Q2 2022 Wavesound Brochure NZ by W.F.Howes

AU DIOB OOK & L A RG E PR I N T N EW R E L E A SE S

April – June 2022 F ROM

W. F. HOWES & WAVESOUND

Available from www.wavesound.com.au

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Listen to Hannah Gadsby tell her own story, from growing up as a queer person in Tasmania to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, late diagnoses of autism and ADHD, and finally to the creation of Nanette.

Dear Librarian,

With such a great range of new titles on offer this next quarter I find it’s always one of my hardest jobs to select which ones to highlight. Son of Sin, by Omar Sakr (April) is certainly one of the most talked about novels right now enjoying a ridiculous amount of media coverage and there are whisperings of it being a strong contender to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award this year. Another title that is sure to be a media magnet and in great demand is The Uncaged Sky, by Kylie Moore-Gilbert ( June) – the extraordinary story of the author’s 804 days in an Iranian prison after being wrongly accused of espionage. Enduring extreme physical and psychological duress, Kylie Moore-Gilbert found the will to survive smuggling messages to the media, communicating in secret with fellow prisoners, going on hunger strikes, attempting an escape and was only released after a highstakes prisoner swap organized by the Australian government. Narrated by the author, it is simply a must-listen. Then we have one of the most anticipated titles of the year, Ten Steps to Nanette, by Hannah Gadbsy (May). Ever since her Netflix special Nanette went viral she skyrocketed to global stardom and we couldn’t be more excited to be publishing her memoir in audio, narrated by Hannah herself. A must-have addition to your library collection should be the latest release in the popular “Growing Up in Australia” series Growing Up in Country Australia, edited by Rick Morton (April) and I must flag The Birth Book, by Professor Stephen Tong which is (surprisingly) the only Australian book covering all aspects of, and focusing solely on, birth (not pregnancy) to give expectant mothers a fully-comprehensive guide to one of the most important days in their lives. Audio lovers gravitate towards crime so don’t miss the fabulous debut crime novels Daughters of Eve, by Nina D. Campbell, a revenge-thriller perfectly placed in this #Metoo era and the chilling Black River, by Matthew Spencer with a unique private school setting. And last, but not least, I would like to recommend So Many Beats of My Heart, by Carrie Cox. Featuring a marriage counselor navigating her own marriage breakdown, it is both heart-warming and entertaining, with elements of your average romcom, but far more layered. It is also poignant and moving and I fell in love with it. Enjoy browsing the rest of our catalogue!

Chiara Priorelli

What I’ll be listening to this quarter…

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April 2022

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Son of Sin Omar Sakr An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence, woven across generations and geographies, from Turkey to Lebanon to Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love. In this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet’s eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.

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Poet Omar Sakr’s debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them.

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L ead Title “Fast-paced, gripping and topical, without ever losing its heart.” JACQUELINE BUBLITZ, author of Before You Knew My Name

Daughters of Eve Nina D. Campbell A stunning debut that will take you to the edge and dare you to look down. A city in fear. A killer searching for justice. A cop who gets too close to the truth. When a high-profile murder lands literally at her feet, Detective Emilia Hart sees a chance to expand her caseload SOP beyond the endless Wavesound 3 succession of domestic Availability violence she is forced to investigate. But this is no simple investigation. Another Narrated by tbc body, turns up, then another. Genre Thriller Then more – a lot more... Duration 8.25 hours

Rising Dust

The Ghost Tattoo

Fleur McDonald

Tony Bernard

Detective Dave Burrows returns in another breathtaking tale of rural suspense. Dave has to confront the guilt and trauma of his past before he can move forward. And perhaps there’s no way out this time.

The profoundly moving story of a son’s quest to uncover his father’s Holocaust secret. Tony Bernard went on a forty-year journey with his father to understand the desperate choices Henry had made to try to keep his family alive.

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April 2022

The Boy in the Dress

Growing Up in Country Australia

Jonathan Butler On a balmy Townsville night in 1944, young serviceman Warwick Meale is found beaten to death under a bridge. The army and police do not, or will not, conduct a proper investigation and history forgets the killer – until now.

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Hitler’s Assassins

Rick Morton

Ed Coper

Steve Matthews

Black Inc.’s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country. Including nearly forty stories by established and emerging authors from a wide range of backgrounds, this is a unique and revealing snapshot of rural life.

From fringe conspiracy theories to ‘alternative facts’, a timely look at how we arrived in the ‘fake news’ era. Facts and Other Lies puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society.

From the author of Hitler’s Brothel, comes the second novel, based on true events, in this compelling Nazi trilogy. It is a uniquely clever reimagining of Hitler, his inner circle, and the absurdities and contradictions of his daily life.

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John Robertson General Non-fiction

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Jamie Oxenbould General Non-fiction 11.75 hours

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Deirdra Whelan Historical Fiction

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The Jane Austen Remedy

Crosskill

Embracing Change

The Birth Book

Ruth Wilson

Garry Disher

Jana Firestone

Professor Stephen Tong

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an eighty-nine-year-old woman who reclaims her life by rereading each of Jane Austen’s novels. A beautiful, life-affirming tale of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading.

Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature. “Violent, gripping, realistic.”

From the therapist and host of The Curious Life podcast. With a blend of professional advice, personal experience and real-life stories, Embracing Change is a key to unlocking your potential.

The first audiobook to truly focus solely on the birth of your baby (rather than pregnancy) and without a specific agenda. This is a comprehensive, everythingyou-need-to-know guide to childbirth.

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Jana Firestone Body, Mind & Spirit 3.75 hours

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May 2022

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Ten Steps to Nanette Hannah Gadsby The memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and selfdescribed swan-song, Nanette, played to sold-out houses in Australia, the UK and the US. Its launch on Netflix, and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins, took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world. Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the defining moments in her life that led to the creation of Nanette and her powerful decision to tell the truth — no matter the cost. Ten Steps to Nanette traces Gadsby’s growth as a queer person from Tasmania-where homosexuality was illegal until 1997 – to her ever-evolving relationship with comedy, to her struggle with adult diagnoses of autism and ADHD, and finally to the backbone of Nanette – the renouncement of self-deprecation, the rejection of misogyny, and the moral significance of truth-telling.

“Hannah is a Promethean force, a revolutionary talent... This hilarious, touching, and sometimes tragic book is all about where her fires were lit.” EMMA THOMPSON

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“Gadsby wields her craft like a weapon, lancing out the trauma and forcing us to look at it.” THE GUARDIAN

Hannah Gadsby

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L ead Title “Utterly joyous and charming.” BROOKE DAVIS

So Many Beats of the Heart Carrie Cox Evie Shine is adrift. After two decades of marriage, her husband has left her. Possibly for another woman. He isn’t saying. That Evie has spent her career dissecting relationships and mending broken hearts doesn’t help at all – it just makes everything worse. How did she not see this SOP coming? And what’s she meant Wavesound 3 to do now? So Many Beats of Availability the Heart is about how the crushing weight of time can take its toll on long-term Narrated by tbc relationships. Genre Modern Fiction Duration

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Where the Light Gets In

The Competition

Zoë Coyle

Katherine Collette

Delphi Hoffman, a wildchild living in London, is finally getting her life together – until she receives the phone call she hoped would never arrive. ‘It’s time.’ “Vivid, unforgettable and full of hardwon wisdom.” BRIGID DELANEY

Katherine Collette’s muchanticipated and hilarious follow-up to The Helpline, the debut Aussie novel that charmed the world, features a cast of loveable underachievers, headed for self-improvement despite themselves.

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May 2022

A Stone’s Throw Away

Other Houses

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Esther’s Children

Karly Lane

Paddy O’Reilly

Isobel Beech

Caroline Beecham

A pitch-perfect new rural romance from the bestselling author of Once Burnt, Twice Shy. When a drought dries up the contents of a water hole, the last thing Investigative journalist Phillipa Davenport expected to find was a body.

Other Houses is a masterful and tender story about people who live from payday to payday. Acutely observed and lyrical, Paddy O Reilly’s novel paints a haunting picture of class, aspiration and the boundaries we will cross for love.

A powerful debut that explores life, death and the restorative power of friendship under the warm summer sun of Umbria. “Sweet and deep, sad and funny – like life.”

Inspired by the extraordinary life of Esther Simpson, Esther’s Children is a powerful novel of love and courage. Confronting the horrific dangers of WWII with remarkable integrity and bravery, Esther is revealed as an exceptional heroine.

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Rattled

QAnon and On

Port Vila Blues

Heartland

Ellis Gunn

Van Badham

Garry Disher

Jennifer Pinkerton

A nail-biting memoir that brings a confronting new perspective on the safety of women and the many ways they are silenced. Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker.

In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and farfetched internet cult.

Based on interviews across Australia, Heartland guides listeners through the intimate world of love, dating, and sex among millennials. This oneof-a-kind audiobook blends reportage, memoir, extensive research and lyrical prose.

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Port Vila Blues is Wyatt’s fifth heist. It’s faster than ever, racing towards the inevitable confrontation on a clifftop above the deceptively calm waters of Port Vila Bay. “Clear taut writing – not a word wasted.” MARELE DAY

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The Uncaged Sky Kylie Moore-Gilbert On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to ten years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie’s only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards’ maximum-security compound where she had been ‘disappeared’. On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn.

Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.

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Black River Matthew Spencer Black River is the most compelling thriller you’ll listen to this year. A long, burning summer in Sydney. A young woman found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. A serial killer preying on victims along the banks of the Parramatta River. Adam SOP Bowman, a battling journalist Wavesound 3 who grew up as the son of a teacher at Prince Albert College, Availability might be the only person who can uncover the links between Narrated by tbc the school murder and the Genre Thriller ‘Blue Moon Killer’. Duration 8.25 hours

The Australian/ Vogel’s Literary Award Winner 2022

The Coast

Winner of this year’s The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award – as yet to be announced. Wavesound is the proud audio supporter of this annual award celebrating the best unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35.

A stunning novel of love and courage by the bestselling author of The Passengers. Heartbreaking and soul-lifting, The Coast is a compelling, universal story of love, courage, sacrifice and resilience.

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The Natural History of Love

One Punch

The Fallback

Ellie O’Neill

Caroline Petit

Julie Fison

D L Hicks

Contemporary, warmhearted, funny, poignant and satisfying – for fans of Monica McInerney, Cecelia Ahern and Josephine Moon. Sometimes life is entirely different to how you dreamed it would be and sometimes that’s okay.

For fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, The Natural History of Love is based upon the true story of nineteenth century French explorer, naturalist and diplomat the Count de Castelnau and his lover.

A contemporary family drama following two mothers as they wrestle with the consequences of their actions, and two families suffer the shockwaves of one catastrophic night and a punch that changes everything.

Recovering addict Eric Johnstone is turning his life around. Then one small moment changes everything... A gripping exploration of desperation, vulnerability and the lengths people go to get what they want.

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Paperbark Hill

The Fallout

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow

Lawfare and Me Too

Maya Linnell

Garry Disher

A. J. Mackinnon

Jennifer Robinson

A pitch-perfect rural romance from the bestselling author of Magpie’s Bend. Diana McIntyre and her four boys have had a tough eighteen months but with the love and support of her family, she believes their lives are finally back on track.

Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes.

Truly hilarious audiobooks are rare. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.

In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break open the big judgments, developments and trends that have and continued to silence and disadvantage women.

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All Creatures Small and Great Dr George McGavin Entomologist and broadcaster Dr George McGavin presents All Creatures Small and Great: How Insects Make the World, an Original Audiobook Production by W. F. Howes. If you are at all interested in life on our planet, then you need to know about insects. They are the most successful group of animals ever to have lived on Earth. Join Dr George McGavin on an exciting audio journey to help us understand the fascinating world of insects. Along the way we are transported from bee-filled meadows to the forest floor, following Dr McGavin as he meets national treasures Sir David Attenborough, Alison Steadman and Jane Horrocks, and a range of experts to understand more about their passion for these incredible creatures.

All Creatures Small and Great is an important and timely work to engage people with wildlife, when the world is rapidly losing its biodiversity. Features bonus audio content including full-length interviews and immersive binaural nature sounds for focus and relaxation.

“George McGavin is a rarity.”

SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

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Praise for L.V. Matthews: “Clever and compelling.” PHOEBE MORGAN, author of The Doll’s House

Bulletproof

The Twins

Mark Dawson

L.V. Matthews

The twentieth audiobook in the multi-million selling John Milton series.

Two sisters. An intense bond. A bitter rivalry. Margo is a solitary live-in nanny for an upper-class Kensington family. Cora is a promiscuous dancer on the cusp of a big break, living hand-tomouth in a run-down London flat. Different though they are, an unspeakable incident from SOP childhood haunts them both.

Milton is charged with protecting a reclusive billionaire from the SOP threat of assassination. But, Clipper TUP when the danger comes from Availability a direction Milton couldn’t possibly have predicted, will he and his friends be able to Narrated by David Thorpe complete the assignment Genre Thriller and leave in one piece? Duration 10.5 hours

Praise for L.V. Matthews: “Innovative, original and supremely twisty.” CHARLOTTE DUCKWORTH, author of The Perfect Father

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April 2022

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Dog Park

An Imitation of Darkness

Sofi Oksanen

Simon McCleave

From a major internationally acclaimed writer comes a ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market. Moving seamlessly between modern-day Finland and Ukraine in the early days of its postSoviet independence, Dog Park SOP is a keenly observed, dark, and Clipper 9 propulsive novel set at the intersection of East and West, Availability centered on a web of exploitation and the Narrated by Charlotte Worthing commodification of the Genre Modern Fiction female body. Duration 12.25 hours

An Imitation of Darkness is the third title in the DC Ruth Hunter Murder Case prequel series. Anyone who likes chilling police procedurals, true-to-life characters, and psychological twists will love this audiobook. London 1998. A murdered, young actress. A predatory American SOP film producer. DC Ruth Hunter Clipper 9 and her partner, DC Lucy Henry, find themselves embroiled in Availability the dark and sleazy side of the entertainment business, Narrated by Rachel Atkins where it’s more than looks Genre Crime that kill... Duration 8 hours

Out of Love

Remember Me

The Dust Never Settles

The Leftovers

Hazel Hayes For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale. A modern story with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic and ultimately full of hope. “The writing was good enough to make me forget I had a phone...”

