Book of the Month - November 2021
Date Added: 30/10/2021
The Last House on Needless Street
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.
All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies. An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street. But it's not what you think.
Our book of the month is The Last House on Needless Street, a gripping gothic thriller by Catriona Ward. You can request a copy on our library catalogue, Arena, with no reservation charge. Not a member? You can join online here. If you've forgotten your PIN you can get it sent to you.
The Haunting Season
As the nights are drawing in and Halloween is upon us, here are some creepy and scary tales to send a shiver down your spine -
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Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by prize-winning author Andrew Michael Hurley, about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror
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On a windswept moor an old house guards its secrets, in The House of a Hundred Whispers, the new standalone novel from master of horror Graham Masterton
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The Ghost Tree is a brand-new chilling horror novel from Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boy
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In Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House, but what begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their darkest nightmares
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a mesmerising feminist re-imagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico
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In The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell, a struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead, and to try and identify their killers
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Finally we have The Haunting Season. Eight of the biggest historical writers of recent years return to the time-honoured tradition of the seasonal ghost story in this collection of new and original haunted tales, coming to our libraries soon
All these title are available to request now on our library catalogue, Arena.