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‘A gripping ride’ WILBUR SMITH

‘Gilman does heart pounding action superlatively’ THE TIMES

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The Best Revenge

Gerald Seymour

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People’s Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very problem. In Leamington Spa a deep cover operative has given himself away. And in London Jonas Merrick watches all, assessing, planning. A moment, perhaps, for him to strike a blow to China’s espionage network in the UK.

To Kill a King

David Gilman

The eighth gripping adventure in David Gilman’s critically acclaimed Master of War series set in fourteenth-century Europe. Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his mission for the Prince of Wales, but must remain true to his oath. But this is the Hundred Years’ War, and tensions are rising once more. With the Prince of Wales deeply unpopular in his Aquitainian lands, Blackstone, King Edward’s Master of War, must return to French soil to help stem the tide of support for the King of France. Meanwhile, Henry, Blackstone’s son, faces an incognito ride across France with his own motley band of outlaws and mercenaries. But the French are aware of the younger Blackstone’s journey, and see a perfect way to target the Master of War.

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Narrated by Colin Mace

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 12.18 hours

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Meet Me When my Heart Stops

Becky Hunter

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Narrated by Ben Allen Genre Crime

Duration 16.85 hours

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Narrated by Sophie Roberts

Genre Modern Fiction

Emery is born with a heart condition that means her heart could quite literally stop at any moment. The people around her know what to do - if they act quickly enough there will be no lasting damage, and Emery’s heart can be restarted. But when this happens, she is briefly technically dead. Each time Emery’s heart stops, she meets Nick. His purpose is to help people adjust to the fact that they are dead, to help them say goodbye, before they move on entirely.

Duration 13.11 hours

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Summer Sisters

C.J. Box

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe’s daughter.

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Narrated by David Chandler

Genre Crime

Duration 12.25 hours

Five Nights

Rachel Wolf

A powerful family. A luxury cruise. A dark secret. The Scarmados are the most famous family in Britain, notorious for throwing lavish parties funded by their media and shipping empire.

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Narrated by Tessa Battaiotto

Genre Thriller

Duration 14.83 hours

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Judy Blume

Vix Leonard is twelve when she meets dazzling, reckless Caitlin Somers. Invited to spend holidays on Martha’s Vineyard with Caitlin and her eccentric, mysterious family, Vix is welcomed into a life totally unlike her own.

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Narrated by Sophie Amoss + Genre Modern Fiction

Duration tbc hours

All Hallows

Christopher Golden

A gripping suburban nightmare from the New York Timesbestselling, Bram-Stoker Awardwinning master of horror fiction. It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unravelling.

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Narrated by Andy Ingalls

Genre Horror

Duration 9.58 hours

Bryant & May’s Peculiar London

Christopher Fowler

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Narrated by Tim Goodman

Genre Mystery

Duration 14 hours

As the nation’s oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we’ve been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to take you through its less savoury side? We’ll be chatting about odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit pleasures and hidden pubs. We’ll be making all sorts of odd connections and showing you why it’s almost impossible to separate fact from fiction in London.

Interesting Facts About Space

Emily Austin

Enid is many things: lesbian, serial dater, deaf in one ear, space obsessive, true crime fanatic. When she’s not listening to grizzly murder podcasts, she’s managing her crippling phobia of bald people and trying hard not to think about her mortifying teenage years...

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Narrated by Natalie Naudus

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 8.5 hours

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

A masterwork of tragedy and heartbreak from the two-time Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year. A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past.

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Narrated by Casey Withoos

Genre Literature

Duration 12.87 hours

Bridges to Burn

Marion Todd

How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems? DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student.

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Narrated by Helen Darbyshire

Genre Crime

Duration 10.03 hours

The 14th Storm

Daniel J Mooney

The planet is ravaged by violent storms and failing crops and much of the world is now uninhabitable. Amidst a world of hungry and desperate people, the Department of Environmental Justice have been tasked with finding and executing those who have denied climate change.

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Narrated by Simone Kirby

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 8.66 hours

Lamb

Matt Hill

When lorry driver Dougie Alport carries out a deadly attack on his employer’s head office, the reverberations of his actions unleash a grief in his wife Maureen that threatens to reveal the secret she has spent years hiding from their son, Boyd. Moving north to start again is Maureen’s best response. But as the walls begin to throb with mould and his mother slips from his grasp, Boyd decides to flee, finding solace with a new friend at the landfill site on the edge of town.

Eschaton

Andrew Hastie

Time is running out. The Eschaton crises are converging. Josh may be the only one who can save them, but he’s trapped in the future. The third book in the original Infinity Engines series, Eschaton continues this action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure.

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Narrated by Rupert Degas

Genre Science Fiction

Duration 9.4 hours

The Mark of the Dead Morgan Greene

They’ve been marked. And now there’s no escape ... After cutting Aram Petrosyan’s trafficking operation off at the knees, Detective Jamie Johansson and her new ward Alina are square in the crosshairs.

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Narrated by Sofia Engstrand

Genre Crime

Duration 9.48 hours

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Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

Genre Horror

Duration 9.11 hours

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Never Too Late

Danielle Steel

An act of terror. A summer of change . . . Following the death of her beloved husband, Kezia Cooper Hobson decides to leave her home in San Francisco and move to a luxury penthouse in Manhattan, where she’ll be closer to her two adult daughters. As she watches the 4th July firework display from her terrace, Kezia is shocked to see smoke and flames pouring from famous landmarks across New York City. Her neighbour, the famous movie star Sam Stewart, is also aware of the crisis, and watches in horror as the terrifying drama unfolds. Determined to offer their assistance, Kezia and Sam hasten to the site and swiftly become involved in the rescue effort. Shocked and traumatized by the events they experience, Kezia and Sam bond in the days and weeks that follow one of the worst nights the country has ever known. What follows is a summer of healing and change, and the discovery that it’s never too late for dreams to be born again . . . Never Too Late is a stirring drama about the power of human connection and embracing brave change, from the billion copy bestseller, Danielle Steel.

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Narrated by Dan John Miller

Genre Romance

Duration 10.87 hours

Harbor Lights

James Lee Burke

“Harbor Lights isa story collection fromone of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-beforepublished novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family.

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Narrated by Gary Furlong

Genre Mystery

Duration 10.72 hours

The Lives of Lee Miller

Antony Penrose

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET

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Narrated by tbc

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A classically beautiful young woman, she is discovered by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographers. Lee Miller, 1929 - Paris: Protégé and lover of Man Ray, she invents with him the solarization technique of photography, develops into a brilliant Surrealist photographer, and plays the statue in Cocteau’s film Blood of a Poet. Lee Miller, 1939-45 - Europe: Living at times with her future husband, the painter Roland Penrose, she becomes a US war correspondent and covers the siege of St Malo and the liberation of Paris.

Duration 7.35 hours

Choice

Neel Mukherjee

“”How ought one to live?” This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical, economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes.

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Narrated by Antonio Aakeel +

Genre Literature

Duration 10.75 hours

The History of My Sexuality

Tobi Lakmaker

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. So, naturally, she thought that things could only improve from there. But she was wrong. It seems Sofie’s been wrong about a lot of things.

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Narrated by Genevieve Gaunt

Genre Literature

Duration 5.21 hours

Some People Need Killing

Patricia Evangelista

Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte.

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Narrated by Corey Wilson

Genre General Non Fiction

Duration 9.3 hours

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And Then She

Fell

Alicia Elliott

On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl; her ever-charming husbandan academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture - is nothing but supportive; and they’ve moved into a home in a wealthy neighbourhood.

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Rosalind

Jessica Mills

Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man’s world is to be invisible. In the 1940s science is a gentleman’s profession, and it appears there are plenty of colleagues who want to keep it that way. After being segregated at Cambridge, then ignored and put down in the workplace, she has no intention of being seen as a second-class citizen and throws everything into proving her worth.

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Narrated by Rosalind Lailey

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 7.61 hours

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The Invisible Hotel

Yeji Y Ham

Yewon is trapped. She’s stuck in Dalbit, the small Korean village of her birth, where the ancestral bones of her relatives live in her bathtub.

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Narrated by Cheri Maracle +

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 11.65 hours

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Narrated by Jessie Baek

Genre Horror

Duration 9.13 hours

Task Force

Helmand

Doug Beattie M.C.

A gripping, no-holds-barred account of war in the twentyfirst century. In 2006 Doug Beattie was awarded the Military Cross for his part in recapturing the southern Afghan town of Garmsir from the Taliban.

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Narrated by Drew Dillon

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Duration 11.62 hours

The Almost Truth

Anne Hamilton

When Alina’s son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it’s the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina’s neatly ordered life. With the sudden appearance of Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she’s left reeling.

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Narrated by Hiftu Quasem

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 10.5 hours

My Life Is Art

Emmanuel Jal

Drawing on lessons from his remarkable life, former child soldier turned activist, author, entrepreneur, and international recording artist Emmanuel Jal provides his eleven pillars for overcoming adversity and living a life of purpose. “Who owns your mind?”

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Narrated by Emmanuel Jal

Genre Body, Mind & Spirit

Duration 14.97 hours

Maelstrom

Andrew Hastie

The second book in Andrew Hastie’s imaginative and original Infinity Engines series, Maelstrom is an action-packed, dystopian time travel adventure. Caitlin has disappeared and someone has changed history. Lost in an alternate reality, Josh must discover who has disrupted the timeline and try to fix the continuum. But there’s a problem. The Order has become divided over an old manuscript which describes the Maelstrom — a chaotic realm filled with ancient gods that exists outside of the timestream.

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Narrated by Rupert Degas

Genre Science Fiction

Duration 10.08 hours

Legionary: Gods & Emperors

Gordon Doherty

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of Rome

The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war… 378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and only a handful of well-walled cities to the south remain in imperial hands.

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Narrated by Adrian Hobart

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 17.1 hours

In the Shadow of the Rising Sun

Olga Henderson

In February 1942, nine-year-old Olga Morris and her family were in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army in the biggest defeat in history of the British Forces.

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Narrated by Helen Lloyd

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Duration 6.60 hours

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‘One of the most astute chroniclers of England as it is now’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘An uncanny ability to make us laugh out loud, but also care passionately about his characters’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

“The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Alan Turing was the mathematician whose ciphercracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force.

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Narrated by Gordon Griffin

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Duration 30.75 hours

You Are Here

David Nicholls

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way.

Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it’s passing her by.

Michael is coming undone.

Reeling from his wife’s departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.

When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship.

But can they survive the journey?

A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.

ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST ACCLAIMED WRITERS

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Narrated by Lee Ingleby, Lydia Leonard

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 11 hours

Noise Floor

Andrew Cartmel

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Narrated by Finlay Robertson

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The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied realm of electronic dance music. Lambert Ramkin aka Imperium Dart, techno trickster and ambient music wizard of the 1990s, has gone walkabout, disappearing from his rather palatial home in Kent. This isn’t the first time he’s pulled a vanishing act, but he’s never been gone so long before and his wife ― wives, actually; it’s complicated ― are worried and hire the Vinyl Detective to find the old rascal. They theorise that wherever the missing man is, he won’t be able to resist turning up at a record fair somewhere in search of 12-inch white label acid house singles, which he collects compulsively.

Duration 9.1 hours

Vigil

Angela Slatter

“A rich and immersive urban fantasy from award-winning author, Angela Slatter. Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but does claim unusual strength and the ability to walk between one world and the other as a couple of her talents.

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Narrated by Taryn Ryan

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 11.3 hours

The Scandalous Life of Ruby M Devereaux

Mandy Robotham

A fun and gripping fauxmemoir book club listen from an internationally bestselling author of historical fiction, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux’s books. But no one knows her story. until now.

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Narrated by Joan Walker

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 9.97 hours

Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

“A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt--from the Booker Prizelonglisted author of An Island. Cape Town, 2028.

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Narrated by Suanne Braun

Genre Literature

Duration 5.4 hours

Bird Spotting in a Small Town

Sophie Morton-Thomas

In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran’s life is unravelling. As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry - about the behavior of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister.

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Narrated by Glen McCready

Genre Literature

Duration 8.3 hours

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We Are Together Because

Kerry Andrew

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Narrated by Kerry Andrew

Genre Literature

Duration 10.83 hours

Luke, Connor, Thea and Violet spend their first holiday together alone in their father’s house in France. The boys don’t really know him - he left their mother when she was still pregnant with Connor, getting together with the girls’ mother soon afterwards - and they don’t really know their half-sisters, either. Luke, the eldest and most easy going of the four, is keen to bring a new shape to their overlapping, unconventional family; Connor and Thea, born just six months apart but a world of difference between them, are attracted to each other, something they try not to acknowledge but which keeps pushing its way to the surface.

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.

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Narrated by Esther Wane

Genre Literature

Duration 11.62 hours

What’s Cooking in the Kremlin

Witold Szabłowski

A history of Russia in the twentieth century unlike any other—from the Russian revolution to the oligarchs of the ‘90s, via the Holodomor, the siege of Leningrad and Chernobyl.

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Narrated by Rupert Bush

Genre History

Duration 10.5 hours

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Eton Rogue

William Coles

“Meet our Eton Rogue: Seventeen-year-old Cary, now embarking on his extraordinary final year at Eton. Prince William has joined the school and the British tabloids are ravenous for headlines.

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Narrated by Sam Stafford

Genre Humorous

Duration 12.35 hours

This Thing Of Darkness

Nicola Edwards

The storm that dismantles a dynasty…1780. Wild and windswept Yorkshire. Sixteenyear-old Heathcliff runs from the only home he has ever known in a squall of pain and fury.

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Narrated by Kris Dyer, Dan Bottmley + Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 6.6 hours

The Hiss of the Snake

Morgan Greene

They thought it was over. They were wrong ... The Petrosyan trafficking operation is in tatters and Interpol and the NCA are working furiously to build their case. They want put the people responsible behind bars once and for all, but before the dust can even settle following their latest bust, key witnesses begin to die. Three suspicious deaths in a week has everyone scrambling. But the NCA are closing the cases faster than Detective Jamie Johansson can even look into them.

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Narrated by Sofia Engstrand

Genre Crime

Duration 8.98 hours

Legionary: The Blood Road

Gordon Doherty

381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor’s name will be written in blood. The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gothic Horde rumbles into its fifth year.

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Narrated by Adrian Hobart

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 11.33 hours

Infinite Ground

Martin MacInnes

During a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner at a restaurant. Midway through the meal, Carlos disappears. An experienced, semi-retired inspector takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something strange, intangible, even sinister.

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Narrated by Nathan Osgood

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 8.1 hours

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As the first-ever account of how the popes’ presence has shaped the history of Rome, City of Echoes not only illuminates the lives of the remarkable (and unremarkable) men who have sat on the throne of Saint Peter, but also reveals the bold and curious actions of the men, women, and children who have shaped the city with them, from antiquity to today.

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Footmarks

Jim Leary

City of Echoes

Jessica Wärnberg

From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope. Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has chimed and clashed with the words of princes, emperors, and insurgents across the centuries. In this authoritative new history, Jessica Wärnberg tells the story of Rome’s longest standing figurehead and interlocutor--the pope-revealing how his presence over the centuries has transformed the fate of the city of Rome. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, the pope began as the pastor of a maligned and largely foreign flock. Less than 300 years later, he sat enthroned in a lofty, heavily gilt basilica, a religious leader endorsed (and financed) by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors as de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. By the nineteenth century, it would take an army to wrest the city from the pontiff’s grip.

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Narrated by Julie Teal

Genre History

Duration 12.71 hours

The Capitalist Manifesto

Johan Norberg

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Narrated by Kris Dyer

Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting ‘archaeology of movement’ All too often we think of the past as static, ‘frozen in time’, and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary’s expert eye we explore the tangible remains, from fossilised footprint tracks to prehistoric wooden trackways, ridgeways, holloways, droveways, green ways, corpse roads, and Roman roads.

Genre History

Duration 8.43 hours

Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence shows that capitalism has lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty. Today’s story about global capitalism, shared by right-wing and left-wing populists, but also by large sections of the political and economic establishment, does not deny that prosperity has been created, but it says it ended up in far too few hands.

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Narrated by Mark Elstob Genre Business, Money & Economics Duration 8.9

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Unlock Your Menopause Type

Heather Hirsch

Given that millions of women have entered menopause each year since the dawn of time, it’s crazy that menopause still feels like uncharted territory for the women who are going through it. Dr. Heather Hirsch is committed to changing that. Unlocking Your Menopause Type helps women cut through the informational noise and learn how to manage their symptoms most effectively by identifying their personal Menopause Type(s). This is not a one-size fits all solution.

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Narrated by Heather Hirsch

Genre Body, Mind & Spirit

Duration 9.44 hours

Once Upon A Time World

Jonathan Miles

In 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size. A mere handful of towns and resorts created by foreign visitors - notably English, Russian and Americanattracted the talented, rich and famous as well as those who wanted to be. For nearly two centuries of creativity, luxury, excess, scandal, war and corruption, the dark and sparkling world of the Riviera was a temptation for everybody who was anybody. Often frivolous, it was also a potent cultural matrix that inspired the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Coco Chanel, Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, James Baldwin, Catherine Mansfield, Sartre and Stravinsky. In Once Upon a Time World, Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores.

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Non-Fiction 3

Narrated by Jonathan Miles

Genre History

Duration 17.33 hours

On the Ashes

Gideon Haigh

‘The best cricket writer in the world’ GUARDIAN

‘The Bradman of cricket writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

In On The Ashes, Gideon Haigh, today’s pre-eminent cricket writer, has captured over a century and half of Anglo-Australian cricket, from WG Grace to Don Bradman, from Bodyline to Jim Laker’s 19-wicket match, from Ian Botham’s miracle at Headingley to the phenomena of Patrick Cummins and Ben Stokes, today’s Ashes captains. From over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England - the world’s oldest sporting rivalry - from the colonial era to the present day.

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Narrated by Gideon Haigh

Genre Sport, Hobbies & Leisure

Duration 11.31 hours

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Vines In a Cold Climate

Henry Jeffreys

The definitive story of the extraordinary and surprising success of English wine - and the people who transformed our reputation on the global stage from that of a joke to world-class in 30 years. From an amateur affair made by retirees to a multimillion-pound industry with quality to rival Champagne, the rise of English wine has been one of the more unexpected wine stories of the past 30 years.

