Mendelson, Paul. Bridge: winning ways to play your cards.
Acclaimed bridge writer Paul Mendelson shows how the play of bridge cards is akin to a series of battles from the moment dummy hits baize.
2008. 2v.
Law
Wacks, Raymond. Law: a very short introduction.
A clear, jargon-free account of modern legal systems, explaining how the law works both in the Western tradition and around the world.
2008. 2v.
Music and entertainment
Maconie, Stuart. The people's songs: the story of modern Britain in 50 records.
The story of modern Britain via the records that soundtracked this dramatic and kaleidoscopic period. The story is told chronologically over 50 chapters. At the heart of each is one emblematic song that is discussed fully.
2013. 5v.
Sport
Lloyd, David. The Ashes according to Bumble.
A new collection of yarns from his years at the crease and at the microphone. It's the book that Bumble's many fans have been longing for.
2013. 3v.
Travel
Bunce, Charlie. Great British railway journeys.
This is a glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
2011. 2v.
True crime
Echols, Damien. Life after death: eighteen years on death row.
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison; while 18-year-old Echols, deemed the ringleader, was sentenced to death. In a shocking turn of events, all three men were released in August 2011. 2013. 3v.
O'Connor, Sean. Handsome brute: the story of a ladykiller.
Explores the killings of the charming, but deadly ex-RAF playboy Neville Heath. Since the 1940s, Heath has generally been dismissed as a sadistic sex-killer and little else. But the story behind the tabloid headlines reveals itself to be complex and ambiguous, provoking unsettling questions that echo across the decades to the present day.
2013. 5v.
Warfare and defence
Glass, Charles. Deserter: the last untold story of the Second World War.
The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee?
2013. 5v.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested reading age 9+
Doder, Joshua. Grk and the Pelotti gang.
Grk books. Tim and his dog Grk, zip through the streets of Rio at high speed, after the notorious Pelotti gang. Then their plane crashes in the jungle, and they find themselves having to fight to the death on the world's biggest waterfall. Will it be enough to stop the most dangerous criminals in South America?
2006. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk and the phoney macaroni.
Grk books. Grk is walking happily through the park, sniffing trees and chasing squirrels, when he's suddenly snatched by two men in black suits. Where are they taking him? And how can Tim get him back?
2012. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk down under.
Grk books. When Grk sniffs some succulent sausages, he can't resist following his nose - and ends up on the other side of the world. He's in Australia, the land of surfing, sharks and the Red Jelly Gang, a ruthless band of crooks who have taken over the Sydney Opera House.
2010. 1v.
Doder, Joshua. Grk takes revenge.
Grk books. Tim can't speak much French. Grk can speak even less. But they have to learn fast when they take the train to France and track down the evil Colonel Zinfandel.
2009. 1v.
Talking books
Adult fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. General fiction. TB 20541.
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race.
2013. Read by Amaka Okafor. 17 hours 25 minutes. TB 20541.
Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Redemption. Thriller. TB 20693.
Department Q; book 3. Two brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle, tar to seal it, paper, a splinter for writing, blood for ink. A message for help. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by Matt Addis. 17 hours 42 minutes. TB 20693.
Allen, Louise. Scandal in the Regency Ballroom. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB 20691.
Lady Miss Bree Mallory hopes no one in Society will discover that she once drove the stage from London to Newbury or that she returned unchaperoned with the rakishly attractive Max Dysart, Earl of Penrith! Yet, while beautiful Bree has no interest in marriage, Max's kisses are powerfully persuasive.
2013. Read by Sally Burnett. 21 hours 49 minutes. TB 20691.
Anderson, Kevin J. Hellhole awakening. Science fiction. TB 20694.
Hellhole series; book 2. General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds.
2013. Read by Peter Fitzpatrick. 19 hours 35 minutes. TB 20694.
Anderson, Natalie. Blame it on the bikini. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20695.
For Mya Campbell, trying on a ridiculously tiny bikini and texting her best friend the incriminating photo was supposed to be a private joke. But she's sent the photo to her best friend's brother, Brad, by mistake! Brad sees a side of Mya he ever knew existed and makes seducing her his brand-new project!
