Welsh adult fiction
Hunter, Jerry. Gwreiddyn chwerw. General fiction. TB 20451.
Nofel i oedolion yn ymdrin a safle'r ferch tua chan mlynedd yn a´l, wrth i Mari, y prif gymeriad, roi genedigaeth i'w thrydydd plentyn.
2012. Read by Enid Hughes. 4 hours 8 minutes. TB 20451.
Welsh adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Hywyn, Gwenno. Wil Sam: Cyres y cweir 5. TB 19009.
Gwasg Gwynedd am ddal i synian ac am dderbyn nad ydw i na chawr na pherthynas pell nac agos i gawr. Dwbl diolch i Gwenno Hywyn am ei thrafferth a'i hir amynedd yn troi fy sgwrs fler, bytiog a gwasgarog i yn eiriau ffit i'w cynnwys mewn llyrf. Hefyd, diolch i John Roberts, Y Ffor, am ei help efo'r lluniau.
1985. Read by Huw Charles Morris and Catrin Griffiths. 9 hours 23 minutes. TB 19009.
Jones, Russell. Gwyrdd fy myd. TB 19011.
Hanes y cymeriad lliwgar a charismataidd Russell Jones, un o gyflwynwyr rhaglen Yn yr Ardd ar S4C. Yn cynnwys llawer o luniau ohono ef, ei deulu a'i ardd yn Rhostryfan, ger Caernarfon, a'I ddiddordebau amrywiol a gwahanol - fel cadw ieir a gwau! Cawn hefyd farn bendant Russell am hyn a'r llall, a phytiau hwyliog amdano gan aelodau o'I deulu.
2010. Read by Enid Hughes. 1 hour 25 minutes. TB 19011.
Customs and folklore
Williams, Mair. Ddoi di Dei? llên gwerin blodau a llwyni. TB 11726.
Casgliad o ysgrifau am lên gwerin blodau a phlanhigion eraill, yn cynnwys manylion am enwau, rhinweddau meddyginiaethol ac ofergoelion, ynghyd â dyfyniadau perthnasol o farddoniaeth.
1998. Read by Merfyn P Jones. 2 hours 41 minutes.TB 11726.
Essays
Owen, William. Pluen y sgwennwr. TB 20457.
Casgliad difyr arall o ysgrifau'r dewin geiriau William Owen, Borth-y-gest ar amrywiol destunau, yn cynnig cyfle newydd i ddarllenwyr fwynhau ac edmygu Cymraeg rhywiog awdur profiadol, gyda'i hiwmor agored a'i ddawn I bortreadu sefyllfaoedd sy'n cosi'r dychymyg.
2012. Read by Huw Charles Morris. 4 hours 36 minutes. TB 20457.
Welsh Quick reads
Yassine, Ali. Ali Yassine: llais yr adar gleision. Autobiography. TB 19581.
Teitl yn y gyfres o gyfrolau byr a chyflym Stori Sydyn. Dyma hunangofiant un o gefnogwyr enwocaf tim pal-droed Caerdydd. Llyfr am bal-droed yw hwn, ond hefyd llyfr am gymeriad diddorol iawn o gefndir Arabaidd. Ali Yassine oedd y llais ar feic yr hen Barc Ninian, ac ef hefyd sy'n diddanu'r dorf yn y stadiwm newydd.
2010. Read by Huw Charles Morris. 1 hour 37 minutes. TB 19581.
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
Caldwell, Lucy. All the beggars riding. General fiction. TB 405052.
When Lara was 12, and her younger brother Alfie 8, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent, because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life!
2013. 7 hours 19 minutes. TB 405052.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Clarke, Darren. An open book: my autobiography. TB 405050.
Darren Clarke's 2006 Ryder Cup successes following shortly after his wife Heather's tragic death from cancer cemented his place in the nation's hearts. He talks about his fellow golfers, the competition on the field and the friendships off it, his own future in golf, and learning to live without Heather.
2012. 7 hours 18 minutes. TB 405050.
Food and drink
Abel, Keith. The Abel and Cole Veg Box Companion. TB 405054.
Bursting with recipes and ideas and ingenious tips for everyday veg and everyday uses for unusual veg.
2012. 6 hours 29 minutes. TB 405054.
History
Bonnard, Andre. Greek civilisation: from the Iliad to the Parthenon. TB 405082.
Written for the general reader, it covers the period of growth from Homer to Pericles, and the emerging glory of the Greek achievement is constantly seen against the background of social struggle through which this remarkable people worked its way from a primitive tribal state towards a system of popular sovereignty.
1957. 11 hours 34 minutes. TB 405082.
Kynaston, David. Family Britain. 1951-57. TB 404713.
Great national events jostle alongside everything that gave 1950s Britain its distinctive flavour from Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers and Hancock's Half Hour to Ekco television sets, skiffle and teddy boys. 2010. 43 hours 51 minutes. TB 404713.
Law
Harris, Paul. What to do when someone dies. TB 405051.
Which? Essential guides series. This book provides advice on: how to register a death; notifying relevant parties; making funeral arrangements; applying for probate; and sorting out tax, property and other financial matters.