Charity Norman

Karina Lickorish Quinn

Cassandra Parkin

Another page-turning, emotive suspense novel from the Richard & Judy bestselling author of After the Fall and Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Secrets of Strangers. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Clare Mackintosh.

The Dust Never Settles sweeps from the bustling beaches and teeming salsa halls of contemporary Lima to the rise and fall of the Inca empire. Hauntingly beautiful, effortlessly poetic and epic in scope.

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The Leftovers is a story about sexual power and consent, the myth of the perfect victim, and a dark exploration of the things we do for – and to – the ones we love. “It was dark and sad and powerful and poetic.” LOUISE BEECH

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Hazel Hayes Romance 12 hours

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Fantasy & Supernatural 14 hours

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The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath

Breacher

The Silence of Scheherazade

The Huntsmen

Ian Green

Jack Lively

Defne Suman

Tony J Forder

An action-packed and unique fantasy adventure, featuring General Floré and a quest to save her abducted daughter, by debut Scottish author, Ian Green. Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series.

After four months on a fishing boat Tom Keeler is done with Alaska. He’s on his way to a permanent vacation. But Alaska isn’t done with him. Jane Abrams just got there, and she’s got big problems.

This powerful novel set in ancient Smyrna, follows the intertwining fates of four families as their peaceful city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. This unforgettable novel reveals a city and culture now lost to time.

The first in a new crime thriller series set in Wiltshire, from the author of the bestselling DI Bliss series. “The author is hugely talented and ranks... with the likes of Peter James and Val McDermid.”

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Scotto Moore

Rob Sinclair

Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon, but her prowess in the game makes her the target of a strange resistance movement led by spellcasting anarchists.

James Ryker stumbles into a chilling conspiracy in a small Norwegian town in this Ryker Returns thriller.

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Alister Austin Thriller 10 hours

NEW NETFLIX SERIES AIRING 25th MARCH

Battle of the Linguist Mages

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“A real page-turner, impossible to put down.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Marston York Thriller 9.5 hours

ADD TO SIR PHILIP, WITH LOVE TO YOUR COLLECTION

May 2022

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Flying Angels Danielle Steel It is 1941 and the devastating loss of life following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor leaves best friends Audrey and Lizzie distraught and bereft as they lose someone they both love deeply. As they come to terms with their grief, their resolve to play a worthwhile role towards the war effort is strengthened. As trained nurses they volunteer for the army medivac corps and are sent to England where they join a team who fly on dangerous missions to the Front to bring back wounded soldiers. Audrey, Lizzie and their fellow medics and pilots will suffer the tragedies of war and experience loss and suffering. They will come to understand the importance of friendship, respect, bravery and being true to yourself. But, once the war is over, can they learn one of the hardest lessons of all: the ability to love again?

Flying Angels is a compelling and inspirational story of women of courage in the Second World War, by the world’s number one bestselling author, Danielle Steel.

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L ead Title “A win/win when it comes to making you feel good – the stories will do just that, and buying this book will help homeless people.” VAL McDERMID

Wormwood

Everyday Kindness

Mark Dawson

Edited by LJ Ross

1969. Eloise Shepherd, one of MI6’s brightest rising stars, is working undercover in Soviet Russia as Magdalina Novikova. Her mission is to persuade nuclear physicist Stanislav Kalashnik to defect and bring his knowledge of Russian weapons back to the UK. SOP On the verge of success, the Clipper TUP operation fails suddenly Availability and spectacularly. Wormwood is the first title in tbc the Group Fifteen Files, from Narrated by the bestselling author of the Genre Thriller John Milton thriller series. Duration 10.5 hours

Everyday Kindness is a charity anthology of short, fictional stories of kindness, edited by LJ Ross. These uplifting tales of hope and of small, everyday kindnesses are intended to support wider, positive mental health goals and foster wellbeing through the act of SOP reading tales of goodwill Clipper TUP inspired by others. Featuring authors across the spectrum Availability of literature, this is a unique collection of words. Narrated by Multiple Narrators Proceeds from the book will be Genre Modern Fiction donated to Shelter. Duration 15 hours

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May 2022 L ead Title “A fresh new voice in fiction, wry and sharp and raw.” EMMA CLINE

“I still remember where I was when I first encountered a Saba Sams’ story.” NICOLE FLATTERY

Betrayal

Send Nudes

David Gilman

Saba Sams

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns in the new high-octane international thriller from David Gilman. Someone’s going to start a war. And Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone. It has been many years since Dan Raglan served SOP in the French Foreign Legion, Clipper 9 but the bonds forged in Availability adversity are unbreakable and when one of his comrades calls for help, Narrated by Matt Addis Raglan is duty-bound to Genre Thriller answer. Duration 14.25 hours

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to SOP societal pressure but also Clipper 9 orchestrating that pressure. Availability With striking wit, originality and tenderness, Send Nudes celebrates the small victories Narrated by Victoria Fox in a world that tries to claim Genre Modern Fiction each young woman as its own. Duration 5.25 hours

A Traitor’s Heart

The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings

It Could Never Happen Here

Reptile Memoirs

Ben Creed Winter, 1952: Leningrad’s icy streets are haunted by a murderer. The name is whispered everywhere – Koshchei the Immortal, who cuts out the tongue of his victims and replaces it with a scroll of paper.

Dan Jones

Eithne Shortall

Silje Ulstein

A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. First recorded in the early fifteenth century, the tale was transcribed from the Latin by the great medievalist M.R. James in 1922.

Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school’s reputation. So when a scandal threatens to derail the school musical’s appearance on national television, Beverley goes into overdrive.

A biting and constantly shifting tale of family secrets, rebirth and the legacy of trauma, Reptile Memoirs is a brilliant exploration of the coldbloodedness of humanity. “Original, sharp and chilling.”

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Julie Maisey Thriller 12.75 hours

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The Shadow People

Pity the Beast

Next in Line

Rising Tide

Graham Masterton

Robin McLean

Marion Todd

Morgan Greene

DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe hunt down a ritualistic cult inspired by Neolithic cannibals in the new chilling horror from Graham Masterton, author of The Children God Forgot and The House of a Hundred Whispers.

With detours through time, space, myth, and into the minds of a pack of philosophical mules, Pity the Beast turns our assumptions about the West, masculinity, good and evil, and the nature of storytelling on their heads.

Next in Line is a thrilling addition to the much-loved and bestselling detective fiction series featuring DI Clare Mackay, from a rising star in Scottish crime fiction. Ideal for fans of Alex Gray, D. K. Hood and Rachel Amphlett.

Rising Tide is the pulsepounding new instalment in the DI Jamie Johansson series, and the terrifying follow-up to Angel Maker. DI Jamie Johansson is on loan to the Stockholm Polis when a chilling call for help comes in...

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13 hours

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Sofia Engstrand

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Crime 10.5 hours

Omar Sakr’s debut novel Winds of Dune Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The Spanish Daughter Lorena Hughes

Between Frank Herbert’s Dune and his next novel, Dune Messiah, lies an intriguing mystery: how hero Paul Atreides became a hated tyrant. “Fans of the original Dune series will love seeing familiar characters.”

This captivating #OwnVoices novel is set against the lush backdrop of early twentieth century Ecuador and inspired by the real-life history of the coastal town known as the birthplace of cacao.

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Frankie Corzo Historical Fiction 9.75 hours

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The World’s Strongest Audiobook Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall Featuring raw training diaries, ten rounds of mental preparation, and exclusive interviews with iconic friends on mental strength. From Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall, the winner of World’s Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off the floor when everybody else said it was impossible. Impossible is a recurring theme in Eddie’s life – from the streets of Stoke-on-Trent to the pinnacle of Strongman – at every step on his journey he has blasted through the obstacles in his way. Now he faces a mountain – or rather The Mountain. In World’s Strongest Audiobook, Eddie brings the listener behind the scenes and into the heart of his training camp as he prepares for his greatest challenge yet – a boxing showdown with his nemesis, Hafthor Bjornsson. Affording the listener ringside access to Eddie’s formidable mindset, he reflects on the lessons he’s learned over the course of his life and draws on them all over again in preparation for his fight with Thor.

“No human can visualise the impossible like this man ... Eddie rewrites the history books and continues to set goals. Massive respect to the man.” JASON STATHAM

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12.5 hours

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Hot Water

Gallant

Christopher Fowler

V.E. Schwab

A wickedly compulsive thriller from the bestselling author of the Bryant & May series. At a beautiful villa in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instructions never to speak to the guests, she blends into the background – but she sees everything... SOP

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and A Darker Shade of Magic comes a standalone novel where The Secret Garden meets Stardust. “A haunting and beautifully tilled garden of darkness, Gallant SOP unearths the shadows – webs Clipper TUP of family history, the price of Availability deadly bargains, and the secrets we guard – a triumphant tale Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt that can’t be missed.”

Praise for the author: “Devilishly clever.”

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“A first-classs thriller, but don’t expect any sleep.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Rachel Atkins Thriller 12.5 hours

DHONIELLE CLAYTON, bestselling author

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Fantasy & Supernatural 10 hours

June 2022

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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and Mrs Harris Goes to New York Paul Gallico Mrs Harris is a salt-of-theearth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant’s wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life – a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she’s never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she’s never wanted anything as much before.

Attack and Decay Andrew Cartmel The Vinyl Detective goes Scandi noir as he plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more. SOP

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Always kind, always cheery and always winsome, the indomitable Mrs Harris takes Paris by storm and learns one of life’s greatest lessons along the way.

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Finlay Robertson Mystery

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Juliet Stevenson

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12.25 hours

10.25 hours

M is for Mummy

The Bear’s Blade

No One Goes Alone

Let’s Pretend

Katy Cox

Tim Hodkinson

Erik Larson

Laura Vaughan

Heart-warming and hysterical, a musician Mum juggles the demands of family life, showbiz and autism. Perfect for fans of Why Mummy Drinks and The Unmumsy Mum, and TV shows such as The A Word and Atypical.

Einar must retake control of his destiny in this thrilling Viking adventure, the fifth novel in the Whale Road Chronicles. Praise for Tim Hodkinson: “A gripping action adventure like the sagas of old.”

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction. Available only on audio, this eerie blend of the ghostly and the real will keep listeners captivated till the blood-chilling end.

Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirtysomething actress. Her old stage-school buddy, Adam, is on the brink of making it big, but he needs an appropriate red-carpet companion to seal the deal, and Lily fits the bill.

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Julian Rhind-Tutt Horror 7.5 hours

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Tides

The Arrest

We Can Only Save Ourselves

Degrees of Darkness

Sara Freeman

Jonathan Lethem

Alison Wisdom

Tony J Forder

After a devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy coastal town. A spare, visceral portrait of a woman nearly pulled under, and an unforgettable introduction to a debut writer of uncommon literary power.

The Arrest isn’t post-apocalypse. It’s what happens when much of what we take for granted stops working... Written with unrepentant joy and just the right amount of contemporary dread, The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest.

One of Newsweek, Bustle, and LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books, We Can Only Save Ourselves is the story of one teenage girl’s unlikely indoctrination and the reverberations in the tight-knit community she leaves behind.

From the bestselling author of the addictive DI Bliss series and the compelling standalone novel, Fifteen Coffins, comes a dark, psychological journey into the nightmare world of a serial killer.

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Amy Rutherford

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Modern Fiction

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6.5 hours

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Action & Adventure 6.75 hours

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Nicholas Camm Thriller 12.75 hours

Light Chaser

Impact

Peter F. Hamilton & Gareth L. Powell

Jack Lively

In this action-packed sci-fi adventure a love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire. Light Chaser Amahle travels the universe alone (except for her onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories.

Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine. But nothing’s ever that simple. The package gets stolen, things get complicated.

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Jess Harding Thriller 11 hours

April 2022

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Surviving Katyń Jane Rogoyska The Katyn Massacre of twentytwo thousand Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime. Surviving Katyń explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators.

Gurkha Brotherhood Captain Kailash Limbu A searingly honest memoir by Kailash Limbu, a serving Gurka soldier who undertook five tours of active service in Afghanistan, Gurkha Brotherhood is a record of war and peace that is rare in its honesty and humility. SOP

Non-Fiction 3 - Apr Availability Narrated by

Sagar Arya

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

“A gripping reconstruction of one of the most gruesome and haunting crimes of the Second World War. Jane Rogoyska’s sensitive yet dispassionate use of the harrowing evidence provided by victims, perpetrators and survivors makes for utterly compelling reading, and lays bare its toxic legacy.” ADAM ZAMOYSKI, author of Poland: A History

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Non-Fiction 3 - Apr Availability Narrated by

Jane Rogoyska

Genre Duration

10 hours

History 13.5 hours

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Alexandria

Astrobiology

Edmund Richardson

Andrew May

Fintan O’Toole

Peter Ricketts

For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by Charles Masson, the unlikeliest person imaginable.

Extraterrestrial life is a common theme in science fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiology is the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question.

