Across the six branches, there are over 300,000 items in the collection. That is why it is always so exciting to see the top loaned items each year.

Without further ado, here are the top 10 loans for 2019, in adult and junior fiction.

Adult fiction:

1. Past Tense, Lee Child
2. Force of Nature, Jane Harper
3. The Dry, Jane Harper
4. Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty
5. Long Road to Mercy, David Baldacci
6. Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty
7. The Other Wife, Michael Robotham
8. Heads you win, Jeffrey Archer
9. The Lost Man, Jane Harper
10. The shepherd's hut, Tim Winton

Junior fiction:

1. Diary of a wimpy kid: old school, Jeff Kinney
2. Tom Gates: epic adventure (kind of), Liz Pichon
3. The 91-storey treehouse, Andy Griffiths
4. Diary of a wimpy kid: double down, Jeff Kinney
5. The 104-storey treehouse, Andy Griffiths
6. Tom Gates: top of the class (nearly), Liz Pichon
7. The 78-storey treehouse, Andy Griffiths
8. Diary of a wimpy kid: the getaway, Jeff Kinney
9. The meltdown, Jeff Kinney
10. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling