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General Fiction Marlon James. The Book of Night Women Jacquelyn Mitchard. The Breakdown Lane Even at her birth, the slave 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

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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

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Jamie Ford. Domnica Radulescu. Train to Trieste Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet An incandescent love story that The new owner of the Panama moves from Romania to America, Hotel in Seattle has made an from totalitarianism to freedom, and incredible discovery: the from passionate infatuation to belongings of Japanese families, profound understanding. left when they were rounded up In the summer of 1977, seventeen- and sent to internment camps year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love during World War II. As Henry with Mihai, a mysterius, green-eyed Lee looks on, the owner opens a boy who lives in the romantic Japanese parasol. mountain city where she spends This simple act takes Henry back her summers. She can think of to the 1940s, while he was at the nothing, and no one else. But life exclusive Rainier Elementary and under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu is difficult. Hunger and met Keiko Okabe, a young paranoia infect everyone; fear, too. And one day, Mona sees Mihai Japanese American student. wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Could Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko he be one of them? forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcends the long- As food shortages worsen, as more and more of her loved ones standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and disappear in “accidents”, Mona comes to understand that she must her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, leave Romania. She escapes in secret through Yugoslavia to Italy, and she and Henry were left only with the hope that the war would one day then to Chicago. But she leaves without saying a final goodbye to end, and that their promise to each other would be kept. Mihai. And though she struggles to bury her longing for the past – she Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that this parasol belonged to becomes a doctoral student, marries, has children – she finds herself Keiko.... compelled to return to her country, determined to learn the truth about 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Feodor Chin her one great love. 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Yelena Shmulenson Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Purple Hibiscus The limits of fifteen–year–old Mark Slouka. The Visible World Kambili’s world are defined Mark Slouka’s novel begins with by the high walls of her family the child of Czech immigrants to estate and the dictates of her the US, now living in New York, repressive and fanatically who has been brought up on the religious father. Her life is folklore of his parents’ homeland. regulated by schedules: As he grows up he becomes prayer, sleep, study, and aware that he has never been more prayer. told what his parents did during the Nazi occupation of Prague. When Nigeria begins to fall As an adult he makes a journey apart during a military coup, back to Czechoslovakia and it is Kambili’s father, involved mysteriously in the political crisis, sends only then that he discovers their Kambili and her brother away to live with their aunt. In this house, full of part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious ‘butcher energy and laughter, she discovers life and love – and a terrible, of Prague’ and begins to understand his mother Ivana’s unhappiness. bruising secret deep within her family. Intertwined with this gripping history is a passionate love story, the 6CD $45.99 Narrated by Adjoa Andoh tragic consequences of which transcend both years and continents. 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Glen McCready Candace Bushnell. Sex and the City Here is the collection of Colm Tóibín. Mothers and Sons columns that inspired the Each of the nine stories in this addictive and multiple award- beautifully written, intensely winning HBO series! SEX intimate collection centres on a AND THE CITY offers a transformative moment that alters tantalising glimpse of the the delicate balance of power openings, launch parties, and between mother and son, or celebrity affairs that keep changes the way they perceive society amused. Throughout, one another. With exquisite grace a cast of characters - the and eloquence, Tóibín writes of troubled writer, the men and women bound by successful businessman, the convention, by unspoken famous underwear model, emotions, by the stronghold of and others - searches for true love… or at least someone to go home the past. Many are trapped in lives they would not choose again, if they with at the end of the night. It’s a chronicle of the true-life adventures of ever chose at all. Tóibín brings to this stunning first collection an acute the “in” crowd that is often hilarious and sometimes terrifying, but understanding of human frailty and longing. These are haunting, always mesmerising. profoundly moving stories by a writer who is himself a master. 5CD $29.95 Narrated by Cynthia Nixon 7CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Gerard Doyle

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Jeffrey Archer. A Prisoner of Birth Victoria Hislop. The Return Danny Cartwright and Spencer Beneath the majestic towers of Craig were born on different sides the Alhambra, Granada’s cobbled of the track. Danny, an East End streets resonate with music and Cockney, leaves school at the secrets. Sonia Cameron knows age of 15 to take up a job at a nothing of the city’s shocking local garage. He falls in love with past; she is here to dance. But in Beth, the boss’ daughter, and a quiet cafe, a chance asks her to marry him. Spencer conversation and an intriguing Craig resides in the West End, a collection of old photographs graduate of an English public draw her into the extraordinary school and Cambridge University. tale of Spain’s devastating civil After leaving university he war. 70 years earlier, the cafe is becomes a criminal barrister and home to the close-knit Ramrez is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen’s Counsel of his generation. family. In 1936, an army coup led Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their by Franco shatters the country’s fragile peace, and in the heart of engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by is also celebrating – his 30th birthday, along with a select group of politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal university chums. battle as Spain rips itself apart. Although the two young men don’t meet, their lives will never be the 5CD $45.00 Narrated by Judy Bennett same again. An hour later, one of them is arrested for murder while the other ends up as the Prosecution’s chief witness in an Old Bailey trial. Bryce Courtenay. The Persimmon Tree 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Roger Allam Indonesia, 1942, on the cusp of Japanese invasion and the Jeffrey Archer. A Twist in the Tale evacuation of Batavia (Jakarta) A man calls unexpectedly on by the Dutch. Seventeen-year- his mistress and sees old Nicholas Duncan is on another man leaving her flat. holiday there, in pursuit of an Accusing her of being exotic butterfly known as the unfaithful, he quarrels with Magpie Crow. It’s an uncertain, her, strikes her. She dies. dangerous time to be in Leaving unseen, he tips off Indonesia, and Nick’s options of the police so that the other getting out are fast dwindling. man is arrested and Amidst the fear and chaos he falls in love with Anna, the beautiful charged... Has he achieved daughter of a Dutch acquaintance. The Perfect Murder ? A To assist in the escape, Anna’s father gifts Nick his prized yacht, tantalising opening to A Vlermuis, to sail to Australia. Singapore has just fallen, the Japanese Twist in the Tale . have made it to Sumatra, and the waters are dangerous. Vlermuis is Consider also: a wine-tasting with a bizarre difference, a game of sex not long out of Batavia when Nick is forced ashore for repairs. What with a sexy stranger, a violent row in a golf clubhouse bar, a rivalry follows when he witnesses the ruthless execution of shipwrecked Allied founded on eating cornflakes... just some of the openings in this soliders by natives, and helps one wounded survivor to escape, will be cunningly constructed, fast-moving, entertaining set of stories from the basis for incredible adventure and lifelong friendship... THE bestselling author of our time. 23CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower 4CD $39.99 Narrated by Martin Jarvis Bryce Courtenay. Fishing for Stars Miss Read. Tyler’s Row Following on from The The two-hundred-year-old Persimmon Tree , Nick Duncan cottages known as Tyler’s (now known as the Patriarch of Row, with charming leaded- the islands) is dealing with glass windows and an arched bereavement and disturbing thorn hedge over the gateway, flashbacks. are supposed to provide a The striking Marg Hamilton, an haven of peace for their new influential political player in owners, Peter and Diana Australia who’s remained close Hale. They plan to convert the to Nick, suspects Nick is middle two cottages into one, suffering the onset of Post to create their own rural Traumatic Stress Disorder and organises for a specialist to meet with refuge. But beset by carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and bills, as him in Sydney. An initial meeting goes wrong but when Nick is hit by a well as their neighboring tenants, the redoubtable Sergeant Barnaby car, it gives him the time and opportunity to write about his wife Anna. and the sour Mrs. Fowler, both longtime residents of Tyler’s Row, the In doing so, Nick draws us into the compelling tale of the life he has couple soon have cause to ponder their decision. Fairacre is not the lived post war-hero days: building a shipping empire, navigating utopia they expect, and the Hales must adapt to ordinary life in a international corruption, supporting his wife’s third-world education village full of extraordinary quirks. crusade and loving the women who inspire him. 3CD $39.99 Narrated by Carole Boyd 19CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower

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Bryce Courtenay. Brother Fish Bryce Courtenay. Solomon’s Song This Australian saga spans “This is the story of two families – eighty years and four branches of the Solomons – continents. transported to an alien land, both Inspired by real events, of whom eventually grow rich and Bryce Courtenay’s Brother powerful but who, through three Fish tells the story of three generations, never for one people from vastly differing moment relinquish their hatred for backgrounds. All they have each other. It is also the story of in common is a tough our country from the beginning beginning in life. until we came of age as a nation. Jack McKenzie is a I have learned a great deal about harmonica player, soldier, Australia and those things which concern us as a people and make us, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in in many ways, who we are today. To write this book, I visited Gallipoli Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from and came away deeply saddened by the terrible waste of our young an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Larger than life, Private Jimmy blood. We would never be quite the same again. It has been a grand Oldcorn was once a street kid and leader of a New York gang. adventure and I hope that you will find Solomon’s Song a good and Together, they reap a vast (and not always legitimate) fortune from the powerful story. No writer can possibly hope for more.” sea. Book Three of the trilogy which includes Potato Factory , Tommo and 26CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower Hawk and Solomon’s Song . 17CD UA $44.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower Bryce Courtenay. The Potato Factory Ikey Solomon is very Paulo Coelho. The Witch of Portobello successful indeed, in the art of This is the story of Athena, or thieving. Ikey’s partner in crime Sherine, to give her the is his mistress, the forthright name with which she was Mary Abacus, until misfortune baptised. Her life is pieced befalls them. They are parted together through a series of and each must make the harsh recorded interviews with journey from 19th century those people who knew her London to Van Diemens Land. well or hardly at all – parents, In the backstreets and dives of colleagues, teachers, friends, Hobart Town, Mary learns the acquaintances, her ex- art of brewing and builds The Potato Factory, where she plans a new husband. future. But her ambitions are threatened by Ikey’s wife, Hannah, her old The novel unravels Athena’s enemy. The two women raise their separate families. As each woman mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in sets out to destroy the other, the families are brought to the edge of Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to disaster. London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs... Athena, who has Book One of the trilogy which includes Potato Factory , Tommo and been dubbed ‘the Witch of Portobello’ for her seeming powers of Hawk and Solomon’s Song . prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to 20CD UA $44.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way Bryce Courtenay. Tommo & Hawk readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice. 7CD $45.99 Narrated by Rita Wolf Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are Henry Miller. Tropic of Cancer reunited at the age of 15 in Now hailed as an American Hobart Town. Together they classic, Tropic of Cancer , Henry escape their troubled pasts Miller’s masterpiece, was banned and set off on a journey into as obscene in the USA for 27 manhood. From whale years after its first publication in hunting in the Pacific to the Paris in 1943. Only a historic court Maori Wars of New Zealand, ruling that changed American from the Rocks in Sydney to censorship standards, ushering in the miners’ riots at the a new era of freedom and goldfields, Tommo and Hawk must learn each other’s strengths and frankness in modern literature, weaknesses in order to survive. Along the way, Hawk meets the permitted the publication of this outrageous Maggie Pye, who brings love and laughter into his life. But first volume of Miller’s famed the demons of Tommo’s past return to haunt the brothers. With Tommo mixture of memoir and fiction, at his side, Hawk takes on a fight against all odds to save what they which chronicles with unapologetic gusto, the bawdy adventures of a cherish most. young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Book Two of the trilogy which includes Potato Factory , Tommo and Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Hawk and Solomon’s Song . Mailer said, “one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.” 18CD UA $44.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Campbell Scott

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Ray Tyndale. Farm Woman Francine Prose. Goldengrove Farm Woman is the At the centre of Francine intimate and inspiring Prose’s profoundly moving new story of a young woman novel is a young girl facing the as she learns that consequences of sudden loss childhood secrets can after the death of her sister. As have a lasting impact on her parents drift toward their life. own risky consolations, thirteen- Molly marries early into a year-old Nico is left alone to world where farming is grope toward understanding not just a way of life, it is and clarity, falling into a the only way of life. As seductive, dangerous the wife of the second relationship with her sister’s son in a fourth generation enigmatic boyfriend. farming family, Molly struggles to gain her independence in a male Over one haunted summer, dominated world. Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realise their Molly’s journey is one of silence, hard work, love, family and ultimately parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of self discovery. A rich new voice in Australian fiction. time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the 2CD $29.95 Narrated by Taylor Owynns darkness at the novel’s heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of Marisa de los Santos. Belong to Me teenage life. A devoted city dweller, Cornelia 7CD UA $55.99 Narrated by Mamie Gummer Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden desire Graham Swift. Last Orders to head for an idyllic suburb. In a London pub called the Coach Though she knows she’s made the and Horses, four men gather. right move, she approaches her Most of them have been friends new life with trepidation and for half a lifetime, having fought in struggles to forge friendships. the same war, drunk in the same Cornelia’s mettle is quickly tested pubs, and bet on the same by judgmental neighbour Piper horses. Now they have come Truitt, the embodiment of together to deliver the ashes of a everything Cornelia feared she fifth man, Jack Dodds, to the sea. would find in suburbia. A saving As Swift follows Ray, Vic, Lenny, grace soon appears in the form of Lake, and Cornelia develops an and Vince on their errand – one instant bond with this warm yet elusive woman. whose solemnity is undercut by As their individual stories unfold, the women become entangled in a the participants’ sheepishness web of trust, betrayal, love and loss that challenges them in ways they and irrepressible humour – he braids their voices into a choir of secret never imagined, and that ultimately teaches them what it means for sorrow and resentment, passion and regret. What emerges is an elegy one human being to belong to another. not only for Jack but for a vision of a changing England. 13CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Julia Gibson 7CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, Ian Julia Glass. I See You Everywhere Stewart, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, Louisa Jardine is the older one, Domonick Hawksley the conscientious student: the one who years for a good Jan Karon. At Home in Mitford marriage, an artistic career, a Set in the charming village of family. Clem, the youngest, is Mitford, this book will delight the rebel: iconoclastic, listeners as it draws them into the committed to her work but not to life of Father Tim, an Episcopal the men who fall for her daring rector who finds himself running nature. Louisa resents that the on empty and longing for change. charismatic Clem has always His bachelor existence is been the favourite. changed and enriched by a In this vivid, heartrending story lovable cast of characters, of what we can and cannot do including a stray dog, a lonely for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move farther apart. boy, and a comely neighbor. Louis settles in New York while Clem, a wildlife biologist, moves As seen through the eyes of restlessly about until she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex Father Tim, the village of Mitford, bond, Louisa observes, is “like a double helix, two souls coiling around North Carolina, becomes a kind of extended family – loving and a common axis, joined yet never touching.” lovable, yet bursting with secrets, heartaches, hopes, fears, failures, 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Author & Mary Stuart and surprises. Masterson 16CD UA $89.95 Narrated by John McDonough

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Elie Wiesel. A Mad Desire to Dance Judy Nunn. Floodtide A searing exploration of a man In the mighty ‘Iron Ore State’ – haunted by the horrors of the 20 th Western Australia - the fortunes of century, a man who feels he must four men and four families are traced be going mad but who finds a way over four memorable decades: the out of the darkness. prosperous post-war 1950s with an Doriel is a European transplanted idyllic childhood in the small city of to New York who carries with him Perth... the turbulent 60s with its a profound sense of desperation Vietnam War and free love... and loss. His mother, a resistance Each of the four who travel this leader, survives the war but dies journey has a story to tell. An in a car crash with her husband environmentalist fights to save the primitive and beautiful Pilbara coast soon afterward. Doriel’s longing from the careless ravaging of mining conglomerates; a Vietnam War for his parents, and a longing to veteran rises above crippling injuries to discover a talent that gains him know his family’s secrets, haunts an international reputation; and an ambitious geologist joins forces with him and denies him the chance for happiness or intimacy with women. a hard-core businessman to lead the way in the growth of Perth from a The intense study of Judaism offers him no solace; to the contrary, he sleepy town to a glittering citadel. But, as the 90s ushers in a new age, comes to believe he is haunted by a dybbuk... all four are caught up in the irreversible tides of change. 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Kirsten Potter 19CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Richard Aspel Sara Gruen. Water for Elephants An atmospheric, gritty, and Mystery compelling novel of star-crossed J. D. Robb. Promises in Death lovers, set in the circus world Amarylis Coltraine had recently circa 1932. transferred to the New York City police When Jacob Jankowski, force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop recently orphaned and suddenly long enough to know how to defend adrift, jumps onto a passing herself against an assailant. When she’s train, he enters a world of taken down just steps away from her freaks, grifters, and misfits, a apartment, disarmed, and killed with her second-rate circus struggling to own weapon, for Eve Dallas, the victim survive during the Great isn’t just “one of us”. Depression, making one-night After breaking the news to Morris – who’d stands in town after endless been seeing Amarylis – Eve’s and her town. A veterinary student who husband Roarke’s investigations lead them to discover a connection almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young The truth must be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but that arrives at Cop Central addressed to Eve, containing Coltraine’s twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems guns, badge, and a note from her killer: “You can have them back. untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Maybe someday soon, I’ll be sending yours to somebody else.” 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by David LeDoux, John 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen Randolph Jones C. J. Box. Three Weeks to Say Goodbye Frank Delaney. Ireland Jack and Melissa McGuane have One evening in 1951, an itinerant spent years trying to have a baby. storyteller arrives unannounced at Their dream has come true with the a house in the Irish countryside. In adoption of their daughter, Angelina. exchange for a bed and a warm But nine months after bringing her meal, he invites his hosts and home, they receive a devastating their neighbours to join him by the phone call: Angelina’s teenage birth wintry fireside, and begins to tell father never signed away his formative stories of Ireland’s parental rights, and he wants her history. Ronan, a nine-year-old back. Worse, his father, a powerful boy, grows so entranced by the Denver judge, wants him to own up storytelling that, when the old man to this responsibility and will use leaves abruptly under mysterious every advantage his position of power affords him to make sure it circumstances, the boy devotes happens. When Jack and Melissa meet with the father and son, it is himself to finding him again. immediately apparent that there’s something sinister about both of Ronan’s search for the Storyteller becomes both a journey of self- them and that love for Angelina is not the motivation for their actions. discovery, long unspoken family secrets, and an immersion into the As Angelina’s safety hangs in the balance, Jack and Melissa will stop sometimes conflicting histories of his native land. at nothing to protect their child. A horrifying game of intimidation and A sweeping novel of huge ambition, Ireland is the beautifully told story double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where of a remarkable nation. absolutely no one is safe. 16CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Author 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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Stuart Woods. New York Dead Stuart Woods. Beverly Hills Dead Everyone is always telling Stone This fast-faced page-turner of Barrington that he’s too smart to murder, political intrigue and be a cop, but it’s pure luck that betrayal is set in 1940s places him on the streets in the Hollywood, the era of the “Red dead of night, just in time to Scare”, when almost anyone witness the horrifying incident that could be a suspect. turns his life inside out. Rick Barron, a former Beverly Suddenly he is on the front page Hills cop, has risen to head of of every New York newspaper, production of Centurion and his life is hopelessly entwined Pictures, and he’s at the top of in the increasingly shocking life his game. But tensions are high (and death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the in Hollywood, and when Rick’s country’s hottest and most friend Sidney Brooks, a beautiful television anchorwoman. successful screenwriter, receives a subpoena from the House Un- No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his American Activities Committee, Rick isn’t surprised. The witch hunt is nights and turning his days into a living hell. Stone finds himself caught spreading, and those under investigation are Rick’s closest friends – in a perilous web of unspeakable crimes, dangerous friends, and even his wife, the glamorous starlet Glenna Gleason. sexual depravity that has throughout it one common thread: Sasha. 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Tony Roberts 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Robert Lawrence Stuart Woods. Two Dollar Bill Stuart Woods. Hot Mahogany Stone Barrington’s quiet dinner Barton Cabot (ex-army with his ex-partner, Dino, is intelligence) is suffering from interrupted by Billy Bob, a filthy amnesia following a random act rich, smooth-talkin’ Texan, who of violence. Amnesia is a strolls in and parks himself at dangerous thing in a man whose their table. He’s in town “to make memory is chockfull of state money”, he says, unwrapping his secrets, so Lance Cabot hires wad of rare two-dollar bills, and Stone to watch Barton’s back. in need of an attorney – namely, As Stone discovers, Barton is a Stone – though he won’t say why spy with a rather unusual hobby: or when such representation will building and restoring antique be necessary. furniture. But a short while later, when an The genteel world of antiques unknown assailant tries to shoot Billy Bob, against his better judgement and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stone’s usual underworld Stone offers Billy Bob a safe haven for the night. of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton is a man with a past, He almost immediately begins to suspect that he’s made several and one event in particular – in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty precipitous misjudgments – for the slippery out-of-towner has gone years earlier – is coming back to haunt his present in ways he’d never missing and someone has been found dead – in Stone’s town house expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady no less. characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a Stone is now caught between a beautiful federal prosecutor and a love few forged antiques. from his past, a con man with more aliases than hairs on his head, and 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Tony Roberts a murder investigation that could ruin them all. 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Tony Roberts Stuart Woods. Mounting Fears President Will Lee is having a Harlan Coben (editor). Death Do Us Part rough week. A collection of 18 stories His vice-president just died edited by Harlan Coben – during surgery. Confirmation gripping stories about hearings for the new vice relationships from some of president are underway, but the the top mystery writers squeaky-clean governor whom working today. Will has nominated may have a From the Civil War era to the few previously unnoticed 1950s, this collection of skeletons in his closet. And suspenseful stories charts Teddy Fay, rogue CIA agent, is the complications – always plotting his revenge on CIA surprising, sometimes director Kate Rule Lee – the deadly – that arise between president’s wife. lovers, dear friends, and even complete strangers. The collection Plus there are some loose nukes in Pakistan that might just trigger World War III if Will’s diplomatic efforts fall short. includes tales by Laura Lippman, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine, Lee Child It’s up to President Lee – with some help from Holly Barker, Lance and others. Cabot, and a few others – to save the world. 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Alan Sklar, Karen White, 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie John Lee

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Agatha Christie. The Body in the Library Elizabeth Peters. Crocodile on the Sandbank It’s seven in the morning. The Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Bantrys wake to find the body product of the Victorian age, of an unknown young woman embarks on her first Egyptian sprawled in their library. She is adventure armed with unshakable wearing evening dress and self-confidence, a journal to record heavy makeup which is now her thoughts, and, of course, a smeared across her cheeks. sturdy umbrella. On her way, She was strangled to death... Amelia rescues young Evelyn But who is she? How did she Barton-Forbes, who has been get there? “ruined” and abandoned on the St Mary’s Mead, after all, is not streets of Rome by her rascally the sort of village where lover. With a typical disregard for peroxide blondes in cheap convention, Amelia promptly hires garish satin are generally to be found. her fellow countrywoman as a companion and takes her to Cairo. And what is the connection with another dead girl whose charred Eluding Evelyn’s former lover, who wants her back, and Evelyn’s remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? cousin Lord Ellesmere, who wishes to marry her, the two women sail Dolly Bantry asks her keen-minded old friend Miss Marple to solve the up the Nile to an archaeological site that is home to a rather lively mystery – before tongues start to wag and throw suspicion upon the mummy. Soon strange visitations, suspicious accidents, and a botched respectable Colonel Bantry with those ominous words, “No smoke kidnapping convince Amelia that there is a plot afoot to harm Evelyn. without fire”... 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan O’Malley 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Stephanie Cole Walter Mosley. The Long Fall M. C. Beaton. Death of a Maid His name is etched on the door of Mrs Gillespie, the region’s most his Manhattan office: LEONID famous maid, is found dead, McGILL, PRIVATE struck down violently by a metal INVESTIGATOR. Daddy was a bucket of water, Hamish Macbeth communist and great-great- – investigor – is sure that the Granddaddy was a slave master maid’s personality and habits can from Scotland. lead him to discover the identity Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a of her killer. business that trades mostly in Mrs Gillespie was, after all, a cash and favours: McGill’s an old- malicious, gossip-loving school P.I. working a city that’s individual, and the more Hamish gotten fancy all around him. Fancy Macbeth investigates the murder, or not, he has always managed to the more he realises that Mrs get by - keep a roof over the head of his wife and kids, and still manage Gillespie delighted not only in indulging a spiteful penchant for gossip, a little fun on the side - mostly because he’s never been above taking a but also in discovering her clients’ secrets... and that made her a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city itself, McGill is turning over danger to someone... a new leaf, going from crooked to slightly bent. st It also means that everyone whose home she ever cleaned could be a New York City in the 21 century is a city full of secrets and still a place suspect. that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Graeme Malcolm That’s exactly the kind of thing Leonid McGill knows how to do. 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Mirron Willis M. C. Beaton. Death of a Gentle Lady Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Nevada Barr. Borderline Everyone in the sleepy Scottish The killings on Isle Royale have left Anna drained and haunted, her town of Lochdubh adores elderly memories of her time with the wolf Mrs Gentle – everyone but study group forever marred by the Hamish Macbeth, that is. carnage on the island. Diagnosed with Hamish thinks the gentle lady is post-traumatic stress disorder, she is quite sly and vicious, and the on administrative leave from the citizens of Lochdubh think he is National Park Service. Hoping the overly cranky. Perhaps it’s time warmth and the adventure of a raft trip for him to get married, they say. in Big Bend National Park will lift her But who has time for marriage spirits, her husband Paul takes Anna when there’s a murder to be to southwest Texas, where the beauty solved? of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the Rio Grande work their When Mrs Gentle dies under mysterious circumstances, the town is magic - until the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student shocked and outraged. Chief Detective Inspector Blair suspects falls overboard, resulting in an even more grisly discovery. A pregnant members of her family, but Hamish Macbeth thinks there’s more to the woman, hair and arms tangled in the downed branches, is found in th story, and begins investigating the truth behind this lady’s gentle river. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they’d longed for, Anna exterior. and Paul find themselves sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue. 5CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Graeme Malcolm 5CD $59.95 Narrated by Joyce Bean

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Harlan Coben. Long Lost Rita Mae Brown. Sour Puss Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen and Terese Collins since their affair her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair ended ten years ago... but now Haristeen, have happily she’s a suspect in the murder of remarried. But the excitement of her ex-husband, with nowhere to their nuptials is quickly turn but to Myron. Terese also overshadowed by the discovery of reveals the tragic story behind her a murder – Professor Vincent disappearance – including the Forland, a world-famous grape death of her beloved only and fungal expert, is found daughter. decapitated. A startling piece of evidence turns It’s not long before a local is also the entire case upside down, with found dead, killed in the same the very real possibility that gruesome manner as the Terese’s daughter may still be alive. unfortunate Professor Forland. In grave danger from unknown assailants in a country where nothing is Harry wonders just what the two murder victims knew and had in as it seems, Myron and Terese race to stay a step ahead of Homeland common. Once the warmth of spring arrives, the grapevines blossom Security, Interpol, and Mossad. Soon they are working at breakneck and Harry’s clever feline Mrs Murphy together with fellow feline Pewter pace not only to learn what really happened to Teresa’s long-lost little and corgi Tee Tucker discover the first critical clue. But how can they girl but also to uncover a sinister plot with shocking global implications. show the humans what they’ve learned? 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Steven Weber 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Kate Forbes James Lee Burke. Swan Peak Rita Mae Brown. Puss ‘n Cahoots Detective Robicheaux is far from Newly remarried Harry and Fair his New Iberia roots, attempting to Haristeen visit Shelbyville, relax in the untouched wilderness of Kentucky, site of the famous rural Montana. He, his wife, and his saddlebred horse show. They’ll buddy Clete Purcel have retreated visit dear friends Joan Hamilton to stay at an old friend’s ranch, and Larry Hodge and enjoy a hoping to spend their days fishing week among some of the finest and enjoying their distance from the horses, trainers and riders in the harsh, gritty landscape of Louisiana country. post-Katrina. But soon after they arrive, odd But the serenity is quickly shattered events occur. First, Joan’s ruby when two college students are and sapphire horsehead heirloom found brutally murdered in the hills pin is stolen. Next, a young film nearby. Drawn into a twisted and dangerous mystery involving a star’s prize three-gaited mare disappears into thin air. There is no lack wealthy, vicious oil tycoon, his deformed brother and beautiful wife, a of suspects, from hotheaded trainers and jealous rivals to vicious ex- sexually deviant minister, an escaped con and former country music spouses. Then a body is found flagrantly murdered and it’s obvious to star, and a vigilante Texas gunbull out for blood. At the centre of the Harry that someone at Shelbyville is sending a strong message: storm is Clete, who cannot shake the feeling that he is being haunted winning is only secondary – first prize is survival. by ghosts from his past – namely Sally Dio, the mob boss he’d 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Kate Forbes sabotaged and killed years before. 12CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Will Patton Agatha Christie. While the Light Lasts Agatha Christie wrote stories Rita Mae Brown. The Tell-Tale Horse for a variety of magazines in A woman is discovered naked the 1920s and ‘30s, and and tied to an equine statue, the most of these eventually victim of a meticulous murder. found their way into her Initially, the only thing known books of short stories. Now, about the woman is that she is 21 years after her death, from India and very beautiful. detective work worthy of When a respected member of Agatha Christie herself has the Jefferson Hunt Club is linked unearthed ‘new’ stories, to the woman via some financial most of which have never and technological investments, been published anywhere in Sister Jane launches into the world since their orginal appearances. In this new collection the investigative mode. When author observes the tragic flaws in human nature, providing a glimpse another gorgeous woman turns of the Queen of Crime in the making. Anyone who has ever read up dead after a bracing hunt day – and on Sister’s turf – she turns up Agatha Christie will enjoy every story for her skill at characterisation the heat, determined to catch a killer. But sometimes, the closer the and her ability to deliver an unexpected twist in the tail... crime, the harder it is to see, and if Sister Jane isn’t careful, she may Includes The House of Dreams; The Actress; The Edge; Within a Wall; be the next victim. While the Light Lasts. 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Cynthia Barlow 2CD UA $29.99 Narrated by Isla Blair

