Wavesound Pty Ltd NEW RELEASES
Unabridged Audiobooks April – June 2015 CD & Playaway
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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our Autumn selection! We have a bumper crop of bestsellers, thrilling crime, sweeping romances, memoirs, mysteries, comedies and more… Clipper brings you some stellar non-fiction this Autumn: one of TV’s most beloved stars tells her story in There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You by Lynda Bellingham, and Des O’Connor entertains us with his collection of comic verse, Laughter Lines, narrated by the author himself. Travelling to Infinity was recently adapted into BAFTAaward winning film The Theory of Everything. Written by Stephen Hawking’s first wife Jane, it is a compelling story of love and adversity. For crime fans, The Skin Collector by Jeffery Deaver is the hair-raising new Lincoln Rhyme thriller and Bryant and May and the Burning Man is the newest instalment in Christopher Fowler’s much-loved mystery series. Look out for the stunning debut novels The Girl in The Red Coat by Kate Hamer and Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper, from sensational new writing talents poised to top the charts. Over in Lamplight you’ll find new novels from bestselling authors Amanda Prowse, Josephine Cox, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Catherine Alliott. You’ll also find the latest mystery from Lesley Thomson – The Detective’s Secret is the latest book in the compelling Detective’s Daughter series. Avid will transport you to another world with Rook Song by Naomi Foyle. In an alternative future, Astra is exiled to Non-Land for a crime she can’t remember. Memory wiped and old enemies forgotten, can Astra work out who to trust? Let Jammer entertain you with a fantastic range of fiction and non-fiction. Fern Britton returns with A Good Catch, a warm and witty romantic comedy set on the Cornish coast. For something darker, Hidden by Emma Kavanagh is a taut psychological thriller by a former police psychologist. Along with new books from Graham Norton, Jack Delaney, Claudia Carroll and Peter May, Jammer has something for every taste. We hope you enjoy our selection of titles, and please get in touch if you have any feedback. With best wishes, The Editor
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Clipper Representing award-winners, shortlisted titles and top bestsellers. This quarter includes new titles from authors such as Jeffrey Deaver and Man Booker-nominated Neel Mukherjee. APRIL
The Boy I Love Lynda Bellingham
A superb evocation of theatre life from a naturally gifted storyteller, the beloved Lynda Bellingham. In the summer of ‘82, Sally Thomas begins her first season as an Assistant Stage Manager at the beautiful theatre in Crewe. Flung into this new world, one of the first lessons she learns is that the actors need no tuition in the art of stage-fighting, since they are quite adept at stabbing each other in the back. And when her best friend Jeremy falls suddenly and dangerously in love, Sally has to grow up – fast.
“ An evocative and gripping read, The Boy I Love shows what a gifted storyteller Lynda Bellingham was.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
The Boy I Love is a beautiful novel from actress Lynda Bellingham. Her acting career spans 40 years, with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, Loose Women and Calendar Girls.
SOP: CD6 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Sue Holderness · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471289811
The Skin Collector Jeffery Deaver
The latest exhilarating novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series. A tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. And on a young woman’s skin he’s left a message: ‘the second.’ Drafted in to investigate, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find a single piece of evidence – a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the Bone Collector before him, Rhyme and Sachs find themselves pitted against a perpetrator who plans his work to the last detail.
“ Brilliant… it’s easy to get swept up in the sheer velocity of the action.” SCOTSMAN
“ The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent climax… If you want thrills, Deaver is your man.” GUARDIAN
SOP: CD6 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471289804
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A Week in Paris Rachel Hore
The streets of Paris hide a dark past… September, 1937: Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. Nearly twenty-five years later, Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? Soon touches of memory become something stronger, and she realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected.
SOP: CD6 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Avita Jay · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471289835
The Year of Taking Chances Lucy Diamond
Because love is always worth the risk… It’s New Year’s Eve and at a house party, three women bond over dodgy cocktails and fortune cookies, vowing to make this year their best one yet. But as the months unfold, Gemma, Saffron and Caitlin find themselves tested to their limits. Under pressure, they are each forced to rethink their lives. But dare they take a chance on something new?
“ A tour de force. Rachel’s Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious.” JUDY FINNIGAN
“ The Paris of both ages is beautifully drawn and the women’s stories are skilfully interwoven, resulting in a richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic.” DEIRDRE O’BRIEN, SUNDAY MIRROR
“ Delicious, delightful, and warm, Lucy Diamond never fails to make you laugh out loud and cheer for her colourful cast of characters.” ROWAN COLEMAN
“ Charming, funny and as satisfying as a giant tiramisu. Loved it.” MILLY JOHNSON
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Antonia Beamish · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471289859
The Girl Who Just Appeared Jonathan Harvey
To have a future, she needed to know her past… London, 2014: Adopted when just a few months old, Holly Smith has never fitted in. But then she finds a biscuit tin full of yellowing papers under the floorboards of the flat she was born in. Could these papers be the key to her past? Liverpool, 1981: Fifteen-year-old Darren is negotiating life with his errant mother and younger brother. When the Toxteth Riots begin, Darren finds himself with a moral dilemma.
“ The Girl Who Just Appeared is a wonderful book – gripping and twisty and tender and touching.” MARIAN KEYES
“ Absolutely delightful. Jonathan Harvey writes with all his heart and all his soul.” LISA JEWELL
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9781471289866
Etta and Otto and Russell and James Emma Hooper
“I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. I will try to remember to come back.” Etta’s greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too – and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ [I]ncredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one’s faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!” CHRIS CLEAVE, AUTHOR OF THE OTHER HAND
“ An irresistibly enchanting debut novel.” BOOKLIST
NARRATED BY: Robert Slade · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471289842
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The Ship
Antonia Honeywell Welcome to London, but not as you know it. Oxford Street burned for three weeks, the Regent’s Park camps have been bombed. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. He has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape on a ship big enough to save 500 people. Once on board, as day follows identical day, Lalla’s unease grows. Where are they going?
“ The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel.” HELEN DUNMORE
“ A beautiful futuristic fable with huge power to haunt and disturb.” M. R. CAREY, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Melody Grove · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471289897
The Blazing World
“ The Blazing World is a dazzling novel, the Siri Hustvedt kind that makes you cry A polyphonic tour de force, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2014. (or nearly cry) as well as think.” Artist Harriet Burden, furious at the lack of recognition she has received from the art world, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts. Yet, even after she has unmasked herself, some refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. One thing is clear: Burden’s involvement with the last of her ‘masks’ turned into a dangerous psychological game that ended with the man’s bizarre death.
SUNDAY TIMES
“ It is an exuberantly clever piece of work… a novel that gloriously lives up to its title, one blazing with energ y and thought.” THE TIMES
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471289873
The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Calcutta, 1967: Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire, all he leaves behind before disappearing is a note. The ageing patriarch and matriarch of his family, the Ghoshes, preside over their large household, unaware that their family is unravelling. For this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change. The chasm between the generations has never been wider
“ Neel Mukherjee has written an outstanding novel: compelling, compassionate and complex, vivid, musical and fierce.” ROSE TREMAIN
“ Masterful… an unforgettable portrait of one family riven by the forces of history and their own desires.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 22 · ISBN 9781471289880
Endsinger Jay Kristoff
The final novel in the Lotus War trilogy, following Stormdancer and Kinslayer. The flames of civil war sweep across the Shima Imperium. Blood turns against blood as the Dragon and Fox clans compete for the empty throne. The traitor Kin walks the halls of Guild power, his destiny only a bloody knife-stroke away. And as the earth splits asunder, as armies destroy each other for rule over an empire of lifeless ash and the final secret about blood lotus is revealed, the people of Shima will learn one last, horrifying truth.
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
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“ [A] fast-paced, fantastical adventure [that] is sharp as a Shogun’s sword.” LA TIMES
“ With airships, demons, and lashings of revolutionary swordplay, this chi-fuelled vision of a steampunk feudal Japan will blow your split-toed socks off.” SCOTT WESTERFELD
NARRATED BY: Jane Collingwood · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 18.5 · ISBN 9781471289910
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Peace and Conflict Irene Sabatini
This is the story of a hero. Ten-year-old Robert knows many things. He knows all about his hometown, Geneva. He knows about the Red Cross and all the places his dad has been. But still he has questions. Is his neighbour, Monsieur Renoir, really evil? Why did he leave a medal on Robert’s doorstep? In school, Robert learned all about wars and heroes. But soon he discovers what it really means to be a hero. Irene Sabatini is the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, for her first novel The Boy Next Door.
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Irene Sabatini is a born writer.” DAILY MAIL
“ Entertaining, ambitious and packed with news from elsewhere, leavened by the precious optimism of youth. Don’t miss it.” INDEPENDENT ON THE BOY NEXT DOOR
NARRATED BY: Jonathan Broadbent · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471289903
Fire in the East Harry Sidebottom
Warrior of Rome Part One: Fire in the East is Harry Sidebottom’s historical debut.
Coming soon
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
The year is AD 255 – the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east and the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling walls. A man whose name itself means war: a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium.
“ Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship.” THE TIMES
“ The best sort of redblooded historical fiction.” ANDREW TAYLOR
NARRATED BY: Nick Boulton · Thriller · DURATION: 14.25 · ISBN 9781407429915
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Kei Miller
A prize-winning new collection from acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller. We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that ‘constrict like throats,’ every place-name comes freighted with history and not every place that can be named can be found.
“ The entire collection possesses that ease, its subject matter, wit and lyricism masterfully balanced to render a compelling whole and a rare accomplishment.” GUARDIAN
This collection won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection and Kei Miller has been named among the Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society.
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Kei Miller · Poetry · DURATION: 1 · ISBN 9781471289941
Love in Small Letters Francesc Miralles
A tale of tender friendships and incredible transformations. When Samuel wakes up on 1st January, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing exciting – until a strange visitor bursts into his flat, determined not to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray cat, leads Samuel to an encounter with the enigmatic Valdemar and his neighbour Titus. Samuel discovers how small everyday acts can have the power to awaken the heart from its slumber. Born in Barcelona, Francesc Miralles has written many bestsellers and has received several prestigious literary awards. Love in Small Letters is his most famous and acclaimed book.
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Peter Noble · Humorous · DURATION: 5.5 · ISBN 9781471289927
“ This delightful and quirky love story follows the events triggered when Samuel placed a saucer of milk outside his front door.” THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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The Rocks Peter Nichols
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
A wise and witty comedy of manners, moving back through the lives of the generations.
“ Absolutely brilliant.”
Mallorca, 1945: Lulu Davenport and Gerald Rutledge met and swiftly wed. Something happened, in that shortest of marriages, to begin a feud which none of the succeeding generations could understand. The two of them met rarely over the next decades. Lulu Davenport runs the Rocks, a chic hotel, and Gerald becomes an olive grower. But what of their next marriages, their children, and the way that life changes over the decades?
“ Peter Nichols’s wondrous novel The Rocks is clearly the odyssey he was born to undertake, the book he was destined to write.”
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NARRATED BY: Maggie Mash · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15.75 · ISBN 9781471289934
Travelling to Infinity Jane Hawking
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
The inspiration behind the major biopic film The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne.
“ A great read.”
In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking relates the inside story of her extraordinary marriage. As Stephen’s academic renown soared, his body was collapsing under the assaults of motor neurone disease and Jane’s candid account of trying to balance his 24-hour care with the needs of their growing family is inspirational. This is a book about optimism, love and change that will resonate with readers everywhere.
“ Jane writes about her former husband with tenderness, respect and protectiveness.”
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NARRATED BY: Sandra Duncan · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 19.25 · ISBN 9781471289958
The Curtain Milan Kundera
“Not since Henry James, perhaps, has a fiction writer examined the process of writing with such insight, authority and range.” new york times In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that ‘the curtain’ represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has – a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. In doing so, he celebrates a prose form that possesses the unique ability to transcend national and language boundaries in order to reveal some previously unknown aspect of human existence.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Graeme Malcolm · General Non-Fiction · DURATION: 4.75 · ISBN 9781471289972
Triumph: Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics Jeremy Schaap
The remarkable behind-the-scenes story of one of the most iconic clashes in sports and world history.
“ Schaap leaves readers with a vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ‘30s Germany and America.”
In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goosestepping, an African-American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold SPORTS ILLUSTRATED medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had single-handedly crushed Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man. With his incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a nuanced and riveting work of sports history.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
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NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471295454
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An Irish Promise Isabella Connor
A promise is a promise… Rachel Ford has returned to Kilbrook to take revenge on the bullies who ruined her childhood and destroyed her family. Australian actor, Finn MacKenzie sets hearts fluttering when he arrives in Kilbrook to help his aunt. Finn isn’t looking for love, but there’s a definite spark between them. Rachel is torn between her desire for revenge and this new love affair. Will he understand why she must keep her promise, no matter the cost?
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ [A] compelling, fast-paced read with a plot that builds inexorably.” IRISH INDEPENDENT ON BENEATH AN IRISH SKY
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471290022
Magic Sometimes Happens Margaret James
All it takes is one life changing decision… London-based PR consultant Rosie Denham and American IT Professor Patrick Riley couldn’t be more different. She’s had a privileged English upbringing. He was raised in poverty in Missouri. Patrick has two kids, a job that means the world to him and a wife who might decide she wants her husband back. So when Patrick and Rosie fall in love, the prospects don’t seem bright for them. But magic sometimes happens – right?
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ A dramatic, moving and intensely romantic story.” TRISHA ASHLEY ON THE SILVER LOCKET
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471290039
Captain Jack’s Woman Stephanie Laurens
From the New York Times bestselling author of Regency-set Romances. Captain Jack’s handsome features and powerful physique compel Kit Cranmer to surrender to him. Captain Jack is Kit’s dream lover. His all-knowing gaze penetrates her with frightening ease, and his kisses leave her maidenly modesty in tatters. Suddenly Kit finds she’s only too delighted to explore with Jack the pleasures conventionally reserved for married ladies – little knowing what dangerous forces she’s unleashing. Captain Jack is laying a gentle trap that will curtail her freedom and bind her to him.
“ A sexy, exuberant adventure!” NEW YORK TIMES
“ You’ll hardly have time to take a breath between adventures and smouldering love scenes, and you’ll relish every second you spend with the delightful Kit and the marvellous Captain Jack.” RT BOOK REVIEWS
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Lee McAllister · Romance · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471294297
The Billionaire’s Trophy Lynne Graham
Their relationship might be fake, but Emmie’s trepidation is all too real. What is his intern’s photo doing on an escort website? Bastian Christou doesn’t know if he’s more surprised by her double life or her stunning photo – she’s kept those curves well hidden! Emmie is outraged when Bastian, her uncompromising boss, confronts her. She had no idea her photo was online. But his cheque’s been cashed and he’s come to collect his prize… A weekend in Greece. With her. Alone. Lynne Graham is a bestselling Mills and Boon author with sales of twenty six million books worldwide.
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Emily Foxton · Romance · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9781471289989
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Canyon
Brenda Jackson A new novel from Brenda Jackson featuring the Westmoreland clan. Years ago, Canyon Westmoreland let misunderstandings come between him and Keisha Ashford. But when Keisha returns to town with a two-year-old son, it’s time to settle things once and for all. A blazing attraction still burns between them and, this time around, nothing will stop Canyon from claiming Keisha and his child!
“ Brenda Jackson writes romance that sizzles and characters you fall in love with.” LORI FOSTER
“ Jackson’s characters are wonderful, strong, colourful and hot enough to burn the pages.” ROMANTIC TIMES BOOK REVIEW
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Avery Glymph · Romance · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9781471289996
Beneath the Stetson Janice Maynard
“Gil Addison didn’t like Feds. Even when they came wrapped in pretty packages.” Far from the sweet homemaker he thought he wanted, millionaire rancher Gil Addison lusts after beautiful policewoman Bailey Collins. She might be busy hunting down a kidnapper and won’t stop until she gets her man in handcuffs, but Gil has a plan to get this woman in his bed!
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Readers will cheer as a strong woman once again silences the painful echoes of the past.” RT BOOK REVIEWS
NARRATED BY: Jack Garrett · Romance · DURATION: 6.5 · ISBN 9781471290008
Pictures or it Didn’t Happen Sophie Hannah
Would you trust a complete stranger? After Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster by a man, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she comes across Nadine Caspian, who warns her to stay away from him. The man is dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe knows that the sensible choice would be to walk away. But she is too curious. What could Nadine have meant?
“ A leading writer of psychological suspense.” SPECTATOR
A Quick Read for 2015, Sophie Hannah has created a thrilling puzzle of a short story.
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 2.5 · ISBN 9781471295072
The Time Being Antonia Honeywell
Laced with tension and unease, The Time Being is a superb short story prequel to The Ship. At 11, Lalla should be enjoying her childhood in London. But this is not London as we know it. In a collapsed society, Lalla struggles to imagine her future. When a government announcement invites her to enjoy a new life in Regent’s Park, Lalla sees a glimmer of hope. But what is she willing to risk?
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Melody Grove · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 0.75 · ISBN 9781471298912
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“ The Ship is tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel.” HELEN DUNMORE
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Magna Carta Dan Jones
Its signing would echo around the world in centuries to come. By the summer of 1215 King John of England had lost control of his kingdom. In June his rebellious barons forced him to attach his regal seal – under oath – to a remarkable document. The so-called ‘Great Charter’ established an Englishman’s right to habeas corpus, setting the limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time an English king had agreed to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights.
“ Jones deftly condenses a wealth of historical detail into the story of how it became hallowed as a founding document of the western traditions of liberty, democracy and rule of law.” THE TIMES
“ Jones is a born storyteller.” EVENING STANDARD
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Dan Jones · History · DURATION: 3.25 · ISBN 9781471288371
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There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You Lynda Bellingham
The poignant, moving and uplifting memoir from much-loved actress, television presenter and bestselling author, Lynda Bellingham, written following her diagnosis with terminal cancer. Having been told that she only has a matter of months left to live and writing this in what will sadly be her final days, There’s Something I’ve Been Dying to Tell You is a brutally honest memoir, yet Lynda also manages to spread her infectious warmth and humour, bringing light to a very dark time. Lynda’s story is a heartbreaking but also a laugh-out-loud story too. The way Lynda tells her life story will serve as a great inspiration.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471294075
“ I laughed and I cried. The strength shines through in the whole book and the honesty. A fantastic woman.” COLEEN NOLAN
“ The rest of us look on at these extraordinary people and wonder how we ourselves would manage. I am so grateful that such people are speaking out […] while they can.” GUARDIAN
Time and Time Again Ben Elton
If you had one chance to change history… Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Stanton knows that a terrible war is coming. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century? And, if so, could another bullet save it? Ben Elton has written fourteen major bestsellers, and has also written some of television’s most popular and incisive comedy, including The Young Ones and Blackadder.
SOP: CD6 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471298929
Words of Command Allan Mallinson
January, 1830: One of the hardest winters in memory… The Prime Minister is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest. Against this inflammable backdrop Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey, recently returned from an assignment in the Balkans, takes command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. His fears that things might be dull are quickly dispelled by the business of vexatious officers, difficult choices over which NCOs to promote, not to mention the incendiarists on the doorstep of the King himself. Allan Mallinson is a former infantry and cavalry officer of thirty-five years’ service worldwide. As well as the Matthew Hervey series of novels, he is the author of Light Dragoons, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he commanded.
SOP: CD6 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471294082
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Bryant & May and The Burning Man Christopher Fowler
Bryant and May embark on their most explosive case yet. A banking scandal has filled the city with violent protests and a young homeless man burns to death after being caught between rioters and the police. But all is not as it seems; an opportunistic killer is using the chaos to exact revenge. Arthur Bryant and John May soon find their investigation taking an apocalyptic turn as the case comes to involve the history of mob rule, corruption, punishment and the legend of Guy Fawkes.
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ One of our most unorthodox and entertaining writers.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471294105
The Girl in the Red Coat Kate Hamer
She is the missing girl. But she doesn’t know she’s lost. When Beth Wakeford takes her eight year-old daughter, Carmel, to a local children’s festival, they become separated. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth embarks on a mission to find her. Meanwhile, Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own, with a man who believes she is a saviour.
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Antonia Beamish · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471294099
“ Kate Hamer conjures mystery with such grace, cool beauty and urgent suspense… Brilliant.” MATT HAIG
“ Kate Hamer’s novel is both gripping and sensitive – beautifully written, it is a compulsive, aching story full of loss and redemption.” LISA BALLANTYNE
Spare Brides Adele Parks
Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks turns her laser-sharp perception to the opulent backdrop of post-First World War England. The 1920s: A time of hope, promise – and parties. But not all the men came home, after The War. Meet the spare brides. Young, gorgeous – and unexpectedly alone. Ava relishes the freedom of being single. Sarah fears no one can replace her hero husband. Beatrice finds it hard to shine, next to her dazzling friends. And Lydia is married, rich, privileged. Then a chance encounter changes everything.
“ Dramatic and swooningly romantic, this is historical fiction with real heart.” MARIE CLAIRE
“ A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail.” STYLIST
SOP: CD6 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Charlotte Strevens · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471294112
The Axeman’s Jazz Ray Celestin
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year. New Orleans, 1919: As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer’s identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom over the city…
“ A rewarding crime novel, swinging its way to a terrifying denouement with all the panache of a New Orleans marching band. This is an excellent debut, with a promise of more good mysteries to come.” THE TIMES
“ Celestin smartly evokes the atmosphere of 1919 New Orleans.” SUNDAY TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Christopher Ragland · Crime · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471294129
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The Love Shack Jane Costello
Imagine having to move back in with your parents – in your thirties… Dan and Gemma have found their dream first home, but the asking price is the stuff of nightmares. The only way they’ll ever save for a deposit is by returning, rent-free, to Dan’s childhood home. Obviously, no one wants to move back into a bedroom still adorned with Kylie posters, with a mother whose culinary skills are noted for their spectacular gastro-intestinal effects. But it’s only for six months. Even they can manage that. Surely.
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SOPHIE KINSELLA
“ Riotous… thoroughly enjoyable and laugh-outloud hilarious.” HEAT
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471294136
Blood Whispers John Gordon Sinclair
How do you tell the truth in a world full of lies?
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“ Funny, sexy and moving a hilarious holiday romp with a heart. I loved it.”
Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him – Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening. What they don’t realise though is that Keira isn’t your typical Glasgow lawyer. When she was eight years old she killed a man and as they’re about to find out, she’s at her most dangerous when threatened.
“ The language is fierce and unwavering, and the two protagonists, both strong women, are beautifully drawn.” DAILY MAIL
“ Blood Whispers is Sinclair’s coming-of-age thriller, a rapid fire story that secures him a safe berth in the pantheon of exciting, hard-hitting Tartan Noir authors.” EVENING POST
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471294143
Don’t Tell The Brides-To-Be Anna Bell
Another fantastic read from the author of Don’t Tell the Groom. Things are looking up for Penny Robinson. She’s kicked her gambling addiction and even started her own business: Princess on a Shoestring – an all-inclusive service for brides-to-be. Penny’s got it all under control, that is, until a rival planner decides to take her down – one hard-won bride at a time. And when a romantic weekend away has some unexpected consequences, Penny’s expectations for her career are brought back down to earth with a bump.
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“ A real feel-good story with loads of laughs, twists, tears. The characters are all lovable and the story is totally addictive. Highly recommended.” THE CHICKLIT CLUB ON DON’T TELL THE GROOM
NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Romance · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471294167
The End of Alice A. M. Homes
“This is everything fiction should be – wrenching, disturbing and emotive.” independent
The End of Alice treads the thin line between evil, the everyday, causing major controversy when it was first published. caused a major controversy when it was first published. The story centres on a disturbing correspondence between the narrator, a middle-aged killer serving his twenty-third year in prison and his slang-speaking, sweet-seeming admirer, a nineteen-year-old girl intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly, through these letters, the narrator’s dangerous character emerges.
“ A. M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything.” MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, AUTHOR OF THE HOURS
“ Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words.” VOGUE
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NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471294174
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The Kills: The Hit Richard House
The final book in the epic The Kills, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2013. A man is found in the desert, burned beyond all recognition. Thomas Berens thinks this is the man he’s been hunting. The last survivor. The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books. It begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned body.
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“ Richard House has written a gripping, hallucinogenic – and enormous – novel that deals with the aftermath of the Iraq conflict.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Robert Slade · Thriller · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471294150
Glass
Alex Christofi A charming, off-beat comedy about a young man finding his way in the modern world. When a minor adventure up the spire of Salisbury Cathedral makes Günter Glass a local celebrity, John Blades – window-cleaner to the stars – comes calling. He wants Günter to join him in London to clean Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the newly constructed Shard in London Bridge. Günter, ex-milkman and aspiring window-cleaner, soon finds himself among the bright lights of London. Will Günter find his way along the straight and narrow? Or will his innocence put him on collision course with the frequently baffling modern world?
“ There’s enough here to show you the author has plenty more to offer and that, like his hero, he definitely has his heart in the right place.” DAILY MAIL
“ A confident and frequently adroit first novel […] enjoyably mercurial and quixotic.” DAILY STAR
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471294198
The Wayward Bus John Steinbeck
One of Steinbeck’s most powerful novels. The Wayward Bus travelled the back-roads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land – lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her secret, passionate quest. This is a story of crisis and passion, of love and longing.
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“ Sustained brilliance, complete credibility and vividness.” SATURDAY REVIEW
“ One of Steinbeck’s best books.” NEWSWEEK
NARRATED BY: Richard Poe · Classics · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471294181
The Way We Die Now Charles Willeford
“No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” elmore leonard
A three-year-old murder case was coming together nicely. A killer Hoke once put in prison has moved in across the street. And Hoke’s daughter has blue hair. But now Hoke has to pretend to be a bum. In a dusty corner of South Florida, Hoke enters a world of Haitian migrant workers, soup kitchens and whores. In the searing heat he’ll meet the man he’s been sent to kill – the most vicious beast in the land…
“ Elegant, tough and rhythmic as a championship boxing match.” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“ Delivers an off-kilter view of venal humanity via inimitable prose… brims with energ y and brio.” THE TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Paul Birchard · Crime · DURATION: 6.5 · ISBN 9781471294204
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Thomas Cromwell Tracy Borman
Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Born a tavern keeper’s son, Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII’s right hand man and one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history. With the architect of England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church and the dissolution of the monasteries, he oversaw seismic changes in our country’s history. Tracy Borman examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · History · DURATION: 15.25 · ISBN 9781471294235
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse Piu Marie Eatwell
The extraordinary story of one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian era.
“ Tracy Borman has crafted an exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor age’s most complex and controversial figures.” ALISON WEIR
“ Borman’s is a highly readable account, and will add to the debate surrounding this ultimately elusive character.” FINANCIAL TIMES
“ A lively account of the lies, deceit and hypocrisy of Victorian society and their tragic consequences.” THE TIMES
In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request for the exhumation of the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce. Behind her application lay a sensational claim: that Druce had been none other than the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland and that the Duke had faked the death of his alter ego. When opened, Anna Maria contended, Druce’s coffin would be found to be empty. Her children, therefore, were heirs to the Portland millions. The legal case that followed revealed a dark underbelly of lies, lurking beneath the genteel facade of late Victorian England.
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NARRATED BY: Barnaby Edwards · Crime · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471294228
The Italians John Hooper
Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper’s marvellously entertaining and perceptive new book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind – and often belie – the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the reason why Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger, yet none for a hangover.
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“ What’s not to love? A thoroughly researched, wellwritten, ageless narrative of a fascinating people.” KIRKUS
“ An admirable piece of work, unassuming but authoritative. If Hooper really were a diplomat instead of a reporter, it would surely earn him his knighthood.” LITERARY REVIEW
NARRATED BY: TBC · Travel & Geography · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471294211
Love Finds the Way Barbara Cartland
John Chester life has changed forever, but he doesn’t know just how much. Gina Wilton is like a breath of fresh air, but she is also everything John Chester disapproves of – assertive and always ready to contradict him. Yet she has ideas about restoring his dilapidated castle, and he needs her help. The more they are together, the more he notices her wit and sparkle. But how can he believe Gina is attracted to him when she is clearly in love with another man? If you enjoy Downton Abbey, you will love Barbara Cartland.
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NARRATED BY: Anthony Wren · Romance · DURATION: 4.75 · ISBN 9781471294280
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Cross Stitch Amanda James
A stitch in time may save nine but a cross-stitch spells disaster… Despite past heartache, Sarah Yates is finally marrying her true love, John Needler. But Sarah and John can’t pretend they’re an ordinary couple. They’re time travellers and where time travel is involved, nothing runs smoothly. One minute Sarah is saying her vows and the next she is hurtled back in time to a country that is on the cusp of war. But when the past and the present collide, that’s when the real problems start…
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“ A time-travel tale á la Dr Who only with a heroine going back to three different periods, making sure people find their happy ending… a pure delight.” THE BOOKSELLER ON A STITCH IN TIME
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471294273
Carry You Beth Thomas
For anyone who has loved, lost or found it hard to let go… Daisy has lost her mum to breast cancer. She’s at rock bottom and doesn’t think she’ll ever get back up again. Her best friend Abi has other ideas. What Daisy doesn’t know is that her life is about to take an unexpected turn, when Abi signs them up to do a charity walk. Added to which, someone is about to burst into Daisy’s world in a riot of colour reminding her that life can be full of surprises.
“ An easy-to-read, often thought-provoking tale about grief and family feuds as well as overcoming trauma and the value of true friendship.” DAILY MAIL
“ A real gem – a light-hearted, highly original story.” LOVE IT MAGAZINE
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14.25 · ISBN 9780008129040
Double the Trouble Maureen Child
Double the Trouble is part of the bestselling series Billionaires and Babies.
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When Colton King’s marriage to Penny ended after just twenty-four hours, he didn’t expect a year later to discover two little secrets: a baby boy and a baby girl. Now, after claiming his twins and reclaiming Penny again, he must ask himself: was their whirlwind marriage meant to last a lifetime? Maureen Child is the author of more than a hundred romance novels. Her books regularly appear in the bestsellers lists and have won several awards.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 5.75 · ISBN 9781471294259
The Real Thing Brenda Jackson
Another instalment of the exciting Westmorelands series. No red-blooded man turns down the chance to escort gorgeous Trinity Matthews – and Adrian Westmoreland is definitely red-blooded. He’ll pretend to be her man, but keep his hands to himself? That is impossible!
“ Jackson’s trademark ability to weave multiple characters and side stories together makes shocking truths all the more exciting.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“ There is no getting away from the sex appeal and charm of Jackson’s Westmoreland family.”
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 5.75 · ISBN 9781471294242
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His Lover’s Little Secret Andrea Laurence
His power and his wealth won’t turn her head this time… She’s kept her baby secret for two years. But even after a chance run-in forces her to confront the father of her son, Sabine Hayes refuses to give in to all of Gavin Brooks’s demands. She’ll let him get to know Jared, but she won’t go back to Gavin’s privileged world. Gavin never stopped wanting the woman who challenged him at every turn. He’ll do just about anything to stop her getting away again. Andrea Laurence is an award-winning contemporary romance author who has been a lover of books and writing stories since she learnt to read.
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 5.5 · ISBN 9781471294266
Out of the Dark Adele Geras
A Quick Read about the healing power of love. Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain’s family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain’s ghost - and to his own troubled heart. Adele Geras has published more than ninety books for children, young adults and adults.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 1.5 · ISBN 9781471294631
Codename Villanelle Luke Jennings
For an action thriller series with a strong female lead, look no further than Villanelle. In a remand centre in the Ural Mountains, Oxana Vorontsova awaits trial for triple murder. Not what you’d expect from a star linguistics student. Half a world away, her potential has been noted. Sprung from prison and trained in the dark arts of assassination, she’s reborn as the beautiful, lethal Villanelle. The price of her luxurious new life: to eliminate targets assigned to her by a shadowy group of all-powerful businessmen. Luke Jennings is the author of Blood Knots, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes.
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“ Fast and furious […] we can’t wait for the next one. And by the way, someone get a copy of this story to Jennifer Lawrence. If she’s looking for her next franchise after The Hunger Games, this may be it.” THIN READS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 1.75 · ISBN 9781471294655
George S. Patton Steve Zaloga
A history of the iconic American field commander. George S. Patton Jr. was widely regarded as the US Army’s finest practitioner of mechanised warfare. Despite his ability, Patton was thoroughly reviled by most soldiers, partly due to his insistence on traditional military discipline, but also because of his unwillingness to pander to the growing power of the press. This combination of ability and controversy has combined to make him one of the most interesting figures in military history. A re-evaluation of the life of an influential and controversial army leader who fought in both World Wars.
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NARRATED BY: Trevor White · History · DURATION: 2 · ISBN 9781471294648
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My History Antonia Fraser
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser’s memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history. The fascination began as a child when her evacuation at the beginning of the war to an Elizabethan manor house became an inspiration for historical imaginings – developing into an enduring passion as she writes, “for me, the study of History has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.”
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NARRATED BY: Penelope Wilton · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471289965
The Mill Girl Rosie Goodwin
A young girl’s courage and strength in the face of hardship and heartache. Warwickshire, 1840s: Boys are destined for the pit and girls for the mill. Despite this, Maryann is happy there – until her mother dies. Her family collapses, leaving Maryann exhausted and Toby, the boy she is set on marrying, insists they wait. Then Maryann is offered a lifeline – a position as nanny to the daughter of the mill owner, Wesley Marshall, who Maryann grows unexpectedly close to. But their relationship doesn’t go unnoticed, threatening to unleash a world of problems on them all…
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“ A gifted writer. Tells a cracking story and does so with an insight into people that is rarely found.” NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST
“ Goodwin is a master of her craft: she excels in writing about the complexity of relationships, the hardships of life, the ties of family and the joys of love and friendship.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
NARRATED BY: TBC · Saga · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471295430
Field of Prey John Sandford
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr. finally got lucky. And unlucky. Layton had picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields. The only problem was something smelled bad… He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew and when they looked, they found a body stuffed down a cistern. By the time Lucas Davenport was called in, the police were up to fifteen bodies and counting. The victims had been killed over many years, one every summer. How could this have happened without anybody noticing?
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“ Tough, engrossing and engaging, Sandford writes superb thrillers.” LITERARY REVIEW
“ Few do it better than Sandford.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Richard Ferrone · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471295447
The Broken Tamar Cohen
When close friends split, be careful whose side you’re on… Best friends tell you everything, about their kitchen renovation, about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don’t tell lies. They don’t take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don’t call lawyers. They don’t make you choose sides. Best friends don’t keep secrets about their past. They don’t put you in danger. Best friends don’t always stay best friends.
