Adults' Fiction Audiobooks

439 Burke Road Glen Iris VIC 3146 Soundbooks Ph: (03) 9824 7711 Fax: (03) 9824 7855 The Audio Experts – Australia and International A.B.N. 14 004 492 013 www.soundbooks.com.au Email: [email protected] Issue 9220 New Releases Adult Fiction Audiobooks Please note: all prices include G.S.T. UA = “complete and unabridged, word for word” General Fiction Marlon James. The Book of Night Women Even at her birth, the slave Jacquelyn Mitchard. The Breakdown Lane women around Lilith (born into Giving advice is what Julieanne slavery on a Jamaican sugar does for a living – every plantation at the end of the 18 th Sunday she doles it out in a century) recognise a dark power column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to to both revere and fear. her personal life, Julie herself The Night Women, as they call seems to have missed some themselves, have long been clues. Having worked creatively plotting a slave revolt, and as to keep her twenty-year Lilith comes of age and reveals marriage to Leo fresh and the extent of her power, they see exciting and to be a good her as the key to their plans. But mother, she is completely when she begins to understand caught off guard when he tells her own feelings, desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges her he needs to go on a of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and “sabbatical” from their life together, leaving Julie and their three risks becoming the conspiracy’s weak link. children behind. But it soon becomes clear that his leave of absence is Lilith’s story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the meant to be permanent. Things take a turn for the worse when Julie is plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman diagnosed with a serious illness and the children undertake a violence, and very human emotion between slave and master, between dangerous journey to find Leo – before it’s too late. slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. 10CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Anna Fields 14CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Robin Miles Eileen Goudge. The Diary Wang Gang. English When the two grown daughters of During the darkest days of the Elizabeth Marshall discover an old Cultural Revolution, a twelve- diary of their mother’s in her attic, it year-old boy named Love Liu comes as a shock to learn that the wonders what life is like beyond true love of Elizabeth’s life was not the region of Xinjiang in China’s their father. This is the mystery the remote northwest. Here, two daughters must unravel as conformity is valued above all they read the words penned by else, and suspicion governs every Elizabeth so long ago. Their exchange among neighbours, mother can’t give them the classmates, and even friends. Into answers: after a massive stroke, this stifling atmosphere comes a she lies mute in a nursing home. tall, clean-shaven teacher from Only the pages of her diary can provide clues to what really happened. Shanghai, with an elegant grey In a richly detailed journey into the past, we see Elizabeth lose her wool jacket and an English dictionary tucked under his arm. heart to one man while remaining devoted to another. Finally, she must With the dictionary at his disposal, Love Liu throws himself into learning choose between the stable, loyal Bob... and the electrifying and English, and a whole new world opens up for him. unpredictable A.J., who spent time in juvenile detention as a teen. But in an atmosphere of accusation and recrimination, one in which the When a suspicious fire in the neighborhood is linked to A.J., Elizabeth teacher is deemed morally suspect and mere innuendo can cost is faced with another dilemma: She’s the only one who can clear A.J.’s someone his life, Love Liuas ideals face a test more challenging than name, but to do so would ruin her reputation. any he’ll meet in the classroom. 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Michael Sun Lee Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. Prices are subject to change without notice. Page 1 Alexander McCall Smith. Alexander McCall Smith. The Careful Use of Compliments La’s Orchestra Saves the World Book 4 of the Isabel Dalhousie novels. It’s 1939 and the war in Europe Ousted as editor of the Review of casts a long, all-encompassing Applied Ethics , Isabel thankfully has shadow. In a sleepy town in her newborn son Charlie to keep her Suffolk, the generous and occupied. What’s more, Charlie’s determined widow, La, forms an adoring father Jamie has offered the amateur orchestra to entertain the most intriguing proposal of all – locals and soothe her own broken marriage. But before she can settle heart. She recruits Felix, a into a quiet, domestic existence, refugee from Poland, to play the Isabel bcomes entangled in an art flute, and a touching friendship world mystery. At an auction, two emerges. When the war is over paintings attributed to a deceased and the orchestra disbands, La is artist hit the market at the same time, and both paintings have unusual left pondering her next move. What role can she play in her community elements – such as the appearance of a person the painter could only now the war is over? And can she let herself love again? La’s have known after his supposed date of death. Could the works be Orchestra is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the forgeries? Or for that matter, might the artist still be alive? healing power of music. 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Davina Porter 3CD $45.00 Narrated by Beth Chalmers PREVIOUS TITLES IN THE SERIES: The Sunday Philosopher Club 7CDs $69.95 Toni Morrison. A Mercy Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 7CDs $69.95 The Americas, 1680s: Jacob is an The Right Attitude to Rain 8CDs $69.95 Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh Alexander McCall Smith. north. Despite his distaste for The Miracle at Speedy Motors dealing in “flesh”, he takes a small Precious Ramotswe visits a game slave girl in part payment for a bad preserve to uncover the truth about debt from a plantation owner in an elderly American traveller whose Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, safari proved to be his last journey. “with the hands of a slave and the But this is not her only concern; her feet of a Portuguese lady”. Florens husband is increasingly convinced looks for love, first from Lina, an that a miracle cure is available for older servant woman at her new their adopted daughter who cannot master’s house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, walk, with all the simple faith of a never enslaved. man who still believes in the There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; unexpected. Is he right, though? Or their mistress, Rebekka, a victim of religious intolerance back in are Mma Ramotswe’s words of England; Sorrow, a strange girl who’s spent her early years at sea; and caution wiser than she knows? finally the devastating voice of Florens’ mother. “The author’s prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its His descriptions leave one as if standing in the Botswanan landscape. heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her This is art that conceals art.” daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Lisette Lecat exorcise that abandonment. 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Author Alexander McCall Smith. Blue Shoes and Happiness Richard Matheson; Stephen King; Joe Hill. Life is good for Mma Ramotswe Road Rage (two novellas: Duel & Throttle ) as she sets out with her usual Road Rage unites Richard resolve to solve people’s Matheson’s classic “Duel” and problems, heal their misfortunes, the contemporary work it and untangle the mysteries that inspired - two power-packed make life interesting. And life is short stories by three of the never dull on Tlokweng Road. A genre’s most acclaimed authors. new and rather too brusque “Duel,” an unforgettable tale advice columnist is appearing in about a driver menaced by a the local paper. Then, a cobra is semi truck, was the source for found in the offices of the No. 1 Stephen Spielberg’s acclaimed Ladies’ Detective Agency. first film of the same name. Recently, the Mokolodi Game “Throttle,” by Stephen King and Joe Hill, is a duel of a different kind, Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws, in the workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse own fiance. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. than not knowing what you’re up against, is slowing down. 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Lisette Lecat 2CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Stephen Lang Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. Prices are subject to change without notice. Page 2 Jamie Ford.

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