Medway Libraries Newsletter

Medway Libraries has something for everyone….

2019 was another great year at Medway Libraries, with more books than ever being borrowed, and more and more people taking advantage of new ways of accessing the thousands of audio books, eBooks, and digital magazines and newspapers we have available.

So wherever you are you can always have access to reading material from your local Medway Library. Along with the new titles that are available, there are also hundreds of classics, and below we’ve listed some of Medway’s favourites from 2019 – if you haven’t read them yet, reserve your copy today.

Find out more about Medway Libraries or search for a title on our website.

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Author visit: Nicola Upson

Book your place now to hear author Nicola Upson discuss her latest book, ‘Sorry For the Dead‘. This is her eighth title with the fictional version of Josephine Tey as the heroine and detective.

Josephine Tey, along with Agatha Christie, was one of the masters of Britain’s Golden Age of crime writing.

Saturday, 22 February 2-3:30pm. Rochester Library

Booking is essential for this free event. Phone 01634 337799 or visit any Medway library.

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Access your library account anywhere

Medway Libraries’ has a new customer app called Spydus Mobile. This brilliant facility gives library members the opportunity to manage their library account whenever and wherever they want.

It also allows you to self check-out books, or reserve a title from the library. And wherever you are in the world, if you see a book you’d like to read, you can scan the ISBN and search to see if we have it in stock at one of our libraries.

The App is available on iOS and Android from the App Store and the Play Store. Download it today.

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Recommendations

For these and thousands of other titles visit any of our libraries and browse the collection, or search our online catalogue. Many of our titles are also available as eBooks or audio books.

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The Other Side of Silence: Philip Kerr

It is 1956 on the French Riviera. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working as concierge at the Grand Hotel, St Jean Cap Ferrat, living under a false name.

Bernie plays bridge to stave off boredom and misses his old detective life. Then his past walks through the door. Bernie never forgets a face, especially when it belongs to Harold Hennig, a mass murderer who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Since the war, Hennig has enjoyed a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig’s target on the Cote d’Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide – the writer, Somerset Maugham.

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No Cure for Love: Peter Robinson

In 1980s Hollywood, the beautiful star of a hit TV cop show is being sent strange letters.

At first, Sarah Broughton dismisses the letters as the ramblings of a lonely fan.

But when the letters take on a disturbing tone and Sarah discovers a body in the sand outside her Malibu beach house, the experts are brought in.

 

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Half a King: Joe Abercrombie

Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. And he must do it all with only one good hand.

Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge.

Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could. Will the usurped become the usurper? But even with loyal friends at his side, Yarvi’s path may end as it began – in twists, traps and tragedy.

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Nothing Ventured: Jeffrey Archer

William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective and decides that rather than become a barrister like his father and his sister, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force.

William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under his mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad.

Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with. However, Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light.

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The Family Upstairs: Lisa Jewell

In a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses.

Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They’ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?

Two entangled families. A house with the darkest of secrets.

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Sword of Kings: Bernard Cornwell

Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a man of his word. An oath bound him to King Alfred. An oath bound him to Æthelflaed. And now an oath will wrench him away from the ancestral home he fought so hard to regain. For Uhtred has sworn that on King Edward’s death, he will kill two men, and King Edward is dying.

A violent attack drives Uhtred south with a small band of warriors, and headlong into the battle for kingship. Plunged into a world of shifting alliances and uncertain loyalties, he will need all his strength and guile to overcome the fiercest warrior of them all. As two opposing Kings gather their armies, fate drags Uhtred to London, and a struggle for control that must leave one King victorious, and one dead.

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