Item category 2: CDROM

Produced by the Department of Foreign Affairs and based on the book of the same title. Of some use for school projects.

In 'Fires Which Burned Brightly', Faulks, a reluctant memoirist, offers readers a series of detailed snapshots from a life in progress. They include a post-war rural childhood - 'cold mutton and wet washing on a rack over the range' - the booze-sodden heyday of Fleet Street and a career as one of...

'Who Believes In Angels?', Elton John & Brandi Carlile's debut collaborative album project, co-written with Bernie Taupin and produced by Andrew Watt, includes 10 new and original songs. This is Elton John's 33rd and Brandi Carlile's 8th studio album, respectively. Limited Edition CD Clamshell Bo...

Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora's fortune was about to change ... Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescued her from her life of poverty on London's streets. Adopted as one of their own, she shed her rags and was finally given a place to call home. When a t...

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. Expect the unexpected. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three compan...

Prague, 1588. The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundaries of human knowledge, and his court is a haven for scientists, astrologers and alchemists. His abiding passion is the feverish search for the philosopher's stone and thus immortality. The Catholic Church fears he has pu...

In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford U...

Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness: an insider whose testimony will lock the defendant away for good. But the courtroom can be an unpredictable place. While the killing of a disgraced former governor...

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is downsizing in light of a recent downturn of sensitive crime, and staff members are wondering who among them will be transferred elsewhere. As the bickering between colleagues intensifies, Ulf tries his best to stay above the fray. But when Anna, a long-time f...

When Bernard Cornwell's 'The Last Kingdom' was published in 2004, it was not just a new novel from one of the world's bestselling historical novelists, but the start of a series that would span 13 novels, reach millions of readers around the world and launch an epic TV series with global reach. B...