New Books Issue 56 March 2017
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Talking BooksAdult fictionAdler-Olsen, Jussi. Guilt. 2014. Crime. TB23485.Department Q: book 4. 1987: Nete Hermansen, a young woman brutally assaulted in her youth, sterilised without her consent by a fanatical surgeon, and banished to Sprogo, the island for outcast women is planning her escape and her vengeance. And soon people begin to go missing and no one, certainly not the police, knows why, nor that individual cases are connected. Today: M'rck and his assistants Assad and Rose in Department Q are examining old missing persons cases and spot a disturbing pattern from 1987. Read by Steven Pacey. 16 hours 3 minutes. Archer, Jeffrey. This Was a Man. 2016. Family stories. TB23608.The Clifton chronicles: book 7. In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her 10 years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank. Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons. Read by Alex Jennings. 12 hours 50 minutes.
Asher, Neal L. Dark Intelligence. 2015. Science fiction. TB23011.Transformation: book 1. Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. He died in a human vs alien war which ended a whole century ago. And when he relives his traumatic final moments, he is filled with a desire for vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, it annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down. Contains swear words. Read by Tom Slatter. 15 hours 6 minutes.
Aswany, Alaa. The Automobile Club of Egypt. 2016. Literary fiction. TB23173.Inside the walls of the automobile Club of Egypt two very different worlds collide - Cairo's European elite and the Egyptian staff who wait on them. The servants, a squabbling, humorous and deeply human group, live in a perpetual state of fear under the tyrannical rule of Alku. When Abd el-Aziz Gaafar becomes the target of Alku's cruelty and his pride gets the better of him, a devastating act sends ripples through his family. Egyptians both inside and outside the club are about to face a stark choice: to live safely without dignity, or fight for their rights and risk everything. Read by David Thorpe. 19 hours 8 minutes. Atkinson, Kate. A God in Ruins. 2015. Literary fiction. TB23493.Todd Family: book 2. Kate Atkinson's “Life after Life” explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In “A God in Ruins”, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. Read by Alex Jennings. 16 hours 26 minutes. Barclay, Alex. The Drowning Child. 2016. Thriller. TB23652.Ren Bryce: book 6. When Special agent Ren Bryce is called to Tate, Oregon to investigate the disappearance of twelve-year-old Caleb Veir, she finds a town already in mourning. Two other young boys have died recently, although in very different circumstances. As Ren digs deeper, she discovers that all is not as it seems in the Veir household - and that Tate is a small town with a big secret. Can Ren uncover the truth before more children are harmed? Read by Penelope Rawlins. 11 hours 43 minutes. Barker, Pat. Noonday. 2015. General fiction. TB23486.Brooke family: book 3. Paul, Elinor and Kit first met in 1914 at the Slade School of art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even turned to séances in an attempt to contact lost loved ones. As the bombs fall and Elinor and the others struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want. Read by Juliet Stevenson, Steven Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Read, Finlay Robertson. 9 hours 50 minutes. Beckett, Simon. The Calling of the Grave. 2011. Crime. TB23509.David Hunter: book 4. When DI Terry Connor turns up on David Hunter's doorstep, it's an unwelcome reminder of the past. The two used to be friends before Connor's behaviour caused a bitter rift. And the news the policeman brings is even less welcome: the psychotic rapist and murderer Jerome Monk has escaped from high security prison. And as the maniac's bloody trail edges ever closer, Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust, especially when his own life depends on it. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 9 hours 58 minutes. Brown, Sandra. Breath of Scandal. 2005. Thriller. TB23064.New York, 1990. The road from Palmetto, South Carolina, has been a long one, and Jade Sperry has worked hard to get where she is. Her life was ruined in 1976, shortly before graduation, when she was raped by three classmates. Because they were all sons of prominent citizens, Jade knew they would never be convicted of rape. But Jade vowed to seek revenge, and now she is returning to Palmetto. Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words. Read by Julie Hooker. 14 hours 59 minutes. Campbell, Barney. Rain. 2015. War fiction. TB23487.Tom Chamberlain was always destined to be a soldier. From the moment when, as a young boy, he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast his path was set. And despite all entreaties, the lure of the army proved irresistible. With the long war in Afghanistan at its savage peak, Tom is despatched from home with his men in the dead of an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving the country without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by self-doubt, he must discover both who he is and what he is capable of in a nightmarish land of heat, hardship and terrifying enemies seen and unseen. Read by Mark Meadows. 