“ A chillingly real psychological drama that had me in a total reading frenzy. I absolutely loved it.” LISA JEWELL
“ A brilliant and skillfully plotted depiction of the unexpected breakdown of a friendship between two couples, with one of the most chilling twists I’ve read in a long time. I couldn’t put it down.” LOUISE MILLAR
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471295485
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The Faithful Couple A. D. Miller
A brilliantly clever and insightful novel. California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance. They travel up the coast together whilst being harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive and wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that years later, they will desperately regret.
“ Powerful and moving. I loved The Faithful Couple.” RODDY DOYLE
“ Compelling, elegant and deeply insightful. You won’t soon forget it.” CLAIRE MESSUD
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Literature · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471295461
Laughter Lines Des O’Connor
Guaranteed to keep you chuckling, a delightful collection of comic verse. Much-loved entertainment legend Des O’Connor has broadcast to millions and performed to packed theatres around the world, but he has never lost touch with the simple joys and woes of everyday life. In this collection of comic verse, Des brings his irrepressible humour and mischievous delight to subjects ranging from satnav nightmares to the perils of sorting the recycling – from the recipe for a happy love life to surviving children’s parties. Des O’Connor is an entertainment legend with an illustrious career spanning over fifty years. His recent television work includes Today with Des and Mel, Countdown and The One and Only Des O’Connor.
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NARRATED BY: Des O’Connor · Humorous · DURATION: 2.25 · ISBN 9781471295652
Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals Jesse Armstrong
This is the hilarious first novel from the creator of Peep Show, and co-writer of The Thick of It.
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It’s 1994 and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England, a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war. Jesse Armstrong is co-creator and writer of the BAFTA Award-winning Peep Show, as well as Fresh Meat, Bad Sugar, Babylon and, with Chris Morris, Four Lions. He was also co-writer of The Thick of It and the Oscarnominated In the Loop.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781510001756
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Man Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in hope of finding a son they haven’t seen for years. They expect to face many hazards, some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Literature · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471295515
“ Kazuo Ishiguro is an original and remarkable genius.” NEW YORK TIMES
“ A master craftsman.” MARGARET ATWOOD
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The Lovers of Amherst William Nicholson
A beautiful novel interweaving the stories of two love affairs. August, 1881: Mabel Todd arrives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband David. Mabel soon fall passionately in love with Austin Dickinson, a married man with three children, and he with her.
“ Nicholson draws his narrative strands together in a most entertaining fashion.” THE TIMES
October, 2013: Alice Dickinson takes time off work to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since college days, when her love of Emily Dickinson’s poems began. The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd.
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Literature · DURATION: 8.25 · ISBN 9781471295508
Pleasantville Attica Locke
Sometimes politics is a matter of life and death. It’s 1996, and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police, was all set to become Houston’s first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to Sandy Wolcott, a defence lawyer. And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel’s nephew is charged with her murder.
“ Rich in atmosphere, strong in story, hinges on human complexity.” VAL MCDERMID
“ Genuinely unnerving… subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history.” DAILY MAIL
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471295522
The Book of Human Skin Michelle Lovric
“A witty exciting page-turner which becomes increasingly addictive… Quite unlike anything else around – and all the better for that.” daily mail In 18th Century Venice Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines and aided by a servant, a painter, a skinobsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her brother…
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“ This book is fabulous – funny, horrific, subversive – in short a wholly addictive read. I don’t think I have enjoyed anything as much since Perfume.” JOANNE HARRIS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 19.75 · ISBN 9781471295546
Forty Acres
Dwayne Alexander Smith A young black lawyer is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this page-turning and provocative novel. Martin Grey, a talented young lawyer, is taken under the wing of a secretive group made up of America’s most powerful and esteemed black men. He’s dazzled by what they have accomplished and they think he has the potential to be one of them. They invite him for a weekend away from it all. But what he discovers, far from home, is a disturbing alternative reality which challenges his deepest convictions…
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471295539
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“ Smith has done something special here… This story will resonate long after the last page has fallen.” DAVID BALDACCI
“ Amazing and unique.” WHOOPI GOLDBERG
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A Death in the Family Karl Ove Knausgaard
An international phenomenon, which has been declared a masterpiece everywhere it has been published. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother, his distant, unpredictable father and his bewilderment and grief on his father’s death. When Karl Ove becomes a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature. Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives.
“ It’s unbelievable… It’s completely blown my mind.” ZADIE SMITH
“ A scorchingly honest, unflinchingly frank, hyperreal memoir of the life of one man and his family.” GUARDIAN
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NARRATED BY: Edoardo Ballerini · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 16.25 · ISBN 9781471295553
First Impressions Charlie Lovett
A novel about old books, young love and Jane Austen. Book lover and Jane Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has barely started her new job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure publication: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their enquiry draws Sophie into a web of mystery surrounding the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice, with ultimately dangerous consequences.
“ An inventive tale with elements of romance and suspense, wrapped around a bookish mystery that will please lovers of old libraries and Austen fans.” DEBORAH HARKNESS
“ Fast-paced and great fun!” THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471295560
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
“ The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.” WILLIAM KENNEDY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
“ My favorite novels are extended songs. What is One Hundred Years of Solitude if not an opera? And a grand one at that!” STING, GRAMMY AWARD– WINNING SINGERSONGWRITER AND MUSICIAN.
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NARRATED BY: John Lee · Classics · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471295577
1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo Stephen Bates
Stephen Bates paints a vivid portrait of every aspect of Britain in 1815. “ An illuminating portrayal of
a pivotal year for the nation.” 1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon’s European THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ambitions and ushered in a century largely of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington’s troops fighting for? And what kind of society did they “ Battles, balls, Byron, and return to? Overseas, the bounds of Empire were expanding; while at home the the birth of modern history population endured the chill of economic recession. – Stephen Bates chronicles them all with insight, wit and grace.” ROBERT LACEY
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NARRATED BY: TBC · History · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471295584
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Travels with Epicurus Daniel Klein
Meditations from a Greek island on the pleasures of old age. Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Daniel Klein ponders whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly and live an authentic old age. He journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of ageing happily. Drawing on the lives of Greek locals, as well as philosophers, he uncovers the pleasures that are available only late in life.
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“ I was bowled over by its easy charm and hardwon wisdom.” DAILY MAIL
“ Klein’s narrative is a delightful and spirited conversation, offering up the ingredients inherent to the art of living well in old age.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NARRATED BY: TBC · Body, Mind & Spirit · DURATION: 4 · ISBN 9781471295607
Breaking the Silence Joanne Milne
An incredibly uplifting life-story of a woman who refused to give up hope and always lives life with a smile upon her face. Jo Milne was profoundly deaf from birth and is when she also began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to undergo major surgery. She had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo’s days since the operation has become a journey of discovery. Breaking the Silence is a remarkable and beautifully written memoir that will serve as an inspiration to everyone who reads it. By turn, it is heart-breaking and heart-warming.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Colleen Prendergast · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.25 · ISBN 9781471295591
The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance Kirsty Greenwood
Beggars can’t be choosers…
Coming soon
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
When Jessica Beam is thrown out of her flat, she finds herself relying on her only family – her grandmother. Things aren’t going so well for Grandma, either. Her 1950s Good Woman guide books are out of print and her mortgage is staggering. When a publisher throws them a lifeline – a new contract if they can prove the Good Woman guides still work – Jess and Matilda have to work together if they want a roof over their heads.
“ I cannot tell a lie… this book is fabulous.” LUCY DIAMOND
“ Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feel-good fun!” ALI MCNAMARA
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471280245
Trust No One Jayne Ann Krentz
Bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz delivers another masterpiece of romantic suspense. Hiding from her past, Grace Elland throws herself into creating a new positive life, beginning with a blind date. But her date with venture-capitalist Julius Arkwright proves to be a complete waste of time – she has nothing in common with a man who lives to make money. But perhaps Grace needs more than just romance in her life? The intense ex-marine might be the perfect man to help save herself from her past.
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NARRATED BY: Amanda Leigh Cobb · Romance · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471290015
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“ Irresistible mix of scintillating humour, stunning suspense, and sexy romance… a complete page-turner.” BOOKLIST ON RIVER ROAD
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How I Wonder What You Are Jane Lovering
“Maybe he wasn’t here because of the lights – maybe they were here because of him…” It’s been over eighteen months since Molly Gilchrist had a man. So when she stumbles over one on the moors one morning, it seems like the Universe is laughing at her expense. But Phinn Baxter is no common drunkard. Finding mysterious men on the moors isn’t the weirdest thing Molly has to contend with. There’s also those strange lights she keeps seeing in the sky since meeting Phinn… Jane Lovering is the author of Please Don’t Stop the Music, the winner of the 2012 Romantic Novel of the Year & the Romantic Comedy award.
SOP: ROSA · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471295645
Once Pregnant, Twice Shy Red Garnier
What’s one impulsive night between old friends? Tied together by tragedy, business tycoon Garrett Gage has always vowed to protect Kate Devaney. What he doesn’t expect is that she’d someday need protection from him. What possessed him to forsake a deathbed vow and take vulnerable Kate into his arms, into his bed? Now that they’d been intimate, things have changed. Kate is carrying his child. And along with that, a secret that could change everything…
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 6 · ISBN 9781471295614
The House Keeper’s Awakening Sharon Kendrick
At her boss’s beck and call… Recovering from a terrible car accident, world-renowned playboy Luis Martinez is bored, grumpy and frustrated. He’s sick of nurses fussing over him, so he fires the lot and demands his innocent housekeeper massage him back to health! Carly Conner has spent her life trying not to be noticed – but now, with her boss looking at her differently, every day the tantalising tension between them grows. How long will she be able to deny the temptation he poses? Sharon Martinez is a bestselling British romance novelist who has written over 75 novels.
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 5.25 · ISBN 9781471295621
More Precious than a Crown Carol Marinelli
The woman he shouldn’t crave… Desert prince Zahid once walked away from Trinity Foster and the fire blazing in her eyes. He was heir to the Kingdom of Ishla and duty required that he return home, but a chance encounter reveals more than just passion. As painful truths of the past are revealed Zahid realises that Trinity needs his protection. Although she’s strictly forbidden, walking away from her again is impossible!
SOP: ROSA M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9781471295638
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The Baleful Dead Paul Finch
The grotto in the wood, to which far more than gruesome memories are attached… When an ageing rock band visit an old country house in an attempt to inspire some new material, they awaken more than their creativity in the woods surrounding the mansion. Whilst the band might not seem keen to rekindle their former rock-and-roll lifestyles, their agent Troy is insistent that fame is within their grasp. But is the price of success too high? Paul Finch has won the British Fantasy Award twice and the International Horror Guild Award.
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Horror · DURATION: 3.75 · ISBN 9781471294709
Jacques and His Master Milan Kundera
Newly translated by Simon Callow, Jacques and His Master has delighted Kundera’s fans throughout the English-speaking world. Jacques and His Master is a delightfully witty and entertaining ‘variation’ on Diderot’s novel Jacques le Fataliste, written in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. When the ‘heavy Russian irrationality’ fell on Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera explains he felt drawn to the spirit of the eighteenth century, epitomized for him in the humour and fantasy of Jacques le Fataliste.
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Milan Kundera is probably the most interesting writer alive.” ALAIN DE BOTTON
NARRATED BY: Simon Callow · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 1.75 · ISBN 9781471294723
The Lowdown: A Short History of the Origins of World War I John Lee
A concise history of the origins of the ‘war to end all wars.’ Many of us know that the First World War began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo in June of 1914. But have you ever wondered exactly what chain of events led up to the incident that caused the whole world to erupt into one of the bloodiest conflicts in our history? Expert military historian and lecturer John Lee explains the causes behind the origins of the war and gives us a unique insight into the unfolding drama that defined and shaped a generation – and generations to come.
SOP: SSCD3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Steve Devereaux · History · DURATION: 1 · ISBN 9781471294716
The Love Shack The Top Ten Bestseller by Jane Costello Available in May’s Standing Order Plan See page 12
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Lamplight Representing traditional genres such as sagas and mysteries. This quarter includes established authors such as Lesley Pearse, Amanda Prowse and Barbara Taylor Bradford.
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That Summer in Ischia Penny Feeny
A secret hides behind the Italian sun… In her early years, Allie and her bohemian mother Helena were always on the move. Now Helena keeps people at arm’s length: relationships never last and old friends have slipped away. But when Allie inherits Helena’s childhood home, she begins to see snatches of the tormented past her mother has been running from… Determined to find out what keeps driving her mother away from people, Allie follows a lead to the beautiful island of Ischia.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Sun-drenched, dark and intriguing. I loved the way she painted Italy.” KATE LONG
“ Vivid and gripping - a most accomplished first novel.” BARBARA TRAPIDO
NARRATED BY: Tricia Kelly · Romance · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471294006
The Flowers of the Field Part 2 Sarah Harrison
Following on from the international bestseller The Flowers of the Field, an epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War.
“ Well-written, imaginative and moving - a thoroughly enjoyable read” WORLD OF BOOKS
Kate Kingsley remembers little of her childhood, other than the devastation of being torn away from everything she knew; sent to live as an adopted daughter in Kenya. “Full of unforgettable 1936: Now 20, Kate leaves Kenya for a new life in London. Kate finds an ally in her people, places and Aunt Dulcie, whose own life is anything but straightforward. When Kate falls in love, passions” she believes she has found a soul mate. But this is just the start of the journey. WOMAN’S WORLD
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Saga · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471294013
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Taken for Dead Graham Masterton
No one could predict that the cutting of the cake would bring this wedding to a horrifying end… The severed head of Micky Crounan, local baker, is grinning gruesomely up from the bottom tier of his own cake. Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, is baffled – until another local businessman goes missing in horrific circumstances. Soon Katie is on the trail of a debt-collecting gang calling themselves The Kings of Erin. But these are very dangerous men. And they will stop at nothing to throw Katie off the trail…
“ One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” PETER JAMES
“ A natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real.” NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Louise Fitzpatrick · Crime · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471293993
The Promise Lesley Pearse
War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for… Belle’s husband Jimmy enlists, heading for the trenches of northern France. Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help those wounded on the battlefield, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. A tragic accident brings her face to face with a man from her past she’s never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Belle is caught in an impossible situation.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Glorious, heartwarming.” WOMAN & HOME
“ An emotional and moving epic you won’t forget in a hurry.” WOMAN’S WEEKLY
NARRATED BY: TBC · Saga · DURATION: 17.75 · ISBN 9781471293979
A Mother’s Story Amanda Prowse
The unputdownable new novel from bestseller Amanda Prowse. Jessica has just had the wedding of her dreams, and now she’s setting up a new home with her lawyer husband Matthew. Even better – they are expecting a child. But as they paint the nursery and shop for babygros, Jessica keeps waiting for the excitement to kick in. Why isn’t she transformed by maternal feelings? Where is the all-consuming love she’s supposed to feel for her child?
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471293986
The Munitions Girls Rosie Archer
Gosport, Hampshire, 1943: Pixie Saunders is 19 and employed in the local armaments factory. Pixie and her best friend Rita are making the most of the war while trying to stay alive. The work is dangerous and the hours long, but in the evenings they go to the pub or dancing. Pixie meets American serviceman Cal and falls in love. Then Pixie falls pregnant and her life changes dramatically. Alone and unable to work, she has to rely on the kindness of friends to help her survive… A heartwarming saga full of surprises, hardships and happy endings.
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Anne Dover · Saga · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471294037
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Damsel in Distress Carola Dunn
A stylish cosy mystery set in 1923 England featuring British heiress and writer, Daisy Dalrymple. In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love and the Honorable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted. As a distraught Mr Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.
“ A dauntless Daisy and good-natured fun.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
“ Appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Mystery · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471294310
Master of War: Defiant Unto Death David Gilman
The Black Prince has launched a devastating raid deep into France, laying waste to everything in his path… Sir Thomas Blackstone, the British archer knighted on the field of Crecy, has used the intervening years to forge his own war band and has hacked out a fiefdom in central France. He knows the English are outnumbered, outmaneuvered and exhausted… but that will not stop him from fighting his way to one of history’s greatest military victories. But the field of battle is not only arena in which Blackstone will have to fight for his life…
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Page-turning and gritty.” DAILY MAIL ON MASTER OF WAR
“ The 100 Years’ War is the new Rome for historical adventure novels.” BEN KANE ON MASTER OF WAR
NARRATED BY: Daniel Philpott · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 16.5 · ISBN 9781471294020
Soldiers’ Daughters Fiona Field
A wonderful novel from Fiona Field’s first novel, bringing back many of the characters from her previous hit Soldiers’ Wives.
“ I couldn’t put it down.” KATIE FFORDE
This is the story of two girls who, on the surface, seem to have a lot in common. Samantha Lewis will put everything into being the good soldier she thinks her father wants her to be. But her heart will lead her in an unexpected direction and threaten her love. Michelle Flowers also craves her father’s attention, but her impulsiveness will drive her into an obsession with the husband of another woman – with disastrous consequences.
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471294051
Mischief Fay Weldon
Waspish, wise and wickedly witty, this is a collection to treasure forever. “ Sharp, witty, incisive.” THE TIMES
Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon’s inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words, selecting and introducing her favourite short “ Wise, knowing, stories from across her career as one of Britain’s foremost contemporary novelists. forthright.” INDEPENDENT
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Julia Franklin · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471294044
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Wish You Were Here Catherine Alliott
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
The new novel from number one bestselling author of thirteen novels, Catherine Alliott.