2012. Read by Helen Cashin. 6 hours 17 minutes. TB 20695.
Asimov, Isaac. The caves of steel. Science fiction. TB 20879. Olivaw series; book 1. Detective Elijah Baley investigates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds.
1997. Read by Robert G Slade. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB 20879.
Braddon, M E. Lady Audley's secret. Classic fiction. TB 20551.
Lucy Graham was a governess until she managed to charm Sir Michael Audley into marrying her. All was quiet at Audley Court until a visit from Sir Michael's friend George Tallboys. George suddenly disappears, but there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye, and what is Lady Audley keeping to herself?
1862. Read by Jenny Coverack, 17 hours 9 minutes. TB 20551.
Bradshaw, Rita. Candles in the storm. Family story. TB 20620.
Daisy Appleby is born in a storm, and 15 years later another storm alters her fate. Her father and brothers are lost at sea, and the same night Daisy saves William, a wealthy local heir, and falls in love. Separated by their families, many years of turmoil pass before she finds happiness.
2003. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 13 hours 58 minutes. TB 20620.
Bracewell, Patricia. Shadow on the crown. Historical fiction. TB 20547.
The year is 1001 and King Ethelred, a man haunted by his own past and troubled by his future has lost his queen. To protect his lands and retain his crown he must choose his bride with care.
2013. Read by Helen Bourne. 17 hours 43 minutes. TB 20547.
Brooks, Terry. Straken. Fantasy. TB 20549.
High Druid of Shannara; book 3. Imprisoned in the druid's keep, young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him, and at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a'Ru, who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid.
2006. Read by John Cormack. 15 hours 34 minutes. TB 20549.
Burrows, Annie. Never trust a rake. Mills and Boon historical romance. TB 20600.
Rumour has it that the Earl of Deben, the most notorious rake in London and in need of an heir, has set aside his penchant for married mistresses and turned his skilled hand to seducing innocents. But if Lord Deben expects Henrietta Gibson to respond to the click of his fingers he can think again. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2013. Read by Jenny Coverack. 7 hours 43 minutes. TB 20600.
Cantrell, Kat. The baby deal. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20823.
When billionaire Michael Shaylen becomes guardian to a baby boy, he makes his ex-lover, Juliana Cane, a deal: two months to teach him to be a father and he'll give her career a boost. But even as desire burns between them so do the reasons Juliana has to say good-bye?
2013. Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 6 hours 6 minutes. TB 20823.
Chadwick, Elizabeth. The wild hunt. Historical fiction. TB 20696.
In the wild, windswept Welsh marches, at the turn of the 13th century, a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands - but they have yet to meet.
2008. Read by Karen Cass. 12 hours. TB 20696.
Chesterton, G K. The man who was Thursday. Classic fiction. TB 20106.
A phantasmagoric turn-of-the-century London where police are poets and anarchists abound. Gabriel Syme is chosen by Scotland Yard to infiltrate the Central European Council of Anarchists. Each of the seven-member Council goes by the name of a weekday, and Syme himself is elected 'Thursday'. Syme must avoid discovery, undo his new colleagues, and save the world.
1908. Read by Toby Longworth. 5 hours 59 minutes. TB 20106.
Clark, Lucy. One life changing moment. Mills and Boon medical romance. TB 20701.
Dr. Mackenzie Fawles can't believe her eyes when she sees John Watson - the man who saved her and her tiny daughter - again. She's never forgotten how safe she felt in his arms. John stopped doing emotion a long time ago, after the death of his wife and child but an unexpected connection was formed the day he saved Mackenzie.
2013. Read by Brigid Lohrey. 6 hours 19 minutes. TB 20701.
Cooper, Glenn. Library of the dead. Thriller. TB 20357.
Tthe Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died.
2009. Read by Stuart Milligan. 13 hours 15 minutes. TB 20357.
Coward, Noel. Collected short stories. TB 20698.
These stories formed part of a 12 volume set of his works issued to mark the centenary of his birth.
