News

Former member of staff appeals for books for Mercy Ships

(10 January 2005)

A Durham group, including a former member of the University’s library staff, is organising a collection of books for Mercy Ships, a charity of over 25 years standing which owns a fleet of 3 ocean-going ships on mission to African and Central American countries as floating hospitals. Thousands of people have benefited from life-giving surgical operations on ship; their work also embraces social and construction projects.

The MV Africa Mercy is presently in the Tyne for its conversion from Danish rail ferry to hospital ship. She is expected to sail in Summer 2005 to join the fleet.

Books are needed to set up libraries for the crew and the on-board school for crew families:

• Good, up-to-date reference books
• Quality literature of educational and recreational value (books of particular interest are listed below, but additional similar titles are also needed)

Please deliver books to the collection point at:
Elvet Methodist Church, Old Elvet, Durham
(next to the University Office, Old Shire Hall)

Opening times for receipt of book donations:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 21 February to 17 March 2005 between 9.30 am and 12.00 noon.

Please label your gift “Mercy Ships”

Contacts for further information:
David Baines, Academy Principal
Barry Woodward, tel. 0191 386 1965
http://www.mercyships.org.uk

Books needed for the AFM Academy Library

Aesop’s Fables - Aesop
Andersen’s Fairy Tales - Andersen
Animal Farm - George Orwell
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Brave New World - Aldus Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Christmas Stories - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - F. Dostoevsky
Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Farewell to Arms, A - Ernest Hemingway
Fall of the House of User - Poe
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kidnaped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Moonfleet - J Meade Falukner
Moonstone, The - Wilkie Collins
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert Massie
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Persuasion Jane Austen
Picture of Dorian Gray, The - Oscar Wilde
Profiles in Courage - J F Kennedy
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Room with a View, A - E M Forster
Roots - Alex Haley
Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Spy who came in from the Cold, The - John Le Carre
Stride Toward Freedo - M Luther King
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Time Machine, The - H G Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Turn of the Screw, The - Henry James
War of the Worlds - H G Wells
Woman in White, The - Wilkie Collins

Poetry & Drama

Collected Poems - W H Auden
Collected Poems - T S Eliot
Poetical Works - Keats
Poetical Works - Shelley
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Complete Works, The - Shakespeare
Antigone
Crucible, The - Arthur Miller
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence