NEW RELEASES Unabridged Audiobooks July – September 2014 CD & Playaway
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Dear Librarian, Welcome to our new audiobook catalogue. Here you’ll find all of the incredible new releases from Clipper, Lamplight, Avid and Jammer Audiobooks. Clipper is jam-packed with perfect summer listens including the latest blockbusters from Freya North, Santa Montefiore and Jane Fallon. For fans of crime fiction, Detective Roy Grace is back in Want You Dead by Peter James, and DI Charlie Resnick solves his final case in Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey. Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings all her knowledge of Elizabeth I to vivid life in The Marriage Game, a novel of intrigue, mysteries and tragedy, and in our non-fiction plan you will find Good Morning, Mr Mandela, a tribute to Nelson Mandela by his long-time personal aide Zelda la Grange. Epic tales of love and war are at the core of this quarter’s Lamplight collection. The heart-wrenching loss experienced during WWI is elegantly captured in Richard & Judy Summer Book Club pick The Lie by Helen Dunmore and The Care and Management of Lies by bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear. The Darkest Hour by highly acclaimed author Barbara Erskine is an emotional timeslip novel set between WWII and the present day. Avid welcomes Dean Koontz and his major new novel The City, set in a place where enchantment and malice entwine. It also features The Hollow World, the latest blockbuster from Michael J. Sullivan. Ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope returns to Jammer in The Nemesis Program by Scott Mariani, as does Commandant Camille Verhœven in Irène, the explosive new thriller from CWA International Dagger winner Pierre Lemaitre. This summer also sees the launch of a number of major new series. Tony Parsons introduces us to Detective Max Wolfe in his explosive first crime novel The Murder Bag – available from Clipper in August. Bestselling fantasy author Joe Abercrombie kick-starts his Half a King series in Avid, while Jammer welcomes Tilly Bagshawe with the arrival of The Inheritance, the first full length novel set in the scandalous and privileged Swell Valley. We hope you enjoy the new brochure, and please get in touch with your feedback. With best wishes, The Editor
Contents CLIPPER
Clipper
Lamplight
Avid
Jammer
3 – 23
24 – 31
32 – 34
35 – 42
Jammer Teen
Playaway
Playaway
Playaway
clipper
lamplight
jammer
45 – 52
53 – 58
58 – 63
43 – 44
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CLIPPER
Celebrating 15 Years
Clipper Representing award winners, shortlisted titles, and top bestsellers from popular genres, such as Ian Rankin, Marian Keyes and Hilary Mantel.
JULY
Tigerman Nick Harkaway From the highly acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker comes Nick Harkaway’s brilliant new novel about excolonies, superheroes and paternal love. Lester Ferris needs a rest. He’s spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend: a street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home – who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just what sort of hero will the boy need?
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
GUARDIAN ON ANGELMAKER
“ An entertaining tour-deforce that demands to be adored.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
NARRATED BY: Matt Bates · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471264894
Darkness, Darkness John Harvey The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand. Thirty years ago, the Miners’ Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neighbour against neighbour – enmities which smoulder still. Resnick had run an information gathering unit at the heart of the dispute. Now, in retirement, and grieving over the death of his partner, the discovery of the body of a woman who disappeared during the Strike brings Resnick back, and forces him to confront his past.
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ [O]ne of the most enjoyable books I’ve read in ages… brilliantly entertaining… what a splendid ride.”
NARRATED BY: Mike Grady · Crime · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471264900
“ If only every series of crime novels could end with such grace and style.” JOHN CONNOLLY
“ Rich in wistful telling, the story holds your heart steady in a tight fist. It doesn’t let you go. It doesn’t let you let go of the man either.” MICHAEL CONNELLY
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The Murder Bag Tony Parsons The number one bestseller… If you like crime-novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this. Twenty years ago seven students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter’s Field. Now they have started dying in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe follows the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life… The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy.
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Colin Mace · Crime · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471264887
One Night In Italy Lucy Diamond How do you say ‘I love you’ in Italian? Anna knows the father she’s never met is Italian. Now she’s baking focaccia and learning the language, determined to go and find him. After Catherine’s husband walked out on her, she’s trying to pick up the pieces of her life. But she discovers his deception runs even deeper than infidelity. As their Italian evening class gets underway, friendships form and love affairs blossom; it’s going to be a year that they will never forget.
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Funny, sunny and wise. An absolute treat.” KATIE FFORDE
“ Seamless, engaging, believable, fun and heartfelt.” HEAT
NARRATED BY: Geraldine Sharrock · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471264924
Death Angel Linda Fairstein Once again, Linda Fairstein thrills with an explosive novel filled with a shocking realism that only she can deliver. In Central Park, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer. Is the body found in the Ramble the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or could other missing women be connected? The sanctuary in the middle of the city for thousands of New Yorkers and tourists who fill it every day, may very well become a hunting ground at night for a killer…
“ One of my favourite writers… her stories never fail to thrill.” KARIN SLAUGHTER
“ Fairstein has the expertise and the experience and it shows.” KATHY REICHS
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Barbara Rosenblat · Crime · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471264962
Skeletons Jane Fallon Top ten bestselling author Jane Fallon writes of discovered secrets and the price of keeping them in her stunning new novel, Skeletons. Jen has discovered a secret. If she tells her husband Jason, will he forgive her for telling the truth? If she tells someone else in Jason’s family, she’d not only tear them apart but could also find herself on the outside. But if she keeps this to herself, how long can she pretend nothing is wrong? Jen knows the truth – but is she ready for the consequences?
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Intelligent, edg y and witty.” GLAMOUR
“ Irresistibly dark… Fallon’s tone is still winningly acerbic.”
NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471264948
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Marked David Jackson Her tattoo wasn’t just a mark for life; it marked her for death too… In New York a young girl is brutally raped and murdered. Detective Callum Doyle has visited the distraught family. Now he wants justice. Doyle is convinced he knows who the killer is; the problem is he can’t prove it. And the more he pushes his prime suspect, the more he learns that the man is capable of pushing back in ways more devious and twisted than Doyle could ever have imagined.
“ Recalls Harlan Coben – though for my money Jackson is the better writer.” GUARDIAN
“ A clever device, adroitly executed and fun to read.” THE TIMES
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471264917
The Ties That Bind Erin Kelly The new novel from the author of The Burning Air will confirm her as one of Britain’s foremost psychological thriller writers. Joss Grand once ruled the Brighton underworld with his sidekick Jacky Nye – until Jacky washed up by the West Pier in 1968. Though Grand’s alibi seems castiron, Luke, a true crime writer, is sure there’s more to the story, and he convinces the criminal-turned-philanthropist to be interviewed for a book about his life. Soon Luke realises that in stirring up secrets from the past, he may be in terrible danger.
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Kelly’s most accomplished book to date… a gripping tale of secrets, revenge and obsession, masterfully done.” GUARDIAN ON THE BURNING AIR
“ An author in total command of the tensions within dysfunctional families… gripping all the way.” GUARDIAN ON THE BURNING AIR
NARRATED BY: Robert Blackwood · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471264931
A House of Knives William Shaw “London in 1968 is an evocative setting and Shaw skilfully re-creates an era of social turmoil and class conflict.” sunday times Marylebone, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat and two burned bodies on his hands. One is an un-mourned vagrant; the other the son of a politician. One case suffers the apathy of the police; the other obstructed by a PR-conscious father. Then the potential perpetrator of his death threats is murdered. Banished from a corrupt system, Breen is finally forced to fight fire with fire.
“ A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties.” C. J. SAMSON ON A SONG FROM DEAD LIPS
“ Convincing atmosphere, lively dialogue and a fun cop duo unite Beatlemania, English racism and the Biafran war.” THE TIMES ON A SONG FROM DEAD LIPS
A House of Knives is the excellent sequel to A Song From Dead Lips.
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471264955
Meeting the English Kate Clanchy A bright book about dark subjects: a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love, nominated for the Costa First Novel Award. “Literary Giant seeks young man to push bathchair. Own room in Hampstead, all found, exciting cultural milieu. Modest wage. Ideal ‘gap year’ opportunity.” So orphan Struan Robertson, leaves his native town of Cuik, and arrives in London. His job is to care for Phillip, paralysed by a massive stroke. Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer’s dream of mistaken identity and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer.
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471264986
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“ With wit and zest, Clanchy creates social comedy out of teethclenching situations… Clanchy’s trenchant, often very funny prose also shimmers with sensual pleasures.” GUARDIAN
“ Meeting the English feels like an updated Iris Murdoch novel, with sharper haircuts and more Laura Ashley furnishings.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
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All That is Solid Melts Into Air Darragh McKeon An exceptionally moving novel of interwoven lives, set amidst one of the most iconic disasters in living memory. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work to avoid facing his failed marriage. And in a rural village in Belarus, a teenage boy wakes up to a sky of the deepest crimson. Outside, the ears of his neighbour’s cattle are dripping blood. Ten miles away, at the Chernobyl Power Plant, something unimaginable has happened. Now their lives will change forever.
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Daring, ambitious, epic, moving.” COLM TÓIBÍN
“ Exhilarating, thrilling, brilliantly imagined, beautifully written.” COLUM M C CANN
NARRATED BY: Patrick Doherty · Literature · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471264993
Jam Jake Wallis Simons One of Britain’s most compelling and original voices in fiction As darkness falls on the M25, the flow of traffic comes to a halt. Time passes. More time passes. Then more. Drivers switch off their engines, then get out of their cars. And so the story begins…
“ Fascinating and moving.” MONICA ALI ON THE ENGLISH GERMAN GIRL
In this bold, state-of-the-nation novel, Jake Wallis Simons brings together characters from all walks of life and explores what happens when lives collide on the M25. Jake Wallis Simons is a journalist and features writer for the Sunday Telegraph.
SOP: CD12 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Jake Wallis Simons · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.75 · ISBN 9781471264979
Jack A. M. Homes From the prize-winning author of May we be Forgiven, Jack is a poignant and hilariously truthful coming of age novel. Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal – even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack’s father takes him out rowing on a lake and tells his son that he’s gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack’s struggle to redefine ‘family’, comes a work of enormous humour, charm and resonance.
“ A moving novel and a very refreshing one. Jack is such an engaging, attractive human being, it’s a pleasure to believe in him.” DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
“ Honest, uncompromising and savagely funny.” MADISON SMARTT BELL
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Thomas Judd · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 6 · ISBN 9781471269875
The Dead Howard Linskey The Dead is the third book in Howard Linskey’s series featuring Newcastle gangster David Blake. Life is sweet for David Blake until his accountant is arrested for murder. The money man is set for a life sentence until he puts five million pounds out of Blake’s reach. Now Blake faces a choice; fix the acquittal of a child killer or lose out on the cash. Meanwhile, Serbian gangsters are taking over his territory and his girlfriend is asking awkward questions.
“ A Tyneside Dashiell Hammett to put Martina Cole firmly in her place.” THE TIMES
“ Howard Linskey does for Newcastle what Ian Rankin has done for Edinburgh.” NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: David Nellist · Crime · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471265020
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Salt River James Sallis In the final novel in Sallis’ Turner trilogy, Turner finds himself at the centre of a community that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. Two years have passed since Turner’s lover, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. Then the sheriff’s long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner’s cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown. Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he’s not sure he can live with.
“ Haunting… Sallis writes poetic rings around the subject.” NEW YORK TIMES
“ Sallis comes as close as humanly possible here to turning a mystery novel into a lyric poem.” BOOKLIST
SOP: CD15 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Peter Brooke · Crime · DURATION: 3.5 · ISBN 9781471265013
When the Hills Ask For Your Blood David Belton A heartfelt exploration into the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead, from a journalist who experienced it first hand. 6th April, 1994. In the skies above Rwanda the President’s plane is shot down in flames. The mass slaughter that follows is one of the bloodiest chapters in history. Twenty years on, BBC Newsnight producer David Belton, one of the first journalists into Rwanda, tells of the horrors he experienced. He revisits a country still marked with blood, in search of those who survived and the legacy of those who did not.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Belton excavates the truth… to produce a book that is both illuminating and profoundly moving.” INDEPENDENT
“ Brings the story right up to date, confronting the dilemmas and tensions that lie not far below the surface… elegantly written.” OBSERVER
NARRATED BY: — · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471265075
The Trigger Tim Butcher An exploration of the life of the teenager who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and so triggered the First World War.
“ A remarkable, fascinating book by a courageous and perceptive writer.” ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ON BLOOD RIVER
“ Quite superb… a masterpiece” On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin fired JOHN LE CARRÉ ON not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern BLOOD RIVER history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip triggered conflict that would claim millions of lives in battle, and turmoil that would change our world. Tim Butcher uncovers the unreported details of Princip’s life and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present. The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · History · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471265044
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth Chris Hadfield The vivid and refreshing insights in this book will completely change the way you view life on Earth – especially your own. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie’s Space Oddity in space. The secret to Chris Hadfield’s success – and survival – is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst – and enjoy every moment of it.
SOP: NF · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471265051
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“ Hadfield has done more than probably any astronaut since the Apollo missions to transform the image of space exploration… Space has rarely seemed to close, or the world so astonishing.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
“ Houston, we have a superstar.” WASHINGTON POST
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Flight to Coorah Creek Janet Gover What happens when you can fly, but you just can’t hide? Only Jessica Pearson knows the truth about what really happened in her past, but will her new job flying an outback air ambulance help her sleep at night or atone for a lost life? Doctor Adam Gilmore touches the lives of his patients, but he has his own scars. In Coorah Creek, you’re judged by what you do. But when the harshest judge is the one you see in the mirror, there’s nowhere left to hide. Janet Gover is the author of a dozen novels and short stories, and has been awarded the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Elizabeth Goudge Trophy.
SOP: RO3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Romance · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471265136
The Highwayman’s Daughter Henriette Gyland Is it a crime to steal a heart? Hounslow, 1768. When Jack Blythe, heir to the Earl of Lampton, is held up by a masked woman, brandishing a pistol and dressed as a ‘gentleman’ of the road, he wholly expects to have his purse stolen. And when he senses something strangely familiar about the lovely little bandit, Jack also expects to win his cousin Rupert’s wager by tracking her down first. But as Jack and the highwaywoman enter into a swashbuckling game of cat and mouse, uncovering an intricate web of fiercely guarded family secrets, the last thing Jack expects to have stolen is his heart.
SOP: RO3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Gyland beautifully builds the atmosphere and wisely gives us a budding romance, too.” STAR MAGAZINE ON THE ELEPHANT GIRL
NARRATED BY: Melody Grove · Romance · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471265129
Romancing the Soul Sarah Tranter Your Soul Mate is out there! Let a past life lead the way… Rachael Jones is a ‘past-life regressionist’ and hopes to help her clients find their ‘Soul Mates’ through reconnecting them with their past lives. But when Rachael regresses her best friend, Susie Morris, she is haunted by events of her past life. So when Susie meets George Silbury, she is completely unprepared for the intense mutual attraction. Can George help Susie overcome her hauntings or will history repeat itself?
SOP: RO3 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Antonia Beamish · Romance · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471265112
The Outrageous Belle Marchmain Lucy Ashford A marriage most inconvenient! Agreeing to a fake betrothal should suit both society dressmaker Belle Marchmain and landowner Adam Davenant fittingly – clearing Belle’s debts and keeping Adam’s husband-hunters at bay. Even if blue-blooded Belle, with her extravagant clothes and razor-sharp tongue, despises the very air that nouveau riche Adam breathes! If Adam wants an agreeable wife he has his work cut out…
SOP: RO3 M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Jilly Bond · Romance · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471265099
“ Outrageous, interesting and tremendous fun.” FRESH FICTION
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Sold to the Enemy Sarah Morgan Her one bright memory in a lifetime of shadows… Stefan Ziakas might be her father’s most hated business rival, but he’s the only man who has ever made Selene Antaxos feel beautiful. So, needing to make a new life for herself, Selene apprehensively turns to Stefan for help. Except the dark-hearted tycoon is nothing like the white knight she remembers! Selene realises it’s not always better the devil you know… she’s sold her soul – and her heart – to the enemy! Bestselling romance author Sarah Morgan was the recipient of a prestigious RITA award in 2012.
SOP: RO3 M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Antonia Beamish · Romance · DURATION: 6.25 · ISBN 9781471265105
Baby Out of the Blue Rebecca Winters Found: one baby… one bachelor… and a little ray of hope! Holidaying in Greece, Fran is shocked to discover a tiny orphaned baby who has been swept away in a tornado! The baby’s uncle and guardian, Nik, is relieved when he sees Demi is safe with Fran. But can Fran and Nik dare believe that their dreams of parenthood – and love – might come true at last? Rebecca Winters has written over 75 romance novels, and has won the National Readers’ Choice Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award.
SOP: RO3 M&B · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Lily Bask · Romance · DURATION: 4.75 · ISBN 9781471265082
What Happens in Nashville Angela Britnell ‘What happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville!’ Travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys, is definitely not Claire Buchan’s idea of a good time. But she can’t avoid her sister’s hen party. Then she meets Rafe Castello, a handsome, roguish cowboy, who seems to have far more to him than meets the eye. Can Claire keep the holiday mantra of ‘what happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville’ or are some things are too difficult to leave behind?
SOP: SSCD · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 4.5 · ISBN 9781471267192
Passenger 13 Scott Mariani Five years before the events of The Alchemist’s Secret… When an aircraft piloted by Ben’s former army comrade Nick Chapman crashed off the Cayman Islands killing everyone on board, the official line was that Chapman committed suicide. But things don’t add up, and soon unfolding events point to something far more sinister going on. Following the trail of clues from the rugged Welsh borders to the Caribbean, Ben quickly discovers that some kinds of knowledge will get you killed – fast.
SOP: SSCD · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Thriller · DURATION: 4.5 · ISBN 9781471267185
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“ A rollickingly good way to spend some time in an easy chair.” USA TODAY
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The Viscount and the Witch Michael J. Sullivan A Riyria Chronicles Short Story Eleven years before they were framed for the murder of a king, before even assuming the title of Riyria, Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater were practically strangers. Unlikely associates, this cynical thief and idealist swordsman, were just learning how to work together as a team. In this standalone first installment of The Riyria Chronicles, Royce is determined to teach his naive partner a lesson about good deeds.
SOP: SSCD · AVAILABILITY: CD
“ Hair-raising escapes, flashy sword fights, and faithful friendship complete the formula for good old-fashioned escapist fun.” PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
NARRATED BY: Tim Gerard Reynolds · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 0.75 · ISBN 9781471267178
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Want You Dead Peter James Want You Dead is Peter James’ 10th book in his multi-million-copy selling crime series featuring the definitive detective, Roy Grace When Red Westwood meets Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. But Bryce is obsessed, and he intends to destroy everything and everyone she has ever known – and then her too…
“ Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business.’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
“ James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471266669
The Thrill of it All Joseph O’Connor A captivating novel filled with music, friendship and teenage dreams, from the bestselling author of Ghost Light and Star of the Sea. At college in 1980s, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets Fran Mulvey, a Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Thérèse Sherlock and her brother Seán on drums, they set out to chase fame. Spanning 25 years, we fast-forward through an evocative soundtrack of struggle and laughter. Infused with blues, New Wave and punk, the tale stretches from the Glastonbury Festival to Long Island, culminating in July 2012, a night that changes everything. A story of loyalties, friendship, the call of the muse, and the beguiling shimmer of teenage dreams, this is a warm-hearted, funny and deeply moving novel for anyone that has ever loved a song.
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471266799
The Marriage Game Alison Weir Their affair is the scandal of Europe… Queen Elizabeth cannot resist her dashing but married Master of Horse, Lord Robert Dudley. Many believe them to be lovers. The formidable young Queen is regarded by most as a bastard and a heretic, yet many seek her hand in marriage. Desperately insecure, Elizabeth embarks on a perilous balancing act, using sex and high-powered diplomacy to play what becomes known as ‘the Marriage Game’. A complex and deeply poignant tale of intrigue, and at its heart is the truth of one of history’s most extraordinary love affairs.
SOP: CD9 TUP · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Julia Franklin · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471266775
“ Stunning… spinetingling… a richly layered cake of love, sex, danger, death and mystery.” SUNDAY EXPRESS ON A DANGEROUS INHERITANCE
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Michael Cunningham A luminous, compassionate novel from the author of the critically acclaimed The Hours. Barrett Meeks is walking through Central Park when he looks up; in the sky he sees a pale light that regards him in a distinctly godlike way. In Brooklyn, Tyler Meeks is determined to write a song that will be an enduring expression of love. Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced that drugs can release his creative powers. The Snow Queen follows the Meeks brothers as each takes a different path in search of transcendence.
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“ Engrossing, imaginative and humane.” OBSERVER ON THE HOURS
“ Intricately conceived, stylishly written and admirably ambitious, this absorbing novel lingers in the mind.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE HOURS
NARRATED BY: Claire Danes · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 6.75 · ISBN 9780007583508
Arctic Summer Damon Galgut A fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain’s finest novelists, E. M. Forster, from a twice Man Booker shortlisted author. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters. It will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster’s great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature.
“ Galgut seems the most likely of the crop of young South African novelists to fill J.M. Coetzee’s shoes.” GUARDIAN
“ Invites comparison with Greene, Conrad and Naipaul.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471266904
Elizabeth Is Missing Emma Healey A fast-paced mystery and a moving meditation on memory and identity, all told through Maud’s unforgettable voice Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She sometimes thinks her daughter Helen is a total stranger. But there’s one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, Maud will get to the bottom of it. A debut novel about a mind in the grips of dementia.
“ The novel is both a gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness, but also more poignant and blackly comic than you might expect from that description… perhaps Healey’s greatest achievement is the flawless voice she creates for Maud.” OBSERVER
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: Anna Bentinck · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471266881
The Deadliest Sin Medieval Murderers The tenth installment in this thrilling series from The Medieval Murderers. In the spring of 1348, tales begin of poisonous clouds fast approaching, which have overwhelmed whole cities, with scarcely a human being left. While some pray earnestly, there are those who hope that God’s wrath might be averted by pilgrimage. When a group of pilgrims are forced to shelter at an inn, their host encourages them to tell their stories of sin, so that it might emerge which one is the best. And the worst…
“ With the combined imaginations of Bernard Knight… Susanna Gregory, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden, this is a thoroughly enjoyable read.” DAILY MAIL ON THE SACRED STONE
“ The various excellent crime writers each weave a clever and inventive tale around a central theme” GOOD BOOK GUIDE ON KING ARTHUR’S BONES
SOP: CD9 · AVAILABILITY: CD
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 16.25 · ISBN 9781471266935
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The Way Back Home Freya North
“ The novel is peopled by rich and rare characters… a delicious creation.” DAILY EXPRESS ON RUMOURS
The new novel from bestselling author Freya North. Brought up in an artists’ commune in Derbyshire, Oriana Taylor had freedom at her fingertips in a home full of extraordinary people. The Bedwell brothers, Malachy and Jed, shared their childhood with Oriana in the rambling old house and tangled ground. Their dreams and desires, taking wing unchecked. But too much freedom comes at a price. Something happened the summer they were fifteen. And now, having been gone eighteen years, Oriana is back.
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“ An addictive read that encompasses the stuff life is made of: love, sex, fidelity and, above all, friendship.” GLAMOUR ON RUMOURS
NARRATED BY: Melody Grove · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9780007543700
The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me Lucy Robinson Laugh out loud and follow your heart with Lucy Robinson’s The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me. Sally is an incredible singer but she’d rather join a nudist colony than sing in public. That is until she ventures to New York where a wild summer of love and loss changes her forever. Sally returns home to London, but as she’s about to embark on her new life, a beautiful man turns up on Sally’s doorstep. Does he hold the truth to what happened in New York? And, with him back on the scene, will she still have the courage to step into the spotlight?
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“ One of Britain’s most talented rising stars.” HUFFINGTON POST
“ Romantic and laugh-outloud hilarious.” COSMOPOLITAN
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The Ruby Slippers Keir Alexander The Ruby Slippers is a rare and moving story about the search for meaning, and the meaning of value. Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets, stinking, silent and shunned. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable. Then Rosa has a terrible accident. As she lies in a coma, Michael visits her squalid flat and unearths something remarkable from the junk: two glittering pieces of Hollywood history. How on earth has Rosa come to own such treasure? And what is to be done with them now? Bursting with atmosphere, an unforgettable cast of characters, and set against a New York skyline, The Ruby Slippers is a sweeping story of hidden treasures, forgotten histories and lost connections.
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NARRATED BY: Eric Meyers · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9781471266959
The Kills: Sutler Richard House The first book in the epic The Kills, nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2013 “Listen. There’s a problem and it can’t be solved. You need to disappear.” This is Stephen Lawrence Sutler’s last morning at Camp Liberty, Iraq. In two hours a massive explosion will conceal the theft of $53,000,000. Sutler, shaken by the blast and forced to go the run, is unaware that any money is missing or that he has been set up. His problems are just beginning. The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books. It begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned body.
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NARRATED BY: — · Thriller · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471266980
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Paul Torday A modern retake on A Tale of Two Cities by the bestselling author of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. Hector Chetwode-Talbot, also known as Eck, is at a loose end when he is approached by an old army friend to join his investment company. Soon Eck can afford a luxury car and flat, and it is on holiday in France that Eck meets Charlie Summers. Then Charlie appears on Eck’s doorstep, intent on staying and launching his dog food business, and Eck begins to question how different he really is from Charlie Summers…
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“ Torday is one of the most original voices in modern fiction.” METRO
“ This hugely likeable book subtly highlights the surprising parallels between obvious con men and the rest of us who just want to make a fast buck.” SUNDAY TIMES
NARRATED BY: Simon J. Williamson · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471266966
Don’t Tell the Boss Anna Bell The follow up to the bestselling Don’t Tell the Groom is another fun romantic comedy starring Penny, a wedding planner on a budget! When newlywed Penny begins some casual wedding planning, she only wants to help women afford the big day of their dreams. But taming bridezillas turns out to be a full-time occupation, and what began as a hobby becomes a nightmare. Soon Penny is struggling to keep her day job and prevent her own marriage from collapsing: tired, stressed and knee-deep in ivory satin, is Penny’s life and livelihood hanging by a thread?
“ Funny, surprising and touching, this feel-good read has bags of charm.” CLOSER
“ This is a real feel-good story with loads of laughs, twists, tears and miscommunications.” THE CHICKLIT CLUB
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471267000
Farewell Waltz Milan Kundera One of Kundera’s earliest novels, Farewell Waltz is loosely based on Shakespeare’s farcical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance. Perhaps the most brilliantly plotted and entertaining of Milan Kundera’s novels, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. This new translation, prepared by the novelist himself, offers an opportunity for the rediscovery of one of the very best of a great writer’s works.
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NARRATED BY: Richmond Hoxie · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471266997
Miami Blues Charles Willeford A brutal, thrilling ride, Miami Blues is a classic of Florida crime fiction, revealing the sordid side of the Sunshine State. Ex-con Freddy ‘Junior’ Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and a corpse behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon chasing Junior and his hooker girlfriend through the seedy suburban sprawl of Miami in a game of hide and seek that will leave Hoke beaten and robbed – but determined to get his man.
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NARRATED BY: Paul Birchard · Crime · DURATION: 5.75 · ISBN 9781471267017
“ No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.” ELMORE LEONARD
“ Pure pleasure… Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong.” THE NEW YORKER
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The Cruel Victory Paddy Ashdown From the bestselling author and winner of the British Army Military History prize for 2013, comes the D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and massacre As the Allied troops stormed the D-Day beaches, the Vercors rose up to fight in a planned rearguard action. It was to prove not only the largest Resistance action of the war but also the most brutal crushing of resistance forces in Western Europe. The tragedy drew the attention of the Allied war effort and placed the Vercors deep into the history of modern France which resonates still in the country’s daily life and politics.
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“ Paddy Ashdown has sifted the facts from the myths to write a fascinating and very personal account.” INDEPENDENT
“ Ashdown’s insights and his extensive research in an impressive range of archives will ensure that yet another work on the subject will not be required in the foreseeable future.” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
NARRATED BY: — · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 17.5 · ISBN 9780007590353
Last Man Off Matt Lewis Last Man Off is a first-hand account of an ocean tragedy. Antarctica, June 6th 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just started his dream job: an observer aboard a deep sea fishing boat. As the crew haul in their lines for the day, the waves seem bigger than usual – they are casting shadows on the deck. A storm is brewing. What follows is an astonishing story of courage and tragedy. Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins. This brilliantly written and thrilling account will be enjoyed by fans of A Perfect Storm and Touching the Void.
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NARRATED BY: — · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471267024
Wish You Were Here! Lynn Russell and Neil Hanson Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin’s holiday camps. In 1936, Butlin’s holiday camps were bastions of community spirit. Here, mothers were freed from housework, children ran free through the grounds, fathers hung up their work clothes. And, as the sun went down on another happy day, a chorus line was ready to sing holidaymakers back to their beds. Rich in period detail and highly evocative, Wish You Were Here! follows the highs and lows of the holiday season. Funny, moving and heartwarming, they are tales of swimming pools and sing-a-longs, and of a community spirit that burned brightly in a much-loved British institution.
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NARRATED BY: Maggie Mash · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9780007581634
The Soft Whisper of Dreams Christina Courtenay Some dreams shouldn’t come true… Maddie Browne thought she’d grown out of the recurring nightmare that plagued her as a child – the swing in the garden, the kind red-haired giant and the arms which grab her from behind and try to take her away… Trying to move on, Maddie travels to Devon, but a disturbing encounter with a gypsy fortune teller, removes all hope of relaxation. And then there’s the fact that Maddie’s dream seems to be coming true. The Soft Whisper of Dreams is the follow-on to Christina Courtenay’s novel The Secret Kiss of Darkness. Christina Courtenay has twice won the Historical Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She last won in 2014 with The Gilded Fan.
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NARRATED BY: Jenny Funnell · Romance · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471267109
Janye Ann Krentz From New York Times bestselling author, a brand-new quintessential Jayne Ann Krentz romance. Caught as a teenager at a wild party, and sent home in disgrace, Lucy Sheridan is finally returning to Summer River thirteen years later. Lucy now works for a private investigation firm, and Summer River is now a trendy spot in California’s wine country. Mason Fletcher, has changed too, setting up a security firm of his own. But when he and Lucy make a shocking discovery inside her aunt’s house, Mason is determined to protect her.
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“ Snappy dialogue, layered characters and sexy sizzle all add up to another patented Krentz winner!” RT BOOK REVIEWS
NARRATED BY: Amanda Leigh Cobb · Romance · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471267123
Falling Apart Jane Lovering In the mean streets of York, the stakes just got higher – and even pointier. Jessica Grant liaises with Otherworlders for York Council so she knows that falling in love with a vampire takes a leap of faith. But her lover Sil wouldn’t run out on her, he wouldn’t let his demon get the better of him. Or would he? With her loyalties already questioned for defending zombies, the Otherworlders no one cares about, Jess must choose which side she’s on. Whatever she decides, there’s a high price to pay. From the award winning author of Please Don’t Stop The Music.
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NARRATED BY: — · Romance · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471267116
Little Cowgirl on His Doorstep Donna Alward A charming romance from award-winning author Donna Alward. For Avery the sight of rugged and dangerously sexy Callum is enough to set her pulse racing. Too bad she’s only on his ranch to tell him that her adorable baby niece, Nell, is his daughter! But when Callum wants them to stay with him, how can Avery resist the feeling that she has found the place she and Nell truly belong? Donna Alward has been writing romance novels since 2001, and in 2008 she won the Booksellers Best Traditional Romance Award for Hired by the Cowboy.
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NARRATED BY: Kate Turnbull · Romance · DURATION: 5.5 · ISBN 9781471267079
The Sword Dancer Jeannie Lin The thief who stole his heart… Sword dancer Li Feng is used to living life on the edge of the law. She will discover the truth about her past, even if that means outwitting the most feared thief-catcher of them all… relentless, handsome and determined, Han sees life, and love, as black and white. Until he finally captures the spirited, courageous Li Feng, who makes him question everything…
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NARRATED BY: Sarah Lam · Romance · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471267086
“ Beautifully written, deliciously sensual. Exceptional.” LIBRARY JOURNAL
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His Final Bargain Melaine Milburne A beautiful love affair and a burning betrayal… Eliza Lincoln is stunned to find Leon Valente at her door. Four years ago his passionate embrace was a brief taste of freedom, until Leon discovered her secret. Now he needs her help to take care of his motherless daughter. Torn, Eliza can’t ignore a vulnerable child – but the last time she was near Leon her desire nearly consumed her. Is she willing to take that risk again?
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“ Perfect… heartbreakingly honest… agonizingly poignant and passionate.” ROMANTIC TIMES REVIEWS
NARRATED BY: Louise Jane Underwood · Romance · DURATION: 6.5 · ISBN 9781471267093
BriannaSusannaAlana Heather Birrell Award-winning Birrell uses precise, inventive language to capture the beauty of being human. BriannaSusannaAlana is named for the three sisters who tell the story. Brianna is the youngest, six years old; Susanna is ten; and, Alana is nearly 13. When a murder is committed in the apartment block nearby, the three sisters are forced to consider their world in a new way. Each sister tells her story of the day the murder, each story weaves through her sisters, touching down on remembrances and imaginings. Heather Birrell’s work has been honoured with the prestigious Journey prize for short fiction and the Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction.
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NARRATED BY: Erin Moon · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 0.75 · ISBN 9781471267208
Bring Me Sunshine Janet Gover Sometimes, you’ve just got to take the plunge… When marine biologist, Jenny Payne, agrees to spend Christmas working on the Cape Adare cruise ship to escape a disastrous love affair, she envisions a few weeks of sunny climes and cocktails. What she gets is an Antarctic expedition and extreme weather. And then there’s her fellow passengers; Vera, the elderly crime writer, Lian, a young runaway, and Kit Walker; the mysterious man renting the most luxurious cabin on the ship, but who nobody ever sees.
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: · ISBN 9781471267215
Machiavelli: Philosophy in an hour Paul Strathern Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour. Niccolò Machiavelli’s work remains misunderstood – synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics – nearly 350 years after his death. His philosophy of statecraft was scientific and highly rational, leaving sentiment, and ultimately morality, to one side. His advice is as relevant to modern politics as it was during the Renaissance – and reflects many profound and disturbing truths about the human condition.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 1.75 · ISBN 9780007597871
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William Brodrick A brilliant crime novel which explores the most acute of moral questions surrounding how we end our lives, from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. An anonymous letter is sent, accusing Peter Henderson of murder: the calculated killing of Jenny, his disabled partner, who everyone believed to have died peacefully two years previously from a sudden attack of cancer. Now though, Anselm has been told the truth, and he must move cautiously to expose the killer. And so he begins his most delicate investigation yet, unaware that Jenny’s adoring father has set out to execute Peter Henderson.
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“ William Brodrick’s crime novels have the great (and unusual) merit of being unlike anyone else’s.” SPECTATOR ON THE DAY OF THE DEAD
NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471268809
The Beekeeper’s Daughter Santa Montefiore Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. England, 1932: Grace Hamblin, the beekeeper’s daughter, knows her place and her future, until her father dies. She’s alone, except for one man who she just can’t shake from her thoughts… Massachusetts, 1973: Grace’s daughter Trixie Valentine is in love. But when he has to go home to England, he promises to come back, if she will wait for him. Both mother and daughter are searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them.
“ Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore. Everything she writes, she writes from the heart.” JOJO MOYES
“ A gripping romance… it is as believable as the writing is beautiful.” DAILY TELEGRAPH ON THE SUMMER HOUSE
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471268823
Vagabond Gerald Seymour Vagabond shows Gerald Seymour writing at the top of his powers and returning to the territory of Harry’s Game. Danny Curnow, known in the army family by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents, informers. Now he lives in quiet isolation and works as a guide to tourists visiting the Normandy’s D-Day beaches. But violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. The covert world was close to destroying Danny. Fifteen years later the stakes are higher, the risks greater, and Danny will have to prove that he is as hard and ruthless as before.
“ Once again demonstrating his ability to probe the moral murkiness of the spy trade and create an absorbingly diverse ensemble, Seymour crafts a sophisticated, reader-teasing tale.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE CORPORAL’S WIFE
“ Picking up a novel by Gerald Seymour is like taking a deep breath of fresh air.” INDEPENDENT ON THE CORPORAL’S WIFE
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NARRATED BY: — · Thriller · DURATION: 22.75 · ISBN 9781471268816
The Baklava Club Jason Goodwin Jason Goodwin’s much-loved Inspector Yashim returns to solve one final mystery – his most thrilling and most colourful case yet. In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and he’s held captive in an unused farmhouse. Little do the kidnappers realise that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies. Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. As he draws closer to the prince’s whereabouts, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career.