1999. Read by Greg Wagland. 19 hours 33 minutes. TB 20698.
Crews, Caitlin. A devil in disguise. Mills and Boon romance. TB 20601.
Drusilla Bennett's job from hell will soon be over as she plucks up the courage to say "I quit!". A resignation from the best PA he's ever had is simply unacceptable. He turns on his legendary charm so that Dru understands exactly why it's so hard to say no to Cayo Vila!
2012. Read by Madeleine Brolly. 5 hours 37 minutes. TB 20601.
Cussler, Clive. Cyclops. Thriller. TB 20586.
Dirk Pitt series; book 8. For Dirk Pitt, the witnessing of an airship disaster sets in motion the most nail-biting events of his career. When he finds his trail leading to fabulous treasure beneath the sea he knows he is on to something special. Or is he?
1987. Read by Paul Birchard. 15 hours 38 minutes. TB 20586.
Diamond, Lucy. Me and Mr Jones. Romance. TB 20707.
2013. Read by Emma Powell. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 20707.
Doughty, Louise. Apple Tree Yard. Thriller. TB 20706.
Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. The affair spins out of control and leads inexorably to violence. Contains strong language and violence.
2013. Read by Joan Walker. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 20706.
Dunant, Sarah. Blood and beauty. Historical fiction. TB 20829.
When Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth or his love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic politician with an appetite for life, women and power must use papacy and family to succeed.
2013. Read by Chris Courtenay. 18 hours 41 minutes. TB 20829.
Elton, Ben. Gridlock. General fiction. TB 20703.
Deborah is a woman with personal transportation problems which she and her strange friend Geoffrey intend to solve. If they manage it, the knock-on effect could just save the cities of the world from driving themselves to their own funerals. Contains violence, strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2006. Read by Andy Secombe.12 hours 25 minutes. TB 20703.
Ephron, Nora. Heartburn. General fiction. TB 20704.
Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. Since Rachel is a cookery writer between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes.
1996. Read by Amy Finegan. 5 hours 33 minutes. TB 20704.
Falconer, Duncan. The protector. Thriller. TB 20588.
Three men: an Iraqi, a former coalition soldier and a journalist, drive together from Baghdad towards Fallujah as the US Marines encircle the city to take it apart. It seems the men are on a single mission to find a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town.
2007. Read by Leighton Pugh. 13 hours 25 minutes. TB 20588.
Fielding, Joy. Shadow Creek. Thriller. TB 20624.
Val finds herself in the unlikely position of camping with her daughter and her soon-to-be ex-husband's new fiancé. But no one is aware of the brutal murders that have taken place only a few miles away. Eventually campers and killers collide, secrets are revealed, and lives are changed forever.
2012. Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 20624.
Finney, Jack. From time to time. Science fiction. TB 20590.
Time and Again series; book 2. Simon Morley embarks on another trip across the borders of time, this time to visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is travelling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship - the Titanic.
1996. Read by Peter Brooke. 11 hours 33 minutes. TB 20590.
Fleming, Ian. The spy who loved me. Thriller. TB 20168.
Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers.
2012. Read by Steve Hodson and Helene Wilson. 5 hours 41 minutes. TB 20168.
Flynn, Vince. American assassin. Thriller. TB 20651.
Mitch Rapp series; book 1. Tragedy entered Mitch's life a year before when 35 of his classmates, including his girlfriend, perished on Pan Am flight 103. When CIA Director Irene Kennedy arrives on campus to recruit new agents, Mitch sees a way for revenge.
2011. Read by Ian Knauer. 12 hours 51 minutes. TB 20651.
Follett, Ken. A place called freedom. Historical fiction. TB 20709.
In 1767 cruelty rules the Scottish coalfields. Lizzie Hallim's fiancé, Jay Jamisson, presides over the mine where men, women and children toil underground, prevented by law from ever leaving the village. But Lizzie helps a slave to escape, and their destinies become entwined.
Contains passages of a sexual nature.