10 hours 28 minutes. Carey, M. R. The Girl with All the Gifts. 2014. Science fiction. TB23246.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her “our little genius”. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favourite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad. Read by Finty Williams. 13 hours 6 minutes. Carrington, Sam. Saving Sophie. 2016. Thriller. TB23651.A teenage girl is missing. Is your daughter involved, or is she next? When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out, drunk and accompanied by police officers, no one is smiling the morning after. But Sophie remembers nothing about how she got into such a state. Twelve hours later, Sophie's friend Amy has still not returned home. Then the body of a young woman is found. Karen is sure that Sophie knows more than she is letting on. As she becomes convinced that Sophie is not only involved but also in danger. Read by Antonia Beamish. 10 hours 10 minutes. Chadwick, Elizabeth. The Summer Queen. 2013. Historical fiction. TB23249.Eleanor of Aquitaine: book 1. Young, golden-haired and blue-eyed Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood is over. Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to being crowned King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious French court. She is only 13. Barely out of childhood, and forced to deal with great scandals, fraught relationships and forbidden love at every turn. Read by Katie Scarf. 18 hours 22 minutes. Clements, Katherine. The Silvered Heart. 2016. Historical fiction. TB23144.1648: civil war is devastating England. The privileged world Katherine Ferrars knows is crumbling under Cromwell's army and, as an orphaned heiress, she has no choice but to do her duty and marry for the sake of family. But as her marriage turns into a prison and her fortune is decimated by the war, she becomes increasingly desperate. So when she meets the enigmatic Ralph, she seizes the chance he offers. Their plan is daring and brutal, but it's an escape from poverty and the shackles of convention. They know if they're caught, there's only one way it can end. Read by Lucy Tregear. 12 hours 56 minutes. Cleeves, Ann. The Crow Trap. 2016. Crime. TB23145.Vera Stanhope: book 1. At the isolated Baikie's Cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. The three women each know the meaning of betrayal. So when people begin to mysteriously die, DI Vera Stanhope is sent to investigate. Read by Joan Walker. 13 hours 16 minutes. Coe, Jonathan. Number 11, or, Tales That Witness Madness. 2015. General Fiction. TB23488.This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best – showing us how we live now. Read by Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes. 11 hours 49 minutes. Collins, Joan. The St. Tropez Lonely Hearts Club. 2016. Chick Lit. TB23271.Contessa Carlotta di Ponti, stunningly beautiful and filthy rich, has finally escaped her abusive marriage and is looking to find true love in St. Tropez. The party season kicks off with a spectacular bash at billionaire Harry Silver's palatial mansion, but tragedy soon strikes. Could seemingly innocuous events - a bad oyster, a fatal wasp sting, a faulty funicular - mean something more sinister for the bejewelled citizens of St. Tropez? It is up to glamorous detective Gabrielle Poulpe to save the day and find the murderer in their midst or life on St. Tropez as its residents know it could be over forever! Contains violence. Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words. Read by Jilly Bond. 9 hours 16 minutes.
Cooper, Jilly. Mount! 2016. General fiction. TB23594.Rutshire chronicles: book 10. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. This means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing winners in the richest races worldwide. Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert's assistant Gav. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert's wayward father, it is not just Gav who is attracted to her: a returning Rupert finds himself dangerously tempted. Read by Sian Thomas. 19 hours 26 minutes. Cornick, Nicola. The Phantom Tree. 2016. General fiction. TB23660."My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another". Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison stumbles across a delicate old portrait - supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The woman is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 as an unwanted orphan and presumed dead after going missing as a child. The painting is more than just a beautiful object from Alison’s past - it holds the key to her future, unlocking the mystery surrounding Mary's disappearance, and the enigma of Alison's son. Alison's quest soon takes a dark and foreboding turn, as a meeting place called the Phantom Tree harbours secrets in its shadows. Read by Stephanie Racine, Laura Kirman. 11 hours 45 minutes. Cussler, Clive. Medusa. 