439 Burke Road Glen Iris VIC 3146 Soundbooks Ph: (03) 9824 7711 Fax: (03) 9824 7855 The Audio Experts œ Australia and International A.B.N. 14 004 492 013 www.soundbooks.com.au Email: [email protected] New Releases Issue 9219 Adult Fiction Audiobooks Please note: all prices include G.S.T. UA = —complete and unabridged, word for word“ General Fiction RUNAWAY BEST-SELLER! William P. Young. The Shack Donald McCaig. Rhett Butler’s People Mackenzie Allen Philips’s Fully authorised by the Margaret youngest daughter, Missy, Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler’s has been abducted during a is the long-awaited novel People family vacation, and that parallels the Great American evidence that she may have Novel, “Gone With The Wind”. been brutally murdered is Through the storytelling mastery found in an abandoned of award-winning writer Donald shack deep in the Oregon McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. wilderness. Four years later, Through Rhett’s eyes we meet the in this midst of his great people who shaped his sadness, Mack receives a personality: Langston Butler, suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack Rhett’s unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on Bonneau, Rhett’s best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O’Hara at finds there will change his life forever. Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War. “When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian And of course Katie Scarlett O’Hara, the headstrong, passionate cross-fefertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. This woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett’s: more like him book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she’ll ever know... Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good!” – Eugene Peterson 14CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Roger Mueller Page 1 of 36. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Alice Sebold. The Almost Moon Barbara Taylor Bradford. The Heir “When all is said and done, killing Edward Deravenel is the king of my mother came easily.” his company at last: a man who A woman steps over the line into sought and won a business the unthinkable in this brilliant, empire – and the favors of many powerful and unforgettable new women. Now it is 1918, the war novel by the author of The is over, an influenza epidemic is Lovely Bones. sweeping England, and Edward For years, Helen Knightly has has a family and a business to given her life to others: to her protect. He must thread his way haunted mother, to her enigmatic between his loyal brother Richard father, to her husband and now- and the treacherous middle grown daughters. When she brother of the family, George. finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a And the politics of inheritance are intense, as different family factions way she never could have imagined. vie for the honor. The choices include a loyal caretaker, a jealous Unfolding over 24 hours, this searing novel explores the ties between rumormonger, a charming young woman, a sickly boy, and the scion of mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion and the family Edward ousted from power years before. the line between love and hate. 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by John Lee 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Joan Allen Jan Karon. A New Song Andrea Barrett. The Air We Breathe When Father Tim retires, he In Fall 1916, Americans debate agrees to serve as interim whether to enter the European minister of a small church on war. “Preparedness parades” Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap march and headlines report has its own unforgettable German spies. But in an isolated characters: a church organist town in the Adirondacks, the with a mysterious past; a lovelorn danger is barely felt. At Tamarack bachelor placing personal ads; a Lake, the focus is on the sick. mother battling paralyzing Wealthy tubercular patients live in depression. In this fifth novel of private cure cottages; charity the beloved Mitford series, fans patients, mainly immigrants, fill the old and new will discover that a public sanatorium. trip to Mitford “and” Whitecap is twice as good for the soul. An enterprising patient initiates a discussion group. But when his well- 15CD UA $69.95 Narrated by John McDonough meaning efforts lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it anti-immigrant prejudice and Walter Mosley. Fortunate Son vigilante sentiment. Tommy’s nickname is Lucky, but 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Jeff Woodman no one would think this crippled boy was blessed. Cursed with Greg Boggaerts; Ian MacDonald; Harold Mally; Ryan health problems and drawn into Trickey; Garry Richardson; Jim Kent; Kim Raward; Vanessa Holt; trouble more often than not, Des Burge; Ray Penny; John Holton; S. M. Braint. Tommy is the recipient of pity rather than admiration. He is Slippery When Wet: nothing like his stepbrother Eric. A Collection of Australian Short Stories Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced From the Slippery When Wet by a seemingly endless supply of Short Story Competition, good fortune - he is charming, a sponsored by Australian star athlete, and a magnet for Roadside Services Pty. Ltd. anyone in his sphere. Yet in spite of these differences, Eric and Tommy Includes: are as close as two humans can be. The Cab and the Cockroach; After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys The Reluctant Truck; Roadhouse split. Tommy and Eric forge their separate ways in the world. For Tommy this means dropping out of school, selling drugs, living on the Blues; Dusty Roads; The Beddy; streets, and somehow creating a family of his own. Motherless, African- Up the Track; The Wennengatta American, and impoverished, Tommy has nothing but feels lucky every Wombat; A Truck Load of Logs; day of his life. For Eric, the golden youth, life means athletics, sexual Michael and the Truck; Maple attraction, excellent grades, prosperity, and the uncertainty that comes Leaf; The Laser; The Awesome with prizes won too easily. Given everything, he trusts nothing. Load; Cruise Control; The Eric and Tommy’s parallel lives are an astonishing story of self- Highway Man. determination and the true measure of fortune. When circumstances 2CD UA $24.95 Narrated by Daniel Jackson, Bob reunite Eric and Tommy after years apart, their distinct approaches to Dalvean, Alex Ruschanow, Lyn life may be the only thing that can save them from forces that threaten Thomson, Jack Buckingham, Dannielle to destroy them for good. Bowe, Brian Le Marquand 8CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Lorraine Toussaint Page 2 of 36. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Mary Wesley. A Sensible Life Maureen Lee. Mother Of Pearl Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old Pretty Amy Curran was just misfit, despised by her selfish eighteen years old when she met and indolent parents, and left to Barney Patterson, the love of her wander the streets of a small life, on Southport pier in 1939. French town whilst her parents Their romantic, passionate prepare to depart for life in marriage was made in heaven, or colonial India. There she so they both believed. But when befriends the locals, acquires an Britain declared war on extensive vocabulary of French Germany, Barney hastily foul language and encounters the volunteered to fight, and the privileged lifestyle of the elegant middle-class British families holidaying couple were eventually separated for five long years. When he in 1920s France. Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilised and, returned to Liverpool after VE Day he wasn’t the same person - and above all caring people, Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love neither was Amy. But how could things have become so twisted that with not one but three young men. Over the next forty years Flora will one day Amy would kill the husband she once so adored? And what grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at the time? consummate and finally resolve each of these affairs. By 1971 Amy has spent twenty years in prison for Barney’s murder. 3CD $39.95 Narrated by Anna Massey Now she is about to be released - and the greatest question Pearl must ask herself is this: can she ever love her mother after what she did? Kristin Hannah. Firefly Lane 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Jacqueline King In the summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her Tom Keneally. The Widow And Her Hero place at the bottom of the When Grace married the genial eighth-grade social food chain. and handsome Captain Leo Then, to her amazement, the Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, “coolest girl in the world” moves they were young, in love - and at in across the street and wants war. Like many other young men to be her friend. Tully Hart and women, they were ready, seems to have it all - beauty, willing and able to put the war brains, ambition.