JULY– SEPTEMBER 2021 Canada

ULVERSCROFT AUDIO NEW RELEASES MP3 CD, CD & LIBRARY DOWNLOAD COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 1 Introducing Samantha Silva… Samantha Silva is a writer and screenwriter based in Idaho. She is currently adapting her debut novel, Mr Dickens and His Carol, for the stage. Love and Fury is her latest novel. Introduce us to Love and Fury. Everyone knows Mary Shelley, who gave us Frankenstein, but not everyone knows her mother, who gave us feminism…Wollstonecraft is an enormously important 18th century writer and philosopher who argues and fights with every shred of her being for an end to tyranny, whether of kings, of marriage, or men. She took Edmund Burke head on, supported both the American and French Revolutions…and managed to live as an independent woman, supporting herself as a writer, which is extraordinary for the period. She was famous in her own lifetime, but her reputation was destroyed for a century when her grieving husband, radical philosopher William Godwin, rushed to write a tell-all memoir, including her tragic love affairs, out-of-wedlock child, severe depression, suicide attempts, that scandalised even her admirers. I think we’re still recovering from that loss – trying to recover her.

‘Two centuries later, her fight for gender equality is still the fight, and her presence as necessary as ever.’ What’s your favourite quality about her? It hadn’t occurred to me that my favourite qualities of Wollstonecraft’s – fierce love and rage – are qualities of mine, even if not as attractive in me as they are in her. She is driven by her expansive intellect and reason, but also by intense passions and emotion…As soft as she was, and as kind, there’s so much strength in her, even her name – ’Wollstonecraft’ – sounds like a feminist superhero. Did you discover any fun facts whilst researching that you didn’t know previously? The fact that the eldest Kingsborough daughter, Margaret, who’s greatly influenced by Wollstonecraft when she’s governess to the girls, ends up leaving her marriage, her status and wealth, to go to Italy, where she dresses as a man, goes to medical school, and becomes a practicing doctor. She takes the name of a character Wollstonecraft invented when she told stories to the Kingsborough girls, Mrs Mason. Wollstonecraft would have loved that gender-bending, norm-defying act. How difficult is it to combine history with fiction? There were times when the responsibility to do justice to Wollstonecraft felt overwhelming. But I’m drawn to these larger-than-life, complicated, charismatic people, men and women. They’re a puzzle, and I like remaking the pieces and re-fitting them together. But for me, it has to become personal. We pick them for a reason, or they pick us. I’m not sure I know the why, not at the beginning, but it slowly reveals itself, the thing I’m working out in real time, through them. When my agent and I first talked about Wollstonecraft and Shelley, the mother-daughter aspect, it honestly didn’t dawn on me that I’d just lost my own mother suddenly (though after a long illness) and that I was getting ready for my youngest, a daughter, to leave home. The novel is so much about that liminal space, even the structure of the eleven days between Wollstonecraft giving birth and then dying of puerperal fever suggests it. I kept asking myself what stories you would tell your daughter, what you would want her to know.

Introducing Iain Maitland…

Iain Maitland is the author of three thrillers as well as two non-fiction books on mental health. An ambassador for Stem4, the teenage mental health charity, Iain also speaks on mental health issues in the workplace. A writer since 1987, he is a journalist and has written more than 50 books, mainly on business, which have been published around the world. What inspired the story behind Mr Todd’s Reckoning? A few years ago I was subjected to a random tax enquiry and spent some time being investigated by someone from the local tax office – after five months or so they decided I owed them about £50. The guy who did it – in essence, someone on a fairly low salary but who wielded considerable power in a way – was, with a tweak and an embellishment, my Mr Todd. Introduce us to your narrator Malcolm Todd. Malcolm has just been made redundant by HMRC. He sits at home angry and frustrated. He lives with his son, Adrian, who is unemployed and keeps disappearing during the day. They live in a tiny and cramped bungalow during the hottest summer on record. The next-door neighbour plays Ringo Starr music, loudly, over and over again. Everything is reaching boiling point for Malcolm. What made you decide to structure the novel as diary entries? I wanted to go back and forth in time so that, as the book starts, you get the sense of a wronged but decent man who knows he has some anger management issues. He deals with that by keeping a diary and writing about whatever has made him unhappy in the past. Little by little, we get a better sense of the man. In light of recent lockdowns, how do you think new readers or listeners will respond to the claustrophobic themes? In some ways, it is a perfect lockdown thriller – two people, who don’t get along, in a small, confined space and both of them on edge. And tensions are rising. Most people will recognise the set-up and feel some, but hopefully not all, of the emotions of Mr Todd. How important is it that your book will be available in audio as well as traditional formats? Audio is the perfect medium for a story – especially a creepy thriller. Close the door, turn the lights down, make yourself comfortable – and get ready to jump out of your skin. Is there anything about the book that you think will translate particularly well into audio? I love the idea that you will start by empathising with this man – redundancy, troubled son, lockdown etc – and then, as the reading progresses, you’ll feel the dread and sense the menace and, by the end, the utter horror of it all. 2 Audio . . . every word counts

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir Sharon Bolton Girls Who Lie The Pact

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an The Secret History for Millennials – the twists start early and July apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she’s only get tighter in this compelling thriller about betrayal, taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields crime and class. Belinda Bauer seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year- A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the old daughter Hekla has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect brightest of futures – until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a new life hiding something sinister? Fifteen years earlier, a desperate woman and two children are killed. Eighteeen-year-old Megan takes the new mother lies in a maternity ward, unable to look at her own child, the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they start of an odd and broken relationship that leads to a shocking tragedy. each agree to a ‘favour’, payable on her release from prison. Twenty years Police officer Elma and her colleagues take on the case, which becomes later Megan is free. Let the games begin... increasingly complex, as the number of suspects grows and new light is shed on Maríanna’s past – and the childhood of a girl who never was like the others...

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Jenny Colgan Angus Donald Sunrise by the Sea Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones Marisa Rosso is struggling. Since the death of her beloved grandfather Spring 1192. Robin Hood and his band of men, travelling home from the back home in Italy, she can’t seem to find a way out of her grief. So Third Crusade, find themselves in the lush, wine-rich Duchy of Burgundy. when her flatmate offers her one of his uncle’s rentals on a remote tidal When they are captured by a renegade knight, and taken across the island off the Cornish Coast, Marisa jumps at the opportunity. Perhaps River Saone to the rival County of Burgundy, they are plunged into a some solitude is just what she needs to rediscover her equilibrium. But nightmarish world of treachery, deceit and cold-blooded murder. While between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbour and the hustle and the cunning Earl of Locksley plots and schemes to advance King Richard’s bustle of a busy community, Marisa finds solitude is not so easy to come cause in the two Burgundies, Alan Dale, his loyal lieutenant and personal by. Especially when she finds herself somehow involved with a tiny local trouvère, embarks on a private quest to rescue a damsel in distress and bakery desperately in need of some new zest to save it... falls foul of the monstrous guardian of the Castle of Bones.

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Mel Giedroyc Clare Mackintosh The Best Things Hostage

July Could the worst day of Sally Parker’s life be the best thing The atmosphere on board the first non-stop flight from London that ever happened to her? to Sydney is electric. Celebrities are rumoured to be among the Sally Parker is struggling to find the hero inside herself. All she wants to passengers in business class, and the world is watching the landmark do is lie down. Her husband Frank has lost his business, their home and journey. Flight attendant Mina is trying to focus on the passengers, their savings, in one fell swoop. Their bank cards are being declined. The instead of her troubled five-year-old daughter back at home – or the children have gone feral. And now the bailiffs are at the door. What does cataclysmic problems in her marriage. But soon after the plane takes off, an ordinary woman do when the bottom falls out? Sally Parker is about Mina receives a chilling anonymous note. Someone wants to make to surprise everybody. Most of all herself. sure the plane never reaches its destination. They’re demanding her cooperation...and they know exactly how to get it.

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Christine Mangan Andrew Martin Palace of the Drowned Powder Smoke Sequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie Croy finds comfort in the York Railway Station, December 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is emptiness of Venice in winter. Desperate to rediscover the success of her enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his wife, Lydia, to first novel, she attempts to ignore the growing fear that the end of her a charitable function. But Jim is alarmed to see a man pointing a revolver career is imminent. And then Gilly appears. A young woman claiming a in his direction. His thoughts go spinning back to a hot day at the end connection from back home, one that Frankie can’t quite seem to recall. of August, when he attended the York Summer Gala in company with But Frankie wonders just how much of what Gilly tells her is the truth. his boss, Superintendent Saul Weatherill, aka ‘the Chief’. The Chief had Those around Frankie are quick to dismiss her claims that someone is insisted on taking Jim into a Wild West sideshow. The star of the show occupying the other half of the palazzo, which has supposedly stood was a young sharpshooter called Kid Durrant. As Jim watched Durrant empty since after the war. But Frankie has caught Gilly in numerous lies, displaying his deadeye skills, he little realised how this would be the start has seen the lights across the way, has heard the footsteps... of his most dangerous investigation yet.

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Samantha Silva Saskia Swann & Nicola Stow Love and Fury Above and Beyond

August, 1797. When Mary Wollstonecraft’s labour begins everything Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant July appears normal, and she anticipates being back at her usual occupations Heavily in debt, and earning peanuts as a ‘trolley dolly’, Saskia Swann before too long. However, after her baby girl, her second daughter, is desperately needed to get her life back on track. After a chance meeting, delivered, both mother and child will fight for survival. In that time, Mary she landed a job as cabin crew – but this time on a private jet. Suddenly, Wollstonecraft weaves the tale of her life to bind her frail daughter close she found herself transported into the glittering world of oligarchs and and to give herself a reason to fight, even as her own strength wanes. billionaires where the hostesses wear Prada, seven-course meals are She describes a life lived against the conventions and restrictions of her served on fine china, the bodyguards carry guns, and the mile-high time. A life that urgently demanded equality for herself and all women. shenanigans not only take place in luxury cabins, but in the cockpit itself. A life that tempered triumph with loss. In this gripping exposé, Saskia Swann pulls back the first-class curtain on the lifestyles of the mega-rich and famous.