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Agatha Christie. The Clocks Robin Cook. Foreign Body As instructed, stenographer Jennifer Hernandez, fourth-year Sheila Webb let herself into medical student, hears her beloved the house at 19 Wilbraham grandmother’s name mentioned on Crescent. She made a grisly the news: Maria Suarez-Hernandez discovery: the body of a dead had died a day after undergoing a man sprawled across the hip replacement in New Delhi’s living room floor. What Queen Victoria Hospital. intrigued Poirot about the case Devastated and desperate for was the time factor. Although answers, Jennifer heads to India, in a state of shock, Sheila where relations with local officials clearly remembered having go from sympathetic to sour as she heard a cuckoo clock strike three. Yet the four other clocks in the living presses for more information. With room all showed the time as 4.13. Even stranger, only one of these the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty clocks belonged to the owner of the house. cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical Even more bewilderingly, Mrs Pebmarsh, the blind woman in whose examiner Dr Laurie Montgomery. Laurie and her husband, Dr Jack house this bizarre muder took place, denies ever having sent for Sheila Stapleton, rush to help, but it seems that the Queen Victoria Hospital is Webb… a sophisticated medical facility with little margin for error. However, as “This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple,” declared the death count grows, so do the questions... Hercule Poirot. But could so tangled and confusing a crime scene 11CD UA $79.95 Narrated by George Guidall really be so simple? 6CD UA $45.00 Narrated by Hugh Fraser John Saul. Faces of Fear Everywhere that 15-year-old Alison Rex Stout. The Red Box and her mother Risa look, they are A beautiful model is dead after surrounded by beautiful people, many consuming some sweets she of whom have benefited from the skills should never have eaten, and the of Alison’s new stepfather, the fortunes of overextended charismatic Peter Dunn. Peter is theatrical producer Llewellyn certain he can turn Alison into a vision Frost depend on solving the of loveliness, and Risa – drawn in by mystery of the red box: two his cool confidence – is delighted. pounds of candied fruits, nuts Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo and creams, covered with chocolate - and laced with the first procedure, and her potassium cyanide.. transformation begins. And her untimely death put Nero But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter’s first wife. To Alison’s Wolfe in line for the supreme insult of his career – another murder, right horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and in his own home. the work her stepfather is doing on her. Though Risa refuses to He absolutely must solve the case, if only to save his pride. But the acknowledge the strange similarity, Alison becomes increasingly only clue was the strange red box – which has disappeared. frightened. Digging further into her stepfather’s murky past, Alison 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Michael Prichard uncovers dark secrets and even darker motives, and realises that her worst fears are fast becoming her reality. Benjamin Black. The Silver Swan 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Laural Merlington Two years have passed since the events of Christine Falls , and Brad Meltzer. The Tenth Justice much has changed for Quirke, the A conscientious supreme court irascible, formerly hard-drinking clerk. The professionals who share Dublin pathologist. His beloved his house. A minor slip-up. Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a Ben Addison, fresh from Yale Law, convent hospital paralyzed by a is a new clerk for one of the devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Supreme Court’s most respected Quirke’s long-denied daughter, has justices. But when he accidentally grown increasingly withdrawn and reveals the secret outcome of an isolated. upcoming decision, a blackmailer With much to regret from his last makes millions and Ben starts to inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get sweat. He turns to his co-clerk and the best of him. Yet when an almost-forgotten acquaintance comes to his housemates for help. him about his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke’s “old itch Washington’s best and brightest, to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was they offer coveted insider access to the State Department, a major hidden” is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the Washington newspaper, and the Senate. But before they know it, their shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt’s death, he discovers many careers and lives are on the line. things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger Where does loyalty end? Where does greed begin? to those he loves. And how far can you really trust your friends? 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Timothy Dalton 13CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Scott Brick

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Brad Meltzer. The Book Of Fate Lynda LaPlante. Cold Shoulder “Six minutes from now, one of Lieutenant Lorraine Page us would be dead. None of us had everything. knew it was coming.” Impossible to believe that So says Wes Holloway, a young she could be thrown out of presidential aide, about the day the polie force and end up he put Ron Boyle, the chief on skid row. executive’s oldest friend, into the Lorraine’s ex-colleagues president’s limousine. By the soon forget her as the trip’s end, a crazed assassin hunt fo ra nightmare serial would permanently disfigure killer spirals into an all-out Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight search for a missing years later, Boyle has been witness. A victim who spotted alive. Trying to figure out escaped and is now on what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in the run… from her life. Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a Lorraine Page is that witness. Against her will she is drawn into the two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that investigation. Forced to face her past and her overwhelming guilt... conceals secrets worth dying for. 3CD $34.99 Narrated by Glynis Barber 15CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Scott Brick Marisha Pessl. Special Topics in Calamity Physics Jacqueline Winspear. An Incomplete Revenge As teenager Blue van Meer With the country in the grip of tells her story, listeners are economic malaise, and worried hurled into a dizzying world about her business, Maisie of murder and butterflies, Dobbs is relieved to accept an womanising and wandering, apparently straightforward American McCulture, The assignment from an old friend to Western Canon, political investigate certain matters radicalism and juvenile concerning a potential land crushisms. purchase. Her inquiries take her Structured around a syllabus to a picturesque village in Kent for a Great Works of during the hop-picking season, Literature class (with hand- but beneath its pastoral surface drawn Visual Aids), Blue’s she finds evidence that wickedly funny yet poignant tale reveals how the imagination finds something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly 22CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Emily Janice Card prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest-time – even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a war-time Dashiell Hammett. The Thin Man Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar Nick Charles was a hard- secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all edged gumshoe for years until her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing his wife Nora’s father died and cases. left her an inheritance. After 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy six years living away, he’s back in his old haunt, New Meg Gardiner. China Lake York, where it seems his very Evan Delaney is shocked to unwelcome past is ready to learn that her ex-sister-in-law, resurface. Enter Dorothy Tabitha, has joined the Wynant, daughter of weird Remnant, a religion with a (and possibly insane) inventor dangerous and fanatical Clyde Wynant. following. What is more alarming Wynant’s secretary/mistress is that the unstable young has just been murdered. mother plans to regain custody Despite Nick’s constant assertions that he’s not in the business of her son and disappear with anymore and definitely not on the case, he gets drawn into a him into the fold of the church. complicated web of family matters, confused identities, and surprising She has the Remnant on her evidence. Wife Nora is a willing accomplice as they sift through the side, and they’ll do anything it players in the mystery, all the while sipping cocktails and socialising in takes – including murder – to get what they want. rarefied New York society. Despite his reluctance, he and Nora are But it’s another member of the Remnant who is killed, and when Evan’s drawn into a byzantine world of speakeasies, sociopaths, and shady brother becomes a suspect, Evan is dragged even deeper into the ladies. Reader William Dufris renders Hammett’s wit and world- nightmare. weariness with his usual panache. 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Tanya Eby Sirois 6CD UA $79.95 Narrated by William Dufris

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Alafair Burke. Dead Connection Ian Rankin. Let It Bleed When two young women are Two boys hug and jump. murdered on the streets of One man blows his brains Manhattan – exactly one out and does his lady a last year apart, both after dates favour. Alone in his cell arranged through an online another sets a ball rolling dating website – Detective that may demolish a Ellie Hatcher is moved to a glittering career. Everyone special assignment on the keeps secrets and elite homicide task force. sometimes not just their The killer has left behind a own. In an Edinburgh winter taunting hint connecting the the wind blows chill and two cases. Someone is penetrating. For Rebus it using the lure of the internet slams one door shut only to open another. Investigating the and the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of disappearance of the Provost’s daughter leads him from the Old Town New York City. to Silicon Glen, from drug addicts to government ministers. And plants To catch the killer, Ellie must enter an online world of fraudulent and the seed that grows into a nagging belief that there may be some stolen identities where no one is who he appears to be. She fits the criminals beyond the grasp of modern justice. profile of the victims... 3CD $39.99 Narrated by Bill Paterson 9CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Elizabeth Kayte Perri O’Shaughnessy. Show No Fear Margery Allingham. The Beckoning Lady Working as a paralegal and A small village in Suffolk, attending law school at night, England, is the scene of two Nina Reilly has her hands full. seemingly unrelated murders She’s fighting for custody of right before the town’s grandest her young son Bob and party of the decade... Sunshine, overseeing a medical parties and a murder; a typical malpractice lawsuit on behalf summer for Campion – classic of her mother, Virigina Reilly, British crime writing at its most whose health is rapidly elegant and quirky. declining after she suffered Campion’s glorious summer in complications from an Pontisbright is blighted by acupuncture procedure. But sudden (and suspicious) death. Nina’s personal stresses are Amidst the preparations for ramped up when a local Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s tragedy plunges Nina into a hunt for a killer – a killer only she believes fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered, and it falls to Detective exists. Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and When a woman falls to her death off a bridge near Big Sur, Nina deduction with all the imagination and skill at his disposal. He becomes suspects there is more to the accident than the authorities are saying. convinced that the murderer will be present at the Cassand’s party... Embarking on her solitary quest for the truth and stirring up trouble 3CD $45.00 Narrated by Philip Franks along the way, Nina catches the killer’s attention – and the only official Michael Connelly (editor). The Blue Religion help Nina gets is from homicide cop Paul van Wagoner. 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Dagmara Dominczyk These gripping stories trace the perils and occasional triumphs of lawmen and Kerry Greenwood. Heavenly Pleasures women who put themselves Corinna Chapman likes the in harm’s way to face down quiet life: good food, good the bad guys. Some of them company and her daily work as even walk the edge of a baker. She doesn’t really becoming bad guys want mystery and intrigue in themselves. her life. Unfortunately for her, In T. Jefferson Parker’s she doesn’t have much choice. Skinhead Central , an ex- Corinna’s apartment building cop and his wife find seems to be a magnet for unexpected menace in the idyllic setting they have chosen for their mystery and mayhem and, with retirement. In Alafair Burke’s Winning , a female officer who is attacked her new lover Daniel a private in the line of duty must protect her own husband from his worst investigator, Corinna seems impulses. In Edward D. Hoch’s Friday Night Luck , a wanna-be cop destined to be involved in solving these mysteries.This second book in blows his chance at a spot on the force - and breaks his case. In the series sees a prankster spiking the chocolates at the nearby Michael Connelly’s Father’s Day , Harry Bosch faces one of his most Heavenly Pleasures chocolate store (is it an elaborate and horrible emotionally trying cases, investigating a young boy’s death. joke, or a warning of worse to come?), an attempt to blow up the 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Alan Sklar, Karen White, apartment block, and strange new residents moving in. John Lee 7CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Louise Siversen

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Michael Connelly. The Brass Verdict Andrew Vachss. Another Life Things are finally looking up The only person Burke has ever for defence attorney Mickey called “father”, a legendary crime Haller. After two years of planner known as the Prof, is in a wrong turns, Haller is back coma, barely clinging to life in the in the courtroom. When off-the-books hospital. So when Hollywood lawyer Jerry Pryce, a shadow-man with deep Vincent is murdered, Haller (and very dark) government inherits his biggest case yet: connections, offers a package – the defence of Walter Elliott, Presidential-grade medical services a prominent studio executive for the Prof and a wiped-clean slate accused of murdering his for everyone who participates – wife and her lover. But as Burke signs on the spot. Haller prepares for the case The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly that could launch him into professional snatch: no errors, no forensics... and no ransom note. the big time, he learns that Vincent’s killer may be coming for him next. Burke’s job: get the kid back. But after Burke turns over every rock and Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent’s killer, he is not comes up empty in his hunt for maggots, the ultimate man-for-hire opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes must return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was written on his birth rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together. certificate to conduct the one interrogation that could possibly save this 9CD $89.95 Narrated by Peter Giles child and write, in the blood of his enemies, the final act of his life story. 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane Shane Maloney. Sucked In Now pushing fifty, Murray Whelan Lawrence Block. Hit Parade is spinning his wheels in John Keller is everyone’s parliament – a toothless cog in favourite hit man. He’s cool. Labor’s stalled political machine. Reliable. A real pro: the hit But when the remains of a long man’s hit man. The inconvenient lost union official are found in wife, the business partner, the Lake Nillahcootie, Murray soon retiree with a substantial legacy. gets sucked into some murky He’s taken care of them all, waters. For a start, it seems that quietly and efficiently. his old mate Charlie Talbot was Keller’s got a code of honour, implicated. However, Charlie has though he’d never call it that. just dropped dead of a coronary occlusion at the Mildura Grand Hotel, And he keeps the job strictly leaving behind a lot of unanswered questions. The press are sniffing business. But while Keller might around and Labor’s enemies are lining up for a free kick. Then there’s be a pragmatic and crack the blackmail attempt! And if that wasn’t enough, there’s an ALP assassin, he’s also prone to doubts and loneliness just like everybody preselection going pear-shaped. else. And though he’s got Dot, his wisecracking contact and sometimes 6CD $49.95 Narrated by Mike Bishop confidante, these days, it doesn’t seem to be enough. Keller’s been at this business a long while. Just maybe it’s time to pack Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon it in. Only problem is, retirement takes money. And to get money, he’s “Don’t be too sure I’m as got to go to work.... crooked as I’m supposed to be. 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Author That kind of reputation might be good business.” – Samuel Jonathan & Faye Kellerman. Double Homicide: Spade, private investigator Boston; Santa Fe The Maltese Falcon first Two homicides – two cities – appeared in in 1929. Almost written by husband-and-wife immediately it was acknowledged as not only a writing team, Jonathan and Faye great crime novel but an Kellerman. enduring masterpiece of In the Land of the Giants has American fiction. Sam Spade, its Boston homicide detectives protagonist, is the archetypal Michael MacCain and Doris tough, cynical P.I., “able”, as his creator explained, “to take care of Sylvestor investigating the himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in suspicious death of a college contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client.” And what basketball star. a client! – the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid And in Still Life , the co-worker of O’Shaughnessy. a Santa Fe art gallery is “Spade... is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like murdered, forcing detectives to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached.” Darryl Two Moons and Steve Katz to put aside holiday celebrations – Dashiell Hammett and set things right. 3CD UA $49.95 Performed by Michael Madsen, Sandra 5CD UA $79.95 Narrated by John Rubinstein, Lou Oh, Edward Herrmann & cast Diamon Phillips