2009. Thriller. TB21559.NUMA files: book 8. In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface. Austin is convinced both events are connected, and he puts NUMA on the case. Soon he's uncovering some hideous medical experiments and evidence of a terrifying virus that could be used to create a worldwide pandemic. Behind it all lies an ambitious Chinese criminal organization prepared to commit mass murder to achieve its ends. Read by Jeff Harding. 13 hours 19 minutes. Cussler, Clive. Atlantis Found. 2012. Thriller. TB23272.Dirk Pitt: book 15. Dirk Pitt is on hand at a Colorado archaeological site where an ancient and mysterious artefact has been found, one that is perhaps linked to other strange objects turning up across the globe. Soon Pitt's skills and ingenuity are needed to rescue the team after a suspicious explosion seals them deep underground. The artefacts carry a message, a warning of global armageddon. A shadowy organisation called the Fourth Empire is actively seeking to accelerate the end it foretells. Now Pitt and NUMA must face this diabolical foe, who will stop at nothing to wipe out all life on earth. Read by Jeff Harding. 19 hours 16 minutes. Davis, Lindsey. The Ides of April. 2013. Historical crime. TB23225.Flavia Albia mystery: book 1. Flavia is the adopted daughter of a famous investigating family. In defiance of tradition, she lives alone on Aventine Hill, and battles out a solo career in a male-dominated world. As a woman and an outsider, Albia has special insight into the best, and worst, of life in ancient Rome. A female client dies in mysterious circumstances. Albia investigates and discovers there have been many other strange deaths all over the city, yet she is warned off by the authorities. Read by Lucy Brown. 11 hours 4 minutes. Deaver, Jeffery. The Steel Kiss. 2016. Thriller. TB23230.Lincoln Rhyme: book 12. Technology is everywhere. It makes our lives easier, our connections faster and journeys quicker. But in the hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can be a murder weapon. When an escalator gives way mid-chase, Amelia Sachs is forced to let a killer escape as she helps the man trapped in the depths. Now Sachs and forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme must investigate if the collapse was a freak accident or whether they are facing a murderer who knows exactly how fatal machines can be. Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 49 minutes. Dillon, Lucy. One Small Act of Kindness. 2015. Chick lit. TB23231.When a woman is hit by a car and knocked unconscious, passer-by Libby feels a sense of responsibility. She called the ambulance, after all. When the woman comes round, she's suffered complete temporary memory loss. Libby feels sorry for the scared woman and offers to put her up for a few days at the rundown B&B she and her husband are trying to convert into a romantic hideaway. But as the women's friendship blossoms, Pippa, as they're calling her, gets the feeling she was looking for someone. Read by Lucy Price-Lewis. 13 hours 5 minutes. Eclair, Jenny. Moving. 2015. General fiction. TB23250.Edwina Spinner has lived in the same house for over fifty years. It used to be a busy family home but now Edwina lives alone and it has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it. A young estate agent comes to value the house, but as Edwina takes him from room to room, she is transported back to her old life to her first husband Ollie and their twins, James and Rowena. Back to lies and dark secrets and to a stepson whose name Edwina cannot even bear to speak aloud. Why is she now so alone? What happened to Edwina's family all those years ago? Read by Judith Boyd, Clare Willie, and Andrew Wincott. 12 hours 55 minutes. Edwards, Mark. Forward Slash. 2016. Thriller. TB23658.When Amy receives an email from her older sister, Becky, announcing that she's off travelling and "don't try to find me", she is worried. Becky would never do such a thing on a whim. Aided by Becky's neighbour, Gary, Amy sets about tracking down the men her sister had dated, following a trail that leads her into the darkly seductive world of internet hook-ups. But Amy is unaware that a sadistic killer is watching - a killer who's been using the internet to stalk, torture and kill. Read by Jessica Poole, Ben Elliot. 10 hours 49 minutes. Extence, Gavin. The Mirror World of Melody Black. 2015. General Fiction. TB23218.It all starts, as these things sometimes do, with a dead man. He was a neighbour, not someone Abby knew well, but still, finding a body when you only came over to borrow a tin of tomatoes, that comes as a bit of a shock. At least, it should. And now she can't shake the feeling that if she hadn't gone into Simon's flat, if she'd had her normal Wednesday night instead, then none of what happened next would have happened. And she would never have met Melody Black. Read by Jane Collingwood. 8 hours 21 minutes. Fallon, Jane. Got You Back. 2008. Chick lit. TB23150.Stephanie & Katie are strangers but they're in love with the same man - James. Stephanie is his wife, Katie his mistress. When Stephanie discovers James is having an affair, she tracks Katie down. They join forces to get their own back on him. But what happens when one thinks enough is enough and the other doesn't want to stop? Read by Candida Gubbins. 