The Big Society - Well not Quite

A simple solution to help fill the void left by the demise of the mobile library in Northill or indeed Northill Parish.

I have a collection of books (hard back & soft back) all in excellent condition which are available for people to borrow.

I am sure that there are, like myself, many people who love to read, but do not want or indeed cannot get to either Biggleswade or Sandy library.

My idea is simply that like minded readers catalogue their books and display them either on the Northill Village website, or via a list that can be e-mailed to interested parties.

Those wishing to borrow a book(s) simply contact that person and arrange a convenient time to collect. For those who are infirm or are unable to visit, then no doubt suitable arrangements can be arranged either with the lender or friends of the borrower.

Hopefully if say ten or twelve other peoples were to subscribe to the scheme, then I am sure that a comprehensive library could be available on ones doorstep.

To set the ball rolling I have catalogued my books and details can be obtained by e-mailing Pauline at [email protected] . The books I hold are predominately Thriller, Crime and Espionage.

Books Held Author Title Hardback Author Title Hardback

David Baldacci Split Second Michael Connelly The Closers yes Wish You Well The Lincoln Lawyer yes The Christmas Train Echo Park yes Absolute Power + Total Control The Scarecrow yes Saving Faith Patrica Cornwell Southern Cross Mark Billingham Blood Line Cruel and Unusual From the Dead Scarpetta yes In the Dark From Potters Field yes Death Message The Front yes Buried Predator yes The Burning Girl Blowfly yes Trace yes Stephen Booth Black Dog At Risk yes Blind to the Bones Book of the Dead yes Dancing with the Virgins The Body Farm yes The Last Precinct yes Melvyn Bragg The Soldiers Return Crossing the Lines Martin Cruz Smith Rose yes

Chelsea Catin Heart Sick + Sweet Heart Michael Cordy Lucifer yes

Martina Cole Two Women Jeffery Deaver The Broken Window yes Broken Mistress of Justice Faceless Death of a Blue Movie Star Maura's Game Shallow Graves + Mistress of Justice The Jump Speaking in Tongues Author Title Hardback Author Title Hardback Martina Cole Faces yes Tess Gerritsen Manhattan is my Beat The Take yes The Twelfth Card yes The Know yes The Cold Moon yes The Stone Monkey yes Jeffery Deaver The Empty Chair yes Sue Grafton I is for Innocent The Blue Nowhere yes J is for Judgment The Vanished Man yes M is for Malice N is for Noose yes Linda Fairstein Cold Hit S is for Silence yes Killer Heat yes Entombed yes Alex Gray A Small Weeping

Colin Forbes Sinister Tide Graham Greene Brighton Rock yes This United State yes The Power John Grisham The King of Torts The Vorpal Blade The Last Juror The Chamber Clare Francis Keep Me Close Theodore Boone Deceit The Runaway Jury yes A Dark Devotion A Painted House yes Betrayal The Testament yes Homeland yes Unforgotten yes Joanne Harris Five Quarters of the Orange Night Sky yes A Death Divided yes John Harvey Last Rites

Tess Gerritsen Keeping the Dead yes David Hewson The Promised Land yes Whistle Blower The Garden of Evi yes

Robert Goddard Sight Unseen yes Reginald Hill A Cure for all Ills yes Dying to Tell yes Death's Jest-Book yes

Sue Grafton D is for Deadbeat Tami Hoag Night Sins Omnibus E is foe Evidence Omnibus Guilty as Sin F is For Fugtive A Thin Dark Line G is for Gumshoe H is for Homicide Omnibus Dean Koontz Intensity yes Graham Hurley Angels Passing The Voice of the Night yes Turnstone The Face yes Deadlight Strange Highways yes Blood and Honey The Good Guy yes Cut to Black The Husband yes The Price of Darkness Seize the Night yes One Under yes Brother Odd Life Expectancy Greg Iles Dark Matter The Face of Fear The Quiet Game Omnibus Chase 24 Hours Roberta Kray Strong Women Hammond Innes The Killer Mine The Lost

P D James Innocent Blood Camilla Lackberg The Preacher yes A Taste for Death Devices and Desires John Le Carre The Constant Gardener Death in Holy Orders yes Absolute Friends The Lighthouse yes The Little Drummer Girl John Le Carre The Murder Room yes George Orwell The Tailor of Panama The Private Patient yes The Night Manager The Misson Song yes Peter James Possession Our Game yes Dead Like You yes Single & Single yes Looking Good Dead yes Dead Tomorrow yes Lynda La Plante Clean Cut yes Dead Man's Footsteps yes Asa Larsson The Savage Altar Jonathan Kellerman The Conspiracy Club yes Flesh and Blood Robert Ludlum The Prometheus Deception