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Faye Kellerman. The Ritual Bath P. D. James. The Private Patient Detective Peter Decker of the Cheverell Manor is a lovely old LAPD is stunned when he gets house in deepest Dorset, now a the report... private clinic belonging to the Someone has shattered the famous plastic surgeon George sanctuary of a remote yeshiva Chandler-Powell. When investigative community in the California hills journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived with an unimaginable crime. One there one afternoon, scheduled to of the women was brutally raped have a disfiguring and long-standing as she returned from the mikvah, facial scar removed, she had every the bathhouse where the expectation of a successful cleansing ritual is performed. operation. Two days later she was The crime was called in by Rina dead, the victim of murder. Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to To Commander Adam Dalgliesh, who with his team is called in to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only investigate the case, the mystery at first seems absolute. Few things one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable about it make sense. Yet as the detectives begin probing the lives and violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious backgrounds of those connected with the dead woman, suspects laws the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of this multiply all too rapidly. New confusions arise, including strange horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking they historical overtones of madness and a lynching 350 years in the past. threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious Then there is a second murder, and Dalgliesh finds himself confronted woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked. by issues even more challenging than innocence or guilt. 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Mitchell Greenberg 12CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Rosalyn Landor Faye Kellerman. Day of Atonement James Patterson. Cross Country Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. When the home of Alex Cross’s never dreamed he’d be spending oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned his honeymoon with his new into the worst murder scene Alex wife, Rina Lazarus, in an has ever seen, the destruction leads Orthodox Jewish enclave in him to believe that he’s chasing a Brooklyn, New York – or that a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex terrible event would end it so and his girlfriend, Brianna Stone, abruptly. But a boy has vanished become entangled in the deadly from the midst of this close-knit Nigerian underworld of Washington religious community, a troubled D.C., what they discover is youth fleeing the strictures he shocking: a stunningly organized felt were strangling him. The gang of lethal teenagers headed by runaway, Noam, is not travelling a powerful, diabolical man – the African warlord known as the Tiger. alone. A killer has taken him under his wing to introduce Noam to a Just when the detectives think they’re closing in on the elusive savage world of blood and terror. And now Decker must find them both murderer, the Tiger disappears into thin air. Tracking him to Africa, somewhere in America before a psychopath ends the life of a confused Alex knows that he must follow. Alone. and frightened youngster whose only sin was to want something more. 7CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Peter J. Fernandez, Dion 10CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Mitchell Greenberg Graham Faye Kellerman. The Mercedes Coffin Peter James. Dead Man’s Footsteps Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves ‘Abby stepped in the lift and the never got over the shocking death of doors closed with a sound like a her favourite teacher, Bennett “Dr shovel smoothing gravel. She Ben” Alston Little, murdered breathed in the smell of someone execution-style and stuffed into the else’s perfume, and lemon- trunk of his Mercedes Benz. No scented cleaning fluid. The lift arrests were ever made. Fifteen jerked upwards a few inches. And years later, she reads about another now, too late to change her mind execution-style murder. The case is and get out, with the metal walls eerily similar and Genoa offers the pressing in around her, they L.A.P.D. a substantial financial lunged sharply downwards. Abby incentive if justice is finally served. was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life.” Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 911, failed to a fifteen-year-old open case. Still, the recent murder does bear a Brighton never-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to disturbing resemblance to Dr Ben’s case. Decker’s team of disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Five years later the investigators includes his newly minted Hollywood detective daughter, discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Cindy Kutiel, while wife Rina Lazarus continues to be his backbone of Brighton leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry support. Rina’s worries and fears begin to build as past and present spanning the globe, and into a desperate race against time to save the collide with a vengeance. life of a woman being hunted down like an animal. 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by George Guidall 4CD $49.99 Narrated by Neil Pearson

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Tim Dorsey. Nuclear Jellyfish Serge has returned! That loveable Thrillers collector of trivia, souvenirs, and John Grisham. The Associate murder methods is back with a new Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s A-Tour of Florida. And this time small-town law office in he’s out to set the record straight! Pennsylvania. He excelled in Serge is upset that his beloved college, was elected editor-in-chief state isn’t getting its proper of “The Yale Law Journal” and his recognition, so he sets up his own future has limitless potential. wildcat Internet travel service site, But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, hyper blogging his way down the an episode from college that he has coast with his perpetually tried to forget. The secret, though, hammered sidekick, Coleman. falls into the hands of the wrong Unfortunately Serge’s Web presence catches the attention of his people, and Kyle is forced to take a nemesis, Agent Mahoney, and the chase is on. job he doesn’t want, even though Meanwhile, professional robbery crews have begun targeting trade it’s a job most law students can show exhibitors, who may or may not be what they seem. Bodies begin only dream about. piling up, and Serge has had enough! He’s forced into the only logical Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the course of action - go shopping at the Home Depot. largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is And this only raises more questions: Who is tutoring strippers through expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to the community college? Where did all these diamonds come from? And prison, if not get him killed. does Lynyrd Skynyrd hold the key to everything? 9CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Erik Singer 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Oliver Wyman Dean Koontz. Odd Hours Robert Ellis. The Lost Witness The legend began in the obscure Lena Gamble is an LAPD cop held little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook in disgrace by department higher- named Odd was rumoured to have ups for the explosive way her last the extraordinary ability to case played out, though she’s still communicate with the dead. hailed as a hero by her colleagues After grappling with the very essence for catching the killer. For her of reality itself, after finding the veil punishment, she hasn’t handled a separating him from his soul mate, real murder investigation in eight Stormy Llewellyn, tantalisingly thin months. yet impenetrable, Thomas Odd When the chief finally tosses her a longed only to return to a life of quiet case, she’s thrilled until she gets a anonymity with his two otherworldly look at the scene and realises he’s sidekicks – his dog Boo and a new companion, one of the few who probably setting her up to be might rival his old pal Elvis. But a true hero, however humble, must exiled once and for all: the victim is unidentified, and there are no persevere. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is witnesses, and no leads. Just the body, chopped into pieces and pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where dropped in a Dumpster a – gruesome enough to ensure that, once nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both again, the media will be following Lena’s every move. official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority – and in this 11CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Deanna Hurst dark night of the soul, dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all. Diane Mott Davidson. Fatally Flaky 7CD UA $119.95 Narrated by David Aaron Baker It’s been a long, rainy summer for Goldy Schulz, who is engaged in Dean Koontz. Forever Odd planning wedding receptions for Odd never asked to communicate what seems to be all of Aspen with the dead – it’s something that Meadow. It’s bad enough that just happened. But as the Billie Attenborough, the bride from unofficial goodwill ambassador hell, wants to move the location to between our world and theirs, the Gold Gulch Spa just a scant he’s got a duty to do the right two days before tying the knot to thing. her doctor fiancé. Then Doc Finn, A childhood friend of Odd’s has best friend of Goldy’s godfather disappeared. The worst is feared. Jack, is killed when his car But as Odd applies his unique tumbles into a ravine. But Jack talents to the task of finding the thinks Doc was murdered because of research he was doing at the spa missing person, he discovers – allegations that are confirmed when Jack himself is attacked. something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of So Goldy dons chef’s whites and goes undercover at the spa. Add in exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd the obstreperous owner, who years ago tried to sabotage Goldy’s will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and fledgling business, and she’s got her hands full. old, some living and some not... 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Aaron Baker

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Ian Fleming. Thunderball F. Paul Wilson. By the Sword James Bond is in disgrace. His Jack is back, tangled in a battle to medical report is critical of the high retrieve a stolen Japanese katana, living that is ruining his health. M the fabled Gaijin Masamune. Half a packs him off for a fortnight to a century ago, this legendary blade health farm to be tuned up to his disappeared from the Hiroshima former pitch of exceptional fitness. Peace Museum. Now the sword has Bond expects a trying two weeks. been taken from the son of the The last thing he expects is an original thief, who naturally turns to adversary more deadly, more all-around fix-it man and reluctant ruthless even than S.M.E.R.S.H. hero, Repairman Jack. Thunderball is an incredible Jack soon finds that it’s more than adventure which finds James Bond just everyday thieves who want the tackling SPECTRE, a daring crime ring operating in the Gulf Stream, sword - so do his own enemies. Plagued by recurring dreams about the which has perpetrated the most arrogant blackmail demand ever blade, Kicker leader Hank Thompson vows to have it. A Kaze Group attempted... chairman covets the weapon for his private collection and sends Hideo “If you wish to steal atom bombs, this is how you must do it! Takita to claim it. The fanatical Kakureta Kao cult will kill to possess it. Fleming’s mastery of detail enables the reader to suspend And, above all, there’s the mysterious thief, who shows no sign of disbelief.”—Sunday Telegraph being willing to give up the katana... “Thunderball is a terrific book… extremely moody and dark in tone, and full of dynamic action.”—Raymond Benson, author of 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Dick Hill High Time to Kill 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Vance Peter Benchley. Jaws With the 1974 publication of the Ian Fleming. The Spy Who Loved Me novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on For the first time, readers of James Bond adventures will see Agent 007 the book, an American cultural as he appears through the eyes of a phenomenon was born. Today, beautiful woman…a woman who, in the remarkable bestseller by the midst of brutality and terror, Peter Benchley still towers as a recognises Bond for what he is: a thrilling classic of suspense, handsome and appealing killer. But drama and the eternal conflicts of only a killer can help her now! man against nature... and man This story of a night of horrifying against himself. fear at the Dreamy Pines Motor As the movie continues to be Court in the Adirondacks bears the broadcast all over the world, customary Fleming hallmark: what entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic Max Lerner in the New York Post rendition. Those unfamiliar with the literary forerunner are in for a called “his enormous resourcefulness…his sure sense of what will wonderful surprise, for the novel contains many twists of plot and fascinate and terrify the reader, his contriving of hairbreadth escapes.” character that were omitted in the film. “Fleming has set his stamp on the story of action and intrigue… 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Erik Steele his proper place in literature is with those demi-giants of an earlier day: Jules Verne, Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle.”—Kingsley Amis Meg Gardiner. Jericho Point 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Nadia May When the body of a young woman Ian Fleming. Quantum Of Solace washes up on the black sands of the California beach Jericho Point, All of the James Bond short stories in it’s identified as Evan Delaney. one volume for the first time in the But Evan Delaney is very much ultimate celebration of suave and alive – apparently teh victim of an deadly secret agent 007. Whether identity thief who was playing the he’s making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Hollywood rich for everything Cuban hit man in wild country, they’re worth. smashing an international drug ring in The crook may be dead, but hte Rome, or on the trail of a murderous crimes she was murdered for – assassin in Berlin’s sniper alley, crimes committed in Evan’s name dangerous missions and beautiful – are turning Evan’s life into a women come with the job for James nightmare. Now, int he shadow of Bond. And this agent is always a consummate professional. a dead woman’s lies, it’s all Evan can do to survive. Many of Ian Fleming’s short stories have inspired the extremely “Simply put, the finest crime suspense series I’ve come across in successful James Bond films, and included in this collection are From the last twenty years... your basic can’t-put-’em-down thrill a View to a Kill , For Your Eyes Only , Quantum of Solace , Risico , rides.”- Stephen King The Hildebrand Rarity , Octopussy , The Property of a Lady , The “A gripping plot... you’ll find it impossible to find a resting point.” Living Daylights , and 007 in New York . – Evening Times (Glasgow) 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Vance 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Tanya Eby Sirois

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Iris Johansen. Deadlock Scott Frost. Never Fear Emily Hudson is an archeologist who Seventeen years ago, three women travels the world in search of were killed, their bodies dumped in priceless artefacts from war-torn the wasteland of the L.A. River. The countries and other hot spots. Her serial killer was never found, and best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is the case was mysteriously closed. always at her side, until one day, her Now, all these years later, Detective entire crew is massacred and Joel Alex Delillo reopens the River Killer and Emily are held captive – as case to help solve her own brother’s victims of one of the most ruthless murder. and evil human beings on earth. For Replete with a labyrinth-like plot, two weeks they try to survive, until feverish suspense, and the Emily is the unwitting instrument in simmering setting that is Los Joel’s demise. Angeles, Frost proves he can rival John Garrett has worked for the CIA, MI6, and whoever else needed the best popular suspense authors his services. Now, the CIA comes calling with a desperate mission for in this, his second outing in a him: save Emily Hudson. But there may be more to this job than they promising new series that Publishers Weekly called “a jaw-dropper that let him know. And soon, his connection to Emily has him questioning will leave readers clamouring for more.” everything he thought to be true. Emily has vengeance on her mind. 1mp3-CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Shelly Frasier Will Garrett aid her in getting revenge? Can Emily help him get to the truth behind a bigger conspiracy? Or will they both die trying? Scott Frost. Run the Risk 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck As one of the writers behind Twin Peaks , Scott Frost knows Linda Fairstein. Lethal Legacy something about creating eerie and When Assistant District Attorney atmospheric tension. Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Los Angeles homicide detective Barr’s apartment on Manhattan’s Alex Delillo works a case that chills Upper East Side, she finds a her from the start: one with too neighbour convinced that the young much ambiguity and far too many woman was assaulted. But the surprises. None of the evidence – terrified victim, a conservator of rare and yet all of it – seems relevant. A books and maps, refuses to small-time shopkeeper is shot to cooperate with investigators. Then death. Then a rare, untraceable another woman is found murdered in explosive ignites in a bungalow, that same apartment with an hurling the front door across the extremely valuable book, believed to yard. Finally, a teenaged girl goes have been stolen. As Alex pursues missing, her car window smashed, her keys still in the ignition. Even the murderer, she is drawn into the strange and privileged world of the before they tell her, Detective Delillo knows that this girl is her Hunt family, major benefactors of the New York Public Library and daughter. passionate rare book collectors. Delillo tracks her quarry on a trail of escalating terror toward a fiery 5CD $59.95 Narrated by Blair Brown showdown that will test her wisdom, her will, and her every skill. 1mp3-CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Shelly Frasier Lincoln Child. Terminal Freeze Two hundred miles north of the Jeffery Deaver. The Bodies Left Behind Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal When a night-time call to 911 Wildlife Zone, one of the most from a secluded Wisconsin remote and inhospitable places on vacation house is cut short, off- Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan duty deputy Brynn McKenzie Marshall and a small group of fellow leaves her husband and son at scientists, an expedition to the Zone the dinner table and drives up to represents a once-in-a-lifetime Lake Mondac to investigate. Was opportunity to study the effects of it a misdial or an aborted crime global warming. report? Everything about the expedition Brynn stumbles onto a scene of changes, however, with an true horror and narrowly escapes astonishing find. On a routine from two professional criminals. exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous She and a terrified visitor to the ancient animal, encased in solid ice. The media conglomerate weekend house, Michelle, flee sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, ultimate spectacle--the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a revealed live on make one more horrifying discovery. The beast may difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their be an ancient killing machine. And they may be premature in believing natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and it dead. courage to survive the relentless pursuit. 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Scott Brick 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Holter Graham