“ Compulsively readable.”
When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance. But Flora didn’t anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming along too… Their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns.
“ Hilarious and full of surprises.”
THE TIMES
DAILY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9781471294372
Glory
Rachel Billington A poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War. Glory is the story of the men and women of Gallipoli and the tragic events of 1915. Of the lives lost, the hearts broken, the decisions cast, the errors made and of the dark reality of the heroic dream. It is the story of three people, changed forever, as the echoes of war ring loud through the years. It is a tale of everything but glory… Rachel Billington has written twenty-one novels as well as ten books for children and several non-fiction works.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 20.5 · ISBN 9781471294358
The Cavendon Women Barbara Taylor Bradford
A sweeping, multi-generational saga set around the stately home of Cavendon Hall in the 1920s, perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. The estate is under threat – the aftermath of the Great War has left Cavendon facing ruin. Four young women will be the ones to shape its future – Daphne, fighting to modernise her ancestral home, Cecily Swann, a fashion designer in London, Deidre, the career girl and Dulcie, the outspoken debutante. They will change the estate’s future for good or ill. Nothing will ever be the same again…
“ A classic saga of loyalty, secrets, passion and intrigue.” DAILY MAIL ON CAVENDON HALL
“ A gripping period piece set on the brink of the Great War. Exquisite escapism of the highest order.” THE LADY ON CAVENDON HALL
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.5 · ISBN 9780008123611
The Ladies of Missalonghi Colleen McCullough
This is an endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds. The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright, a Hurlingford by birth, has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, she lives quiet existence in genteel poverty. But then a stranger arrives in town; a divorcee from Sydney. She opens Missy’s eyes to the possibility of a happy ending. Colleen McCullough worked in neurophysiology at Yale Medical School for ten years, where she wrote the record-breaking, international bestseller The Thorn Birds.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Saga · DURATION: 6 · ISBN 9781471294389
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Secrets of the Singer Girls Kate Thompson
They kept the home fires burning but their secrets buried… 1942: Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at Trout’s clothing factory, to start work as a seamstress. Poppy harbours a secret – one from which she is still suffering. But she’s not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. The war will throw their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.
“ Marvellous, full of gutsy characters I immediately emphasised with.” MARGARET PEMBERTON
Secrets of the Singer Girls is a sweeping wartime saga set in London’s colourful East End.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Saga · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471294365
Endangered C. J. Box
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
Joe Pickett is going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. And this time, it just might.
“ Solid-gold A-list must-read.”
Joe has good reason to dislike Dallas Cates because his eighteen-year-old foster daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes worse news – the body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway – barely alive, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April and the doctors don’t know if she’ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it – but Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible.
“ Heart-stoppingly good.”
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DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471294419
Eden in Winter
Richard North Patterson From the number one New York Times bestselling author Richard North Patterson comes another chilling novel. Two months after the suspicious and much-publicised death of Adam Blaine’s father, the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine’s death casts suspicions on those closest to him, testing his ability to protect those closest to him. But the sternest test of all is Carla Pacelli—his late father’s mistress and a woman to whom Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer he gets to this beautiful the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he’s striven to conceal.
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ An intriguing psychological examination of a damaged family.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Mystery · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9781471294334
Death in Devon Ian Sansom
Another delightfully idiosyncratic mystery from Ian Sansom, author of The Norfolk Mystery, celebrating the classic detective novel. Swooping down from the majestic heights of Dartmoor, Swanton Morley, Miriam and Stephen Sefton embark on another adventure. Swanton Morley has been invited to speak at the school’s Founders’ Day. But a boy has died. With occasional outings to surf and to sample cream teas – Swanton Morley, Sefton and Miriam once again pit their wits against the dark, repressive, anti-intellectual forces of 1930s England.
“ A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties… Beautifully crafted by Sansom.” DAILY MAIL ON THE NORFOLK MYSTERY
“ Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels… leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour.” EVENING STANDARD ON THE NORFOLK MYSTERY
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9780008117351
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The Shop Girls
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The charming true story of four young women working in a glamorous department store in the 1950s. For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth’s department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building, the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Serving a variety of customers, from glamorous gypsy queens to royalty and the city’s fashionable elite, the store is a place where these young women can forge successful careers, under the everwatchful eye of flamboyant owner Mr Heyworth. Set during the 1950s, The Shop Girls perfectly brings to life the thrilling hustle and bustle of a fashionable department store.
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471294396
Nothing But Lies Lyndon Stacey
The third in the exciting new mystery series featuring ex-police dog handler, Daniel Whelan. Daniel’s ex-colleague, police officer Joey Matsuki, has asked for his help. Joey is concerned for the safety of his fiancée, Tami, who has reported sightings of a sinister, hoodie-clad figure lurking in the area. Working undercover, Daniel begins to believe there may be more to the situation than meets the eye. As he questions Tami’s friends and neighbours, it becomes clear that something isn’t right. There are things people aren’t telling him, small but significant incidents that can’t be explained…
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Stacey’s plot is both credible and consistently engaging, pulling the reader quickly towards […] stomach-clenchingly exciting denouement.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON NO GOING BACK
NARRATED BY: TBC · Mystery · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471294402
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Lonely Girl Josephine Cox
One fateful night changes the course of a child’s life forever… Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother’s rage. In one tragic moment Rosie’s fragile world is shattered. Grieving and alone, Rosie is thrust into a harsh reality, and she must face the obstacles that fate has set in her path.
“ Cox’s talent as storyteller never lets you escape the spell.” DAILY MAIL
“ Another hit for Josephine Cox.” SUNDAY EXPRESS
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Carole Boyd · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9780007546855
The Apartment in Rome Penny Feeny
A simple life in the sun – who could ask for more? A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of That Summer in Ischia.
Coming soon
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
Gina’s life is good. She loves her adopted home in Italy and she is passionate about her work as a photographer. She’s all wrapped up in her latest artistic project, shots of the young men who arrive in Italy as refugees, destitute and vulnerable. One day, Sasha, a lonely British teenager at summer school, crosses Gina’s path. Sasha’s innocent romance creates complications neither of them could have imagined, leading Gina to wonder, can she come to terms with her past?
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471296123
“ Vivid and gripping.” BARABARA TRAPIDO, AUTHOR
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Letters to the Lost Iona Grey
He promised to love her forever, but forever is running out… 1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London, Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski fall in love. Sixty years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to the house where they shared a brief yet perfect happiness. But Stella has gone, and the letter is opened by Jess. She is captivated by the story of a love affair that burned so bright. Can she help Dan find Stella before it is too late?
“ A beautifully woven tale of love and loss that breaks your heart and rebuilds it. I couldn’t put it down.” LIZ FENWICK, AUTHOR OF THE CORNISH HOUSE
“ Letters to the Lost pulsates with life, offering a vibrant love story that transcends time and the heartbreak of war.” KATE ALCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DRESSMAKER
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Saga · DURATION: 16 · ISBN 9781471297151
The Silk Tree Julian Stockwin
An epic adventure to unravel China’s most guarded secret… Forced to flee Rome, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land upon its shores lonely and penniless. Needing to make money fast, they plot a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres, Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifyingly treacherous journey across unknown lands, never before completed.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471296116
“ Stockwin’s page-turning prose, vividly drawn characters and ability to draw the reader right into these ancient times create a grand and compelling historical epic.” QUARTERDECK MAGAZINE
“ A gripping story […] showing the familiar style of the author and demonstrating careful research that produces an entirely believable historical novel.” FIRE PROJECT ONLINE
The Detective’s Secret Lesley Thomson
Jack and Stella uncover the secrets of a case – but Jack is carrying a secret of his own… October, 1987: As a hurricane sweeps through Britain, a man’s body slowly rots, locked inside an old water tower in west London. He carries no identification and fits no missing persons’ description. His corpse is never claimed.
“ Lesley Thomson is a class above.” IAN RANKIN
October, 2013: The month of the great storm of St Jude. A man dies beneath a late night Piccadilly line train. His brother insists he was murdered, but Jack, a train driver, is sure it was suicide.
SOP: LAMP5 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471296147
The Dressmaker of Dachau Mary Chamberlain
A dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival. 1939, London: Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan is a beautiful, ambitious seamstress and a career in couture is hers for the taking, if she can break free from life in Lambeth. A chance meeting with enigmatic Stanislaus von Lieben catapults Ada into a world of glamour and romance. When he suggests a trip to Paris, Ada is blind to all the warnings of war on the continent. But anticipation turns to despair when war is declared and the two are trapped in France…
“ The Dressmaker of Dachau is a thrilling story, brilliantly told. I couldn’t put it down. Ada Vaughan is a character to fall in love with: utterly real, flawed and beguiling.” SASKIA SARGINSON, AUTHOR OF THE TWINS AND WITHOUT YOU
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9780008131210
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Len Deighton
East is East and West is West – and they meet in Berlin… He was the best source the department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certainly a high-ranking mole, set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more – someone from the old days. So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk. The field is Berlin. The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever…
“ Deighton’s best novel to date – sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy.” OBSERVER
“ A masterly performance, much the best thing Deighton has done since SS-GB.” SUNDAY TIMES
SOP: LAMP10 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: James Lailey · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780007566082
60 Years a Nurse Mary Hazard
Follow Mary Hazard as she shares heart-warming and funny anecdotes from her colourful career as a London nurse. For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking experience. 60 Years a Nurse follows the dramas and emotions as Mary found her feet during those early years: from the firm friends she made under the ever-watchful gaze of the Matron and the sisters, to the eclectic mix of Londoners she strove to care for. These are the funny and heart-warming moments that helped Mary to follow her dream. Mary Hazard is an extraordinarily energetic 79-year-old, living in London. One of the longest serving nurses/ health professionals in the NHS.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9780008129972
Plague Child Peter Ransley
The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. September, 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own. Fifteen years on, Matthew’s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City. Somebody is interested in him, but Tom is unaware that someone else is determined to kill him…
“ A gripping coming-of-age story […] an enthralling mystery adventure.” RADIO TIMES
“ Ransley has a talent for melding dramatic historical detail with a strong story that could well give C. J. Sansom a run for his money.” SPECTATOR
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9780008130299
Amy Snow Tracy Rees
A life-changing discovery awaits… If only she can unlock the secret. Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at Hatville Court, but despised by family and household alike. The beautiful Hatville heiress, Aurelia Vennaway, is Amy’s only advocate. So when Aurelia dies young, Amy’s world collapses. But Aurelia leaves Amy with one last gift – a bundle of letters with a coded key and a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471296178
“ Her writing (is) exceptional, the story compelling and we couldn’t help but fall in love with Amy Snow.” RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB
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Golden Son Pierce Brown
Ender’s Game meets The Hunger Games in Golden Son, the second in an extraordinary trilogy from an incredible new voice. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future, built on lies. Now fully embedded amongst the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down society from within. It’s a journey that will take him further than he’s ever been before – but is Darrow truly willing to pay the price that rebellion demands?
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“ The writing is excellent and the story is better. This is one terrific fantasy book, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.” TERRY BROOKS
“ A shot of adrenalin for your imagination.” STAR MAGAZINE
NARRATED BY: Tim Gerard Reynolds · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 19 · ISBN 9781471293948
The King’s Buccaneer Raymond E. Feist
A stand-alone novel set in Feist’s best-loved world, that of The Riftwar Cycle. In Amos Trask’s ship, Prince Nicholas and Squire Harry set sail for a friendly visit to Uncle Martin in Crydee. But shortly after their arrival, Crydee is brutally attacked. The castle is reduced to ruins, the townspeople slaughtered. As Nicholas ventures further from his home in pursuit of the invaders, he learns that there is more at stake than the fate of the Kingdom. Behind the murderous pirates stands a force that threatens the entire world of Midkemia.
“ File under guilty pleasure.” GUARDIAN
“ Epic scope… vivid imagination… a significant contribution to the growth of the field of fantasy.” WASHINGTON POST
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NARRATED BY: Peter Joyce · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 23.75 · ISBN 9780007576722
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Rook Song Naomi Foyle
The gripping sequel to Astra. Astra Ordott is in exile – evicted from Is-Land for a crime she cannot regret. Recovering from a disorienting course of Memory Pacification Treatment, Astra struggles to focus on her goals – to find her Code father and avenge the death of her Shelter mother. But the deeper Astra ventures into this new world, the more she realises her true quest may be to find herself.
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“ Foyle is effective at building tension and creating villainy all the more sinister for its wellmeaning smile.” SFX
“ Impeccable plotting.” GUARDIAN
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Science Fiction · DURATION: 19.25 · ISBN 9781471293955
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The Skull Throne Peter V. Brett
The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty.
Coming soon
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Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, The Skull Throne of Krasia is a seat of ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world. But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood against this course and rather than risk defeat, Arlen cast them both from a precipice, leaving the world without a saviour. All the while, the corelings have been growing stronger, and there may be none strong enough to stop them.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 26 · ISBN 9780008129811
Caliban’s War James S. A. Corey
The action-packed sequel to James S. A. Corey’s critically acclaimed science fiction hit Leviathan Wakes. For someone who didn’t intend to wreck the solar system’s fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. Then, on one of Jupiter’s moons, a single super-soldier attacks, slaughtering soldiers of Earth and Mars. The race is on to discover whether this is the vanguard of an alien army, or if the danger lies closer to home.
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“ Peter V. Brett is one of my favourite new authors.”
NARRATED BY: Jefferson Mays · Science Fiction · DURATION: 20 · ISBN 9781471294679
“ Leviathan Wakes is interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written, the kind of SF that made me fall in love with the genre.” GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
“ A winning blend of oldschool space opera and modern sensibility… Corey combines no-nonsense storytelling with hard-boiled dialogue as the novel races to a truly cosmic ending.” TELEGRAPH ON LEVIATHAN WAKES
From Time to Time Jack Finney
Jack Finney’s sequel to his classic time travel novel Time and Again. Ruben Prien is still at work with the Project, still dreaming of altering man’s fate by going back in time to adjust events. Ruben’s purpose in summoning Simon Morley back from that earlier world is to prevent World War I. It is ironic, therefore, that the man assigned to carry to America the papers that might help avert the Great Catastrophe travels to his meeting on board the Titanic. And it is Si’s task to attempt to ensure his safe passage.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Science Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471294662
“ Mind-boggling, imagination-stretching.” SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
“ One of the most important, and most moving, timeslip texts yet composed.” ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY ON TIME AND AGAIN
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Half the World Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes a girl is touched by war. Thorn is a girl touched by war. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named a murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Fate traps her in the schemes of cunning minister Father Yarvi, crossing half the world to find allies against the High King. Will Thorn forever be a tool in the hands of the powerful or can she carve her own path?
“ Joe Abercrombie is fast becoming my favourite writer.” DEREK LANDY
“ Grabbed me and refused to let go.” GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
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NARRATED BY: Ben Elliot · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9780008103101
Bliss House Laura Benedict
Richly gothic, creepy and dark, Bliss House is a haunting tale of loss, love – and the secrets our houses can keep. Rainey Bliss Adams’ perfect life came to an end one spring afternoon, when her husband was killed in an explosion that horrifically burned their fourteen year-old daughter, Ariel. Desperate for a new start, she takes Ariel to live in the beautiful family house. Once there, Ariel starts to mysteriously heal. But as a series of tragedies begins to unfold, it becomes clear that a darkness lurks behind the dignified façade of Bliss House…
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“ Bliss House draws you in and refuses to let you go. The story is eerie, seductive, and suspenseful. Read it.” MEG GARDINER
NARRATED BY: TBC · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471296192
Homeland Cory Doctorow
“A wonderful, important book… I’d recommend it […] over pretty much any book I’ve read this year.” neil gaiman Marcus Yallow is no longer a student. California’s economy has collapsed, taking his parents’ jobs and his university tuition with it. Thanks to his activist past, Marcus lands a job as webmaster for a muckraking politician who promises reform. Things are never simple, though… Soon Marcus finds himself embroiled in lethal political intrigue and the sharp end of class warfare, American style.