Fintan O’Toole, Ireland’s leading public intellectual and author of Heroic Failure, tells a history of Ireland in his own time. We Don’t Know Ourselves is a brilliant interweaving of memoir and historical narrative.

A groundbreaking exploration of the difficult decisions Britain faces outside the EU in a fast-changing world. “Essential reading for all who care about Britain’s position in the world.”

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Edmund Richardson History 10.5 hours

We Don’t Know Ourselves

Non-Fiction 6 - Apr Narrated by Genre Duration

Kris Dyer Science & Nature 4.25 hours

Non-Fiction 6 - Apr Narrated by Genre Duration

Aidan Kelly History 22.25 hours

Hard Choices

JACK STRAW, former Foreign Secretary

Non-Fiction 6 - Apr Narrated by

Mark Elstob

Genre Business, Money & Economics Duration

7.75 hours

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May 2022

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Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives John Volanthen The world held its breath in July 2018 when the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach went missing for nine days deep underground after being stranded by a rainy-season downpour while exploring a complex of caves after practice. The picture of them alive on a ledge in a flooded cave made front page news worldwide. The world celebrated a happy ending and the incredible courage and skills of the rescue team.

“Profound and thrilling.” COLIN FARRELL

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Diver John Volanthen’s nail-biting account of the incredible rescue of a Thai youth soccer team who had been trapped for over a week in a flooded cave.

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Money and Power Vince Cable A captivating economic history of government all over the world. Vince Cable examines the legacy of sixteen world leaders who transformed their countries’ economic fortunes and who also challenged economic convention. SOP

Non-Fiction 3 - May Availability

John Volanthen Body, Mind & Spirit 7.25 hours

Narrated by

Edward Mitchell

Genre Business, Money & Economics Duration

9.5 hours

L ead Title

The Jigsaw Murders

Conclave 1559

Of Fear and Strangers

The Prime Ministers We Never Had

Jeremy Craddock Journalist Jeremy Craddock tells the whole story of the gruesome Ruxton Killings for the first time, bringing to life the main characters involved in this landmark case which led to the birth of modern forensics.

Mary Hollingsworth

George Makari

Steve Richards

Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 – the longest and most bitter of the sixteenth century.

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origins.

In this piercing and original study, journalist and commentator Steve Richards looks at eleven prime ministers we never had, examining what made each of these illustrious figures unique and why they failed to make it to the top.

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Non-Fiction 3 - May Narrated by

Jonathan Keeble

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Genre Biography & Autobiography

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9.5 hours

Julie Maisey History 12 hours

Non-Fiction 6 - May Narrated by Genre Duration

Paul Heitsch History 9.25 hours

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Steve Richards History 10 hours

June 2022

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A Field Guide to Larking Lara Maiklem To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this beautiful field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. Like a journal it invites you to interact – to make notes and record finds along the way.

A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to ‘larking’ from the bestselling author of Mudlarking.

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Non-Fiction 3 - Jun Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Our Biggest Experiment Alice Bell Our Biggest Experiment recounts how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity could be a saviour, and how renewable energy is far from a twentieth-century discovery. SOP

Non-Fiction 3 - Jun Availability

Lara Maiklem Science & Nature 5.75 hours

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Rachel Atkins Science & Nature 14.75 hours

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Hello, Stranger

Dear Bill Bryson

Beyond Bitcoin

Will Buckingham

Ben Aitken

Steven Boykey Sidley & Simon Dingle

Taking in stories of loneliness, exile and friendship from classical times to the modern day, Hello, Stranger offers an endlessly curious, uplifting and powerful antidote to our increasingly atomised world.

An irreverent homage to the ’95 travel classic, from the author of The Gran Tour. In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic, Notes from a Small Island.

After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin?

A history of Islamic thought – from the foundation of Islam in the seventh century and the life of Muhammad, through the Crusades in the Middle East to the present day – from a brilliant historian of the Islamic world.

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Non-Fiction 3 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

Mark Peachey Science & Nature 8.5 hours

Non-Fiction 6 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

Ben Aitken Travel & Geography 8.75 hours

Non-Fiction 6 - Jun Narrated by

Roger May

A Short History of Islamic Thought Fitzroy Morrissey

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6.75 hours

Fitzroy Morrissey History 7.25 hours

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Where God Does Not Walk Luke McCallin The Western Front, July 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers, and then subsequently trying to take his own life. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate. He starts to uncover the outline of a conspiracy at the heart of the German army...

Dohany Street Adam LeBor Budapest’s dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the concluding instalment of Adam LeBor’s Hungarian crime trilogy. “LeBor lives in Budapest and it shows in the vivid detail.” THE TIMES

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Fourth in the Gregor Reinhardt series.

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“Reinhardt is a terrific creation.”

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Malk Williams

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Toby Longworth

Genre

Thriller

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Duration

13 hours

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Thriller 15.25 hours

The Eight Year Lie J.M. Hewitt I know they think I killed my husband. Because they think I’ve killed before. Eight years ago, a girl I knew died. I try not to think too much about that time, about the person I used to be when that tragedy happened. It hurts too much. Besides, it’s so far in the past. Now, I have a beautiful home and a committed husband. I should be looking to the future. But then one day, my husband is found dead in the home we built together. The police seem convinced that I had something to do with it – it’s always the wife, right?

Win Lose Kill Die Cynthia Murphy An explosive new YA thriller, from the author of Last One To Die. Someone is targeting Morton Academy’s brightest and best in a series of murders. A high-school slasher with a lethal twist. Perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Gossip Girl. SOP

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Rachel Atkins Horror 12.5 hours

The Eight-Year Lie is a gripping thriller that will have you listening late into the night. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and K.L. Slater.

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Sophie Roberts

Genre

Thriller

Duration

9 hours

May / June 2022

Black Reed Bay

The Matchmaker

Rod Reynolds

Paul Vidich

When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, everything suggests a domestic incident. Except no one has seen her since...

The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband’s mysterious disappearance.

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Laurel Lefkow

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Thriller

Duration

11.5 hours

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Jeff Harding Thriller

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The Missing Hours Julia Dahl From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Missing Hours is a searing tale of obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. “A dark thriller about the meaning of vengeance, justice and survival.” ALAFAIR BURKE

“Propulsive storytelling at its best.” LOU BERNEY

11 hours

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Clipper Thriller 3 - Jun Availability Narrated by

Emilea Wilson

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Thriller 8.5 hours

The Life She Wants J.M. Hewitt Paula worries that her marriage to Tommy is hanging by a thread. She loves how safe her husband makes her feel, but lately, it seems like he’s pulling away from her, and he keeps avoiding a much-needed conversation about finally having children. When Tommy suggests a cruise getaway for the two of them, Paula is thrilled. It’s Paula’s dream come true. Until the couple meets beautiful Anna.

The Last Commandment Scott Shepherd The Last Commandment is a transatlantic serial killer thriller with a twist of Biblical proportions. “Shepherd’s signature storytelling is on full display.” KARIN SLAUGHTER

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Sahun Grindell Thriller 9.75 hours

The Life She Wants is a suspenseful psychological thriller with a twist. Perfect for fans of Catherine Ryan Howard, Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell.

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Jennifer Ness Thriller 8.75 hours

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ORIGINAL • Entirely Original Content Produced Exclusively for Audiobook • Including Podcast and Radio Documentary Styles, Binaural Sounds and Music

• Celebrity Special Guests Including: Sir David Attenborough

Ross Edgley

Paddy McGuinness

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April 2022

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Bridgerton: To Sir Phillip, With Love Julia Quinn This is Eloise’s story... My dear Miss Bridgerton, We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we have never formally met, I feel as if I know you. I am writing to invite you to visit me here at Romney Hall. It is my hope that after a suitable period of time, we might decide that we will suit, and you will consent to be my wife. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn’t marry a man she had never met. But before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. “Quinn is a master of historical romance.” ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

The fifth novel in Julia Quinn’s globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.

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“Light, pacy and full of feisty heroines.”

Rosalyn Landor

Genre

Romance

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GUARDIAN on the Bridgerton series

10.25 hours

Lead Title Praise for Mollie Walton: “Evocative, dramatic and hugely compelling. I loved it. MIRANDA DICKINSON

A Mother’s War Mollie Walton This heartwarming, dramatic World War II saga is perfect for fans of Vicki Beeby, Kate Thompson and Rosie Clarke. North Yorkshire, September 1939. Rosina Calvert-Lazenby, widowed by forty-four, has lived at Raven Hall all her life. With war approaching, Rosina must be SOP strong for her daughters, five confident young women who Lamplight 2 - Apr are thick as thieves. When the Availability RAF come to stay at Raven Hall, Rosina finds herself intrigued Narrated by Lu Corfield by their charismatic, albeit Genre Historical Fiction young, officer. Duration 10.5 hours

Murder at Mallowan Hall

A Memory for Murder

Colleen Cambridge

Anne Holt

The first in an exciting historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie. Tucked away among Devon’s rolling green hills, Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930.

The third instalment in Anne Holt’s fantastically atmospheric new crime series featuring Selma Falck.

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Lamplight 5 - Apr Narrated by

Rachel Atkins

“Anne Holt is the godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction.” JO NESBØ

Lamplight 5 - Apr Narrated by

Julia Barrie

Genre

Mystery

Genre

Mystery

Duration

9 hours

Duration

14 hours

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The Crystal Crypt

A Vow of Penance

Viking Slave

Constable Through the Meadow

Fiona Veitch Smith

Veronica Black

Griff Hosker

Nicholas Rhea

The 1920s most stylish sleuth returns in The Crystal Crypt for another thrilling murder mystery. The official verdict is that Dr June Leighton died in a tragic accident, but Dr Leighton’s lab assistant believes it was murder...

The fifth novel in the Sister Joan murder mystery series. A new lay sister joins the convent, but is there another new arrival? “This popular series offers peaceful convent decorum, with a giddy streak of gore and a likeable sleuth.”

Viking Slave is the first audiobook in the thrilling Dragonheart series by bestselling author Griff Hosker. A gripping tale filled with action and adventure set in the early years of the ninth century.

Seventh in the heartwarming audiobooks behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat. When Constable Nick’s beat is modernised, with his police bike replaced by a minivan, he gets more than he bargained for...

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Lamplight 5 - Apr Narrated by

Helen Keeley

Genre Duration

Mystery 9.75 hours

KIRKUS

Lamplight 8 - Apr Narrated by

Jennifer Ness

Genre

Mystery

Duration

6.5 hours

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Marston York Historical Fiction

Duration

7.25 hours

Lamplight 8 - Apr Narrated by Genre Duration

Philip Franks Mystery 6.75 hours

Lead Title “Light, pacy and full of feisty heroines.” GUARDIAN on the Bridgerton series

“I can’t focus on anything else.” STYLIST

Bridgerton: When He Was Wicked

A Sunlit Weapon

Julia Quinn

Jacqueline Winspear

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn’s globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. Welcome to Francesca’s story... In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and SOP breathtaking, that one knows Lamplight 2 - May one’s life will never be the Availability same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first Narrated by Rosalyn Landor time he laid eyes on Genre Romance Francesca Bridgerton. Duration 11.5 hours

September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a twenty-two-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire when she has the unnerving experience of someone shooting at her aircraft. A few days later she hears that another ferry pilot has been killed when her aircraft crashed in the SOP same area of Kent. Although Lamplight 2 - May the death has been Availability attributed to ‘pilot error’, Jo is convinced there is a Narrated by Julie Teal link between the two incidents. Genre Mystery Duration

11.25 hours

May / June 2022

Late City

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The Girl in the Maze

A Deadly Endowment

The Girl at the Last House Before the Sea

Robert Olen Butler

Cathy Hayward

Alyssa Maxwell

Liz Eeles

A visionary and poignant audiobook centred around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City unfurls as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God.

Traversing three generations of women torn apart by family trauma, The Girl in the Maze is an enthralling story that explores the complex relationship and challenges involved in both mothering and being mothered.

Set among the landed gentry of post-World War One England and perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, Alyssa Maxwell’s latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Renshaw and her lady’s maid hunting a killer...

An absolutely breath-taking and heartbreaking story about healing old sorrows and finding new joys. Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber, Barbara O’Neal, and anyone longing to escape to the rugged Devon coast.

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Lamplight 5 - May

Narrated by

Danny Campbell

Narrated by

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Duration

8.5 hours

Duration

Deirdra Whelan Historical Fiction 10.5 hours

Lamplight 5 - May Narrated by

Mandy Weston

Lamplight 8 - May Narrated by

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Mystery

Genre

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10 hours

Duration

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The Seamstress of Warsaw

Paradiso

Rebecca Mascull

Francesca Scanacapra

A tale of endurance and loss, family and blood, stories and histories, that questions the nature of who we are and where we are going, when the road ahead is burning. “What a stunning achievement, I’ll never forget it.” JILL MANSELL

Paradiso is inspired by true stories told to Francesca Scanacapra by her Italian family. It is a deeply affecting and absolutely gripping novel in a series that explores the incredible courage of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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Multiple Narrators Historical Fiction 13.75 hours

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Penny Andrews Romance 7.25 hours

Bernard Who? Bernard Cribbins Seventy-five years in the making and packed with entertaining anecdotes, Bernard Who? tells the wonderful story of one of the longest and most celebrated careers in show business. By the time he started filming The Railway Children in 1970, he was already a national treasure. SOP Since then, Bernard’s CV has Lamplight 2 - Jun been an A-Z of the best Availability entertainment that Britain has to offer, and he has become Narrated by tbc the voice of many millions of childhoods. Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

10 hours

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A Ration Book Victory Jean Fullerton Queenie Brogan wasn’t always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Mahone. But when tragedy struck and Patrick’s narrow- SOP minded sister, Nora, Lamplight 2 - Jun intervened, the lovers were torn apart. Fate can be cruel, Availability and when Queenie arrives in London she finds that Patrick Narrated by Annie Aldington Mahon is her parish priest. Genre Romance Duration

The Plague Letters

12.5 hours

Sell Us the Rope

Danger on the Atlantic

Stephen May

Erica Ruth Neubauer

May 1907. Young Stalin – poet, bank-robber, spy – is in London for the fifth Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his powerbase, Stalin manipulates alliances with Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg.