SOP Non-Fiction 3

Narrated by Henry Jeffreys

Genre Sport, Hobbies & Leisure

Duration 8.2 hours

A Brutal Reckoning

Peter Cozzens

“Beginning with the invasion by Spanish Conquistadors in the sixteenth century, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of the encroachment on Native American territory in the deep south by the US republic 150 years later, which culminated in the devastating Creek War and the rise of Andrew Jackson. It was a conflict that led to the Trail of Tears, costing the entire Creek people as well as the neighbouring Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations their homelands - and left the way open for the conquest of the West. Wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, this is a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America’s native tribes.

‘Cozzens is a master storyteller.’

The Times”

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Availability Non-Fiction 3

Narrated by William Hope

Genre History

Duration 16.18 hours

Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World

Ambrogio A. Caiani

An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in the modern age. Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are still 1.2 billion Catholics in the world and the Church remains a powerful, controversial and defiantly archaic institution. After the French Revolution and the democratic rebellions of 1848, the Church retreated, especially under Pius IX, into a fortress of unreason, denouncing almost every aspect of modern life, including liberalism and socialism.

SOP Non-Fiction 3

Narrated by Mark Elstob

Genre Religion

Duration 18.29 hours

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He immerses us in the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime’s main spin doctor, turns an entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Yet Vadim is not as ambitious as the others. Entangled in the increasingly dark secrets of the regime he has helped create, he will do anything to get out, guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived the Revolution, and the mesmerizing, merciless Ksenia, whom he has fallen in love with.

The Teacher

Tim Sullivan

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult – why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone?

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Narrated by Finlay Robertson

Genre Crime

Duration 11.48 hours

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli

A thrilling exploration of the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime. Known as the “Wizard of the Kremlin,” the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka “The Czar.” After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story to the narrator of this book...

The Pigeon

David Gordon

Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city’s most dangerous denizens.

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - Apr

Narrated by Alexander Terentyev

Genre Thriller

Duration 7.08 hours

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That’s when Detective Alice Rossi is called in. Alice knows this case is a poisoned chalice. Not least because she has a new team to contend with — who don’t like being bossed around by a woman. Day 2. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Hewson is reported missing. She never came home from school, and her father is beside himself. Will she be the fifth girl to die?

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Narrated by Joe Barrett

Genre Crime

Duration 8.4 hours

The Ravenswood Murders

Helen H. Durrant

A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish. Day 1. A young woman’s body is found in a shallow grave in the woods, buried in a white shroud. She’s been dead for a week. Her teeth are smashed in, her lips stitched together. Her hands are missing. She’s the fourth young woman found like this. With no witnesses, no clues and no leads to follow, the investigation is going nowhere.

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - May

Narrated by Katie West

Genre Thriller

Duration 6.5 hours

Murder at the Arizona Biltmore

Edward Marston

From the author of the bestselling Railway Detective series. Chasing his dream of a glittering architectural career, Merlin Richards has left the Welsh valleys for the Arizona desert, propelled by a handwritten note from the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright.

Clipper Thriller 3 - May

Narrated by Andy Cresswell

Genre Mystery

Duration 8.15 hours

The Blame

The Dinner Party

Rebecca Heath

The exciting thriller by Rebecca Heath, author of THE SUMMER PARTY. A dark and twisty domestic thriller set in a seemingly idyllic suburban neighbourhood, where family secrets are best kept buried! Four Couples. One unforgettable dinner party.

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - May

Narrated by Nicolette Chin

Genre Thriller

Duration 14.25 hours

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Dead Man Driving

Lesley Kelly

Two years on from the start of a devastating pandemic, food shortages are becoming critical, and rationing looms. So it’s more than embarrassing when a lorry full of luxury food for Scottish Virus Minister’s banquet goes missing. When Bernard and Maitland from the HET team find it, the food is missing – but there is a dead body.

A psychological thriller in which two detectives begin a love affair, only for one of them to become a prime suspect in a chilling murder... Detective Erin Crane is assigned to the investigation into sixteen-year-old Sophie Madson’s murder along with her partner, detective Tom Radley.

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - Jun

Narrated by Tamsin Kennard

Genre Thriller

Duration 10.75 hours

Narrated by Angela Ness

Genre Thriller

Duration 7.83 hours

In Her Shadow

Emma Christie

A pacy, twisting thriller about revenge and betrayal, set amongst the historic streets of Edinburgh. Perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and C.L. Taylor. Dave Kellock is a pillar of the community in Portobello, Edinburgh. A tireless volunteer who never misses a chance to help others, he’s just been recognised on the King’s Honours List.

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - Jun

Narrated by Angus King

Genre Thriller

Duration 9.1 hours

SOP

Charlotte Langley

SOP Clipper Thriller 3 - Jun

Dave Kellock is also a fraud. A moment of panic, violence and blood twenty years ago plagues his dreams. He’s been hiding himself in Portobello, terrified that his past will catch up with him. Now that his photo has been in the paper, collecting his award, the truth won’t stay buried for long.

Super Lead Title

Success has at last brought her financial stability and a new home, which she shares with her best friend, Alice Littlefield. But now trouble has infiltrated Rosalind’s sanctuary, and the reputations in danger include her own. Alice has formed a tender attachment to Amelia, the maid in their employ, and her affection is returned. But before meeting Alice, Amelia was involved with Cate Levitton, daughter of a well-respected family.

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Sisters of Fortune

Anna Lee Huber

The Secret of the Lady’s Maid

Darcie Wilde

The resourceful and intrepid Rosalind Thorne, a heroine after Jane Austen’s heart, has a scandalous mystery to solve within Regency-era high society, in the latest novel in this nationally bestselling historical series. Ideal for fans of Andrea Penrose, Lauren Willig, and Deanna Raybourn. Rosalind Thorne’s quick wits and discretion have proved invaluable to London’s haut ton.

Every Trick in the Book

Bernard O’Keeffe

When the body of Alex Ballantyne is found in Barnes Pond the police are baffled. Who could want to kill the newly retired teacher? Investigations bring them to St Jude’s, the prestigious private school where Ballantyne taught, and to the discovery that Ballantyne had been blackmailing several of his colleagues.

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Ruth Redman Genre Mystery

Duration 12.07 hours

Molly’s Flight

Rachel Wesson

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Oliver Hembrough Genre Crime

Duration 9.67 hours

Spruced up for Murder

Helen Golden

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Tessa Flannery

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 12.88 hours

A sweeping novel set on the legendary ocean liner following the real-life story of three well-to-do sisters, each at a crossroads in her life. April,1912: It’s the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe—sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they’ve seen—magnificent castles and museums in Italy and France, the ruins of Greece and the Middle East—and contemplate the futures that await them.

Molly wants to fight Hitler by using her skills as a pilot. But the USA says no to female pilots. America is at war and Molly, a qualified pilot, is determined to use her skills in the air against the Nazis.

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 11.02 hours

Designing spaces is her passion, but clearing her sister’s name is her mission. Can Lady Beatrice outwit the formidable DCI Richard Fitzwilliam to solve the case, or will she become a royal embarrassment?

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Penelope Rawlins

Genre Mystery

Duration 9.17 hours

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Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity, but also offers the chance to discover more about her family background, and perhaps find a place where she can finally belong. When Sophie eventually arrives in the city of her dreams it’s both everything she imagined, and not at all what she expected.

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The Ha-Ha

Tom Shakespeare

Bonjour, Sophie

Elizabeth Buchan

It’s 1959 and eighteen-yearold Sophie is determined that now is the time for her real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying. She finds diversion and excitement in a love affair, but soon realizes that if she wants to live life on a bigger canvas she must take matters into her own hands. She dreams of escape to Paris, the Wartime home her French mother fled before her birth.

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Emily Joyce Genre Saga

Duration 10.95 hours

Murder at Work

Faith Martin

Secrets of a Scottish Isle

Erica Ruth Neubauer

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, spirited American Jane Wunderly must investigate a secret society where esoteric rituals blur the line between what’s real, what’s illusion, and what’s deadly.

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman

Genre Mystery

Duration 10 hours

For Richer, For Deader

Helen Golden

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Keith Wickham

Genre Humorous

Duration 7.5 hours

A modern country house farce with a diverse cast of characters. Fred Twistleton is about to turn forty. Gathering with his friends to celebrate at a rented stately home, he finally hopes to get together with his college crush, the woman of his dreams, Heather. But Fred is also keen to publish his memoirs, and Heather realises the revelations they contain could threaten her career as a high-flying foreign correspondent. When the treasured manuscript goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Fred’s at a loss.

Hillary will retire in a few weeks. But can her boss get Hillary to change her mind by putting her on a murder investigation? The victim is found dead with his head bashed in with a piece of wood. Michael Ivers was a gambler and a notorious womaniser.

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Alison Campbell

Genre Mystery

Duration 7.97 hours

Caught between boorish Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam and a killer wedding party, Lady Beatrice must solve the murder to save the big day.

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Penelope Rawlins

Genre Mystery

Duration 9 hours

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Discovering that his mother is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and enables her to return to her home. But when Remy stumbles on an old photograph, shocking long-held family secrets surface.

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The Master of Measham Hall

Anna Abney

The first in a page-turning historical series about survival, love, and family loyalty. England, 1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land. Alethea Hawthorne is safe inside the walls of the Calverton household as a lady’s companion waiting in anticipation of the day she can return to her ancestral home of Measham Hall.

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Hannah Genesius

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 9.2 hours

The Museum of Failures

Thrity Umrigar

A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick Honor. Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl—and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years.

Murder Never Retires

Faith Martin

Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene.

