Item category 2: Book

The phenomenal worldwide bestseller, Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums – too many children, too little money, his mother Angela b...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daught...

When a cheerful bunny comes to visit on a delightful sunny day, a little child and their grandad cannot believe their eyes. A BUNNY RABBIT, AT THEIR DOOR?! So, what do bunnies LOVE doing? Is it hopping as high as they can go? MAYBE. Or going on an egg hunt? QUITE POSSIBLY! Or maybe eating a yummy...

The Cat Kid Comic Club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich quick that causes a lot of commotion and emotion. And when faced with rejections, the friends try and try again to stay true to their vision...

Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await - Charlie needs just o...

Christmas is complete chaos this year! The whole Brooks family are visiting for the festive break, there's a Secret Santa to organise and Lottie has to prepare for her big performance in the Christmas play as the back-end of a reindeer. Will she survive the festivities intact?

Everyone at the Emperor's court is enchanted by the song of the nightingale; but one day the Emperor receives a glittering mechanical nightingale and the real bird is forgotten. Then he Emperor falls ill, and it seems that nothing can save him ...

The year is 1921. Ireland has been at war for two years. Communities are torn apart by bitter hatred - and now a hard border splits the island. Polly runs away to Helen's Hope hostel in Belfast, a feminist space where young women live and work together - a haven of tolerance and diversity in a fr...