1995. Read by James Bryce. 16 hours 9 minutes. TB 20709.
Franklin, Ariana. Mistress of the art of death. Crime fiction. TB 20503.
Adelia Aguilar series; book 1. In medieval Cambridge four children have been murdered. The townsfolk blame the Jewish population. Hoping that scientific investigation can find the true killer, the king calls for a young prodigy from the University of Salerno.
2008. Read by Diana Bishop. 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 20503.
Gale, Iain. Brothers in arms. Adventure fiction. TB 20718.
Jack Steel series; book 3. 1708. War rages across the lowlands of Flanders and British soldiers fight ferociously to protect the town of Oudenarde. Newly married and promoted to the rank of Captain, Jack Steel has never been better. But Oudenarde is a hard-fought battle that tests Steel and his grenadiers to their very limits.
2010. Read by Tom Carter. 10 hours. TB 20718.
Gardner, Lisa. Hide. Thriller. TB 20716.
D D Warren series; book 2. Annabelle was seven years old when she arrived home to find the suitcases packed and her parents fleeing. Now, aged 30, Annabelle has finally settled in Boston and is happy with her life. Until the bodies of six girls are discovered, one of them said to be her.
2012. Read by Christy Meyer. 12 hours 34 minutes. TB 20716.
Gayle, Mike. Turning forty. General fiction. TB 20715.
Matt Beckford is on the verge of a landmark birthday and after thirteen years living abroad, he returns to Birmingham and catches up with his ex, Ginny. After a nostalgic night together Ginny finds she is pregnant. Looks like turning 40 doesn't make those life decisions any easier.
2013. Read by Leighton Pugh. 9 hours 43 minutes. TB 20715.
Gemmell, David. Quest for lost heroes. Fantasy. TB 20717.
Drenai series; book 4. The Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and Nadir hordes sweep across the land bringing desolation and despair. When slavers kidnap a young girl in the tiny realm of Gothir, a peasant boy sets off on a quest that will shake the world.
2012. Read by Ian Prosser. 14 hours 31 minutes. TB 20717.
Gifford, Elisabeth. Secrets of the sea house. General fiction. TB 20714.
Ruth and her husband move into a dilapidated old vicarage in the Outer Hebrides and set about renovating it. They discover the remains of a baby buried beneath the house, its legs fused together into one limb - a mermaid child.
2013. Read by Crawford Logan and Kirsty Cox. 10 hours 7 minutes. TB 20714.
Gregory, Philippa. The white princess. Historical fiction. TB 20734.
The cousins' war series; book 5. The beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV, the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose and the white. Forced into marriage with Henry VII, she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York, and choose between her mother's rebellion and her husband's tyranny.
2013. Read by Lizzie Hopley. 17 hours 13 minutes. TB 20734.
Hassel, Sven. SS General. War story. TB 20559.
Sven Hassel and his diminishing band of veterans are plunged into the maelstrom of Stalingrad. Sven and his comrades join one last-ditch attempt to break out, to fight their way across the frozen steppe to freedom.
2003. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 20559.
Haynes, Elizabeth. Human remains. Thriller. TB 20361.
Highly intelligent but socially inept, Colin spends his free time collecting academic qualifications and searching for ways to meet women, until he stumbles upon a new technique that proves both potent and deadly.
2013. Read by Karina Fernandez, Russell Bentley and David Thorpe. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB 20361.
Henry, Veronica. A night on the Orient Express. Romance. TB 20730.
A journey on the Orient Express can be more than the trip of a lifetime. For one group of passengers there awaits revelations, confessions and assignations.
2013. Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB 20730.
Homes, A M. May we be forgiven. General fiction. TB 20591.
Harry is a scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. Uneasy rivals since childhood, one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by Robert G Slade. 20 hours 58 minutes. TB 20591.
Hope, Maggie. A wartime nurse. Family story. TB 20327.
Theda hadn't given much thought to what would happen after she became a nurse. But by the time she finished her first year and was studying for her exams, she was coming up to twenty-one and there was a war on.
2011. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 11 hours 19 minutes. TB 20327.
