Raunchy Mills and Boon bestsellers are among the least borrowed books from Ashford library.

Four of the top 10 least borrowed paperbacks are made up of the titillating tomes.

The least popular in the Church Road library is Bride, Bought and Paid For, which follows the adventures of beguiling billionaire Romy Picard who needs the help of rich, notorious Spaniard Xavier DeVasquez who ‘stole her virginity and her heart three years ago’.

Also sat collecting dust on non-fiction shelves is Glad to Wear Glasses, a collection of 70 poems by John Hegley. It has been borrowed just once, on April 4, 2011 at 10.35am.

In the kid’s section, children are not attracted to the cat-based novel Catligula by Robin Price.

As the least borrowed book, it is the ‘impawsible’ tale of a Roman cat who becomes a “mad, bad and dangerous” emperor in 36AD.

In the DVD section, James Corden kid’s adventure Charley Bear, Are You There Charley Bear? is the least watched, taken out just twice.

The series of “seven fun-filled stories” sees Charley, with his friends Caramel, Bellarina, Frozo, Midge, Nibblit and Rivet, using their imagination to go on amazing adventures

For music fans, No More Idols, the second album by Chase and Status, has been borrowed just three times – the last just before noon on July 14, 2011.
Other CDs barely listened to include Merry Christmas II You by Mariah Carey, Hot by Inna and Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai.

The most popular prose is Worth Dying For by Lee Child, the story of an unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl.

Meanwhile Stieg Larsson series of novels The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest and The Girl who Played with Fire were among the top 10.

In the non-fiction section, books based around employment are proving popular including: Get That Job – CVs How to Stand out from the Crowd; Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector; and Blog, Podcast, Google, Sell: The Complete Guide to Making Online Profit.

In total 2,986 items were not borrowed at all over the last year.
Over the same period 37,733 items were borrowed generating 216,821 issues.