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Larry's party

Author: Shields, Carol
Published: London : Harper Perennial, 2006.
1 reserve

Adult Support Services AK Bell - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Stack - In-transit from Adult Support Services AK Bell to Loch Leven Community Library (Set: 10 May 2024) - 90003040

The lost paths : a history of how we walk from here to there / Jack Cornish.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and Wales. By 2026, 10,000 miles of undiscovered footpaths around Britain stand to be lost. Jack Cornish has dedicated the last five years of his life to walking these forgotten routes, and this book is the result. It is Jack Cornish's hope that 'The Lost Paths' will show just how special these forgotten rights of way are, and how embedded each path is in the history of Britain. Footpaths, tracks, country lanes and urban streets illuminate how our ancestors interacted with and shaped their landscapes in the pursuit of commerce, salvation, escape, war, and leisure.
Author: Cornish, Jack
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2024.
viii, 388 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
2 reserves

Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 914.2 - Travel & Geography - On reserve shelf at AK Bell Library - 90027940

The half bird / Susan Smillie.

When Susan Smillie quit her job in London and set sail off the south coast of England on her beloved sailboat, Isean, she was unaware this spontaneous departure would lead to a three-year journey spanning several countries across the continent. With only the very basics on board, resourcefulness becomes an unexpected source of joy and contentment. The highs and lows of living in such an extreme way awakens a newfound appreciation the beauty of her surroundings, for being safe - for just being alive. For all the physical and navigational challenges of her journey, the other side of her story reveals a more important change - an inner journey - that took place along the way.
Author: Smillie, Susan
Published: UK : Penguin Michael Joseph, 2024.
213 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm

Comrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 910.918 - Travel & Geography - In-transit from Adult Support Services AK Bell to Comrie Library (Set: 08 May 2024) - 90028163

A celebration on Coronation St / Maggie Sullivan.

It's 1953 and the nation's favourite street is preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's coronation. Josie Grimshaw has moved to Coronation Street to live with her mother's old friend, Elsie Lappin. The street is excited for the upcoming coronation of the new queen, Elizabeth, but Elsie is finding it hard to celebrate anything after the loss of her husband.Over at the Rovers Return, Annie Walker is distracted by her tearaway son, Billie, who has found himself expelled from school. When Josie starts to help Elsie out at the family grocer's store, it risks bringing a secret out into the open that she is desperate to keep. As the street swoons over the beautiful young queen and her handsome Prince, tensions simmer beneath the surface. Can the street put their troubles behind them and make Coronation Day a celebration to remember?
Author: Sullivan, Maggie
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.
358 pages ; 20 cm.
Coronation Street
Coronation Street series

Scone Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 90027813

Fourth wing / Rebecca Yarros.

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away - because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter - like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
Author: Yarros, Rebecca
Published: London : Piatkus, 2024.
561 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

North Inch Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 25 May 2024 - 90027849

Strong female character / Fern Brady.

This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like. 'Strong Female Character' is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity. Fern Brady will use her voice as a neurodivergent, working-class woman from Scotland to bring issues such as sex work, abusive relationships and her time spent in teenage mental health units to the page. It will take a sledgehammer to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope which is mistakenly applied to neurodiverse women. It will also look at how her lack of regard for social expectations ultimately meant she surpassed any limitations of what a Scottish working-class woman can do.
Author: Brady, Fern, 1986-
Published: London : Brazen, 2024.
287 pages ; 20 cm
3 reserves

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 920.BRA - Biography - On reserve shelf at Auchterarder Library - 90027919

Crypt : life, death and disease in the Middle Ages and beyond / Professor Alice Roberts.

In her previous two books, Professor Alice Roberts has powerfully and evocatively revived people of the past through examining their burial rites, bringing a fresh perspective on how they lived. In 'Crypt', she tells the story of Britain from 1066 to the present day - by exploring changing methods of honouring the dead. Beautifully written, vividly drawn, and expertly researched, this is a brilliant and unexpected portrait of modern Britain.
Author: Roberts, Alice
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
2 reserves

Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 393.094 - Society Today - Onloan - Due: 25 May 2024 - 90027972

The list of suspicious things / Jennie Godfrey.

Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places. 'The List of Suspicious Things' is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community.
Author: Godfrey, Jennie
Published: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.
455 pages ; 23 cm

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 90027702

Day one / Abigail Dean.