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NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471268878
“ When you read a historical mystery by Jason Goodwin, you take a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth.” NEW YORK TIMES
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The Devil’s Workshop Alex Grecian The Devil’s Workshop is the third historical thriller in Alex Grecian’s acclaimed Scotland Yard Murder Squad series. April, 1890. London wakes to the shocking news of a mass prison escape. The Scotland Yard Murder Squad now face a desperate race against time: if they don’t re-capture the four convicted murderers before night settles, they’ll vanish into the dark alleys of the London’s criminal underworld forever. And in the midst of this mayhem and fear, the city’s worst nightmare is realised: Jack the Ripper haunts the streets of London once more…
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“ Will keep you riveted from page one.” JEFFREY DEAVER
“ Throw in deranged prostitutes, poisonings and throat slittings galore, amidst lashings of London fog. Gory, lurid and tons of guilty fun.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471268847
One Big Damn Puzzler John Harding Hitting the funny bone and touching the heart, the exuberantly original novel from John Harding. On a remote South Pacific island, the struggles of an elderly tribesman to translate Hamlet into local pidgin English are interrupted by the arrival of an unexpected visitor. William Hardt is an obsessive young American lawyer who has come to help. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same – for what (and who) William finds on the island will challenge both his and our notions about love, life and even death.
“ Wonderfully funny, original and moving. Harding has knifesharp observation, immaculate timing and the guts to take his story as far as it will go.” HELEN DUNMORE
“ Harding’s humour is close to hysteria… the novel is that rare thing – painfully funny.” DAILY MAIL
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NARRATED BY: — · Humorous · DURATION: · ISBN 9781471268830
An Act of Kindness Barbara Nadel Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London’s East End. But their latest case could have devastating consequences.
“ A compelling new series.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ON A PRIVATE BUSINESS
“ A new and original pair of detectives… it has the ring of truth.” INDEPENDENT ON A PRIVATE BUSINESS
A young Asian couple move into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. The woman, Nasreen, spends her time working alone on the house, whilst her husband Abdullah goes to work. When a homeless man disappears, Nasreen is reluctant to go to the police and reaches out to the Arnold Detective Agency. Mumtaz Hakim begins to dig into Abdullah’s past and into the house itself which, she finds, holds its own grim secrets. This is the second Hakim and Arnold mystery from CWA Silver Dagger winner Barbara Nadel, following A Private Business.
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NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471268861
An Open Marriage Tess Stimson When you abandon the rules, can you ever go back? Mia Allen has never adjusted to living in England. She misses the States , but her husband Kit loves the sense of community. Like Mia, Kit’s boss Charlie is looking for more excitement in her life. So when she and her husband are invited to dinner, she jumps at the chance to make new friends. The increasing attraction between all of them is intense. Can any of their relationships survive this unconventional arrangement?
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471268854
“ A truly compelling story of family ties and secrets.” DAILY EXPRESS ON THE LYING GAME
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Niall Williams We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story… Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her father, Virgil – via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room.
“ Extremely moving, poignantly capturing Ruth’s doomed childhood relationship with her twin brother. By the final chapter I was weeping.” SUNDAY TIMES
“ A rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature, anecdotes, mytholog y, humour and heartbreak.” KIRKUS
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9781471268885
A Song for Issy Bradley Carys Bray This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. This is the story of Ian – husband, father and Mormon bishop – and his unshakeable belief. It is the story of his wife Claire’s lonely wait for a sign from God. And it is the story of seven-year-old Jacob. His faith is bigger than a mustard seed, probably bigger than a toffee bonbon and he’s planning to use it to mend his family with a miracle. In A Song for Issy Bradley Carys Bray explores the outer reaches of doubt and faith.
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Robert Lautner The remarkably poignant story of 12-year-old orphan Thomas Walker and his treacherous journey home through the wide open lands of America. Tom Walker cannot believe his luck when he joins his father on the road, selling Samuel Colt’s newly-invented revolver. On the road west the towns get smaller and the path more unforgiving. A devastating encounter cuts their journey short, and leaves Tom alone in the wilderness. Tom’s resolve to survive initiates an unlikely partnership that will be tested by the dangers of the road, where outlaws prowl.
“ Carys Bray is a strikingly original new voice in fiction. I loved this tender, moving, funny and deeply truthful story about a family and a faith tested to breaking-point.” HELEN DUNMORE
“ It’s a thrilling, violent, dangerous piece of oldfashioned storytelling that is also humane and unshowily moving.” THE TIMES
“ A twisty, gripping first novel from British author Lautner… a robust debut that wears its meticulous research lightly.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
NARRATED BY: — · Literature · DURATION: 6.5 · ISBN 9781471268892
Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about an unbreakable bond. Boy: Novak turns twenty and takes a bus from New York to the end of the line, Flax Hill, Massachusetts. Here she finds Snow a mild-mannered and deeply cherished girl. Snow displays a certain inscrutability, that’s simply harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow’s sister, Bird. When Bird is born Boy is forced to reevaluate the image Snow’s family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.
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NATHAN FILER, AUTHOR OF THE SHOCK OF THE FALL
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The Road to Reckoning
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“ A brilliant debut, compelling and profoundly moving.”
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9781471268915
“ A spellbinding, wholly original look at families and the secrets they keep… an absolutely amazing and absorbing read.” MARIE CLAIRE
“ Gloriously unsettling… it’s clearly the book she’s been waiting for… the greatest joy of reading Oyeyemi will always be style: jagged and capricious at moments, lush and rippled at others, always singular, like the voice-over of a fever dream.” NEW YORK TIMES
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John the Pupil David Flusfeder The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder chronicles a pilgrimage to Rome made by three young men with a secret burden. John the Pupil is a medieval road movie, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. Fighting off ambushes from thieves hungry for the thing of power they are carrying, the holy trio are tried and tempted by all sorts of sins: ambition, pride, lust – and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life. Erudite and earthy, horrifying, comic, David Flusfeder’s extraordinary novel reveals to the reader a world very different and all too like the one we live in now.
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9780007585007
The Towers of Samarcand James Heneage “Fascinating historical mysteries and vivid colourful characters. It’s a pageturner fast enough to make its own breeze.” conn iggulden on the walls of byzantium
“ A stirring tale of the struggle for Byzantium. Heneage brings to life both the tragedy and the heroism.” TOM HOLLAND ON THE WALLS OF BYZANTIUM
A band of soldiers led by Luke Magoris are given the mission of persuading Tamerlane to defend Constantinople. Luke, torn away from the woman he loves, is trained as a Mongol warrior to impress Tamerlane and his army. No longer an innocent patriot, Luke is caught in the crossfire and begins to question if his mission is honourable – or whether those who sent him have the best interests of Byzantium at heart. Towers of Samarcand is a powerful historical novel full of lively characters and enthralling scenes of battle, wealth, beliefs and trade in a part of the world torn by the clash of empires.
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 16 · ISBN 9781471268922
The Giant, O’Brien Hilary Mantel From the two-time Man Booker winner, The Giant, O’Brien is an unforgettable novel; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy. Charles O’Brien, Irish bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?
“ A novelist of remarkable diversity… she writes with wit, compassion and great elegance. Her books never fail to surprise, nor to delight: in this one she is at her very best – so far.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“ Mantel can out-write most writers of her generation, male and female. What she has done here is disturbing, grievous and extraordinary.” SUNDAY TIMES
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NARRATED BY: Patrick Moy · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 6.25 · ISBN 9781471268939
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop David Adam In this captivating fusion of science and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind. David has suffered from OCD for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn’t Stop is his honest attempt to understand the condition. At what point does a harmless idea become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? Drawing on the latest research on the brain, as well as historical accounts of patients and their treatments, this is a book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal, and what is mental illness.
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NARRATED BY: — · Body, Mind & Spirit · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471268960
“ Superb… A brave and helpful contribution to deepening our understanding of the intricate complexities of mental ill-health.” THE TIMES
“ Combines a scientific account of OCD from ancient times to the most recent research with passages of tenderly written memoir.” TELEGRAPH
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Zelda la Grange Zelda la Grange served Nelson Mandela in different capacities over nineteen years. She was serving as his Personal Assistant when he passed on in December 2013. Good Morning, Mr Mandela is the journey of an awkward young typist later chosen to become the President’s most loyal servant, spending most of her adult life travelling with, and caring for the man she would come to call ‘Khulu’, or ‘grandfather’. Here Zelda pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him. A man who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing and direct. Now she shares his inspiring gifts with the world.
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NARRATED BY: — · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 16 · ISBN 9781471267048
Finding Me Michelle Knight with Michelle Burford A memoir of the Cleveland Kidnapping, one of the most dramatic and unbelievable news stories of recent years. Michelle was a young mother when she was kidnapped by a local bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade, she endured unimaginable torture. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal her story, and how she has found the courage to now build a life worth living.
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NARRATED BY: — · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471268953
The Maid of Milan Beverley Eikli How much would you pay for a clear conscience? Adelaide Leeson wants to prove herself worthy of her husband, a man who married her when she was at her lowest. Lord Tristan Leeson is a model of diplomacy, curbing the fiery impulses of his youth to preserve his wife’s health. But as Tristan’s political career rises and Adelaide revels in society’s adulation, the secrets of the past are uncovered. And there’s a high price to pay for a life of deception. Beverley Eikli is a writer of historical romance, with eight novels to her name. Her latest, The Reluctant Bride was shortlisted for a Favourite Historical Romance Award by Australian Romance Readers Association.
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NARRATED BY: Melody Grove · Romance · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471269059
Red is for Rubies Linda Mitchelmore What if you had been living a lie for most of your life? In the first flush of love, Jonty promised to buy Lydie a ruby necklace when his art career took off. But the ruby never materialised and Lydie is left heartbroken when the relationship ends. Nearly thirty years later, Lydie still thinks of Jonty, stuck in a marriage to a man she never loved. And then he comes back into the picture, changing her life beyond anything she could have imagined. Linda Mitchelmore is the author of To Turn Full Circle and Emma: There’s No Going Back.
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Follow a Star Christine Stovell Sometimes your heart’s the only navigator you need… May Starling’s had enough of her demanding career and even more demanding ex. Responding to a ‘crew-wanted’ ad, she follows her dreams of escape only to find herself at sea with red-haired Bill Blythe. But May’s dream of escaping her former life is in danger of being swept away when several unwelcome blasts from the past follow her ashore, all seemingly hell-bent on reminding her that it’s never that easy to clear the decks.
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“ Refreshing, funny and romantic, it’s like a breath of fresh sea sir with a cast of terrific characters.” KATE HARRISON ON TURNING THE TIDE
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Wanted by Her Lost Love Maya Banks Be swept away by passion… Despite his fiancée’s betrayal, developer Ryan Beardsley provided for Kelly when he sent her packing. So he’s livid to find her working in a dingy diner, desperate and pregnant. Whether the baby is his – or his brother’s – Ryan demands that Kelly return to New York with him. For the baby’s sake. Or maybe because Kelly is as irresistible as ever… New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Maya Banks returns with another stellar romance.
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NARRATED BY: Harry Berkeley · Romance · DURATION: 5 · ISBN 9781471269028
The Secret Casella Baby Cathy Williams How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? One sizzling night with brooding Brazilian Luiz changes ordinary girl Holly George’s life. Not only is Luiz Casella a billionaire – but now Holly is expecting his baby! Holly might don all the silk and diamonds, but she’ll always feel most comfortable working at her animal sanctuary. Yet it seems she might have to get used to living in world of the rich and famous… a Casella heir cannot be born out of wedlock! Cathy Williams has been writing Mills & Boon novels for over 20 years, and has over 100 titles in print.
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NARRATED BY: Louise Jane Underwood · Romance · DURATION: 6.25 · ISBN 9781471269011
To Sin With a Viking Michelle Willingham Caragh O’Brannon defended herself bravely when the enemy landed – only now she finds herself alone with one angry Viking… Styr Hardrata sailed to Ireland intending to trade, never expecting to find himself held captive in chains by a beautiful Irish maiden. The fiercely handsome warrior both terrifies and allures Caragh, but he is forbidden. He is the enemy, and he is married. Yet Styr harbours a secret that might just set them both free…
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NARRATED BY: Deirdre O’Connell · Romance · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471269035
“ Willingham employs entertaining plot twists in this thought-provoking tale of love.” ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE
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Paul Finch A chilling short story from an award-winning master of horror and suspense. The story of the Cumbrian witches in the small village of Bleaberry Beck, is told in hushed tones and a quiet reverence that speaks of superstition and fear. Richard Henderson, Medieval Studies student at Oxford University, couldn’t be less intrigued. Picking up a ‘poppet’ from the village shop, he happily set off home with this birthday present for his little sister. But the faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse. Paul Finch has won the British Fantasy Award twice and the International Horror Guild Award
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NARRATED BY: — · Horror · DURATION: 1.25 · ISBN 9781471268977
The Naturalist Maureen McHugh Explore a post-apocalyptic society in which zombie-infested cities become prisons.
“ Hauntingly beautiful.” BOOKLIST
Cleveland, is now a city of zombies and a penal colony. Cahill, a criminal serving his sentence decides to forgo joining the surviving men in order to live on his own. At first he’s terrified of zombies, but that terror gives way to curiosity and he begins to conduct research in order to understand the creatures better.
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NARRATED BY: Therese Plummer · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 1 · ISBN 9781471268946
Henry VIII’s Wives: History in an hour Julie Wheeler Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In his ambition to provide a male heir to the throne, Henry VIII married six times. Divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, caused England’s break from the Catholic church. He went on to divorce Anne of Cleves and behead Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard for infidelities. Jane Seymour died and Catherine Parr survived Henry. History in an Hour will introduce you to these six captivating personalities and the events that propelled them to their individual fates.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · History · DURATION: 1.25 · ISBN 9780007538812
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My Husband Next Door Catherine Alliott Step into Alliott country with the fabulously funny and wonderfully heart-warming My Husband Next Door. Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in an outhouse across the lawn from his ex-wife Ella’s ramshackle farmhouse. With a home crowded by hostile teenaged children and gender-confused chickens, Ella finds comfort in the company of the very charming gardener, Ludo. Then Sebastian decides to move on, catching Ella horribly unawares. How much longer can she hide from what really destroyed her marriage… and the secret she continues to keep?
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“ I raced through it, completely gripped from start to finish.” DAILY MAIL
“ An entertaining read that’s as light as the summer breeze.” DAILY EXPRESS
“ A captivating and heartwarming tale.” CLOSER
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9781471265297
Miss Appleby’s Academy Elizabeth Gill “An enthralling and satisfying novel that will leave you wanting more.” catherine king
Emma Appleby’s arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law provokes deep suspicion in the locals who want nothing to do with her – except for pub landlord Mick Castle. When Emma opens an academy and sets herself up in competition with the local school, she provokes a savage response from the community. But she will not be deterred – even when her past is revealed and Mick is forced to choose between family and love.
“ Elizabeth Gill writes with a masterful grasp of conflicts and passions hidden among men and women of the wild North Country.” LEAH FLEMING
“ Original and evocative – a born storyteller.” TRISHA ASHLEY
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NARRATED BY: Julia Barrie · Saga · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471265273
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Jonathan Holt The Abduction has begun… The teenage daughter of a US soldier disappeared in Venice last night. Now clues are appearing on anonymous website Carnivia.com – and the police are always one step behind. Kat Tapo of the Venice Carabinieri and US intelligence analyst Holly Boland are working together to find the girl, but the race to save her will uncover a conspiracy that powerful men will kill to keep hidden.
“ Impressive… the characters are strong and Venice is a magnificent backdrop for a story of secrets and lies.” DAILY MAIL ON THE ABOMINATION
“ Breathtaking” NEW YORK TIMES ON THE ABOMINATION
Jonathan Holt’s first novel The Abomination, was an international bestseller and was translated into fourteen languages.
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NARRATED BY: Michael Fenner · Crime · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9781471265280
Return to Mandalay Rosanna Ley Another sweeping history from the bestselling author of The Villa and Bay of Secrets. Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence’s past, and what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. When Eva’s job requires a trip to Mandalay, Lawrence finally breaks his silence and asks her to return a mysterious artefact – a chinthe – to its rightful owner. But when Eva arrives, her mission proves dangerously complicated and the treasure she is guarding becomes the centre of a scandal.
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“ A gorgeous mouthwatering dream of a holiday read!” RED ONLINE ON THE VILLA
“ Romantic, escapist and mouthwatering, it has everything you could wish for in a summer read. Delicious.” VERONICA HENRY ON THE VILLA
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471265266
The Heroes’ Welcome Louisa Young The Heroes’ Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, evoking a time deeply wounded by the pain of World War One 1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering. Normality doesn’t exist the way it did, and there is no ‘going back’ to anything. What must give, for happiness to stand a chance?
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“ This novel is a triumph.” ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD
“ Every once in a while comes a novel that generates its own success, simply by being loved.” THE TIMES
NARRATED BY: Dan Stevens · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9780007566464
Angel of Death Ben Cheetham Would you break the law to see justice done? In Sheffield, a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures. In Middlesbrough, a woman named Angel is heading south. She is a woman alone. A prostitute. Now a murderer. And she has only one thing on her mind: revenge. Two crimes, a hundred miles apart, but a terrible secret connects them.
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NARRATED BY: Nigel Carrington · Crime · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471265303
“ Fast-moving action and lots of twists make this debut novel a most enjoyable read.” THE TIMES ON BLOOD GUILT
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All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a miniature version of their neighbourhood so she can memorise it. But when the Nazis invade, they flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan destined to labour in the mines, until he discovers a knack for engineering. As Europe is engulfed by war and lives collide unpredictably, All The Light We Cannot See is a captivating elegy for innocence.
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“ A tender exploration of this world’s paradoxes; the beauty of the laws of nature and the terrible ends to which war subverts them.” M.L. STEDMAN, AUTHOR OF THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
“ Doerr has set a new standard for what a story can do.” DAVE EGGERS
NARRATED BY: Julie Teal · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 17 · ISBN 9780007590445
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay Andrea Gillies Perhaps romantic love is always a kind of undiagnosed madness… Nina Findlay, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle Nina has depended on becomes unstable. The life she’s known begins to unravel, and odd things begin to happen which those around her insist are all in her mind. Can Nina be sure of the truth?
“ Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches.” SUNDAY TIMES
“ We have a major new talent in our midst.” DAILY EXPRESS
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9781471265310
The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck John Steinbeck’s last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Ethan Hawley has lost the spirit of his wealthy forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan’s ambition, and he is pitched on to a bold course, where all scruples are put aside.
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“ Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work… so powerful.” SAUL BELLOW
NARRATED BY: — · Classics · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471265327
The Inheritance Simon Tolkien A gripping Oxford-based thriller from Simon Tolkien. When an eminent historian is found dead, all the evidence points to his son, Stephen. With five other people in the house at the time, the police soon reveal that Stephen’s father was involved in a hunt for a priceless relic during World War II. As Stephen’s trial unfolds, Inspector Trave decides he must find out what really happened in 1944. What artefact could be so valuable it would be worth killing for?
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NARRATED BY: Leighton Pugh · Thriller · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9780007584802
“ A fine novel. A thinking person’s Da Vinci Code.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“ A very British thriller… a page turner.” DAILY MAIL ON FINAL WITNESS
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Helen Dunmore Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss
“ An electrifying and original talent.”
Cornwall, 1920. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lies the terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Daniel has survived, but will he ever be able to escape the terrible, unforeseen consequences of a lie?
“ Never striking a false note, The Lie is one of those rare and arresting novels that make you think and feel with greater lucidity.”
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471266584
The Darkest Hour Barbara Erskine From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Summer 1940, most eyes are on the skies. But young Evie Lucas spends hours sketching endless portraits of a dashing young pilot called Tony. His parents want something to remember him by if it all goes wrong… Seventy years later, art historian Lucy is uncovering the mystery surrounding a painting. But as she stirs up a hornet’s nest of history, Lucy finds herself in danger from people who have no intention of letting the truth surface.
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“ Her forte is mood, atmosphere and the toecurling frisson.” SUNDAY TIMES
“ Barbara Erskine’s storytelling talent is undeniable.” THE TIMES
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 19.75 · ISBN 9780007566716
The Curse of the House of Foskett M. R. C. Kasasian Sidney Grice and March Middleton investigate the murky world of Victorian Death Societies, the second book in the darkly comic Gower Street Detective series. 125 Gower Street, 1882: Sidney Grice was once London’s premier personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has not even gathered the strength to re-insert his glass eye. Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney and March have an investigation, one that will draw them to an eerie house in Kew, and the mysterious Baroness Foskett…
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“ One of the most delightful and original novels of the year.” DAILY MAIL
“ Funny, fresh and sharply plotted… starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson.” GOODREADS
NARRATED BY: Emma Gregory · Crime · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471266614
Will You Remember Me? Amanda Prowse A heart-wrenching new novel from bestselling author Amanda Prowse. Poppy Day is an ordinary woman. She’s a 32 year old stay-at-home mum with two gorgeous children, while her husband Mart tours with the army. Her simplest pleasure is having her family together in a happy home. But Poppy is too busy to notice the fatigue in her body and the menacing lump growing on her breast. If there’s anyone strong enough to defeat cancer it’s Poppy. But does life really work like that?
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471266591
“ Captivating, heartbreaking and superbly written.” CLOSER ON WHAT HAVE I DONE?
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The Care and Management of Lies Jacqueline Winspear The Care and Management of Lies is a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. July 1914: the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. They must all find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. Jacqueline Winspear is the award winning author of the much-loved Maisie Dobbs series which have been bestsellers in both the UK and USA.
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471266607
The Garden of Burning Sand Corban Addison The Garden Of Burning Sand addresses international human rights issues within the framework of deeply researched and compelling human stories. On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, a young girl is brutally assaulted and left for dead. Her identity is a mystery. Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer, is determined to find the perpetrator. Also investigating is Joseph Kabuta of the Zambian police. At first they are reluctant to work together, their cultures and upbringings radically different. Their task is not only to help the girl recover, but also to ensure justice doesn’t fail her again.
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“ A compelling novel with a conscience and a heart, gripping in its drama and unique in its insights into a hidden and dangerous world.” RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471266638
Where I Found You Amanda Brooke A touching and emotional novel from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick Yesterday’s Sun. Maggie Carter is blind; but newly married and expecting her first baby, she isn’t sure if she will cope. Elsie is also expecting her first child, and is terrified that her baby will be taken away. But when Maggie meets Elsie, all is not as it seems. Elsie lost her baby sixty years ago, and now, suffering from Alzheimer’s, she keeps re-living the trauma. Determined, Maggie sets out to bring peace to Elsie’s memories.
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“ Haunting and heartbreaking.” FERN BRITTON
“ Magical and unputdownable.” KATIE FFORDE
NARRATED BY: Juanita McMahon · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 3.5 · ISBN 9780007590391
Horse Under Water Len Deighton
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The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s classic second novel.
“ A master of fictional espionage.”
The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious – in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
“ Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that they are not even in sight.”
NARRATED BY: James Lailey · Crime · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9780007566013
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Graham Masterton “One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” peter james
In a grimy flat in the city of Cork, a man lies dead. His face is unrecognisable: seven gunshots have shattered cartilage and bone. Yet DS Katie Maguire, of the Irish Garda, knows exactly who he is. Amir Xaaji Maxamed, an evil man who trafficked young girls to be sold for sex. When a second pimp is killed, Katie must decide. Are these vigilante murders justified? And can she stop them spiralling out of control? This is Graham Masterton’s third novel featuring Irish detective Katie Maguire.
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“ A natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real.”
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“ One of the few true masters.” JAMES HERBERT
NARRATED BY: Caroline Lennon · Crime · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471266621
Otherwise Engaged Amanda Quick In Amanda Quick’s Ladies of Lantern Street series the lives of the Victorian gentry are filled with secrets – and secret powers… One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. Amity Doncaster barely escapes. Her quick thinking, and her secret weapon, save her. But the monster known as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived the wounds she inflicts and will soon be back. As Amity prepares to confront the criminal, she must also face feelings she can’t run away from…
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NARRATED BY: Louise Jane Underwood · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471266645
Anne Bennett A heartbreaking tale of love and loss in a time of war. Linda Prosser is just twelve years old when she becomes buried beneath a mass of debris. It is Jenny O’Leary, an ARP warden, who crawls through the wreckage of the house to rescue her. So begins their friendship. But when Linda falls in love with a man that Jenny despises, she is faced with sacrificing her future happiness for the friend who gave her everything…
“ [Anne Bennett is] blessed with a vivid imagination and a natural aptitude for writing.” DAILY POST
“ An affecting story, populated with rich, beautifully drawn characters.” CHOICE
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9780007596928
Enemies at Home Lindsey Davis From renowned author Lindsey Davis comes the second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome. Albia is a remarkable woman in a man’s world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the Aventine Hill in Rome and makes a living as an investigator. A mysterious death at a local villa may be murder and, as the household slaves are implicated, Albia is forced to involve herself. Her fight is not just for justice; she’s also battling for the lives of people who can’t fight for themselves. In 2011 Lindsey Davis was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471267840
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A Strong Hand to Hold
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“ Tautly written, with enough twists to keep readers on their toes, Quick’s novel features a double love story, a bit of gothic flair and a passionate scientist hero to spice up the plot.”
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Cover Your Eyes Adele Geras Eva Conway has spent a lifetime hiding from a ghost in the mirror… Eva was once a legendary fashion designer. Now widowed, she lives with her family in Salix House. Megan is a journalist working in London who interviewed Eva for a magazine. Torn apart by the brutal end of a love affair, Megan is drawn back to Salix House and Eva. Both are hiding something, but perhaps together they can confront their fears and discover the truth of Salix House’s secrets.
“ Wonderfully evocative… a not-to-be-missed treat.” PENNY VINCENZI ON FACING THE LIGHT
Adele Geras is an award winning author of children’s and adults books, including Troy.
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471267826
Bring Me Home Alan Titchmarsh
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Alan Titchmarsh’s new novel takes us to the Scottish Highlands for a bewitching tale of betrayal, mystery and romance.
“ A perfect love story.”
Standing at the door, Charlie Stuart welcomes his guests. Conversation and the clinking of glasses soon fill the air as friends and neighbours come together to toast the laird’s happiness. But Charlie sees the truth behind the façade: the sacrifices made to safeguard the estate. And in a few hours the perfect afternoon will come to an end. The past is about to catch up with him, and it could tear his family apart…
“ The story brims with intrigue.”
KATIE FFORDE
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NARRATED BY: Alan Titchmarsh · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471267833
For Better For Worse Pam Weaver
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When Henry Royal is found guilty of bigamy, the seaside town of Worthing is rocked by scandal. But what will become of his wives?
“ A heartrending story.”
July 1948. As Britain recovers from WWII, Annie Royal is looking forward to a future with her husband. But a knock at the door brings Annie’s world crashing down. On her doorstep stands Sarah. She is also Henry’s wife. Struggling, Annie is forced to accept the truth when Henry is arrested. Alone, with no one to support her, Annie must look to the most unlikely of places to find support in her darkest hour…
“ What a terrific read – Saga fans everywhere will love it and be asking for more from this talented new author.”
KITTY NEALE
ANNIE GROVES
NARRATED BY: — · Saga · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9780007596966
A Slight Trick of the Mind Mitch Cullin A devastating literary novel about Sherlock Holmes, soon to be a major film starring Ian McKellen. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know.
“ A wise and touching examination of the human condition.” LOS ANGELES BOOK REVIEW
“ Quite extraordinary… Our hero-our eternal hero-has never been more heroic, or more human.” VILLAGE VOICE
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NARRATED BY: — · Mystery · DURATION: 7.25 · ISBN 9781471267895
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Debra Daley A compelling, puzzling and absorbing tale. Young Em Smith is brought up by the Waterland family, where she serves as a companion to their daughter, Eliza. But when she finds herself implicated in a horrific crime, she flees for her life. Her frantic escape takes her onto the high seas, where she is at the mercy of the enigmatic smuggler, Captain McDonagh. But there is a more potent force drawing Emily on. There she will confront the astonishing secret of her origins.
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NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471267864
Vixen Rosie Garland Rosie Garland’s extraordinary new novel is a story of superstition and devotion in the time of the Black Death. Devon, 1349. In Brauntone, Father Thomas arrives as the new priest, determined to impress his congregation. For Anne, Thomas’s arrival is a great opportunity, and she becomes his housekeeper, but his home is without love or kindness. So when a strange, mute Maid is taken in, Anne is grateful for the company. But soon the plague strikes Brauntone. And as the villagers’ fear turns to anger, Thomas must sacrifice everything to restore their faith in him.
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“ Garland’s lush prose is always a pleasure.” GUARDIAN
“ An alternately brutal and beautiful story about love and belonging.” METRO ON THE PALACE OF CURIOSITIES
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9780007590186
A Dog’s Life Michael Holroyd What will happen to them all if the dog dies? Without euphoria, without a touch of sentimentality, with truth and humour and submerged pity, Michael Holroyd reveals twenty-four hours in the life of the Farquhar family revolving, three generations strong, around a dying dog. It is a day like any other, a dog’s life, gathering momentum and working to a climax in which irony and realism are so completely fused that laughter and sadness mingle.
“ A brilliant writer blessed with perfect pitch.” MAIL ON SUNDAY
“ [A]n absolute tour de force of brilliant writing.” DAILY TELEGRAPH ON MOSAIC
Michael Holroyd is an award-winning biographer, and A Dog’s Life is a fictionalised biography of his own family.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Biography & Autobiography · DURATION: 5.75 · ISBN 9781471267857
The Heather Blazing Colm Tóibín “If Colm Tóibín were a singer you would say he had perfect pitch.” spectator
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a man remote from his wife, his son and daughter. The life he has built for himself, between his work in Dublin and his family’s retreat by the sea at Cush, is distinguished by order and by achievement. When, like his beloved coastline, it begins to slip away, he is pulled sharply into the present, and finds himself revisiting his past.
“ Proceeds with stately grace from past to present, incident to incident, slowly forming, as it moves, the full shape of a man’s public and private life.” WASHINGTON POST
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NARRATED BY: Tim Gerard Reynolds · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.25 · ISBN 9781471267871
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Astra Naomi Foyle This is the first book in the Gaia Chronicles from the highly acclaimed poet and playwright, Naomi Foyle. Like every child in Is-Land, all Astra Ordott wants is to do her National Service and defend her Gaian homeland from Non-Lander ‘infiltrators’. But when her Shelter mother tells her that this will limit her chances of becoming a scientist and offers her an alternative, Astra agrees. If she is to survive, Astra must learn to deal with truths about Is-Land, Non-Land and the secret web of adult relationships that surrounds her.
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“ Foyle is effective at building tension and creating villainy all the more sinister for its wellmeaning smile.” SFX
“ Impeccable plotting.” GUARDIAN
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Murder Sarah Pinborough A gruesome horror story set on the cobbled streets of Victorian London. Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London – and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. Now the bodies of children are being pulled from the Thames, and Bond is about to become inextricably linked with an uncanny, undying enemy. The sequel to Mayhem, the first gripping Dr. Bond mystery.
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NARRATED BY: Steven Crossley · Crime · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471265341
“ A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller.” GUARDIAN ON MAYHEM
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Michael J. Sullivan The future is coming… for some, sooner than others. Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man, about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe, but faced with a terminal illness he’s willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage. If it works, he could find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began… A stunning new novel from the 2013 Audie Award for Fantasy finalist. Michael J. Sullivan is the author of the bestselling The Riyria Revelations.
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NARRATED BY: Jonathan Davis · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471265334
Joe Abercrombie A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie. Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted. But first he must survive cruelty and the waters of the Shattered Sea. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles. But even with loyal friends, Yarvi’s path may end in tragedy…
“ Abercrombie writes fantasy like no one else.” GUARDIAN
“ Joe Abercrombie is fast becoming my favourite writer. Half a King is a remarkable achievement – thrilling, enthralling, and relentless. The action is frenetic, the characters are as sharp as the blades they wield, and the humour is biting.” DEREK LANDY
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Red Rising Pierce Brown Ender’s Game meets The Hunger Games in the first in an extraordinary trilogy from an incredible new voice in sciencefiction and fantasy. Earth is dying. Thousands of workers, who live in the vast caves beneath Mars, mine the precious elements that will make the planet habitable. They are Earth’s only hope. Until the day Darrow learns that it’s a lie. Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations. Darrow disguises himself and infiltrates their society, intent on taking them down. But the surface is a battlefield – and Darrow isn’t the only one with an agenda.
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“ The heart-stopping excitement of the Hunger Games meets the pulsepounding majesty and complexity of Game of Thrones, all wrapped up in the visionary beauty and melancholy of Blade Runner… a shot of adrenalin for your imagination.” STAR MAGAZINE
NARRATED BY: Tim Gerard Reynolds · Science Fiction · DURATION: 16.25 · ISBN 9781471266041
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer If J. J. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like Annihilation, the first in an extraordinary trilogy. For thirty years, Area X has remained behind its border – an environmental disaster zone. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; all with terrible consequences. Annihilation is the story of the twelfth expedition. Their mission: to take samples and expand their understanding of Area X. But an inexplicable moaning calls in the distance, and an unmapped tunnel is not what it appears. The power of Area X is difficult to resist.
“ Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel. If the sequels live up to it, then the Southern Reach series will be a major work.” SFX MAGAZINE
“ A tautly told, selfcontained story, informed and illuminated by the flawed and very human voice of its narrator.” ARC
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The City Dean Koontz Bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his storytelling powers with this major new novel, a rich, multi-layered story that moves back and forth across decades and generations. There are millions of stories. Some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk’s story is all of these things as he introduces his indomitable ‘piano man’ grandfather; his single mother, a beautiful, struggling singer; and every day saints and sinners who will change the course of Jonah’s life. Welcome to The City, a place where enchantment and malice entwine, and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart.
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“ Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler.” THE TIMES
“ A terrific pursuit story… clever, up-to-the-minute, and riveting.” GUARDIAN
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The Detainee Peter Liney “I never thought it would come to this, never in my worst nightmares. No matter how bad things got, how much the government warned us, I still thought we’d be okay.” When the fog comes and the drums start, the inhabitants of the island tremble: for the satellites are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey. The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: dumped on the island with the rest of Society’s waste. The island is the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a blind woman living in a secret underground warren, and discovers a reason to fight.
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“ An impressively dark, dystopian piece with much to say about capitalism’s tendency to treat human beings as commodities, disposable when no longer useful.” FINANCIAL TIMES
NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471266171
The Time Traveller’s Almanac: Reactionaries & Revolutionaries Edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer The Time Traveller’s Almanac will reacquaint readers with beloved classics and introduce them to thrilling contemporary examples of the time travel genre.
“ Playful, richly imaginative and vast… a fabulous collection complemented by essays on the science, fashions and music of time travel.” METRO
The Time Traveller’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, here is over a century’s worth of literary travels into past and the future. The anthology covers millions of years of Earth’s history – from the age of the dinosaurs to strange and fascinating futures, through to the end of Time itself. This is Volume Two.
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 16.5 · ISBN 9781471269165
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The Inheritance Tilly Bagshawe Welcome to Tilly Bagshawe’s Swell Valley, where the scandal is in a class of its own. Tatiana Flint-Hamilton’s gilded cage is torn away when her father dies. As the beloved family estate slips through her fingers, the ruthless Brett Cranley steps up to take it all away. His wife Angela is the perfect homemaker, and Furlings soon becomes Angela’s lifeline, one she’s not going to give up easily. But losing everything has made Tati realise that her rightful inheritance is all that she lives for… and she is determined to get it back.
“ You’re always guaranteed a corking characters and a fast-paced read with a Bagshawe story, and this doesn’t disappoint.” HEAT
“ A cut above the rest… pure, unadulterated escapism.” FABULOUS
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The Killing Club Paul Finch Get hooked on Heck: the maverick detective who knows no boundaries. DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg is used to bloodbaths. Two years ago, he put the ringleader of The Nice Guys Club – a vicious rape and murder gang – behind bars. But Heck knows that this depraved organisation stretches far beyond UK shores. When brutal murders start happening across the country, it’s clear that the Nice Guys are at work again. And Heck knows it won’t be long before they come for him. Brace yourself as you turn the pages of a living nightmare. Welcome to The Killing Club.