Keith McCarthy With a Passion Put to Use yes Jenny Pitman The Dilemmna yes On the Edge yes Val McDermid The Mermaids Singing The Vendetta yes Final Edition Beneath the Bleeding yes Mario Puzo Omerta yes The Grave Tattoo yes The Torment of Others yes Ian Rankin `Black & Blue Trick of the Dark yes The Black Book The Last Temptation yes Let it Bleed The Distant Echo yes Strip Jack Fever of the Bone yes Knots & Crosses A Dark Domain yes Doors Open Killing the Shadows yes Beggars Banquent yes Wtchman yes Glenn Meade The Devil's Disciple The Flood yes Fleshmarket Close yes George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four yes The Complaints yes Ruth Rendell The Question of Blood yes Norman Parker Dangerous People, yes Resurrection Men yes The Naming of the Dead yes Janes Patterson Kiss the Girls Alex Cross's Trial yes Kathy Reichs Bare Bones Cross Country yes Monday Morning 4th of July yes Cross Bones Roses are Red Devil Bones When the Wind Blows Bones in Ashes yes Sam's Letters to Jennifer yes 206 Bones yes London Bridges yes Grave Secrets yes Double Cross yes Fatal Voyage yes Cross yes

Ruth Rendell A Demon in my View Gerald Seymour Archangel Put on by Cunning Traitor's Kiss The Bridesmaid The Untouchable The Killing Doll The Journeyman Tailor Simisola Condition Black Shake Hands for Ever The Walking Dead yes Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Rat Run yes Adam & Eve & Pinch Me yes The Dealer and the Dead yes The Babes in the Wood yes The Collaborator yes The Rottweiller yes The Unknown Soldier yes End in Tears yes Holding the Zero yes Blood Lines (long & short stories) yes

Peter Robinson Caedmon's Song/Aftermath - omnibus In a Dry Season/Dry Bones that Dream- omnibus Minette Walters The Dark Room yes A Necessary End/Past Reason Hated- omnibus Disordered Mind yes Innocent Graves Acid Row yes The Summer that Never Was yes The Devil's Feather yes Bad Boy yes Fox Evil yes Piece of my Heart yes The Chamelon's Shadow yes Friend of the Devil yes The Shape of Snakes yes The Price of Love yes All the Colours of Darkness yes

Micheal Robtham The Suspect/The Night Ferry- omnibus Shatter yes Lost yes

Gerald Seymour In Honour Bound

Tom Sharpe Wilt on high The Wilt Alternative The Throwback Wilt in Nowhere yes

Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall yes Vile Bodies yes

Companion Book Club Books - Rather Old Various Fictional Stories Readers Digest Condensed Books

Herman Wouk Don’t Stop the Carmival yes Christen Barnard One Life yes Heinrick Harrer I Come from the Stone Age yes Alan Caillou Bichu the Jaguar yes Anthony Gray The Penetrators yes Ernest Gann The Antagonists yes Howard Spring Wind of the Day yes Richard Byrd Alone yes John braine The Jealous God yes Eric Malpass At the Height of the Moon yes Robert Wilder Friut of the Poppy yes Frederick Ayer The Man in the Mirror yes Dick Francis Straight yes Desmond Bagley High Citerdel yes LaVyrle Spencer Morning Glory yes Gavin Lyall Midnight Plus One yes Joe Simpson Touching the Void yes HE Bates A Moment in Time yes Fredrick Forsyth The Negotiator yes Eric Ambler A Kind of Anger yes Victor Canning The Whip Hand yes Micheal Crichton The Terminal Man yes CP Snow Corridors of Power yes Richard Hough Captain Bligh & Mr Christian yes John Ropwan Wilson The Side of the Angel yes Wilbur Smith The Sunbird yes Simenon Maigret's Pickpocket yes Catherine Gaskin A Falcon for a Queen yes Richard Condon An Ifinity of Mirrors yes Desmond Bagley The Vivero Letter yes In this House of Brede yes Jon Cleary A Flight of Chariots yes The Durells in Corfu yes Lesie Thomas This Time Next Week yes The Black Camels of Qashran yes Giovanni Guareschi Comrade Don Camillo yes A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime yes The Death Committee yes Readers Digest Condensed Books William E Barrett The Wine and the Music yes The Day of the Jackal yes Dorothy Eden Waiting for Willa yes Earthquake yes Lilian Beckwith Incredible Island yes Summer of the Red Wolf yes Hans Meissner Duel in the Snow yes Darwin and the Beagle yes Readers Digest Condensed Fredrick Forsyth The Odessa File yes Donald McCraig Nop's Trials yes Hans Fantel The Waltz Kings yes Fredrick Forsyth The Fourth Protocol yes Douglas Reeman Rendezvous South Atlantic yes Jack Schaefer The Canyon yes Dorothy Gilman The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax yes Madeleine Brent Stormswift yes

Francis Clifford The Blind Side yes Arthur Hailey Wheels yes Roger Bourgeon In Darkness yes Catherine Cookson The Dwelling Place yes

Frank Chinnock Kim yes Dorothy Eden The Vines of Yarrabee yes Paul Brickhill Reach for the Sky yes Wilbur Smith The Diamond Hunters yes

Nicholas Monsarrat The Kappillan of Malta yes Vital Alsar La Balsa yes Ewan Clarkson The Shadow of the Falcon yes Richard Martin Stern The Tower yes

Diane Pearson Sarah Whiteman yes Victor Canning The Runaways yes Duncan Pryde Nunaga yes Herman Wouk The Winds of War yes