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“ A first class examination of all that’s wrong, and right, with American society, told in Doctorow’s inimitable and hugely enjoyable style. Faultless.” BOOKS MONTHLY
NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471296208
The Ship By Antonia Honeywell “…tense, engaging and emotionally charged: I devoured this novel.” Helen Dunmore See page 5
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Meet Me in Manhattan Claudia Carroll
He’s the one. Definitely… Isn’t he? Everyone dates online these days, but how do you know the person you’re falling in love with is who they say they are? How far would you put your heart on the line? Holly Johnson decides to fly to the other side of the world to be with the man she’d almost given up hope of meeting. But when she arrives in New York City she is going to get the shock of her life…
“ A heroine you just want fate to smile on.” HEAT
“ An emotional rollercoaster […] asks some probing questions about relationships and keeps the reader wondering until the very end.” IRISH INDEPENDENT
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9780008123666
The Jackdaw Luke Delaney
The fourth novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series – authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. A man who calls himself ‘The Jackdaw’ has been abducting financial sector workers in London. He believes they must be punished for crimes of greed and for causing the banking crisis. The victims’ crimes are broadcast to the thousands who decide the verdict. Once the jury has decided, the Jackdaw will be the executioner. DI Sean Corrigan inherits the case, but as the Jackdaw’s popularity grows, he won’t stop until his mission is complete.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9780008103194
“ An authentic voice on how the police operate with a stone-cold killer striking randomly around London, […] scary authenticity.” THE SUN
“ Confident, aggressive and very promising.” THE TIMES
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Reasons to Stay Alive Matt Haig
“Matt Haig is astounding.” stephen fry Aged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
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“ Brings a difficult and sensitive subject out of the darkness and into the light.” MICHAEL PALIN
“ A small masterpiece that might even save lives.” JOANNA LUMLEY
NARRATED BY: Matt Haig · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 4.5 · ISBN 9781471298974
The Life and Loves of a He-Devil Graham Norton
“It seems to me that we are all made up of the things we adore…”
“ He is both utterly immodest and charmingly self-depreciative.” THE SUNDAY TIMES
“ Full of wicked asides, tart In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Graham shows that life is more than just a series of dates and observations and sharp remarks that could only it’s really the things you love that make you who you are. From his beloved dogs have originated in Graham to his rediscovered love of Ireland, the men Graham has loved and lost, to his love Norton’s witty brain.” affair with New York. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar TERRY WOGAN, and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings. THE IRISH TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Graham Norton · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 7 · ISBN 9781471294341
Disobey
Jacqui Rose From bestselling author Jacqui Rose, comes a hard-hitting thriller that you won’t forget in a hurry… Alfie Jenkins breaks a lot of rules. When he sets up an illegal casino in Soho there’s bad will all round and soon Alfie and those closest to him become embroiled in an all-out war with a dangerous gang. Unfortunately this gang is a deadly enemy to have. When Alfie’s teenage niece Chloe is kidnapped, it becomes a terrifying race against time to save her.
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“ Gritty and gripping… a star in the making.” KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS
“ A captivating read from one of my favourite emerging authors.” MEL SHERRATT
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9780008119744
The Tudor Vendetta Christopher Gortner
Upon the death of Mary I, Elizabeth I takes the throne and Brendan Prescott is called to aid the young queen amid a realm plunged into chaos. London, 1558: Queen Mary is dead and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth’s intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with the young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, scheming William Cecil and archrival Robert Dudley. A poison attempt on Elizabeth soon overshadows her coronation, but before Brendan can investigate, Elizabeth summons him in private to dispatch him on a far more confidential mission.
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NARRATED BY: Steve West · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471294303
“ Fast-paced and exciting, with beautifully researched historical details and a most engaging hero.” DIANA GABALDON, AUTHOR OF AN ECHO IN THE BONE
“ A swashbuckling, perilous adventure that you simply can’t put down!” M. J. ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES
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The Fire Sermon Francesca Haig
They were born together – they will die together. One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega, the only thing they share is the moment of death. The Omegas live in segregation, cast out as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are oppressed by their Alpha counterparts. The Alphas are elite. Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they’re free to live in privileged safety. Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside – no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret – one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose…
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“ A hell of a ride. I would recommend it to anyone I can, regardless of age.” JAMES OSWALD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9780008128982
Single, Carefree, Mellow Katherine Heiny
A tender and ruefully funny look at varieties of love, secrets and betrayal in ten exquisite stories that form a guided tour of the human heart. In the title story we meet Maya, who is torn between her wryly funny boyfriend and the allure of her veterinarian. Revisiting Maya in several stories, chronicling her various states of love – this is a collection about how we are unfaithful to each other, both wilfully and unwittingly. Populated with unwelcome house guests, disastrous birthday parties, needy but loyal friends and flirtatious older men, the stories are emotionally astute, sexy and disarming.
“ Heiny’s book takes a disarming and wry look at the inherent nature of betrayal and secrets within relationships.” ELLE
“ Maya, who appears in several more stories in various stages of life and love, is one of many captivating characters expertly imagined by Heiny.” LIBRARY JOURNAL
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Romance · DURATION: 6.5 · ISBN 9780008130176
A Line of Blood Ben McPherson
A chilling psychological thriller about family – the ties that bind us and the lies that destroy us. Alex and his son find their next-door neighbour dead in the bath. It looks like suicide, but the police want to talk to Alex’s wife. Millicent married Alex for a work permit – at least that has become the myth. The truth is they married for love, but neither wants to be exposed as a romantic. The police question Millicent – she admits to a mild flirtation. Part of Alex is glad the neighbour is dead. Then the murder investigation begins… Ben McPherson is a television producer, director, and writer, who has worked at the BBC for many years.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9780008123765
The Dying Place Luca Veste
A fate worse than death… DI Murphy and DS Rossi discover the body of known troublemaker Dean Hughes, dumped on the steps of St Mary’s Church in West Derby, Liverpool. His body is covered with the unmistakable marks of torture. As they hunt for the killer, they discover a worrying pattern. Other teenagers, all young delinquents, have been disappearing. Who is clearing the streets of Liverpool? Can Murphy and Rossi find them before they meet the same fate as Dean?
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Crime · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9780008104184
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“ Darkly impressive.” THE TIMES
“ A writer to watch.” MARK BILLINGHAM
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A Good Catch Fern Britton
The new witty and warm novel from the best-selling author and TV presenter, Fern Britton.
Coming soon
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Greer Clovelly seems to have it all, beautiful, slender and she’s in love with Jesse Behenna – determined that one day, they’ll be married. After all, their marriage would join two dynasties of Cornish fishing families. For her friend, Loveday Chandler, living in the shadow of her glamorous friend has become a way of life but she loves Jesse too… Jesse faces an agonising choice. Should he follow his heart or bow to his father’s wishes?
“ A light-hearted, fun and easy read.” DAILY MAIL
“ Another gripping good read.” GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9780008121549
You
Zoran Drvenkar He makes his way across a country gripped by fear, searching for his next victim… You. When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead and theories are rife. At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone. It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator, and ‘The Traveller’ is born…
“ Very dark, very sinister, very original.” JOANNE HARRIS, AUTHOR OF CHOCOLAT
“ As dark a novel as I have read in years… for those with quick minds and strong stomachs.” THE TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Ben Addis · Crime · DURATION: 16.5 · ISBN 9780007566914
Hidden
Emma Kavanagh A gripping psychological thriller by a former police psychologist, author of Falling. A gunman is at large, stalking the halls of a local hospital. No one knows who he is or why he is there, and the best men in the force have been tasked to stop him. Among them is Aden, determined to do the right thing. For hospital psychologist Imogen, weighed down by troubles of her own, the presence of the gunman seems to have little to do with her, but she couldn’t be more wrong…
“ Kavanagh tells the story with great verve, weaving the strands of her story expertly.” DAILY MAIL ON FALLING
“ Dark, tense and convincing, this is a brilliantly executed and engrossing thriller. An extremely assured debut.” SUNDAY MIRROR ON FALLING
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471288630
Camille
Pierre Lemaitre In the highly acclaimed and award-winning novels Alex and Irene, Pierre Lemaitre created a memorable character, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven, who will seek justice at any cost… Camille — whose wife Irene was murdered by a sadistic serial killer – has at last opened his emotional lockbox for Anne Forestier, the new woman who has unexpectedly entered his life. But brutal history seems to repeat itself as Anne is violently attacked. When it becomes clear that whoever assaulted Anne is determined to finish the job, Camille hides her in his country home. But in spite of his perfect covering of their trail, the mysterious antagonist finds them… Pierre Lemaitre is the winner of the CWA International Dagger Award for Alex.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471288562
“ It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original.” THE TIMES ON ALEX
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KP: The Autobiography Kevin Pietersen
The book that rocked the English cricketing world. This is the fascinating life story of professional cricketer Kevin Pietersen, MBE, from his childhood in South Africa to his recent experiences as one of the leading lights in the world of international cricket. Kevin was dropped from the England squad in February 2014 year puzzling many observers. Kevin was the tourists’ leading run scorer across the series, and he remains the country’s highest run scorer of all time across all formats of the game.
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“ Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping.” SUNDAY TIMES
“ Utterly captivating.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Byron Mondahl · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471296697
Dead Old
Maureen Carter From the talented author of Working Girls comes a new chilling tale… Blood splattered daffodils stuffed in a dead woman’s mouth – the random act of a gang, or revenge? West Midlands Police think Sophie Carrington’s murder is the latest attack by yobs beating up the old – but Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss won’t accept it. No one desecrates a body like that unless it’s personal. When her new boss buries Bev in paperwork, it’s time for Birmingham’s most gritty detective to rebel… Maureen Carter is the creator of two critically acclaimed crime series. Her books reflect what she sees as the fascinating relationship between the police and the media during major crime investigations.
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NARRATED BY: Clare Corbett · Crime · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471288739
Cold Revenge Alex Howard
Detective Inspector Hanlon is back. She’s been promoted and now she goes undercover in Oxford to find the sadomasochistic killer of two students. Philosophy lecturer Dr Gideon Fuller, with his penchant for high end sadistic sex is in the frame, but Hanlon is not convinced. From the specialist brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a Russian people trafficker with a taste for hurting women, the trail leads Hanlon deeper and deeper into danger – until she herself becomes the killer’s next target. This is Alex Howard’s second book, following the first DI Hanlon title Time To Die.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471288715
The Firemaker Peter May
Three corpses. Two investigators. One burning truth. A burned corpse is a disturbing mystery for Beijing Detective Li Yan, until he enlists forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Having abandoned a broken life in Chicago for her work, she’s as determined as Li to ask difficult questions about the man’s death. But some questions have answers that they’d rather not hear – facts that others are desperate to conceal.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 15.25 · ISBN 9781471290176
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“ Intense and fascinating.” GOOD BOOK GUIDE
“ Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written novel.” SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
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In the Morning I’ll Be Gone Adrian McKinty
A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It’s the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Dermot McCann, an IRA bomber who has escaped from the notorious Maze prison. Sean discovers a woman who wants justice for her daughter who died in a pub locked from the inside. Sean knows that if he can crack the ‘locked-room mystery,’ the bigger mystery of Dermot’s whereabouts might be revealed.
“ A locked room mystery within a manhunt killer, a clever and gripping set-up.” SUNDAY TIMES
“ Driven by McKinty’s brand of lyrical, hardboiled prose, leavened by a fatalistic strain of the blackest humor, In the Morning I’ll Be Gone is a hugely satisfying historical thriller.” IRISH TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Gerard Doyle · Crime · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471294327
The Lie C. L. Taylor
Haunting and compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked… Best friends are there for each other, you trust them with your life. At least that’s what Emma, Daisy, Leanne and Al think. But all that changes when they embark on a trip of a lifetime together. When they return home, only two of them are left alive… Many years later, one girl receives a threatening letter. Someone knows the truth about what happened on that holiday and will stop at nothing to expose it.
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“ An enjoyable rollercoaster of a suspense novel with multiple twists.” DAILY MAIL
“ This dark and creepy book is a must read.” THE SUN
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9780008121488
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Creature Comforts Trisha Ashley
Fall in back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances, in the eagerly awaited new novel from Trisha Ashley. Thirty year old Izzy Dane has a peaceful life. She lives in the sleepy village of Halfhidden with her aunt Debo, who runs the local kennels. Izzy’s life isn’t particularly exciting, but that’s just how she likes it; she’s bid farewell to a dramatic life and she’s perfectly content. So what happens when someone forces Izzy to fall in love with life again? Can you make an omelette without breaking a few eggs?
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“ Full of down-to-earth humour.” SOPHIE KINSELLA
“ A warm-hearted and comforting read. Trisha at her best.” CAROLE MATTHEWS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9780008119805
Hunted Paul Finch
Heck needs to watch his back, because someone’s watching him… A series of bizarre but fatal accidents are taking place. When a businessman survives a near-drowning but is found burnt alive in his car just weeks later, DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is brought in to investigate. Soon it appears that other recent deaths might be linked. As the body count rises it’s clear that something far more sinister is at play, and it’s coming for Heck too…
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NARRATED BY: Paul Thornley · Thriller · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9780007558834
“ Clever and well written with some bizarre murders and masses going on, it’s an excellent series.” THE BOOKSELLER
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The Ghost Fields Elly Griffiths
Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer? In Norfolk,a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery – a buried World War Two plane with the pilot still inside. DNA tests identify the man a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk’s deserted air force bases, the so-called Ghost Fields, which have been partially converted into a pig farm. Then human bones are found…
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“ A leading voice in British crime writing.” CRIMESQUAD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471297489
Rain on the Dead Jack Higgins
A storm is coming for Sean Dillon… It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the ‘Prime Minister’s Private Army’ prevents it becoming a bloodbath. Soon they are on the trail of the perpetrators, confident they will catch them. What Dillon doesn’t realize is that they have just sprung a trap that will lead them to almost certain death.
“ With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers.” THE STRAND MAGAZINE
“ A thriller writer in a class of his own.”
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NARRATED BY: Nigel Carrington · Crime · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9780008122072
FINANCIAL TIMES
Always the Bridesmaid Lindsey Kelk
The brilliant new standalone bestseller from Lindsey Kelk. Lauren has announced she’s getting married – just as Sarah’s husband asks her for a divorce. Nothing in Maddie’s career in event management has prepared her for this particular combo of planning and real pain. The news that her ex is also tying the knot is the final straw. But whether she likes it or not, everything is about to change for Maddie.
“ Kelk has a hilarious turn of phrase and a sparkling writing style.” DAILY EXPRESS
“ Leaves you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.” COMPANY
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9780008121679
Breaking Point Suzanne Brockmann
Count on the intense action and raw honesty that Suzanne Brockmann consistently delivers, as she goes for broke in Breaking Point – and never looks back. As commander of the nation’s most elite FBI counter-terrorism unit, agent Max Bhagat leads by a hard-driving example – pushing himself to the limit and beyond. That includes his deep feelings for Gina Vitagliano, the woman who won his heart. But when the shocking news reaches him that Gina has been killed in a terrorist bombing, nothing can keep Max from making a full investigation – and retribution – his top priority.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471297502
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“ Brockmann consistently turns out first-rate novels that tug on the reader’s heartstrings, and her latest is no exception.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON OUT OF CONTROL
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Mercy
David Kessler Is an innocent man about to be condemned to death? Lawyer Alex Sedaka is resigned to the fact that his client will be executed. Charged with the rape and murder of 18-year-old Dorothy Haufaman the case seems cut and dry – until the victim’s mother offers clemency in return for the whereabouts of her daughter’s body. Alex must now convince Clayton to come clean – but he still protests his innocence.
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“ This will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.” CLOSER
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9780008129170
Gracious Lies Hilda Lolly
A collection of five delightfully unsettling short stories that take a lingering peep behind the net curtains of everyday life, love and marriage.
“ An intriguing collection of stories…” THE LADY MAGAZINE
In Hand, Foot & Finger can Audrey endure another week of toil on the beautiful beaches of Weston-super-Mare? In The New Mrs Barefoot, Dobbo’s employer’s new wife is not quite the heavenly creature he was expecting. In Lemon, knife-sharp tensions erupt between Claire and her husband Trevor. While in Upper Rugless, a life of tranquillity and Victoria sponge is not as delightful as it promised to be. And in Sixty-Six Steps to Mother, Gerald and Angela ascend for Christmas lunch. Will it be a case of like mother, like son?
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9781471297519
Garden of Lies Amanda Quick
The bestselling author presents an all-new novel of intrigue and murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London… The Kern Secretarial Agency provides professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern’s employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end, and Ursula is convinced it was murder. Archaeologist Slater Roxton thinks Mrs Kern is crazy to meddle in such dangerous affairs. Together they must reveal the identity of a killer who is determined to stay hidden… Amanda Quick is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of forty bestsellers under various pen names.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471299001
The Valley John Renehan
There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan but there was only one like this… Black didn’t even know its proper name. It was the farthest, the hardest, and the worst. He thought that everything about the Valley was myth and rumour. But Black finds after traveling deep into the heart of the Valley an illumination of dark secrets that had accumulated during month after month of fighting and dying in defence of an indefensible piece of land…
“ Both a gripping, tightlywound mystery as well as a sharply observed look at the deterioration of men tasked with too vague a mission and too little support deep in the mountains of Afghanistan.” PHIL KLAY, AUTHOR OF REDEPLOYMENT
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Thriller · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471297496
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Jammer Teen Ideal for engaging teenagers, whether new or voracious readers. Including authors such as Keira Cass and Catherine Doyle. The titles we select will also be popular with many adults.
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The One Kiera Cass
The Selection changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. Now, only one will claim Prince Maxon’s heart… America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown – or to Prince Maxon’s heart. But as ‘The Selection’ approaches its end and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realises just how much she stands to lose – and how hard she’ll have to fight for the future she wants. Now, the time has come for one winner to be chosen.
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“ Reality TV meets dystopian fairy tale… Charming, captivating.” KIERSTEN WHITE
NARRATED BY: Amy Rubinate · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9780007587780
Lobsters
Tom Ellen and Lucy Evison Instead of their summer holidays being epic, Sam and Hannah’s summer holidays is turning out to be very awkward… They must navigate social misunderstandings, the plotting of well-meaning friends and their own fears of being virgins to find happiness. But fate is at work to bring them together, and in the end, it all boils down to love.