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“ Really terrific, compulsive stuff which was given top marks… definitely a talent to watch.” THE BOOKSELLER ON STALKERS
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler You can’t choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Big, life-defining choices. Rosemary’s started college, and she’s decided not to tell anyone about her family. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone – vanished from her life. There was something unique about Rosemary’s sister, Fern. You’ll have to find out for yourself what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.
“ A novel so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart, it deserves all the attention it can get.” BARBARA KINGSOLVER
“ A dark cautionary tale hanging out, incognito-style, in what at first seems a traditional family narrative. It is anything but.” ALICE SEBOLD
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The Book of You Claire Kendal A terrifying psychological thriller about obsession and power. Clarissa is becoming more and more frightened of her colleague, Rafe. He won’t leave her alone. Being selected for jury service is a relief, the courtroom is a safe haven. But as a violent tale of kidnap and abuse unfolds, Clarissa begins to unravel the twisted fairytale that Rafe has spun – and discovers that the ending he envisions is more terrifying than she could have imagined.
“ Addictive… I literally hardly breathed as I raced to the end. It’s a terrifying thriller” SAMANTHA HAYES, AUTHOR OF UNTIL YOU’RE MINE
“ Creepy and compelling… what happens when the wrong guy won’t take no for an answer?” PAULA DALY, AUTHOR OF JUST WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?
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NARRATED BY: Orlagh Cassidy · Thriller · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9780007581405
The Bees Laline Paull The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical. And while mutant bees are usually destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, and then becomes a forager, before finally finding her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses. But Flora’s instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire…
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NARRATED BY: Orlagh Cassidy · Science Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9780007584475
“ The Bees is one wild ride. A sensual, visceral miniepic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster.” EMMA DONOGHUE, AUTHOR OF ROOM
“ This is a rich, strange book, utterly convincing in its portrayal of the mind-set of a bee and a hive… this is what sets us humans apart from other animals, that our imagination can allow us to create a complete, believable world so different from our own.” TRACY CHEVALIER
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair Joël Dicker Nothing you’ve read or even felt before can prepare you for the internationally bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair.
“ A global phenomenon.”
August 30, 1975. The summer Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman – Quebert’s most gifted protégé – throws off his writer’s block to save his mentor from the electric chair. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.
“ [T]he cleverest, creepiest book you’ll read this year.”
A brilliantly intricate murder mystery, a hymn to the boundless reaches of the imagination, and a love story like no other.
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NARRATED BY: Robert Slade · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 20.5 · ISBN 9781471265228
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The Dress Thief Natalie Meg Evans A modern tale of desire and deception set in the gloriously chic world of 1930s Parisian haute couture. Alix Gower has a dream: to join Coco Chanel. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs for the foreign market. When Alix is given the chance to finally realise her dream – but at the price of copying the Spring Collection – she accepts the arrangement. But Alix learns that the slightest misstep could be all it takes for her life to begin falling apart at the seams.
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NARRATED BY: Anna Bentinck · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471265242
Biblical Christopher Galt An apocalyptic thriller on an epic scale that will make you question your own reality… All around the world, people start to see things. To start with, the visions are unremarkable: things caught out of the corner of the eye. But, as time goes on, the visions become more sustained, more vivid. More terrifying. As the visions become truly apocalyptic, some turn to religion, others to science. But what John Macbeth uncovers is much bigger than either religion or science. So big it could cost him his sanity. Christopher Galt is the pseudonym of an award winning author published in twenty-four languages worldwide.
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NARRATED BY: Christopher Ragland · Thriller · DURATION: 14.25 · ISBN 9781471265259
Ostrich Matt Greene Growing up is hard enough without a deadline. Alex has the concerns every 12-year-old has but lately, ever since his brain surgery, everyone in his life is behaving a little mysteriously. He decides it’s time to investigate. So begins the journey that will take him to the limits of his understanding and take you back to the wonder and conviction of your own adolescence, to a time when you understood the world so much better than it understood you.
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“ At once hilarious and heart-wrenching.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
“ ‘Irresistible! I dare you not to laugh, cry and fall wildly in love.” MARIA SEMPLE, AUTHOR OF WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE?
NARRATED BY: — · Humorous · DURATION: 6.75 · ISBN 9781471265211
Time To Die Alex Howard To save a child’s life she’ll break all the rules… but is it already too late? The kidnapping of a 12-year-old diabetic boy has blown the case of some missing children wide apart and the finger is pointing at the heart of the Met. Boss Corrigan sends in the only cop in his team who would care more about the life of a boy than about her own career. Detective Inspector Hanlon. And then he sends someone to spy on her… Time to Die is the first title in a gripping new crime series, featuring DI Hanlon, a woman with a habit of breaking the rules.
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NARRATED BY: Adjoa Andoh · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471265235
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The Director David Ignatius From the bestselling author and prize-winning journalist, comes another gripping modern day spy thriller. Graham Weber, the new director of the CIA, is tasked with revolutionising an agency in crisis. Weber’s task greatens when a young computer genius approaches the CIA with proof their systems have been compromised. There is a breach. There is a mole. Weber must move quickly. And he must choose his allies carefully, if he is to succeed in identifying an enemy that is inside the gates, and out to destroy him.
“ Ignatius ranks with Graham Greene in his knowledge of espionage and the human heart.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON BODY OF LIES
David Ignatius is the author of Body of Lies, now a major film with Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe.
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NARRATED BY: George Guidall · Thriller · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9781471267161
The Memory Killer J. A. Kerley Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller. Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked. Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator’s name, height, age, colouring… everything. It’s impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection. Yet he does. With each abduction, the violence becomes more horrific, and it’s only a short time until torture turns to murder. But how do you catch an invisible man?
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“ Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one’s another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“ A fascinating and frightening take on the genre.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
NARRATED BY: John Moraitis · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780007543847
The Nemesis Program Scott Mariani The explosive, thrilling new Ben Hope adventure from bestselling author, Scott Mariani. American biologist Dr Roberta Ryder receives a strange letter from her friend Claudine and travels to Paris to see her, only to learn of her shocking death. Ben Hope, now trying to retire, finds his life turned upside down by Roberta’s arrival. In a frantic race to Paris to uncover the mystery of Claudine’s research, they uncover a global conspiracy that will claim the lives of millions of people… unless Ben can stop it.
“ Slick, serpentine and very, very entertaining… if you’ve got a pulse, you’ll love Scott Mariani; if you haven’t, then maybe you crossed Ben Hope.” SIMON TOYNE
“ Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart… Scott Mariani packs a real punch.” ANDY MCDERMOTT
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NARRATED BY: William Rycroft · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9780007543663
Animals Emma Jane Unsworth “I wish I had written this book… Withnail with girls.” caitlin moran Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angrily philosophising and leading each other astray in the pubs and flats of Manchester. But things are set to change. Laura is engaged to teetotal Jim, the wedding is just months away, and Tyler becomes hell-bent on sabotaging her friend’s plans for a different life. Animals is a hilarious, moving and refreshingly honest tale of how a friendship can become the ultimate love story.
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“ A gloriously over-thetop account of female friendship.” GUARDIAN
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Martin Walker Another nail-biting thriller from Martin Walker, in his everpopular Bruno Courrèges series. Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before. Meanwhile, a Muslim youth named Sami turns up at an army base in Afghanistan hoping to get home to St Denis. Bruno must unravel these mysteries, and find a way to protect his town and its people.
“ A satisfyingly intriguing, wish-you-were-there read.” GUARDIAN
“ Walker is brilliant at capturing the murderous charms of rural France… the setting is undeniably delicious.” MIRROR
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NARRATED BY: Peter Noble · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471267130
Dregs Jørn Lier Horst Four feet… from four different victims? In Stavern around midsummer a severed left foot in a training shoe is washed up on the shore. Then another, and yet another. Altogether four left feet in the course of one week. Police Inspector William Wisting has many years of murder experience behind him, but he has never examined evidence like this. Four feet… from four different victims?
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“ Jørn Lier Horst has once more written a well-founded and tense crime novel, with space for both the expected and the downright surprising.” AFTENPOSTEN
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Death Can’t Take a Joke Anya Lipska The second Kiszka and Kershaw crime thriller, from the author of Where the Devil Can’t Go. When one of his closest friends is brutally stabbed to death, Janusz Kiszka must dig deep into London’s criminal underbelly to deliver justice. Meanwhile, his old nemesis, police detective Natalie Kershaw is struggling with an apparent suicide that makes no sense. Sparks fly as Kiszka and Kershaw’s paths cross again, but they must call a truce when their separate investigations call for a journey to Poland’s wintry eastern borders…
“ Gripping.” VAL M C DERMID
“ Pacy and enthralling, with Janusz already one of the best protagonists in the business.” MALCOLM MCKAY, AUTHOR OF THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER
“ Crime fiction at its best – great characters, great plot, great read.” JAMES CRAIG
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NARRATED BY: Michael Fenner · Crime · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9780007565498
Bubble Anders De La Motte Will the conspiracy collapse or conclude with a deadly end-game? Bubble is the concluding part of the Game trilogy. Until now the truth behind The Game has been carefully hidden in a bubble of disinformation and distraction. But all bubbles burst eventually, and as HP and Rebecca battle to uncover the connection between The Game and their father’s shocking past, it looks like it’ll soon be Game Over in the conclusion to the Scandinavian series taking the world by storm. Anders de la Motte’s debut novel, Game, received the First Book Award from the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and has sold over 100,000 copies in Sweden alone.
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Bad Blood Mark Sennen Bad Blood is a twisting blend of thriller and police procedural from bestselling author Mark Sennen. When the body of a six-year-old girl is found buried beneath a patio, nobody is surprised when a local paedophile is murdered shortly afterwards. But when a member of DI Charlotte Savage’s team is abducted and several men are executed in cold blood it becomes apparent that there’s a psychopath on the loose… but what if this man has a message for Charlotte herself? One she won’t forget in a hurry.
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Will Wiles The Way Inn takes the polished surfaces of modern life and twists them into a nightmare… ‘The Way Inn’ is a global chain of budget hotels, and Neil Double is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. His life of budget travel would be hell for most, but for Neil it’s a kind of paradise. But then Neil meets a woman he has seen before in unsettling circumstances. As he tries to find the woman again, he is drawn into the appalling secret that lurks behind the fake smiles of the hotel…
“ A fast-paced serial-killer chiller.” ALEX MARWOOD
“ This is a terrific first novel, written with a very engaging deadpan wit, and an understated sense of the absurd.” THE TIMES ON CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS
“ [S]trangely compelling… addictive and rather clever, too.” DAILY MAIL ON CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS
NARRATED BY: — · Mystery · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780007581528
SEPTEMBER
Broken Monsters Lauren Beukes A terrifying new thriller from Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of The Shining Girls. Detective Gabi Versado no longer believes in justice. She’s seen too much stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But never anything like this. Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. Now a killer with the touch of an artist is turning it into the worst kind of nightmare…
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“ A nail-biting thriller that will keep your pulse racing all the way to the explosive climax.”
“ An ingenious and imaginative thriller… compulsively readable” SUNDAY MIRROR ON THE SHINING GIRLS
“ Confidently written… this dark tale is told inventively and is full of surprises. Keep the lights on.” DAILY MAIL ON THE SHINING GIRLS
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The Dinosaur Feather Sissel-Jo Gazan The Dinosaur Feather is the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade. Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from revealing her controversial research on the evolutionary origin of birds when her supervisor, Lars Helland, is found dead – his tongue and a copy of her thesis in his lap. As the police investigate the most brutal and calculated case they’ve ever known, Anna remains convinced someone is trying to frame her. She must fight to prove her innocence… and fight for her life.
“ A top-flight thriller – smart and outrageously entertaining.” FINANCIAL TIMES
“ Intelligently plotted and psychologically believable.” THE TIMES
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“ Outrageous, witty, exciting and romantic, we simply adored this sparkling read.”
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What A Girl Wants Lindsey Kelk A summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk. Tess Brookes was the girl with a plan. Now she’s the girl with a choice. For the first time, Tess has to choose between the life she always dreamed of and a future she never imagined possible. With her heart and her head pulling her in different directions, Tess has to make a life-changing decision.
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“ Kelk has a hilarious turn of phrase and a sparkling writing style.” DAILY EXPRESS
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Irène Pierre Lemaitre There can only be one winner – whoever has the least to lose… For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When he discovers that the killer has killed before – and that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel – the newspapers are quick to coin a nickname – The Novelist. A thrilling crime novel from CWA International Dagger winner, Pierre Lemaitre, author of Alex.
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“ It enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability.” THE TIMES ON ALEX
“ Relentlessly gripping, Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss.” INDEPENDENT ON ALEX
NARRATED BY: Peter Noble · Crime · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471267888
Avenged Jacqui Rose You make a deal with the devil; you pay your dues… Franny Doyle has always known that her father Patrick has been up to no good. You don’t become London’s number one gangster without ruffling a few feathers. But when something terrible happens to Patrick, Franny realises that he has some very dangerous enemies. Patrick has taught her to be a fighter and she’s determined to make him proud, even if it means paying the ultimate price – her own life.
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“ Gritty and gripping.” KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS
NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Crime · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9780007598021
Low Expectations Elizabeth Aaron Girls meets The Devil Wears Prada in Dalston Stuck somewhere between a quarter-life crisis and self-fulfillment, Georgie is determined that this year, everything will be different. Her boss doesn’t know her name, her friends are useless, and she’s been celibate for eighteen months! So, armed with only her sense of humour and some black eyeliner, she’s determined to change her life. But just how long will the new improved Georgie last? Low Expectations is a smart, raunchy, laugh-out-loud novel about what it means to be a ‘Real Woman’ today.
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A Burnable Book Bruce Holsinger A stunning debut historical thriller set in the turbulent 14th century. London, 1385. A kingdom ruled by the headstrong young King Richard II, haunted by the spectre of revolt. For John Gower, part-time poet and full-time trader in information, secrets are his currency. The request is simple: track down a missing book. It should be easy for a man of Gower’s talents. But what Gower does not know is that this book has already caused one murder, and that its contents could destroy his life.
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“ Holsinger carries the reader to Oxford, Italy and Spain, but the highlight is his description of medieval London with its murky, poverty-stricken streets… enjoyable and intelligent.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: — · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.25 · ISBN 9780007575114
Wild People Ewart Hutton The third novel in the Glyn Capaldi series. DS Glyn Capaldi is in hospital recuperating from a car crash. His passenger, a woman whom he was bringing in for questioning, is dead. Was it truly an accident? What could a young woman have possibly done to warrant such retribution?
“ An entertaining debut with more stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions.” VAL MCDERMID ON GOOD PEOPLE
Glyn explores these questions, and, in doing so, unveils a conspiracy of arson, torture, blackmail, and a clutter of bodies that further muddy the already murky waters. Ewart Hutton’s first novel Good People, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2012
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NARRATED BY: Iestyn Arwel · Crime · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9780007558933
Into a Raging Blaze Andreas Norman This dizzying thriller anticipated the Edward Snowden revelations and rocked Sweden on publication. Carina Dymek is on fast track for promotion at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a stranger and given a USB stick. Unwittingly, she delivers a time bomb of classified information. Bente Jensen is tasked with investigating how Dymek gained access to the confidential report but he begins to suspect she is a red herring caught in a far wider net: one in which civil rights are sacrificed to national security.
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“ Rarely have I read such a well-written debut novel as this… well orchestrated dramaturg y, rich language, and extremely believable characters.” DAGENS NYHETER NEWSPAPER, SWEDEN
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The Swimmer Joakim Zander The truth weighs nothing… Klara Walldeen, orphaned as a child and brought up by her grandparents, is now a political aide in Brussels. And she has just seen something she shouldn’t. On the other side of the world, an old spy hides. Once, he was a man so dedicated that he abandoned his daughter. Now the only thing he lives for is swimming. Then Klara is thrown into a terrifying chase through Europe. Only the Swimmer can save her. But time is running out…
“ Guilt and atonement and revenge… The Swimmer is an impressive, fast-paced thriller.” PQ SOURCE
“ Elegantly constructed… the language creeps up on you… a remarkable debut novel.” GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN
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Jammer Teen Ideal for engaging teenagers, whether new or voracious readers. Including authors such as Holly Smale and Veronica Roth, the teen titles we select will also be popular with many adults. JULY
Never Ending Martyn Bedford How can she live with what she did? Shiv’s younger brother, Declan, died while their family was on holiday in Greece. Shiv doesn’t know how to live any more – she is tormented by guilt. Now she finds herself at the Korsakoff Clinic, undergoing a most unorthodox therapy, which is often painful. The clinic must help her find a way to live again. But first, they will make her face what really happened to her brother.
“ Martyn Bedford is the genuine article, a writer of unmistakable flair and accomplishment.” NEW YORK TIMES
Martyn Bedford’s first Young Adult novel, Flip, was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and named as a Red House Children’s Book Awards Pick of the Year title.
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471266652
Geek Girl: Model Misfit Holly Smale The Geek is back! Harriet Manners knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day. And that the average person eats a tonne of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this. But Harriet doesn’t know what she’ll do once the new baby arrives. And with her summer ruined, modelling in Japan seems the perfect get away. Can Harriet cope with Tokyo, her competitive model flatmates and her errant grandmother’s ‘chaperoning’?
“ A feel-good satisfying gem that will have teens smiling from cover to cover, and walking a little taller after reading.” BOOKS FOR KEEPS ON GEEK GIRL
“ I would highly recommend Geek Girl to anyone who likes a good laugh and enjoys a one-of-a-kind story.” GUARDIAN ON GEEK GIRL
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NARRATED BY: Katy Sobey · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9780007577477
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The Selection Keira Cass Thirty-five beautiful girls. Thirty-five beautiful rivals… 17-year-old America Singer has been chosen for The Selection, a reality TV lottery in which thirty-five girls compete for Prince Maxon’s love. Swept up in a world of gowns, glittering jewels and decadent feasts, the prince takes a special interest in her. But rivalry is fierce and not all of the girls are prepared to play by the rules. But America has a secret – one which could throw the whole competition…
“ Reality TV meets dystopian fairy tale in Kiera Cass’s delightful debut. Charming, captivating, and filled with just the right amount of swoon!” KIERSTEN WHITE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PARANORMALCY
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.25 · ISBN 9780007587681
Insurgent Veronica Roth Fighting for survival in a shattered world… the truth is her only hope. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever… because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead.