11 hours 14 minutes. Faulks, Sebastian. Where My Heart Used to Beat. 2015. Literary fiction. TB23512.On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host is Alexander Pereira, a man who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for the past takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally, unforgettably, back into the trenches of the Western Front. Read by David Sibley. 11 hours 8 minutes. Ferrante, Elena. The Story of a New Name. 2013. General fiction. TB23134.Neapolitan: book 2. Following “My Brilliant Friend”, this title features the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the centre of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women. Read by Madeleine Brolly. 16 hours 19 minutes. Fforde, Jasper. One of Our Thursdays is Missing. 2011. Fantasy. TB23233.Thursday Next: book 6. It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. A week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? At the end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very BookWorld itself. Read by Gabrielle Kruger. 9 hours 14 minutes. Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 2016. Chick lit. TB23514.Bridget Jones: book 4. As Bridget careers towards baby-deadline, tortured by Smug Mothers miming her ticking biological clock, a series of classic Bridget Jones moments finally leads her into pregnancy but just not quite as intended. It's a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes, outlandish advice from Drunken Singletons and Smug Mothers, chaos at scans and childbirth classes, high jinks and romance, joy and despair but all of it dominated by the terribly awkward question “who's the father?”. Read by Samantha Bond. 4 hours 7 minutes. French, Dawn. According to Yes. 2015. Humorous fiction. TB23490.The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy, otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side, has its own rigid code of behaviour. So when an unconventional thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England bounces into their inflexible lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises she hasn't read the rule book. And for the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Read by Dawn French, Jennifer Woodward, Garrick Hagon, Thomas Judd, Luke Thompson. 9 hours 16 minutes. Gale, Patrick. A Place Called Winter. 2015. Historical fiction. TB23240.A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence, until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, he signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. But, remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. Read by Patrick Gale. 11 hours 8 minutes. Goddard, Robert. Sight Unseen. 2011. Crime. TB23274.In the summer of 1981, in the tourist village of Avebury, a PhD student witnesses the abduction of a two-year-old girl. The tragedy begins at Avebury. But it does not end there. In 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter reproaching him for botching the original investigation, which leads him to track down the witness and enlist him in searching for the culprit. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 32 minutes. Graham, Lynne. Leonetti's Housekeeper Bride. 2016. Mills and Boon romance. TB23179.The last thing Gaetano Leonetti wants is to be shackled in marriage, but his grandfather has decreed that if he’s to become CEO of the family’s bank Gaetano must find a nice, ordinary woman to wed. Convinced his grandfather is mad, Gaetano sets about proving him wrong with housekeeper Poppy Arnold. With her outspoken nature and unusual dress sense, she’s definitely not wife material! But it’s not long before hard-working, self-sacrificing Poppy charms his grandfather, and Gaetano’s stuck with a union he didn’t want and a bride he sinfully craves! Read by Eilidh Beaton. 5 hours 40 minutes. Harris, Robert. Conclave. 2016. Thriller. TB23518.The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. Read by Roy McMillan. 8 hours 22 minutes. Hickson, Joanna. First of the Tudors. 2016. Historical fiction. TB23647.Jasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up far from the intrigue of the royal court. But after he and his brother Edmund are summoned to London, their half-brother, King Henry VI, takes a keen interest in their future. Bestowing Earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes devoted to her and is devastated when Henry arranges her betrothal to Edmund. Read by Tom Clegg and Non Haf. 14 hours 58 minutes. Hill, Suzette A. Bones in the Belfry. 2012. Crime. TB23180.Francis Oughterard: book 2. Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Rev. Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist and amateur sleuth, Maud Tubbly Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. As before, his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, and redoubtable bone -grinding ally, the dog Bouncer. Read by David Thorpe, Terence Wilton, Christopher Oxford. 10 hours 5 minutes. Hornby, Nick. Funny Girl. 2014. General fiction. TB23492.Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts. Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. The show's success continues rocketing and the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it's time to change the channel? Read by Emma Fielding. 10 hours 21 minutes. Hughes, Kathryn. The Letter. 