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Martin Walker Catriona Ward The Coldest Case The Last House on Needless Street Bruno Courrèges is Chief of Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge. This is the story of Dordogne. His main wish is to keep the local people safe. For 30 years, Ted, who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary Bruno’s boss, J-J, has been obsessed with his first case. The body of a house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet young male was found in the woods near St Denis and never identified. some of them are lies. You think you know what’s inside the last house on For all these years, J-J has kept the skull as a reminder. He calls him Needless Street. You think you’ve read this story before. But you’re wrong. ‘Oscar’. Visiting the famous pre-history museum in nearby Les Eyzies, In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, something lies buried. Bruno sees some amazingly lifelike heads expertly reconstructed from But it’s not what you think... ancient skulls. He suggests performing a similar reconstruction on Oscar. An expert is hired to start the reconstruction and the search for Oscar’s killer begins again in earnest.

Read by Peter Noble Read by Christopher Ragland 10 hours 11 hours 50 minutes MYSTERY THRILLER

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Mark Billingham Clive Cussler and Graham Brown Rabbit Hole Fast Ice My name is Alice. I’m a police officer. The infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, I’m trying to solve a murder on a psychiatric ward. hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. What the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous... But I’m also a patient... In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for August They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, the freezing edge of the world after a former NUMA colleague disappears treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and in Antarctica. Drawn into a decades-old conspiracy, they are up against the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member a terrifying man-made weapon – a fast-growing ice that could usher of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous is methodical, tireless, and she’s quickly on the trail of the killer. The only storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot to save problem is, Alice is a patient too. the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all.

Read by Jeff Harding 10 hours 45 minutes Read by Maxine Peake ADVENTURE SUSPENSE 9 hours 55 minutes CD MP3 D/L MYSTERY 10 1

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Lucy Dickens Egan Hughes The Broken Hearts Honeymoon Leave the Lights On The wedding is off, but adventures awaits... Their new ‘smart home’ is Joe’s dream. A remote cottage where Charlotte had a plan. The perfect country wedding, followed by a month- everything is controlled through an app. It’s the perfect blend of old-world long honeymoon in Japan – but when her fiancé starts having second charm and modern convenience. What better place for them to escape thoughts, she knows there’s no choice but to call off the wedding. after all Lauren’s trauma? Lauren desperately wants Joe to be happy after Charlotte isn’t sure she knows how to be single, but she is going to try, all she’s put him through, so she doesn’t tell him how much she hates starting with taking that trip of a lifetime – alone. Will she find herself in being so dependent on technology. How vulnerable it makes them. Then the hills of Mount Fuji, or in the karaoke bars of Tokyo? And will she be ‘the incidents’ begin. Joe thinks Lauren is the victim of her own fevered ready for romance by the time the cherry blossom flowers? imagination. But Lauren can’t be sure. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she also knows the past rarely stays buried. And she is haunted by one question: Is their past finally catching up with them?

Read by Rebecca Norfolk Read by Suzannah Hampton 7 hours 35 minutes 10 hours GENERAL FICTION SUSPENSE

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Caroline Hulse Doug Johnstone All the Fun of the Fair The Great Silence The Fair is the only good thing that happens every year. And Fiona Larson Keeping on top of the family funeral directors’ and private investigation is the only person in town who’s never been. She’s pretended to go – but businesses is no easy task for the Skelf women, and when matriarch she’s never been allowed. Because, before Fiona was even born, her sister Dorothy discovers a human foot while walking the dog, a perplexing died there. This year, everything will be different. Fiona is about to turn case presents itself...Daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah have August twelve – older than her sister was. This summer, Fiona will save some their hands full too: The mysterious circumstances of a dying woman money, make new friends, and finally have some fun at The Fair. But what lead them into an unexpected family drama, Hannah’s new astrophysicist she’ll actually do is: find a mysterious bag in a bush, spy on everyone, colleague claims he’s receiving messages from outer space, and the lose her only friend, make a lot of lists, and learn the truth about what Skelfs’ teenaged lodger has yet another devastating experience. Nothing happened at The Fair... is clear as the women are immersed ever deeper in their most challenging cases yet. When the daughter of Jenny’s violent and fugitive ex-husband goes missing without trace, real danger presents itself, and all three Skelfs are in peril.

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Douglas Kennedy Awais Khan Afraid of the Light No Honour Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who In 16-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to never liked the work, he’s a man who has stayed in his marriage and his live by, and her family’s honour to protect. And, yet, her spirit is defiant faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his and she yearns to make a home with the man she loves. When the job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself unthinkable happens, Abida faces the same fate as other young girls who scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer have chosen unacceptable alliances – certain, public death. Fired by a to a man his age – driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired fierce determination and aided by her devoted father, Jamil, she escapes professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic to Lahore but then disappears. Jamil goes to Lahore in search of Abida – a where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself literally driving right city where the prejudices that dominate their village take on a new and into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time. horrifying form – and father and daughter are caught in a world from which they may never escape.

Read by Robert G. Slade Read by Nikki Patel 8 hours 10 minutes 9 hours 35 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Stephen Leather Nina Monroe Fast Track The Children’s Secret Murderous jihadists have been crossing the English Channel, passing Nothing ever happens in a sleepy American town like Middlebrook. Until themselves off as asylum seekers. MI5 have been keeping them under the shocking events of one hot Saturday afternoon when, at a back-to- surveillance, but what starts as a simple terrorist takedown goes badly school party, nine children sneak off to a barn. And one child is shot by wrong and dozens of innocent civilians are killed in the heart of London. another. The press are asking questions. About the type of parents who August And the screw is tightened when a bomb takes out senior members of let their children play unsupervised in a house with guns. About how the Secret Intelligence Service. Someone within the security services has damaged a child must be to commit this kind of atrocity. Two questions been working to their own agenda, and only Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd are the most urgent, and the most baffling. Of the nine children who were can identify the bad apple. His search for the rogue agent takes him to present in that barn, which one actually pulled the trigger? And why are Turkey and then to Dubai, where his masters order him to carry out a the others staying silent? breathtaking act of revenge.

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Cath Staincliffe T.A. Willberg Running Out of Road Marion Lane and the Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Nana, Midnight Murder who Scarlett lives with since Mum died, reckons Scarlett will be on London, 1958. Hidden deep beneath the city’s streets lies the world Strictly at this rate. Except Scarlett doesn’t make it home from school. of Miss Brickett’s, a secret detective agency. Apprentice detectives at She’s abducted by a man she never imagined she’d see again. A man Miss Brickett’s undergo rigorous training to equip them with the skills on the police’s most wanted list. Her dad. DS Laura O’Neil is running on and knowledge they will need to solve the mysteries that confound empty after nights dealing with her teething toddler. But Laura is driving London’s police force. But nothing can prepare 23-year-old apprentice the hunt for Scarlett and knows that every minute counts. PC Ahmed Ali Marion Lane for what happens after the arrest of her mentor, Frank, on discovers a seriously injured man in a drug den and chases his suspected suspicion of murder: he tasks Marion with clearing his name and saving attacker across the hills. Ahmed is determined to bring him to justice. But his life. Her investigation will place Marion and her friends in great peril fate has other plans in store. as they venture into the uncharted tunnels that surround Miss Brickett’s. Being discovered out of bounds means immediate dismissal, but that is the least of Marion’s problems...

Read by Colleen Prendergast 10 hours 10 minutes Read by Katy Sobey HISTORICAL MYSTERY 7 hours 45 minutes CD MP3 D/L SUSPENSE 10 1

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Simon Brett John Connolly An Untidy Death The Nameless Ones When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen The new Charlie Parker novel Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother’s chaotic flat, Ellen gets In Amsterdam, four people are butchered in a canal house, their remains the impression Alexandra doesn’t like her mother very much. But when arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, Ingrid Richards’ body is discovered in her burned-out home, Alexandra’s go-between, and confidante of the assassin named Louis. The men exasperated words don’t seem such a joke. Due to the hazardous state of responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they the victim’s over-cluttered residence, the police are inclined to dismiss her can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland. They are wrong. death as an unfortunate accident. Ellen’s not so sure. Could Alexandra’s For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found resentment towards her mother have escalated into violence? The more and punished before they can vanish into the east. There is only one she discovers about the dead woman’s remarkable past, the more problem. The sixth. September convinced Ellen becomes that there’s something decidedly suspicious about her death.

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Nigel Farndale Stuart Johnstone The Dictator’s Muse Into the Dark As Hitler’s grip on power tightens, preparations are being made for the The brutal murder of ten-year-old Callum Bradley sent shockwaves across Berlin Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl is the pioneering, sexually liberated Scotland but, as the weeks have stretched on with no solid leads, the star film-maker of the Third Reich. She has been chosen by Hitler to investigation has been scaled back. Sergeant Don Colyear, Community capture the Olympics on celluloid. Kim Newlands is the English athlete Police Officer, is tasked with tying up a loose end: a 999 call which may ‘sponsored’ by the Blackshirts and devoted to his mercurial, socialite have hinted at the boy’s murder. However, the call was made three weeks girlfriend Connie. Alun Pryce is the Welsh communist sent to infiltrate the before the crime took place. The caller turns out to be a resident at an Blackshirts. Through her camera lens, Leni is able to manipulate the truth. Edinburgh care home, drifting in and out of lucidity due to dementia. But while some scenes from her life end up on the cutting room floor, this Enough to write off the potential lead as a dead end. But when a fresh does not mean they are lost forever... murder disturbs the city, the clock is ticking path to catch a violent killer.

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Stephen Leather Andrew Martin Russian Roulette Steam Trains Today Russian troops are preparing to cross the border into Belarus, threatening Riding the Heritage Railways of Britain its independence. The only thing facing them are an armed partisan group After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were ‘rationalised’ but they are poorly trained and will be no match for the Russians. The and gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated without ready British Government wants an independent Belarus as a buffer against access to the main lines and steam trains slowly gave way to diesel and Russian expansion – so Shepherd is despatched with a crack SAS team electric traction. But some people were not prepared to let the romance to help the partisans. And as the Russians prepare to attack Belarus, of train travel die. Thanks to their efforts, many of these lines passed assassins are at work, carrying out an audacious series of killings. All into community ownership and are now booming with new armies of the victims are supporters of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia. dedicated volunteers. Andrew Martin goes out to meet these enthusiasts September Someone wants President Yeltsin dead. And it’s up to Shepherd and his and find out just what it is about preserved railways which makes people team to ensure that doesn’t happen. so devoted. From the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine to John Betjeman’s battle against encroaching modernity, Steam Trains Today is a wonderful journey across Britain. NF

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Clare Morrall Louise Penny The Museum of Diaries The Madness of Crowds An audiobook exclusive from the author of When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control Booker-shortlisted Astonishing Splashes of Colour at a statistics lecture given at the Université de l’Estrie in Quebec, he Forced into retirement, history professor Ellen Kershaw finds herself at is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what a loose end. So when she is contacted by a reclusive billionaire, with an sounds like a minor, even mundane lecture? But dangerous ideas about unusual proposition, her interest is piqued. Theodore Shepherd is funding who deserves to live in order for society to thrive are rapidly gaining a museum for diaries, and he wants Ellen to curate it. A live-in position popularity, fuelled by the research of the eminent Professor Abigail at a Gothic stately home in the middle of Dartmoor, it’s just the escape Robinson. When a murder is committed days after the lecture, it’s clear she needs whilst she works out what to do with the rest of her life. Ellen that within crowds can lie madness. The line separating good and evil, soon finds herself immersed in the stories and diaries that await her. But right and wrong, is quickly blurring – especially when the case leads as voices from the past start to interweave with the present, mysteries unexpectedly close to home... and secrets from her own childhood come to light...