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“ [A] captivating, fascinating book that kept me in constant suspense and was never short on surprises. It will be a long time before I quit thinking about this haunting vision of the future.” JAMES DASHNER ON DIVERGENT
“ Divergent holds its own in the [dystopian] genre, with brisk pacing, lavish flights of imagination and writing that occasionally startles with fine detail.” NEW YORK TIMES
NARRATED BY: Emma Galvin · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9780007579259
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Butterfly Grave Anne Cassidy A taut and pacy thriller, perfect for young adults discovering crime fiction for themselves. Joshua’s uncle has survived a near fatal accident and Rose and Joshua drive to Newcastle to visit him, along with their friend Skeggsie. Joshua is convinced they are being followed. Can it be true, or is it just his paranoia? And then the precious murder notebooks are stolen. Somebody out there really does not want Rose and Joshua to find their parents. But who? And why?
“ Cassidy has a good track record for thrillers.” DAILY MAIL
Killing Rachel, the previous title in The Murder Notebooks series, was shortlisted for the 2014 Red House Children’s Book Award.
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NARRATED BY: — · Crime · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471268984
The Worst Girlfriend in the World Sarra Manning My best friend was now my deadliest enemy, the one person I’d hate beyond all measure for the rest of my life… Franny Barker’s best friend, Alice, is the worst girlfriend in the world according to the many boys of Merrycliffe-on-Sea. She toys with them, then dumps them. But she’ll never dump fashion-obsessed Franny. Nothing and no one can come between them. Until Alice, jealous of Franny’s new college friends, sets her sights on Louis. Suddenly, best friends are bitter rivals. Is winning Louis’s heart worth more than their friendship?
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471269004
“ Sarra Manning pulls you straight in with another fantastically addictive, beautifully written read.” PAIGE TOON ON IT FELT LIKE A KISS
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Playaway A new media format specially designed for audiobooks – pre-loaded MP3 players with an audiobook locked-in. Just press play.
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The Memory Book
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Rowan Coleman The name of your fi rst-born. The face of your lover. Your age. Your address… What would happen if your memory of these began to fade? Is it possible to rebuild your life? Raise a family? Fall in love again? From the author of Dearest Rose and Lessons in Laughing Out Loud, The Memory Book is an original, heartwarming and uplifting novel.
SOP: PA6
“ I can’t tell you how much I loved this book. It did make me cry but it also made me laugh… I couldn’t put it down. A tender testament to maternal love.” KATIE FFORDE
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471264559
The Killing: Book III
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David Hewson Based on the original Bafta-award winning television drama The Killing. When Detective Inspector Sarah Lund is contacted by National Intelligence about an assassination threat to the Prime Minister, attention is drawn to the oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. But when Zeuthen’s 9-year-old daughter Emilie is kidnapped, Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by her kidnapper before it’s too late.
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EXPRESS
NARRATED BY: Christian Rodska · Crime · DURATION: 15.75 · ISBN 9781471264542
Summer at the Lake
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Erica James It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana… A fateful car crash sets in motion a series of events for Floriana and Esme. Floriana gathers the courage to attend the wedding of her one true love, and Esme journeys with her to Lake Como to find the man who stole her heart many years ago. It’s time for Esme and Floriana to face the past – and the future – on the shore of the most romantic and enchanting of lakes.
SOP: PA6
“ A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation. Hewson’s style is tight, lean, almost like a film script.”
NARRATED BY: Antonia Beamish · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15.75 · ISBN 9781471264528
“ A heart-warming, romantic story full of engaging characters, an emotional rollercoaster.” DAILY EXPRESS ON THE HIDDEN COTTAGE
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Dead Letter Drop
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Peter James Peter James’ first ever novel, now available as an audiobook. Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? The murky world of counter espionage leaves no room for errors and Flynn knows he’s finished if he makes one false move.
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LEE CHILD
NARRATED BY: Christopher Webster · Crime · DURATION: 7 · ISBN 9781471264535
It Felt Like a Kiss
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Sarra Manning Against the glamorous settings of the London art world and the music industry, this novel is Sarra Manning at her best.
“ A deliciously addictive tale of romance and reinvention.”
Ellie manages a swank Mayfair gallery, has really good hair, loyal friends, and a loving family. It’s only her succession of lame duck boyfriends that ruin the picture. Oh, and the famous rock-star father she’s never met. Then Ellie’s perfect life is smashed to pieces when her secret is sold to the tabloids. Enter charming and handsome David Gold, her father’s ruthless lawyer.
SOP: PA6
“ Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world.”
MARIE CLAIRE ON YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME
NARRATED BY: Penelope Rawlins · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 15.25 · ISBN 9781471264566
Treachery
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S. J. Parris Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of King Philip’s Invincible Armada, ready to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip’s American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. When a ship captain is brutally murdered, and Drake’s life threatened, it becomes clear that someone plans to destroy the expedition before it begins.
SOP: PA6
“ Fascinating… the period is incredibly vivid and the story utterly gripping.” CONN IGGULDEN
NARRATED BY: Laurence Kennedy · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 20 · ISBN 9781471264573
The Following Girls
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Louise Levene “Louise Levene is a zesty storyteller and a master of the needle-sharp one-liner” daily telegraph
School, the happiest days of your life? Not for Amanda Baker, sixteen and sick of it as she moves miserably between lessons. Her only solace is her fifth form gang – the four Mandies – and a low-calorie diet of king-sized cigarettes, until she teams up with Julia Smith, games captain and consummate game player.
SOP: PA9
“ Her characters are a delight [and] she gets the period beautifully right, so that one is all the time aware of the serious intent behind all the gruesome fun.” BARBARA TRAPIDO, AUTHOR OF BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK
NARRATED BY: Louise Levene · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471264603
Bay of Secrets
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Rosanna Ley “Elegant storytelling at its best; poetic and touching. Like all good escapism it takes you to another place and another time.” veronica henry, author of the long weekend
Spain, 1939. A young girl, Julia, enters a convent to stay safe during the war. Whilst volunteering in a maternity clinic, the worrying adoption practices force Sister Julia to decide on helping those placed in her care.
SOP: PA9
NOVELICIOUS
NARRATED BY: Sandra Duncan · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471264580
Marriage Material
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Sathnam Sanghera An epic tale of family, love and politics told with humour, tenderness and insight by one of Britain’s most promising young writers. To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family’s corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions about his imminent marriage back in London and uncovering the history of his broken family.
SOP: PA9
“ Explores a sensitive subject in a unique and inspirational style, bringing to light a subject that for many children in Spain is still a harsh reality.”
NARRATED BY: Asif Khan · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471264597
“ A stunning novel… touching and funny and feels so fresh… it just leaps off the page. I adored it.” DEBORAH MOGGACH
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Hilary Mantel From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner, a haunting and prescient novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband’s work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom’s areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, and the streets are not a woman’s territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve.
SOP: PA12
“ Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read.” SUNDAY TIMES
NARRATED BY: Sandra Duncan · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471264634
Is This Love?
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Sue Moorcroft How many ways can one woman love?
“ A delight to read. Full of laughter and tears.”
When Tamara’s sister, Lyddie, is involved in an accident that leaves her in need of constant care, Tamara resolves to remain home to care for her. But when Lyddie’s teenage sweetheart Jed Cassius returns, he brings news that shakes her family to their core.
SOP: PA12
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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
KATIE FFORDE
NARRATED BY: Julie Teal · Romance · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471264627
Winter
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Christopher Nicholson From the author of The Elephant Keeper comes a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last muse. A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her.
SOP: PA12
“ Captivatingly original… a wonderful feat of storytelling, remarkable for its ability to wrench your heart without resorting to sentimentality.” DAILY MAIL ON THE ELEPHANT KEEPER
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Literature · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471264610
Yours Truly
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Kirsty Greenwood “Kookier than Kinsella, but just as comical. Fabulous feel-good fun!” ali mcnamara Newly engaged Natalie will do anything for a quiet life and telling a few white lies never does any harm. It’s not like people will ever discover what she’s really thinking… until one night, thanks to a pub hypnotist, Natalie’s most private thoughts pop out of her mouth. When she has no way to break the hypnotist’s spell, Natalie is forced to face the truths she has been avoiding her whole life…
SOP: PA15
“ I cannot tell a lie… this book is fabulous.” LUCY DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF ME AND MR JONES
NARRATED BY: Rachael Louise Miller · Romance · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9781471264641
The Helper
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David Jackson A fast-paced and unforgettable novel from David Jackson, a rising star of the thriller genre, The Helper will appeal to fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben. After a grisly murder in a shabby New York bookstore, Detective Callum Doyle starts receiving sinister phone calls. Doyle is told more deaths are planned but the caller will give him clues, on the condition that he keeps them to himself. As more increasingly vicious deaths follow, the pressure on Doyle to find a link becomes unbearable.
SOP: PA15
“ Recalls Harlan Coben – though for my money Jackson is the better writer.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Nick Landrum · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471264658
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
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Nigel Jones 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without… Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster, to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the opening of London’s first nightclub, to the embarking for Belgium of the British Expeditionary Force, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war. Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster.
SOP: PA15
NARRATED BY: Mike Grady · History · DURATION: 7.75 · ISBN 9781471264665
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Cavendon Hall
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Barbara Taylor Bradford A sweeping saga set around an aristocratic family and their servants, this is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her best. Cavendon Hall is a grand, imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, home to its owners, the aristocratic Ingham family, and the Swann family who serve them. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes their futures forever, and threatens the Ingham name.
SOP: PA6
“ Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Anna Bentinck · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9780007541034
Trouble in Mind
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Jeffery Deaver A cunning collection of short stories from the master of misdirection, including “ The pace is terrific, the suspense inexorable, and there is an excellent original tales featuring characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance. climax… if you want thrills, This collection of short stories from king of suspense Jeffery Deaver grips with every page. An Deaver is your man.” aging actor attempts to revive his career by entering a celebrity poker game for a reality TV show. GUARDIAN A successful crime writer dies under seemingly natural circumstances, but for one cop, doubts are lingering. Lincoln Rhyme is at the end of the line, or is it just another twist in the tale?
SOP: PA6
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Crime · DURATION: 17.25 · ISBN 9781471265426
A Hundred Pieces of Me
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Lucy Dillon If you had the chance to make a fresh start, what would you keep from your old life? What would you give away? Gina Bellamy is starting again, after a few years she’d rather forget. But the belongings she’s treasured for so long don’t seem to fit who she is now. So Gina makes a resolution. She’ll keep just a hundred special items – the rest can go. But that means coming to terms with her past and learning to embrace the future, whatever it might bring…
SOP: PA6
“ Such a brilliant book. So satisfying and clever and deeply moving. I’ll be passing it on to all my friends.” SOPHIE KINSELLA
NARRATED BY: Juanita McMahon · Romance · DURATION: 17.5 · ISBN 9781471265433
Silverthorn
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Raymond E. Feist The second volume in Raymond E. Feist’s highly acclaimed epic fantasy, the Riftwar Saga. With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace, Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita. But the capital harbours many shadows. When Jimmy, a young thief, upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha, a sinister plot is uncovered.
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“ Epic scope… vivid imagination… a significant contribution to the growth of the field of fantasy.” WASHINGTON POST
NARRATED BY: Peter Joyce · Fantasy & Supernatural · DURATION: 16.75 · ISBN 9780007556434
The One Plus One
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Jojo Moyes The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes. With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. Jess’s quirky daughter Tanzie is brilliant with numbers, but without a helping hand she’ll never get the chance to shine. And Nicky, Jess’s teenage stepson, can’t fight the bullies alone. Into their lives comes Ed Nicholls, a man whose life is in chaos, but he wants to help…
SOP: PA6
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471265419
Cat Out of Hell
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Lynne Truss A new Hammer Horror novel from acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves. A cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Under a pool of yellow light, two figures face each other across a kitchen table. A man and a cat. The story about to be related is so unusual yet so terrifyingly plausible that it demands to be told in a single sitting. The man clears his throat, and leans forward, expectant. “Shall we begin?” says the cat…
SOP: PA6
“ Majestic, utterly compelling, tremendous. A heart-stopping read.”
NARRATED BY: Mike Grady · Humorous · DURATION: 5.25 · ISBN 9781471265402
“ A truly inventive comic writer.” IRISH TIMES
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Alan Bradley Flavia DeLuce faces her latest adventure when her mother returns from oblivion… The absence of Flavia DeLuce’s mother, Harriet, has always cast a shadow, since her presumed death in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet’s return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events.
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MAIL ON SUNDAY
NARRATED BY: Sophie Aldred · Crime · DURATION: 7.75 · ISBN 9781471265440
Andrew’s Brain
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E. L. Doctorow This brilliant new novel by an American master, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is talking, telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time.
SOP: PA9
“ The Flavia DeLuce novels are a cult favourite.”
“ Mind-bending and brilliant… it fizzes with intellectual energ y, verbal pyrotechnics and satiric flair. It is a late-career tour de force.” SUNDAY TIMES
NARRATED BY: E. L. Doctorow · Literature · DURATION: 4 · ISBN 9781471265464
The Accident
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Chris Pavone From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller.
JOHN GRISHAM
In New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of an anonymous manuscript. In Copenhagen, CIA operative Hayden Gray is suddenly staring down the barrel of a gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy expat life.
SOP: PA9
“ Smart, clever suspense, skillfully plotted… a lot of fun to read.”
NARRATED BY: Laurence Bouvard · Thriller · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471265457
This Dark Road to Mercy
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Wiley Cash Wiley Cash was the winner of the CWA John Creasey Dagger for a Debut Crime Novel, for A Land More Kind Than Home. Wade disappeared on us when I was six, and I never saw him again until I turned twelve, after Mom was buried. She always said he was a loser, even if he was our dad, but it turns out he was much more than that. He was also a thief. Like he was on the day he stole me and my little sister.
SOP: PA12
“ Exciting and suspenseful as well as moving, with a captivating heroine, this is a tremendous book.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471265549
The Winter Garden
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Jane Thynne The sequel to the impressive Black Roses, Jane Thynne’s evocative thriller set in a Berlin fast approaching war… Berlin in 1937 radiates glamour and ambition. Anna Hansen, a bride-to-be, is at one of Hitler’s notorious Nazi Bride Schools. When she is brutally murdered Clara Vine, an undercover British Intelligence agent and Anna’s friend, is disturbed by news of her death. Clara must work to find the truth and send it back to London.
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SUNDAY TIMES ON BLACK ROSES
NARRATED BY: Julie Teal · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14.75 · ISBN 9781471265518
Peas and Queues
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Sandi Toksvig The award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and writer offers guidance on the social pitfalls of everyday life. How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there’s a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught.
SOP: PA12
“ [T]he crosscurrents and dangers of the build-up to war are established with expertise and not a little menace. Terrific.”
NARRATED BY: Sandi Toksvig · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471265525
“ This little book will change your life – and that of your loved (and unloved) ones. For the better. And make you laugh.” JOHN HUMPHRYS
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The Dead in their Vaulted Arches
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The Secret Kiss of Darkness
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Christina Courtenay From the award winning author of Trade Winds comes a passionate, time-slip drama. Kayla Sinclair knows she’s in trouble when she almost bankrupts herself to buy a portrait of a mysterious eighteenth century man. Jago Kerswell knows there’s danger in his stolen moments with Lady Elizabeth Marcombe, but he’ll take any risk to be with her. Over two centuries separate Kayla and Jago, but thanks to a gypsy’s spell, their lives become inextricably linked. Kayla finds herself on a quest that could heal the past, but will she find heartache or happiness?
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NARRATED BY: Jenny Funnell · Romance · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471265570
A Pleasure and a Calling
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Phil Hogan “A wonderfully creepy novel, macabre and blackly comic with a deeply unsettling and original hero.” rosamund lupton You won’t remember Mr Heming. He showed you round your comfortable home, before you took the plunge and bought it. But all these years later, he still has the key. That’s absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer to that is, he has the keys to them all.
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“ Very clever. A creepily alluring voice.” JULIA CROUCH, AUTHOR OF CUCKOO AND TARNISHED
NARRATED BY: Leighton Pugh · Thriller · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471265587
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall
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Paul Torday
“ A black comedy of manners and a poignant social commentary.” GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Hartlepool Hall has been in Ed’s family for generations – but is that about to change, and who is the mysterious Lady Alice? Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but now he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. His father has left him, along with the house, a seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-year-old butler, and a vast country estate that is creaking at the seams. Not only that, but there is a strange woman in residence – Lady Alice – who seems to have made herself very much at home.
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NARRATED BY: Richard Mitchley · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 7.75 · ISBN 9781471265556
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The Temporary Gentleman
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Sebastian Barry A stunning return from prize-winning and best-selling author, Sebastian Barry. Jack McNulty is a ‘temporary gentleman’, an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. In 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things.
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“ Fascinating and Moving, [it] shows Sebastian Barry to be one of our finest novelists – daring, accommodating and humane.” JOHN BANVILLE
NARRATED BY: Frank Grimes · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471265914
A Colder War
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Charles Cumming From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful new spy novel. Arriving in Istanbul to investigate a mysterious plane crash, Kell discovers that MI6 operations in the region have been fatally compromised. A traitor inside Western Intelligence threatens not just the Special Relationship, but the security of the entire Middle East.
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DAILY TELEGRPAH
NARRATED BY: Jot Davies · Crime · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9780007565924
Everything to Lose
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Andrew Gross When you have everything to lose, you stop playing by the rules… Hilary Cantor has lost her job, is about to lose her house, and is running out of money to care for her son with Asperger’s syndrome. When Hilary is first on the scene of a car accident, she finds a satchel full of cash on the backseat. Her split-second decision takes her to the heart of a conspiracy involving blackmail and a powerful figure who’ll do anything to keep the past buried.
SOP: PA6
“ Charles Cumming is a man put on this earth to perpetuate the spy thriller.”
NARRATED BY: Tavia Gilbert · Thriller · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9780007565818
“ Real fear, real thrills, real suspense… real good.” LEE CHILD
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David Hewson From the author of The Flood comes a brand new crime series, set in Amsterdam.
“ Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing.”
Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago. Her father’s desperate search revealed nothing. One day, Laura Bakker, a trainee detective visits to tell him that the daughter of local politician, Katja Prins, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese.
SOP: PA6
NARRATED BY: Saul Reichlin · Crime · DURATION: 12.5 · ISBN 9781471265891
The Forever Girl
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Alexander McCall Smith A novel about love and following one’s heart, and the unexpected places to which this can lead us. At the age of four Clover chooses her own name. Aged six, she falls in love with her best friend, James. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: Clover’s mother finds she’s fallen out of love with her husband, and realises that James’s father is interested in her.