2015. General fiction. TB23241.Tina struggles with her marriage to alcoholic Rick. As a brief respite from his physical and sexual abuse she spends her Saturdays volunteering at a charity shop. Whilst she is there, sorting second-hand clothes, she finds a sealed envelope in a suit jacket pocket and, unable to resist the pull of curiosity, opens it; it is a decision that is about to alter the course of her life forever. Read by Rachel Atkins. 9 hours 12 minutes. Iggulden, Conn. Trinity. 2014. Historical fiction. TB23494.Wars of the Roses: book 2. 1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year. His loyal wife and Queen, Margaret, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father. Richard Duke of York extends his influence throughout the kingdom with each month that Henry slumbers. The Earls of Salisbury and Warwick make up a formidable trinity with Richard, and they seek to break the support of those who would raise their colours in the name of Henry and his Queen. But when the King recovers his senses and returns to London to reclaim his throne, the balance of power is thrown into turmoil. Read by Roy McMillan. 12 hours 11 minutes. Iggulden, Conn. Bloodline. 2015. Historical fiction. TB23495.Wars of the Roses: book 3. Winter 1461. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims himself England's rightful king. Factions form and tear apart as snow falls. Through blood and treason, through broken men and vengeful women, brother shall confront brother, king shall face king. Two men can always claim a crown. Only one can keep it. Read by Roy McMillan. 11 hours 43 minutes. Jacobs, Anna. Salem Street. 2015. Family stories. TB23290.Gibson family: book 1. Banished from her home by a jealous stepmother, Annie Gibson finds work in a doctor's household where she learns about the fascinating world outside Salem Street. When her sweetheart asks her to marry him she thinks her dreams are coming true. But suddenly everything turns upside-down. Abandoned and pregnant, Annie returns to Salem Street, where an unexpected offer gives her independence. One day, she vows, she will move into the wider world again. Read by Sherry Baines. 16 hours 4 minutes. Jefferies, Dinah. The Tea Planter's Wife. 2015. General fiction. TB23496.Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is newly married to a rich and charming widower, eager to join him on his tea plantation, and determined to be the perfect wife and mother. Gwen soon falls pregnant and her husband is overjoyed, but she has little time to celebrate. In the delivery room the new mother is faced with a terrible choice, one she knows no one in her upper class set will understand - least of all Laurence. Forced to bury a secret at the heart of her marriage, Gwen is more isolated than ever. When the time comes, how will her husband ever understand what she has done? Read by Avita Jay. 16 hours 3 minutes. Khan, Vaseem. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra. 2015. Crime. TB23219.Baby Ganesh agency investigation: book 1. On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs. Read by Sartaj Garewal. 7 hours 14 minutes. Kristian, Giles. God of Vengeance. 2016. Historical fiction. TB23527.Rise of Sigurd: book 1. Norway aD785. A land of petty kingdoms and ambitious men. When King Gorm betrays Jarl Harald and puts his family to the sword, he makes a terrible mistake - he doesn't kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd. Now on the run, hunted by powerful men and hiding in a sacred fen, Sigurd believes the gods have turned their backs on his family. Yet all men know that Odin is drawn to chaos and bloodshed, as a raven is to the slaughtered dead. And Sigurd means to spill blood. Read by Phillip Stevens. 15 hours 32 minutes. Law, J. S. Tenacity. 2015. Thriller. TB23235.Lieutenant Danielle Lewis: book 1. Lieutenant Danielle Lewis, renowned within the navy for her professional record with the investigative team KILL, is drafted in to investigate a suicide on board a navy submarine. As she digs further, she becomes increasingly convinced she's dealing with murder. Dan must find out the truth, but if the killer's on board, will she even make it off the submarine? Read by Lisa Coleman. 10 hours 40 minutes. Lightfoot, Freda. Always in My Heart. 2016. Family stories. TB23649.Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. Brenda Stuart's life is in ruins. Illegitimately pregnant, jobless and alone, Brenda is forced to sleep rough, until one fateful day when she is found by Prue, who takes her home for a breakfast and a bath. As a friendship forms between the two women, they make a pact to help each other rebuild their lives and finally find the happiness they both deserve. Read by Rachael Louise Miller. 10 hours 29 minutes. Lupton, Rosamund. The Quality of Silence. 2015. Thriller. TB23245.On 24th November Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby arrived in Alaska. Within hours they were driving alone across a frozen wilderness where nothing grows, where no one lives, where tears freeze and night will last for another 54 days. They are looking for Ruby's father. Travelling deeper into a silent land. They still cannot find him. And someone is watching them in the dark. Read by Rachel Atkins and Harriet Carmichael. 