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Vikas Adams

Genre Literature

Duration 10 hours

The Suspicions of Mr Whisker

Mandy Morton

Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are hired to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths at Mr Whisker’s Academy for Wayward Cats. Before Tilly even opens her notebook, the hockey mistress is brutally murdered on the playing field.

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Jenny Funnell

Genre Mystery

Duration 6.75 hours

SOP Lamplight 2

Narrated by Alison Campbell

Genre Mystery

Duration 8.06 hours

Not Mushroom For Death

Helen Golden

Can Lady Beatrice clear her new beau’s name or will Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam’s hunch land Seb behind bars for murder?

SOP Lamplight 5

Narrated by Penelope Rawlins

Genre Mystery

Duration 9.25 hours

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The Briar Book of the Dead

A.G. Slatter

Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily’s Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid. Ellie Briar is the first nonwitch to be born into her family for generations. The Briar family of witches run the town of Silverton, caring for its inhabitants with their skills and magic. In the usual scheme of things, they would be burnt for their sorcery, but the church has given them dispensation in return for their protection of the borders of the Darklands, where the much-feared Leech Lords hold sway. Ellie is being trained as a steward, administering for the town, and warding off the insistent interest of the church. When her grandmother dies suddenly, Ellie’s cousin Audra rises to the position of Briar Witch, propelling Ellie into her new role. As she navigates fresh challenges, an unexpected new ability to see and speak to the dead leads her to uncover sinister family secrets, stories of burnings, lost grimoires and evil spells.

SOP Availability

Jammer 2 - April

Narrated by Jess Nesling

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 12.1 hours

Sparkle’s Story

Louise Allen

Lead Title

This is Salvaged Vauhini Vara

SOP Jammer 2 - April

Narrated by Melanie Crawley

Genre General Non Fiction

Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry. A short while after settling in, Sparkle begins to identify as pansexual. A revolution is underway in the Allen household, with Sparkle’s transition motivating all of the young people to explore what becoming an adult means for them. But it’s Sparkle’s escalating behaviour that causes concern. Discovering a dark fact about Sparkle’s birth and the shocking events that the children in her house were part of, Louise is desperate for more help – and not just for the child in her care.

Duration 9.13 hours

SOP Jammer 2 - May

Narrated by Deepa Samuel Genre Modern Fiction

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving aunt. One sister consumes the ashes of another.

Duration 7.25 hours

Tokyo Nobody

Nicholas Hogg

Soon to be a major feature film Social psychologist Ben Monroe has returned to Tokyo after a failed marriage, determined to seek out his former lover Kozue. His estranged teenage daughter Mazzy reluctantly flies from California to join him. On the flight she meets a young Japanese man, Koji, a cult survivor, who tells her the story of the luminous night princess Kaguya, a powerful tale of beauty and obsession. As Ben delves deeper into the underworld in search of Kozue, Mazzy and Koji are compelled to follow, and their four lives dangerously intersect as past and present collide.

SOP Jammer 2 - May

Narrated by Andrew Futaishi

Genre Thriller

Duration 6.08 hours

Marilyn’s Story

Louise Allen

The next book in Louise Allen’s Thrown Away Children series. A baby is named ‘Marilyn’ after the Hollywood legend, Norma Jean. Marilyn inherits her parents’ fascination for Marilyn Monroe and develops an obsession with her alter-ego. She wears red lipstick and emulates the curvy, platinum-blond film star from a very young age. When her family is torn apart by tragedy, she finds herself in the care system, and systematically derails foster-carer Louise’s family holiday. But is her diva behaviour masking a dark secret?

SOP Jammer 2 - June

Narrated by tbc

Genre General Non Fiction

Duration 8.5 hours

World of Warcraft: War of the Scaleborn

Courtney Alameda

The next novel set in the world of Blizzard Entertainment’s legendary online game World of Warcraft. When the world was young, all life shook before the might of Galakrond, a massive primal dragon whose hunger could not be sated. Five primal dragons rose valiantly beside the titan-forged Keeper Tyr to combat this threat. Though the fight was desperate, Galakrond fell by their teeth and talons, and they were chosen to become protectors of Azeroth. The titans gifted Nozdormu, Ysera, Alexstrasza, Malygos, and Neltharion with order magic, transforming them into the Aspects, powerful dragons with command of time, nature, life, magic, even the earth itself. Other primal dragons followed them on their path, and, imbued with the titans’ power, the dragonflights rose to shape the world and serve the Aspects. That is the tale the dragonflights have always told . . . but it is not the whole story.

SOP

Jammer 2 - June

Availability

Narrated by Wendy Lee

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 14.25 hours Lead Title

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A New York Winter

Isla Gordon

Curl up this Christmas with the ultimate city escape, and get ready to fall in love with NYC Will her dreams come true in the city that never sleeps? When she was nineteen, on a magical trip to New York City, Ashling created a list of her five life goals. There, she’d felt inspired to dream big, but now, ten years later, with four out of five goals having crumbled before her, she realises she has only one option left to live the life she’s always dreamed of: move to New York City, before it’s too late.

A Cornish Christmas at the Farmhouse Bakery Linn B. Halton

From the bestselling author of Christmas at The Highland Flower Shop writing as Lucy Coleman, comes a series set in a Cornish Farmhouse. When Jess Newman married the love of her life Ben she was sure they had what it took to stay together forever.

Hope

Beverley Watts

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood.

SOP Rosa 3 - April

Narrated by Mark Elstob

Genre Romance

Duration 7.18 hours

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SOP Rosa 3 - April

Narrated by Sarah Schoenbeck

Genre Romance

Duration 9.71 hours

Honestly. It’s just that it seems silly not to check out a few other famous places first. Like Saks. And Bloomingdales. And Barneys. And one of those fantastic sample sales where you can get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Is Becky too dazzled to care?

SOP Rosa 3 - April

Narrated by Emma Powell

Genre Romance

Duration 8.5 hours

Shopaholic Abroad

Sophie Kinsella

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need - and she’s really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she’s been offered a chance to work in New York. New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to them all.

SOP Rosa 3 - May

Narrated by Nell Hudson

Genre Romance

Duration 12.75 hours

The Wedding Hitch

Claire McCauley

Róisín has won her dream wedding. Now she just needs to find a groom . . . Róisín O’Reilly is ecstatic. Nate, her boyfriend of the past ten years, has finally proposed. But he insists they need to save for five years before they can afford the swanky wedding she longs for.

SOP Rosa 3 - May

Narrated by Antonia Beamish

Genre Romance

Duration tbc hours

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The Sisters at the Last House Before the Sea Liz Eeles

Sitting by the window with views of the shining sea, a white-haired woman seals an envelope with trembling hands and thinks of her grandchildren – two sisters who haven’t spoken for years. Will her final message bring them back together?

SOP Rosa 3 - May

Narrated by Francesca Waite

Genre Romance

Duration 12.2 hours

The Golden Girls’ Road Trip

Kate Galley

A glorious new uplifting rom com for fans of Judy Leigh, Hazel Prior and Maddie Please! It’s never too late for one last adventure... Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she’s never been one for putting down roots. She’s spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a soon-to-be grandmother, Constance is forced to accept it may be time - perhaps - to settle down. Until a chance encounter throws open a window to her past, and Constance decides to head to the Highlands to find an old friend.

SOP Rosa 3 - June

NNarrated by Joan Walker

Genre Humorous

Duration 7.71 hours

The Lost Mother of Ireland

Susanne O’Leary

A completely gripping and unforgettable story of long-lost family secrets and forbidden romance that will whisk you away to the beautiful village of Sandy Cove on the west coast of Ireland. When Laura inherits a small cottage from a friend who was like a mother to her, she wonders whether this could be the new beginning she’s been searching for. Although she’s never been to the village of Sandy Cove on the west coast of Ireland, her friend described it as on the edge of the sparkling blue sea, with sandy white beaches. Could this be the fresh start she needs to ease her heartache?

SOP Rosa 3 - June

Narrated by Jennifer Fitzgerald Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 8.08 hours

Patience

Beverley Watts

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… With her four older sisters now married, it’s Patience Shackleford’s turn to take charge of her younger siblings’ education.

SOP Rosa 3 - June

Narrated by Mark Elstob +

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration

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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

John Langan

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Apr

Narrated by Gary Bennett Genre Modern Fiction

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’s effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed; a father explores a mysterious tower, and the monster imprisoned within; a man mourning the death of his father travels to his father’s hometown, seeking closure, but finds himself beset by dreams of mythic bargains and a primeval, corpse-eating titan.

Duration 11.91 hours

End of Days

Brad Taylor

The Taskforce and Mossad join forces against a fanatical organisation in this actionfuelled thriller from New York Times bestseller and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Apr

Narrated by Rich Orlow

Genre Crime

Duration 12.09 hours

The Yank

John Crawley

HE YEAR IS 1975. A young IrishAmerican is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive military training possible and then go to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end the British occupation of the North.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Apr

Narrated by Alan Turkington

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Duration 9.6 hours

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SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Apr

Narrated by Nell Hudson

The fabulous first Shopaholic novel by international No. 1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella! Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She’s a financial journalist who spends all day writing articles on how to manage money wisely. Her own method of managing money is to hide her Visa bills under the bed and hope they’ll disappear. Becky just can’t stop shopping. She knows she has to do something: either Cut Back or Make More Money. Except Cutting Back seems impossible, and her attempts to Make More Money just get her into trouble.