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Bethan Roberts Riley Sager My Policeman Survive the Night Soon to be a film starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin LibraryReads Hall of Fame Author It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten – determined They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. On the Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, the news – the Campus Killer, who’s tied up and stabbed three students and in this age, it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must in the span of a year, has just struck again. Travelling the lengthy journey share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. between university and their final destination, Casey begins to notice discrepancies in Josh’s story. As she begins to plan her escape from the September man, she is becoming certain is the killer, she starts to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she’s thinking. Meaning that she could very well end up as his next victim.

Read by Emma Powell and Piers Hampton Read by Kate Handford 10 hours 10 minutes 8 hours 30 minutes LITERARY THRILLER

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Douglas Skelton Daisy Waugh A Rattle of Bones Phone for the Fish Knives “If you don’t know Skelton, now’s the time.” Ian Rankin When Hollywood wants to do a remake of the film that made Tode Hall In 1752, Seamus a’Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the famous, India and Egbert are delighted. They envisage a summer of murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly free money and star-studded dinner parties ahead...But the Hall is soon innocent. When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that his overrun by wardrobe trucks and catering tents, and lusty, insecure actors namesake, James Stewart, is innocent of murder, reporter Rebecca squabbling about nudity clauses. When the movie’s producers threaten Connolly smells a story. The young Stewart has been in prison for ten to sue over the exact colour of Tode Hall’s rolling lawns, India and Egbert years for the brutal murder of his lover, lawyer and politician Murdo realise that having a film crew on their doorstep isn’t such a breeze after Maxwell. Rebecca soon discovers that Maxwell believed he was being all. With so many egos in one place things were bound to end badly, but followed prior to his murder and his phones were tapped. As Rebecca no one would have predicted quite so literal a backstabbing... keeps digging, she finds herself in the sights of Inverness crime matriarch Mo Burke, who wants payback for the damage caused to her family in a previous case.

Read by Sarah Barron Read by Penelope Rawlins 10 hours 10 minutes 7 hours 50 minutes MYSTERY HISTORICAL MYSTERY

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FAMILY SAGA 8 hours35minutes Read byAnneDover FAMILY SAGA 9 hours50minutes Read byClaire Morgan forced toputherfamilybeforeownhappiness? choice buttoacceptthemanthatherfatherchoseforher. Will Ellabe everything shehasworked for, anditseemsclearthatEllawillhaveno that she has fallen in love. But a tragic accident threatens to ruin show underthewatchful eyeof Anthony. It’s notlongbeforesherealises wants hernameinlights, backstage is whereElla’s heartlies, running the – it’s asifshewas bornforalifeinthetheatre. Unlike Kathleen, who theatre inSwansea, sheissurprisedbyhowquicklytakes tothejob When EllaBurtontakes ajobaslowlycleanerattheglamorousPalace Act ofLove Iris Gower Noah findthehappinesstheywishfor? denied, wreaksrevengewithdevastating consequences. Will Beth and to offermarriage, butwhenBethturnshimdown, Melville, furioustobe wealthy sonoflocalgentry, wants Bethforhimself. At firstheiswilling forever andNoah’s loveforBethisputatrisk. However, LouisMelville, the could change her mind. But a disaster at the coal mine changes their lives miner NoahJackson, sheissuddenlyveryaware Noahisamanwho daughter. Although notthinkingof marriage, whenBethmeets village Yorkshire, 1913. BethBeaumontenjoysherlifeasarhubarbfarmer’s The MarketStallGirl AnneMarie Brear CD CD 9 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 10 hours50minutes Read byAnneDover wrath destroyeveryoneinhislife, includinghisdaughter...? father ofIsabel’s child. Will Isabelescapewithherchild, orwillthemiller’s birth toaboy, buttherumoursaboundthatmillermaynotbe court avulnerable andlonelyyoungwomancalledIsabel. Isabelgives son, andwhenMary’s newestsiblingturnsouttobeagirl, hebeginsto them to be a part of his new family. But the miller is desperate for a School forGirlstostartanewlife. The millertracks themdownandbrings mother diessoonafter, MaryandhersiblingsaresenttotheFoundling When Mary’s father, themiller, runsaway withanotherwomanandher The Miller’s Daughter Elizabeth Gill FAMILY SAGA 9 hours50minutes Read byPenelope Freeman she’s suddenlytheprimarysuspect–andherwholefutureisonline. tragedy isalways justaroundthecorner, andwhenLou’s depotisburgled, asks herout, Loucan’tdecidewhotogiveherheartto. Butduringwar, she finallyfeelslike oneofthegirls. AndwhenLieutenantDouglasRoss of local wheeler-dealer Harry, whodazzles her withnightsabouttown, from thedepotwhotake herundertheirwing. When Loucatchestheeye in theRoyal CanadianNaval Yard inPlymouth, lodgingwithothergirls left. Sheyearnstocontributethewar effortandtakes ajobasclerk Lou Channerwants alifeoutsideofNorth Devon, somewhereshe’s never Her Heart’s Choice Rosie Meddon CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 8 hours40minutes Read byHelenKeeley country –andthoseshelovestosurvive. friendship andastrengthshedidn’tknowpossessedtohelpher putting her life on the line every time she takes to the skies. It will take Ellie soonfindsout, wearingthedistinctiveblueuniformalsomeans fighting onthefrontline. Beingan ATA girlisdefinitelyexcitingbut, as friends, providesawelcomedistraction fromworryingaboutlovedones does sheloveflying, butdoingimportant war work, alongsidenew-found hours anddanger, Elliecanthinkofnowhereshe’d rather be. Notonly base inHampshire. Lifeasan ATA pilotistough, butdespitethelong Hampshire, 1940. EllieSimpsonisattachedtoan Air Transport Auxiliary The SpitfireGirlintheSkies Fenella J.Miller FAMILY SAGA 11 hours5minutes Read byAnnieAldington within London’s poorestalleys. find herlong-lostsister, Lilysoondiscoversthereisaworldofwickedness to achildwhowas spiritedaway. Searchingeverycornerofthecityto has onetroubleshemustkeep secret: beforedying, hermothergavebirth Lily recruits her old friends, Margie and Fannie, as helping hands. But Lily attracts someunwanted visitors, includingGreg’s oldrival Scully. Luckily, into ashrewdtradeswoman. Butthemarket isaman’s worldandshe charge ofGreg’s warehouse, shehasblossomedfromastreeturchin wakes upatdawntocarrycrates ofapplestothemarket stall. Leftin East London, 1915. While themanshelovesisaway fighting, LilyLarkin Stray Angel Kay Brellend CD CD 10 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 Audio D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 7 hours50minutes Read byAnnieAldington events ofthe20 happiness. CanDaisyandherfamilysurviveoneofthemostfateful changes dramatically andcloselyguardedsecretsthreatenthePurbrights’ a paralysing bombardment on London and war tightens its grip. Life but thewhisperingsofwar growlouder. Then Adolf Hitlerconducts Purbrights desperately attempttosettleanewlifeintheEastEnd, her familyaresweptupintotheintrigue, dangerandexcitement. The fortunes onaspeculativeinvestmentinLondon’s docklands, Daisyand freedoms ofrural England. Butwhenherfathergamblesthefamily’s and togetherwithbelovedbrotherBobby, they’veenjoyedtheendless East London, 1938. Nine-year-old DaisyPurbrightisacountrygirlatheart Girl WithSecrets Carol Rivers FAMILY SAGA 9 hours40minutes Read byPenelope Freeman do anythingtomake herhisstar. bawdiest pubs. Nancyvowednevertotrustamanagain. ButFrancis will years didhethinkhe’d findherstandingonatableinoneofBath’s now rich, successfulandinneedofanewfemalestar. Neverinamillion next big thing to take the country by storm. A self-made man, Francis is Carlyle isatheatremanager, anambitiousmanalways lookingforthe the theatre, theybelievedhim. Hislieandbetrayal ledtoherruin. Francis Royal. When amanpromisedherparentshecouldfindroleforNancyin Bath, 1852. As agirl, Nancy BloomlongedtobepartofBath’s Theatre Trouble fortheLeadingLady Rachel Brimble CD CD 9 8 MP3 MP3 th 1 1 century? the homeoffamilysaga . . . every wordscounts . every D/L D/L