Kernick, Simon. The murder exchange. Thriller. TB 20825.
When ex-mercenary Max Iversson accompanies a nightclub owner to a pre-arranged meeting in a deserted north London industrial estate, it turns out to be not so much a set-up as a bloodbath. Three men have been shot, the suitcase he has been guarding is empty - and Iversson wants to know why. Contains strong language and violence.
2011. Read by Jonathan Oliver and Mark Elstob. 10 hours 54 minutes. TB 20825.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight behaviour. TB 20511.
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?
2013. Read by Barbara Kingsolver. 16 hours 53 minutes. TB 20511.
King, Stephen. Night shift. Horror. TB 20367.
A collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world.
2012. Read by Christopher Ragland. 13 hours 59 minutes. TB 20367.
Krinard, Susan. Lord of the beasts. Mills and Boon nocturne romance. TB 20609.
Enchanted blood flows through vet Donal Fleming's veins, but Donal has met Cordelia and has fallen hard for the mortal. He must now face the consequences of an impossible choice - between human love and the powers that, to him, are life itself.
2013. Read by Helen Dickens. 16 hours 24 minutes. TB 20609.
L'Amour, Louis. Utah Blaine. Western. TB 20610.
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the army of the revolution, breaks out of jail and heads north with nothing but the clothes on his back. He finds new trouble struggling at the end of a noose, and steps in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The executioners are the rancher's own men, looking to steal his land.
2006. Read by William Roberts. 6 hours 14 minutes. TB 20610.
Lee, Maureen. Through the storm. Family story. TB 20378.
Pearl Street series; book 3. Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. While sisters Eileen and Sheila share the anxious burden of absent husbands. Kitty Quigley, stuck at home for years with an invalid father, is delighted to become an auxiliary nurse. And Jessica Fleming finds herself and friend Rita increasingly drawn to the glamour and excitement of the Yanks.
1998. Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 15 hours 10 minutes. TB 20378
Leon, Donna. Wilful behaviour. Crime fiction. TB 20720.
Commissario Guido Brunetti series; book 11. When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case.
2009. Read by Steve Hodson. 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 20720.
MacDonald, Sara. Sea music. General fiction. TB 20381.
The house opposite the church, overlooking the Cornish coast, is home to three generations of Tremains. It is Lucy whose discoveries of family papers, hidden in the old attic, brings to light the first of the long-hidden secrets.
2003. Read by Elaine Caxton. 14 hours 49 minutes. TB 20381.
McFarlane, Mhairi. You had me at hello. Romance. TB 20563.
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Ten years after they said goodbye, Rachel bumps into Ben and as they talk, the years melt away. But Ben is married. Rachel is not. And slowly but surely, Rachel feels the return of the broken heart she can't do anything to mend.
2012. Read by Charlotte Worthing. 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 20563.
Mackay, Malcolm. The necessary death of Lewis Winter. Thriller. TB 20880.
Glasgow trilogy; book 1. Glasgow hit-man Callum MacLean, twenty-nine, lives alone in his flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. Another job is another job, but what if this organisation wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A brief. A target: Lewis Winter. It's hard to kill a man well. Contains violence.
2013. Read by Tim Farrow. 7 hours 2 minutes. TB 20880.
McKinty, Adrian. I hear the sirens in the street. Thriller. TB 20568.
Sean Duffy series; book 2. Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close. Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood - however faint - that always connects a body to its killer. Contains strong language.
2013. Read by John Cormack. 10 hours 6 minutes. TB 20568.
Madeley, Richard. Some day I'll find you. Romance. TB 20758.
James Blackwood is sexy and handsome and a fighter pilot – every girl's dream partner. Then James is shot down over Northern France. Diana is left a widow and pregnant. Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square she hears the voice of a man speaking English.
2013. Read by Steve Hodson. 12 hours 13 minutes. TB 20758.
Mayhew, Margaret. I'll be seeing you. Family story. TB 20436.
When Juliet's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photo which shatter all her previously held beliefs. They show her real father was an American bomber pilot in WWII, some 40 years before. Juliet sets out to trace him.
