy looking out for the best new releases to add to our shelves. As well as stocking many of the top best sellers we also respond to library users’ requests. If there is a book you would like us to buy please either make a note in the Blue Suggestions Book in the library or contact us. Our decision will be based on our budget and the level of interest in the book.
We produce quarterly lists of recent purchases for both adult fiction and non-fiction. Occasional lists are also made for large print and audiobooks.
Here are some of the most popular new books that have recently been added to the library:-
Klara and the sun
Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel prize for literature in 2017 focuses on an “artificial friend” waiting for a human owner.
Double blind
The author of the Patrick Melrose novels follows three close friends through a year of transformation.
Empireland
This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our shared history.
Light perpetual
The new novel from the author of the acclaimed Golden Hill is set in the years after a V2 attack on a Woolworths store in New Cross, imagining the lives of five of the people killed.
Think like a monk
In this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk in the Vedic tradition to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power.
Slough House
A humorous spy thriller. The seventh instalment in the Slough House series.