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Richard North Patterson. Eclipse Josh Bazell. Beat the Reaper Damon Pierce’s life has just reached Meet Peter Brown, a young a defining moment: a gifted Manhattan emergency room doctor California lawyer, he’s being with an unusual past that is just divorced by his wife and his work about to catch up with him. His often seems soulless. Then he morning begins with the quick receives a frantic e-mail from disarming of a would-be mugger, Marissa Brand Okari – a woman he followed by a steamy elevator loved years ago – and decides to encounter with a sexy young risk everything to respond to her pharmaceutical rep, topped off by plea for help. a visit with a new patient – and Marissa’s husband, Bobby Okari, is from there Peter’s day is going to the charismatic leader of a freedom get a whole lot worse and a whole movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being lot weirder. Because that patient torn apart by the world’s craving for its vast supply of oil. Bobby’s knows Peter from his other life, when he had a different name and a outspoken opposition to the exploitation of his homeland by very different job. PetroGlobal has enraged General Savior Karama, the country’s The only reason he’s a doctor now is thanks to the Witness Protection autocratic ruler. After Bobby leads a protest rally during a full eclipse of Program – and even they can’t protect him from the long reach of the the sun, everyone in his home village is massacred by government New Jersey mob. Now he’s got to do whatever it takes to keep his troops. And now Bobby has been arrested and charged with the patient alive so he can buy some time... murder of three PetroGlobal workers. Pierce agrees to defend Bobby, 6CD UA $64.95 Narrated by Robert Petkoff hoping to save both Bobby and Marissa from almost certain death... 11CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Peter Francis James Alex Berenson. The Silent Man T. Jefferson Parker. The Renegades CIA agent John Wells thought he’d reached his limits when Some say that outlaws no longer exist, he nearly died while stopping that the true spirit of the American West a plot that could have drawn died with the legendary bandits of pulp the United States and China novels and bedtime stories. Charlie into war. Wells is exhausted Hood knows that nothing could be and his nights aer filled with further from the truth. These days he disturbing dreams, but he patrols vast stretches of the new knows he must gather his American West, not on horseback but in his cruiser. strength. He has made many His newly assigned partner (named enemies, and the world won’t Terry Laws, a country veteran whom stay quiet for long. everyone calls “Mr Wonderful”) is shot Nevertheless, he is not dead in the passenger seat and Hood is left to bear witness to prepared for what is about to someone who knew that Mr. Wonderful didn’t always live up to his happen. Wells and his colleague and fiancée Jennifer Exley are on nickname. As he sets out to find the gunman, Hood knows one thing their way to work at Langley when traffic comes to a standstill. An for sure: The West is a state of mind, one where the bad guys accident has blocked the bridge ahead, and Wells gets a bad feeling sometimes wear white hats - and the good guys seek justice in when he spots the motorcycle zooming up between cars towards him. whatever shade of grey they can find it. Within a few minutes, several people will be dead or severely injuerd, 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by David Colacci Exley among them, and Wells will be a man possessed.... 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by George Guidall Robert Masello. Blood and Ice Journalist Michael Wilde - his world C. J. Box. Blue Heaven recently shattered by tragedy - hopes A twelve-year-old girl and her that a month-long assignment to the younger brother go on the run in South Pole will give him a new lease the woods of northern Idaho, on life. Here, in the most inhospitable pursued by four men they have place on earth, he is simply looking to just watched commit murder – find solace... until, on a routine dive in four men who know exactly who to the polar sea, he unexpectedly the children are, and where their finds something else entirely: a young desperate mother is waiting man and woman, bound with chains patiently by the phone for news and sealed forever in a block of ice. of her children’ s fate. In a Beside them is a chest filled with a ranching community increasingly strange, and sinister, cargo. populated by L.A. transplants Now, in a bleak but breathtaking world of shimmering icebergs, deep living in gaudy McMansions, the blue crevasses, and never-ending sun, Wilde must unravel the mystery kids soon find they don’ t know whom they can trust among the of this doomed couple. Were they the innocent victims of fear and hundreds of retired Southern California cops who’ ve given the area its superstition - or were they something far darker? nickname: “ Blue Heaven”. 14CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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Jack Higgins. A Darker Place Stephen Frey. The Fourth Order A famous Russian writer and ex- Michael Rose is the odds-on paratrooper named Alexander favourite to become the next CEO Kurbsky has got fed up with the of a top energy company, and he’s Putin government, and decides he working hard to acquire a global wants to “disappear” into the West. information technology company. He is under no illusions, however, What he doesn’t know is that the about how the news will be greeted company is a cutout – a company at home, having seen too many of used as a pawn by intelligence his countrymen die mysteriously at agencies. the hands of the thuggish Russian The Order, an ultra-secret shadow security services, so he makes government agency, was founded elaborate plans with Charles in reaction to the assassination of Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest President Lincoln. The Order had of the group known informally as always been sanctioned to manage national security at all costs. The the “Prime Minister’s private army” for his escape and concealment. fourth and newest incarnation of The Order not only maintains the It’s a real coup for the West except for one thing: Kurbsky is still ultimate nationwide surveillance and intelligence-gathering system, but working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American conducts officially licensed covert operations rife with torture and intelligence at the highest levels, and he has his own motivations for murder. Unfortunately Michael Rose doesn’t yet realise that his doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to hardball tactics have made him the Order’s number one hard target... do or where he has to go... or whom he has to kill. 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Holter Graham 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Michael Page Jack Higgins. The Killing Ground Jack Higgins. Rough Justice For intelligence operative Sean Dispatched by the President to Dillon, it is a routine passport check. report on the state of troubled But the events it will lead to will be Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake as bloody as any he has ever Johnson runs into a military man known. The man he stops at there named Harry Miller, who has Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, the same task from the British Prime born and bred in England, but with Minister. They band together just in family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely time to stop a Russian officer from wedded to the old ways, as he’s just torching a mosque – or rather, Miller found out to his pain. stops him, with a bullet to the Rashid’s thirteen-year-old daughter, forehead. Sara, has been kidnapped by his This action will have considerable own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson, and their associates, Hammer of God, one of the Middle East’s most feared terrorists. Dillon including Britain’s Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way has had his own run-ins with that tribe, and when the distraught man to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia. begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores - but Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, the chain reaction of events is done, from Kosovo to London to Beirut nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is to Ireland to Moscow... there will be plenty of both. done, many men will die – and Dillon may be one of them. 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Michael Page 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane Gregg Hurwitz. The Crime Writer T. Jefferson Parker. L.A. Outlaws A fast-paced psychological thriller Los Angeles is gripped by the by the bestselling author of The exploding celebrity of Allison Program . Murietta, her real identity unknown, Drew Danner, an L.A.-based crime a modern-day Jesse James with the novelist, awakens in a hospital bed compulsion to steal beautiful things, with a scar on his head, blood the vanity to invite the media along, under his nails, and a cop by his and the conscience to donate much side. He’s told that he was found of her bounty to charity. convulsing over his ex-fiancée’s Nobody ever gets hurt – until a job dead body, a knife in his hand. ends with ten gangsters lying dead Accused of the murder, Drew has and a half-million dollars worth of no memory of the crime, and glittering diamonds missing. doesn’t know whether he’s Rookie Deputy Charlie Hood begins innocent or guilty. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now an intense affair with one of the witnesses on the scene. As the media become the protagonist, examining the truth as if it were a novel. As he frenzy surrounding the mysterious thief’s exploits swells to a fever pitch searches the dark corridors of his life and the city he loves, another and the Southland’s most notorious killer decides to set his sights on young woman is similarly murdered and Drew must confront the very her, secrets threaten to explode... real possibility of his own guilt. 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen, David 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Scott Brick Colacci

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Jeff Abbott. Collision Emilio Calderón. The Creator’s Map Collision is the story of two men Rome, 1952. Like all of Europe, living very different lives – one, a Spanish architect Jose Maria successful corporate consultant struggles to recover from the chaos who is mourning the murder of his of the past 15 years. Then one day new bride; the other, a former CIA he learns about the mysterious agent known only as Pilgrim, death by decapitation of an old whose current assignment for a acquaintance. Memories rush back fringe espionage agency is so – and the story moves back in time treacherous he doesn’t trust even to 1937. his own boss. When they are Jose and his wife Montse wait out thrown together in a violent, the Spanish Civil War at the unexpected event, the two men Spanish Academy in Rome. When realise that they’ve been framed in an elaborate setup. Unsure who to they sell an ancient text found in trust and who may just be trying to draw them into the open, the the Academy’s forgotten archive, they become embroiled in a Nazi plot unlikely partners have no choice but to work together. But with to collect mystical artifacts for the practice of the black arts. Most everything at stake, Ben has no idea that Pilgrim is harbouring some coveted by the Fuhrer himself: “The Creator’s Map”, a document shocking secrets of his own – secrets that will soon force Ben to showing the power centers of the universe, said to be traced by God’s confront just how blurred the line has become between best friends own hand. and bitter enemies. Enter a sinister Italian prince with dark plans of his own and the stage 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante is set for a tale of political intrigue, romantic entanglements, deceit, and divided loyalties, rich with historical detail and 1940s noir suspense. Mark Alpert. Final Theory 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Tony Chiroldes Alpert’s exciting debut takes the premise that Albert Douglas Preston. Blasphemy Einstein succeeded in The world’s biggest supercollider, discovering a unified field locked in an Arizona mountain, was theory, but hid the result, built to unlock the secrets of the very fearing it could lead to moment of creation: the Big Bang weapons far more powerful itself. The Torus is the most expensive than the atom bomb. In the machine ever created by humankind, present day, several run by the world’s most powerful contenders – the U.S. supercomputer. It is the brainchild of government, a savage Nobel Laureate William North mercenary bent on revenge, Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the various scientists – all mysteries of the creation of the scramble to uncover the theory. Theoretical physicist Hans Kleinman, universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black once one of Einstein’s assistants, is tortured by an intruder who hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist demands he divulge the theory. Columbia University professor David decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of heaven? Swift is at Kleinman’s bedside when the old man makes a few cryptic Twelve scientists under the leadership of a famed Nobel Laureate are statements, imparts a string of numbers and then dies. Soon David is sent to the remote mountain to turn it on... And what they discover off and running for his life, as all the theory seekers give chase. must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Adam Grupper CIA operative, is tapped to wrest from the team their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world – or save it. Kathleen McGowan. The Expected One 11CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Scott Sowers When journalist Maureen Paschal begins the research for a new Jackie Collins. Married Lovers book, she has no idea that she is Cameron Paradise, a stunningly stepping into an ancient mystery so beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal secret that thousands of people trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in have killed and died for it. Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron 2000 years ago, Mary Magdalene soon gets a job at a private fitness club hid a set of scrolls in the French where she encounters the city’s most Pyrenees: the Gospel of Mary important players. She has plans to Magdalene, her version of the life open her own studio, and while every of Jesus and the events of the New man she meets comes on to her, she is Testament. Protected by focused on working hard and saving supernatural forces, these sacred money to achieve her goal. Until she scrolls could be uncovered only by a special seeker, one who fulfills the meets Ryan Lambert, that is. An extremely successful independent ancient prophecy of L’Attendu – the Expected One. movie producer, he’s married to overly privileged Mandy Lambert, the As Maureen becomes immersed in the mystical lore of L’Attendu, the daughter of Hamilton J. Heckerling, a Hollywood power-player son-of- eerie prophecy of the Expected One casts a shadow over her life and a-bitch mogul. Ryan has never cheated on his demanding Hollywood work, and a long-buried family secret comes to light. Princess wife, but when he meets Cameron, all bets are off. 15CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Linda Stephens 10CD UA $49.95 Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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Bill Floyd. The Killer’s Wife David Baldacci. Split Second Can you ever really know someone? THE WORLD CAN CHANGE Six years after her ex-husband is FOREVER IN A SINGLE... SPLIT sentenced to death for a series of SECOND. Michelle Maxwell has just gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has wrecked her promising career at the almost succeeded in putting her past Secret Service. Against her to rest. But her assumed identity instincts, she let a presidential quickly unravels when the father of candidate out of her sight for the one of her ex-husband’s victims briefest moment and the man whose begins stalking her and publicly safety was her responsibility exposes her past. As Leigh grapples vanished into thin air. with memories of her marriage to a Sean King knows how she feels. man whom she exposed to the world as a deviant serial killer, a more Eight years earlier, the hard- deadly game of cat and mouse begins: A new killer emerges, one charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a whose methods are frighteningly similar to those used by her ex- split second. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down husband, who is on death row thousands of miles away. With the clock before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their ticking down and the victims of a new, unknown killer mounting, Leigh destinies converge. Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly forces herself to probe the dark corridors of her past to save her life coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that and her son’s. the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a 6CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Isabel Keating long time in the making – and are a long way from over... 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Scott Brick Ridley Pearson. Killer View When a skier goes missing at Sun Eric Van Lustbader. First Daughter Valley’s Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt For eight years, America has been Fleming quickly assembles his crack led by a president hell-bent on Search and Rescue team, including his aggressive foreign policy. A new best friend Mark Aker, and heads out administration is on its way in, but into the snowy night. Within minutes, the president has a few power something goes horribly wrong: one of moves left to see his legacy their team is dead. By morning, Mark solidified. Moderate conservative Aker has disappeared. Edward Carson is taking the reins. Torn between professional But weeks before Inauguration Day, responsibility and the desperate urge to Carson’s daughter Alli goes missing find his friend, Walt is further from her college dormitory. challenged by an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that Jack McClure is an ATF agent who sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings. Following threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun recently lost his daughter in a terrible accident... and Jack’s daughter Valley leads Walt to an unlikely source, and reveals a crime played out was Alli’s roommate. When the president-elect chooses him to lead the on a much larger scale than he originally envisioned. Waist-deep in search for the first daughter, Jack approaches the quest fiercely. The snow and knee-deep in lies, the life of his friend in the balance, Walt investigation leads him onto the path of a dangerous and calculating begins to suspect that the whole operation is controlled by people of man. Faith, redemption, and political intrigue play off one another as great wealth and power, which leaves him where he started: out in the McClure journeys into the path and mind of a calculating genius who cold. always manages to stay one step ahead of him. 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Richard Ferrone David Baldacci. Divine Justice Michael Robotham. Shatter Known by his alias “Oliver Stone”, A naked woman in red high- John Carr is the most wanted man heeled shoes is perched on the in America. With two pulls of the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge trigger, the men who hid the truth with her back pressed to the of Stone’s past and kept him in the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical shadows were finally silenced. But psychologist Joseph O’Loughlin is Stone’s freedom has come at a only feet away, desperately trying steep price; the assassinations he to talk her down. She whispers, carried out have prompted the “You don’t understand”, and highest levels of the US jumps. Government to unleash a massive Later, Joe has a visitor - the manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the woman’s teenage daughter, a charge, but his superiors aren’t telling him everything there is to know runaway from boarding school. She refuses to believe that her mother about his quarry – and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as would have jumped off the bridge – not only would she not commit the killer he’s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial suicide, she is terrified of heights. leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for Joe wants to believe her, but what would drive a woman to such a themselves, even as they try to protect him. desperate act? Whose voice? What evil? 10CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Ron McLarty 5CD $45.00 Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith

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Robert G. Barrett. The Tesla Legacy John Sandford. Heat Lightning The Tesla Legacy, set in Investigator Virgil Flowers of the Newcastle, Muswellbrook, Scone Minnesota Bureau of Criminal and the mysterious Burning Apprehension takes on a puzzling Mountain in New South Wales, is and most alarming case. an action-packed, pace-driven It’s a hot, humid summer night in thriller woven with intrigue and a Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed delightful touch of humour and with one of his ex-wives (the second romance, and an ending one, if you’re keeping count), when guaranteed to send chills down the phone rings. It’s Lucas your spine. Proving once again Davenport. There’s a body in why Robert G Barrett is, Stillwater – two shots to the head, according to the Australian newspaper, the king of popular fiction. found near a veteran’s memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his “a cracker of a read... a good touch of the smarts and lashings of mouth. heartfelt humour.” - West Australian Exactly like the body they found last week. 7CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Dino Marnika The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone’s keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names Janet Evanovich. Fearless Fourteen on it. If he could only find out what connects them all... The Crime: Armed robbery to the 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Eric Conger tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, Jonathan Kellerman. Bones stashed the money, and did the An anonymous call... laughed off as time. His family couldn’t be more a prank... but when a young woman’s body turns up in L.A.’s Bird proud. He always was the smart Marsh preserve, no one’s laughing. one. And when the bones of more victims The Cousin: Joe Morelli surface, homicide detective Milo Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Sturgis realises the city’s under Dom’s sister, Loretta, are siege to an insidious killer. Milo’s cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi first move: calling in psychologist robs banks, and Loretta is a Alex Delaware. single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. The all-American family. The murdered women are The Complications: Murder, kidnapping, destruction of personal prostitutes – except the most recent property, and acid reflux victim: Selena, a brilliant young musician from the East Coast. Selena’s Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Joe Morelli has employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate’s jittery caretaker shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. raises hackles... but Milo’s and Alex’s investigation unearths disturbing He’s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is layers. Bizarre details of the crimes suggest a devilish serial killer missing. prowling L.A.’s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Lorelei King pattern, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Tess Gerritsen. The Keepsake 12CD UA $89.95 Narrated by John Rubinstein For years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain James Grippando. Born to Run forgotten in the dusty basement Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Swyteck guards his own family Now its sudden rediscovery by secrets as closely as anyone, and museum staff is both a major while his father’s two terms as coup and an attention-grabbing Florida’s governor made some mystery. Dubbed “Madam X”, family rifts public, things are finally the mummy – to all better between the two men. appearances, an ancient Whenever Harry Swyteck asks for Egyptian artefact – seems a Jack’s help, he gets it, and ghoulish godsend for the suddenly he needs it more than financially struggling institution. ever before. But medical examiner Maura When Harry’s friend, the vice Isles soon discovers a macabre president of the United States, goes hunting for alligators in the message hidden within the corpse – horrifying proof that this Everglades and winds up dead, the president positions Harry to be his “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. new VP. Harry immediately turns to Jack to be his lawyer. To Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, the forensic The prestige that comes from the position turns dangerous, however, evidence is unmistakable, its implications terrifying. And when the when Jack finds himself caught up in the heart of a complicated cover- grisly remains of yet another woman are found in the hidden recesses up that spans nearly fifty years and across the globe. Before hostages of the museum, it becomes chillingly clear that a maniac is at large – can be released, an old secret must be revealed, one that could and is now taunting them. threaten the life of the president of the United States himself. 9CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Deidre Lovejoy 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Jonathan Davis

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John Lescroart. A Certain Justice J. A. Jance. Cruel Intent A brutal murder rocks a city. An On a dating site, singleatheart.com, innocent man stands accused. And bored housewives can find justice is the next to die. romance with married men looking In a city of tolerance and hope, for sex without strings. But at the everything came apart. One man died heart of this seemingly harmless at the hands of another. The next victim service, a vengeful computer was killed by a mob. Now fires burn in hacker is playing games with the night, helicopters throb through the people’s lives... and deaths. air, and politicians, lawyers and cops Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds vie for the remnants of power... just wants a break from excitement. Somewhere in the once-placid streets In the midst of a remodel, the last of San Francisco, a young man is on thing she expects is a murder the run, charged by the media with a crime he didn’t commit, hounded investigation that will stop the by demagogues, hunted by a desperate police department. One cop construction on her home. But when the savagely murdered body of knows that Kevin Shea is innocent of a brutal racial murder. An stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Ali’s contractor Bryan is ambitious politician will use Shea for her own ends. And a down-and- the prime suspect. Bryan swears he has nothing to do with his wife’s out lawyer is all that stands between Kevin Shea and an even more murder – but as the investigation progresses, Ali seems to be the only atrocious crime. For when there’s no law left, justice is the only hope... resident of Sedona who believes him. 13CD UA $89.95 Narrated by David Colacci 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Karen Ziemba Jeffery Deaver et al. The Chopin Manuscript Jesse Kellerman. The Genius Former war crimes investigator Harold Greed gets Ethan Muller, a 33-year- Middleton possesses a previously old Manhattan art dealer, into hot unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But water in Kellerman’s third stand- he is unaware that, locked within its alone thriller (after “Trouble”). When handwritten notes, lies a secret that now reclusive artist Victor Cracke threatens the lives of thousands of disappears, Muller winds up taking Americans. As he races from Poland to possession of the boxes and boxes America to uncover the mystery of the of intense, disturbing drawings that manuscript, Middleton will be accused of Cracke left behind in his shabby murder, pursued by federal agents, and Queens apartment. A favourable targeted by assassins. But the greatest “New York Times” article helps fuel threat will come from a shadowy figure lucrative sales at an exhibit of out of his past: the man known only as Faust. Crackeas drawings at Mulleras Chelsea gallery. Soon, though, Muller The Chopin Manuscript is a unique collaboration by 15 of the world’s starts to receive cryptic, vaguely threatening letters. He also hears from greatest thriller writers. Jeffery Deaver conceived the characters and a retired NYPD detective, Lee McGrath, who recognises the face of set the plot in motion; the other authors each wrote a chapter in turn. one of the boys in a Cracke drawing as belonging to the victim of a 40- 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Alfred Molina year-old unsolved murder. That revelation turns Muller into an amateur detective as he attempts to discover how the dead boy’s image (along Steve Berry. The Charlemagne Pursuit with those of several other victims) made its way into the pictures. As a child, former Justice Department 11CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Kirby Heyborne agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster, but now he wants the full story and Classics asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to William Shakespeare. Othello secure the military files. What he Shakespeare’s Othello is one of learns stuns him: His father’s sub was his finest and most famous a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly tragedies. This highly acclaimed classified mission beneath the ice performance, which ran between shelves of Antarctica. November 2007 and February But Malone isn’t the only one after the 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in truth. London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the as the Moor Othello, Ewan fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what McGregor as the scheming Iago, really became of their father – who died on the same submarine that and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Malone’s father captained. Desdemona. This recording The sisters know something Malone doesn’t: inspired by strange clues features music written specifically discovered in Charlemagne’s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica for the stage production which enjoyed huge success – each before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers performance was a sell-out. that cryptic journals penned in “the language of heaven”, inscrutable Please note: this is abridged. conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of 2CD + DVD $39.95 Performed by Edward Bennett, his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence. Chiwetel Eijofor, Michelle Fairly, Ewan 13CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Scott Brick McGregor & cast

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Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist In a dingy apartment on the “Men who look on nature, and Passage du Pont-Neuf in their fellow-men, and cry that all Paris, Thérèse Raquin is is dark and gloomy, are in the trapped in a loveless right; but the sombre colours are marriage to her sickly cousin, reflections from their own Camille. The numbing tedium jaundiced eyes and hearts.” of her life is suddenly This darkly satiric indictment of shattered when she embarks the social ills of Victorian London on a turbulent affair with her tells the story of a young orphan husband’s earthy friend, who becomes involved with a Laurent. But their passion for gang of scheming criminals. each other soon compels the Oliver encounters many extraordinary characters: the loathsome Fagin, lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. the beautiful and tragic Nancy, the Artful Dodger and the terrifying Bill Thérèse Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and Sikes, perhaps one of the greatest villains of all time. Though he is brought its 27-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, his life. Zola’s novel is not only an uninhibited portrayal of adultery, Oliver’s innocence leads him at last to salvation – and to the discovery madness, and ghostly revenge but also a devastating exploration of the of his true identity. darkest aspects of human existence. 13CD UA $109.95 Narrated by Simon Vance 7CD UA $109.95 Narrated by Tracy Svensgaard Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales In Little Dorrit , Dickens presents A new translation by Burton Raffel. a society stultifying in its activity Lively, absorbing, and outrageously and apathy. Outmoded institutions funny, The Canterbury Tales is an like the Circumlocation Office, epic poem that gathers twenty-nine choking in its own red tape, of literature’s most indelible contribute to a society that never archetypes – from the exalted moves forward. Against this Knight to the bawdy Wife to the stagnation, Dickens, with a gallery humble Plowman – in a vivid group of vivid characters – from the portrait that captures the full foolish Flora Finching to the proud spectrum of late-mediaeval English but broken Wililam Dorrit (based society. on Dicken’s own father) – shows Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400?) is that it is individuals who, in acts of kindness, love and generosity, can one fo the greatest poets/writers in revitalise society. Little Dorrit (Amy) is one such, who sacrifices her the English language. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales , remains own interests to help her family. Her father is incarcerated for debt in one of the most widely read works in the canon. Its saucy plots and the Marshalsea Prison, which casts a sombre shadow over the whole vividly drawn characters have become part of the English novel, symbolic of imprisonment both literal and metaphorical. The consciousness. dashing Arthur Clennam, returning to London after many years in 18CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Bill Wallis, Ric Jerrom, China, enters their lives and the Dorrits’ fortunes begin to rise and fall. Mark Meadows, Cameron Stewart, 28CD UA $199.95 Narrated by Anton Lesser Maggie Ollerenshaw, Kim Hicks Also available abridged 8CD $79.95 Narrated by Anton Lesser Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment Translated by Constance Garnett Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary One of the greatest works of fiction Emma Bovary is a sensuous, ever written, Crime and sentimental young woman whose Punishment is an intense romantic ideals make her psychological study, a terrifying dissatisfied with her humdrum murder mystery and a fascinating married life. Attempting to escape detective thriller instilled with into an exciting world of passion philosophical, religious, and social and dreams, she drifts into sordid commentary. affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger Dostoevsky studies the and Léon Dupuis. The first of psychological impact upon a these lovers, an older man, desperate and impoverished dominates the affair, while the student when he murders a second, young, inexperienced, is despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately “benefit dominated. The eventual collapse of Emma’s romantic dreams is humanity”. inevitable, and her disillusionment leads ultimately to her doom. This narration of Crime and Punishment takes the listener on a A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind human mind in search of transcendence. Acclaimed as a masterpiece and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil who upon its publication in 1857, it catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the cannot escape his own conscience. world’s greatest novelists. 16CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anthony Heald 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Vance

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Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge Alexandre Dumas. Twenty Years After Dickens’s first historical novel is This sequel to The Three set in 1780s England at the time Musketeers is a supreme of the Gordon Riots. In a case creation of suspense and heroic of mistaken identification, adventure. Barnaby Rudge, a pale half-wit Two decades have passed since with long red hair who dresses the three musketeers triumphed all in green and carries a large over Cardinal Richelieu and raven on his back, is arrested Milady. Time has weakened their as the leader of a mob of anti- resolve and dispersed their Catholic rioters. He is loyalties. But treasons and condemned to death on the stratagems still cry out for justice: gallows, but an upright civil war endangers the throne of locksmith named Gabriel Varden comes to his aid. France, while in England, Dickens provides another memorable cast of characters, including the Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his dull-witted, tyrannical John Willet, Dennis the Hangman, and Hugh the immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the savage ostler. malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is 6CD $69.95 Performed by Sean Barrett a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil. 23CD UA $259.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Also available unabridged 20CD UA $239.95 Performed by Robert Whitfield Anthony Trollope. An Old Man’s Love Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff Gulliver’s Travels tells of the becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, fantastic voyages of Lemuel the orphaned and penniless Gulliver, an Englishman and ship’s daughter of an old friend, and surgeon, who travels to the gradually finds himself falling in “several remote nations of the love with her. But Mary has already world”. In the beginning, he given her heart to the young John becomes shipwrecked in the land Gordon, who has gone to seek his of Lilliput, where the distressed fortune in the Kimberley diamond inhabitants are only six inches tall. fields of South Africa. Gordon’s sudden return after a three years’ His second voyage takes him to absence, on the very day of Whittlestaff’s proposal, precipitates the Brobdingnag, where lives a race of crisis at the centre of the story. giants. At Glubdubdrib, the Island This was Trollope’s last complete novel, finished seven months before of Sorcerers, he speaks with great his death and written in almost constant pain and ill-health. His men of the past and learns from them the lies of history. Further depiction of the agonised Whittlestaff is one of his very best portrayals, adventures find Gulliver in a land ruled by intelligent horses. and among the minor characters the aged and garrulous housekeeper For children, it is an enchanting fantasy; for adults, it is a satirical Mrs Baggett and the fatuous Reverend Montagu Blake show his masterpiece, a parody of political life in Swift’s time, and a scathing powers undiminished. send-up of manners and morals in eighteenth-century England. 6CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 8CD UA $89.95 Narrated by David Case Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth Charles Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop Set among the elegant Described as a ‘tragedy of brownstones and opulent sorrows’, The Old Curiosity country houses of turn-of-the- Shop tells of Nell uprooted century upper-class New from a secure and innocent York, Edith Wharton’s first childhood and cast into a great novel is a precise, world where evil takes many satiric portrayal of what the shapes, the most fascinating author herself called “a of which is the stunted, society of irresponsible lecherous Quilp. He is Nell’s pleasure-seekers”. Her tormenter and destroyer, and brilliantly complex it is his demonic energy that characterisation of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and dominates the novel. The dependence on marriage for economic survival reduce her to a sorrows of Nell and her decorative object, is an incisive commentary on the status of women in grandfather are offset by Dickens’s creation of a dazzling contemporary that society. world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters – the Lily is all too much a product of the world indicated by the title, a eloquent ne’er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the phrase taken from Ecclesiastes: “The heart of fools is in the house of “Marchioness”; the mannish lawyer Sally Brass; Quilp’s brow-beaten mirth.” From her tragic attraction to bachelor lawyer Lawrence Seldon, mother-in-law; and Quilp himself, the lustful, vengeful dwarf, whose to her desperate relationship with the social-climbing Rosedale, it is demonic energy makes a vivid counterpoint to Nell’s purity. Lily’s very specialness that threatens the fulfilment she seeks in life. 6CD $69.95 Narrated by Anton Lesser 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