2005. Read by Kim Hicks. 9 hours 38 minutes. TB 20436.
Michener, James Albert. Centennial. General fiction. TB 20324.
Centennial traces the history of the plains of northeast Colorado from prehistory until the early 1970s. It is a sweeping saga of people and places thrown together by breathtaking endeavour as memorable characters bring the story to life.
1974. Read by William Roberts. 19 hours 8 minutes. TB 20324.
Montefiore, Santa. Secrets of the lighthouse. General fiction. TB 20627.
Ellen Trawton is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her, to her aunt's house. Once there, she uncovers a dark secret and a future she never knew she had.
2013. Read by Maggie Cronin. 14 hours 37 minutes. TB 20627.
Mosse, Kate. Citadel. Historical fiction. TB 19094.
Languedoc trilogy; book 3. While war blazed in the trenches at The Front, a cell of resistance fighters, codenamed Citadelle, fight for everything they hold dear, their struggle will reveal an older, darker combat being fought in the shadows.
2011. Read by Natalie Castka. 28 hours 29 minutes. TB 19094.
O'Connor, Joseph. Ghost light. General fiction. TB 20480.
Dublin, 1907. Molly Allgood, a young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone. Her once dazzling career has faded but her unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat.
2010. Read by Marcella Riordan. 9 hours 3 minutes. TB 20480.
Ogawa, Yako. The housekeeper and the professor. General fiction. TB 20254.
He is a brilliant maths Professor but ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired to care for the Professor. Every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
2012. Read by Katy Slater. 5 hours 51 minutes. TB 20254.
Patterson, James. Violets are blue. Thriller. TB 20649.
Alex Cross series; book 7. Desperate to stop a series of deaths, Alex teams up with Jamilla Hughes, a savvy woman detective from San Francisco, and the FBI's Kyle Craig.
2009. Read by Paul Birchard. 8 hours 36 minutes. TB 20649.
Pearson, Allison. I don't know how she does it. General fiction. TB 20482.
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. With a Nanny, in-laws, husband, boss - not to mention the children - Kate is juggling so many balls that someday something's going to hit the ground.
2003. Read by Regina Reagan. 12 hours 22 minutes. TB 20482.
Picardie, Justine. Daphne. General fiction. TB 20483.
The author Daphne du Maurier, famous, despairing as her marriage falls apart, finds herself haunted by Rebecca, the heroine of her most famous novel, written 20 years earlier. Seeking distraction, she begins to research Branwell Bronte.
2008. Read by Joanna David. 10 hours 52 minutes. TB 20483.
Picoult, Jodi. The storyteller. General fiction. TB 20326.
Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world, sleeping by day and working in a bakery by night. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet elderly man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to - until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for 60 years.
2013. Read by Regina Reagan. 16 hours 39 minutes. TB 20326.
Pilcher, Rosamunde. The day of the storm. Family story. TB 20569.
At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca travels to Boscarva, a beautiful Cornish mansion, where she meets a family torn by passion and greed, and uncovers a family mystery which holds the key to her future.
2006. Read by Emma Powell. 7 hours 9 minutes. TB 20569.
Pullman, Philip. Grimm tales for young and old. Short stories. TB 20484.
Philip Pullman chooses his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling. He brings the heart of each tale to the fore, following with a commentary on the story's background.
2012. Read by Samuel West. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB 20484.
Pyper, Andrew. The demonologist. Thriller. TB 20416.
Professor Ullman is a leading authority on Christian religion and myth but he sees what he teaches as nothing more than fiction. When he's offered a trip to Venice to be a consultant on a case study, based on his expertise as a 'demonologist,' what he witnesses will change what he believes forever.
2013. Read by Sam Mancuso. 9 hours 56 minutes. TB 20416.
Reilly, Matthew. Area 7. Thriller. TB 20575.
Scarecrow series: book 2. The hero of Ice Station is sent to a US Air Force installation in the Utah desert. Schofield will be escorting the President on an inspection tour of the base itself. But there are certain people who don't plan on the head of state leaving there alive.