9 hours 11minutes. Mcbeth, Colette. The Life I Left Behind. 2015. Thriller. TB23239.Everyone tells her she's a survivor. No-one knows she's dead inside. Six years ago Melody was left for dead. When the body of another woman, Eve, is discovered, Melody knows her attacker is still out there. The only way she can survive is to follow the clues of the life that Eve left behind. Read by Imogen Church. 13 hours 26 minutes. Macomber, Debbie. Three Brides, No Groom. 2006. Canadian library fiction. TB23070.They were college friends with plans to become blushing brides. Gretchen had the beauty, Maddie had the brains and cheerleader Carol had the bounce. And they each had a man to marry. But suddenly there is trouble in paradise. The grooms were suddenly getting cold feet. And now, these three women have decided they aren't going to get mad; instead, they're going to get even! Read by Joy Fukushima. 6 hours 53 minutes. Maitland, Karen. The Raven's Head. 2015. Historical fiction. TB23236.Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to destroy his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the attempt fails and he finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately carved silver raven's head. Any attempt to sell the head fails, until he tries to palm it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain, a powerful alchemist with an all-consuming quest. Once more Vincent's life is in danger because Sylvain and his neighbours, the menacing White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their shocking experiment. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 14 hours 11 minutes. Moorcroft, Sue. The Christmas Promise. 2016. Romance. TB23648.On a snowy December evening, Sam Jermyn steps into the life of bespoke hat maker Ava. Sparks fly, and not necessarily the good ones. Times are tough for Ava; she's struggling to make ends meet, her ex-boyfriend is a bully, and worst of all, it's nearly Christmas. So when Sam commissions Ava to make a hat for someone special, she makes a promise that will change her life. She just doesn't know it yet. Read by Laura Kirman. 9 hours 36 minutes. Moran, Beth. I Hope You Dance. 2015. Chick lit. TB23089.Ruth Henderson has moved back in with her parents, something she swore she would never do, especially not at the age of thirty-three. But in the face of the mountain of debt left by her late-partner and the fact that her teenage daughter, Maggie, is expressing her grief through acts of delinquency, there was really only one option. But then, reunited with her old friend Lois, Ruth is persuaded to go along to a monthly girls' night. Here she meets a bunch of incredible women and for the first time since leaving home at eighteen, Ruth begins to make some genuine friends. Read by Emma Pallant. 13 hours 10 minutes. Moyes, Jojo. The One Plus One. 2014. Chick lit. TB23503.Suppose your life sucks. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime opportunity - that you can't afford to pay for. So imagine you found and kept some money that didn't belong to you, knowing it would pay for your daughter's happiness. But how do you cope with the shame? Especially when the man you've lied to decides to help you out in your hour of need. Read by Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot, Nicola Stanton, Steven France. 13 hours 8 minutes. Moyes, Jojo. After You. 2015. Romance. TB23502.Me before you: book 2. Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did 18 months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. Read by Anna Acton. 11 hours 12 minutes. Muriel, Oscar De. The Strings of Murder. 2015. Historical crime. TB23489.Frey & McGray: book 1. Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room, and no way in or out, the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Frey to investigate under the cover of a fake department specializing in the occult. However, Frey's new boss, Detective “Nine-Nails” McGray, actually believes in such supernatural nonsense. Read by Andy Secombe. 11 hours 32 minutes. O'Farrell, Maggie. This Must Be the Place. 2016. General fiction. TB23243.Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with 20 years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back? Read by Thomas Judd, Penelope Rawlings. 14 hours 10 minutes. Oswald, James. The Book of Souls. 2013. Crime. TB23504.Inspector McLean mysteries: book 2. Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. The final victim was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée, but the killer made a mistake and McLean put an end to the killing spree. 12 years later, the Christmas killer is murdered. But with the festive season comes a body; naked, washed, and with her throat cut. Read by Ian Hanmore. 10 hours 57 minutes. Penman, Sharon Kay. A King's Ransom. 2015. Historical fiction. TB22955.Lionheart: book 2. Travelling home from the bloody battlefields of the Holy Land, the Crusader King Richard the Lionheart is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean after an encounter with pirates. He is betrayed and captured by the Duke of Austria and is immediately claimed by the Holy Roman Emperor. Richard is to spend fifteen months imprisoned. Meanwhile, his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is moving heaven and earth to raise a staggering ransom, travelling across Europe herself to buy the release of her favourite son. Read by Christopher Oxford. 