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George Eliot. Adam Bede George Eliot. Middlemarch Adam and Seth Bede work as In this rich and teeming portrait of carpenters in Hayslope. While provincial life in Victorian England, a Seth’s heart is set upon Dinah panoply of complex, brilliantly drawn Morris (a gifted preacher who characters attempt to carry out their feels she cannot marry because destinies against the various social of her dedication to God’s work), expectations that accompany their Adam woos Dinah’s cousin class and gender. Hetty. At the centre of the narrative is But Hetty’s attraction to Captain Dorothea Brooke, a thoughtful and Arthur Donnithorne leads her idealistic young woman determined into disaster – moral, emotional to make a difference with her life. and social – and finally into Enamoured of a man who she depths of sorrow and tragedy believes is setting this example, she that destroy her life and lead traps herself into a loveless marriage. Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a Adam into a despair from which something quite unexpected may yet young doctor from the city whose passionate ambition to spread the rescue him. new science of medicine is complicated by his love for the wrong Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and woman. the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to Epic in scope and unsurpassed in its study of human nature, establish a new aesthetic for fiction. Middlemarch is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. 17CD UA $79.95 Narrated by David Case 26CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Kate Reading Mark Twain. A Connecticut Yankee in King Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit Arthur’s Court Old Martin Chuzzlewit has a In this mischievous yarn by great fortune, but to whom can Mark Twain, a Yankee he leave it? He and his likeable mechanic named Hank Morgan grandson, young Martin, have is knocked unconscious in a fallen out. Beyond that, a tangle fight and awakens to find of sly, grasping relatives coil himself at Camelot in AD 528. about him. The listener is Brought before the knights of drawn to gentle Tom Pinch and the Round Table, he is his lovely sister, Mary. But condemned to death, but saves before all can be decided, himself by using his 19th- century scientific knowledge to Dickens puts both Tom and pose as a powerful magician. young Martin through murder, After correctly predicting an eclipse, Hank is made minister to King mayhem, and a brief purgatory in the United States. Arthur, and goes on to counsel him on such matters as gunpowder, “In the development of the brilliantly drawn Jonas Chuzzlewit, under electricity, and industrial methods. But when he attempts to better the the stress of blackmail, from a vulgar, money-grabbing brute into a condition of the peasantry, he meets opposition from the church, murderer with a dark and complicated life of inner terrors and knights, and sorcerers, and finds his efforts at enlightenment turned superstitions that would have done credit to Dostoevsky, Dickens adds against him. a whole dimension to the book that makes the last quarter one of the A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a rollicking most sheerly exciting of all his stories.” – Angus Wilson romantic fantasy and a canny social satire. In 2 volumes 9CD UA $179.95 Narrated by Stuart Langton V.1 13CD UA $169.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson V.2 16CD UA $239.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Daphne du Maurier. Rebecca Rebecca, a dark psychological R. L. Stevenson. Catriona tale of secrets and betrayal, is In this sequel to the highland Daphne du Maurier’s best-loved adventure Kidnapped , young work and was named Best Novel David Balfour must defend of the 20th Century at the himself and his friend, Alan Bouchercon World Mystery Breck Stewart, against false Convention. murder charges, becoming After a whirlwind romance and a further entangled in a political honeymoon in Italy, the innocent conspiracy between feuding young heroine and the dashing Scottish clans. His new Maxim de Winter return to his adventure will include country estate, Manderley. But the shipwreck, murder, intrigue, unsettling memory of Rebecca, and a Scottish lass named the first Mrs de Winter, still lingers within. The timid bride must Catriona, with whom he falls in love at first sight. Stevenson considered overcome her husband’s oppressive silences and the sullen hostility of this novel to be his best work. the sinister housekeeper, Mrs Danvers, to confront the emotional “Catriona so reeks and hums with genius that there is no refuge for the horror of the past. desperate reader but in straightforward prostration.” – Henry James 12CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anna Massey 7CD UA $129.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson

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Robert Louis Stevenson. The Black Arrow Tennessee Williams . A Streetcar named Desire Caught in the midst of Blanche DuBois arrives at her England’s War of the Roses, sister Stella’s New Orleans young Dick Shelton’s loyalties apartment seeking refuge from a are torn between a guardian troubled past, but her ethereal who betrays him and the spirit irks Stella’s husband, the leader of the secret fellowship loutish Stanley Kowalski. “The Black Arrow”. Crudely, relentlessly, he The Houses of York and unmasks the lies and delusions Lancaster are locked in a that sustain Blanche, until her brutal struggle for England’s frail hold on reality is shockingly crown and the fate of the severed. kingdom is at stake. Shelton This atmospheric recording of finds himself entangled in the Tennessee Williams’s powerful classic stars Rosemary Harris and conspiracy. In order to survive James Farentino as Blanche and Stanley – roles they performed to he must distinguish friend from foe and confront the tests of war, acclaim in a smash revival at New York’s Lincoln Center. shipwreck, murder and forbidden love. 2CD UA $39.95 Performed by Rosemary Harris, James 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Shelly Frasier Farentino & cast Samuel Beckett. Krapp’s Last Tape & other works Drama Samuel Beckett was one of the Dylan Thomas. Under Milk Wood & other plays great avant-garde Irish Under Milk Wood is Dylan dramatists and writers of the Thomas’s undisputed and second half of the twentieth unforgettable masterpiece – an century. Here are the two most affectionate, but hilarious famous plays for solo voice. portrait of a small Welsh town. Krapp’s Last Tape finds an old The classic 1954 recording, man, with his tape recorder, featuring a perfect cast led by musing over the past and future. Richard Burton as ‘First Voice’, This recording includes: Not I – is rightly considered to be a remarkable tour de force for a definitive. This collection also single actress, as a woman includes two earlier radio emits memories and fears. programmes: Return Journey to Also included: two other singular short dramas for single voice, That Swansea and Quite Early One Time read by John Moffatt and A Piece of Monologue read by Peter Morning , read by Dylan Thomas and others. Enjoyable in their own Marinker. right, they also provide a fascinating insight into the process that led 2CD UA $34.95 Performed by Jim Norton, John Moffatt, towards Under Milk Wood . Juliet Stevenson, Peter Marinker 2CD UA $34.99 Performed by Richard Burton, Hugh Griffith, Richard Bebb & cast; Dylan Richard Brinsley Sheridan . The School for Scandal Thomas & others Sheridan’s most famous play, The School for Scandal , has John Millington Synge. The Playboy of the been called ‘the best existing English comedy of intrigue’. A Western World favourite with audiences and Synge’s play is a celebration of critics alike since its premiere in life – Irish life – in all its richness. 1777, this play is a classic Its language, humour, ironies English comedy of manners. and contradictions all tumbled Lady Sneerwell complains how into the melting-pot to give a she has been wounded by slice of the real life of the Irish slander, while she is in fact people, shaped with all the skill plotting with Joseph Surface to of a great poet. discredit his brother Charles in The moral dilemma facing the order to stop him marrying Maria, an heiress and ward of Sir Peter community is occasioned by the Teazle. Joseph is paying court to Lady Teazle but secretly intends to arrival of a stranger, Christy get Maria for himself, in spite of Maria’s love for the honest wastrel, Mahon, who declares to the Charles. assembled villagers in the pub that he has killed his father. Sympathy The School for Scandal sparkles with wit. Every character possesses and celebration mark the response of the villagers, with no judgement it and lives by it. It epitomises their characters and reputations, both of of his actions. But their attitude begins to change as Christy and the which are favourite subjects for attack in the vicious, back-biting world feisty Pegeen Mike, the landlady of the pub, become attracted to each of the late eighteenth century. Scandal and gossip abound, cheats and other. fraudsters are exposed, and no one is safe. 2CD UA $31.95 Performed by Cyril Cusack, Siobhan 2CD $31.95 Performed by Edith Evans, Cecil McKenna & cast Parker, Harry Andrews & cast

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George Bernard Shaw. Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw. Misalliance It’s 1885, and Raina’s bourgeois Taking place on a single day in May Bulgarian family is cought up in the heady 1909, a self-made millionaire and his patriotism of their war with Serbia. The family invite their future nobleman in- beautiful and headstrong Raina eagerly law for a visit to their estate in Surrey, awaits her fiancé’s victorious return from England. battle - but instead meets a soldier who Misalliance is a 1909 house-comedy. seeks asylum in her bedroom. This is one Not surprisingly, there is a clash soldier who definitely prefers romance between social classes when an and chocolate to fear and bullets. War Edwardian aristocrat wants to marry may be raging on the battlefield, but it’s the daughter of an underwear tycoon, the battle of the sexes that heats up this for the landed aristocracy despise the extraordinary comedy and offers very aroma of “new money”. The entire play different notions of love and war. takes place in a single afternoon in the 2CD UA $59.95 Performed by Anne Heche, Jeremy drawing room of the Surrey estate of Sisto, Teri Garr and cast this nouveau riche tycoon. In this delightfully clever play, issues of gender, class, politics and George Bernard Shaw. Candida family are all targets for Shaw’s keen wit. The Reverend James Morell’s 2CD UA $59.95 Performed by Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, joy in his comfortable marriage to Victoria Tennant, Serena Scott Thomas Candida is shaken by the arrival & cast of the young poet, Marchbanks. Both men adore her, in quite Graham Greene. The Living Room different ways and for quite Graham Greene, most known for different reasons, and she is his gritty realism of his fiction in attracted to them for their very novels such as The Quiet different qualities. Marchbanks American and Brighton Rock , believes she has a choice. Morell also wrote plays that contained is devastated by the idea of something of the same quality. losing her. But they both forget she is her own woman. The Living Room was written in 2CD UA $54.95 Performed by Canadian Broadcasting 1953. Greene based the play on Company his own passionate but doomed affairs, and his conflicted view of Friedrich von Schiller (trans. P. Oswald). Mary Stuart Catholicism. Friedrich von Schiller has earned the label of The setting is London in the 1950s. Germany’s Shakespeare. His drama, penned A mysterious house, home to a in the year 1800, recounts the tumultuous family that has seen better days, days leading up to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots under the authority of her will not yield its secrets of the past. And a love affair turns to tragedy... cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the 2CD UA $59.95 Performed by Julian Sands, Morgan survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Sheppard, Kirsten Potter, Judy Geeson Wrestling with her own conscience, the & cast Queen agonises over Mary’s fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has Noël Coward. Design for Living never been more gripping than in this “acute Three terminally stylish friends, who study in the art of double-dealing politics” (The New York Times). share rivalrous affections, attempt to 2CD UA $59.95 Performed by Jill Gascoine, Alex uncoil their twisted love triangle in this Kingston and cast sexy and scandalous gem. The characters epitomise a culture of Bertolt Brecht. The Life of Galileo partner-swapping and a mènage-de- Unrelenting in his search for “simple truth”, trois. Galileo Galilei shatters beliefs held sacred for Written in 1932, the play was deemed two thousand years. But, under threat of extremely daring, and even by today’s torture by the Holy Inquisition, his scientific standards is considered controversial. and personal integrity are put to the test as In its frank and funny take on sex, love he argues for his very life in a passionate debate over science, politics, religion and and commitment, Design For Living ethics that resonates to this day. This proves to be one of Coward’s greatest American premier translated by David Hare successes. and directed by Martin Jarvis stars Stacy It was premiered on Broadway, partly because its risqué subject matter Keach and features an interview with Dr. E. was thought unacceptable to the official censor in London. C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory. 2CD UA $59.95 Performed by Claire Forlani, Hamish 2CD UA $49.95 Performed by Stacy Keach & cast Linklater, Douglas Weston & cast

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Dean Koontz. Strangers Horror THEY WERE STRANGERS. Leopoldo Gout. Ghost Radio A handful of people. From From the cramped bowels of a different backgrounds, living in dimly lit radio station, Ghost different towns and cities Radio is beamed onto the across America, they had airwaves. Ghost Radio is a nothing in common – except sanctuary for those sleepless fear. denizens of the night, lost halfway THEY WERE VICTIMS. between this world and the next. Cold and stark, an unknown Joaquin, the host, fields calls from terror gripped their dreams believers and detractors alike. He and turned their days into is joined in the booth by his living nightmares. girlfriend Alondra, and his THEY WERE CHOSEN. engineer Watts. When a huge And they could not escape. radio conglomerate offers to Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to syndicate the show, none of them is prepared for what happens... Slowly Joaquin finds himself unable to distinguish between the real them drawing them to the Tranquility Motel - where the terrifying truth world and the world populated by the nightmares on Ghost Radio. He was waiting... is forced to confront his past and his own mortality in order to save that 22CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Dick Hill which is most precious to him and repair the crumbling wall between also available on mp3-CD the living and the dead. 1mp3-CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Dick Hill 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Pedro Pascal Stephen King. Thinner Bierce; Dickens; James; Poe; Wilde. Billy Halleck, in a moment of Chilling Ghost Stories carelessness, sideswipes an The vengeful dead, a old gypsy woman as she is premonition, ghosts, pacts crossing the street. His with teh devil and a strange remorse does not prevent the madness – these are the old woman’s ancient father themes of this collection of from speaking what seems to chilling tales, written by some be a gibberish curse upon him of the great names in English – “Thinner”, says the old man... and American literature and Halleck was never as trim as masters of the genre. Stories he should be. But now, six to be listened to in the dark weeks later, he’s 93 pounds with the lights turned off and lighter. Billy has become the imagination switched increasingly terrified as he becomes aware of the nature and reality of on... the curse. He’s desperate enough for one last gamble... that will lead Includes: Rats • The Raven • Berenice • The Birthday of the Infanta him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh • A Tough Tussle • The Signalman away. 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Anthony Donovan 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Joe Mantegna M. R. James. Spine Chillers 5 Radio Dramas based on the Stephen King. Rose Madder stories of M. R. James. Rose Daniels saw the single Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to drop of blood on the bed sheet You, My Lad : During a golfing – and knew she must escape holiday in Norfolk, Professor from her macabre marriage Parkins uncovers a curious before it was too late. artefact from the ruins of a She runs... thinking she is Templar preceptory. finally free. But she’s wrong – The Tractate Middoth : Curator dead wrong. David Garrett gets caught up in Escape was not as easy as the machinations of the fleeing to a new city, picking a mysterious Dr Rant when he’s new name, finding a new job, sent to the library stacks to fetch an obscure manuscript. lucking out with a new man. Lost Hearts : An orphan, taken in by a wealthy Uncle, dreams of two Her husband, Norman, was a ghostly figures. cop, with a cop’s training, a cop’s technology, a cop’s bloodhound The Rose Garden : When a couple remove an ancient post from their instincts. And even worse, Norman was – well, Norman. back garden, it opens a doorway to the turbulent past. Rose knew she had been married to a savage brute. Now she realised Number 13 : Dr Anderson’s obsessive interest in why the hotel he’s she was being tracked down by a terrifying monster – but the only staying at doesn’t include a number 13 puts him in terrible danger. place she found to hide could be the most dangerous of all. 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Derek Jacobi 14CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Author, Blair Brown