13 JulyDecember August 14 August FAMILY SAGA 11 hours55minutes Read byJulie Maisey her lovestoryhaveahappyending? madness, canJoycefinda way tomake herdreamscometrue? Andwill supportive friends Annie and Rose are on hand to help. Despite all the before Joycestartstofeelthepressuremightbealltoomuch. Luckily, her keep thecaféafloatwithhernew-foundresponsibilities, it’s notlong dying grandmother, Joyce’s lifegetsturnedupsidedown. Strugglingto loves enlistsinthewar, andasurpriserequestcomesthroughfromher Taylor dreamsofopeningherownrestaurant. Butwhenthemanshe 1914. Working inabustlingcaféonLondon’s Shaftesbury Avenue, Joyce Big DreamsfortheWest EndGirls Elaine Roberts FAMILY SAGA 9 hours15minutes Read byJanine Birkett get intheway ofherdreams? future fordomesticdutiesbecauseherfamilycomesfirst. Willfamilyties pulls herbacktoalifeinthecollieryrows. Sherelinquishesherbright Rose triestomake themostofpost-war opportunitiesbutfamilytragedy a family secret, she makes a choice that overshadows her teenage years. World War 2childhood. When thespiritedcoalminer’s daughterdiscovers Rationing, bombing, diseaseandpitdisastersarepartofRoseKelly’s Rose’s Choice Chrissie Bradshaw CD CD 11 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 D/L D/L FAMILY SAGA 9 hours45minutes Read byHelenKeeley war canthrowatthem. that their love is strong enough to stand the test of all the hardship the once again. With herfriendsandfamilyinconstantdangersherealises of aSpitfire, ittakes adifferentkindofcourage toopenherheartlove Leader Jack Reynolds. And whileEllieisbrave enoughtotake thecontrols her all to a job she loves leaves Ellie precious little time for Squadron Spitfire aswelltheboysonfrontline, istheirnewestrecruit. Giving bombers wherever they’re needed, and Ellie Simpson, who can fly a 1942. The ATA iscallinguponitsmosttrustedpilotstodeliverprecious A Wedding fortheSpitfireGirl Fenella J.Miller FAMILY SAGA 10 hours30minutes Dover Read byAnne that threatentotearthemapart… that quicklyturnsintomore. Neithersuspectstheirfamilieshavesecrets the mostconventionalpair, thetwocometogetheroveraloveofbooks instant and electric. While a librarian’s assistant and a collier might not be 1912. The firsttimeHughand Amymeet, theconnectionbetweenthemis Can heeveragainbetheman Amy knewandloved?Barnsborough, years intheFirst World War, Hughisashadowofthemanheoncewas. Hospital, hedoesn’trecogniseher. Broken afterservingfourdevastating Leeds, 1918. When Amy visitsherhusbandHughatBeckett’s Park The Collier’s Wife Chrissie Walsh CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga D/L D/L FAMILY SAGA 7 hours55minutes Read byTamsinKennard Ace isn’tthemanshethoughthewas. that couldshatterConnie’s worldoncemore, andConnierealisesthat Cousin Marlene, returnshome. Secretscometolight, revealingjealousies more ways than one. Then, to compoundConnie’s problems, her nemesis, cinema. Butappearances canbedeceptiveandConnieisstrugglingin She hasfriendsandajobsheadoresasanusheretteattheCriterion loves her. Sheenjoysanenviablelifestyledespitethedeprivations ofwar. appears tohaveeverythingagirlcouldwant. There is Ace, amanwho 1943. After theheartacheofpreviousyear, Connie Baxter now I’ll BeSeeingYou Rosie Archer FAMILY SAGA 8 hours30minutes Susanna Wolff Read by Can FlorencesaveherSpitfireboys, andherownheart? midst, putting Siegfried–andthewholecountryinterribledanger. turn thetideofwar, butFlorencefearsthereistraitor isintheir of happiness...Meanwhile, anewplaneisbeingdevelopedthatcould a broken heartandaterriblesecret, whichmightdestroyheronechance romance mightblossomunderthewar-torn skies. ButFlorenceisnursing the newsquadronleader–shy, handsomeSiegfried–itseemsthat of Cottisbourne airbase return safely day after day. When she befriends Air Force, patchingupplanestomake surethatthebrave Spitfirepilots It’s 1944, andFlorence isatalentedengineerinthe Women’s Auxiliary Under aSpitfireSky Ellie Curzon CD CD 8 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 Audio D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 8 hours10minutes Dover Read byAnne opportunity toseekrevenge? the manshelovesreturnhomesafe, orwillanoldenemytake an battlefields of France? Canshesavethefarmfromcollapse? Andwill the griefandburdensplaceduponherasshewaits fornewsfromthe home, BeaumontFarm becomesBeth’s responsibility. Canshecopewith A devastating accidentoccursthatchangesalltheirlives. Oncealoving events beyondhercontrol. Noahenliststofightalongsidehisbrothers. of beingateacher. When war erupts, Beth’s peacefullifeisshatteredby content workingonherfamily’s market stallwhileNoahfulfilshisdreams West Yorkshire, 1914. NewlymarriedtoNoahJackson, Bethishappily The Woman FromBeaumontFarm AnneMarie Brear escape theclutchesofJonesfamily... but whensherealisesispregnant, shefindsthatit’s noteasyto refuses tomarryher. SheisdeterminedtosurvivewithouthiminLondon, night Caradoc finallybecomesherlover, butsheisdevastated whenhe journey, astheywalk longmilesoverrugged terrain. Oneheady, star-filled in London. Nonstrugglestobeacceptedbytheotherwomenon sister Georgina, andjoinsthedroversonroadtoSmithfieldmarket and, indesperation, sheacceptsajobaschaperone toCaradoc’s spoilt alone. ShelongsforCaradoc Jones, sonofafamous Welsh cattledrover When her beloved father dies, Manon Jenkins is left homeless and The RowanTree Iris Gower FAMILY SAGA 10 hours55minutes Read byClaire Morgan CD CD 10 8 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga . ever D/L D/L y wordscounts

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FAMILY SAGA 11 hours50minutes Read byJulia Franklin heart. Shealsohasthechickens!Ihaveaflockofrescuechickens fromtheBritishHen Welfare Trust, soofcoursetheyhadtobeincluded. Ailsa andherchickens.She’s quiteheadstrong,gossipy, loud andpracticallymovesinwhenChloefirstarrives,butshehasabeautiful There’s awholecastofeccentricneighboursandlocalsinthe book. Doyouhaveafavouritecharacter? progresses she starts to re-evaluate what she wants from life, and accept she is absolutely not the failure she felt at the start of the story. opportunity fromlife,orperhapsanewconfidencewhichallows ustodevelopfurther?AllthesethingsChloefaces,andasthebook there, butoftenhavethat‘whatnow?’feeling.Maybeaslight panicweneedtosqueezeeverylast I feellike,especiallyforwomen,50isabigmilestone,and we’ve travelledalongroadtoget as cabincrew, andlatterlyworking fortheAmbulanceService. Daisy Whitestartedwriting15yearsago,scribblingideasatworkonthenightshift,firstlyflying Introducing DaisyWhite… another secret; andifitcomesout, itcoulddestroyhernewlife. charming, gentleInspectorRobertCaldwell. ButConnieishauntedby lively fellowclippies, BettyandJean, aswellgrowingclosertothe disapproval. Constance, knownasConnie, soonmakes fastfriendswith signs uptobeaclippieonthetrams inStaffordshire, despiteherparents’ privileged backgroundandhersuffragette past, ConstanceCopeland left athomethrowthemselvesinto jobs meantfortheboys. Hidingher While theyoungmendisappearofftoforeignbattlefields, thewomen July 1914. Britainisinturmoilas WW1 beginstochangetheworld. Wartime WiththeTram Girls Lynn Johnson she takesthemassiveopportunitywhenitisoffered andmovestoBermudatakes alotofcourage. unsure ofherself,herconfidenceisrock-bottomandshereally doesn’t know what todonext.Thefact Her husband has left her, she’s just turned 50, and been made redundant. Chloe is feeling extremely Introduce usto ChloeCanton.What’s facingheratthestartofMurderonIsland? protagonist’s lifeandleaveourownbehindforawhile. Escapism. Agoodcosyhasawell-developedformulaandallowsustosolvecrimes,dipintoour Why doyouthinkcosymysteriescontinuetobesopopular? a newcosymysteryseriessetinBermuda. CD 11 STORY SOUND MP3 MAGNA 1 on thebeach! Swizzle Innfor dinner andaDark‘n’Stormycocktail. Muchlaterwe’llgetthe busbacktoChloe’s foranightcap before continuing toStCatherine’s Fort. Taking thebus back into St George’s wewillpickupanother bus to the the UnfinishedChurch,willtake usallthewayto Tobacco Bay, wherewe’llstopforicecreamandadrink, and picking up lunch at the Frog and OnionPub, we’ll get the ferry to StGeorge’s. A walk upthe hill past will thenspendanhouronHorseshoe Beach,beforegettingthebustoDockyard.After browsingtheshops We willstartatChloe’s BeachsideStablesforbreakfastandagallopalong thebeach,abandoningfiction,we If youhadadaytoshowusaround Bermuda,where wouldyoutakeus? D/L

Murder on the Island the on Murder FAMILY SAGA 9 hours55minutes Read byHelenKeeley apart, EllieandJack arestrongerthanever. mystery, war and loss. And as family circumstance threatens to tear them With a cellar full of secrets, Jack and Elliemust stand united in the face of dream home, they discover they’ve bought more than they bargained for. new beau, SquadronLeaderJack Reynolds. When EllieandJack findtheir bit, Ellie’s successesintheairfieldmountbutsodotensionswithher rising totheskyinfour-engined Halifaxes. Determinedtokeep doingher horizon, Ellie’s doingwhatshedoesbest–flying. And thistime, she’s White Waltham, 1943. As Italysurrendersandvictoryloomsonthe The SpitfireGirl:OverandOut Fenella J.Miller CD 9 MP3 isthefirstin 1 the homeoffamilysaga D/L

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MYSTERY 10 hours55minutes Read bySara Lynam their bestworkandsavethetown? and the peopleshe loves the most. Can the Nancys stay together to do can’t agreeonanything, and Tippy islearninghardtruthsabouttheworld in Nancybusiness, butthistimeit’s alldifferent. UnclePike andDevon the flowandignorepoliceorderstogettruth. It’s greattobeback A newcaseisborn, and once again, itisup to theNancys to go against morning explosion that killsthreepeopleanddestroysthetown hall. death, theNancysarereformedwhenRiverstoneisrocked byanearly for Christmas. Nowbackforthefirstanniversaryof Tippy’s father’s It’s beenfourmonthssince Tippy, UnclePike andDevonweretogether Nancy Business R.W.R. McDonald ROMANTIC SUSPENSE 13 hours10minutes Read byBrigidLohrey plan goesahead, evenifthatmeanseliminatingher... game wherepowerfulbusinessmenwill stop atnothingtoensuretheir expected. Seekingto uncover the truth, Olivia is drawn into a dangerous realises thatthereismoretothesesunshine-soaked islandsthansheever When it becomes clear that Captain Jay is also keeping secrets, Olivia mistaken forawomanwhodisappearedmorethansixtyyearsbefore. newly dividedloyalties, Oliviaisthrown furtherintoturmoilwhensheis is forcedtoquestionherfather’s motivesforthescheme. Strugglingwith fisherman showsherwhatecologicalimpacttheproposalwillhave, Olivia the town about their proposed project. But when a handsome local a bigminingcompany, itshouldbeastraightforward presentationto When OliviaSheridan arrives in the Whitsundays as spokesperson for Whitsunday Dawn Annie Seaton CD CD 13 10 No CanadianRights MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Lighting theway.