34 hours 49 minutes. Potter, Alexandra. Love From Paris. 2015. Romance. TB23185.Love detective: book 2. When new boyfriend Jack stands her up at the airport, Ruby Miller dries her tears, jumps on the Eurostar and heads to Paris. A locked apartment where time has stood still, a bundle of long -lost love letters and a flirtatious French lawyer sweep Ruby into a mystery that spans over seventy years. Why did the owner of the apartment close up the shutters and flee Paris before the war, never to return? As the mystery deepens, Ruby turns love detective but it's not long before the ghosts of the past throw her own love affair into jeopardy. Contains swear words. Read by Una Byrne. 10 hours 49 minutes. Raven, Jaime. The Alibi. 2016. Thriller. TB23657.A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi. Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth - and she's not afraid of bending the rules to get there. When troubled soap star Megan Fuller is found stabbed to death in her South London home, all eyes are on her ex-husband – the notorious gangster, Danny Shapiro. Determined to expose Danny as a cold-blooded killer, Beth obsessively pursues him. But in her hunt for the truth, her family are set to pay the ultimate price. Read by Genevieve Swallow. 11 hours 54 minutes. Robotham, Michael. Life or Death. 2014. Thriller. TB23247.Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of his gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that he knows where it is. For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by fellow inmates and prison guards, who all want an answer to the same question. When Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released, everybody wants to find him. But he's not running, instead he's trying to save a life, and not just his own. Read by John Chancer. 13 hours 56 minutes. Sansom, C. J. Lamentation. 2015. Historical crime. TB23593.Shardlake: book 6. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. The Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake's old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen. Read by Steven Crossley. 25 hours 22 minutes. Scarrow, Simon. The Eagle's Prophecy. 2012. Historical fiction. TB23242.Cato: book 6. It is spring AD 45 and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates operating from the Illyrian coast. With him were scrolls vital to the safety of the Emperor and the future of Rome. Macro and Cato must find the pirate base to avert a disaster that could destroy the Emperor. Read by Russell Boulter. 13 hours 53 minutes. Scarrow, Simon. Young Bloods. 2016. Historical fiction. TB23244.Wellington and Napoleon: book 1. Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation must be led by a king, he heads for battle against the French Republic, to restore the fallen monarchy. Bonaparte joins the French military on the eve of the Revolution. When anarchy explodes in Paris he's thrust into the revolutionary army poised to march against Britain. As two mighty Empires embark on a bloody duel, Wesley and Bonaparte prepare to face a sworn enemy, unaware that the fate of Europe will one day lie in their hands. Read by Jonathan Keeble. 19 hours 33 minutes. Shemilt, Jane. Daughter. 2014. Thriller. TB23506.Jenny is a successful doctor, the mother of three teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a search with no success. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. Everyone she’s trusted, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she’d raised. Read by Sophie Aldred. 11 hours 10 minutes. Simsion, Graeme C. The Rosie Effect. 2014. Humorous fiction. TB23507.Rosie: book 2. With the Wife Project complete, Don settles into a new job and married life in New York. But it's not long before certain events are taken out of his control and it's time to embark on a new project. As he tries to get to grips with the requirements of starting a family, his unusual research style gets him into trouble. To make matters worse, he has invited his closest friend to stay with them, but Gene is not exactly the best model for marital happiness. Read by Dan O'Grady. 9 hours 12 minutes. Smart, Michelle. Talos Claims His Virgin. 2015. Mills and Boon romance. TB23139.Kalliakis crown: book 1. Talos Kalliakis, the youngest Prince of Agon, has found the perfect gift for King Astraeus’s Jubilee Gala – the talents of exquisite violinist Amalie Cartwright. This warrior Prince crossed Europe to find his perfect candidate, and he won’t take no for an answer. But rumour has it that Amalie won’t perform, and now Talos has her hidden away in his villa, where sources suggest he’s claimed the most private of performances. With tensions running high, surely it can’t be long before they start changing their tune to the royal wedding march! Read by Gloria Sanders. 6 hours 18 minutes. Spring, Neil. The Ghost Hunters. 2013. Ghost stories. TB23097.Welcome to Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. It is 1926 and Sarah Grey is personal assistant to Harry Price, London's most infamous ghost hunter. Harry has devoted his life to exposing the truth behind England's many “false haunting”. So when Harry and Sarah are invited to Borley Rectory they're sure that this case will be just like any other. But when night falls and no artifice can be found, the ghost hunters are forced to confront the possibility that the ghost may be real. Read by Lucy Scott, Charles Armstrong. 15 hours 29 minutes. Swanson, Peter. The Kind Worth Killing. 2015. Thriller. TB23098.Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched. Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future? Contains swear words. Read by Jeff Harding, Kathryn akin, Christopher Ragland, Nura Nas. 9 hours 45 minutes.