In Agatha Award-winning author Erica Ruth Neubauer’s third historical mystery, young American widow Jane Wunderly finds that her first-class itinerary has an unexpected – and deadly – addition...

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Availability

Lamplight 5 - Jun Narrated by Genre

Lamplight 5 - Jun

Saul Reichlin Historical Fiction

Duration

9.5 hours

Narrated by

tbc

Genre

Mystery

Duration

8.75 hours

A Vow of Devotion

Vixen

Constable in Disguise

V.L. Valentine

Veronica Black

Sam Michaels

Nicholas Rhea

A hugely atmospheric and entertaining historical thriller that will transport listeners to the palaces and alleyways of seventeenth-century London. “A riotous delve into the dark medical world of Restoration London.”

The sixth book in the Sister Joan murder mystery series. Two newcomers are visiting the convent in the hope of joining the nuns. But soon after their arrival, there’s a mysterious late-night intruder...

While World War Two rages on around them, the gangs of London are fighting for their turf... There might be a war on, but that doesn’t stop Georgina Garrett running her business with an iron fist. Perfect for fans of Peaky Blinders.

The ninth audiobook in the brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat.

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Availability

S.G. MACLEAN

Lamplight 5 - Jun

Lamplight 8 - Jun

Narrated by

Juanita McMahon

Narrated by

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Duration

13.75 hours

Duration

Jennifer Ness Mystery 6.25 hours

Lamplight 8 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

“It’s original, it’s funny… one of life’s little pleasures.” YORKSHIRE POST

Lamplight 8 - Jun

Deirdra Whelan Crime 11.25 hours

Narrated by

Philip Franks

Genre

Mystery

Duration

6 hours

April 2022

Lead Title

| Jammer

How to Be a Rock Star Shaun Ryder Shortlisted – Non-Fiction Audiobook of the Year – British Book Awards 2022.

“Candid, brilliant and bizarre.”

Read by the Author

SOP

GUARDIAN

Availability

Jammer 2

“Stories about the frontman and his bandmates are legion ... [like] Peter Kay with menaces.”

Narrated by

Shaun Ryder

Genre

THE SUNDAY TIMES

The Forest of Stars

As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true rebel, who formed and led not one but two seminal bands, he’s had number-one albums, headlined Glastonbury, toured the world numerous times, taken every drug under the sun, been through rehab – and come out the other side as a national treasure. Now, for the first time, Shaun lifts the lid on the real inside story of how to be a rock star. From recording your first demo tape to having a number-one album, Shaun gives a fly-on-the-wall look at the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle – warts and all: how to be a rock star – and also how not to be a rock star. In this audiobook he pulls the curtain back on the debauchery of the tour bus, ridiculous riders, run-ins with record companies, drug dealers and the mafia, and how he forged the most remarkable comeback of all time.

Biography & Autobiography

Duration

Mentats of Dune

9 hours

The Tryst

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

The Kobalt Dossier

Monique Roffey

Eric Van Lustbader

A dark, compelling fantasy from the author of The Bone Garden for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. “...glistening with marvels, mysteries and the magic of friendship.”

Part two of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s bestselling The Schools of Dune trilogy. The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s future.

From the author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 and Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020, The Tryst is part psychological thriller, part contemporary magical realism.

Evan Ryder is back in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. Evan returns to Washington, D.C., only to find her secret division shut down...

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Availability

Heather Kassner

SOPHIE ANDERSON, author of The House with Chicken Legs

Jammer 2 Narrated by Genre Duration

Jammer 5 Sophie Roberts

Fantasy & Supernatural 6.25 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Jammer 5 Scott Brick Science Fiction 22.25 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Jammer 5 Ava Blair Thriller 5.25 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Lauren Fortgang Thriller 14 hours

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May 2022

Lead Title

Glittering a Turd

Read by the Author

Kris Hallenga Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-yearold: travelling the world, falling in love, making plans. However, when she found a lump in her boob and was told that it was not only cancer, but also incurable, life took on a completely new meaning. She was diagnosed at an age when life wasn’t something to be grateful for, but a goddamn right. Little did Kris know it was cancer that would lead her to a life she had never considered: a happy one. From founding a charity to visiting Downing Street, campaigning at festivals to appearing on TV, and being present at the birth of her nephew; in the face of all the possible prognoses, Kris is surviving, thriving, and resolutely living. Glittering a Turd is more than just another cancer memoir; it’s a handbook for living life to the fullest, shining a new perspective on survival and learning to glitter your own turd, whatever it might be. Kris has survived the unsurvivable for twelve years. Here, she begins to discover why. “This honest and beautiful book is a story of resilience and doing life your way.” FEARNE COTTON “With some extraordinary writing and brutal honesty, Kris’ story never lingers on tragedy. Instead, we are offered humour, motivation and hope. It is a manifesto for how to be alive. It will leave you calm, hopeful and unafraid. A bold reminder to live your life your way. You’ll be endlessly inspired by her perspective.”

SOP

Availability

Jammer 2 Narrated by

Kris Hallenga

Genre

Biography & Autobiography

Duration

DAWN O’PORTER

Notorious

Twenty Years Later

Raphael Rowe Some would call this an autobiography. Others would say it’s a hell of a story. I call it my life. I am Raphael Rowe and my career was born as a result of spending twelve years in prison for crimes I did not commit.

8.25 hours

Happy Hour

Blood of the Chosen

Charlie Donlea

Marlowe Granados

Django Wexler

Fans of Lisa Unger and Allen Eskens won’t want to miss this thrilling new suspense novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl Who Was Taken. To understand the present, you need to listen to the past…

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

On opposite sides in a civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of blood will keep them from splitting the world apart. The immersive sequel to Ashes of the Sun and part two of the epic Burningblade and Silvereye fantasy series.

SOP

Availability

Jammer 2 Narrated by

Jammer 5 Raphael Rowe

Narrated by

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Genre

Duration

7.5 hours

Jammer 5 Vivienne Leheny Thriller 11 hours

Jammer 5

Narrated by

Bronwyn Szabo

Narrated by

Genre

Modern Fiction

Genre

Duration

9.25 hours

Duration

Imogen Church Fantasy & Supernatural 15.25 hours

June 2022

Lead Title

| Jammer

The Wedding Dress Dani Atkins Suzanne is engaged to be married to the man of her dreams – except the lead up to her wedding is beginning to feel more like a nightmare. Can Suzanne uncover the truth about her fiancé ahead of her big day? Bella’s life was on track until the day of the hen party when everything changed. Now she must find the strength to rebuild her future – and decide who she wants to spend it with. Mandy’s grandmother has fallen in love but her family don’t approve. For her grandmother’s dreams to come true, Mandy has a secret wedding to plan, and a very special dress to find. These are the three strangers whose stories are about to be woven together by one perfect wedding dress.

SOP

Three women. Three love stories. One dress. The new heartwarming and uplifting romance from award-winning romance writer Dani Atkins.

Availability

Jammer 2 Narrated by

Eva Feiler

Genre

Romance

Duration

The Secret Prison Governor

World of Warcraft: Sylvanas

Anonymous In his own words, the Secret Prison Governor spares no detail of prison life. An eyeopening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what life is really like behind bars.

12.75 hours

A Night of Flames

The City of Lost Dreamers

Christie Golden

Matthew Harffy

Lisa Lueddecke

Ranger-General. Banshee Queen. Warchief. Sylvanas Windrunner has borne many titles. This is her definitive story as one of World of Warcraft’s most enduring characters, as chronicled by best-selling author Christie Golden.

In the wilds of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a vicious slave uprising in Matthew Harffy’s latest historical adventure.

A coming of age story set in a gripping new fantasy world – perfect for fans of Trudi Canavan. Cursed to wander forever, a young girl accidentally finds the lost pieces of the map that will reunite her city with the world.

SOP

Availability

Jammer 2 Narrated by

Jammer 5 Leighton Pugh

Narrated by

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Genre

Duration

10.25 hours

Praise for Matthew Harffy: “Nothing less than superb...” HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY

Jammer 5 tbc

Fantasy & Supernatural 11 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Jammer 5 tbc Historical Fiction 15 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Harrie Dobby Fantasy & Supernatural 7 hours

This is the thrilling account of the dramatic Thai cave rescue which saved the lives of thirteen people, from the diver who led the rescue.

“A PROFOUND AND THRILLING READ.” COLIN FARRELL

“RIVETING... A POWERFUL STORY WRITTEN BY A HERO WHO LIVED IT.” RON HOWARD, Oscar-winning director of Apollo 13 Available from www.wavesound.com.au

April / May 2022

Lead Title

| Personal Development

Body Whispering Dr. Dain Heer What if starting a conversation with your body could be the beginning of the best friendship you’ve ever had? It will give you the tools for a totally different paradigm when it comes to healing, change and transformation for you, the bodies around you and your clients. Discover how to have communion with your body and enjoy the gift it can be. What is a body whisperer? Do you know if you are one? Are you ready to find out?

Body Whispering invites you to step into the phenomenal capacities for body whispering that we all have available but were never invited to learn.

SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - Apr Availability Dain Heer Body, Mind & Spirit

Duration

Lead Title

Graham Sharpe In this intimate memoir charting his own personal experience, Graham Sharpe brings humour and a light touch to a serious subject. Here’s one man’s personal truth about getting, having and possibly surviving prostate cancer... SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - Apr Availability

Narrated by Genre

PROSTrATE CANCER

5 hours

Narrated by Genre

Gareth Armstrong Body, Mind & Spirit

Duration

11.75 hours

When the Clouds Come Drew Povey Drew Povey coins the phrase ‘When the Clouds Come’ during his numerous coaching engagements and speeches, the likes of which have positively impacted people worldwide. It is the best analogy for representing the process of working through significant and earth-shattering challenges that we are facing presently, as it is not a case of ‘if’ the clouds will come, but ‘when’ the clouds come – what we can do.

This practical and motivational new audiobook is full of Drew Povey’s personal models that have successfully coached a range of different sectors, including elite sports teams, businesses, the NHS, the police, and educators.

SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - Apr Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Yoga for Real Life Maya Fiennes Yoga for Real Life is one of the most successful yoga books of the past decade. Maya Fiennes has done for yoga what Nigella Lawson did for food, and Maya believes passionately that yoga can be enjoyed by everyone, young and old. SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - May Availability

Dean Williamson Body, Mind & Spirit 7 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

tbc

Sport, Hobbies & Leisure 4 hours

Personal Development |

May / June 2022

Lead Title

Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking Marianne Eloise Obsessive was, still is, my natural state, and I never wondered why. I didn’t mind, didn’t know that other people could feel at peace. Writer and journalist Marianne Eloise was born obsessive. Some obsessions have lasted a lifetime, while others will be intense but only last a week or two. The essays in this audiobook explore the intersection of neurodivergence, fixation and disorder, telling the story of one life underpinned and ultimately made whole by obsession.

Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking is a culmination of a life spend obsessing, offering a glimpse into Marianne Eloise’s brain, but also an insight into the lives of others like her.

SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - May Availability Narrated by Genre

Jaimi Barbakoff Body, Mind & Spirit 8.5 hours

A Head Full of Everything Albert Moukheiber Why are we often convinced that we’re right even when we’re wrong? Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be? Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us? It’s because we don’t see the world as it is, rather SOP we reconstruct it in our mind. Personal Dev. 3 - Jun Albert Moukheiber gives us Availability tips and tricks to fight against these cognitive biases – the first one being Narrated by tbc to always doubt our Genre General Non-fiction thinking processes. Duration 7 hours

Linda Gask Beneath the wide skies of Orkney, Linda Gask recalls her career as a consultant psychiatrist and her lifelong struggle with her own mental health. Will she find perspective, spiritual relief, and healing in her own home? SOP

Personal Dev. 3 - May Availability

Duration

Your Brain is Playing Tricks on You

Finding True North

Narrated by

tbc

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

6 hours

Finding Inner Safety

Gavin Oattes

Dr. Nerina Ramlakhan

Often misunderstood by society and misrepresented by the media, teenagers have it tough. Truth is, they are decent human beings with a head full of dreams and the weight of the world on their shoulders.

Finding Inner Safety explores issues of stress, resilience, burnout, energy optimisation and lack of sleep. Dr Nerina Ramlakhan demonstrates helpful techniques that can be applied both at work and at home.

SOP

Availability

Personal Dev. 3 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

tbc Body, Mind & Spirit 7.75 hours

Personal Dev. 3 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

tbc Body, Mind & Spirit 8 hours

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April / May 2022

Lead Title

Working It Out Jo Platt Her new colleague is about to shake things up... When her love life crashed down around her, Edie turned to work for solace. But things go downhill with the departure of her work wife, Ruby, and the arrival of new guy Cameron – a chauvinist, a womaniser and the very opposite of a team player. But is Cameron the bad guy he seems to be? When a best-forgotten ex decides to get back in touch, Edie’s work life, love life and home life are on a collision course. Exactly what she will be able to salvage from the twisted wreckage, is anybody’s guess.