“ Lobsters is rude but extremely engaging and it brings out the insecurities of being a teenager and the worries about being uncool.” TELEGRAPH
“ Frank, funny and honest.” OBSERVER
SOP: JAMT2 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Romance · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471293962
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Vendetta
Catherine Doyle When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication… When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion next door, Sophie Gracewell’s life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nic, Sophie finds herself falling into an underworld governed by powerful families. When Sophie’s own family skeletons come to life, she must choose between two warring dynasties – the one she was born into and the one she is falling in love with. Vendetta is the first in an exciting new teen trilogy, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471294686
Unspeakable Abbie Rushton
A tale of intrigue and unexpected romance in which some secrets are too dangerous to be told. Megan doesn’t speak. She hasn’t spoken in months. Pushing away the people she cares about is just a small price to pay. There are things locked inside Megan’s head that she cannot, must not, let out. Then Jasmine starts at school and life starts to look a bit brighter. Megan would love to speak again and it seems like Jasmine might be the answer. But if she finds her voice, will she lose everything else? Abbie Rushton was a winner of Undiscovered Voices, a writing competition run by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Unspeakable is her thrilling debut novel.
SOP: JAMT2 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471294693
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Red Leaves
Sita Brahmachari We all live under the same sky… Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee. She is devastated when she finds she’s being sent to a new foster family, so she runs away, seeking shelter in the nearby woods. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Zak is trying to cope with his parents’ divorce. He starts researching the history behind his house, which leads him to an old air-raid shelter in the same woods. Both children meet in the heart of the ancient city woodland and as newspapers fill with pictures of the two lost children, unexpected bonds are formed…
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“ Award-winning Sita Brahmachari has a great gift of understanding for the confusions and loneliness of adolescents and their need to be gently nurtured and cherished.” LOVE READING 4 KIDS
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471294730
Seed
Lisa Heathfield Seed loves you. Seed will never let you go. Fifteen-year-old Pearl has lived her whole life protected within the small community at Seed, where they worship Nature and idolise their leader, Papa S. But when some outsiders arrive, everything changes. Pearl experiences feelings that she never knew existed and begins to realise that there is darkness at the heart of Seed. A darkness from which she must escape, before it’s too late. A chilling and heart-breaking coming-of-age story of life, Seed will take listeners on a journey of gripping selfdiscovery, reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471294747
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Playaway A media format designed for audiobooks – preloaded MP3 players with an audiobook locked in. Just press play. APRIL
Found
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Harlan Coben The eagerly anticipated new novel in the Mickey Bolitar series, following Seconds Away and Edgar Award-nominated Shelter. Mickey and his friends once again face dangers untold in their quest to discover the truth about the mysterious Abeona Foundation and what really happened to Mickey’s father. Things take a strange turn for Mickey when one of the basketball players from his team disappears and another is accused of taking steroids.
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EOIN COLFER ON SHELTER
NARRATED BY: Eric Meyers · Crime · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471288173
The Empty Throne
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“ Tense, powerful, compulsive.”
Bernard Cornwell
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In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir and the vacant throne leaves a dangerous opportunity for the West Saxons to seize control. But Edward of Wessex is distracted by the succession of his own throne. And while the kingdoms are in disarray, the Vikings will go on the rampage once more. A hero is needed, one who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation…
SOP: PA6
“ A powerhouse thriller with a heart that beats like a triphammer… Coben has created a hero worth following to hell and back.”
“ The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.” GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
NARRATED BY: Matt Bates · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9780007567003
The Burning Mind
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M. G. Gardiner
The Burning Mind is the new thriller from the acclaimed Edgar Awardwinning writer, M. G. Gardiner. Harper Flynn nearly died when gunmen attacked the LA club where she worked. A year later, Harper tries to rebuild her life - but is failing. Not only is she convinced there was a third gunman who escaped, but she also believes that he is targeting the survivors. The only person who will listen is Sherriff Deputy Aiden Garrison – but he has a secret of his own.
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NARRATED BY: Laurence Bouvard · Thriller · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471288197
“ One of my favourite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. The Burning Mind should go to the top of your ‘to be read’ pile.” KARIN SLAUGHTER
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The Woman Who Stole My Life
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Marian Keyes
International bestselling author Marian Keyes is back with another masterfully told story, full of wit and charm. One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. But in this event is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar, wrenching her whole family apart.
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“ When it comes to writing pageturners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own.” DAILY EXPRESS
NARRATED BY: Aoife McMahon · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9781471288166
A War of Flowers
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Jane Thynne
The third title in Jane Thynne’s evocative and thrilling Clara Vine series set in the build up to World War Two. August, 1938: British actress, Clara Vine, is in Paris to film her latest movie, mingling with society and passing snippets of information to her contacts in the British embassy. When Clara is approached by an undercover British operative who asks her to befriend Eva Braun, Hitler’s girlfriend, she knows that she is putting herself in danger.
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“ An absolute cracker of a read… fast-paced and gripping from the start… Thynne expertly maintains the suspense.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE WINTER GARDEN
NARRATED BY: Julie Teal · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471288203
The Supreme Macaroni Company
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“ A rich, sweeping epic… utterly splendid.”
Adriana Trigiani
The Supreme Macaroni Company is an unforgettable narrative about family, work, romance, and the unexpected turns of life and fate.
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For a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company has relied on Vechiarelli & Son leather from Tuscany, and with a twist of fate, Valentine Roncalli falls in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli. After the wedding, Valentine awakes to the hard reality of a new business and a new family. She will have to fight for everything she wants and savour all she deserves – the bitter and the sweet of life itself.
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NARRATED BY: Laurel Lefkow · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471288180
Prince of the Blood
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Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist’s continuation of his classic Riftwar series. Set twenty years after the events in The Riftwar Saga, Prince of the Blood follows the adventures that erupt when a group of powerful nobles attempt to overthrow the Empress of Kesh. In the centre of the conflict are the two princes of Krondor, Borric and Erland. If the traitors were to succeed, they would start a war that could tear the Empire apart.
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“ A solid backdrop and engaging characters inhabit a wellrounded fantasy world.” PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
NARRATED BY: Peter Joyce · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 16.75 · ISBN 9780007576692
Midnight In Europe
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“ In the world of the espionage thriller Alan Furst is in a world of his own.”
Alan Furst
Alan Furst returns with a thrilling new novel set during the tense build-up to World War Two.
WILLIAM BOYD
Paris, 1938: A shadow edges over Europe, while in Spain the war has already begun. Cristián Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces and agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar is an unlikely group of allies: including Max de Lyon, a man hunted by the Gestapo, and the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a refined beauty with a taste for danger.
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NARRATED BY: Peter Noble · Crime · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471288227
Mr Bones
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Paul Theroux
Mr Bones is a sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.
“ As observant, intuitive, wry, inventive and eloquent as Graham Greene.” SUNDAY TIMES
A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. An art collector gleefully destroys his most valuable pieces. A young artist devotes himself to a wealthy, malicious gossip, knowing that it’s just a matter of time before she turns on him. In this new collection of short stories, Paul Theroux explores the tenuous leadership of the elite and the surprising revenge of the overlooked.
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471288210
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Samantha Harvey A novel about female friendship, betrayal and imagination, from prizewinning author Samantha Harvey.
“ A glorious, sensuous, grown-up novel, intelligent and passionate.” TESSA HADLEY
In the middle of the night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket and starts writing. “In answer to a question you asked a long time ago,” she writes, and so begins a letter that both women have preferred to forget. She writes night after night – a letter of friendship, by turns a belated outlet of rage and forgiveness, the letter dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love.
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NARRATED BY: Anna Bentinck · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471288241
Music for Torching
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A. M. Homes
“There have been very few women writers like Homes.” zadie smith Paul and Elaine have two boys and a beautiful home, yet they find themselves thoroughly, inexplicably stuck. Obsessed with ‘making things good again,’ they spin the quiet terrors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens well and truly out of control. From a hilarious encounter in the pantry with a Stepford Wife neighbour, to a hostage situation at the school, Homes lays bare the foundations of marriage and family life.
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“ Homes describes nice people doing not-so-nice deeds in luminous, precise prose.” TIM APPELO
NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471269752
Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro
“Kazuo Ishiguro is a master storyteller, in a class of his own making.” independent In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises Kathy’s attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.
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“ A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour-de-force of knotted tension and buried anguish.” TIME
NARRATED BY: Kerry Fox · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471288234
The Killing Season
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Mason Cross
Slick, fast-paced and assured, The Killing Season is the first novel in the gripping new Carter Blake series. When Caleb Wardell escapes from death row, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man whose skills lie in finding those who don’t want to be found. As they try desperately to second guess a man who kills purely for the thrill, they uncover a hornets’ nest of corruption.
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NARRATED BY: Eric Meyers · Thriller · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471288258
I’ll Take New York
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Miranda Dickinson
The Sunday Times bestselling author returns to New York with her most heart-warming, romantic story yet.
“ One of the most interesting ‘loner’ heroes to have arrived in recent years… Told with pace and vigour by a writer who seems to have a natural aptitude for thrillers, it is not to be missed.” DAILY MAIL
“ The perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter’s eve.” CLOSER
When her boyfriend lets her down for the last time, Brooklyn bookshop owner Bea James makes a decision – no more men. Psychiatrist Jake Steinmann is making a new start too, leaving his broken marriage behind in San Francisco. At a party where they seem to be the only two singletons, Bea and Jake meet and decide there’s just one thing for it. They will make a pact – no more relationships. But the city has other plans…
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NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9780008104146
Judy: A Dog in a Million
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Damien Lewis
Damien Lewis’ heart-warming story about World War Two’s only animal POW, Judy.
“ The dog of war whose sixth sense saved hundreds of British lives.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
Judy, the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. She was cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her. It was in recognition of the extraordinary friendship and protection she offered amidst the savage environment of a Japanese prison camp in Indonesia that she gained her formal status as a POW. Her incredible story is one of the most inspiring tales you will ever read.
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NARRATED BY: Ben Addis · History · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9781471288265
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Dear Thief
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Wayfaring Stranger
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James Lee Burke
The new novel from the crime-writing genius, James Lee Burke. In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland confronts the notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, resulting with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of Hershel Pine, and a young prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein – a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the beautiful Bonnie Parker.
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“ A fantastic novelist… so far above the prevailing standards of crime fiction that it is pointless to make the comparison.” DAILY EXPRESS
NARRATED BY: Will Patton · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471288555
The Kill Room
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Jeffery Deaver
The Kill Room is edge-of-your-seat suspense, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.
“ The Kill Room is full of… trademark twists, breathless suspense and ironic humour… the only response can be sighs of satisfaction and admiration.” EVENING STANDARD
They are calling it the ‘million-dollar bullet,’ a sniper shot from a near-impossible distance. This murder has all the hallmarks of a contract killing and district attorney Nance Laurel won’t let it go. But there is no crime scene investigation and no co-operation from the police. Putting her career on the line, she calls Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs. Their reputation for seeing what others miss is unparalleled, and she knows they will risk everything to seek the truth…
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NARRATED BY: Kerry Shale · Thriller · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471288548
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
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Dave Eggers
A brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world.
SOP: PA6
In the barracks of an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought with him wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn’t recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. Thomas didn’t want to have to resort to this, but now he has a few questions. NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Literature · DURATION: 5.5 · ISBN 9781471288579
January Window
“ Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Stretches […] toying with literary forms to new lengths […] compelling.” EVENING STANDARD
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Philip Kerr
Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death. But this time, it’s murder. Scott Manson is team coach for London City football club. He’s also their all-round fixer – he gets the lads into training, and out of trouble, keeps the wags at bay and the press in his pocket. But now London City manager Joao Zarco is dead, killed at his team’s beloved stadium at Silvertown Docks. Even Scott Manson can’t smooth over murder… but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?
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NARRATED BY: Andrew Wincott · Crime · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471288524
Forensics
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Val McDermid Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic medicine.
“ McDermid has the ruthless psychological scalpel that forms part of the equipment of all good novelists, whatever their genre. And, fortunately for us, she knows just how to use it.”
GUARDIAN The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves – how they lived, how they died – and who killed them. Val McDermid uncovers the secrets of forensic medicine with ground-breaking research and her own experience. Along the way you’ll wonder at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death and how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer.
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NARRATED BY: Sarah Barron · History · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471288586
The Seven Sisters
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Lucinda Riley
The first book in a new series from the number one international bestseller. Maia D’Apliése and her five sisters were all adopted as babies. When their father dies each of them are given a clue to their true heritage – a clue which takes Maia across the world… This sweeping epic tale is the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation.
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NARRATED BY: Emily Lucienne · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 18.5 · ISBN 9781471288531
“ What an absolutely fantastic storyteller – I was immediately immersed in the story, and absolutely compelled.” KATHERINE
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The Wish List
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Jane Costello
The Big 3-0 is looming, but there’s so much still to do… Emma and her friends are about to turn thirty, and for Emma it’s a defining moment. Defined, that is, by her having achieved none of the things she’d imagined she would. She’s never jumped out of a plane, hasn’t met the man she’s going to marry, or snogged anyone famous. As Emma hurtles towards her thirtieth, she discovers, with hilarious consequences, that some of them are trickier to tick off than she’d thought…
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“ If you like Sophie Kinsella you’ll love Jane Costello.” COSMOPOLITAN
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471288609
Poisoned Ground
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“ A compelling new series.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Barbara Nadel
The third Hakim and Arnold mystery from bestselling crime author Barbara Nadel. Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London’s ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband’s innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?
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NARRATED BY: Paul Thornley · Crime · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471288623
The Age of Magic
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Ben Okri
“ Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
The new novel from the Booker and Commonwealth Prize winning author is an intoxicating and absorbing tale. Eight weary film-makers, travelling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened and transformed, each in a different way.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 5.25 · ISBN 9781471288616
Two Weddings and a Baby
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Scarlett Bailey
This summer is going to be an adventure… Tamsyn Thorne has not been back to her home town of Poldore for five years. But now her brother, Ruan, is about to get married and she has no excuse. Her plans to arrive in Cornwall looking chic and successful are dashed when a storm turns her from fashion goddess to a drowned rat. Worse, she ends up insulting the local hunky vicar – and then finds a tiny baby abandoned in his churchyard.
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“ A fab summery book that’s got everything from Chanel coats to sexy vicars!” FABULOUS MAGAZINE
NARRATED BY: Alex Tregear · Romance · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471288647
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“ A stellar accomplishment.” GUARDIAN
Rachel Cusk
A novel about self-effacement and self-expression, from one of Granta’s best young novelists. A female author travels to Athens to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. The more they talk the more certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.
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NARRATED BY: Kate Lock · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471288661
All My Puny Sorrows
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Miriam Toews
A story of sisters, suicide and how to carry on with hope when grief loads the heart.
“ The novel she has written – so exquisitely that you’ll want to savour every word – reads as if it has been wrenched from her heart.” SUNDAY TIMES
Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married… and she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men… and she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. When Elf’s latest suicide attempt leaves her hospitalised weeks before her highly anticipated world tour, Yoli is forced to confront the impossible question of whether it is better to let a loved one go.
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NARRATED BY: Erin Moon · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471294440
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Mr Mac and Me
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Esther Freud
A compelling story of an unlikely friendship with a man who was one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.
“ It’s undoubtedly her most accomplished novel yet. Freud is a modern literary rarity: a born storyteller.” THE TIMES
It is 1914 and Thomas Maggs lives with his parents on the Suffolk coast. Life is quiet – shaped by the seasons. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives, looking for all the world like Sherlock Holmes. Mac is what the locals call him as they whisper. But Mac isn’t a detective, he’s the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his red haired artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas.
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NARRATED BY: John Banks · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471288692
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Melissa Harrison
“ Heartfelt, elegiac… Lovingly observed.” SUNDAY TIMES
An intimate and captivating portrait of four people struggling with the concrete confines of city life.
Eight-year-old TC skips school to explore the city’s overgrown, forgotten corners. Sophia, seventy-eight, watches with concern as he slips past her window, through the park. Jozef can’t forget the farm he left behind in Poland, its woods and fields still a part of him, although he is a thousand miles away. When he meets TC he finds a kindred spirit: both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.
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NARRATED BY: Clare Corbett · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7 · ISBN 9781471288685
The Establishment
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Owen Jones
A biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy.
“ This is the most important book on the real politics of the UK in my lifetime, and the only one you will ever need to read. You will be enlightened and angry.”
IRVINE WELSH Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9781471288678
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Dead Girl Walking
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Chris Brookmyre
Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything. A call from an old friend offers a chance for redemption – but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it’s too late, all while the walls are closing in…
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“ Chilling, compelling… Brookmyre is unique.” MARK BILLINGHAM
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471295188
Carnival of Shadows
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R. J. Ellory
Murder, conspiracy and a hint of the supernatural, the powerful thriller from bestselling author R. J. Ellory.
“ An atmospheric thriller with a gallery of fascinating characters.” IRISH INDEPENDENT
Kansas, 1959: A travelling carnival appears overnight, intriguing the townsfolk with acts of inexplicable magic and illusion. But when a man’s body is discovered beneath the carousel, FBI Special Agent Michael Travis is sent to investigate. But things are not that they seem, and with each new turn of the investigation, Travis’s faith is challenged as he struggles to open his mind to a truth that defies comprehension.
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NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Crime · DURATION: 20.5 · ISBN 9781471295201
A Place For Us
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Harriet Evans
Martha Winter’s family is finally coming home. The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer’s day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can’t be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn’t you pay any price to have a glorious place like this?
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NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Saga · DURATION: 17.75 · ISBN 9781471295171
“ Harriet Evans knows what she’s doing.” RED
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Erica James
A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.