Genre Romance

Duration 9.45 hours

Black Angel

Graham Masterton

In a city wreathed in fog, a satanic killer stalks the streets... Enter Lieutenant Foggia who, assisted by a spiritualist medium, must discover the reason for the slayings. But the truth he unearths is beyond anything he’s encountered in the real world. For the killings are paving the way for a force so powerful that the lives of a few innocents will appear unimportant in comparison.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - May

Narrated by John Moraitis

Genre Horror

Duration 13.35 hours

Thirst For Salt

Madelaine Lucas

A gorgeously written novel set over the course of one lifechanging summer in an isolated Australian coastal town Adrift during the summer after she finishes college, a young woman takes a holiday with her mother in the rugged Australian coastal town of Sailor’s Beach.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - May

Narrated by Madelaine Lucas

Genre Literature

Duration 8.11 hours

How Sunflowers Bloom Under

Moonlight

Isabella Dorta

20 years in the making, ‘how sunflowers bloom under moonlight’ is the story of isabella’s journey through love, heartbreak and everything in between.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Jun

Narrated by Isabella Dorta

Genre Poetry

Duration 2.43 hours

It’s Mine

Steven Boykey Sidley

Future historians may well look back on “It’s Mine” and wonder at such a heuristic prescience gilded with clarity, style, and grace’ Josh Rosenthal, US historian, podcaster, public intellectual, educator, serial entrepreneur.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - May

Narrated by Edward Mitchell

Genre Business, Money & Economics

Duration 8.46 hours

The Queen’s Pawn

Andrew Turpin

CIA checkmated . . . A defecting oligarch meets a grisly death in London over a game of chess. CIA investigator Jayne Robinson is sent to Moscow on a high-risk mission to find out why. And the US president prepares for a crisis summit as Russia grabs a chunk of Ukraine.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Jun

Narrated by Mandy Weston

Genre Thriller

Duration 12.8 hours

Blackmail: A completely unputdownable gripping and gritty crime thriller

Heather Burnside

A DEVASTATING ATTACK. Beth is walking her dog in a secluded wooded area around Manchester, when she’s viciously attacked.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - May

Narrated by Cora Kirk

Genre Thriller

Duration 9.1 hours

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The Insider Threat

Brad Taylor

They’ll commit an act of unthinkable barbarity. The Taskforce – a highly clandestine Special Forces unit – has confronted countless attacks, but never one of this magnitude. ISIS has set in motion an attack that no airstrike can defeat.

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Jun

Narrated by Henry Strozier

Genre Crime

Duration 14.15 hours

Stalking the Ripper

Jack Gatland

SOP Trade Highlights 4 - Jun

Narrated by Robin Laing

Genre Crime

The eleventh book in a series of procedural crime thrillers by #1 New York Times bestselling writer Tony Lee writing as Jack Gatland, Stalking The Ripper is perfect for fans of J.D Kirk, L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Alex Smith, David Gatward, Rachel McLean and Ann Cleeves, among others. When the body of convicted serial killer Jacob Spears, AKA the ‘Essex Ripper’ is found, hanged outside the walls of onetime Newgate Prison, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon find themselves in a race against time.

Duration 10.36 hours

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The King of Scanlon’s Rock

David Luddington

Ageing Rock God, Jim Sullivan, is heading for the quiet life on his newly acquired, tiny island, off the coast of Cornwall. That is until he sends a letter to the King of England, announcing his intent to declare independence from the UK and appointing himself king. Determined not to cede one inch of British territory, the UK government despatches low-level Foreign Office researcher, John Cabot, to put a stop to Sullivan’s ambitions. What they didn’t anticipate was Cabot’s tenacity for unearthing information they’d rather he didn’t, or Sullivan’s relentless, but completely unfounded, optimism in his own ideas. Armed with nothing more than a guitar and a spreadsheet, can these two stand up to the might of the British Empire? No contest.

The Angels’ Share: A Murder Mystery

Yvonne Vincent

Tensions are rising in the run up to the island event of the year - the Vik Show. Not only has the secret recipe for Mrs Hay’s peppermint slices been stolen, but someone has had the bad manners to leave a dead body in the distillery.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Angela Ness

Genre Mystery

Duration 7.7 hours

Murder in School

Meet maverick British detective DI Skelgill... “mad, bad and just a little bit cozy.” WHEN A LONG-SERVING MASTER at one of England’s most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

Genre Crime

Duration 8.28 hours

SOP Availability

QUEST 5

Narrated by Finlay Robertson

Genre Humorous

Duration 11.75 hours

Aggressor

F X Holden

It is April 1 2038. Day 60 of China’s blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan. The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced, it can disrupt the balance of power in the region.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Gary Bennett

Genre Science Fiction

Duration 13.85 hours

Mother

Jack Stainton

Mother: The glue that holds the family together… Matt Walker had just witnessed the murder of Graham Meadows, his psychopathic brother-in-law; or so he thought. After all he had been through, what, or who, could he believe anyway?

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Nicholas Camm

Genre Nicholas Camm

Duration 8.55 hours

Bruce Beckham

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Filthy Rich Vampire

Geneva Lee

“It was as if my life had been marked by her absence…” Sensual, dangerous, provocative — step into a daring new world of dark magic, primal attraction, and breathtaking romance. Julian Rousseaux has a problem. He’s single, and for the world’s wealthiest vampires, the social season is about to begin. Julian would rather stake himself than participate in the marriage market. But as the eldest, eligible Rousseaux he’s expected to find a wife before the season ends—whether he likes it or not. When cellist Thea literally stumbles into his life at a gala, he knows she’s the last person he could ever fall in love with. She’s too innocent, too kind, and way too human. But now that she knows about his world, she’s also a walking target. She needs protection. He needs a fake girlfriend to discourage overzealous vampire matchmaking. So, Julian makes Thea an irresistible offer: pretend to be his lover and he’ll change her life. For one year, they’ll attend the season’s social events together in exchange for his protection and a way out of her mother’s crippling medical debt. She can’t say no.

SOP Availability

QUEST 5

Narrated by Teddy Hamilton Genre Romance Duration 13.1 hours

Murder in an Irish Bog

David Pearson

Too late to find a missing man, are Irish detectives in time to catch his killer? It is only a passing comment in the post office in a remote part of Western Ireland that alerts police to the disappearance of Davin Faherty.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Aiden Kelly

Genre Crime

Duration 5.98 hours

Witch out of Luck

Blair Wilkes faces her toughest challenge yet: meeting her boyfriend Nathan’s family. That means being on her best ‘normal’ behaviour -- no weirdness, no magic, and definitely no unexpected appearances from her unpredictable cat, Sky. Blair’s life is never that simple.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Eilidh Beaton

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 5.5 hours

A Shot at Democracy

G. R. Jordan

A whisper on the wind tells of murderous intent. An assassin prepares in the highlands. Can new operative Kirsten Stewart hunt down the killer before they strike at the heart of Scotland’s democracy.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Sarah Barron

Genre Thriller

Duration 5.88 hours

The Warning

A J Wills

One text message. A chilling warning. A husband’s deadly secret. After losing everything in a devastating house fire, the cracks in Justin and Megan’s marriage are starting to show.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Thriller

Duration 10.53 hours

Elle Adams

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Bluebell Wood: A chilling Norfolk Broads crime thriller

David Blake

A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER! A hanging man’s body found by an uncontrollable dog, a murdered historian with an unpublished book, and a mysterious cottage, hiding in the shadows of Bluebell Wood. Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy Norfolk murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance, one that will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed. Bluebell Wood is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the ninth in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd, J M Dalgliesh, and Elly Griffiths into David Blake devotees.

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QUEST 5

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

Genre Crime

Duration 6.7 hours

On the Edge

Cocky Scot, an innocent pole dancer and a penthouse apartment with a view. What could go wrong? To escape her difficult past Sasha jumps into an opportunity of managing the sale of the stylish,up market apartment.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Billie Belford

Genre Romance

Duration 11.68 hours

Her Missing Husband

A J Campbell

People don’t just disappear. Someone must know something. Lori once lived the perfect life with her husband Howie and their teenage daughter Molly—until the day Howie left for work and vanished without a trace.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Deirdra Whelan

Genre Thriller

Duration 8.03 hours

The English Adventurer

Griff Hosker

When there is gold then there will be those who wish to take it. If the gold is aboard a ship then there will be pirates. Thomas is a former slave who has become a gunner on a Spanish galleon.

End Game

Logan Ryles

Mason Sharpe has some lethal skills. In this little town, he’s going to need them. On a dark Alabama highway, army veteran Mason Sharpe witnesses a terrible accident. As he fights to rescue a woman from the burning vehicle he notices one of her eyes is bright blue, the other deep brown.

