Lady of the English

Elizabeth Chadwick

This is the story of two women: Adeliza, Queen of England, and Matilda, Empress of Germany. Matilda is the granddaughter of William the Conqueror.

At a young age, Matilda is married off and becomes Empress of Germany. But when her husband dies early, she travels back to England, where she meets her new stepmother, Adeliza. Her stepmother is a year younger than her, but despite this, they bond and become close. The two young women become even closer when Matilda is married to Geoffrey of Anjou. As the king has no

living legitimate male son, it is Matilda's son who will inherit the throne when he dies. But when the king dies, Matilda is betrayed and her cousin Stephen takes the throne. Now, it is cousin against cousin in a bloody civil war that knows no end.

The loyalties of all Englishmen and women are tested, and Adeliza must choose between supporting her new husband or her stepdaughter. Will Matilda ever become Lady of the English? Or will her cousin's betrayal win over?

This is a must read for all fans of historical fiction.

(Reviewed by Jasmine.)

Embracing the eBook revolution!

It looks like Invercargill City Libraries borrowers are embracing the eBook revolution!

To date, there have been 523 checkouts of eBooks and eAudiobooks from the South Island Downloadable Zone (powered by OverDrive), 25% of which have been by Invercargill people, well ahead of any of the other 14 South Island consortium members.

The new service has been so popular that you may have noticed that there are not many titles currently available for downloading, as so many are already checked out. You can, of course, always place a hold on any title you want to read that is currently out and you will be alerted by email when it is available for you to download.

As of today we have added a number of Advantage titles to our OverDrive website. These are titles that are only accessible to Invercargill patrons and are in addition to the titles available to all consortium members.

Remember you will need to sign in with your Invercargill City Libraries card number if you want to be able to see and access these exclusive Invercargill library titles. If you do not sign in you will only see the titles shared by all consortium members.

Still mystified by the whole process of borrowing eBooks and eAudiobooks? Click through to the South Island Downloadable Zone and visit the “Getting started” section for step-by-step instructions, or contact the library in person, by phone, email, or via Facebook or Twitter, and we will try to help.

New NonFiction Titles

Check out the new Non-Fiction available this week in your library

Love at the end of the road

Rae Roadley talks about her memoir “Love at the end of the road” on Radio Wammo.

Flourish: a visionary new understanding of happiness

Martin Seligman talks on Newsnight about his new book “Flourish: a visionary new understanding of happiness”.

More Titles

Click on the book cover to view the title in the library catalogue.

Put a hold on these new fiction books

Put a hold on these new fiction books

Here is a list of our new fiction books that are available for you to reserve this week. If you would like to reserve any of these titles please contact the library or reserve on-line by clicking on the book’s title and select Place Hold underneath the book’s image.

There are also new non fiction titles available to reserve, so come on in to view the selected titles this week.

New Crime Fiction

Watch the book trailer for “Skeleton letters” by Laura Childs

• Bones under the beach hut : a Fehering mystery by Simon Brett
• Bonnie by Iris Johansen
• By any means by Ben Sanders
• Death toll by Jim Kelly
• Dreams of the dead by Perri O’Shaughnessy
• Palace of justice by Susanne Alleyn
• The day is dark by Siguroardottir Yrsa
• The tale of Castle Cottage by Susan Wittig Albert

New Fantasy Fiction

Read an excerpt of Terry Pratchett’s new Discworld novel “Snuff” on the author’s website

New General Fiction

Carole Matthews talks about her new novel “Wrapped up in you” in the following video.

• Exiles : a novel by Cary Groner
• The faithless by Martina Cole
• The little coffee shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez
• To Algeria, with love by Suzanne Ruta

New Historical Fiction

Philippa Gregory talks about her new novel “Lady of the rivers” in the following video.

• Pirates of the Levant by Arturo Perez - Reverte

New Horror Fiction

• Autumn : purification by David Moody

New Romance Fiction

Read an excerpt of Liz Carlyle’s new novel "The bride wore scarlet" on the authors website

• Rush of Pleasure by Rhyannon Byrd
• The dark earl by Virginia Henley

New Saga Fiction

• A lineage of grace : five stories of unlikely women who changed eternity by Francine Rivers

New Suspense Fiction

Watch the Book trailer of “Robert Ludlum’s The Ares decision: a Covert-One” novel by Kyle Mills.

• Damage control : a novel by Denise Hamilton
• The Delta solution : an international thriller by Patrick Robinson

Based on the book

The next meeting of the adults’ book group will be held on Thursday 10 November at 5:30pm in the Library Meeting Room on the first floor.

This month’s theme is ‘Based on the book’. Pick a book that has been adapted for the movies.

This is a free event and light refreshments will be provided. Please contact the library for further information about the book group.