“ [A] heart-warming, romantic story full of engaging characters, an emotional rollercoaster” DAILY EXPRESS ON THE HIDDEN COTTAGE
Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl, providing a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood. Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending to broken, battered books. When she discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible, Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love…
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471295195
Centuries of Change
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Ian Mortimer
History’s greatest tour guide is back and he’s ringing the changes. In a contest of change, which century from the past millennium would come up trumps? Imagine the Black Death took on the female vote in a pub brawl, or the Industrial Revolution faced the internet in a medieval joust – whose side would you be on? In this hugely entertaining book, celebrated historian Ian Mortimer takes us on a whirlwind tour of Western history, pitting one century against another in his quest to measure change.
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“ The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time.” THE TIMES
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · History · DURATION: 16.75 · ISBN 9781471295218
The Final Testimony of Raphael Ignatius Phoenix
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“ More than lives up to its promise… as darkly funny as it is original.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
Paul Sussman
“My name is Raphael Ignatius Phoenix and I am a hundred years old – or will be in ten days’ time, in the early hours of 1st January, 2000, when I kill myself…” Born at the beginning of the 20th century, Raphael Ignatius Phoenix is determined to take his own life as the new millennium begins and he turns a hundred years old. But before he ends it all, he wants to get his affairs in order.
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NARRATED BY: Gordon Griffin · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471295225
The Book of Strange New Things
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Michel Faber
This is Michel Faber’s first novel in twelve years and it is an all-out masterpiece. “ This is a man who could give Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible – his ‘book of strange new things.’ It is a quest that will challenge Peter’s beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea.
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Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Josh Cohen · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 19.5 · ISBN 9781471295232
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
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Joshua Ferris
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
“ Frenetic, very funny, it confirms Ferris as a rising star of American fiction.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
Paul O’Rourke is a man out of touch with modern life. While his dental practice occupies his days, his nights are filled with darker thoughts, as he alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism of the rest of humanity. So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. What began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soul-frightening – the possibility that the virtual ‘Paul’ might be a better version…
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NARRATED BY: Campbell Scott · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471295249
Curtain Call
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Anthony Quinn
Murder, ambition, ugly politics and dangerous love in London’s Theatreland. “ Ambitious, gripping and On a sultry afternoon in 1936 a woman accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina Land, a West End actress, faces a dilemma – she’s not supposed to be at the hotel, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she may have seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed ‘the Tie-Pin Killer’ she realises that other people’s lives could be at stake.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471295256
disturbingly well done.”
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The Dandelion Years
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Thirst
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Kerry Hudson An unconventional love story, taking us from London to Siberia, from hope to heartbreak and back again. The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other. Not so for Dave and Alena. He’s from London, she’s from Siberia. They meet in a slick Bond Street department store, where she’s up to no good and it’s his job to catch her. So begins an unlikely relationship between two people with pasts, with secrets.
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DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9781471295287
The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters
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Michelle Lovric
Inspired by a true story, this is the glorious, grubby and magnificent tale of the rise and fall of the seven long-haired Swiney sisters.
SOP: PA12
“ An unusual love story… a refreshing change from the plethora of middleclass novel fare that simply holds a mirror to the majority of readers.”
“ Michelle Lovric is devilishly clever, fiendishly comic and generally just an irresistible novelist. I delighted in every page.” ELIZABETH GILBERT, AUTHOR OF EAT, PRAY, LOVE
It begins with a singing and dancing septet in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters’ dancing that fills the seats, it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will pull them out of poverty, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. NARRATED BY: Caroline Lennon · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 17 · ISBN 9781471295270
In the Light of What We Know
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Zia Haider Rahman
A bold, epic novel shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize.
“ [A]n ambitious and extraordinary achievement… a novel about the entwining of politics and love and the painful quest for identity… this is a dazzling debut.” SUNDAY TIMES
One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognises a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier, under mysterious circumstances. As the friends begin to talk, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange.
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NARRATED BY: Ralph Lister · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 21.25 · ISBN 9781471295263
The Reason I Jump
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Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell The number one Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as an autistic child.
“ The freshness of voice coexists with so much wisdom… it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human.” THE TIMES
Written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book provides a rare insight into the behaviour of autistic children. Using a question and answer format, Naoki explains why he talks loudly or repeats the same questions, and why he likes to jump. Abundantly proving that people with autism do possess imagination, humour and empathy, he also makes clear how badly they need our compassion, patience and understanding.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Body, Mind & Spirit · DURATION: 2.5 · ISBN 9781471295317
The Killing Room
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Christobel Kent
A new Sandro Cellini Investigation from thrilling crime writer Christobel Kent. When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party in Florence, he has no idea what he’s walking into. The former head of security for this elite development has just died under suspicious circumstances and Sandro finds himself stepping into dead man’s shoes. When one of the residents is found murdered in her room, events begin to spiral out of control.
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“ Dark, gloomy and often sinister… An intelligent and convincing thriller with fleshed-out characters you want to meet again.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471297199
Sideswipe
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Charles Willeford “No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” elmore leonard Sergeant Hoke Moseley is losing his mind: his ex-wife just remarried, his teenage daughters want to quit school, his beat partner is eight months pregnant – and is living in his house. A handsome, cowboy-hatted psychopath is planning another armed robbery – one that will leave half-a-dozen bystanders dead. In this hilarious, wicked tale of crime and mid-life crisis, it seems that only Hoke can stop him.
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NARRATED BY: Paul Birchard · Crime · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471295294
“ The master of cynical Florida crime fiction.” THE TIMES
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No Safe House Linwood Barclay
“Brilliantly plotted… [a] fast-paced and brilliantly twisty thriller.” sunday mirror Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal; the echoes of which are still felt. When their daughter Grace foolishly follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. Caught between family loyalty and betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation. All he knows is that to live, he may have to do the unthinkable…
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“ Barclay’s protagonists have depth and complexity and he is even prepared to tackle what is something of a rarity in the crime genre.” FINANCIAL TIMES
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Thriller · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471290503
A Most Desirable Marriage Hilary Boyd
We all have secrets, but not like this… Lawrence and Jo have enjoyed a strong marriage, the envy of their friends. Even after thirty years they have lots to say to each other, many interests in common and, until recently, a good sex life. But Lawrence seems wary and restless. Something’s wrong. Just how wrong, Jo is about to discover. Can they use their years of history – all the things they’ve shared – to overcome a devastating betrayal?
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“ I was ripping through this book… addictive.” EVENING STANDARD ON TANGLED LIVES
NARRATED BY: Jenny Funnell · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471288326
Hide Her Name Nadine Dorries
This gripping follow on from the bestselling The Four Streets uncovers a community alive with rumours and gossip.
“ The characters are engaging, the streets scenes cinematic and the theme of the novel powerful.” THE TIMES ON THE FOUR STREETS
No one knows who did it, least of all the police. Somewhere, in this tight-knit Irish Catholic community, someone must know something. 14-year-old Kitty Doherty, pregnant with a dead man’s child, is a danger to everyone who needs to keep the secret. Her mother, Maura and best friend Nellie’s grandmother, decide the girls must be spirited away to Ireland to await the birth of the baby. But it isn’t easy to keep a secret that big.
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NARRATED BY: Emma Gregory · Saga · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471288333
The Petticoat Men Barbara Ewing
Fanny and Stella are dangerous ladies, and these are dangerous times… The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. She admires their sparkling gowns, and laughs at their stories of attending society balls dressed up as the glamorous ‘Fanny’ and ‘Stella’. But one fateful night Fanny and Stella are arrested. Outraged, Mattie is determined to save her friends and expose the establishment’s hypocrisy…
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“ Ewing is an accomplished storyteller, who puts the pleasure of her readers first.” INDEPENDENT
NARRATED BY: Barbara Ewing · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471288340
Iron and Rust Harry Sidebottom
In a single year six Emperors will lay claim to the Throne of the Caesars… 235 AD: A surprise attack and the brutal murder of the Emperor Alexander and his mother ends the Severan dynasty and shatters four decades of Roman certainty. Military hero Maximinus Thrax is the first Caesar risen from the barracks. A simple man of steel and violence, he will fight for Rome. The Senators praise the new Emperor with elaborate oratory, but will any of them accept a Caesar who was once a shepherd boy?
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NARRATED BY: Colin Mace · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9780008104252
“ An amazing story of bloodlust, ruthless ambition and revenge.” THE TIMES
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Ashes in the Wind Christopher Bland
An epic saga, following the tumultuous history of a torn-apart Ireland. Ashes in the Wind interweaves the destinies of two families: the Anglo-Irish Burkes and the Catholic Irish Sullivans, beginning in 1919 with a shocking murder and the burning of the Burkes’ ancestral castle in Kerry. Childhood friends John Burke and Tomas Sullivan will find themselves on opposite sides of an armed struggle which engulfs Ireland. Only sixty years later will the triumphant and redemptive finale of this enthralling story be played out.
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NARRATED BY: Laurence Kennedy · Saga · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471288364
The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House Stephanie Lam
Stephanie Lam’s stunning novel is a gripping read laced with mystery, secrets and love. It’s 1965 and Rosie Churchill has arrives at run-down Castaway House. But when she uncovers a scandal locked away in the old house, she soon realises that secrets never stay buried for long. In 1924 fresh-faced Robert Carver comes to Castaway House to spend the summer with his cousin, Alec Bray. But the Brays are a damaged family. As Rosie begins to learn more about Robert, the more their stories, old and new, entwine.
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471288357
Honeyville Daisy Waugh
A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. Trinidad, Colorado 1913: the only town for a thousand miles where prostitution is still legal. This is a town that is living by its own rules, where the corrupt rule and money flows. Honeyville follows two women, both trying to make their way in a frontier town built and run for men. One lives within society’s boundaries: a decent, rich life, behind lace curtains. The other is a celebrated hooker.
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“ A lubricious new novel… period charm and sexual intrigue.” TATLER
NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9780008104078
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Jam and Roses Mary Gibson
“ A fabulous, fascinating read.” VANESSA FELTZ ON CUSTARD TARTS AND BROKEN HEARTS
The lives and loves of 1920s factory girls, in this charming novel from the author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts. Three sisters in 1920s struggle to make ends meet and protect their mother from their violent father. Milly works in Southwells jam factory. Elsie dreams of a career on the stage, while little Amy runs wild with her friends. All three of the girls fear the unforgiving temper of their father and their courageous attempts to protect their defenseless mother will have dramatic, disastrous consequences for them all.
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NARRATED BY: Anne Dover · Saga · DURATION: 16.25 · ISBN 9781471288890
The Flowers of the Field Sarah Harrison
The superb, bestselling novel of one family and the devastating changes brought by the First World War.
“ Smashing… a story which hurried you along from page to page at breakneck pace.” DAILY MIRROR
Thea Tennant, eldest daughter of a wealthy family, yearns to do more with her life. When her beautiful but flighty sister Dulcie brings trouble to the family, both Thea and Dulcie are sent to relatives in Austria. But with the onset of War, their lives change beyond recognition. It isn’t just the Tennants whose lives have changed, for their parlour maid, Primmy, the War brings opportunities she is determined to take.
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NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Saga · DURATION: 15.25 · ISBN 9781471290527
Dad’s War Chris Tarrant
A touching, deeply personal memoir about fathers, sons and the courage of our war heroes. Chris Tarrant and his father Basil were very close, they enjoyed sport together and shared the same sense of humour. Chris loved and admired his father – it was only after his death he realised that he hardly knew him at all. Chris discovered that Basil was involved in some of World War Two’s most significant campaigns, including the Dunkirk evacuation, the D-Day landings and also took part in some of the most brutal, close-range fighting in Cleve.
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NARRATED BY: Chris Tarrant · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471288906
Lulu Taylor
A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences.
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“ [This] engrossing romantic saga is a hugely enjoyable, escapist treat.”
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The Snow Angel
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Cressida is living the high life in 1960s London. Her father decrees that she must have her portrait painted to mark her upcoming marriage. When Cressida meets the painter Ralph, she knows her life will never be the same. In the present day, Emily is told of a mysterious legacy – a house in Cumbria, left to her by a woman she has never met. Could this house provide the chance to start anew?
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NARRATED BY: Rebecca Gethings · Saga · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471288913
Before the Fall Juliet West
“ As poignant as it is powerful.” ALISON MACLEOD, AUTHOR OF MAN BOOKER NOMINATED UNEXPLODED
A great war. A powerful love. An impossible choice. 1916: Across the channel, the Great War rages and in London’s East End with her husband away fighting, Hannah Loxwood battles with the overwhelming burden of ‘duty.’ She has sacrificed so much for a husband who may never come home. When she meets Daniel who is thoughtful, intelligent and quietly captivating – Hannah finds herself faced with the most dangerous of temptations. Soon Hannah and Daniel will realise just how precarious their happiness is, as their destiny rushes towards them…
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NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Saga · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471288883
Shots Fired C. J. Box
Ten stories from international bestseller C. J. Box, full of dark deeds and dangerous impulses.
“ Solid-gold A-list must-read.” LEE CHILD
In Shots Fired, Joe Pickett’s investigation into a radio call threatens to become his last. In Pirates of Yellowstone, two Eastern Europeans find out just how ruthless American tough guys can be. In Le Sauvage Noble, a Lakota Indian takes a job at Disneyland Paris. These gripping tales are proof, once again, of why Box is a force to be reckoned with.
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NARRATED BY: David Chandler · Mystery · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471288920
After the Storm Jane Lythell
Would you put your life in the hand of strangers? Rob and Anna have arrived for their holiday in the Caribbean. Kim and Owen, a friendly couple they met in the harbour, offer to charter their beautiful boat to take them to a distant island. Rob dreams of lazy afternoons spent snorkeling. Anna looks forward to the silence of days at sea. But why is Owen so secretive? Why does Kim keep a knife zipped into her moneybelt? Maybe Anna and Rob shouldn’t trust strangers…
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“ Fascinating… clever… the author’s real skill is her ability to invent memorable original characters. A thrilling read.” DAILY MAIL ON THE LIE OF YOU
NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471288937
War at the Edge of the World Ian Ross
The epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Constantine. Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, Aurelius Castus believes his glory days are over, stuck in Britain’s provincial backwater. But history is about to take a hand and when the king of the Picts, the savage people beyond Hadrian’s Wall, dies in mysterious circumstances, Castus is selected to command the bodyguard of a Roman envoy sent to negotiate with the barbarians. But the diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy…
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471288944
Kay Brellend
A compelling wartime drama from the author of The Campbell Road Girls and East End Angel. On losing her job as a chambermaid, Dawn goes to work as a dancer at The Windmill Theatre. Despite refusing to appear on stage naked, she is taken on and gets a glimpse of London’s seductive underbelly. She meets Olive, Renee and Rosie, women all with secrets. Each of them will have to draw on their courage to survive the life they have chosen and the men that they cannot escape… The Windmill Girls is a gripping saga, perfect for fans of Pam Weaver and Kitty Neale.
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NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9780008119911
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I Can’t Begin to Tell You Elizabeth Buchan
Denmark, 1940: War has come and everyone must choose a side.
“ This is such a good novel, full of incident and history and the minutiae of life as a spy.” DAILY EXPRESS
For Kay, living on her husband Bror’s country estate, the Nazi invasion is a time of uncertainty. Bror is desperate to preserve the legacy of his home, even if it means co-existing with the enemy; Kay cannot do the same. She is lured by British Intelligence into a world of resistance. Tasked with protecting an SOE agent, Kay learns the art of subterfuge. Caught on opposing sides, will Kay and Bror find their way back to one another?
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NARRATED BY: Anna Bentinck · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 18 · ISBN 9781471295379
Far From My Father’s House Elizabeth Gill
A powerful saga from the author of Miss Appleby’s Academy. 1915: As a child it never mattered to Blake that he has no mother. But when his grandparents die suddenly, Blake’s world collapses. Taken in by a neighbouring farmer, Blake’s life becomes focused on the land – and a secret love for Annie, his employer’s daughter. Determined to make his name, Blake leaves for the busy shipyards of Sunderland. He swears one day he will come back – but will Annie wait for him?
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“ Original and evocative – a born storyteller.” TRISHA ASHLEY
NARRATED BY: Paul Tyreman · Saga · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471295393
Sleep in Peace Tonight James MacManus
An extraordinary story of diplomacy, intrigue and a dangerous love affair set during the fiery nights of the Blitz.
“ Readers will savour this breathtaking ride… a heady, heartbreaking romance.” PAM JENOFF, AUTHOR OF THE KOMMANDANT’S GIRL
It’s January 1941 and the Blitz is devastating England. As America maintains its isolationist position, Churchill knows that Britain is doomed without its powerful ally. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt’s most trusted adviser, is sent to London as his emissary and comes face to face with the Prime Minister himself as well as an attractive and determined young female driver who may not be what she seems.
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NARRATED BY: William Hope · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471295386
Pasha
Julian Stockwin The new novel in Julian Stockwin’s acclaimed Captain Kydd series. Following Nelson’s death two years earlier, England is in need of heroes and Kydd is the talk of London. Feted by the king, Kydd is soon on detachment into the Dardanelles, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea, providing a route to India. The French covet this route and when they whip up strong anti-English sentiment, the British ambassador to Constantinople has to flee – a deadly stand-off ensues…
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NARRATED BY: Christian Rodska · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471295362
“ Stockwin’s writing is enriched by his own experiences in the Royal Navy, which gives scenes of fighting and tempest an authenticity to delight anyone who shares his passion for the sea.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Villa Rouge Maggie Ross
The whitest lies can leave the darkest legacies. Morgan’s marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France. She sends their children west to safety and leaves London for the Villa Rouge to take shelter under her father’s roof. Caught between the open hostility of her father’s housekeeper and the suffocating affection of her crippled younger brother, Morgan is relieved to find her days brightened by the RAF squadron – a chance to relive the romances of her wilder youth.