Dirty Little Midlife Mess Lilian Monroe Laugh-out-loud funny, with cover-to-cover banter and red-hot heat. Dirty Little Midlife Mess is not your typical fake relationship romance. It’s better. This is the second novel in the Heart’s Cove Hotties series. SOP

Rosa 3 - Apr Availability Narrated by

Working It Out is a funny and feel-good romance, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Jo Watson.

Availability Imogen Comrie

Genre

Romance

Duration

Rosa 3 - Apr Narrated by

Ava Blair

Genre

SOP

Duration

7.25 hours

Lead Title

Romance 10.25 hours

The Never Have I Ever Club Mary Jayne Baker Robyn Bloom thought Ash Barnes was the love of her life – until one day he announced he was leaving her to fly halfway across the world. Months later, Robyn is struggling to move on – but then she has a brainwave: The Never Have I Ever Club. Her handsome next-door neighbour Will helps her bring their fellow Yorkshire villagers together for some carpediem-inspired fun.

P.S. I Hate You Sophie Ranald Tivvy and Matt have been together since high school. Each other’s first love, theirs is the original happy-everafter story – except now, after ten years of marriage, they’re not. Infertility, familiarity and silence have taken their toll. SOP

Rosa 3 - Apr Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Jessica Preddy Romance 10.5 hours

A laugh out loud romantic comedy about love and second chances, from the author of A Question of Us, winner of the RNA Romantic Comedy of the Year Award.

SOP

Rosa 3 - May Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Laura Brydon Romance 11.25 hours

May / June 2022

The Cosy Canal Boat Dream

Going Greek

Christie Barlow

Sue Roberts

A heartwarming, laugh-outloud romantic comedy from bestelling author Christie Barlow. Welcome to the Little Rock marina – where hearts are healed and dreams are made… “Full of warmth, fun and feel-good factor.” KATIE FFORDE

Sun, sea and a sizzling romance... the perfect holiday, right? Wrong. Going Greek is a fun, fabulous and completely hilarious summer listen perfect for fans of Carole Matthews, Jenny Colgan and Sophie Kinsella.

Rosa 3 - May

SOP

Availability

Narrated by

Penny Andrews

Genre

Romance

Duration

10.25 hours

Narrated by Duration

Lead Title

The Harbour Master’s Daughter Tania Crosse Devon, 1867. Free-spirited Rebecca Westbrook recognises her perfect match when she sees him. His name is Captain Adam Bradley. She is the harbour master’s daughter. He is smouldering and sophisticated — the most eligible captain ever to sail into the quay. SOP Anyone can see it’s meant to Rosa 3 - Jun be. But Rebecca is anything but charmed. Fans of Nadine Availability Dorries, Rosie Goodwin, Dilly Court and Freda Lightfoot Narrated by Emma Powell will adore this emotional Genre Romance coming-of-age story. Duration 8.75 hours

Rebecca Norfolk

Genre

| Rosa

Romance 8.75 hours

Midsummer Dreams at Mill Grange Jenny Kane Thea Thomas needs to get away from her old life... and the interfering ex who won’t leave her alone. When she lands a job heading up the restoration of Mill Grange, a stunning Victorian manor in Somerset, it feels like the perfect opportunity to start afresh. What she didn’t anticipate was how hostile the volunteer team – led by the formidable Mabel Hastings – would be about accepting new leadership.

A warm-hearted, feel-good romance from Jenny Kane, a Kindle #1 bestselling author.

“I am a big fan of Jenny Kane.” KATIE FFORDE

SOP

Duration

With the recent breakdown of both her ten-year relationship and her parents’ marriage, thirty-five-year-old Marnie Barnes no longer believes in love. Perhaps a trip to Canada will give her life the shake-up it so clearly needs...

Rosa 3 - Jun

Availability

Genre

Lucy Knott

SOP

Rosa 3 - Jun Narrated by

Love Lessons in Starcross Valley

Availability Emma Powell Romance 13.5 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Penny Andrews Romance 11.25 hours

Trade Highlights |

April 2022

Lead Title

The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn, The Feral Detective is a singular achievement. Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist – a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer – to help.

The Art of Enough Becky Hall Ever feel like you aren’t enough? Overwhelmed by too many demands? Concerned about overconsumption and the climate crisis? You’re not alone. The Art of Enough is the challenge of our age. SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - Apr Availability Narrated by Genre

“A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem’s trademark verve and wit.” COLSON WHITEHEAD, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad

Becky Hal

“Weaving the history of the old road with the colour and the characters of today, Steve proves that any journey is an adventure if you know where to look.”

The Bones of Barry Knight A tale of grief and resilience against the greatest odds, The Bones of Barry Knight asks how we can better care for one another on a global scale. In a remote refugee camp many diverse lives collide. Years later, they tell their stories. SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - Apr Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Colin Mace Modern Fiction 9.25 hours

Availability Narrated by

Sarah Borges Action & Adventure

Duration

6.25 hours

Emma Musty

Trade Highlights 4 - Apr

Genre

Body, Mind & Spirit

Duration

SOP

ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS

Don’t Come Looking A J Campbell

The Great North Road Steve Silk The Great North Road is a journey as satisfying for the armchair traveller as the long-distance cyclist. Enriched with history, humour and insight, it’s a tribute to Britain and the endless appeal of the open road. In 1921, Britain’s most illustrious highway, the Great North Road, SOP ceased to exist – on paper at Trade Highlights 4 - Apr least. A hundred years later, journalist and cyclist Steve Silk Availability embraces the anniversary as the perfect excuse to set off on Narrated by Steve Silk an adventure across eleven Genre Travel & Geography days and four hundred miles. Duration

9 hours

9.75 hours

The latest novel from Amazon bestselling author AJ Campbell is a psychological thriller full of twists and turns. Great for fans of Lisa Jewell, Shari Lapena, Clare Mackintosh, Adele Parks, Miranda Rijks and Lucy Foley. SOP

Trade Highlights 8 - Apr Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Frazer Blaxland Thriller 8.75 hours

April / May 2022

Old Man on a Bike

Mud, Sweat and Beers

Simon Gandolfi Outrageously irresponsible and undeniably liberating, Simon Gandolfi’s Old Man on a Bike will fire the imaginations of every traveller, young or old. At 73 years old, Simon Gandolfi sets off on a journey of discovery.

| Trade Highlights

The Tutor

Blood Stained

Steven Gauge

Daniel Hurst

Rebecca Bradley

Forget everything you think you know about rugby and join us on the touchline of Warlingham Rugby Club. Welcome to the world of mud, sweat and beers… “Funny yet so true.”

From the author of the bestselling Til Death Do Us Part comes another gripping psychological thriller. When Amy realises there is something not quite right about her son’s professional tutor, it is already too late...

The first in a gripping new Sheffield-set crime series starring Detective Claudia Nunn. Blood Stained is a dark, twisty and utterly compulsive page-turner that will be devoured by fans of Helen H. Durrant and L.J. Ross.

SOP

Availability

Trade Highlights 8 - Apr Narrated by Genre

Luis Soto Travel & Geography

Duration

12.75 hours

RUGBY WORLD

Trade Highlights 8 - Apr Narrated by

Frazer Blaxland

Genre Duration

Humorous 8 hours

Lead Title

Trade Highlights 8 - Apr Narrated by

Gareth Bennett-Ryan

Genre

Thriller

Duration

6.5 hours

Trade Highlights 4 - May Narrated by Genre Duration

Laura Brydon Thriller 10.25 hours

The Library Book Susan Orlean A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution – our libraries. After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 April 1986: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books, and perhaps even more perplexing, why? With her characteristic humour, insight and compassion, Orlean uses this terrible event as a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries.

A New York Times Book of the Year and a Reese Witherspoon X Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick.

“Exquisitely written, consistently entertaining.” NEW YORK TIMES

SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - May Availability Narrated by

Georgie Hall A smart and funny novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age. Eliza is angry. Very angry, and very, very hot. Woman of a Certain Rage is for all women who won’t be told it’s too late to shake things up. SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - May Availability

Susan Orlean

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

Woman of a Certain Rage

12.25 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Rachel Atkins Humorous 11.75 hours

Trade Highlights |

May / June 2022

John Aubrey

Gravitational Waves

Evergreen Assets

Her Betrayal

Ruth Scurr

Brian Clegg

John Lamerton

Emma Tallon

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award. This is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.

On 14 September 2015, after fifty years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever. Brian Clegg’s Gravitational Waves presents a compelling story of human endeavour.

Content marketing doesn’t work – at least not in the way most people do it. This audiobook will show you how to get your content marketing working hard for you, rather than the other way around.

If you love Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will be absolutely gripped by this gritty, gangland crime thriller. Once you meet fearless and strong Scarlet Drew, you won’t be able to stop listening.

SOP

Availability

“A game-changer in the world of biography.” MARY BEARD

Trade Highlights 4 - May Narrated by

Rachel Atkins

Trade Highlights 8 - May Narrated by

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Genre

Duration

16.75 hours

Greg Wagland Science & Nature 4.5 hours

Trade Highlights 8 - May Narrated by

tbc

It is 48 BC and Caesar is master of Rome, but Pompey is at large in the huge recruiting grounds of the east with a core of powerful officers, nominally representing the senate in absentia. SOP

Trade Highlights 8 - May Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Malk Williams Historical Fiction 15.75 hours

Narrated by

Genre Business, Money & Economics

Genre

Duration

10.25 hours

Marius’ Mules XI: Tides of War S. J. A. Turney

Trade Highlights 8 - May tbc Thriller 11.25 hours

Do Her No Harm Naomi Joy

The Poisonous Solicitor Stephen Bates A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. SOP One hundred years later, Trade Highlights 4 - Jun Agatha Award-shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and Availability retells the story of the case, evoking the period and Narrated by tbc atmosphere of the early Genre Biography & Autobiography 1920s. Duration

10.5 hours

On the 21st August Tabitha Rice disappeared without a trace. All the signs point to murder, but no signs point to a murderer. A compelling new thriller perfect for fans of Louise Candlish, The Silent Patient and Blood Orange. SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - Jun Availability Narrated by Genre Duration

Kitty Kelly Thriller 8.75 hours

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June 2022

Lead Title

The Pact Dawn Goodwin Maddie’s life has come crashing down around her. Her husband has left her and moved on with a new woman and baby. No longer can she run from the past that’s been haunting her. The past has destroyed her future. In a new flat, trying to start a new life, Maddie meets Jade and her young son, Ben. All too swiftly Maddie finds the dark thoughts whirring through her brain. But Jade’s different, she loves Ben, doesn’t she? As the two women begin to open up about their exes over a few glasses of wine, Jade conjures a plan, a pact... SOP

I’ll kill yours, if you kill mine.

Trade Highlights 4 - Jun Availability Narrated by

Sapphire

Playing with Fire

Heather Burnside Heather Burnside is back with this completely unputdownable, heart-racing series, perfect for all fans of Kimberley Chambers and Martina Cole. When Sophie joins the working girls she takes on a new identity as Sapphire.

Eyal Press A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work – labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. Striking, sophisticated and nuanced, Dirty Work will change the way you think about society. SOP

Trade Highlights 4 - Jun Availability

Harriet Lang

Genre Duration

Dirty Work

Thriller 7.75 hours

Narrated by Genre

Neil Shah General Non-fiction

Duration

10.75 hours

The Uniform

The Drifter

Stephanie Harte

Jodie Lawrance

Nick Petrie

All debts must be paid. In blood. When underworld loan shark Davie Saunders is gunned down at his daughter’s wedding, his loved ones are sure that a rival East End crime family is responsible.

Fans of Ashes to Ashes, Helen H. Durrant, Rachel McLean, Val McDermid and Alex Gray will love this retro Scottish crime series set in the 1970s. “A brilliant debut.”

Eight years a soldier, Peter Ash will find that the demons of war aren’t easy to leave behind...

SOP

Availability

Trade Highlights 8 - Jun Narrated by

Kerry Bennett

Trade Highlights 8 - Jun Narrated by

Genre

Thriller

Genre

Duration

9 hours

Duration

Multiple Narrators Thriller 13 hours

LORRAINE MACE, author of the DI Sterling thriller series

Trade Highlights 8 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

Angela Ness Thriller 9.25 hours

“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Peter Ash is the real deal.” LEE CHILD

Trade Highlights 8 - Jun Narrated by Genre Duration

Stephen Mendel Thriller 13 hours

Biographies |

April / May 2022

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The Queen Matthew Dennison For millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embodiment of monarchy. Her long life spans nearly a century of national and global history, from a time before the Great Depression to the era of Covid-19. Her reign embraces all but seven years of Britain’s postwar history; she has been served by fifteen UK prime ministers from Churchill to Johnson, and witnessed the administrations of fourteen US presidents from Truman to Biden. The vast majority of Britons cannot remember a world without Elizabeth II as head of state and the Commonwealth. In this brand- new biography of the longest-reigning sovereign in British history, Matthew Dennison traces her life and reign across an era of unprecedented and often seismic social change. Stylish in its writing and nuanced in its judgements, The Queen charts the joys and triumphs as well as the disappointments and vicissitudes of a remarkable royal life; it also assesses the achievement of a woman regarded as the champion of a handful of ‘British’ values endorsed – if no longer practised – by the bulk of the nation: service, duty, steadfastness, charity and stoicism.

An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades, and evaluating her achievement as a practitioner of monarchy across the entirety of her reign.

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Biographies 3 - Apr Narrated by

Eleanor Bron

Genre

History

Duration

20 hours

Max Verstappen

John Stonehouse, My Father

In the Blood

The Year of the End

James Gray

Julia Stonehouse

Andrew Motion

Anne Theroux

The first English-language biography of Formula 1’s hottest new talent, Dutchman Max Verstappen. Few drivers have ever shaken up Formula 1 in quite the same way, as sports journalist James Gray deftly shows.