A village hall, a primary school play, a beautiful Lake District town. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a train of events that will have devastating consequences for the close-knit community of Stonesmere. At the epicentre of the tragedy is Marty, the daughter of the teacher who dies trying to protect her pupils. Marty told reporters that she saw it happen. She saw the gunman enter the hall. But what did Marty really see? And why would she lie?
Author: Dean, Abigail
Published: London : Hemlock Press, 2024.
378 pages ; 24 cm
2 reserves

Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 90027804
Mobile 1 - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - On reserve shelf at Mobile 1 - 90027805

Quint / Robert Lautner.

This powerful and brilliant literary novel takes a character who, through Peter Benchley's novel and particularly Steven Spielberg's film, has become etched in our cultural imagination: Quint, the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis only to meet his end in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. From the very first line, Quint's voice is fresh, vivid and immediately transfixing. From his early seafaring days, via the life-altering events of 1945 to his arrival on Amity, this is a glorious literary picaresque with echoes of Hemingway.
Author: Lautner, Robert
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2024.
288 pages ; 24 cm

Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Available - 90027811

Keir Starmer : the biography / Tom Baldwin.

An authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the first Labour leader in a generation to win power, even though most voters still say they don't know much about him. It not only tells Starmer's story but also examines the paradox of a politician often uncomfortable with politics, someone who is both remarkably ordinary and capable of defying all efforts to define him.
Author: Baldwin, Tom
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
xiii, 429 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Mobile 1 - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 920.STA - Biography - Available - 90027914

James and John : a true story of prejudice and murder / Chris Bryant.

They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the condemned cells at the infamous prison at Newgate, where seventeen men who had been sentenced to death were awaiting news of their pleas for mercy. Two men were particularly striking: James Pratt and John Smith, who had been convicted of homosexuality. In this masterful work of history, Chris Bryant delves deep into the public archives, scouring poor law records, workhouse registers, prisoner calendars and private correspondence, meticulously recreates the lives of two men whose names are known to history - but whose story has been lost, until now.
Author: Bryant, Christopher, 1962-
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2024.
320 pages ; 24 cm

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 941.075 - History - Available - 90028135

The trading game : a confession / Gary Stevenson.

Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: 'The Trading Game'. The prize: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? The story of the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
Author: Stevenson, Gary (Economist)
Published: UK : Allen Lane, 2024.
407 pages ; 24 cm

Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 332.609 - Society Today - Available - 90027973

Rites of passage : death and mourning in Victorian Britain / Judith Flanders.

Acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating and occasionally - to modern eyes - bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying.
Author: Flanders, Judith
Published: London : Picador, 2024.
x, 341 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
3 reserves

Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 393.094 - Society Today - On reserve shelf at Mobile 1 - 90027774
Mobile 1 - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 393.094 - Society Today - On reserve shelf at Loch Leven Community Library - 90028129

Smoke and ashes : a journey through hidden histories / Amitav Ghosh.

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, 'The Ibis Trilogy', ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising at all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history was swept up in the story. 'Smoke and Ashes' is at once a travelogue, memoir and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large.
Author: Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
Published: London : John Murray, 2024.
416 pages ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 382.413 - Society Today - In-transit from Blairgowrie Library to Scone Library (Set: 07 May 2024) - 90027958

Slum boy : a portrait / Juano Diaz.

Born into the slums of Glasgow in the late '70s, four-year-old John's life is filled with the debris of alcoholism and poverty. Soon after witnessing a drowning, his mother's addictions take over their lives, leaving him starving in their flat, awaiting her return. A concerned neighbour reports her, and he is forcibly taken away from his mother and placed into the care system. There, he dreams of being reunited with her. His mind is consumed with images and memories he can't process or understand, which his eventual adoptive parents silence out of fear as he grows into a young man within a strict Catholic and Romany Gypsy community. This memoir is about how John found his way to his true identity, Juano Diaz, and how, against all odds, his unstoppable love for his mother sets him free.
Author: Diaz, Juano
Published: London : Brazen, 2024.
245 pages ; 24 cm

Scone Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 920.DIA - Biography - Available - 90027981

Mad woman : how to survive a world that thinks you're the problem / Bryony Gordon.

