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Reads for Dementia Action Week
Bookmarked
A selection of books hand-curated by our team
Fiction
The vanishing act
When Mallory Dawson gets a call from a former colleague, Elsa, describing a strange scene, she initially thinks nothing of it.
Fiction
Banquet of beggars
In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in.
Fiction
A bitter remedy
Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings.
Non-fiction
No ordinary day : espionage, betrayal, terrorism and corruption : the truth behind the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher
On 17th April 1984, as police and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators gathered in the street outside the Libyan People's Bureau in London, they had no way of knowing they were about to become part of one of the greatest tragedies in British policing history.
Fiction
TimeSlip [electronic resource]
Ian Chambers is in trouble and under pressure, guilt ridden and struggling to complete the first draft of his novel.
Fiction
Quiet bones
When the body of a baby is found wrapped in a swan's wing deep in the woods, archaeology professor and expert consultant Carla James is brought in to assist on the case.
Fiction
None so blind
A woman's corpse is discovered near a Welsh community. Harry Probert-Lloyd has returned home from London and is preparing to inherit his father's work as magistrate - but is also slowly going blind.
Fiction
The unwanted dead
Paris, June 1940. The Nazi occupation of Paris begins. Detective Eddie Giral - a survivor of the last World War - watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.
Fiction
The Birthday Girl [electronic resource]
Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets. Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations.
Fiction
Siena [electronic resource]
Welsh artist Sara Jenkins' husband and young son are killed during the shooting of a wealthy Italian in London.
Fiction
The Skeleton Army
The Salvation Army has come prancing and singing from the slums of London to the poorest quarters of Oxford, but along with its red hot gospel preaching and music hall songs it brings a prohibition message which sparks immediate opposition and violence.
Fiction
Paris requiem
Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in but must work under.
Fiction
The unwanted dead
Paris, June 1940. The Nazi occupation of Paris begins. Detective Eddie Giral - a survivor of the last World War - watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.
Fiction
Single Cell [electronic resource]
Deputy Prison Governor, Giles Lawson, has doubts concerning the suicide of a lifer. No one listens to him, so he begins to rattle cages.
Fiction
In two minds
Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the coroner of Teifi Valley with the clerk John Davies as his assistant.
Fiction
The Sixth Lie [electronic resource]
Six lies killed Huw Jones.On New Year's Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs.
Fiction
Those who know
Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign to be voted permanently as coroner by the local people. But the death of a pioneering schoolteacher is soon revealed to be not the accident it first seemed.
Non-fiction
Dementia essentials
When a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, many family members assume new roles as carers, helping their relative to remain safe, happy and as independent as possible.
Fiction
Take care, son : the story of my dad and his dementia - Hardback
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments - daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from
Fiction
The memory book
I love visiting my grandma. We read together, play her piano, feed the birds in the garden and we love looking through her big box of photos.