2006. 8 hours 55 minutes. TB 405051.
Pets
Pitcher, George. The dogs who came to stay. TB 405057.
This is the true story of how two dogs entered the life of a retired US academic and bachelor - and changed everything. Pitcher poignantly describes the trust and love which develops between them, and how he found his life immeasurably improved.
1997. 4 hours 7 minutes. TB 405057.
Religion
Kirkby, John. Nevertheless: the incredible story of one man's mission to change thousands of people's lives. TB 405055.
The story of how Christians Against Poverty got started.
2006. 7 hours 4 minutes. TB 405055.
McCreary, Alf. Saint Patrick's City: the story of Armagh. TB 405059.
Required reading for all those who want to learn more about the real Saint Patrick and about his reconciling message for our world.
2001. 10 hours 19 minutes. TB 405059.
Sport
Murray, Colin. A random history of football. TB 405069.
An alternative history of football. Sheffield United almost signed Diego Maradona, Saddam Hussein changed the result of an Iraq versus Chelsea match, Bury FC's Robbie the Bobby tops the league of worst-behaved mascots.
2010. 7 hours 23 minutes. TB 405069.
True crime
Busby, Sian. The cruel mother: a family ghost laid to rest. TB 405085.
In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother drowned two of her new babies and was sentenced to imprisonment in Broadmoor. This event has resounded throughout the generations of the family and given rise to a collective anxiety about parenting ability and fear of illness. 2005. 8 hours 57 minutes. TB 405085.
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Adult fiction
Caldwell, Lucy. Where they were missed. Family story. Read by Penny Beggs.
Lasting 6 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 805012. It is Belfast in the 1980s. Daisy and Saoirse are living through the hottest summer ever. The yard is too hot and their mother keeps flying off the handle. It's clear that their parents are struggling with each other and the political violence outside that is forcing them ever closer together and yet is also smashing them apart. Order No: 805012.
Delderfield, R F. The dreaming suburb. Family story. Read by Stephen Jack.
Lasting 17 hours 17 minutes. Order No: 805015. The Avenue story; book 1. The story of the lives of five families in a suburban avenue between 1919 and 1940, reflecting the lives of London people through two eventful decades. Order No: 805015.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Classic. Read by Helen Bourne.
Lasting 46 hours 19 minutes, on two CDs priced £14.99. Order No: 803121. In Middlemarch, in the heart of England, Dorothea wants to change the world and Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific discoveries. But after disastrous marriages, they both lose control of their lives. Can they ever achieve their dreams? Order No: 803121.
Evans, Justin. The white devil: a ghost story. Horror. Read by Thomas Hodgkins.
Lasting 12 hours 8 minutes. Order No: 804386. Shortly after Andrew Taylor's arrival at Harrow, the pupils notice his striking resemblance to Lord Byron, a former pupil, and Andrew is persuaded to play Byron in the school play. This is where his troubles begin. Contains strong language and sexual content. Order No: 804386.
Keating, H R F. The hard detective. Crime. Read by Sheila Mitchell.
Lasting 6 hours 29 minutes. Order No: 801082. Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens has earned the nickname the “hard detective” - but she's had to be unyielding to make it in a man's world. But now two of her officers have died within hours of each other. Order No: 801082.
Kingsbury, Karen. Redemption. Family story. Read by Stephanie Ellyne.
Lasting 12 hours 36 minutes. Order No: 804398. Redemption; book 1. Kari Baxter Jacobs is hurt. Her husband Tim, a respected professor, is having an affair with a student. Stunned, Kari returns home to the Baxter family to sort things out. But when an old flame shows up, she's more confused than ever. Order No: 804398.
Le Carre, John. Call for the dead. Spy story. Read by Michael Jayston.
Lasting 4 hours 46 minutes. Order No: 804146. George Smiley; book 1. George Smiley thought his interview with Samuel Fennan had gone well, but Smiley is shocked to discover that Fennan had committed suicide as a result of the interview, but why? Order No: 804146.
Marshall, Sybil. A nest of magpies. Country life. Read by Marilyn Finlay.
Lasting 21 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 805014. Fran, now widowed, wants to be reintegrated into the village. As she is drawn into the lives of its people she is fascinated by Johanna, the enigmatic outsider. Her influence is a catalyst for change and a chain of events effects a breakdown of the old social hierarchy. Order No: 805014.
Maupin, Armistead. Tales of the city. Humorous. Read by Regina Reagan.
Lasting 8 hours 45 minutes. Order No: 804987. Tales of the city; book 1. A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of Laundromat Lotharios, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching and outrageous. Contains strong language. Order No: 804987.
McGrath Patrick. Asylum. Thriller. Read by Ian McKellen.
Lasting 8 hours 40 minutes. Order No: 803927. Asylum is a masterful tale of sexual fixation and pathological obsession, of the extreme manipulations to which people will resort to satiate personal need, and of the outer perimeters of love and hate. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Order No: 803927.
McVeigh, Jennifer. The fever tree. Romance. Read by Helen Bourne.