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R RURAL ROMANCE 7 hours10minutes Read byMelleStewart where shecanfindtruehappiness? of Jess’s hands, pushingherfurtheraway –orwillherheartleadto Daniel welcome herback with open arms? Will thedecision be taken out her afreshstart–butisthiswhatshereallywants? And ifitisn’t, will Johnno livesnearby, andnewfriendsaromanticencountergive opportunity tocontemplate how shereallyfeels and whatisimportant. A newhomeinthesmallcommunityof Tamborine Mountainprovidesan support hertwinbrotherJohnnoforcedtomake adecisiontoleave. their backgrounds, herdoubtsaboutreallove, andtheurgetoreturn Gowrie, herprevioustroubledlifewas castaside. However, differencesin When JessdiscoveredlovewithDanielinthetinyoutbacktownof Time WillTell Rhonda Forrest GENERAL FICTION 9 hours Read byKaren Cass quest touncoverthetruth. suspicion overthepainting’s provenance, andsheembarksonagripping Sinister secretsfromherfamily’s pastandHungary’s fraught historycast takes amoreominousturn. in whatseemstobeacarefullyplannedtheft, and Anika’s carefreelife painting hangsinprideofplaceherbedroom. Butonedayitisstolen Arriving in Australia, Anika moves in with her aunt in Sydney, and the cobalt bluedressfromherfamily’s hiddencollection. a beautifulandmuch-lovedpaintingofanauburn-hairedwomanin the break-upofSovietUnion, shecarriesonlyasmallsuitcase–and When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not longbefore The Painting Alison Booth O CD CD 7 9 R A A MP3 MP3 U 1 1 R D/L D/L O R A Audio politician andamodernleaderadmiredforherempathycourage. to becomeacommittedsocialdemocrat, apassionateLabourParty events thatpropelledthedaughterofasmall-townMormonpoliceman know her. We visit the places, meetthe people and understand the minister’s publicstatementsandspeechesthewordsofthosewho through Vani’s exclusiveinterviewswith Ardern, aswelltheprime and journalistSupriya Vani andwriterCarl A. Hartebuildtheirnarrative social, politicalandemotional–thathaveshaped Ardern. Peace activist SUSPENSE 8 hours5minutes Read byNicoletteChin question Rachel’s motives, and towonderwhatsecretsthecousinsshare. Fighting sleepdeprivation andarisingsenseofunease, shebeginsto godsend. ButthereissomethingaboutRachelthatSimonedoesn’ttrust. for motherhood. The arrival ofPaul’s cousinRachelintheflatshouldbea known eachotherforayear. Eventhoughshefeelsutterlyunprepared completely ill-suitedforababy. EventhoughSimoneandPaul haveonly boyfriend Paul’s coldandgreyapartmentintheBarbicanEstateseems with herbabyanddeterminedtobeagoodmother. Eventhoughher pregnant isnotonheragenda. Butshe’s excitedtostartanewlife When Australian expatSimonemovestoLondonstartacareer, getting The NightVillage Zoe Deleuil BIOGRAPHY 13 hours25minutes Read byKirsty Gillmore Empathy With Leading with Empathy Jacinda Ardern:Leading Supriya Vani andCarlA. Harte CD CD 13 8 MP3 MP3 1 1 carefullyexplorestheinfluences–personal, D/L D/L Lighting theway. NF A U

R SAGA 9 hours5minutes Read byTaryn Ryan she’s facedwithsomehugedecisionsandheartrendingchoices. mother promises? And when Australia bringsanothermanintoherlife, Australia’s westcoast, willMara findhimthedisappointmentthather In abreath-takingcorneroftheworld, amidawaterfront communityon her mother’s opposition, Mara arranges tomeetherfatherandhisfamily. years agoandnowhe’s desperate toplayapartinherlife. Inthefaceof Aaron Buchananonlydiscoveredthathehadadaughtercoupleof to havediedwhenshewas achild, herworldisturnedupsidedown. When Mara Gregoryreceives a letter from the father whom she believed Mara’s Choice Anna Jacobs NON-FICTION /CRIME 10 hours35minutes Read byToby Webster the question: Who was thekiller? cases, seekingtofinallyanswer police investigation and court readers throughthecomplex spoken-to witnesses, andguiding new, plumbingthemysteriesandmotives, interviewingnever-before- exploring thecasefromstarttofinish, pickingthroughevidenceoldand closely fordecades. Now, hisbookbringsthestorycompletelyuptodate: Award-winning journalistMartinvan BeynenhascoveredtheBainstory why? Robin? And the countryhasasked: Who killedtheBainfamily?David, orhisfather bullet tothehead. The otherwas theonlysurvivor: DavidBain. Sincethen, were gunneddown. There weretwosuspects. Onelaydeadfromasingle 1994, wherefivemembersofaseeminglyordinaryNewZealandfamily It’s astorythatbeganinrickety oldhomeonacoldJunemorningin Inside theBainFamilyMurders Black Hands Martin vanBeynen O CD CD 10 8 R A A MP3 MP3 U 1 1 R D/L D/L O R A Audio NF GENERAL FICTION 9 hours15minutes Read bySara Lynam the strengthtofindher way backtothegirlsheonce was. girl whosehearthe’s carriedwithhim, whileZoehastodecideifshe’s got why. And nowFinnhastodecide howhardhe’s willing tofightforthe So shecutsalltiesanddisappearsfromFinn’s life, withouttellinghim comes home... leaves herwonderingwhetherFinncouldpossiblystilllovewhenhe While Finn is away, however, Zoe suffers a life-changing injury. And it strong enoughtostandthetestoftime. support ofherillness. It’s terribletiming, butZoeknowstheirfeelingsare to gotravelling, fulfillingapromisetohislatesister raise moneyin When FinnandZoemeet, theyfallinlovehardandfast. ButFinnisabout Back toYou Tammy Robinson MYSTERY 14 hours5minutes Reader tobeconfirmed past tounderstandthetruemotivesofkiller... imagined. And Danarealisesshe’llhaveto confrontherowntroubled investigation quicklybecomesmorecomplex, andsinister, thananyone Who murdered him – and why? With several potential leads, the was killed. who yearsearliercommittedanatrociouscrimeyards fromwherehe shocking scene. The victimisaconvictedrapist, justreleasedfromprison, northern Australia, detectiveDanaRussoandherteamarecalledtoa When amanisfoundsavagely ‘crucified’ amidstamurkyswamp in Prisoner S.R. White CD CD 13 9 No CanadianRights MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Lighting theway.

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HISTORICAL MYSTERY 8 hours25minutes Peter WickhamRead by intriguing anddangerouscaseyet. series ofbankraids plaguingthecity, Wilson andFenton facetheirmost complex. With questionsoverrival museums, thedeadmen’s pastsanda discovered encasedwithinawax figure, thecasesuddenlybecomesmore police investigation. When thebodyofmissingnightwatchman is ‘The MuseumDetectives’Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton toaidthe superior officer, Scotland Yard detectiveJohn Feather secretlyenlists at themuseumaren’tconvinced. Although forbiddencontactbyhis the caseseemssimple: onekilledtheotherandfled, butworkers decapitated andhiscolleaguenowheretobefound. To thepolice, London, 1896. Madame Tussauds openstofindoneofitsnightwatchmen Murder atMadameTussauds Jim Eldridge GENERAL FICTION 13 hours5minutes Read byShaziaNicholls threat toallherplans. Will lovesurvivethesecretsoforange grove? must finallyfaceuptothepast, whileHollymeetssomeonewhoposesa where shewas onceforcedtomake thehardestdecisionofherlife, Ella and almondcake thatEllakeeps hiddenfromherfamily?InSeville, Does ithaveanythingtodowiththeoldSpanishrecipeforSevilleorange reluctant to go back there withHolly to sourceproducts for the shop? inspired her. Holly’s mother Ellahasalways lovedSeville. Sowhyisshe her childhoodtoopenBitterOrange, ashopcelebrating thefruitthatfirst Holly lovesmakingmarmalade. ShereturnstotheDorsetlandscapeof The OrangeGrove Rosanna Ley CD CD 12 8 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Audio

HISTORICAL MYSTERY 9 hours45minutes Read bySimonMattacks underworld ofpoliticalterrorism. it leadshimintoaweboffamilyjealousies, violence, robberyandthe never beencaught. Isthereaconnection? As theinvestigationdevelops, Soho Strangler, whomurderedfourwomeninthemid-1930sbuthas Inspector JohnJago, thescenebringsbackmemoriesofgruesome young woman–andshe’s beenstrangled withastocking. For Detective at thedoorshemanagestobreakin, onlytodiscoverthebodyofa overhead, violatingthestrictblackout regulations. With noanswer Parks sees a house with a light shining like a beacon to the enemy aircraft October 1940. BombsarefallingonStratford whenair-raid warden Sylvia The StratfordMurder Mike Hollow CLASSIC CRIME 7 hours20minutes Read byKrisDyer characteristically detailedsenseofsettingandgrippingpolicework. in thispreviouslyunpublishednovelbyE.C.R. Lorac, boastingtheauthor’s of RosemaryReeve. All thehallmarksofGolden Age mysteryarehere investigation andunwittinglyrevivingthesearchforwhatreallybecame and Nicholas strike a stranger on the drive back home, launching a new year. With thoughtsofthismysteriouscaseringingintheirears, Dilys Rosemary Reevewhodisappearedontheeveofthiseventprevious waits thecharmingDilysMaine, andaparty buzzingwithrumoursofone to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There It isadarkandmistynightbachelorsNicholasIanaredriving Two-Way Murder E.C.R. Lorac CD CD 9 7 The qualityspeaksforitself. MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L HISTORICAL FICTION 10 hours Patience TomlinsonRead by Lestrange, thepeaceofFletchersEndissuddenlythreatened... stone cottage. Butwiththeunexpectedarrival ofLieutenantCommander their first real home, as well as unravelling the mysteries of the old enjoys sharingwithEllistheexcitementandsatisfactionofdecorating Bel loyally guides Louise through her own romantic tribulations. She also happy couple move in. As she embarks on her new life as a devoted wife, Lieutenant CommanderLestrange, and, afterapicture-bookwedding, the called FletchersEnd. Ellisbuystheplacefromabsentee-owner, neglected oldstonecottageintheCotswolds. Beladoresthehouse, Armstrong, goeshousehuntingforthemanddiscoversacharmingbut Shortly beforeBel’s marriagetoEllisBrownlee, herfriend, Louise Fletchers End D.E. Stevenson HISTORICAL FICTION 13 hours35minutes Read byGloriaSanders of thepast, andfacethetruthofherownheart? she thoughtknewisturnedupsidedown. Canshehealthewounds past. As Miauntanglesthepassionsandbetrayals ofthepast, everything financial ruin, secretsbegintoemergethattelladifferentstoryofthe as Leonardofightsforhislife, andMiatosavethefamilyhomefrom if itmeansleavingbehindherlifeinLondon, andhernewfiancé. But fallen fromhishorse, sheknowsthatbelongsbyhisbedside–even was spent at her grandfather’s hacienda. So when she learns that he has Mia Ferris’s hearthasalways belongedinSpain. Everychildhoodsummer Shadows OvertheSpanishSun Caroline Montague CD CD

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in thisnormallypeacefulcity? Police Ethics Committee, asan observer. Cantheteam stop more killings the street. His problems grow when his boss appoints Lady Bede, from the is forcedtohousehisteaminthedilapidatedCornMarket buildingacross shop, theyfindabodyandmurderinvestigationislaunched. Diamond ‘Pete’ inhisinvestigation. When Diamond, JohnnyandRubyenterthe antiques shopowner, hasgonemissing, andJohnnyinsistsoninvolving Johnny Getz. Johnnyhas been hired byRubyHubbard, whose father, an AUTOBIOGRAPHY 8 hours30minutes Read bySimonMattacks Heal to Time Tales ofaCountryDoctor Time toHeal Michael Dixon MYSTERY 9 hours15minutes Peter WickhamRead by met inBath, thisoneisthemostextreme: a21 Of alltheweirdcharacters DetectiveSuperintendent Peter Diamondhas Diamond andtheEye Peter Lovesey provide theanswers. General Practice. The authorexploreswhyandhowpandemicsmight management and a blame culture. Young doctors no longer want to enter patients havebeenbetrayed bytop-heavyregulation, performance This talehasatwist. Twenty-first-century General Practice andits of histimeandfindsnew ways torelievethesufferingofhispatients. describe adoctorwhofeelspoorlyservedbytheconventionalmedicine towards theendofhiscareer. Inturnshocking, sadandfunny, they CD CD 9 8 The qualityspeaksforitself. No CanadianRights tellsthestoryofcolourfullifeacountrydoctor MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L st -century private eyecalled NF Audio The quality speaks for itself . . .

Robert Newcome Sheila O’Flanagan The Name Beneath the Stone Three Weddings and a Proposal 1917. Private Daniel Dawkins fights at Messines Ridge and Passchendaele. Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute He writes home to his true love, Joyce, but reveals little of his extreme plus-one has stunned her family – and it’s also stopped any of them bravery, his kindness, his loyalty to his comrades and the horrors they asking again why she’s still single. But when she sees all the missed experience on the Western Front. 1920. Captain Peter Harding is tasked calls that evening, she knows it can’t be good news. And she’s right. August with a secret mission to assist in the selection of a body dug up from Delphie has been living her best life, loving her job, her friends, her the battlefields of Flanders to be buried in Westminster Abbey as the no-strings relationships and her dream house by the sea. Now she has to ‘Unknown Warrior’. 2011. Sarah Harding discovers Daniel’s letters question everything she believed about who she is and what she wants. and Peter’s diaries. Together with historian James Marchant she pieces Each wedding of a glorious summer brings a new surprise. And as together the hidden truth behind the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and everything Delphie thought she had is threatened, she has the chance to must decide what to do with it. reshape her future...

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Rebecca Tope Peter Tremayne Echoes in the Cotswolds The House of Death Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair, Ireland. AD672. The Feast of Beltaine is approaching and the seven senior in her new home in Northleach. Lucy is scheduled for an operation on her princes of the kingdom of Muman are gathering at Cashel to discuss King back in Oxford and needs Thea to look after things for a few days. Thea Colgú’s policies. Just days before the council meets, Brother Conchobhar, is glad of the change of scene and soon meets several of the townsfolk, the keeper of the sacred sword, is found murdered. Sister Fidelma and her and it appears that few of them have any liking for Lucy. When a man brother Colgú fear that the killer had been trying to steal the sword that is found dead in a Northleach house and turns out to be Lucy’s stepson, symbolises the King’s authority to rule. And as rumours begin to spread Thea is once again at the very heart of a police investigation. of an attempt to overthrow Colgú, news reaches Cashel that a plague ship has landed at a nearby port, bringing the deadly pestilence to its shores. Fidelma, Eadulf and Enda must work together to catch a killer as the death toll starts to mount...

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Lesley Cookman Kate Ellis Murder After Midnight The Stone Chamber When a woman’s body is found on the local golf course after an illicit On a summer’s evening, Robert and Greta Gerdner are shot dead at their New Year’s party, news quickly spreads, and Libby Serjeant finds herself isolated home in the Devon countryside. DI Wesley Peterson suspects being tracked down by locals desperate to share information about the the execution-style murders might be linked to Robert’s past career in victim, Jackie Stapleton. But things are never that simple in Libby’s world. the police – until Robert’s name is found on a list of people who’ve Whilst everyone had an opinion on Jackie, it seems nobody really knew been sent tickets anonymously for a tour of Darkhole Grange, a former much about her. Libby’s chum DCI Connell is being more tight-lipped than asylum on Dartmoor. When his friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, finds usual, and even with her friend Fran Wolfe’s help, discovering a motive for the skeleton of a woman buried in a sealed chamber dating back to the the killing is frustratingly difficult. Is the murder linked to some distinctly 15th century at his nearby dig, Wesley wonders whether there might be

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Susanna Gregory Cynthia Harrod-Eagles The Chancellor’s Secret The Secrets of Ashmore Castle In 1360, the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. 1901. When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, As arguments rage over raising the money, differences are coming to the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace the boil over the election of a new Chancellor. Then the discovery of a him as the head of the family. The Tallants and their servants struggle body under the bridge and the disappearance of two scholars throws to find their place in the house – and society – once again. And Giles a more sinister shadow over both disputes. Matthew Bartholomew, the realises that he’s also inherited his father’s significant financial troubles University’s Corpse Examiner, already has his hands full: due to marry in that threaten the security of his entire family. In Kensington, Kitty Bayfield, under a fortnight, he is determined to conclude his teaching duties and the painfully shy but moneyed daughter of a Baronet, has just left school deal with an outbreak of the summer flux before relinquishing his official with her penniless companion Nina. Nina captures the new Earl’s heart, duties. Will there be enough time for him to unveil the identities of those but only Kitty can save his family from their debts, and soon Giles must who seek to undermine both the town and the University? choose between his duty and his heart...

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Marie Belloc Lowndes Hannah Pearl The Chianti Flask Daisy’s Christmas Gift Shop A quiet, enigmatic young woman called Laura Dousland is on trial for Daisy Kirk is a sucker for a love story, which is why she opened up her murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish Dousland. The gift shop – there’s nothing that makes Daisy happier than when she’s couple’s Italian servant, Angelo Terugi, chief witness for the prosecution, helped a customer find the perfect Christmas gift for their loved one. is on the stand and is also under suspicion. At the heart of the puzzle And she absolutely does not just sell ‘soppy presents and frilly pants’ of Fordish Dousland’s death is the Chianti flask that almost certainly as her brother’s infuriating best friend, Eli, is so fond of suggesting. But held the wine containing the poison which killed him. But the flask has whilst Daisy is helping others with their love lives, hers is non-existent. disappeared. The jury delivers its verdict, but this represents simply the But when unusual circumstances take Daisy and Eli on a road trip from ‘end of the beginning’ of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel. This book is a London to rural Wales, will she finally get the happily ever after to her psychological study into the bitter effects of murder and its aftermath own Christmas love story? September both on the person accused and those close to her.

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Amanda Weinberg Glenda Young The Tears of Monterini Murder at the Seaview Hotel Italy, 1921. Yacobo Levi, an intellectual dreamer, works in the family After the death of her husband Tom, Helen Dexter is contemplating her bookshop. Angelo Ghione, a contadino, makes good wine by singing to future as the now sole proprietor of the Seaview Hotel. There’s an offer the grapes. Lifetime best friends, their Jewish and Catholic families live from a hotel chain developer to consider, but also a booking from a group side by side amidst a backdrop of village communal life. Born on the same of twelve Elvis impersonators. Tom loved Elvis and for Helen this is a sign day, their children grow up and fall in love. When the 1938 racial laws are that she should stay. But the developer is not going to give up easily. passed, the love between Bella and Rico thrives. When Angelo discovers Then, shortly after Twelvis arrive, one of them disappears and his body is their liaison he suggests they marry but tensions simmer beneath the later found floating in a lake. Could the two be connected? Helen isn’t surface of love and friendship. When war is declared on the day of Bella’s going to wait for the murderer to strike again. With her trusty greyhound wedding to a fellow Jew, the peaceful village they live in is torn apart, and Suki by her side, she decides to find out more about her guests. the Levis find themselves displaced and fighting for their lives.

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July Most people travel to Croatia for its endless sunshine, pebbly beaches Filmmaker Lily’s life is all about work and adventure. So when she and crystal clear sea. Kate goes there to disappear. She needs to escape suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating in the from a life that has fallen apart, and no one on the beautiful island of quiet French seaside village where she spent her childhood, she can’t Hvar knows who she is or what she’s running away from. Until she meets wait to escape. Not least because Olivier – Lily’s childhood friend and another lonely soul. Alex is different to any man Kate has ever known, former crush, who she has spent the last 13 years avoiding – is staying yet the connection between them is undeniable. She soon begins to open next door...Strong-minded master baker Olivier is happily settled in up in ways she never has before. But Kate is not the only person in Hvar St Pierre, preparing to marry and put down roots. But Lily’s return to the hiding secrets. And it is always only a matter of time before the truth village risks turning his carefully-laid plans upside down, and as the pair catches up with you... rediscover their familiar rivalry and fun, sparks fly.

