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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Tanya and Lynne
Today’s episode is all about science in fiction. All of the books mentioned can be found on our library catalogue
What we have been reading and listening to:
Tanya has been reading and listening to:
- The Lean and Happy Home: More time less stress by Eva Jarlsdotter
Lynne has been reading:
- The Detainee by Peter Liney – Listening to it on RB Digital audiobook
- Shaun Keaveny’s Show and Tell podcast
New and forthcoming adult books:
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby
- Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
- The Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz Smith
- Spy by Danielle Steel
New and forthcoming children’s titles:
- The House Full of Stuff by Emily Rand (0 – 4 yrs)
- Yasmin the Builder and Yasmin the Explorer by Saadia Faruqui (5 – 7 yrs)
- Max the Detective Cat in the Catnap Caper by Sarah Todd Taylor (Author), Nicola Kinnear (Illustrator) (7 – 9 yrs)
- The Velvet Fox (The Clockwork Crow Book 2) by Catherine Fisher (9 – 11 yrs)
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (Teen)
- The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two by Philip Pullman (Teen)
DVD recommendations
- Aladdin (PG)
Our Reading Agony this week: ‘A friend has to go into hospital, any books that you’d recommend for him?’
Anything and everything – maybe a great new book that he won’t have read – maybe the new John Le Carre, Agent running in the field; and perhaps something comforting that they might have read before like an Agatha Christie or PG Wodehouse. Sometimes if you’re feeling rough, you might be too tired to read, so it might be good to download our RB digital app onto their phone so they can check out some eaudiobooks to listen to or they could choose their own books or magazines to read. Sometimes the wifi in hospital can be a bit dodgy (depending on where you are in the building, often) so it could be good to help him download some stuff before he goes in.
Staff quote of the day ‘Don’t injure yourself, I can’t face the paperwork’
Our Discussion was Science in Fiction. Not Science fiction, but the books that have science in them as part of the plot. So, a lot of it certainly seems to form something of a cautionary tale – of experiments gone wrong or being used to the detriment of others. Here are a few of the ones we mentioned (all are adult unless stated):
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Scott Westerfield “Uglies” series
- His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman (Teen / older children)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
- Forensic scientists in Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, for example
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Children of Men by P D James.
- Underdogs by Chris Bonnello (new UK based dystopian novel for older kids / teens with a cast of neurodiverse teens battling the military takeover)
- Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O’Brien (9 – 13yrs)
Did you Know? We have a wonderful Home Library Service that delivers books and audiobooks to people who cannot make it into a library (usually through chronic ill health or mobility issues). A staff member comes out for a chat about what sort of books the person likes, the format that works best and how many they need. Then every 3 weeks, a staff member delivers a bag of specially chosen books to the person’s house and takes away the old books. If this sounds like something you, or someone you care about, would like to access, then please phone 01324 506800 and ask for more information
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