The true story of the MP who faked his own death, by his daughter. Paced like a thriller, this account takes a close look at the political dynamics of the era. It’s time for the world to know the real John Stonehouse.

Andrew Motion’s beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England is an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life and country life. By turns funny and elegiac, a wonderful picture of a vanishing England.

With reflections on truth and fiction, and the nature of marriage, alongside commentary on notable events, The Year of the End offers a unique insight into the unravelling of a relationship and the attempts to rebuild a life.

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Biographies 3 - Apr Narrated by

Finlay Robertson

Biographies 3 - Apr Narrated by

Olivia Dowd

Biographies 3 - May Narrated by

tbc

Biographies 3 - May Narrated by

Anne Theroux

Genre Biography & Autobiography

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8.5 hours

13.5 hours

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6.5 hours

May / June 2022

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Boy on Fire Mark Mordue A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today’s most acclaimed singersongwriters, Nick Cave. An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become.

“A fascinating read, both as an occult history of Australian punk and a kind of rake’s progress.” GUARDIAN “Engrossing... forensically researched... a writer with his own stylistic flourishes who intimately understands the milieu he is writing about.” OBSERVER “There is plenty of humour in Boy on Fire... and beautiful moments, as well as delinquency and sadness.” BUZZ MAGAZINE

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Mickey Rowe Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage is Mickey Rowe’s story of growing up autistic and pushing beyond the restrictions of a special education classroom to shine on Broadway. SOP

Biographies 3 - Jun Availability

Heath Miller

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

Fearlessly Different

12 hours

Narrated by

Mickey Rowe

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

6.5 hours

Places I’ve Taken My Body Molly McCully Brown In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body – in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human – flawed, potent, feeling.

“These remarkable essays invite us to look long and hard at our own interior landscapes, and to negotiate exterior ones with as much grace and gratitude as we can muster.”

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PSYCHOLOGIES MAGAZINE

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Heiresses is a razor-sharp, beautifully written survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twentyfirst centuries.

Biographies 3 - Jun

Availability Narrated by

Laura Thompson

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Biographies 3 - Jun

ELIZA GRISWOLD

“Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful.”

Heiresses

7.25 hours

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Laura Thompson History 12.75 hours

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April / May 2022

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Speak, Okinawa Elizabeth Miki Brina A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents – her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran – and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment – a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.

“Brina captivates in her stunning and intimate debut memoir... This nuanced tale goes both wide and deep, and is as moving as it is ambitious. Memoir lovers will be enthralled.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Diverse Voices 2 - Apr Availability Narrated by

Anthony Veasna So Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of CambodianAmericans. SOP

Diverse Voices 2 - Apr Availability

Sachi Lovatt

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

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Afterparties

8.75 hours

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Jason Sean Modern Fiction

Duration

7 hours

Lemon Kwon Yeo-sun This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime. Lemon ostensibly takes the shape of a crime novel, but identifying the perpetrator is not the main objective here: Kwon Yeo-sun uses this well-worn form to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn.

“Discovering whodunnit isn’t really the point here; Lemon is a subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence.”

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Diverse Voices 2 - May Availability

FRANCES CHA, author of If I Had Your Face

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Okwiri Oduor Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, suffused with Kenyan folklore and myth, this is an unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters, about ghostly longing and about love at its most intoxicating. SOP

Diverse Voices 2 - May Availability

GUARDIAN

“Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting.”

Things They Lost

Greta Jung Crime 3.75 hours

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June 2022

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Roundabout of Death Faysal Khartash A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo. He observes and lives through the literal disintegration of his beautiful native city. Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city’s rich layers of history. Aleppo was home to Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Christians and other sects. The war tore those communities apart and made their city a wasteland. SOP

“Masterful ... Kaleidoscopic: personal and collective, serendipitous and fatalistic, marked by a bitter irony that can’t help flirting with despair ... What Khartash is tracking is the precariousness of memory – and identity.” LOS ANGELES TIMES

Diverse Voices 2 - Jun Availability Narrated by

One of Them Musa Okwonga Both an intimate account and a timely exploration of race and class in modern Britain. Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student. SOP

Diverse Voices 2 - Jun Availability

Qarie Marshall

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Literature

Duration

4.25 hours

Narrated by

Musa Okwonga

Genre Biography & Autobiography Duration

Listen to the literary crime debut from award-winning Korean author Kwon Yeo-sun Available in Diverse Voices SOP in May

4.75 hours

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April 2022

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Dear Sister Ruth Harrow What if everything she thought she knew was a lie? Schoolteacher Rachel will do anything to protect her younger sister, Laura. So when their long-lost father shows up out of the blue and makes a shocking accusation against Laura’s husband, Rachel is thrown into turmoil. As undeniable evidence surfaces, Rachel discovers everything she thought she knew was wrong. Has her sister’s entire life been a lie? And how did her young niece get the bruises she is hiding? And who keeps calling her in the middle of the night? As their father works his way into their lives, Rachel finds her ordered world slipping away. Already reeling from the breakup of her own marriage, she doesn’t know who to trust – her father or her sister. One of them is lying, hiding a terrible secret. Can Rachel discover the truth before it is too late?

Dear Sister is a gripping psychological thriller with a mind-blowing twist. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, K.L. Slater and Ruth Heald.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by

Deirdra Whelan

Genre

Thriller

Duration

10.5 hours

No Good Deed

Saved by the Boss

Erik the Navigator

Endurance

K. T. Davies

Olivia Hayle

Griff Hosker

A.C. Spahn

No Good Deed is the fifth in The Chronicles of Breed. After half-killing Mother Blake’s murderer, Breed is obliged to repay a debt to a powerful Prince of the Midnight Court. They say, no good deed goes unpunished...

Saved by the Boss is a grumpy-sunshine office romance between a scowling blue-blood billionaire and an optimistic heroine determined to see the best in everyone. Guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Book five in the New World series, set in the world of the Vikings. Forced to flee from their northern home Erik and his family head south to the land of the Powhatan tribe where he hopes to begin life anew.

Join the Endurance’s crew as they explore the galaxy by accident and trip their way into saving the world. This anthology includes all five Endurance novellas, as well as two bonus short stories.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by Genre Duration

QUEST 5 Chris Coxon

Fantasy & Supernatural 9.25 hours

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QUEST 5 Ava Blair

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Romance

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7.75 hours

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QUEST 5 Marston York Historical Fiction 9.25 hours

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James Fouhey Science Fiction 15.25 hours

May 2022

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Long Gore Hall David Blake The debut crime thriller series of the year. An intruder shot dead to be seen rising from the grave, a young reporter’s body found with a face contorted by fear, and a long-forgotten mansion lying in the midst of an ancient Norfolk marsh. The ancestral owner of Long Gore Hall arrives from overseas with an ambitious plan to renovate his crumbling family home. But when he shoots an intruder only for the body to vanish into thin air, DI Tanner is left grappling with a story of a ghostly apparition, one that will instantly kill anyone who dares stare into its hollow, unforgiving eyes. Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance which will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed.

Long Gore Hall is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the eighth in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd and J M Dalgliesh into David Blake devotees.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by

Jonathan Keeble

Genre

Crime

Duration

6.5 hours

A Body on the Beach

Murder of Angels

The Last Knight

Til Death Do Us Part

P.F. Ford

Jack Gatland

Griff Hosker

Daniel Hurst

A Body on the Beach is the fast-paced first audiobook in The Rejoiner mystery series. If you like smart policemen, perfect British settings, and a complex web of clues, then you’ll love P.F. Ford’s captivating whodunit.

The second novel in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DI Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon, Murder Of Angels is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves.

Sir William Strongstaff is dead and the defender of England and its kings is no longer there to battle the French. His chosen knight, Sir Michael of Weedon is sent to France where the king’s uncles are trying to finish the job.

Megan thinks that she has the perfect husband. Craig works so that she doesn’t have to. But when she starts to long for friends and purpose again, Megan applies for a job in London, much to her husband’s disappointment.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by Genre Duration

QUEST 5 Andy Cresswell Crime 7.25 hours

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QUEST 5 Robin Laing Crime 9 hours

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QUEST 5 Marston York Historical Fiction 10.75 hours

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Gareth Bennett-Ryan Thriller 6.75 hours

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June 2022

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Moths Jane Hennigan Out they came, away from natural predators, nesting in damp corners and in the tops of trees, crossbreeding with common cousins and laying thousands upon thousands of eggs. Then… the eggs hatched and an army of hungry caterpillars spread their tiny toxic threads on every breath of wind. The threads spell doom for humanity – half of it, at least. All around the world, men are dying in their sleep or turning into rage-fuelled killers. The world, as we know it, ends. However, humanity adapts and society moves on. Many years later, very few even remember what life was like before the change. Mary does, though, and when an opportunity presents itself, she is faced with soulsearching decisions to make. Will she cling to the only strand of the past she has left or will she risk it all in the name of equality?

A divergent future with a thought-provoking feminist slant, Moths is perfect for those who loved The Power, The Handmaid’s Tale and Vox.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by

Juanita McMahon

Genre

Science Fiction

Duration

10.25 hours

The Haunting of Nelson Street

Red Thunder

Say Yes to the Boss

Viking Warrior

Amy Cross

William C. Dietz

Olivia Hayle

Griff Hosker

Crowford, a sleepy coastal town in the south of England, might seem like an oasis of calm and tranquility. Beneath the surface, however, dark secrets are waiting to claim fresh victims, and ghostly figures plot revenge.

In Red Thunder, volume four of the Winds of War series, WWIII rages on as the Allies plan a daring raid on the Kyshtym Copper-Electrolyte Works in the Chelyabinsk region, located deep inside Russia.

My billionaire boss is the absolute last person I’d marry. Until a deal with the devil forces me down the aisle... A one-year marriage of convenience to the boss I hate. How hard can it be? Answer: very.

The Vikings on the Island of Man are set on revenge. Their families have been kidnapped and they have to find them and rescue them. The story moves quickly to the land of the Angles as Dragon Heart seeks the treasure of Rheged.

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QUEST 5 Narrated by Genre Duration

QUEST 5 Hannah Burman Horror 5 hours

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QUEST 5 Ryan Burke Action & Adventure 10 hours

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QUEST 5 Maxine Hamilton Romance 8.25 hours

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Marston York Historical Fiction 9.25 hours

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The Girl who Talked to Trees

The Tower at the End of Time

Natasha Farrant

Amy Sparkes

Magical interlinked stories about what one girl learns from talking to trees throughout Time and from around the world. A companion volume to Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Costa Book Awardwinning Farrant and Corry.

The adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny sequel to The House at the Edge of Magic, The Tower at the End of Time is a young middle grade novel full of humour, magic and mischief – and the second in a three part series.

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Set in a broken, future England, where gunfights and monsters collide, this is the exciting first title in a phenomenal fantasy teen series by the bestselling children’s novelist. England has been radically changed by a series of catastrophes. The surviving population exists in SOP fortified towns where they Nudged 3 cling to traditional ways.

Availability

“A classic in the making.”

Nudged 3

The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne Jonathan Stroud

EOIN COLFER

Narrated by Genre

Sophie Roberts Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration

2.25 hours

Narrated by Genre

Charlie Sanderson Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration

7.75 hours

Availability

Narrated by

Kate Rawson

“Bursting with black humour and Genre bold ideas.” PHILIP REEVE Duration

Modern Fiction 11 hours

Imaginary

Lionheart Girl

Circus Maximus: Rivals on the Track

All Our Hidden Gifts

Lee Bacon

Yaba Badoe

Annelise Gray

Caroline O’Donoghue

The story of a boy and his imaginary friend – told by the imaginary friend. Poignant, humorous, and breathtaking, Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, loss and growing up... as only an imaginary friend could tell it.

African myth and magic beat in the dark heart of this fable about witchcraft, superstition, the bonds we choose and those we cannot. Born into a family of West African witches, Sheba’s terrified of her mother who can turn into a crow.

Circus Maximus, the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world, where the best horses compete in a race to the death, and one girl dreams of glory. Ben Hur meets National Velvet in the ultimate 9-12 adventure story.

All Our Hidden Gifts is set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root. This sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.

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Nudged 7 Ramon De Ocampo Modern Fiction 5.75 hours

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Narrated by

Hannah Zoe Ankrah

Narrated by

Genre

Action & Adventure

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Duration

7.5 hours

Duration

Nudged 7 Bronwen Price Historical Fiction 7.5 hours

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Siobhán McSweeney Fantasy & Supernatural 10.5 hours

May 2022

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Vi Spy 2: Never Say Whatever Again

Ajay and the Mumbai Sun

Maz Evans

Varsha Shah

The second adventure in Maz Evans’s laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series. There’s one thing Vi can rely on... her evil nemesis will be back with an even more abominable plan. What could possibly go... right?

A high-stakes adventure story full of heart from debut author Varsha Shah – winner of the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition 2020. Shah tackles tough topics such as social justice and truth in journalism.

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Nudged 3

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Maz Evans Action & Adventure

Duration

6.25 hours

Narrated by

Susheel Kumar

Genre

Action & Adventure

Duration

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Erika L. Sánchez A National Book Award Finalist and an instant New York Times bestseller, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but laugh-outloud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, SOP expectations and stereotypes Nudged 3 of growing up in a Mexican Availability American home. “This gripping debut about a Narrated by Mexican-American misfit is alive Genre and crackling.” NEW YORK TIMES

Kyla Garcia Modern Fiction

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12 hours

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The Case of the Smuggler’s Curse

The Gifts That Bind Us

Every Leaf a Hallelujah

The Treasure Under the Jam Factory

Mark Dawson

Caroline O’Donoghue

Ben Okri

Chrissie Sains

The Case of the Smuggler’s Curse is the first in a brand-new series of adventure stories for kids that brings together the best traditions of Enid Blyton, Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams.