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NARRATED BY: John Sackville · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471295416
The Story of Land and Sea Katy Simpson Smith
“ Poignant and intensely lyrical.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A spellbinding, searing story of love, loss and the bonds that make and break us. August, 1793: John longs to sail, but he must stay on land for his daughter, Tabitha. But when Tab catches yellow fever John steals her onto a boat in the hope the sea air will cure. Twenty years earlier, Helen is given a slave girl for her birthday. Soon the girls are confidantes and it’s an enduring friendship until the arrival of John, a pirate turned soldier. Helen must decide between security or a sea adventure with the man she loves.
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NARRATED BY: Edoardo Ballerini · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 7.75 · ISBN 9780008120016
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Ayelet Waldman
A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock.
“ Waldman skilfully interweaves this striking and enigmatic object – a symbol, as the book progresses, of fatal bad luck – into an ambitious sweep of history.”
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Love and Treasure
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NEW YORK TIMES Three men – an American infantry captain in World War Two, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siècle Budapest – find their carefully wrought lives turned upsidedown by three women. A mystery: where does the worth of people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift, when giver and recipient have been lost – of a love offering when the beloved is no more?
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.25 · ISBN 9781471295409
Claudia Carroll
Breaking up is hard to do… Chloe Townsend was dumped at the altar. But now she’s running a pioneering boutique ‘divorce hotel.’ It will make every aspect of breaking-up pain-free – all in a single weekend. No one is better qualified than Chloe to deal with relationships at crisis point, but with three unhappy couples needing her help, she’s forced to tackle her own secret heartbreak. Can she hold it together and prove that she’s up to the job?
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“ An emotional roller-coaster… asks some probing questions about relationships and keeps the reader wondering until the very end.” IRISH INDEPENDENT
NARRATED BY: Amy McAllister · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780008103958
Dead Man Walking Paul Finch
Beware the stranger in the night… Consigned to a remote valley in the Lake District, DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is getting used to a quieter life – a far cry from the bloodbath of the Serial Crimes Unit. Unknown to Heck, ‘The Stranger’ has returned. Last seen on Dartmoor ten years earlier, this prolific serial killer has found a new home. As The Stranger lays siege to the remote community, Heck helplessly watches as the killer viciously picks off his victims…
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“ An explosive thriller that will leave you completely hooked on Heck.” WE LOVE THIS BOOK ON THE KILLING CLUB
NARRATED BY: Paul Thornley · Thriller · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9780007571512
The Zig Zag Girl Elly Griffiths
Magic and murder – never trust an illusionist… When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick: The Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick is an old friend of Edgar’s. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called The Magic Men. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another trick, ‘The Wolf Trap,’ he knows that they are all in danger…
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“ Enormously engaging […] Postwar Brighton and its Theatre Royal are beautifully captured in all their seedy glory […] subtle, charming and very good.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: Daniel Philpott · Thriller · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471288272
The Apostle J. A. Kerley
From bestselling author J. A. Kerley, The Apostle is a chilling tale of ritual murder and corruption, featuring Detective Carson Ryder.
“ A fascinating and frightening take on the genre.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Reverend Schrum, a renowned minister, tells the media he has come home to die. Detective Carson Ryder is investigating ritualistic murders, with religious overtones. Meanwhile, Harry Nautilus takes a job as a driver and bodyguard for Richard Owsley, a pastor. Owsley meets with Schrum and is enlisted to complete a mysterious ‘project’. As Carson digs deeper and Harry’s interest piques from all the hushed goings-on of his employer, their independent investigations begin to converge…
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NARRATED BY: John Moraitis · Thriller · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9780007567706
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It’s Not Me, It’s You Mhairi McFarlane
Another hilarious and romantic story from the author of the bestselling You Had Me at Hello.
“ Bitingly sharp and achingly funny… Guaranteed to have you bent double. I absolutely loved it.” CLAUDIA CARROLL
Delia Moss isn’t quite sure where she went wrong. Everything was going smoothly. But with one annoying little ‘beep beep,’ Delia’s life is turned upside down and she decides the best thing to do would be get some head space and leave for London. But with a dodgy new job in media PR, where a suspicious yet devastatingly handsome journalist seems to be sniffing around, Delia can’t run forever.
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NARRATED BY: Julia Barrie · Romance · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9780007596287
Unmanned Dan Fesperman
Even the well intentioned must sometimes run for their lives… As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he’s a washout, drunk and alone, haunted by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life from the Predator drone he ‘piloted.’ Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three journalists seeking to discover the identity of the anonymous intelligence operative who called the shots in that ill-fated mission.
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“ A new book by Dan Fesperman is becoming a major literary event… An utterly compelling thriller and quite simply the best.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Armand Schultz · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471288302
The Hunting Dogs Jorn Lier Horst
The prize winning novel at the top of Norwegian crime lists. Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway’s most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified, he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.
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“ The writer’s career as a police chief has supplied a key ingredient for the crime fiction form: credibility.” BARRY FORSHAW, AUTHOR OF NORDIC NOIR
NARRATED BY: Saul Reichlin · Thriller · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471288296
Black Sheep C. J. Lyons
A young girl is taken. A father is silenced. The lies run deep. It’s the one mystery Special Agent Caitlyn Tierney has never solved – her father’s unexpected suicide. So when the man she holds responsible for her father’s death pleads her assistance in finding his missing daughter, Caitlyn is horrified. Her search brings her back to her North Carolina hometown and to an unknown enemy who will do anything to keep Caitlyn from the truth…
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“ Everything a great thriller should be – action packed, authentic and intense.” LEE CHILD
NARRATED BY: Nick Landrum · Thriller · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471288319
The Idea of Him Holly Peterson
“ Sharp and hugely enjoyable read.” HEAT ON THE MANNY
The Idea of Him is a novel of conspiracy, intrigue, intense passion and discovering your greatest strength through your deepest fears. Allie Crawford has the life she always dreamed of – she works at a high-profile PR firm, she has two kids she adores and her husband, Wade, is everything she thought a man was supposed to be. But when Allie finds Wade locked in their laundry room with a stunning blonde, a scandal ensues. And when an old flame calls, she starts to think – maybe she’s not fallen in love with Wade – but with the idea of him.
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NARRATED BY: Laurence Bouvard · Romance · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9780008105440
Dead Gone Luca Veste
Fear is all she has…
“ A chilling début from a writer to watch.” MARK BILLINGHAM
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Liverpool, gruesomely murdering victims as part of a series of infamous, unethical and deadly psychological experiments. When it becomes apparent that each victim has ties to the City of Liverpool University, DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi realise they’re chasing a killer unlike any they’ve hunted before – one who doesn’t just want his victims’ bodies, but their minds too…
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Thriller · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9780008116927
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Suspicion
Joseph Finder Lie to your daughter. Betray your friend. Trust no-one. Danny can’t afford the private school his teenage daughter Abby adores, and he can’t bear to tell his daughter he has failed her. By a stroke of brilliant luck, Danny meets Thomas Galvin, one of the richest men in Boston. When Danny accepts a loan from him, the authorities turn up at his door. Now he has a choice. Face prison, or become part of a sting operation to bring down his extremely dangerous new best friend…
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“ A heart-pounding, sweaty-palmed, utterly terrifying ride.” TESS GERRITSEN
NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Mystery · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9781471288821
The Missing and the Dead Stuart MacBride
One mistake can cost you everything… A little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from Aberdeen, wanting answers, and they don’t care who they trample over to get them. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, burning bridges, Logan gets dragged deeper and deeper into the investigation…
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“ Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field.” INDEPENDENT
NARRATED BY: Steve Worsley · Crime · DURATION: 17 · ISBN 9780007567560
The Forgotten Holocaust Scott G. Mariani
The breath-taking new adventure starring Ben Hope… Ben Hope, ex-SAS soldier is searching for peace, but trouble soon appears when Kirsten Hall, a young journalist, is murdered right in front of him. Unable to prevent it, Ben is driven to hunt down the killers. Ben’s quest leads him across the world and finally to Oklahoma, where a deadly secret awaits. What connects the journals Kirsten was researching, a wealthy American politician and an intrigue surrounding the Irish famine?
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“ Slick, sharp and very, very entertaining.” SIMON TOYNE
NARRATED BY: TBC · Action and Adventure · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9780008102715
Runaway Peter May
Runaway is a crime novel covering fifty years of friendships solidified and severed, dreams shared and shattered and passions lit and extinguished. In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before the year’s end three of the five boys returned, and they returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three friends, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades.
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“ An absorbing read from a writer at the top of his game.” DAILY EXPRESS ON ENTRY ISLAND
NARRATED BY: Peter Forbes · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471288708
The Apologist Jay Rayner
“ A very surprising, very funny book.” ARABELLA WEIR
The Apologist is a deliciously funny satire on the complexity and greed of international and personal politics. Marc Basset, restaurant critic for a national newspaper, has made vitriol his trademark. His vivid cruelty makes his many readers laugh – until a chef roasts himself to death in his bread oven, leaving Bassett’s review of his restaurant stuck to the door. When Marc learns of the chef’s suicide, he experiences a new sensation – remorse. By apologising to the wife and daughter, he begins to experience levels of self-satisfaction that he never thought possible.
SOP: JAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Jay Rayner · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471288722
Sleep Tight Rachel Abbott
When obsession takes over… When Olivia calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. Two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called to investigate, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. Her car is in the garage and her purse is in her handbag. For some reason every single picture of this family has been removed from albums, phones and computers. Then they find the blood…
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Thriller · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471288845
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“ Rachel Abbott will keep you guessing long into the night and just as soon as you’ve figured it out… think again!” SUSPENSE MAGAZINE
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The Curvy Girls Club Michele Gorman
Imagine a world where looks don’t matter… Pixie, Ellie, Katie and Jane have been best friends since meeting at Slimming Zone. Tired of being judged, they decide to form a different kind of club. The fun evenings they spend together, not worrying about their size, make them happier than they’ve been for years! But the club doesn’t stop real life from getting in the way and together the girls have to address some much bigger issues than just their weight…
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“ Michele’s writing is so engaging and witty, yet insightful and empathetic. And she can certainly pull off a twist!” SOPHIE KINSELLA
NARRATED BY: Jenny Funnell · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9780008122560
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion Charlaine Harris
Take a closer look at the unconventional and otherworldly life of Sookie Stackhouse.
“ I fell in love with these stories… I loved the world, I loved how funny it was, how sexy and romantic and dramatic and scary”
ALAN BALL, CREATOR OF TV SERIES, Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and become a nationwide phenomenon. TRUE BLOOD Now learn more about Sookie and her family, friends, enemies and adventures. Visit Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home. Examine all the branches of Sookie’s family tree, and eavesdrop on the private conversations between rival vampires Eric and Bill. Also, enjoy the compelling novella Small Town Wedding, in which Sookie accompanies Sam to his brother’s wedding in Texas, where happily ever after seems very far away…
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471290633
The Ice Twins S. K. Tremayne
An unbreakable bond. An unbreakable truth. A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move away, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity – that she, in fact, is Lydia – their world comes crashing down once again. Sarah finds herself tortured by the past – what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?
SOP: JAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Crime · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9780007568581
The Boy in the Shadows Carl-Johan Vallgren
A little boy vanished. A troubled man on the hunt for the truth… In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the lift. A young woman approaches and offers to lead Kristoffer up the stairs. Reluctantly his father agrees, but when he arrives on the platform Kristoffer and the woman have vanished. Many years later, Joel, now an adult, goes missing in suspicious circumstances…
SOP: JAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Matt Bates · Crime · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471288838
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As Good as it Gets? Fiona Gibson
A mother-and-daughter shopping trip. That’s where it all started… It was just a day like any other when Charlotte’s 16-year-old daughter Rosie is scouted by a top model agency. With Rosie’s new career taking off, Charlotte reluctantly agrees to take part in a ‘models and their mums’ photo shoot for a national magazine. But when it catches the attention of Fraser, Charlotte’s first love – and father of Rosie – Charlotte starts to regret her decision.
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“ Warm, funny and poignant.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: Jenny Funnell · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9780008102845
The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories Camilla Lackberg
The Scent Of Almonds and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the number one international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Policeman Martin Mohlin is begrudgingly accompanying his girlfriend to a family reunion on the island of Valön outside of Fjällbacka. The connection to the mainland is cut off by a snowstorm and when the patriarch Ruben collapses during Christmas dinner, Martin is forced to intervene. He soon establishes that Ruben was murdered and since they are completely isolated on the island, one of the family members must be murderer…
SOP: JAMPA5
NARRATED BY: TBC · Crime · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9780008127022
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No Limits Ian Poulter
An honest and revealing memoir from one of golf’s greats. Ian Poulter is one of golf’s most charismatic figures, with an appeal extending way beyond his sport. Here he tells his inspirational story, from his early rejection as a Spurs youth player, through to his match-winning contributions to European Ryder Cup Triumphs. As well as insights into the crucial moments in his career, and the life of a professional golfer, he talks about his passions outside the game. His book is as forthright and passionate as Poults himself.
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NARRATED BY: Paul Mendez · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471295324
Without You Saskia Sarginson
“ Thrilling stuff.” THE BOOKSELLER
A captivating blend of mystery, thriller and emotional family drama, Without You will leave you unsettled, even as it touches your heart. 1984, Suffolk: When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone except her younger sister presumes that she drowned. Faith refuses to consider a life without Eva, she’s determined to find her sister and bring her home alive. Close to the shore looms a mysterious island, dotted with windowless concrete huts. What nobody knows is that inside one of the huts Eva is being held captive. That she is fighting to survive – and to return home.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471295331
Tell Tale
Mark Sennen
“ A fast-paced serial-killer chiller.” ALEX MARWOOD, AUTHOR OF THE WICKED GIRLS
DI Charlotte Savage is back in another page-turning thriller, perfect for fans of Broadchurch and Tim Weaver. DI Charlotte Savage knows who killed her daughter. As she struggles with what to do with this knowledge, a series of terrible events starts to unfold on the moors… A bag containing clothes and a passport is found floating in a reservoir. Where is the young woman they belong to? Someone has entombed a man in an ancient pagan grave. Who is he? Someone’s been telling tales…
SOP: JAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Stevie Lacey · Thriller · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9780008120061
A Killing Winter Tom Callaghan
“The Kyrg yz winter reminds us that the past is never dead, simply waiting to ambush us around the next corner.” When Inspector Akyl Borubaev of Bishkek Murder Squad arrives at the brutal murder scene of a young woman, all evidence hints at a sadistic serial killer on the hunt for more prey. But when the young woman’s father turns out to be a leading government minister, the pressure is on Borubaev to solve the case not only quickly but also quietly, by any means possible. Until more bodies are found… Borubaev descends into Bishkek’s brutal underworld, a place where no-one and nothing is as it seems and where violence is the only solution.
SOP: JAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Saul Reichlin · Thriller · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471295348
The Tudor Secret Christopher Gortner
Spies, intrigue and conspiracy in the Tudor court. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Brendan is soon compelled to work as a double agent by Princess Elizabeth’s protector, William Cecil—who promises in exchange to help him unravel the secret of his own mysterious past. With only a stable boy and Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting at his side, Brendan plunges into a ruthless gambit of half-truths, lies, and murder.
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NARRATED BY: Steve West · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471298592
The Invention of Fire Bruce Holsinger
The richly atmospheric new thriller set in the turbulent 14th century, this is perfect for historical fiction fans.
“ An enjoyable story of murder and intrigue in 14th-century London.” SUNDAY TIMES ON A BURNABLE BOOK
London, 1386: Sixteen corpses have been discovered in a sewer, their wounds like none ever seen before. Whoever threw the bodies into the sewer knew they would be found… Enter John Gower, poet and intellectual whose ‘vocation’ is dealing in men’s secrets. Against the backdrop of medieval London, Gower pursues his dangerous quarry and comes to the shocking conviction that the men have been killed by a new and deadly weapon of war.
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NARRATED BY: TBC · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9780008119652
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Mainlander Will Smith
A thrilling novel from comedian and screenwriter Will Smith – a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets.
“ Will Smith is the coolest guy in the world (if uncool is the new cool) – he’s also terrifically funny.” HARRY ENFIELD
Jersey, 1987: Sitting on a headland stewing over the discovery that his wife used to date Rob de la Haye, who is everything that Colin is not, he spots a pupil near the edge of the cliff. Worried that the boy may have intended to jump, he drives him home. When the boy fails to turn up to school the next day, Colin feels duty bound to track him down.
SOP: JAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Jot Davies · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780008127077
His Other Life Beth Thomas
The story of a couple with seemingly perfect lives… and the secrets they hide behind closed doors.
“ An easy-to-read, often thoughtprovoking tale about grief and family feuds.” DAILY MAIL
On paper, Grace’s new husband Adam is the perfect package. Good looking, great job, charming – some would say out of her league. So when he disappears from her life one evening, Grace has a lot of questions. As she tries to track him down, Grace opens a Pandora’s Box of secrets and lies and soon troubling facts about Adam’s past emerge; facts she finds hard to square with the man she married.
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NARRATED BY: Jane Collingwood · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9780008120184
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