2010. Read by Matthew Hendrickson. 12 hours 59 minutes. TB 20575.
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos. The prisoner of heaven. Thriller. TB 19903.
Cemetery of forgotten books; book 3. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea have married. They now have a son and are living with Daniel's father. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him.
2012. Read by Peter Kenny. 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 19903.
Scarrow, Simon. The eagle's conquest. Historical fiction. TB 20580.
Cato series; book 2. When Centurion Macro arrives on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius's invasion in the summer of AD 43, he knows he will be facing one of the toughest campaigns of his battle-scarred career.
2008. Read by Gordon Griffin. 14 hours 8 minutes. TB 20580.
Shafak, Elif. The forty rules of love. General fiction. TB 20333.
Ella Rubinstein is 40 years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed.
2011. Read by Laurel Lefkow and David Thorpe. 13 hours 55 minutes. TB 20333.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk. Quo vadis. Classic fiction. TB 20392.
Quo Vadis is a monumental historical epic that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.
1897. Read by Steve Hodson. 28 hours 13 minutes. TB 20392.
Simms, Chris. Hell's fire. Crime fiction. TB 20583.
DI Jon Spicer; Book 4. A charred corpse and satanic paraphernalia are found on the blackened alter of a torched church in Manchester. The killer is prepared to commit unspeakable acts of evil in homage to his god. Jon Spicer is in hot pursuit. Contains strong language.
2009. Read by Laurence Mitchell. 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 20583.
Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie project. General fiction. TB 20582.
Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie.
2013. Read by James Menzies Miller. 8 hours 49 minutes. TB 20582.
Tyrell, Chuck. Vulture gold. Western. TB 20817.
Garet Havelock was a Cherokee half-breed and the marshal of Vulture City. But that wasn't enough to stop outlaw kingpin Barnabas Donovan from sending in three armed men to rob $100,000 in bullion from the Vulture Mine headquarters, killing two people in the process.
2011. Read by Peter Brooke. 5 hours 22 minutes. TB 20817.
Vickers, Salley. The cleaner of Chartres. General fiction. TB 20533.
There is something special about Agnes Morel, the mysterious woman who is to be found cleaning the Cathedral at Chartres each morning. No one quite knows where she came from and yet everyone she encounters would surely agree that she has touched their lives in subtly transformative ways. But with a chance meeting in the cathedral one day, the spectre of Agnes' past .
2013. Read by Michael Maloney. 8 hours 13 minutes. TB 20533.
Webb, Katherine. A half forgotten song. Romance. TB 20492.
A chance phone call leads Zach Gilchrist to make a decision to write a book on artist Charles Aubrey. Zach's research into Aubrey leads him to Mitzy Hatcher, an elderly eccentric woman who knew Aubrey as a young girl. As Zach begins to unravel the past, Mitzy's story is slowly revealed - her obsessive love for Charles Aubrey, a love which led to tragic consequences.
2012. Read by Jacqueline King. 16 hours 26 minutes. TB 20492.
Welsh, Irvine. Skagboys. General fiction. TB 19771.
Mark Renton has it all - he's good-looking, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities. When his family starts to fracture, the only way out is heroin. Contains strong language.
2012. Read by Tam Dean Burn. 24 hours 50 minutes. TB 19771.
Williams, Carrie. Chilli heat. Erotic fiction. TB 20640.
Nadia Kapur reluctantly agrees to take her recently divorced mother, Valerie, on her gap-year trip to India. As the two women explore India's most exotic locations, it is Valerie who experiences a sexual reawakening with a succession of lovers and Nadia who is forced to wrestle with her own inhibitions and repressed desires. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.
2008. Read by Avita Jay and Helen Jones. 8 hours 44 minutes. TB 20640.
Wood, Valerie. Children of the tide. Family story. TB 20622.
Hungry tide series; book 3. It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby, the home of the wealthy Rayners. The baby's father is a Rayner, its mother dead, and the respectable shipping family are left shattered.
1996. Read by Maggie Mash. 21 hours 31 minutes. TB 20622.
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