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M.W. Craven Elin Hilderbrand Dead Ground Golden Girl Detective Sergeant Washington Poe is in court, fighting eviction from his When Vivian Howe, author of 13 novels and mother of three grown-up beloved croft, when he is summoned to a backstreet brothel in Carlisle children, is killed in a hit-and-run incident while jogging near her home, where a man has been beaten to death with a baseball bat. As Poe and she ascends to the Beyond. Because her death was unfair, she is allowed socially awkward programmer Tilly Bradshaw delve deeper into the case, to watch what happens below with her children, her best friend, her they are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions: why does nothing ex-husband, and a rival novelist whose book is coming out the same in the victim’s background check out? Why was a small ornament left day as Vivi’s. Vivi is also given the use of three ‘nudges’ so that she at the murder scene – and why did someone on the investigation team can influence the outcome of events in the world of the living. As Vivi steal it? And what is the connection to a flawlessly executed bank heist discovers her children’s secrets, watches the investigation into her own three years earlier? death and worries about a secret from her youth coming to light, she must decide what she wants to manipulate.

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GENERAL FICTION 9 hours45minutes Read byKirsty Dillon maybe it’s nottoolate... right decisionallthoseyearsago. Sheonlymethimforamoment, but the trutharoundthatfatefulnight–andquestionswhethershemade knew was destroyed. Thrown backtogetheragain, Elenastartstouncover can’t forgetthefaceofstranger whoheldherwhilsteverythingshe is rippedfromunderherfeetinasinglemoment. Ten yearslater, shestill of herowndestiny. Butonagorgeous summer evening, herwhole world Mexico wouldchangeherlifeforever. Shethoughtthatshewas incharge Elena Goodwincouldneverhaveknownthatherdreamholidayto The MomentIMetYou Debbie Johnson GENERAL FICTION 12 hours55minutes & Kirsty Cox Read bySarah Barron Lorna andtheisland, cancominghomemeanstartingagain? decades, hundredsofmilesandalifetime’s worthofsecretsbetween itself – even if forgiveness means returning to the past...So with two island together. NowLorna’s arrival mighthelptheirfamilyfinallymend community onKip, heryogaclassesdrawing womenacrossthetiny island whereLornagrewup. Alice’s worldistinybutfull. Sheloves the suddenly leavingLondonfortheIsleofKip, thetinyremoteScottish of themisallthatmatters. Butafternearly20years, sheandEllaare Lorna’s worldissmallbutsafe. Shelovesherdaughter, andthetwo The IslandHome Libby Page CD CD 12 9 No CanadianRights No CanadianRights MP3 MP3 1 1

Audio ADVENTURE SUSPENSE 14 hours10minutes Read bySimonMattacks powers toplungetheworldintoanewera ofwar... and Chase must battle a merciless enemy whoplans to usethe sword’s Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina ex-SAS soldierEddieChase, aresoonpropelledintoadeadlyrace tofind by mercenariesdeterminedtostealhisresearch. Ninaandherboyfriend, Archaeologist Nina Wilde issceptical–untilsheandRustareattacked the swordiskey toharnessinganincrediblesourceofenergy. years. HistorianBerndRustbelieveshecanlocateExcalibur...and that has beencovetedacrosstheages, andthoughtlostforoverathousand Said tomake whoeverholdsitunstoppableinbattle, theswordExcalibur The SecretofExcalibur Andy McDermott THRILLER 10 hours40minutes Read byPeter Noble wrong questions. Butthatquietmanisadangerousman. until hediscoversthetruth. To themhe’s justaquietmanaskingthe who own the town. They want him gone. Only Victor’s going nowhere he startslookingforthem, hefindshimselfatoddswiththecriminals troubled childhood. When bothvanish, only Victor seemstonotice. Once on gettingtoknow a mother and herboy who reminds him of hisown laying lowandhe’llbegone, leavingnotrace behind. Hedoesn’tcount out inasmallmotelCanadaafterjobacrosstheborder. A fewdays One dayamanarrivesintown. The assassinknownas Victor ishiding A QuietMan Tom Wood The freshestnameinunabridgedaudio CD CD 10 13 No CanadianRights No CanadianRights MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L

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Paul Doherty Juliet Greenwood Mother Midnight The Girl with the Silver Clasp 1312. Sir Hugh Corbett has returned from the West Country to find St. Ives, 1916. Jess Morgan always hoped to become a celebrated Westminster in chaos. Edward II has fled in an attempt to protect his silversmith, but when the men return from war she’s forced to return to favourite from the wrath of his noblemen; and a royal clerk has been her job as a seamstress. All she can cling to is the memory of that delicate, found poisoned in a locked chamber. Drawn into a maze of murder both unique silver clasp she created for a society bride. Rachel Bellamy served August at Westminster and at the Convent of Saint Sulpice, where young novices as an ambulance driver on the front line during the Great War but now are disappearing, Corbett quickly establishes a connection between it’s up to her to save the family home and picturesque harbour from her the two mysteries. As other killings follow, Corbett’s investigation leads wealthy brother-in-law, before it’s too late. Giselle Harding fought her him to a high-class brothel and its sinister owner, Mother Midnight. way up from poverty to become a Hollywood movie star. Yet even the Challenged to a duel and hunted by a guild of ruthless assassins, Corbett most beautiful jewels she owns will never replace the man she lost. and his loyal henchmen face a sea of troubles.

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Peter James Vaseem Khan Denial The Dying Day When actress Gloria Lamark takes her own life, her devoted son, Bombay, 1950. For over a century, one of the world’s great treasures, Thomas, is heartbroken. Something must be wrong with a world in a 600-hundred-year-old copy of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has been which such a tragedy is allowed to happen. How could her high-profile, safely housed at Bombay’s Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together media-star psychiatrist have failed to save such a special person, whom with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, Thomas loved in such a very special way? Dr Tennent has a lesson to John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia’s desk. Uncovering learn – a very painful one. Michael Tennent is caught up in the first flush a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis – together with English of love – but has no idea how dangerous romance can be. For both forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch – is soon on the trail. But then they Michael and Thomas will do anything for the women they love... discover the first body. As the death toll mounts it becomes evident that someone else is also pursuing this priceless artefact and will stop at nothing to possess it...

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THRILLER 8 hours50minutes Read byMichaelSimkins has developedatasteforkilling. And he’llkillagain. who-knows-where. The unholy spirit: Inthe safety of suburbia, one man And he’s gettingworse, disappearingforhoursatatime, sneakingoffto obsessively choppingvegetablesandtap-tap-tappingonhiscomputer. Really angry. The son: Adrian hasnojob, nofriends. Heisathomeallday, inspector and is now stuck at home...with him. Frustrated. Lonely. Angry. father: Mr Todd is at his wits end. He’s been robbed of his job as a tax are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The Behind thenormaldoorofahouse, inanormalstreet, twomen Mr Todd’s Reckoning Iain Maitland NON-FICTON /GENERAL 8 hours40minutes Read byKirsty Cox wonderful library that saved me and why I’m on a mission to save yours. and forthelibrary. This ismyeye-openingaccountofthestrange and part-time jobtobecomeapassionatebattleforsurvival, bothforme poverty. The quirksoflibrary life. ButwhatIdidn’texpectwas forasimple a targetfordrugsgangandthelasthopepeopleindesperate be surprisedtohearthatI’vebeenawitnessanattemptedmurder, It’s not always the books that bring us together. That’s why you might place forwarmth forothersand, onmanyoccasions, aninternetcafe. aged. I knowmycommunitywell. The library is a sanctuary for some, a the homeless, theeccentrics, thejobless, theteenagers, thetoddlers, the I’m a librarian. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiasts, the bookworms, The Librarian Allie Morgan CD CD 8 8 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Audio NF but thepeopleyouhavearoundwhendo. journey todiscoveringthatitisn’twhereyousettledownmatters, who cansurvive...it isOperative 66. state, shadowyRussianagents...and hisownfather. Ifthere’s oneman Reeve issuddenlydragged intoalethalconspiracy involvingtheBritish eliminate the ‘rogue asset’atanycost. Buttricked intorevealinghimself, shadows as the brutal assassins he once trained alongside sought to enemies. Falsely accusedoftreason, Reevewas forcedtohideinthe security servicewitharemittoneutralise thecountry’s mostdangerous UK’s deadliestweapons, he was amemberofthesecretiveSC9–anelite Alex Reevewas Operative 66. A formerspecialopssoldierandoneofthe Rogue Asset Andy McDermott GENERAL FICTION 12 hours15minutes Read byLaura Kirman courage toputdownrootsandfinda placetocallhome. still stuckinthatnomadiccycle, lookingforanswers, tryingtofindthe those samefriendsmayhavebecomeherfamilyofchoice, Anna is secure andcarefreelives, theircertaintyandconfidence. And, while own. Growingupinfostercare, shealways enviedherfriendstheir even neighbours. But all Anna has ever really wanted is a home of her into other people’s lives – caring for their homes, pets and sometimes Anna Wilson travels theworldasaprofessionalhousesitter–stepping Home Penny Parkes THRILLER 11 hours Read bySimonMattacks The freshestnameinunabridgedaudio CD CD 12 10 No CanadianRights No CanadianRights MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Home is Anna’s

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Simon Booker Sheila Bugler Three’s a Crowd Before You Were Gone Out-of-work actor Harriet is recuperating from a crash-and-burn affair Emer Doran’s life was torn apart when her sister, Kitty, drowned. Her body with Damian – aka ‘Cockweasel’ – and making ends meet as a barista was never recovered. Twenty years later, Emer sees a woman who is the when she meets two rather lovely men. Tom is a regular at the café and image of Kitty and is convinced her sister is alive. Dee Doran jumps at seems like such a nice guy. Smooth-talking DJ Richard is older, but in the chance to get to know her long-lost cousin when Emer calls asking great shape – a real silver fox. Deciding to take a chance on both of to meet. But it is not the happy family reunion Dee had expected. Emer them, Harriet doesn’t realise at first that she is actually dating father and is desperate for Dee’s help to find out what really happened to Kitty. As son. Tom and Richard aren’t on speaking terms, and don’t share a last Dee works to uncover the truth, one thing becomes clear: there is a name – so how was she to know? By the time everyone finds out, both tangled web of lies that date back many years. And those with the

September Tom and Richard are truly madly deeply in love with Harriet, and she’s answers are determined to keep their secrets at any cost. faced with an impossible choice.