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Luis Soto

Genre Historical Fiction

Duration 10.03 hours

SOP QUEST 5

Narrated by Andy Ingalls

Genre Action & Adventure

Duration 8.15 hours

Joanna Mazurkiewicz

SOPHIE KINSELLA

First 3 books in the Shopaholic series

Narrated by Outlander actress Nell Hudson available in MAY

Super Lead Title

A Season for Scandal

Laura Wood

The Agency for Scandal is glorious! Clever, funny, charming, and achingly romantic, it is a delight from start to finish. Laura Wood always writes about love and friendship with a deft hand, and this is her best work yet” Katherine Webber, author of Twin Crowns An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a scandalous upper class world straight out of Bridgerton and using their wit and bravery to unmask a villain.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Eva Feiler

Genre Romance

Duration 9.86 hours

The Traitor in the Game

Triona Campbell

The sequel to explosive thriller THE GAME OF LIFE OR DEATH from the most sensational new voice in YA fiction. Asha Kennedy (Lisbeth Salander for a new generation) has uncovered the dark secret at the heart of Virtual Reality game ‘Shackle’ - You don’t play the game; it plays you.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Thriller

Duration 9 hours

Bad Panda

Swapna Haddow

Are you sick of being utterly adorable? Tired of being cuddled and hugged? Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so happen to be SOOOOPER-DOOOOOPER fluffy? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you’re in the right book.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 1.03 hours

AdventureMice Mice on the Ice

Philip Reeve

The Frost Fair is coming! But when a surprise snowfall puts the mice’s plans at risk, it’s up to Pedro and the team to save the Fair and bring joy to the town! Guaranteed to warm hearts everywhere.

SOP Nudged

3

Narrated by Barnaby Edwards

Genre Action & Adventure

Duration 0.76 hours

Seven Days

Rebeka Shaid

This is a story about Noori and Aamir. A story about grief, family, and the unexpected turns life can take. A story of first love. Noori has it all sussed out. She may only be sixteen and a Bollywood fanatic with an incredible lack of foresight, but she knows a thing or two about life and its messy heartaches.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Safiyya Ingar

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 6.58 hours

Feather

M. G. Leonard

The Twitchers have one last mystery to solve – and this time it’s a heist! The final unputdownable adventure in wildlife queen M.G. Leonard’s bestselling birdwatching detective series.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by M.G. Leonard

Genre Mystery

Duration 6.53 hours

Winner Takes Gold

Eloise Smith

It takes courage to follow your dreams . . . Young gymnast Pearl dreams of winning gold in Paris. It’s what Mum would have wanted. However, elite training camp is super tough, even with the help of best friend Ryan and rising star, Jada-Rae.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Alison Campbell

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 4.88 hours

Super Lead Title

Little Bang

Kelly McCaughrain

Beneath the New Year’s Eve fireworks, shy science-nerd Mel and slacker songwriter Sid get pregnant on their first date. Any sixteen-year-olds would expect trouble – but this is Northern Ireland 2018, where abortion is still illegal. Mel’s religious parents insist she must keep the baby, whilst Sid’s feminist mum pushes for a termination. Mel and Sid are determined to do this together, but they soon discover that pregnancy is totally different for boys and girls.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Myles Milliken

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 8.75 hours

Love Is For Losers

Wibke Brueggemann

A laugh out loud look at first love, loss and trying to avoid the girl of your dreams. As far as Phoebe Davis is concerned, love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that turns you into a complete moron?

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Ella Lynch

Genre Romance

Duration 7.68 hours

Lead Title

Skylar and the K-pop Headteacher

Luan Goldie

K-pop meets Freaky Friday in a hilarious middle-grade body swap adventure from a Costa-winning author, perfect for fans of Jenny Pearson and David Solomons.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Humorous

Duration 5.7 hours

A Spy in the Jam Factory

Chrissie Sains

The fourth and final adventure in the hilarious series about Scooter and his alien sidekick Fizzbee. The jam factory is under surveillance by the Alien Intelligence Agency – will they succeed in finding a reason to evict Fizzbee from Earth?

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Chris Devon

Genre Action & Adventure

Duration 6.75 hours

The Lighthouse at the World’s End

Amy Sparkes

Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny final book in the House at the Edge of Magic series. Nine and her friends are headed to the mortal realm in search of the only thing that will shake a very tricky witch off their tail: a priceless stargold locket.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 10.75 hours

The November Witches

Jennifer Claessen

No witch is excited about gloomy magic-free November apart from young hag Clemmie who is relieved to finally be done with October’s magical mess. But if there’s no more magic, then where are all the armourclad knights coming from?

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 6.95 hours

Bad Panda: The Cake Escape

Swapna Haddow

The second instalment in the hit series from the award-winner creators of DAVE PIGEON Lin the panda is on a mission: to find her best friend, Fu. He’s disappeared from the zoo! Has he been stolen by the Horrid Human? Only her badness can help her find him . .

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration 1.17 hours

Super Lead Title

The Last Bloodcarver

Vanessa Le

The Spectaculars

Jodie Garnish

Zo and the Invisible Island Alake Pilgrim

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Tuyen Do

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

“Nhika is a bloodcarver. A coldhearted, ruthless being who can alter human biology with just a touch. In the harsh, industrial city of Theumas, she is seen not as a healer as she was meant to, but a monster that kills for pleasure. And in the city’s criminal underbelly, the rarest of monsters are traded for gold. When Nhika is finally caught by the infamous Butchers, she’s auctioned off to the highest bidder--a mysterious girl garbed in white.

Duration 10.32 hours

Bad Panda: Mites, Camera, Action!

Swapna Haddow

The third hilarious adventure featuring loveable Lin, everyone’s favourite Bad Panda. A documentary crew have come to the zoo, to film every day life with the animals. The only thing is that the reality is a bit boring so they ship in some animal actors.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Modern Fiction

Duration tbc hours

Movies Showing Nowhere

Yorick Goldewijk

Movies Showing Nowhere by Yorick Goldewijk £7.99 Published 4th April 2024 On the day Cate came into the world, her mother left it. Ever since, Cate’s dad has become distant and silent, locked in his own little world.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Kate Rawson

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration tbc hours

“When three figures arrive at Harper’s window in a flying canoe, informing her that she is due to start her apprenticeship, Harper discovers she is a Spectacular - a magical performer, gifted special powers from the stars.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Charlie Sanderson

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 9.02 hours

Swift and Hawk: Supernova

Logan Macx

Swift and Hawk are on the run in the third mission in the unputdownable hi-tech, highadventure spy series for fans of Alex Rider and Young Bond. An epic chase. An unstoppable enemy.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Sam Stafford

Genre Action & Adventure

Duration tbc hours

The epic conclusion to the fantasy adventure that started with Zo and the Forest of Secrets. This duology features unique characters, creatures, legends and landscapes from the Caribbean, re-imagined in an exciting, and at times futuristic, way.

SOP Nudged 3

Narrated by Janique Charles

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration 6.48 hours

A Cure Ever After Angharad Walker

An extraordinary new teen YA story set in the same world of Once Upon A Fever – perfect for fans of Philip Pullman. The city of Lundain is battling strange illnesses brought on by excessive emotion.

SOP Nudged 7

Narrated by Alison Campbell

Genre Fantasy & Supernatural

Duration tbc hours

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Hidden Fires

Sairish Hussain

Lead Title

The Burnout

Sophie Kinsella

Ramadan, 2017. Yusuf wakes up in the middle of the night to pray. His routine is always the same, but something tells him that tonight is different. Yellow flames blur Yusuf’s vision, and the laughter of a small child echoes in his ears. But this time, the red, smoke-filled skies aren’t just in his memory. Miles away, Rubi is also awake. On the television, she watches reports of a devastating fire in London. She is already anxious when her parents send her to stay with her Grandpa Yusuf, whose conservative house rules are almost as unbearable as the loneliness she feels at home.

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156566

Genre Modern Fiction

Death by Irish Whiskey

Catie Murphy

The competition for best whiskey in Ireland will be a publicity bonanza for the winner, and that means there are celebrities involved. Like boxer Angus McConal and Megan’s friend Niamh, an up-and-coming actress who’s teamed up with Megan’s uncle, the retired Sligo harbormaster.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156597

Genre Mystery

The Place We Call Home

Faith Hogan

Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills... Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed mills have created the finest wool in all of Ireland. Run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and how the mills came to be the Corrigan’s is one of them...

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156528

Genre Humorous

Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has hit a brick wall (literally). Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga and find solitude, she heads to the Devon resort she loved as a child.

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156627

Genre Romance

Primrose Park

Christie Barlow

The gorgeous new book in the heartwarming and bestselling Love Heart Lane series! Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what. Vet Molly has always been career driven and focussed on caring for her animals, but when she meets a gorgeous Mystery Man at a conference and their connection is off the charts, well, one night off work won’t hurt anyone…

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156535

Genre Romance

An Italian Island Summer

Sue Moorcroft

After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once. At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156542

Genre Romance

Poppy’s Recipe for Life

Heidi Swain

Things haven’t always been straightforward in Poppy’s life but her dreams are finally within her reach. She’s moving into a cottage in beautiful Nightingale Square, close to the local community garden, where she can indulge her passion for making preserves and pickles.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156559

Genre

Dark Game

Rachel Lynch

DI Kelly Porter knows some people will risk everything to get ahead. But when the truth comes out deadly prices are paid... After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns to her home turf in the Lake District.

The Lifeline

Tom Ellen

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156580

Genre Crime

Lilith

Nikki Marmery

In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. But when Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him, she refuses – and is banished forever from Paradise.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158195

Genre Modern Fiction

Lead Title

The Revenge Club

Kathy Lette

Will is sleepwalking through life. He works a dead-end job and volunteers at an anonymous crisis line to avoid facing his own problems. Annie is sure she has her five-year plan all worked out. But when things start falling apart, she just needs someone who will listen. . . They’re practically strangers but soon Will and Annie rely on their regular phone calls, challenging each other to be brave and rebuild their lives. They’ve found connection in the most unlikely of places but is it possible to fall in love with someone you’ve never met?