Swift, Graham. Mothering Sunday: A Romance. 2016. General fiction. TB23162.It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades. How, shaped by the events of this day, will her future unfold? Contains sex scenes. Contains swear words Read by Roger D Watson. 3 hours 50 minutes.
Thomas, Jo. The Olive Branch. 2015. Chick lit. TB23237.You can buy almost anything online these days. For Ruthie Collins, it was an Italian farmhouse. As she battles with a territorial goat and torrential rain just to get through the door of her new Italian home, Ruthie is determined to turn things around and live the dream. First, though, she must win over her fiery neighbour, Marco Bellanouvo, and his family. Then there's the small matter of running an olive farm. As the seasons change and new roots are put down, olives and romance might just flourish in the warmth of the Mediterranean sun. Read by Rachel atkins. 9 hours 46 minutes. Tóibín, Colm. Nora Webster. 2014. Literary fiction. TB23508.It is the 1960s and Nora Webster is living with her two young sons in a small town on the east coast of Ireland. The love of her life, Maurice, has just died so she must work out how to forge a new life for herself. As Nora returns to memories of the happiness of her early marriage, something more painful begins to intrude: memories of her own mother and what brought about the terrifying distance between them. Read by Fiona Shaw. 11 hours 21 minutes. Tyner, Liz. The Notorious Countess. 2016. Mills and Boon romance. TB23282.After escaping an unhappy marriage, Beatrice, Lady Riverton enjoys her notoriety, even if her reputation isn’t deserved. But when she’s caught in a most compromising position with Andrew Robson, for the first time the truth is even more scandalous than the rumours! And yet in Andrew’s arms, Beatrice finds she’s no longer defined by her reputation, and is free to be the woman she truly is. Is it time for Beatrice to trust in Andrew, and end her reign of scandal once and for all? Read by Abigail Gallagher. 7 hours 8 minutes. Vermes, Timur. Look Who's Back. 2014. Humorous fiction. TB23234.Summer 2011. Berlin. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People recognise him though - as a brilliant, satirical impersonator who refuses to break character. The inevitable, happens, and the ranting Hitler takes off, goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own TV show, becomes someone who people listen to. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. 11 hours 13 minutes. Welsh, Louise. The Girl on the Stairs. 2012. Thriller. TB23232.Jane Logan is six months pregnant and has moved to Berlin to live with her long-term lover, rich banker, Petra. She conceives a dread of the derelict backhouse across the courtyard and begins to suspect something sinister is happening in the flat next door, where gynaecologist Alban Mann lives with his teenage daughter Anna. Petra believes her lover's pregnancy is affecting her judgement, but Jane is increasingly convinced that all is not well. Her decision to turn detective has devastating results when her past collides with the past of the building and its inhabitants. Read by Jane Wymark. 7 hours 17 minutes. Willett, Marcia. Forgotten Laughter. 2003. General fiction. TB22511.When Louise Parry arrives at Foxhole for her summer holiday, she is welcomed by kind, sensitive Brigid Foster and her incorrigible elderly mother, Frummie. Amid the peace of Dartmoor, Louise tries to forget her haunting memories, but an unexpected visitor forces her to remember. Forgotten Laughter is a novel of love, loss and reconciliation. Read by Charlie Norfolk. 15 hours 13 minutes. Winman, Sarah. A Year of Marvellous Ways. 2015. General fiction. TB23238.Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something, she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. Read by Sarah Winman. 7 hours 57 minutes. Wilson, Elizabeth. The Girl in Berlin. 2013. Spy stories. TB23189.Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts. Speculation is at fever pitch when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party who has been in Germany for several years, turns up to see his old friends Dinah and Alan Wentworth. He has news: he has fallen in love with a girl in East Berlin, and is coming home - with her – for good. Meanwhile, Jack McGovern, who sometimes feels like the only decent man in Special Branch, has a rendezvous with a real spy. Miles Kingdom thinks there's a mole at MI5, and he wants McGovern's help. Read by Crawford Logan. 9 hours 45 minutes. 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