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All My Friends Are Superheroes



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All My Friends Are Superheroes


by Andrew Kaufman Read by Ruth Hill (1 Cd)

All Tom's friends are superheroes, Tom even married one , the perfectionist. After their wedding the perfectionist was hypnotised by her ex-boyfriend to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months after the wedding she decides to move to Vancouver as she believes that Tom has abandoned her. With no idea that Tom is accompanying her she boards an aeroplane. Tom has until the wheels touch down in Vancouver to convince her that he is there or he will lose her forever. A sweet story with gentle humour reminding us that the greatest superpower of all is true love.



No. 1322

All That Matters


by Jan Goldstein

Read by Ruth Hill (1 Cd)

This is a sentimental story about a lost young woman and her determined 76 year old grandmother. Both of them have been handed a hard deal by life but have a great deal to learn from each other. Jennifer thinks she has nothing left to lose. Her boyfriend dumped her, her mother died and her father now has a new family that doesn't include her. Her grandmother Gabby Zuckerman is not willing to let her self destruct.

No. 1388
American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

Read by American reader
A terrorist bombing in a quiet rural community is the focal point of this novel. Protagonist "Swede" Levov is living the American dream. After growing up in Newark, New Jersey, during the post-World War II era, he takes over the glove business started by his grandfather, marries the "all-American" girl, has a daughter, and lives in a big country house. But the dream is shattered when his daughter becomes a terrorist during the Vietnam War years. Roth takes the family from the orderly postwar years, through the turmoil of the 1960s, through to the present. He evokes nostalgia for the "good old days," but makes his characters take more realistic views as they mature. Not to be listened to in a hurry, this novel requires reflection.

No. 1741
Apologist,The

by Jay Rayner

Read by Mary Ross
The Apologist is a satirical comedy. It continually entertains in a very amusing way and also has a slightly darker side. Well written and a clever idea.

No. 1705


Attack, The


by Yasmina Khadra

Read by Anthony Tibber (1 Cd)

The hero is an Arab Israeli, an honoured distinguished surgeon, who is married to a beautiful Arab woman and thinks that they have a happy marriage. When the book opens she is revealed as being a suicide bomber. The book is an account of how her husband has to comes to terms with this as well as his Arab identity. This account will help the reader gain an understanding of the Middle Eastern conflict.

No. 1467

Audacious Mendacity Of Lily Green, The


by Shelley Weiner

Read by Rita Rosenbaum (12 Cds)

On her 34th birthday Lily tells her mother a lie. It is her first one ever and it is life-changing. She says she is engaged to be married and finds that telling a lie can make things happen - and that she is very good at it. On wings of deception she moves from the mundane terrace house in Hatch End, where she lives with her mother to the glitziest hotel in London. Along the way she finds her candidate for marriage; a good-looking young man who seems to fall for her stories and physical charms. But who is he really? And her mother, Eva, a card-playing suburbanite -who is she when the web of deceit is unpicked? The outcome is dramatic, catastrophic and liberating. This is a darkly comic tale about loneliness, desperation and the power of self-reinvention and how Lily Green discovers the meaning of truth and love.

No. 1693

Auschwitz Violin, The


by Maria Angels Anglada

Read by Rita Rosenbaum (1 Cd)

The Auschwitz violin is the unforgettable story based on fact of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity and is written by one of the most prestigious and widely read Catalan authors of the twentieth century, Maria Angels Anglada. In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvellously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When asked how she obtained it, she reveals its remarkable story. This book, written with simplicity, passion and humanity and interspersed with chilling actual Nazi documentation is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

No. 1541

Beware of G-d

by Shalom Auslander

Read by david Collins
"Beware of God" is a witty, shocking and satirical collection of short stories. They have the mysterious punch of a dream. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken and is forced to reconsider his life and his diet. Leo searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. A young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future. Auslander draws upon his Orthodox Jewish upbringing to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God and death.

No. 1757



Beware Of Pity


by Stefan Zweig

Read by Anthony Tibber (1 Cd)

A powerful novel which explores the complex hidden recesses of emotion. Set in the period just before 1914 and continuing to 1918; It tells the story of a soldier who befriends a lame girl only to find to his horror that she falls in love with him. The tragic end of the affair is swallowed up in the outbreak of WW1. This story gives an interesting view of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

No. 1707

Binding Of Isaac, The


by Michael Shocket

Read by Ella Marks (1 Cd)

The names of the central characters Abraham and Isaac in the moving first novel by Michael Shocket denote the parallels between a contemporary family's problems and the familiar biblical figures.

The story is partly a who dunnit but mainly the disturbing story of family life torn in its attitudes to disability and race. There are several themes of disability, mixed race, religion and spiritual conflict as viewed by each member of the family. Also interwoven with the pictures presented of prejudice are the love stories of the central characters which ultimately lead to a somewhat contrived happy ending.



No. 1377
Binocular Vision

by Edith Pearlman

Read by Mary Ross
A series of short stories spanning 40 years. Edith Pearlman has a unique style with a talent to invent unusual situations and characters. Perceptive and intelligent writing sometimes with dark, humorous twists or ones that can bring a tear to the eye. Highly recommended.

No. 1770



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