SOP: PA6
LINWOOD BARCLAY
“ True to one’s experience of life in a way that comparatively few novelists are.” ALLAN MASSIE
NARRATED BY: Susan Lyons · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9781471265907
After the Bombing
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Clare Morrall From the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, comes an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War.
“ Morrall writes with poise and delicacy, and her subjects are delightfully offbeat.” SUNDAY TIMES ON THE ROUNDABOUT MAN
On May 3rd, 1942, fifteen-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn’s school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter. When the girls emerge, the school is in ruins. Twenty-one years on, Alma lives alone and teaches music at her old school. The arrival of a new student takes Alma back to that summer and the long shadow it cast on her life.
SOP: PA6
NARRATED BY: Charlotte Strevens · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471265921
Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
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Colin Bateman The title, the terrorist and the punch-drunk pugilist…
“ The funniest crime series around.”
Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, who has somehow managed to become the champion of Ireland. His devious manager has set up a St Patrick’s Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson, and he wants journalist Dan Starkey to write about it. Once in New York, however, McMaster’s wife is kidnapped, the Champ is chased all over town by gunmen, and there’s the Big Fight to consider too…
SOP: PA9
NARRATED BY: Adam Moore · Crime · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471265938
The Sea of Innocence
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Kishwar Desai The thrilling new adventure starring Kishwar Desai’s enthralling heroine, Simran Singh. Simran Singh is desperate for a break and so the idyll of Goa seems perfect – white beaches, blue seas and no crime. But when a video appears on her phone, featuring a girl being attacked by a group of men, she realises that darkness festers in this supposed paradise.
SOP: PA9
“ Desai’s Simran Singh novels are endowed with something else: the sense that she is delving not just into mysteries but into subjects that matter deeply. I cannot wait for her next adventure.” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ON ORIGINS OF LOVE
NARRATED BY: Vayu Naidu · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471265969
Betrayed
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Anna Smith She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done… No one can touch Del Williams – the hardest gangster in Soho. He’s got the monopoly on the drugs, the clubs and the girls – it’d be a mistake to under-estimate him. The one person he’d take a bullet for is tough, beautiful Bunny Barker, mother of their daughter Star.
SOP: PA9
DAILY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Sarah Barron · Crime · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471265952
“ Gritty and gripping.” KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS
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The House of Dolls
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Daddy’s Little Princess
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Cathy Glass The latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. Little Beth, aged 7, and Derek, her father, clearly love each other very much and Derek spoils his daughter, treating her like a princess. But when he is suddenly admitted to hospital with psychiatric problems, Beth is taken into care and arrives at Cathy’s. There is something bothering Cathy about their relationship, something she can’t quite put her finger on. Events take a dramatic turn for both Beth and Cathy and her family; as Cathy strives to pick up the pieces all their lives are changed forever.
SOP: PA12
NARRATED BY: Denica Fairman · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 9.5 · ISBN 9780007577897
The Confusion of Karen Carpenter
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Jonathan Harvey “I enjoyed it HUGELY, I couldn’t put it out of my hand! A total page-turner, very entertaining, then very moving.” marian keyes
“ I knew Jonathan Harvey could make me laugh. I didn’t expect him to make me cry too.” JOJO MOYES
Hello. Two things you should know about me: 1) My name is Karen Carpenter. 2) Just before Christmas my boyfriend left me. I’m not THE Karen Carpenter. I just have the most embarrassing name in Christendom. Oh yeah. The boyfriend. After eleven ‘happy’ years he left me. No explanation just a Post-it on the kettle I think I’m handling it really well. I don’t think I’m confused at all. What was my name again?
SOP: PA12
NARRATED BY: Susanna Hurst · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471265983
Vanishing
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Gerard Woodward The new novel from the Booker Prize nominated novelist and poet. Towards the end of the Second World War a British artist called Kenneth Brill is arrested for painting near the village of Heathrow. Under interrogation a picture emerges as Brill tells the story of his life. Vanishing sees the world through the eyes of one of the forgotten geniuses of British Art, a man whose artistic vision is so piercing he has trouble seeing what is right in front of him.
SOP: PA12
“ English eccentricity, black farcical comedy and fine phrasing… makes Woodward’s writing so moreish” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Finlay Robertson · Humorous · DURATION: 16 · ISBN 9781471265976
Gingerbread
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Robert Dinsdale Fairy tale and history, wilderness and civilisation collide in this brilliant and magical new novel from the author of Little Exiles.
“ Gingerbread is a novel of perfect balance… with each turn of the page the atmosphere intensifies…” ALI SHAW, AUTHOR OF THE GIRL WITH GLASS FEET
In the depths of winter in the land of Belarus, where ancient forests straddle modern country borders, an orphaned boy and his grandfather go to scatter his mother’s ashes in the woodlands. But the driving snow also hides a frozen history of long-buried secrets. And as man and boy travel deeper among the trees, grandfather’s tales begin to interweave with the shocking reality of his own past.
SOP: PA15
NARRATED BY: Jonathan Keeble · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13.75 · ISBN 9781471266010
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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“ A pure delight.” THE BOOKSELLER ON A STITCH IN TIME
Amanda James When love begins with a lie, where will it end?
Tristan Ainsworth has returned to the village where he grew up in a desperate attempt to make his wife happy. Karen Ainsworth daren’t reveal her true feelings, she knows her husband can’t put up with her moods much longer. Surely the past can’t hurt her now? As a tide of blackmail heads their way, Karen and Tristan face a difficult question. Is their love strong enough to face the truth when it might cost them everything?
SOP: PA15
NARRATED BY: Juanita McMahon · Mystery · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471266003
The Wife Who Ran Away Tess Stimson There are some things you can never leave behind…
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“ A truly compelling story of family ties and secrets.” Kate Forrest is invisible… her husband doesn’t seem to know she’s alive and her two DAILY EXPRESS ON THE LYING GAME children have become stroppy adolescents. With her fortieth birthday approaching, Kate walks out of her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no responsibilities, she soon finds herself caught up in the arms of a man half her age. But eventually Kate will be forced to choose between her past and the future.
SOP: PA15
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471265990
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A Tap on the Window Linwood Barclay Linwood Barclay’s latest suspenseful masterpiece will keep the reader hooked from page one… Driving home one rainy night Cal Weaver tries to ignore the bedraggled-looking teenaged girl trying to hitch a lift. But when he realizes she’s one of his son’s classmates, he can’t. OK, so giving a ride to a teenage girl might not be the smartest move, but how much harm could it do?
SOP: LAMPA5
“ [A] tension-fuelled tale that is underpinned by a bleakly fatalistic noir tone.” IRISH TIMES
NARRATED BY: Mark Zeisler · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471264757
Dust Patricia Cornwell Dust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today.
“ America’s most stimulating and chilling writer of Crime-fiction.” THE TIMES
The body of a woman has been discovered inside the gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth. An examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue. As Kay Scarpetta pieces together the evidence, she draws herself and her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology and shocking corruption at the highest level.
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Lorelei King · Crime · DURATION: 12.75 · ISBN 9781471264740
The Runaway Woman Josephine Cox No-one thought she had the courage… Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy’s life is like any other, but over the years, her children have watched while their father chipped away at Lucy’s self-confidence. Now the children are following their own paths, and Lucy has never felt more alone. When tragedy strikes at the heart of the family, it’s a wake-up call for Lucy. She knows that it’s time to make a choice. Is she brave enough to find herself again?
SOP: LAMPA5
“ Cox’s talent as storyteller never lets you escape the spell.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: Carole Boyd · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9780007543342
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts Mary Gibson
“ A fabulous, fascinating read.” VANESSA FELTZ
They call them the custard tarts – the girls who work at Pearce Duff’s custard powder factory in Bermondsey before the First World War. Conditions are hard but nothing can quench the spirit of humour and friendship – or the rising tide of anger that will finally bring the girls out on strike for a better deal. For one of them, striking spells disaster. Nellie Clark’s wages keep her young brothers and sister from starvation, while her father sinks into drunken violence after the death of their mother. And over them all looms the shadow of the coming war.
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Anne Dover · Romance · DURATION: 15.5 · ISBN 9781471264771
Doc Martin: Practice Makes Perfect Sam North Relive the magic of ITV’s best loved drama series starring Martin Clunes. Doc Martin arrives in the picture postcard fishing village of Portwenn, Cornwall. Once a high-flying London surgeon, his suddenly developed blood phobia means he has to take a job in a local practice. But while the Doc’s medical skills are second to none, his bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. He immediately starts infuriating the locals, none more so than school teacher Louisa Glasson…
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Mark Meadows · Humorous · DURATION: 8.25 · ISBN 9781471264764
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Blood Guilt Ben Cheetham “Last night, eight-year old Ethan Reed was abducted at gunpoint from his home by an armed intruder.” Four years ago, Detective Inspector Harlan Miller killed someone. Now – divorced, alone, consumed by guilt – the world outside his prison walls holds little for him. Until an eight-year-old boy is abducted. Ethan Reed. The son of the man he killed. Frustrated by a police search that finds nothing, Ethan’s mother appeals to the man she has reason to hate most in the world. She has one question to ask – beg – of Harlan Miller. Find her little boy. Do whatever it takes.
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Andrew Wincott · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471264818
Secrets of the Sea House Elisabeth Gifford Secrets of the Sea House is an epic, sweeping tale of loss and love, hope and redemption, and how we heal ourselves with the stories we tell. Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson takes up his new parish, an isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. More than a century later, Ruth and Michael buy the grand but dilapidated building for the family they hope to have. But their dreams are marred by a shocking discovery.
SOP: LAMPA10
LIZA KLAUSSMANN
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471264801
The Mangle Street Murders M. R. C. Kasasian A funny, fresh and sharply plotted Victorian crime starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson. Set between the refined buildings of Victorian Bloomsbury and the stinking streets of London’s East End, The Mangle Street Murders is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny.
SOP: LAMPA10
“ Secrets of the Sea House is an arresting tale of the things that haunt us. But the real pleasure in this debut novel is Elisabeth Gifford’s finely wrought prose; at turns acute, delicate and fierce..”
“ One of the most delightful and original new novels of the year, this is the first in a series that could well become a cult. Grice and Middleton promise to become a positive treat. Catch them now.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: Emma Gregory · Crime · DURATION: 7.5 · ISBN 9781471264788
Broken Angels Graham Masterton One cold spring morning in County Cork, two fishermen find a bundle of rags floating in the Blackwater River. It is the mutilated corpse of a retired music teacher. His hands and feet are bound, and his neck bears the mark of a garrotting wire. The Garda want to wrap this case up before the press get hold of it. But when a second man is found murdered, the body bearing all the same marks as the first, it looks like the hallmark of a serial killer…
SOP: LAMPA10
“ One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time.” PETER JAMES
NARRATED BY: Caroline Lennon · Crime · DURATION: 12.25 · ISBN 9781471264795
Carthage Joyce Carol Oates A stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father’s frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects – a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family.
SOP: LAMPA10
“ A gripping exploration of a community in crisis after a young girl disappears.” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 19.5 · ISBN 9780007569441
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Ripper Isabel Allende A gripping thriller from the bestselling author Isabel Allende. The Ripper players, free from any moral and legal restraints, are free to pursue any line of enquiry to solve the cases that the police cannot. It is just a game. As their unique power leads them ever closer to the truth of their latest case, one of the players, Amanda’s, mother suddenly vanishes. Could her disappearance be linked to the serial killer? And will Amanda and her accomplices solve the mystery before it’s too late?
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Edoardo Ballerini · Crime · DURATION: 14.5 · ISBN 9780007569403
“ You’ll find it hard not to be beguiled by the charm and ingenuity of Allende’s storytelling.” THE TIMES
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Michael Connelly The ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from bestselling author Michael Connelly. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays. But then Mickey Haller learns that the murder victim was his own client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.
SOP: LAMPA5
“ Connelly is one of the great crime writers… his mastery of place and character, his ease with dialogue, his control of plot gives his books a subtlety that is irresistible.” DAILY MAIL
NARRATED BY: Peter Giles · Thriller · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471265723
The Fall and Rise of Lucy Charlton Elizabeth Gill A gripping and powerful family saga, set in the aftermath of the First World War. 1920, Durham. Lucy Charlton has always dreamed of working with her father in the family solicitor’s firm. But when a scandal shatters her dreams and her father disowns her, she is left to fight for a job as a legal secretary. When Joe Hardy arrives to claim his mystery inheritance, she promises to help uncover the truth.
SOP: LAMPA5
“ Original and evocative – a born storyteller.” TRISHA ASHLEY
NARRATED BY: Julia Barrie · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471265730
The Seven Streets of Liverpool Maureen Lee Once again Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Maureen Lee brings to life the small Liverpool street where everyone has a key on a string in their letterbox, in case a friend is in need. Pearl Street, Liverpool, Christmas 1942. Despite the drama and tragedy of the War, the street’s spirit and friendship in adversity binds them together.
SOP: LAMPA5
“ An excellent novel which runs along at a cracking pace […] You won’t want to put this book down.” TELEGRAPH & ARGUS
NARRATED BY: Emma Gregory · Saga · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471265709
A Little Love Amanda Prowse
“ A modern day love story.” DAILY MAIL
From bestselling author Amanda Prowse, this is a story about love, loss and lies – and finding happiness before it’s too late… Pru Plum is the owner of a famous Mayfair bakery. She wears Chanel and her hair is expensively cut. Few would believe that she turned sixty-six last year. But Pru is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears. She has done shameful things to get to where she is today. And she will do anything to protect the secrets of her past – especially now she has finally fallen in love…
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Julia Franklin · Romance · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471265716
The Ipcress File Len Deighton
“ A master of fictional espionage” DAILY MAIL
Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous in the iconic film starring Michael Caine The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton’s first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing. For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy.
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: James Lailey · Thriller · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9780007564514
A Darker Shade Edited by John-Henri Holberg Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir, including a never-before published short story by Stieg Larsson. Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of Swedish crime writing, readers have devoured this dark and compelling genre. Now the nation’s best crime writers have been brought together to form the first ever anthology of Swedish crime.
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Crime · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9781471265747
“ An entertaining collection with an imaginative story from Stieg Larsson… demonstrates the depth of the Swedish crime pool.” THE TIMES
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The Lie of You Jane Lythell A chilling psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy, and lying to those you love.
“ A very credible portrait of obsession to the point of madness… a clever, involving first novel.” LITERARY REVIEW
To the outside world, Kathy is the very picture of a happy and fulfilled modern woman. She has a beautiful baby boy, a clever, handsome husband and a glamorous, high-powered job. But not everybody is fooled. Her employee, Heja, knows the truth: the cracks in Kathy’s marriage, her self-doubt, her fear of failure at work. In fact, Heja is perfectly placed to destroy Kathy’s life…
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Thriller · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9781471265778
The Compromise Zoe Miller Sometimes, old friends are the ones you know the least… Childhood friends Juliet, Rebecca, Rose and Matthew grew up in a small village outside Dublin. Now privileged, wealthy and powerful, they appear to have it all. But when Juliet is involved in a suspicious accident and lies trapped between life and death at the bottom of a cliff, a secret that has been hidden for years threatens the seemingly perfect lives of the close-knit group.
SOP: LAMPA10
“ In writing this fresh and vibrant ‘whodunit’, Miller has built on her previous triumphs and has shouted from the rooftops that she will broker no compromise with anyone, least of all her readers.” IRISH INDEPENDENT
NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9781471265761
The Late Scholar Jill Paton Walsh A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – now a Duke – and his wife Harriet Vane, set in Oxford in the 1950s.
“ Sayers’s fans won’t be disappointed, and newcomers are in for a treat.” GUARDIAN ON THE ATTENBURY EMERALDS
When the fellows at an Oxford college appeal to Peter Wimsey to resolve a dispute, he and Harriet are happy to oblige. The dispute between the two passionate parties is evenly balanced, that is, until several of the fellows unexpectedly die. And the causes of death bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter’s past cases – methods that Harriet has used in her novels…
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Gordon Griffin · Crime · DURATION: 9.75 · ISBN 9781471265754
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Bittersweet Colleen McCullough From author of The Thorn Birds, one of the biggest-selling books of all time, comes an epic saga of love, betrayal and redemption in 1920s Australia. The four Latimer sisters were famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit and sisterly love. But then they left home to train as nurses, swapping their feather beds for the bunks of nursing accommodation. And now, as the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, they must confront their own secret desires.
SOP: LAMPA5
“ A true epic… it’s easy to see why this stunning tale has been called the Australian Gone With The Wind” OBSERVER ON THE THORN BIRDS
NARRATED BY: — · Romance · DURATION: 16.75 · ISBN 9781471266300
The Visitors Sally Beauman A beautifully written and epic story of love, regret and secrets, set against the haunting, troubled and exotic background of 1920s Egypt. Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922, eleven-year-old Lucy is caught up in the excitement that surrounds the hunt for Tutankhamun’s tomb. When she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, the two girls spy on the grown-ups and a lifelong bond is formed.
SOP: LAMPA5
“ Once you start reading a Beauman book, you can’t put it down.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Laurel Lefkow · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 20.75 · ISBN 9781471266324
East End Angel Kay Brellend Two sisters living in London’s tough East End… will Jennifer and Kathy be tough enough to survive? Katherine and Jennifer Finch are like chalk and cheese: Katherine is a midwife, and Jennifer is a prostitute. Jennifer begins a battle with drink and drugs, and falls pregnant. Her labour is nearly fatal, but her sister steps in to save her and the baby. Kathy knows that the society Jennifer keeps is damaging her. But then Kathy begins to fall for an East End wide boy, and her heart will not listen to her head…
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: — · Saga · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9780007565405
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Nadine Dorries A heart-breaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool, the first novel from the talented Nadine Dorries MP.
SEPTEMBER
The Four Streets 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless and hated by the cold woman determined to take her dead mother’s place. The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not tell to anyone. The people of Four Streets laugh, grieve and hope together. But what can they do when a betrayal at the heart of their world comes to light?
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Emma Gregory · Saga · DURATION: 8.75 · ISBN 9781471266317
Caribbee Julian Stockwin Caribbee is the 14th novel in the fast paced Captain Kydd series, the bestloved sea tales of our generation. Thomas Kydd, a hero of Trafalgar, holds the glory of being Post-Captain of the 32-gun frigate, L’Aurore. A Caribbean posting seems a welcome respite for the war hero, but when more and more merchantmen begin vanishing from the sea, fear starts to spread.