Magic-sensitive Maeve and her friends face off against an insidious threat to their school and their city in this spellbinding sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts. It’s senior year, and Maeve and her friends are strengthening their powers.

The second hilarious adventure starring Scooter the inventor and his top secret alien sidekick. Scooter’s hyper-creative brain is a constant fizz of brilliant ideas, especially when he pairs up with his best friend Fizzbee.

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An environmental fairytale made for our times, written to be read by adults and children, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road. “Mysterious and magical and true. Children will love it and long remember it.” MICHAEL MORPURGO

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Nudged 7 Narrated by

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Narrated by

Genre

Mystery

Genre

Duration

4 hours

Duration

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Siobhán McSweeney Modern Fiction 12.75 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Nudged 7 Ben Okri

Fantasy & Supernatural 1 hour

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Chris Devon Action & Adventure 6.75 hours

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June 2022

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“Paver powerfully presents a world view that’s magical but never primitive.” FINANCIAL TIMES on Skin Taker

“Meticulously researched, atmospheric [...] and relentless.”

Fake

A Thunder of Monsters

Ele Fountain

S.A. Patrick

Failing antibiotics have shifted society online. As big tech companies begin to dominate life, the boundaries between real and virtual have blurred. At 14, Jess is attending school for the first time, something she’s dreamed of for years.

Return to a world of dragons, song-spells, pipers and battles... Three accidental heroes versus one legendary villain... the epic adventure that began with A Darkness of Dragons comes to a thunderous end.

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Nudged 3

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tbc Technology & Industry

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GUARDIAN on Viper’s Daughter

4.75 hours

Narrated by Genre

Stewart Crank Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration

9.75 hours

Wolfbane Michelle Paver The grand finale to the prize-winning adventure series that has changed the lives of millions of listeners. Breathtaking world-building on an epic scale. Pure escapism at its best. Run wild with Wolf Brother for the last time in a Stone Age world we all want to be part SOP of, with three-million-copy- Nudged 3 selling author Michelle Paver. Availability Listen to Wolfbane as a standalone adventure or as Narrated by tbc part of the well-loved Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Genre Action & Adventure series. Duration 6 hours

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The Weird Beard Andrew Hansen & Jessica Roberts

Orla and the Magpie’s Kiss

The Ravens

SkyWake: Battlefield

C.J. Haslam

Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige

The first audiobook in the hilarious Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies adventure series. Packed with jokes, sound effects and songs, it’s perfect for middle-grade kids with a wacky sense of humour.

New-found witch and ecowarrior Orla is up against some seriously dark magic in this creepy and funny adventure, the second in the series. Orla may have recently learned she’s a witch, but she’s not looking for trouble...

From the New York Times bestselling authors comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and betrayals.

Caught up in an alien war on a distant galaxy, Casey and her team are fighting for their lives – but which side should they be on? The second in an exciting and original debut sci-fi adventure trilogy for the gaming generation.

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Nudged 7 Narrated by Genre Duration

Nudged 7 tbc Action & Adventure 5.75 hours

Narrated by Genre Duration

Nudged 7 Lucy Brown

Fantasy & Supernatural 6.25 hours

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Jamie Russell

Nudged 7 Sophie Amoss

Fantasy & Supernatural 11.25 hours

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Harrie Dobby Science Fiction 6.5 hours

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Clipper April 2022 L ead Title “Incredibly moving and atmospheric.” BETH O’LEARY

“Absorbing and original.” KATIE FFORDE

“Simply stunning.” FIONNUALA KEARNEY

“Utterly enchanting.”

Free Love

Shoot the Moonlight Out

Tessa Hadley

William Boyle

Tessa Hadley explores her characters’ inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is a compulsive, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives. “Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book.” HILARY MANTEL

A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday’s Brooklyn, this is the new novel from modern master of neonoir William Boyle. A riveting portrait of lives crashing together at the turn of the century, Shoot the Moonlight Out is tragic and tender, funny and strange.

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HEIDI SWAIN

Where We Belong Anstey Harris The heart-breaking novel from the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club author. One summer. One house. One family learning to love again. Cate Morris and her son, Leo, are homeless, adrift. They’ve packed up the boxes from their London home, and now they are on their way to Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World – to stay just for the summer. Cate doesn’t want to be there, in Richard’s family home without Richard to guide her any more. And she knows for sure SOP that Araminta, the retainer of the collection of dusty objects Clipper LP TUP 2 - Apr and stuffed animals, has taken ISBN: 9781004079339 against them. Genre Modern Fiction

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ISBN:

9781004079360

ISBN:

9781004079377

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Mystery

Your Life or Mine

Every Second Counts

Coming Home to Penvennan Cove

Midsummer Dreams at Mill Grange

Vicki Bradley

David Donachie

Linn B. Halton

Jenny Kane

From the author of Before I Say I Do comes a gripping psychological drama that has the twists of a psych-thriller with the layers of a police procedural. “The procedural details in this gripping murder story have the ring of truth – but then the author is a detective in the Metropolitan Police.”

Fugitive Billy Houston, keen to bring about a Nazi-run Britain, needs money. Intent on burglary, his victim has in his possession the entire anti-invasion plans for Southern Britain. Billy must get the plans to the German delegation. Will he succeed? If he does, Hitler will lead Britain to a German invasion.

Perfect for fans of Milly Johnson, Phillipa Ashley and Julie Houston. When Kerra left the quiet Cornish town of Penvennan Cove for the bright lights of London she didn’t look back. But after the death of her mother, she’s decided it’s time to face her past and return to the place she called home.

A warm-hearted, feel-good romance from Jenny Kane, a Kindle #1 bestselling author. Thea Thomas needs to get away from her old life... and the interfering ex who won’t leave her alone. When she lands a job heading up the restoration of Mill Grange, a stunning Victorian manor in Somerset, it seems the perfect opportunity.

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SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB

Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN:

9781004079346

ISBN:

9781004079292

ISBN:

9781004079391

ISBN:

9781004079384

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Thriller

Genre

Thriller

Genre

Romance

Genre

Romance

Clipper April / May 2022

“The crafty Coben knows how to weave a compelling story with intriguing characters, and Wilde is one of his best.”

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

“[Harlan Coben is] the modern master of the hook and twist.” DAN BROWN

The Visitors

“Coben never, ever lets you down.” LEE CHILD

Caroline Scott From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a young war widow and one life-changing, sun-drenched visit to Cornwall in the summer of 1923... Full of light, laughter and larger-than-life characters, The Visitors is a novel of one woman finally finding her voice. SOP

Clipper LP 8 - Apr ISBN:

9781004079353

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Thriller

Harlan Coben In this gripping thriller from the bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery of his abandonment, but instead sends him straight into the arms of a serial killer. As a young child, Wilde was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. But when a match at an online ancestry database puts SOP him on the trail of a close Clipper LP TUP 2 - May relative, he thinks he might be about to solve the ISBN: 9781004081370 mystery of who he really is. Genre Thriller

The Other Daughter

Nancy Barone A heartwarming and uplifting cosy romance novel, perfect for fans of Holly Martin and Tilly Tennant. In her huge mansion overlooking Wyllow Cove, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Natalia Amore had everything she could possibly want. But her house is empty and Nat yearns for the cosiness and bustle of seaside living. SOP

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Cathy Bramley

The Match

Dreams of a Little Cornish Cottage

The Summer That Changed Us The uplifting comfort read about three friends searching for a fresh start in a coastal town where anything is possible, from Sunday Times bestseller Cathy Bramley. The sparkling seaside village of Merle Bay, with its beautiful beach scattered with seaglass, is a place where anyone can have a fresh start. SOP

Clipper LP TUP 2 - May ISBN:

9781004081301

Genre

Modern Fiction

Sell Us the Rope

My Best Friend’s Murder

Caroline Bishop

Stephen May

Polly Phillips

You only get one life – but what if it isn’t the one you were meant to live? Set across a stunning Swiss backdrop, The Other Daughter follows one woman in her search for the truth about her birth, and another desperately trying to succeed in a man’s world. Perfect for fans of Tracy Rees and Elizabeth Noble.

Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists. With Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg among others he battles to keep the party radical, while dodging the attentions of the Czar’s secret police.

The Rumour meets The Holiday – an addictive thriller with a toxic friendship at its heart that will keep you in the dark until the final breathless words. “Compelling.”

SOP

Clipper LP 8 - May

T.M. LOGAN, author of The Holiday and The Catch

“It held me in a vice-like grip.” SOPHIE HANNAH, author of Haven’t They Grown

Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN:

9781004081356

ISBN:

9781004081387

ISBN:

9781004081295

ISBN:

9781004081349

Genre

Romance

Genre

Romance

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Thriller

Large Print |

Clipper May / June 2022 L ead Title “Fast-paced and twisting.” PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train

“At the very least it should reach the shortlist of this year’s Booker prize.” THE TIMES

Gold Diggers

The Cyclist

Sanjena Sathian

Tim Sullivan

Gold Diggers is a dazzling coming-of-age story that speaks to anyone who ever wondered quite how they belong, and who ever dreamed of being the very best they could be. “Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.”

Introducing your new crime thriller fix: Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. In the face of budget cuts and unreliable witnesses, Cross mounts a meticulous investigation that will uncover jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart...

CELESTE NG, author of Little Fires Everywhere

SOP

Clipper LP 8 - May

SOP

Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN:

9781004081394

ISBN:

9781004081363

Genre

Modern Fiction

Genre

Mystery

Rabbit Hole Mark Billingham My name is Alice. I’m a police officer. I’m trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward. But I’m also a patient... They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she’s quickly on the trail of the killer. The only SOP problem is, Alice is a patient Clipper LP TUP 2 - Jun too. ISBN: 9781004085149 Genre

Thriller

An Easy Death

Six Days

The Wedding Pact

The Stone Rose

Charlaine Harris

Dani Atkins

Isla Gordon

Carol McGrath

From the bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series and the inspiration behind HBO’s True Blood, comes an electrifying new thriller centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose, and set in a world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted.

It’s every bride’s worst nightmare, to be left standing at the altar. But that’s what happens to Gemma on her wedding day. Her fiancé Finn isn’t there when she arrives at the church. Everyone thinks Gemma has been jilted. But Gemma is certain Finn would never have done this to her. So where is he?

Would you marry a stranger to live the life of your dreams? August needs somewhere to live. Dumped by her boyfriend who would rather be alone than move in with her, she has almost given up on happiness. The perfect feel-good summer read from reader favourite Lisa Dickenson, writing as Isla Gordon.

The Stone Rose is the third volume in the Rose Trilogy, a powerful and mesmerising series explaining the lives of three medieval queens of England, from one of the most renowned historical authors around today. “Powerful, gripping and beautifully told.”

SOP

Clipper LP TUP 2 - Jun

Clipper LP 8 - Jun

KATE FURNIVALL on The Silken Rose

Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN:

9781004085163

ISBN:

9781004085118

ISBN:

9781004085156

ISBN:

9781004057580

Genre

Fantasy & Supernatural

Genre

Modern Fiction

Genre

Romance

Genre

Historical Fiction

Clipper June 2022 // Non-Fiction April / May 2022

Falling

The Girls

T.J. Newman You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. Enjoy the flight. SOP

Clipper LP 8 - Jun

| Large Print

The Coffin Club

Baggage

Bella Osborne

Jacqueline Sutherland

Alan Cumming

Four old friends. Thrown back together after forty years apart. What could possibly go wrong? In the 1970s, The Girls were best friends sharing a house and good times. Now they’re in their twilight years, and Zara suggests that they live with her to support each other through old age.

Everyone deserves a second chance. Don’t they? Kat is rebuilding her life. After losing her husband in a tragic accident, moving to the countryside is her chance to start again. Encouraged by her new and only friend Ginny, Kat joins New Horizons, dubbed the Coffin Club by its members. And that’s how she meets Nico.

Baggage chronicles Alan Cumming’s life in Hollywood and the ways in which work has repeatedly whisked him away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. Startlingly honest, both poignant and joyous, Baggage shines a light on how to embrace the complicated messiness of life.

SOP

Clipper LP 8 - Jun

LP Non-Fiction - Apr

ISBN:

9781004085132

ISBN:

9781004085125

ISBN:

9781004085101

ISBN:

9781004079322

Genre

Action & Adventure

Genre

Modern Fiction

Genre

Thriller

Genre

Humorous

Old Men Can’t Wait

Treasured

Explorer

The Right Sort of Girl

Simon Gandolfi

Christina Riggs

Benedict Allen

Anita Rani

Run down by three trucks, leg in plaster, not a good first day... So begins septuagenarian Simon Gandolfi’s ten-month ride on a pizza delivery bike, from the tip of South America to New York. Outrageously irresponsible and undeniably liberating, Gandolfi’s travels will fire the imaginations of every traveller, young or old.

A surprising new history of Tutankhamun published to coincide with the centenary of his tomb’s discovery. Here, for the first time, Christina Riggs weaves compelling historical analysis with tales of lives touched by an encounter with Tutankhamun, including her own.

What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict Allen to head for the farthest reaches of our planet – at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the communities who inhabited them – and why, thirty years later, he is still exploring.

Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, this is the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile’s Anita Rani. This story of a second-generation British Indian woman up north is also a tale of tenacity and a life lived with positivity and humour. If you have ever felt alone or different, this is the book for you.