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Elisabeth Carpenter Elle Croft The Vacancy Buried Running from her past, Rachel answers an advert to be a live-in assistant The Artist. No one knows who The Sculptor is. A successful artist, whose to glamorous and eccentric author Dorothy Winters. But behind the works sell for millions – each one with a deadly secret at the centre. closed doors of Dorothy’s house, she quickly discovers that nothing is The Killer. There’s a serial killer on the loose – dismembering women’s as it seems. When Dorothy’s manuscript throws up striking similarities bodies and leaving them washed up along the shore. The Victim. Alice has to events in Rachel’s own life, she becomes convinced that the past designed her life to be as safe as it possibly can be. She takes no risks she’s tried to hide is catching up with her. Then the phone calls start. and makes sure nothing is a threat to her or those she loves. But when The parcel arrives. The blood shows up in the bathroom. And Dorothy’s an earthquake brings all three together, will anyone get out alive? And friend disappears. Terrified of being blamed for murder, Rachel has if you were trapped with a serial killer, would you protect their secrets to nobody left to turn to. Because who can she believe when she doesn’t save your own life? even trust herself...?

Read by Penelope Freeman Read by Stephanie Cannon & Katy Sobey & Regina Reagan 9 hours 10 minutes 8 hours 50 minutes SUSPENSE SUSPENSE CD MP3 CD MP3 9 1 9 1

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Nicholas Bowling Kris Humphrey Song of the Far Isles Leo’s Map of Monsters

July Oran lives on Little Drum, where music is everything. Every islander has The Armoured Goretusk a birth instrument and a life song – and the ancestors, called ghasts, When Leo opens his assignment envelope on his ninth birthday two linger to hear the music. But when the Duchess arrives from the mainland words stare back at him: TOP SECRET. But before he has time to ask any bringing orders of silence, she threatens the ghasts’ existence, the very questions, he’s whisked away beyond the village wall to meet his new soul of the community. When Oran hears of a mythical instrument with boss, the Guardian. the power to manipulate hearts, she brings her ghast best friend, Alick, on a quest to find it, play it, and change the Duchess’s mind... As the Guardian’s apprentice, he must protect his village from the monsters that lurk in the surrounding forest. Armed with a slingshot of magical stones and a strange map, Leo is given his first mission – to do battle with an angry Armoured Goretusk.

Read by Mary Erskine 7 hours 30 minutes Read by Alex Wingfield FANTASY 1 hour 10 minutes CD MP3 D/L 7 1 FANTASY

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Steven Vinacour Anna Zobel Tudor Tangle Little Gem When Ted accidentally discovers (don’t ask!) that his toilet allows him to When her spell at Witchcraft School goes wrong, Gem lands in an travel back in time to any point in history, his (slightly soggy) discoveries unfamiliar, empty cottage, outside a strange, colourful town. are only just beginning. Join Ted on his fully immersive adventure through Everyone in Ellsworth Pining thinks Gem is their new village witch, even time as he flushes himself back to Tudor times and an encounter with when Gem tries to correct them. And Gem’s new friends do need her. Henry VIII! The Weather Worker is missing, and there are tales of a terrifying beast Steven Vinacour’s sequel to his hilarious debut novel follows Ted as he in the woods. visits the Tudor era to get dance lessons and kingly tips from Henry VIII Gem might know a spell that could help – if she can get it right. himself – all in the vague hope of becoming prom king to Chloe (swoon!) Onions’ prom queen!

Read by Steven Vinacour Read by Olivia Beardsley 2 hours 2 hours 30 minutes ADVENTURE FANTASY

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Tony Bradman Sharon Creech Queen of Darkness Saving Winslow Boudica’s Army will Rise... Louie doesn’t have the best luck when it comes to nurturing small animals – not even lightning bugs, worms or goldfish. So when his father Eastern Britain, 60 CE. Once proud and free, the Iceni tribe now pay brings home a sickly newborn little donkey, he’s determined to save him. tribute to the Romans, and are ruled by a client king. When twelve-year- Taking care of him helps Louie feel closer to his brother Gus, who has just old Rhianna and her younger sister Eleri are thrown out of their home by August left home. Everyone worries that Winslow won’t survive, especially Louie’s their cruel stepmother, they must find food and shelter. Appealing to King quirky new friend, Nora. But as his bond with Winslow grows, surprising Prasutagus in the name of the goddess Morrigan, they are rejected – but events prove that this fragile donkey – and Louie – are stronger than then Queen Boudica takes them into her household. As Rhianna settles anyone could have imagined. into this new life, she learns that there’s not only kindness in Boudica – there’s a darkness waiting to be unleashed, and the Romans will suffer for their crimes against her. A great battle is looming...

Read by Kirby Heyborne 2 hours Read by Julia Barrie ANIMAL STORIES 2 hours 50 minutes CD MP3 D/L HISTORICAL FICTION 2 1

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Michael Rosen Tom Vaughan Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed Bin Boy Malcolm is in all ways an ordinary boy. This is a perfectly ordinary story 10-year-old Billy’s mum has just remarried, and his new stepdad Phil is featuring one perfectly ordinary ten-year-old, his very bossy uncle, smarmy and try-hard...even if he is Super Rich. On top of that, Billy – and some baked beans, a school which tries to make interesting things his best friend Viv – are so unpopular at school, only the IT Club rank BORING, the famed Italian city of Ponky, and a genie who appears when below them in the school food chain. And the school bully keeps throwing you rub your nose. It also includes lots of very useful facts – many of bins at Billy’s head. So, when Billy discovers his stepdad is a supervillain which are untrue... with an evil plan to destroy the entire world, it is the perfect excuse to break Phil and his mum up. But gathering evidence about a supervillain is harder than it looks, and when Billy accidentally becomes ‘Bin Boy’ – a superhero sensation – things become a whole lot more complicated. Suddenly the fate of the global population is on Bin Boy’s shoulders. Can he save his family and the entire world?!

Read by Sam Newton 5 hours 50 minutes Read by Ben Higgins ADVENTURE 1 hours 30 minutes CD MP3 D/L GENERAL FICTION 6 1

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Jasbinder Bilan Neill Cameron Aarti & the Blue Gods Freddy vs School Aarti has lived on the island with Aunt for as long as she can remember. There’s something different about Freddy. And it might just be because Like the weather, Aunt rules her world with rare warmth. Aarti’s only he’s a super-powered robot – which is pretty cool! But when his school comforts are a book of Indian myths full of blue gods, a fox’s friendship, clamps down on his powers, Freddy will have to figure out a way to and a toy rabbit she finds in a locked room. act human without caving from the peer pressure. The only problem is that it’s really hard to be human. He has three strikes until expulsion. Then, she learns Aunt has been feeding her lies. Fate intervenes when a But what’s so wrong with being himself? The only good thing about half-drowned boy washes up on the beach. With his help, Aarti hopes to school was that it’s where his friends are and now even that’s changed. remember who she really is...and perhaps find a way home. But Freddy being a superhero robot might be the only thing that could

September save everybody...

Read by Nikki Patel Reader to be confirmed 5 hours 2 hours 15 minutes ADVENTURE SCI-FI

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Gemma Fowler Sinéad O’Hart City of Rust Skyborn Railey dreams of winning the drone races with her bio-robotic gecko The circus has seen better days, but for Bastjan it’s home. He will do friend, Atti. anything he can to save it, even if it means participating in a death- But when a bounty hunter crashes their biggest race yet, the pair are defying new act. But when that fails to draw in the crowds, the forced to flee to the feared Junker clans who mine the rubbish orbiting ringmaster makes a deal with a mysterious man by the name of Dr Bauer. the Earth. In exchange for his help, Bauer wants a box that belonged to Rescued by a couple of Junker kids, they discover a danger bigger than Bastjan’s mother and came from her birthplace – the faraway island of anything they’d imagined – but can three kids, a gecko and an ancient Melita. Bastjan is desperate to keep his only memento of his mother computer save the world against the huge trash bomb (and its power- out of Bauer’s hands. And as he uncovers more about the strange crazed creator) threatening to destroy the planet? objects contained within, he realizes it’s not only the circus that’s in terrible danger...

Read by Fran Burgoyne Read by Charlie Sanderson 5 hours 50 minutes 9 hours 5 minutes SCI-FI FANTASY

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Elizabeth Von Arnim Mary Essex Father Tea is so Intoxicating Since her mother’s death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her David Tompkins thinks it is a splendid idea to open a tea garden at his father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that Kentish cottage. His wife, Germayne, is not so sure. The local villagers he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an are divided on the matter, and it doesn’t bode well when the official independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns opening coincides with a break in the beautiful weather. Things are her attention to her own interests. While further complicated by the arrival of the Jennifer is desperate to experience life on ‘cake cook’ Mimi, a Viennese girl with her own terms within her reduced financial a mysterious past, Germayne’s daughter means, her neighbour Alice is pre-occupied Ducks, and her ex-husband Digby. With with ensuring her position as head of her rumour rife that the couple are not actually brother’s household is never challenged. married, the lady of the manor makes it her mission to shut the enterprise down. Read by Penelope Freeman Read by Penelope Freeman 11 hours 45 minutes 7 hours 40 minutes

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Rose Macaulay Mollie Panter-Downes Dangerous Ages My Husband Simon The book opens with Neville celebrating her 43rd birthday and My Husband Simon tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, contemplating middle age now that her children are grown. Her mother, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, in her sixties, seeks answers to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, they live this superficial existence for three years, until one day Nevis Nan, a writer who has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, meets Marcus Chard, her American publisher, who has just arrived in experiences the loss of love and with it her London. Soon friendship develops into Publisher Selections August plan for the future. And Neville’s principled love and Nevis finds herself caught in a daughter Gerda, who is determined not whirl of circumstances over which she has to follow her mother’s generation into the no control. institute of marriage, finds herself at an impasse with the man she loves. October November December

Read by Julia Franklin Read by Julia Franklin 7 hours 10 minutes 5 hours 50 minutes

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May Sinclair E.H. Young The Tree of Heaven Chatterton Square The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy’s web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts brothers go off to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the and the Frasers. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, suffrage movement, and later joins a version of the Women’s Social and the subtle mechanics of marriage and love are laid bare through Political Union. the observation of three of the marital options open to the mid-century woman: unmarried, separated, miserably married.

Read by Jilly Bond Read by Patience Tomlinson 10 hours 55 minutes 13 hours 40 minutes

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