SOP: LAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Christian Rodska · Action & Adventure · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471266331
“ Stockwin’s writing is enriched by his own experiences in the Royal Navy, which gives scenes of fighting and tempest an authenticity to delight anyone who shares his passion for the sea.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
Stone Cold C. J. Box A Joe Pickett Novel from the award winning author C. J. Box. Everything about the ranch is a mystery. Rumours abound about the millionaire who owns it, the women who live with him and the sudden disappearances. Joe Pickett is tasked by the governor to find the truth. There are two other men living up at the ranch. One is a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe. The first man doesn’t frighten him. But the second is another story entirely.
SOP: LAMPA10
“ One of today’s solid-gold A-list must-read authors.” LEE CHILD
NARRATED BY: Jeff Harding · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471266362
The Perfect Affair Claire Dyer What happens if you fall in love with the wrong person? Rose knows only too well the exhilaration and devastation of loving a married man. So she watches with a keen eye as Eve – her closest companion – meets Myles, the new tenant in her downstairs flat. Quietly and softly, Myles and Eve fall in love and, as they try to have the perfect affair like Rose did before them, they come know what it is to be torn between love and duty.
SOP: LAMPA10
“ An exquisitely written, emotional book about impossible love and the moments that make life beautiful.” JULIE COHEN
NARRATED BY: Anne Dover · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471266355
Soldiers’ Wives Fiona Field
“ I couldn’t put it down.” KATIE FFORDE
This page-turning novel from Fiona Field interweaves the stories of three very different women trying to get to grips with the life of a military wife. Chrissie finds solace in her career as a medic in the regiment, but will love for a married man prove her undoing? Maddy is bogged down with a fretful baby and a super-ambitious officer husband. Will she be able to stand life as a regimental wife? And then there’s bad girl Jenna, who doesn’t believe in rules and regulations. Will she destroy her husband’s career? Or will it destroy her?
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471266379
The Boat Clara Salaman It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime… Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year’s honeymoon. Young, blissfully happy but poor, they are surviving on love, luck and a spirit of adventure. So when a boat appears, crewed by a bohemian couple, they do not think twice about stepping on board. But all is not as it seems. And when they finally open their eyes to the truth, the boat is in the middle of the vast open sea…
SOP: LAMPA10
NARRATED BY: Leon Williams · Thriller · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471266386
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Ghost Girl Lesley Thomson “Lesley Thomson is a class above.” ian rankin Stella Darnell’s father died a year ago, but she has not moved on. He was Chief Superintendent at Hammersmith police station, and cleaning his house, Stella discovers a folder of photographs in his darkroom. The oldest photograph is dated 1966; to the very day the Moors Murderers were sent to prison for life. As Stella inches closer to the truth, the events of that day begin to haunt her too…
SOP: LAMPA10
“ Skilfully evokes the era and slowmoving childhood summers… a study of memory and guilt with several twists.” GUARDIAN
NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Thriller · DURATION: 14.5 · ISBN 9781471266348
JULY
Payback Kimberley Chambers Family. They’re supposed to watch your back. Not stab you in it… The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny’s cousin’s death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. One by one, Vinny’s friends and family are turning against him…
“ Brilliantly delivers a story of violence, treachery and family ties… easy to read and hard to put down.” NEWS OF THE WORLD
The Butlers are back in this gripping, compulsive sequel to The Trap.
SOP: JAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Crime · DURATION: 15 · ISBN 9780007543892
The Toy Taker Luke Delaney The third novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series, perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. A child is snatched in the dead of night. There’s no sign of forced entry, no one heard or saw a thing. DI Sean Corrigan investigates, but his ability to see into dark minds, to think like those he hunts, has deserted him – just when he needs it most.
SOP: JAMPA5
“ An authentic voice on how the police operate with a stone-cold killer striking randomly around London… scary authenticity.” THE SUN
NARRATED BY: Robin Bowerman · Crime · DURATION: 13.5 · ISBN 9780007543397
Apple Tree Yard Louise Doughty “Once you start you can’t stop reading. Terrific.” helen dunmore Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him – a decision that will put everything she values at risk.
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HILARY MANTEL
NARRATED BY: Juliet Stevenson · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9781471264689
Orange is the New Black Piper Kerman Now an original comedy-drama series, this is Piper Kerman’s bestselling memoir of the time she served in a US jail. Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her and Piper becomes inmate #11187-424.
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“ Louise Doughty… leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely-written book.”
NARRATED BY: Cassandra Campbell · General Non Fiction · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9781471264696
“ I loved this book… not just a tale of prisons, drugs, crime, or justice; it is, simply put, a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it.” ELIZABETH GILBERT BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EAT, PRAY, LOVE
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Asa Larsson “The new Larsson is one to be followed with the most minute attention” barry forshaw for the independent
“ Larsson’s laid back style makes her unflinching probing of the icy depths of the human heart all the more chilling.” TELEGRAPH
In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden. Rebecka Martinsson is working nearby, and her sleep is troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream? Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who won’t hesitate to kill again to keep the past buried under the ice and snow.
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NARRATED BY: Gabrielle Glaister · Crime · DURATION: 10.5 · ISBN 9781471264672
Single Woman Seeks Revenge Tracy Bloom What do you do when you find your love-life in ruins? Get revenge on every man who ever broke your heart of course… Suzie Miller, a disillusioned agony aunt, can’t believe she’s been dumped from a great height yet again (this time by text!). So she decides the time is right to make every one of her exes feel the pain she felt when they carelessly cast her aside. Her methods are unusual but humiliation on a grand scale is no less than they deserve. And then she starts giving the same advice to her readers…
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NARRATED BY: Julia Barrie · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471264702
The Vintage Girl Hester Browne “Hester Browne writes with such wit and polish. I love it.” sophie kinsella When Evie Nicholson is asked to archive the family heirlooms at Kettlesheer Castle in Scotland, she jumps at the chance. Evie’s passion for antiques means that, for her, the castle is a treasure trove of mysteries just waiting to be uncovered. Add handsome heir Robert McAndrew and a traditional candlelit gala to the mix and Evie’s heart is sent reeling with an enthusiasm that may just extend beyond the antiques…
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“ [A]n adorable heroine, divine hero and gorgeous writing – basically, it’s just perfect. You’ll love this book, I promise!” JILL MANSELL ON THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS
NARRATED BY: Cathleen McCarron · Romance · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471264726
Buzz Anders de la Motte
“ Truly remarkable.” EVENING STANDARD ON GAME
The second book of the Game Trilogy, the Swedish series taking the world by storm. How do you protect yourself from a threat whose existence you cannot prove? After fourteen months in exile, HP misses the thrill of The Game. When he discovers that a powerful IT corporation may be affiliated to it, he begins a dangerous investigation. Meanwhile, his sister Rebecca is threatened by a faceless enemy – are they connected to The Game too?
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NARRATED BY: Saul Reichlin · Thriller · DURATION: 12 · ISBN 9780007556328
The Bookstore Deborah Meyler The Bookstore is a celebration of books, of the shops where they are sold, and of the people who work, read, and live in them.
“ This is a gorgeous book, witty, lyrical, and bursting with heart… when you finish you will be smiling, wondering what happened next.” GABRIELLE DONNELLY, AUTHOR OF THE LITTLE WOMEN LETTERS
Esme Garland arrives in Manhattan to study art history at Columbia University. When she falls in love with New York blue-blood Mitchell van Leuven, life seems to be clear sailing, until she falls pregnant and he abruptly ends it all. To make ends meet Esme starts work at a small West Side bookstore – but then Mitchell, glittering with charm and danger, comes back on the scene.
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NARRATED BY: Lucy-Jane Quinlan · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471264719
Cairo Chris Womersley “Who wants to be the same as everyone else? You don’t want to be ordinary, do you?” At 18, Tom escapes ordinariness in small town Australia for Melbourne and a flat in a strange block named Cairo. There he meets the magnetic Max Cheever, and is drawn into his circle of bohemian artists and dreamers. But soon Tom is ensnared in a plot to steal a million dollar Picasso masterpiece. Among undependable forgers and violent art dealers, Tom trusts only in Max – even as he falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful wife…
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NARRATED BY: Damien Warren-Smith · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471264733
“ Real brilliance… this is a distinguished novel.” INDEPENDENT ON BEREFT
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“ Warm, funny and poignant.”
DAILY MAIL Fiona Gibson Three blind dates; two teenage boys messing up her plans; and one man who’ll melt Alice’s heart.
“You need to get back in the saddle…” Alice despises that phrase. She’s fine being single – with two slothful teenage boys and a meringue business to run, she has enough on her plate without negotiating the troublesome world of modern dating. However, Alice’s three best friends have other ideas. Each one will present her with an utterly delicious, eligible man – all Alice has to do is pick her favourite.
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NARRATED BY: Caroline Guthrie · Humorous · DURATION: 10.75 · ISBN 9780007581320
Falling Emma Kavanagh A plane falls out of the sky. A woman is murdered. Four people all have something to hide. Jim is a retired police officer. His beloved daughter has disappeared and he knows something is wrong. Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their son. Freya is struggling to cope with the loss of her father. But as she delves into his past, she may not like what she finds. “Before the plane crash, after the plane crash, such a short amount of time for the world to turn on its head…”
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NARRATED BY: Julie Teal · Crime · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471265600
Sorrow Bound David Mark In the third novel of David Mark’s DS Aector McAvoy series, the crimes become more and more personal… Sorrow Bound is a powerful police procedural thriller about how those with the biggest hearts make the easiest targets; and how the corrosive venom of evil can dissolve the bonds between good people, until all they are bound by is grief.
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“ David Mark is an original and captivating new voice.” VAL MCDERMID
NARRATED BY: Toby Longworth · Crime · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471265617
Northanger Abbey Val McDermid A modern re-imagining of Jane Austen’s gothic classic Northanger Abbey by bestselling crime author Val McDermid. Having led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, Cat Morland jumps at the opportunity to visit the Edinburgh Festival with her neighbours, the Allens. At first the trip is less than thrilling, but when she meets the dark-eyed Henry Tilney, and his sister Eleanor she is flung into a world of crumbling turrets, secret chambers and ghosts.
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“ The Austen Project is a breathtaking tribute to Jane Austen.” WASHINGTON POST
NARRATED BY: Jane Collingwood · Thriller · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9780007565764
Betrayed Jacqui Rose She trusted the man she loved. It was the most dangerous thing she had ever done…
“ Gritty and gripping.” KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS
No one can touch Del Williams – the hardest gangster in Soho. He’s got the monopoly on the drugs, the clubs and the girls – it’d be a mistake to under-estimate him. The one person he’d take a bullet for is tough, beautiful Bunny Barker, mother of their daughter Star. Can Bunny protect Star from the demons of her own past, and her very worst nightmare?
SOP: JAMPA5
NARRATED BY: Annie Aldington · Thriller · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9780007559077
The Outcast Dead Elly Griffiths “The perfect ration of anticipation, shock and surprise.” independent DCI Harry Nelson is immersed in the case of three infants found dead, one after the other, in their King’s Lynn home. But then a child goes missing. Could the abduction be linked to the long-dead Mother Hook?
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NARRATED BY: Clare Corbett · Crime · DURATION: 9.25 · ISBN 9781471265693
“ Griffiths weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection.” SUNDAY TIMES
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Phillip Hunter Former soldier and ex-boxer Joe has always invited violence. But now Hackney’s most vicious gangs all want to kill him. Why?
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As he tries to unravel the knot of events that have made him a target, Joe is drawn back into his past, back to the memory of the only woman he ever loved, Brenda, whose unsolved murder still haunts him. Then a twelve year old runaway enters his life. Kid is traumatised, mute, and sees Joe as her saviour. Life has made Joe a machine. Can Kid – as Brenda once did – make him human again?
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NARRATED BY: Jamie Parker · Crime · DURATION: 8 · ISBN 9781471265686
Emperors Once More Duncan Jepson After centuries in the shadows, their time has come to rise… On the eve of a crisis summit for world economic leaders, two Chinese Methodist ministers are killed in Hong Kong’s financial district. Yet Detective Alex Soong begins to suspect that the crime is more than a senseless assassination. With the eyes of the world fixed on Hong Kong, Soong must race to thwart a conspiracy born from one of the bloodiest confrontations of China’s past, which now threatens to destroy a fragile world order.
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NARRATED BY: Jeremy Swift · Crime · DURATION: 11.5 · ISBN 9781471265679
Where the Devil Can’t Go Anya Lipska Sometimes you need to break a few laws to stop a murder… Life’s already complicated enough for Janusz Kiszka, but when an unknown, naked girl is washed up on the banks of the River Thames, and he finds himself accused of murder, he is forced to travel back to his hometown of Gdansk to prove his innocence. Janusz must confront memories from his country’s Soviet past if he is to uncover the conspiracy – and with it, a decades old betrayal.
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“ A gripping reminder of how crime fiction reveals the world around us.” VAL M C DERMID
NARRATED BY: Michael Fenner · Crime · DURATION: 11.25 · ISBN 9780007565450
Touch Mark Sennen Part thriller, part police procedural, Touch by Mark Sennen will take you deep into the madness of a serial killer’s mind. DI Savage and her team in Plymouth are struggling with their investigation into a string of attacks on young women. The victims are being drugged, assaulted and then abandoned with only a dull memory of what has happened. But when the mutilated body of one of these women is found on a beach, the case becomes a chilling murder inquiry.
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“ A fast-paced serial-killer chiller.” ALEX MARWOOD, AUTHOR OF THE WICKED GIRLS
NARRATED BY: Stevie Lacey · Crime · DURATION: 11 · ISBN 9780007575176
Fern Britton The wonderfully warm and witty new novel from Fern Britton, the muchloved TV personality. When the residents of Trevay discover that their much-loved theatre is about to be taken over by a coffee chain, they are up in arms. The town is soon overrun by actors, all keen to show their support. One of the arrivals is Jess Tate, girlfriend to TV heartthrob Ryan Hearst. But when opportunity comes calling, it isn’t just her career that’s about to change…
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“ A light-hearted, fun read that perfectly captures the sights and smells of village life.” HEAT
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A Single Breath Lucy Clarke The deeper the water, the darker the secrets… When Eva’s husband Jackson tragically drowns, she longs to meet his estranged family. The journey takes her to Jackson’s brother’s doorstep. As details about her husband’s past begin to emerge, memories of her husband start slipping through her fingers like sand, everything she thought she knew and loved about him is thrown into question. Now she’s no longer sure whether it was Jackson she fell in love with – or someone else entirely…
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NARRATED BY: Multiple Narrators · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 11.75 · ISBN 9780007580538
“ A thrilling and perceptive debut which captures the complex relationship between sisters and loss at its rawest. Trust us, you won’t be able to put it down.” COSMOPOLITAN ON THE SEA SISTERS
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The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
“ Imaginative, laugh-out-loud bestseller.” DAILY TELEGRAPH
Jonas Jonasson As delightfully wry and witty as Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling debut, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared In June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six nuclear missiles. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Really this story is about the seventh South African missile – the one that never officially existed.
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 14 · ISBN 9780007584116
Buried Angels Camilla Lackberg Buried Angels is the new psychological thriller from the top international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind – including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned with her husband, looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack.
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“ Pacy… with flashing insight into the dark places of the psyche.” SUNDAY TIMES
NARRATED BY: Robin Bowerman · Crime · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9780007565849
A Million Ways to Die in the West Seth MacFarlane Now a major motion picture starring Liam Neeson and Charlize Theron. Mild-mannered Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you. But when his girlfriend dumps him, Albert decides to fight back, teaming up with a beautiful gunslinger. Unfortunately, she’s married to the meanest badass on the frontier. Turns out Albert has just discovered a million and one ways to die in the West. The hilarious debut novel from the creator of Family Guy and Ted.
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NARRATED BY: — · Thriller · DURATION: 13.25 · ISBN 9781471266027
The List Joanna Bolouri One year. One woman. Ten very naughty challenges. Phoebe Henderson may be single but she sure doesn’t feel fabulous. It’s been a year since she found her boyfriend in bed with another woman, so faced with a new year, Phoebe concocts a different kind of resolution.
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“ A very naughty but nice read that will have you gasping one minute and laughing out loud the next.” ABBY CLEMENTS, AUTHOR OF VIVIEN’S HEAVENLY ICE CREAM SHOP
NARRATED BY: Caroline Guthrie · Humorous · DURATION: 10.25 · ISBN 9781471266270
Vivien’s Heavenly Ice Cream Shop Abby Clements “A sweet and scrumptious summer indulgence.” victoria fox When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien’s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down. The sisters devise a plan to return Vivien’s to its former glory and make the parlour the newest destination on the South Coast foodie map. So whilst Imogen watches the shop, Anna flies to Italy to attend a gourmet ice cream-making course. But Anna finds that romance can bloom in the most unexpected of places…
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“ Sweet, light and romantic.” CLOSER
NARRATED BY: Jane Collingwood · Romance · DURATION: 8.5 · ISBN 9781471266287
The She-Wolf Maurice Druon The She-Wolf is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed Accursed Kings historical series. Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England’s Queen. Having been imprisoned by Edward as leader of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France. But it is his love affair with Isabella, the ‘She-Wolf of France’, who has come seemingly to negotiate a treaty of peace that seals his fate…
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NARRATED BY: Peter Joyce · Historical Fiction · DURATION: 13 · ISBN 9780007565344
“ Blood-curdling tale of intrigue, murder, corruption and sexual passion.” SUNDAY TIMES
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Ewart Hutton DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction. DS Glyn Capaldi, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Convinced of a local connection to the murders, when other bodies start to turn up, Glyn set out to prove that there is someone capable of achieving this cold brutality.
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“ More stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions.” VAL M C DERMID
NARRATED BY: Iestyn Arwel · Crime · DURATION: 9 · ISBN 9780007559039
Look Who’s Back Timur Vermes Look Who’s Back is a black and brilliant satire of modern media-bloated society, seen through the eyes of the Führer himself. Berlin, 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on the ground, alive and well. Everything has changed, Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland. People recognise him though, as an excellent impersonator. The inevitable happens, and ranting Hitler becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, becoming someone who people listen to. All while he’s still trying to convince people that yes, it really is him, and yes, he really means it.
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NARRATED BY: — · Modern Fiction · DURATION: 10 · ISBN 9781471266294
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