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - May

ISBN 9781004158287

Genre Romance

The Almost Truth

Anne Hamilton

When Alina’s son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it’s the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina’s neatly ordered life. With the sudden appearance of Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she’s left reeling. Three relationships, all of them built on half-truths.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158201

Genre Literature

A Year at the Star and Sixpence: Part 1

Holly Hepburn

Includes; Snowdrops at the Star and Sixpence, Valentine’s Day at the Star and Sixpence, Summer at the Star and Sixpence When sisters Nessie and Sam inherit a little pub in a beautiful country village they jump at the chance to escape their messy lives and start afresh.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158218

Genre Romance

Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men. Only they’re not going down without a fight. Society might think the women have passed their amuse-by dates but the Revenge Club have other plans.

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - May

ISBN 9781004158256

Genre Romance

In Search of Ethel Cartwright

Tom Winter

Norman Cartwright, an eightysix-year-old man living in the small seaside town of Clacton, Essex, has kept his crossdressing a secret his entire life. A trucker by trade, his lipstick and wigs were donned only in the lonely confines of his lorry, as he sat in lay-bys and drove along empty roads on long trips...

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158225

The Rich List

Ben Saxon

A RUTHLESS ASSASSIN IS KILLING THE WORLD’S RICHEST PEOPLE.

Jay Chopra, the world’s second richest person, is dead; the result of an apparent tragic accident. Days later, the body of another prominent billionaire is discovered.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158263

Genre Thriller

The Summer Fair

Heidi Swain

Beth loves her job working in a care home, looking after its elderly residents, but she doesn’t love the cramped and dirty house-share she currently lives in. So, when she gets the opportunity to move to Nightingale Square, sharing a house with the lovely Eli, she jumps at the chance.

The Lodgers

Eithne Shortall

One house. Three strangers. A second chance at happiness. Tessa’s life as an activist and volunteer worker takes a hit after a fall. At the ripe young age of 69, she’s no longer able to live alone and decides to take in two lodgers for free. After the recent death of his brother, Conn is riddled with grief and determined to make amends.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - May

ISBN 9781004158270

Genre Modern Fiction

The House That Made Us

Alice Cavanagh

When Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of themselves outside their newbuild bungalow, the garden bare and the paint on the front door still wet. It becomes a tradition, this snap, and slowly the photographs build into an album of a fifty-year partnership.

Heartcross Castle

Christie Barlow

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159239

Genre Romance

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159246

Genre Modern Fiction

In Plain Sight

Marion Todd

A child’s life is at stake. Which of the residents of St Andrews is hiding something – and why? When a baby girl is snatched from the crowd of spectators at a fun run, the local police have a major investigation on their hands. DI Clare Mackay and her team are in a race against the clock when they learn that the child has a potentially fatal medical condition.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159253

Genre Thriller

SOP Clipper LP TUP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159222

A second chance… When her grandfather Marley passes away Grace Power discovers she’s been left the beautiful but crumbling estate of Heartcross Castle. As a single mum of three, Grace has no idea what she’s going to do with it – but who can say no to a roof over their kids’ heads and a chance to get away from past hurts? And a forever home Heartcross Castle is full of secrets – especially a lost security deposit box that holds the truth to everything… But when celebrity chef Andrew Glossop sets his eyes on the castle and, to make matters worse, mistakes Grace as the new housekeeper, Grace tells him there is absolutely NO CHANCE he is getting his hands on her home.

Genre Romance

The Potting Shed Murder

Paula Sutton

Daphne Brewster has left London behind and is settling into her family’s new life in rural Norfolk, planting broad beans in raised beds and vintage hunting for their farmhouse. But when the local headmaster is found dead amongst his allotment cabbages, the village is ablaze: Who would kill beloved Mr Papplewick, pillar of the community?

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159260

Genre

The Picture House by the Sea

Holly Hepburn

Sometimes love is exactly like it is in the movies . . . With captivating views of the sparkling Cornish sea, the local picture house once thrived –and not only because it’s home to the best ice-cream shop for miles.

The Babysitter

Emma Curtis

Three women. Three secrets. Claudia’s life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the murder of her child. Now she has done the unthinkable and confessed to manslaughter in order to be granted parole - her only hope of finding out what really happened to Tilly.

Small Acts of Kindness

Caroline Day

Kiki grew up in New Zealand, dreaming of one day going to Glastonbury Festival. Now, mourning the loss of her beloved Yaya - the woman who raised her - she travels to the UK to follow that dream. It is only when she leaves home that she realises just how sheltered her life has been up until now. Ned lives an active and exciting life.

Searching for Juliet

Sophie Duncan

Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world’s most famous love story. She is an enduring romantic icon. And she is a captivating, brilliant, passionate teenage girl who is read and interpreted afresh by each new generation. Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind William Shakespeare’s child bride to the boy actor who inspired her creation onstage.

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159277

Genre Romance

F1 Racing

Confidential

Giles Richards

Formula One is one of the most intense, complex and secretive sports on the planet In F1 Confidential, Guardian journalist Giles Richards speaks to the men and women inside Formula One to reveal the inner workings of the world’s most glamorous motorsport. Featuring exclusive interviews with experts at every level...

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Apr

ISBN 9781004156603

Genre Sport, Hobbies & Leisure

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159291

Genre Thriller

Young Elizabeth

Nicola Tallis

Before she was three years old Elizabeth had been both a princess and then a bastard following the brutal execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. After losing several stepmothers and then her father, the teenage Elizabeth was confronted with the predatory attentions of Sir Thomas Seymour.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Apr

ISBN 9781004156610

Genre Biography & Autobiography

SOP Clipper LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159321

Genre Modern Fiction

The Hard Road Will Take You Home

Anthony Stazicker

This is not a straightforward memoir. Instead it is a book that distils the processes and tactics Anthony ‘Staz’ Stazicker gathered throughout his career in the Special Forces - gunfights, door-kicking operations, and against-the-odds escapes - and how these hard lessons informed his later successes with multi-million pound start-up clothing company ThruDark.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - May

ISBN 9781004138739

Genre Biography & Autobiography

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Apr

ISBN 9781004156573

Genre General Non Fiction

Bibliotherapy

Bijal Shah

In this unique and transformational guide to healing, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah explores the restorative power of reading. Bibliotherapy traces the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - including the important role played by the best writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - May

ISBN 9781004158232

Genre Body, Mind & Spirit

One Life

Barbara Winton

Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again; nearly all left behind were murdered. This is his story. In 1938, 29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent nine months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan...

SOP LP Non-Fiction - May

ISBN 9781004158249

Genre Biography & Autobiography

The Storyteller of Auschwitz

Siobhan Curham

Stumbling through the terrifying wrought iron gates of Auschwitz, Jewish author Etty Weil longs for her apartment overlooking the Seine. Now she looks on in horror as a young girl, Danielle, is ruthlessly torn apart from her sobbing mother. She takes fourteen-year-old Danielle under her wing and soon comes to cherish her like a sister.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156641

Genre Historical Fiction

All Before Me

Esther

Rutter

In her early twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while teaching English in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home under escort, her recovery only began when she came to live and work in the Lake District at Dove Cottage, the home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Jun

ISBN 9781004159284

Genre Biography & Autobiography

Operation

Fortitude

Hilary Green

France, 1944. Agent Kim Maxwell has a new mission. She’s investigating the death of Bernard Leblanc, a local SOE leader. It looks like an accident, but Kim knows better . . . Her HQ is the Bistro Le Renard Rouge. The Red Fox. And the chef is none other than her lover and fellow agent Roland, AKA Foxy.

The Path of Peace

Anthony Seldon

Without a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on a 35day pilgrimage from the FrenchSwiss border to the English Channel. The route of his 1,000 kilometre journey was inspired by a young British soldier of the First World War.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Jun

ISBN 9781004159307

Genre History

The Royal Station Master’s Daughters at War

Ellee Seymour

It is 1917 and Maria has adapted well to her new life on the royal Sandringham estate where she works as a maid in the Big House for Queen Alexandra and is in awe of the many treasures around her.

This is Not America

Tom Owolade

In the rush to address inequality and prejudice, and to understand concerns around identity, immigration and colonial history, Britain has followed the lead of the world’s dominant power: America. We judge ourselves by America’s standards, absorb its arguments and follow its agenda.

SOP LP Non-Fiction - Jun

ISBN 9781004159314

Genre General Non Fiction

Angel’s Wish

Sheila Newberry

Suffolk, 1924. After the death of her fiancé in the field hospitals of France, Angel becomes nurse to the MacDonald family in the small village of Uffasham. Taking residence at the appropriately named Angel Inn, she is met by many new faces - and old ones, too.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156665

Genre Thriller

SOP Lamplight LP 4 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156689

Genre Saga

SOP Lamplight LP 4 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156696

Genre Saga

Prince of Legend

Rosalind

David Donachie

THEY WERE MEN BORN TO FIGHT. IF GOD WILLED THAT ANTIOCH WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY GAVE UP LIFE, SO BE IT. Thanks to the stratagems of Bohemund de Hauteville, leader of the Apulian Normans, the Crusade has taken the city of Antioch, and just in time.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156634

Genre Historical Fiction

Murder on Mistletoe Lane

Clara McKenna

Taking on the responsibilities that come with being Lady Lyndhurst, Stella is eager to embrace yuletide traditions in the Edwardian English countryside and use her strong social influence for good. Her world becomes so consumed with starting a horse farm charity for the holidays that she barely notices the usual oddities attached to her upper-crust lifestyle.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - May

ISBN 9781004158294

Genre Mystery

The Little Liar

Jessica Mills

Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man’s world is to be invisible. In the 1940s science is a gentleman’s profession, and it appears there are plenty of colleagues who want to keep it that way. After being segregated at Cambridge, then ignored and put down in the workplace, she has no intention of being seen as a secondclass citizen and throws everything into proving her worth.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156658

Genre Modern Fiction

In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she’s the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - May

ISBN 9781004158300

Genre Historical Fiction

Mitch Albom

When the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece, eleven-year-old Nico Crispi is offered a chance to save his family. He is instructed to convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading towards the east, where they are promised jobs and safety.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156672

Genre Historical Fiction

Death and the Sisters

Heather Redmond

London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow.