What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in? What has she learned, and why have her views on mental health changed so radically? After coming out the other side of the biggest trauma of our living memory - a global pandemic - existing in a state of perma-crisis has now become our new normal. From burnout and binge eating, to living with fluctuating hormones and the endless battle to stay sober, Bryony begins to question whether she got mental illness wrong in the first place.
Author: Gordon, Bryony
Published: London : Headline, 2024.
314 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 616.89 - Health & Wellbeing - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 90027963

Pity / Andrew McMillan.

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. Once, the town provided, it was important, it had purpose. But what is it now? Brothers Alex and Brian have spent their whole life in the town where their father lived and his father, too. Still reeling from the collapse of his personal life, Alex, is now in his middle age, and must reckon with a part of his identity he has long tried to mask. Simon is the only child of Alex and had practically no memory of the mines. Now in his twenties and working in a call centre, he derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs.
Author: McMillan, Andrew, 1988-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024.
192 pages ; 22 cm

Strathearn Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Available - 90027803

An ideal husband / Erica James.

The Langfords are a perfectly happy family. Louisa and Kip, happily married for nearly 40 years, have raised their children and are now just settling into a new phase of life where they'll have more time for themselves. Everything seems perfect. But then, one Boxing Day after a lovely family Christmas, Kip tells Louisa that their marriage is over. It's not something Louisa saw coming. And what he tells her next is even more unexpected: he's fallen in love with their son's ex-girlfriend, Zoe, the woman who broke Angus' heart. So just like that, Louisa's marriage is over - and her new life can begin.
Author: James, Erica
Published: London : HQ, 2024.
407 pages ; 24 cm
18 reserves

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - On reserve shelf at AK Bell Library - 90027837
Auchterarder Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 90027838
Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction - On order
Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - On reserve shelf at Strathearn Community Library - 90027839
Mobile 1 - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - On reserve shelf at Alyth Library - 90027840
Strathearn Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction - On order

Fathomfolk / Eliza Chan.

Welcome to Tiankawi - shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that's how it first appears. But in the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on top: peering down from shining towers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolk - sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappas - who live in the polluted waters below. For half-siren Mira, promotion to captain of the border guard means an opportunity to help her downtrodden people. But if earning the trust and respect of her human colleagues wasn't hard enough, everything Mira has worked towards is put in jeopardy when Nami, a know-it-all water dragon - fathomfolk royalty - is exiled to the city. When extremists sabotage the annual boat race, violence erupts, as does the clampdown on fathomfolk rights. Both Nami and Mira must decide if the cost of change is worth paying, or if Tiankawi should be left to drown.
Author: Chan, Eliza
Published: London : Orbit, 2024.
432 pages ; 24 cm

Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Fantasy - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 90027831

The last summer / Karen Swan.

All her young life Effie Gillies has lived, wild and free, on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. But when Lord Sholto visits the island, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young Lord around the isle, and falls in love for the first time. But a storm hits and her world falls apart. Three months later, all the islanders are moved to a better life on the mainland. And Effie is surprised to be offered a job working for Sholto's father. But Sholto and Effie come from two different worlds - can love ever win?
Author: Swan, Karen
Published: London : Pan Books, 2024.
102 pages ; 20 cm.
Quick reads

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 90027882
Auchterarder Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Available - 90027883
Blairgowrie Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Available - 90027884
Breadalbane Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Onloan - Due: 04 Jul 2024 - 90027885
Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 90027886
North Inch Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - In-transit from AK Bell Library to North Inch Community Library (Set: 11 May 2024) - 90027887
Scone Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Available - 90027888
Strathearn Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Quick Reads - Available - 90027889

Head north : a rallying cry for a more equal Britain / Andy Burnham & Steve Rotheram with Liam Thorp.

For the first time, the Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram, are speaking out about their experiences of modern British politics, and the fight for Northern voices to be heard. 'Head North' offers a new vision for Britain which centres a Northern perspective and reimagines our country beyond the Westminster bubble, arguing that by reframing our thinking we can push forward for a fairer future. From the renationalisation of public transport networks to rebuilding the NHS and social care spaces; from rewiring Westminster to creating a new education system for all, Andy and Steve's united vision for Britain isn't an unrealistic alternative, it's a very tangible possibility.
Author: Burnham, Andy
Published: London : Trapeze, 2024.
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 303.372 - Society Today - Onloan - Due: 24 May 2024 - 90027912

Greta and Valdin / Rebecca Reilly.

Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires instead. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname: Vladisavljevic. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather and the small storms of their eccentric Maori-Russian-Catalonian family. This beguiling and hilarious novel by Rebecca K. Reilly is set in a world that is deeply familiar (but also a bit sexier and more stylish than the real thing).
Author: Reilly, Rebecca K.
Published: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.
352 pages ; 23 cm

Loch Leven Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - Available - Recently returned - 90027901

Damaged : the heartbreaking true story of a forgotten child / Cathy Glass.

Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass, an experienced foster carer, who was pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. This is Cathy's account of Jodie's troubled upbringing.
Author: Glass, Cathy
Published: London : HarperElement, 2024.
368 pages ; 20 cm
1 reserve

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 362.733 - Health & Wellbeing - Onloan - Due: 31 May 2024 - 90007101

Family politics / John O'Farrell.

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back in to their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics.But for proud and high-profile left-wingers Emma and Eddie Hughes, the return of their only child is a far greater challenge than they ever could have anticipated. Young Dylan had warned them there was something personal he needed to tell them, but nothing could have prepared his right-on parents for the shocking revelation he delivers. Their son is a Conservative. With his customary warm-hearted wit and razor-sharp political satire, John O'Farrell delivers another hilarious and entertaining dissection of the zeitgeist and offers a funny and insightful antidote to our divided times.
Author: O'Farrell, John
Published: London : Doubleday, 2024.
304 pages ; 24 cm
2 reserves

Auchterarder Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Adult Fiction - On reserve shelf at Mobile 2 - 90027810

I am not afraid of looking into the rifles : women of the resistance in World War One / Rick Stroud.

This is not a history of the First World War. It is the story of the women of the resistance in Belgium and Occupied northern France during that conflict. Stroud uses six main characters as a lens to describe the work of an extraordinarily brave group of women. In 1914, before the Germans invaded, they were ordinary people - some were poor, some were rich, some were low born and others from the top echelons of society - they were drawn together by war and they show what the individual can do when faced with apparently overwhelming odds. Their work was not glamorous, but it was essential and has often been overlooked; it was also dangerous and the penalties severe: death or life imprisonment. Three of the women he writes about faced the firing squad, including Gabrielle Petit, the Beligian national hero whose response to her imminent execution gives this book its title.
Author: Stroud, Rick
Published: London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2024.
384 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Breadalbane Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 940.308 - History - Available - 90027943

Between Britain : walking the history of England and Scotland / Alistair Moffat.

The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the south. But it can also be a lens through which to look at the changing history and identities of these two countries. Alistair Moffat is a life-long borderer and the ideal guide on this one-hundred-mile journey. We begin just north of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Already the battlelines have been drawn - the town having been grabbed by the English from Berwickshire in 1482 and never given back. From here we will head west as our tour travels backwards and forwards through history. In all, we will walk through eight centuries before we reach journey's end at the mouth of the River Sark.
Author: Moffat, Alistair, 1950-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024.
306 pages ; 24 cm
4 reserves

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 941.37 - History - On reserve shelf at AK Bell Library - 90027924

How AI thinks : how we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it / Nigel Toon.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionising sectors from education to healthcare to the creative arts. But how does AI understand sentiment or context? How does it play and win games that have an almost infinite number of moves? And how can we work with AI to produce insights and innovations that are beyond human capacity, from writing code in an instant to unfolding the elaborate 3D puzzles of proteins? Nigel Toon shows how we train AI to train itself, so that it can paint images that have never existed before or converse in any language.
Author: Toon, Nigel
Published: London : Torva, 2024.
320 pages ; 24 cm

North Inch Community Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 006.3 - Computers - Available - 90027971

What / John Cooper Clarke.

Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In 'What', the original 'People's Poet' comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious new collection, reminding us why he is one of Britain's most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker's acerbic pen - and that's just the first poem!
Author: Clarke, John Cooper
Published: London : Picador, 2024.
viii, 53 pages ; 21 cm

AK Bell Library - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 821.92 - Language & Literature - Onloan - Due: 23 May 2024 - 90027902

Queen Victoria and her prime ministers : a personal history / Anne Somerset.

It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong. In 'Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers', Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria's political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers.
Author: Somerset, Anne, 1955-
Published: London : William Collins, 2024.
576 pages ; 24 cm

Mobile 2 - (Culture Perth and Kinross) - Adult Non-fiction - 941.081 - History - Onloan - Due: 04 Jun 2024 - 90028128