SOP

LP Non-Fiction - Apr

LP Non-Fiction - May

ISBN:

9781004079308

ISBN:

9781004079315

ISBN:

9781004081318

Genre

Travel & Geography

Genre

History

Genre

Travel & Geography

LP Non-Fiction - May ISBN:

9781004081332

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Large Print |

Non-Fiction May / June 2022 // Lamplight April 2022

Manhunt: The Night Stalker

A Thing of Beauty

The Boy: Stirling Moss: A Life in 60 Laps

The Year the World Went Mad

Colin Sutton

Peter Fiennes

Richard Williams

Mark Woolhouse

Now a major ITV drama starring Martin Clunes, Manhunt: The Night Stalker is the chilling true story of one of the most testing manhunts the Metropolitan Police have ever undertaken. It is a glimpse into the mind and work of the brilliant detective who brought one of London’s most feared monsters to justice.

What do the Greek myths mean to us today? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.

Even in the midst of a global pandemic, the death of Stirling Moss on 12 April 2020 at the age of ninety made headlines, almost sixty years after he retired from Formula One. Here Williams assesses what made him such an iconic figure. “Captures the bold, engaging spirit of one of Britain’s best-loved sporting heroes.” SUNDAY TIMES

In this astonishing book Mark Woolhouse recounts the history of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of a scientist at the centre of the action. He explores the failures and successes of the UK’s, and the world’s, response to the virus, and candidly describes the challenges scientists faced when working with politicians.

SOP

LP Non-Fiction - May

LP Non-Fiction - Jun

ISBN:

9781004081325

ISBN:

9781004085088

Genre

General Non-fiction

Genre

Travel & Geography

LP Non-Fiction - Jun ISBN:

LP Non-Fiction - Jun

9781004085453

ISBN:

9781004085095

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Genre

General Non-fiction

A Schoolmistress at War

The Girl from Bletchley Park

An Orphan’s Sorrow

Dublin’s Girl

Kathleen McGurl

Cathy Sharp

Eimear Lawlor

Eileen Ramsay

Will love lead her to a devastating choice? 1942. Three years into the war, Pam turns down her hard-won place at Oxford University to become a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. Gripping historical fiction perfect for fans of The Girl from Berlin, The Rose Code and When We Were Brave.

Two orphans must battle heartache and despair in the latest novel from the bestselling author of An Orphan’s Courage and The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. Jonny has been taken in by a neighbour after the death of his mother. Small for his age, he is prey to a band of local thugs, so he joins the boxing club.

Falling in love with the enemy is the ultimate act of betrayal... 1917. A farm girl from Cavan, Veronica McDermott is desperate to find more to life than peeling potatoes. Inspired by real life events and marking the centenary of the end of the War of Independence, Dublin’s Girl is a thrilling historical debut from an exciting new Irish voice.

Can Kirsty find her place in a war-torn world? Growing up as a schoolmaster’s daughter in rural Scotland, Kirsty has always dreamt of following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a schoolmistress. And when her father dies suddenly, she becomes even more determined to make him proud.

SOP

Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Apr

Lamplight LP 4 - Apr

ISBN:

9781004079438

ISBN:

9781004084869

ISBN:

9781004079469

ISBN:

9781004079452

Genre

Romance

Genre

Saga

Genre

Romance

Genre

Saga

Lamplight April / May 2022

The Olive Grove

A Valiant Deceit

Eva Glyn Escape to idyllic Croatia with this emotional and gripping novel. A woman searching for a different future. A man desperate to escape his past. Can they find what they are looking for on the beautiful island of Korčula? “An unexpected delight.” CATHERINE MILLER, author of The Day That Changed Everything

SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

| Large Print

Danger on the Atlantic

Murder on an Irish Farm

Stephanie Graves

Erica Ruth Neubauer

Carlene O’Connor

Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It’s not the daring role she’d envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined and Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort.

The third book in the thrilling Jane Wunderly series. Atlantic Ocean, 1926: Voyaging from Southampton to New York, self-reliant Jane is determined to prove herself a worthy investigator on the stately ship — even going undercover as the fashionable wife of her magnetic partner, Mr. Redvers.

In USA Today bestselling author Carlene O’Connor’s eighth Irish Village Mystery, the longengaged garda of County Cork, Ireland, Siobhán O’Sullivan and Macdaras Flannery, are about to get married at last. But just as everyone has gathered, the nuptials come to an abrupt halt with the discovery of an unidentified skeleton...

SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

ISBN:

9781004079445

ISBN:

9781004079414

ISBN:

9781004079407

ISBN:

9781004079421

Genre

Saga

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Mystery

Genre

Mystery

The Resistance Girl

A Sunlit Weapon

Mandy Robotham The gripping and emotional historical fiction read from international bestseller, Mandy Robotham. Readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and anything by Fiona Valpy will love this heartbreaking tale of the sacrifices ordinary people made to keep friends, family, strangers – and hope – alive. SOP

Lamplight LP TUP 2 - May

Nurse Kitty’s Secret War

Nightshade

Jacqueline Winspear

Maggie Campbell

E.S. Thomson

Jo Hardy, a twenty-two-yearold ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire when she has the unnerving experience of someone shooting at her aircraft. A few days later she hears that another ferry pilot has been killed when her aircraft crashed in the same area. Jo is convinced there is a link between the incidents.

A novel inspired by the brave nurses and doctors from the first NHS hospital, the Trafford General, opened after the end of World War II. An inspiring and romantic read for fans of Call the Midwife and The Nightingale Girls. An uplifting, heart-wrenching novel, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Nancy Revell.

A gripping and darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect for fans of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Strangers Diaries and The Silent Companions.

SOP

Lamplight LP TUP 2 - May

Lamplight LP 4 - May

“A dark gripping atmospheric thriller.” DUNDEE COURIER

Lamplight LP 4 - May

ISBN:

9781004081486

ISBN:

9781004081479

ISBN:

9781004081509

ISBN:

9781004081462

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Mystery

Genre

Saga

Genre

Mystery

Large Print |

Lamplight May / June 2022

Mrs Boots Goes to War

Return to Berlin

Deborah Carr When Florence’s son, John, announces that he has enlisted, she is horrified but determined to hold her family together during the oncoming hardships. Florence might be older now, but she has no intention of sitting back on her laurels while others fight for King and Country. She knows what needs to be done… SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - May

A Light Beyond the Trenches

The Darkling Spy

Ellen Feldman

Alan Hlad

Edward Wilson

A young German Jewish woman returns to Allied Occupied Berlin from America to face the past and unexpected future. Atmospheric and pageturning, Return to Berlin is a story of love, survival, and forgiveness of others and of self.

Based on the true story of the first school to train guide dogs for the blind, USA Today bestselling author Alan Hlad’s latest novel is a fascinating, poignant, and life-affirming tale of heroism and resilience in World War I... By April 1916, the fervour that accompanied war’s outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality.

A spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer. London, 1956. A generation of British spies are haunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitor.

SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - May

“The thinking person’s John le Carré.” TRIBUNE

Lamplight LP 8 - May

ISBN:

9781004081493

ISBN:

9781004081516

ISBN:

9781004081448

ISBN:

9781004081455

Genre

Romance

Genre

Romance

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Thriller

Summer Secrets at Bletchley Park

The People’s Princess

The East End Nurse

Molly Green

Flora Harding

Sheila Newberry

Ellee Seymour

September 1939. London is in blackout, war has been declared, but Dulcie Treadwell can think only of American broadcaster, Glenn Reeves, who didn’t say goodbye before leaving for Berlin. A new, inspiring wartime series set at Bletchley Park, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Donna Douglas.

The stunning new historical novel from the author of the bestselling Before the Crown. Perfect for fans of Gill Paul and Wendy Holden. The story allows a behind-thescenes glimpse of life in the palace, the tensions in Diana’s relationship with the royal family during the engagement, and the wedding itself.

London’s East End, 1890. Growing up in poverty, Hester toils day and night in the laundry room of Poplar Hospital to help support her family; her father Fred, her younger twin siblings, Harry and Polly, and cantankerous Granny Garter. When Fred is badly injured in an accident, the family’s fortunes take a turn for the worse...

A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas.

SOP

Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Jun

The Royal Station Master’s Daughters

Lamplight LP 4 - Jun

“A heartwarming historical novel.” ROSIE GOODWIN

“A gripping historical saga.” DAISY STYLES

Lamplight LP 4 - Jun

ISBN:

9781004085231

ISBN:

9781004085224

ISBN:

9781004085217

ISBN:

9781004085170

Genre

Saga

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Saga

Genre

Saga

Lamplight June 2022 // Center Point Westerns April 2022

The Secret, Book and Scone Society

In the Face of the Sun

Ellery Adams First in the mystery series from the bestselling author. A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship – and even solving a murder – all to be found within the pages of the right book... “Anyone that loves novels that revolve around books will savour this tasty treat.” LIBRARY JOURNAL SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

| Large Print

Love in a Time of War

Before the Dawn

Denny S Bryce

Adrienne Chinn

Emma Pass

At the height of the Civil Rights Movement amidst an America convulsed by the 1960s, a pregnant young woman and her brash, profane aunt embark upon an audacious road trip from Chicago to LA to confront a decades-old mystery from 1920’s Black Hollywood in this haunting novel of historical fiction.

1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is shattered and a new era of uncertainty begins.

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It’s 1943, and World War II is raging. Ruby works for her local newspaper, typing up adverts and obituaries. Between shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing father, the chance for escape doesn’t come often to Devon...

SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

“Beautifully epic, romantic and rich in detail.” LORNA COOK

Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

SOP

Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

ISBN:

9781004085194

ISBN:

9781004085200

ISBN:

9781004085460

ISBN:

9781004085187

Genre

Mystery

Genre

Historical Fiction

Genre

Saga

Genre

Romance

Cimarron Thunder

Gunhand from Texas

E.E. Halleran Tracking down a crazy Confederate scheme to capture Colorado was the kind of job Union Captain Tom Baird was ready for. But he hadn’t reckoned on a hidden cache of ammunition big enough to equip a small army – or the surprising partnership of a beautiful brunette Federal agent. SOP

Center Point LP 2 - Apr

Bitter Trumpet

Ride a Tall Horse

William Heuman

Fred Grove

Lewis B. Patten

Standing in front of the Elkhorn National Bank, unshaven, his black hair beginning to curl at his neck, his clothing about as badly worn as that of any of the trail riders who’d come up with him from Texas, Emmett Kane definitely did not look like a man who had a bank draft for twelve thousand dollars in his shirt pocket.

It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West – the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee.

He was only sixteen and not quite a deputy, but Jason’s lawman instinct alerted him to the sound of gunfire ripping the early morning calm. Up the street a stranger with six guns ablaze and murder in his eyes ran out from Satterfield’s general store, his sack bulging with stolen gold.

SOP

Center Point LP 2 - Apr

Center Point LP 4 - Apr

ISBN:

9781638080909

ISBN:

9781638080916

ISBN:

9781638080930

ISBN:

9781638080923

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Large Print |

Center Point Westerns May / June 2022

Fury at Three Forks

Doom Trail

The Whispering Outlaw

Boss of Barbed Wire

D.B. Newton

Bradford Scott

Max Brand

Barry Cord

Will Clayborn never thought he’d ever be going back to the Anvil Ranch at Three Forks. Old Riley Adams, who owned the Anvil, had taken him in and treated him like a son. But then Riley had taken it into his head to run Will off his ranch for some cattle rustling he hadn’t done.

Gold dust and blood – a trail that led Ranger Ace Walt Slade straight to the Cap Rock country and a gun-blazing showdown with the craftiest owlhoot in Texas.

He was a mystery among frontier bandits – a masked gunman who never showed his true face or spoke in his honest voice. A loner by design, The Whisperer held that it was foolishness for a man to have a partner in crime if he hoped to ride free. But a gent who played a lone hand would never make a big killing.

Ben Sladeen had come to Two Mile and taken a job as ramrod of the Barbed Wire spread with the intention of starting a new life. He wanted nothing to remind him of the old days in New Orleans, when he had been carefree and in love until the King brothers and Curly Temper had shattered the idyll and forced him to leave town.

SOP

Center Point LP 2 - May

Center Point LP 4 - May

ISBN:

9781638081258

ISBN:

9781638081241

ISBN:

9781638081272

ISBN:

9781638081265

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Showdown

The Hostile Hills

The Renegade Gun

Allan Vaughan Elston

E.E. Halleran

Ray Hogan

William MacLeod Raine

Death or cowardice? Randy Harker had no choice. He wanted to stay in Lander and shoot it out with Thatcher. If he left, he would carry the yellow brand of a coward till he cashed in his chips. But out in the hills was an old man being tortured for the secret he held – the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen greenbacks.

The US government was pledged by treaty to keep white emigrants out of Sioux lands. At the same time, it wanted its citizens to mine the Black Hills gold and get it into circulation.

Was it vengeance, hate, or just plain cussedness that brought John Cameron back to Wolf Springs? Whatever it was, it meant trouble and bloodshed – something the townsfolk wanted to avoid at all costs. They’d been reduced to a quaking band of yellowbellies by Sid Mason and his rough-riding cohorts.

Young lawyer O’Hara gets an auspicious welcome to the town of Concho – a bullet through his hat. And before he has a chance to put up a shingle, he becomes involved in a bloody war between two cattle titans, Wesley Steelman and Dave Ingram.

SOP

Center Point LP 2 - Jun

Center Point LP 4 - Jun

The Fighting Tenderfoot

Center Point LP 4 - Jun

ISBN:

9781638081593

ISBN:

9781638081586

ISBN:

9781638081616

ISBN:

9781638081609

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

Genre

Western

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