Murder at a Scottish Castle

Traci Hall

With the summer days getting shorter in the seaside village of Nairn, the annual bagpiping competition at Ramsey Castle promises to be quite the end-of-season blowout. Paisley has snagged a special invitation from the dowager countess, who wants to showcase her cashmere goods in the castle gift shop, and she’s brought her son Brody, Grandpa, and their black Scottish terrier Wallace.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Apr

ISBN 9781004156702

Genre Mystery

Some of Us Are Looking

Carlene O’Connor

In Dimpna Wilde’s veterinary practice, an imminent meteor shower has elevated the usual gossip to include talk of shooting stars and the watch parties that are planned all over Dingle. But there are also matters nearer at hand to discuss—including the ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside, and the shocking death of Chris Henderson, an elderly local, in a hit-and-run.

SOP Clipper LP 4 - May

ISBN 9781004158317

Genre Mystery

SOP Clipper LP 4 - May

ISBN

9781004158324

Genre Mystery

Diva

Daisy Goodwin

The Paris Notebook

Tessa Harris

January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor’s clinic, she doesn’t expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the first world war, Doctor Viktor treated soldiers for psychological disorders. One of the patients was none other than Adolf Hitler.

SOP Clipper LP 8- May

ISBN 9781004158331

Genre Saga

The Sword of Revenge

Jack Ludlow

Rome has lost its greatest warrior - for Aulus, the doom-laden prophecy of forty years earlier has come to pass. It is now left to Lucius to defy the oracle’s curse alone, and the corrupt and powerful senator leaves nothing to chance in his bid to survive. But one boy, alone in the world, holds the key to his fate, and the future of the Roman Republic.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781004160754

Genre

The Silk Code

Deborah Swift

England, 1943: Deciding to throw herself into war work, Nancy Callaghan joins the Special Operations Executive in Baker Street. There, she begins solving ‘indecipherables’ – scrambled messages from agents in the field. Then Nancy meets Tom Lockwood, a quiet genius when it comes to coding.

SOP Clipper LP 8- May

ISBN 9781004158348

Genre Romance

The Library Thief

Kuchenga Shenjé

The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can’t be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence’s father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame - and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester.

SOP Lamplight LP TUP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159338

Genre Mystery

The Highland Girls at War

Helen Yendall

Scotland, 1942. The Lumberjills, the newest recruits in the Women’s Timber Corps, arrive in the Scottish Highlands to a hostile reception from doubtful locals. The young women are determined to prove them wrong and serve their country – but they’re also all looking for something more.

SOP Clipper LP 8- May

ISBN 9781004158355

Genre Saga

Secrets of a Scottish Isle

Erica Ruth Neubauer

Isle of Iona, 1927: Cast away on a remote locale, Jane’s latest assignment depends on concealing her identity and blending in at an occult gathering. Not even her fiancé, Redvers, can be too close as she uncovers the truth about Robert Nightingale, enigmatic leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn...

The Sardinian Story

Francesca Scanacapra

Apennine Mountains, Italy, 1965

- Leonora Bacchetti was once a happy child. But at the age of seventeen she has become a wild and rebellious young woman who leaves her parents in despair when she runs away from home with a group of itinerant travellers.

SOP Clipper LP 8- May

ISBN 9781004158362

Genre Saga

The Diamond of London

Even with her privileged life, Lady Hester Stanhope knows that claiming the adventurous life she truly wants will not be easy, thanks to her eccentric father’s stifling grip. With the help of her renowned statesman uncle William Pitt the Younger, she takes on the glittering, treacherous heights of London Society.

SOP Lamplight LP 4 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159345

Genre

SOP Lamplight LP 4 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159352

Genre

Andrea Penrose

Murder by Lamplight Patrice McDonough

November 1866: The grisly murder site in London’s East End is thronged with onlookers. None of them expect the calmly efficient young woman among them to be a medical doctor, arrived to examine the corpse. Inspector Richard Tennant, overseeing the investigation, at first makes no effort to disguise his skepticism.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159369

Genre Mystery

The Fighting Fool

Dane Coolidge

The town of Hackamore, Arizona, needed someone who could stop the G Bar outfit from terrorizing the town. After much debate, they settled on Lum Martin, express messenger, border deputy, and gunfighter. He agreed to take the job if they would let him hire Syc Brown as his deputy.

Bonjour, Sophie

Elizabeth Buchan

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It’s 1959 and time for eighteenyear-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159376

Genre Historical Fiction

High Prairie

E E Halleran

When the snow melted, tempers tightened in the Big Horn Basin. Men muttered of trouble coming -- between small ranchers and big combines -- between nesters and cattlemen. Big trouble, killing trouble. Over in Johnson County, they said, the war had already started.

Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge Lizzie Pook

In deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . . London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159383

Genre Historical Fiction

Circle C Carries On Brett Rider

Donal Cameron was killed at San Juan Hill in Cuba, but Donal Cameron was coming home. Both father and son shared the same name. Both had served with Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, but only one was coming home. Everyone was anxious to know which one it was.

A Winter Wedding at Bletchley Park Molly Green

The second inspiring novel in the heartwarming and hopeful Bletchley Park Girls series from the queen of saga, Molly Green… When Rosie Frost was jilted on her wedding day, she didn’t think life could get any worse. But six years later in the throes of the Second World War, she is unceremoniously dismissed from her dream job after they discover her illegitimate child.

SOP Lamplight LP 8 - Jun

ISBN 9781004159390

Genre Saga

Massacre at White River

Lewis B. Patten

A fighting machine” was one of the terms folks used for Quentin Reed. He was “a man born for trouble” because he seemed, through no conscious effort, to gravitate to it, to fall into the middle of it, especially if a beautiful woman was involved.

SOP Center Point LP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781638089063

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 2 - Apr

ISBN 9781638089070

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 4 - Apr

ISBN 9781638089087

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 4 - Apr

ISBN 9781638089094

Genre Western

Trail Town Marshal

Todhunter Ballard

When Cap Lennox was mysteriously murdered, it meant two things to hard-bitten Joe Condon. Joe was now town marshal, and he didn’t have a friend left in the world.

Trail of the Bear

D.B. Newton

Born a pure blood Cheyenne, raised by whites when his family was massacred, Johnny Logan rode a treacherous trail between two worlds. But when he saw the ruthless exploitation of his people by villainous whites, he knew it was time to take a stand -- even if it was his last.

Shadow Range

Curtis Bishop

There were hard times in Texas in 1875. It seemed to the ranchmen that the whole world had stopped eating Texas beef -- and to add to their troubles, a gang of rustlers was killing cattle at night and skinning them on the spot, taking away the only part that would bring cash on the market.

Spanish Grant

L.L. Foreman

The game of cat and mouse had lasted a week and covered many miles before Rogue Bishop tired of it. His pursuer was Rory Ballinashawn, a cowboy who was unwilling to accept graciously his defeat by Bishop in a game of poker.

SOP Center Point LP 2 - May

ISBN 9781638089407

Genre Western

Law and Order, Unlimited

William Colt MacDonald

When railroad detective Gregory Quist is asked to look into why rancher Wyatt Kearsage isn’t allowing the Texas Northern & Arizona Southern Railway ro purchase right of way through his land, Quist turns down the assignment. After all, the rancher is probably just holding out for more money.

SOP Center Point LP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781638089742

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 2 - May

ISBN 9781638089414

Genre Western

Bullets for a Ranger

Bradford Scott

Ghosts range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores -- are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas’ Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they’re not ghosts -- just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate.... So the Ranger ace went “ghost”-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury!

SOP Center Point LP 2 - Jun

ISBN 9781638089759

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 4 - May

ISBN 9781638089421

Genre Western

The Outlaw

Sheriff

Hal Dunning

From the time they could talk, twins Jim and Jack Allen tracked all their food and learned to shoot and hit any target. Ragged, freckle-faced loner Jim becomes a fugitive and, on occasion, a terrifying killer called the “White Wolf”--But Jack loves law, and is soon the most feared sheriff in Wyoming.

SOP Center Point LP 4 - Jun

ISBN 9781638089766

Genre Western

SOP Center Point LP 4 - May

ISBN 9781638089438

Genre Western

Gun Law at Vermillion

Matt Stuart

This series is aimed at pleasing a wide readership by offering a blend of the genres most frequently requested by library patrons: Mystery, Romance, Western, General Fiction, and Nonfiction titles.Vermillion was tough . . . a raw Nevada frontier town where murderous hatreds smoldered -- where killers walked the streets without fear of the law.

SOP Center Point LP 4 - Jun

ISBN 9781638089773

Genre Western

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