Lasting 16 hours 11 minutes. Order No: 804336. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men. Order No: 804336.
Ramsden, Ruth. Blue murder at the Pink Parrot. Thriller. Read by various.
Lasting 10 hours 20 minutes. Order No: 804979. JJ unwittingly finds herself at the centre of a murder mystery and a blackmail plot. As the bodies start to pile up she has to find the culprit before he or she finds her. Order No: 804979.
Robinson, Derek. A splendid little war. War story. Read by Andy Secombe.
Lasting 14 hours 32 minutes. Order No: 804414. The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. “There's a splendid little war going on”, a British staff officer told them. “You'll like it”. Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. Order No: 804414.
Warren, Nancy. Fringe benefits. Mills and Boon romance. Read by Sarah Mennell.
Lasting 5 hours 44 minutes. Order No: 804984. Spencer Tate cannot help but be tempted by Jane; after all she is intelligent, gorgeous, but off limits. Sooner or later Spencer will discover the truth about Jane's marriage and then the sparks will fly. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Order No: 804984.
Adult non-fiction
Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia. Travel. Read by Alvar Lidell.
Lasting 9 hours 22 minutes. Order No: 804995. The author went to Patagonia in search of a prehistoric monster and a sea-faring ancestor; he found a refuge of forlorn desolation and breathtaking beauty, and discovered the strange life-histories of the eccentrics who live there. Contains strong language. Order No: 804995.
Chatwin, Bruce. What am I doing here? Biography. Read by Nigel Graham.
Lasting 12 hours 12 minutes. Order No: 804996. A collection of his own stories; profiles of fascinating people and travelogues covering his visits to Russia, China and Afghanistan, amongst other places. Order No: 804996.
Harris, Paul. What to do when someone dies. Self help. Read by various.
Lasting 8 hours 55 minutes. Order No: 805013. Which? essential guides. This book provides advice on: how to register a death; notifying relevant parties; making funeral arrangements; applying for probate; and, sorting out tax, property and other financial matters. Order No: 805013.
Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the afternoon. Sport. Read by Duncan Carse.
Lasting 9 hours 51 minutes. Order No: 804985. Describes the art of bullfighting and the technical and emotional appeal of the “corida”, with stories of famous Spanish matadors and picadors. Order No: 804985.
Keller, Helen. Teacher. Biography. Read by Caryl Spencer.
Lasting 7 hours 38 minutes. Order No: 804982. The story of Annie Sullivan, the orphan who became the deaf-blind author's first teacher and whose patient love enabled her to begin to communicate with the outside world. Order No: 804982.
Lawson, Nigella. Nigella express. Food and drink. Read by Lucy Scott.
Lasting 6 hours 52 minutes. Order No: 800850. Featuring fabulous fast foods, effortless entertaining and easy, delicious meals, “Nigella Express” is her solution to eating well when time is short. Order No: 800850.
Palin, Michael. Brazil. Travel. Read by Michael Palin.
Lasting 10 hours 7 minutes. Order No: 803950. Brazil is one of the four new global superpowers with its vast natural resources and burgeoning industries. Half a continent in size and a potent mix of races, religions and cultures, of unexplored wildernesses and bustling modern cities. Order No: 803950.
Pulsford, Dave. Dementia: support for family and friends. Health. Read by Georgina Foss.
Lasting 8 hours 49 minutes. Order No: 804412. This book explores the journey with dementia and explains not only how it will affect the person with the condition, but also those around them and how best to get help. Order No: 804412.
Children and young adult fiction
Wilson, Jacqueline. Twin trouble. Read by Bernard Cribbins.
Lasting 1 hour 1 minute. Order No: 803380. New twins have arrived in the family and Connie is in despair - until Nurse Meade arrives and gives her two tiny blue glass beads. When Connie twiddles with the beads, magical things begin to happen. Suggested reading 9+. Order No: 803380.
DAISY Box sets
Box sets in the DAISY gift range include designed and printed covers, braille label and presentation case. Our range includes classics, adults and children’s box sets.
Poetry essentials box set (804916) - £18.95
Four books on four CD’s lasting 6 hours 19 minutes. A diverse collection of poetry books from celebrated writers that include winners of the Nobel Prize, The T.S Elliot award and young writer of the year - a timeless collection to own forever. Warning: Titles may contain strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Includes the following titles:
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District and circle, by Seamus Heaney
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Ginnel, by Lucy Newlyn
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Nations favourite love poems, by Daisy Goodwin
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The ice age, by Paul Farley
Girls night in box set (804997) - £21.95
Four books on four CDs lasting 43 hours. Enjoy a little “me” time curled up on the sofa with any one of these four great books. A funny and feel good collection that will help you unwind and relax after a crazy day or chaotic week. So grab your chocs, your cuppa, hit play and enjoy. Warning: Titles may contain strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Includes the following titles:
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Sleeping beauties, by Mavis Cheek
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Loose women girls night in: heartfelt advice, inspired innuendo and toe-curling confessions
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Chocolate lovers club, by Carole Matthews
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Sparkles, by Louise Bagshawe
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