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Stephen King. Just after Sunset Louis L’Amour. Lonely on the Mountain In this collection, a book salesman The rare letters Tell Sackett with a grievance might pick up a received always had trouble mute hitchhiker, not knowing the inside. And the terse note from silent man in the passenger seat his cousin Logan was no listens altogether too well. Or an exception. Logan faced exercise routine on a stationary starvation or a hanging if Tell bicycle, begun to reduce bad couldn’t drive a herd of cattle cholesterol, might take its rider on from Kansas to British Columbia a captivating and then terrifying before winter. journey. Set on a remote key in To get to Logan, Tell Sackett Florida, The Gingerbread Girl is a must brave prairie fires, buffalo riveting tale featuring a young stampedes, and Sioux war woman both vulnerable and parties. But worse trouble resourceful. In Ayana , a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the awaits, for a mysterious enemy touch of her hand. shadows Sackett’s every move across the Dakotas and the Canadian 13CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Author, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Rockies. Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Tell Sackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will Ben Shenkman, Skipp Sudduth, Karen bring aid to Logan – or die trying. Ziemba, Mare Winningham, Denis O’Hare 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Stratharn Mary Shelley. Frankenstein Louis L’Amour. Trio of Tales: McQueen of the “I saw the pale student of Tumbling K; Big Medicine; Dutchman’s Flat unhallowed arts kneeling beside the Three Louis L’Amour titles in thing he had put together. I saw the one audiobook. hideous phantasm of a man In McQueen of the Tumbling stretched out, and then, on the K, Ward McQueen, foreman for working of some powerful engine, the Tumbling K Ranch, rides show signs of life and stir with an into town and is shot down by uneasy, half-vital motion.” gunmen and left for dead. But A summer evening’s ghost stories, they made a critical mistake, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine’s because McQueen is not dead – room, and a runaway imagination – and he’s looking to get even. fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, In Big Medicine , old Billy and the origins of life – conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this Dunbar has discovered the best haunting night spectre. By morning, it had become the germ of her gold-bearing gravel he had Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein . Written in 1816 when she was found in a year, but now he is lying face down in a ravine, hiding from only 19, Mary Shelley’s novel of ‘The Modern Prometheus’ chillingly Apaches. He’s going to need a good strategy to get out of this one dramatised the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory alive. table. A frightening creation myth, Frankenstein remains one of the In Dutchman’s Flat , a posse of six heads into the desert after a greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic. squatter named Lock who shot a man in the back. Once they catch 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Simon Vance him, there won’t be any trial. But Lock knows the desert better than they do and knows how to pick them off one by one. Westerns 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by William Dufris Louis L’Amour. Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amour. Mustang Man Continuing the chronicle of the Nolan Sackett was running Sackett family, filled with exciting ahead of a posse when he tales of the frontier. stopped to help a wagon stuck Orrin and Tell Sackett had come on the plains. But why was it to exotic New Orleans looking for stranded in the middle of answers to their father’s nowhere with a beautiful – and disappearance twenty years murderous – young woman? before. To uncover the truth, the Nolan was trying to find out when brothers enlisted the aid of a he ran into Penelope Hume, trailwise gypsy and a mysterious another attractive lady. She was voodoo priest as they sought to the key to a cache of gold hidden re-create their father’s last trek. in the mountains. But to get the But Louisiana is a dangerous rightful heiress there first, Nolan land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous would have to help her beat out before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy their jealous relations, paid assassins, and a killer without a conscience... all father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for. maddened by gold fever. 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by David Stratharn 5CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Terrence Mann

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Louis L’Amour. Case Closed – No Prisoners; P. G. Wodehouse. A Pelican at Blandings The Killer from the Pecos Clarence, ninth earl of Emsworth, Case Closed - No Prisoners sank back in his chair looking quite Ride with legendary Texas Ranger depressed. He felt the absence of Chick Bowdrie as he helps out a that gentle glow which customarily small town with a big problem. accompanied the departure of one Someone has brutally murdered of his sisters. Lord Emsworth the local banker and made off with needed Galahad... Fortunately, forty thousand dollars-and it many years’ membership at the appears to be the work of a Pelican Club means that Galahad criminal who knows his way Threepwood is able to keep cool, around town. stiffen his upper lip, and always The Killer From Pecos think a shade quicker than the next Into the wild and bloody town of man. Almagre rides Texas Ranger Chick With his overbearing sister, Lady Constance, and the ill-tempered Bowdrie, trailing a Pecos bank robber who has left two men dead. All Alaric, Duke of Dunstable, about to descend upon Blandings Castle, Bowdrie has to go on is an unconvincing eyewitness description, a Lord Elmsworth calls in his brother, Sir Galahad Threepwood, for moral name scrawled on a tattered post card... and his own skills as a master support. But when Dunstable shows up with a controversial portrait of a tracker. But Bowdrie will need luck as much as skill when he looks for nude woman, Blandings erupts in chaos. Every eccentric guest seems answers in Almagre. For the town is gripped in a stranglehold by a to want the painting, and for very different reasons! ruthless cattle baron named Bonelli. To bring his quarry back, Bowdrie 4CD $59.95 Narrated by Martin Jarvis will pin on a marshal’s star to face down Bonelli and his gunmen in a town where a badge is a death warrant. Romantic Fantasy 2CD UA $39.95 Performed by full casts Nora Roberts. The Pagan Stone: Book 3 of The Sign of Seven Trilogy Humorous Fiction Years ago, Gage, Fox and Caleb P. G. Wodehouse. Heavy Weather emerged from the woods, each with A perfect storm is brewing over a piece of bloodstone. Now it will Blandings Castle. As Lord become their weapon in the final Emsworth battles to prevent a pig- fight against a demon. napping, Lord Tilbury lurks, Shared nightmares, visions of blood desperate to filch Gally and fire, and random violence begin Threepwood’s sensational to plague the longtime friends and memoirs, and those formidable Quinn, Layla, and Cybil, the women sisters, Julia and Constance, will bound to them by fate. They can’t stop at nothing to sabotage the ignore the fact that the demon has nuptials of Ronnie Fish and his grown stronger. But now the three chorus girl sweetie, Sue. Also in pieces of the bloodstone have been fused back together... the mix are Parsloe-Parsloe, Gage knows that a woman like Cybil - with her brains and strength and Monty Bodkin, Percy Pilbeam, and devastating beauty - can only bring him luck, and it might mean the a very confused Beach the butler, drawn into events by a heady difference between absolute destruction or an end to the nightmare for cocktail of loyalty and self-interest. Surely the storm will peter out and Hawkins Hollow. the thunder roll away... but what will it leave in its wake?. 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Dan John Miller 4CD $59.95 Narrated by Martin Jarvis Elizabeth Lowell. Forbidden P. G. Wodehouse. Picadilly Jim Throughout the Disputed Lands she is Jimmy Crocker, aka called “Amber the Untouched” – a Piccadilly Jim, is a lively chaste, golden-haired beauty fleeing young American ex- the remarkable love that was newspaper man who meets prophesied at her birth – and the death Ann Chester, the girl of his that must inevitably follow. dreams, in London. The He comes to her in darkness, as had problem is that Jim once been foretold – a wounded warrior with wrote a bad review of her no memory... a promised lover seared first book of poetry. They by passion’s fire, irresistibly drawn to set sail to New York the innocent enchantress who divines together with Ann still not truth with a touch. knowing her suitor is the In a time of war, their romance is dastardly critic. Add a brilliantly colourful Manhattan setting, an unlikely legend – until a lost past returns to Duncan and labels Amber his butler, odd spies, eccentric police officers, scientific secrets, plus an enemy. But he cannot forsake the beautiful woman who has healed his odious boy called Ogden, and the ingredients are in place for one of P. body and his heart. He vows to defy to the death the dread forces that G. Wodehouse’s most deliciously comic feasts. have proclaimed their love forbidden. 4CD $59.95 Narrated by Martin Jarvis 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Sarah Scott

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Kristin Hannah. True Colors Domestic Fiction The Grey sisters had only each other Danielle Steel. One Day at a Time when their mother died. Their father Coco Barrington was born into a provided for them physically on legendary Hollywood family: her Water’s Edge, the ranch that had mother Florence is a mega- been in their family for three bestselling author, and her sister generations, but each of them longed Jane is one of Hollywood’s top for their father’s love. producers. Coco, a law school Winona, the oldest, knew early on that dropout and the family black she could never get it. An overweight sheep, works as a dog walker, dreamer and reader, she didn’t exhibit having fled life in the spotlight for the kinds of talents and strengths her artsy northern California. father valued. When Coco reluctantly agrees to Vivi Anne, the youngest, had those things. And it was Vivi Anne who house-sit in Jane’s luxurious home, Jane’s unexpected houseguest only ever saw a glimmer of their father’s approval. Leslie Baxter (, a dashing but down-to-earth British actor who’s fleeing When Vivi Anne makes a fateful decision to follow her heart rather than a psycho ex-girlfriend), has Coco seeing things differently. Leslie is not take the route of a dutiful daughter, events will test loves and loyalties. just a celebrity, he’s a single dad to an adorable six-year-old girl. 12CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Sandra Burr It’s a time to heal old wounds and form new familes. 8CD UA $179.95 Narrated by Dan John Miller Maeve Binchy. Collection – The Copper Beech; Circle of Friends; The Glass Lake Danielle Steel. 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Barbara Taylor Bradford. Being Elizabeth Nicholas Sparks. Dear John A modern retelling of the drama An angry rebel, John dropped out and intrigue surrounding the of school and enlisted in the Army, 16th-century Queen Elizabeth. not knowing what else to do with Instead of England, the throne is his life until he meets the girl of his the business empire of the dreams, Savannah. Their mutual Deravenels. And this Elizabeth is attraction quickly grows into love, the most powerful Managing with Savannah promising to wait Director in its history. Surrounded for John to finish his tour of duty. by rumours and betrayal, But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. 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At First Sight Dakota is now an eighteen-year- Jeremy is living in the tiny town of old freshman at NYU, running the Boone Creek, North Carolina, little yarn shop part-time with help engaged to Lexie Darnell, the love from the members of the Friday of his life, and anticipating the start Night Knitting Club. of their family. But just as his life Drawn together by the sense of seems to be settling into a blissful family the club has created, the pattern, a mysterious and knitters rely on one another as disturbing e-mail sets off a chain of they struggle with new challenges: events that will change the course for Catherine, finding love after of this young couple’s marriage. divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a How well do we really know the family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her ones we love? 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Nicholas Sparks. Nights in Rodanthe Linda Howard. Death Angel Adrienne Willis is 45 and has A striking beauty with a taste for been divorced for three years, diamonds and dangerous men, Drea abandoned by her husband for a Rousseau was more than content to younger woman. At the request of be arm candy for Rafael Salinas, a a friend and in hopes of respite, notorious crime lord who deals with she’s gone to the coastal village betrayal through quick and of Rodanthe in North Carolina to treacherous means: a bullet to the tend the local inn for the back of the head, a blade across the weekend. neck, an incendiary device beneath a At 54, Paul Flanner is a car. Now eager to break with Rafael, successful surgeon, but in the Drea makes a fateful decision and a previous six months his life has desperate move, stealing a mountain unravelled into something he doesn’t recognise. Estranged from his of cash from the malicious killer. After son and recently divorced, he’s sold his practice and his home and has all, an escape needs to be financed. journeyed to this isolated town. Adrienne and Paul come together as Though Drea runs, Salinas knows she can’t hide – and he dispatches a the storm brews over Rodanthe, but what begins between them over cold-blooded assassin in hot pursuit, resulting in a tragic turn of events. the weekend will resonate throughout the rest of their lives. Or does it? 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by JoBeth Williams Left for dead, Drea miraculously returns to the realm of the living a changed woman. She’s no longer shallow and selfish, no longer steals or cheats or sells herself short. But in order to feel safe she will need to Romantic Suspense take down those who marked her for death. Elizabeth Lowell. Blue Smoke and Murder 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Joyce Bean Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the J. D. Robb. Imitation in Death life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Summer, 2059. A man wearing a Kilda Consulting’s premier cape and a top hat approaches a operators. But when a string of prostitute on a dark, New York City ominous events culminates in a street. Minutes later, the woman is threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls dead. Left at the scene is a letter in a favour. addressed to Lieutenant Eve Zach Balfour’s expertise is Dallas, inviting her to play his game gathering and analysing information and unveil his identity. He signs it, from unlikely and often dangerous “Jack”. sources. Protecting Jill will take him Now Dallas is in pursuit of a into familiar territory – among a murderer who knows as much strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who’ll do anything to about the history of serial killers as stay at the top. But Jill is in deeper waters than she’s ever known; as she does. He has studied the most she soon discovers, the perils of running wild rivers are tame compared notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also with the hidden dangers in the high-stakes game of art collecting... wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. 9CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Carol Monda And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all – starting with Jack the Ripper... Catherine Coulter. Double Take 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Susan Ericksen The police believe Julia Ransom brutally murdered her husband, Nora Roberts. Private Scandals renowned psychic August Ransom. This deliciously scandalous Then she’s struck unconscious by novel tells us the secrets of the a respectable-looking stranger and reigning queens of television almost thrown over the railing into talk shows, Deanna Reynolds San Francisco Bay. If it weren’t for and Angela Perkins. Their high- Special Agent Cheney Stone, Julia staked rivalry, fought with public would’ve drown. Cheney connects smiles and private betrayals, is the attempt on Julia’s life with the more than a ratings competition. murder of her husband, and It becomes an off-screen war reopens the investigation. when Deanna replaces Angela In Virginia, Sheriff Dixon Noble both on the air and behind the learns of a woman named Charlotte Pallack who bears an uncanny scenes with Angela’s former resemblance to his wife Christie, vanished three years ago. lover after Angela moves to the Dix’s and Cheney’s paths cross in San Francisco, brought together by big time in New York. FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. All four begin to Angela’s anger at her former protegé escalates from bitterness to unlock the mystery behind Charlotte Pallack’s identity, as well as the vengeance. And an anonymous fan’s admiration crosses the line into forces behind Julia Ransom’s attempted murder and the vicious obsession. Only one woman will emerge with her life in this battle of murder of her husband. ego and passion. 9CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Phil Gigante & Sandra Burr 13CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Julie Finneran

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Linda Howard. Angel Creek Romance For five years after her father died, Janet Evanovich. The Grand Finale lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held on to Berry Knudson had a talent for Angel Creek valley and her disaster, but when she climbed a independence. The homestead was tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn’t hers, and she vowed no one else prepared for the scrumptious hunk would ever own it... or her. Then Lucas undressing in a nearby window, or Cochran came back to Colorado. In her dive downward that smashed the drought-cursed high country, he Jake Sawyer’s pizza and won his needed Angel Creek and its cool water heart! But was there room in her to turn his Double C ranch into the chaotic schedule for a risk-taking cattle dynasty he craved. His ruthless inventor with dreams? She took ambition guaranteed he would fight to classes, delivered pizzas, and cared take it away from the black-haired, for three eccentric old ladies she green-eyed spitfire who claimed it. rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he But the passion that blazed when Dee Swann and Lucas Cochran met could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make shocked them both. Unbidden, unexpected, their kisses swept them butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved? toward a dangerous destiny where dreams might be scattered... men 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by C. J. Critt could be killed... or love would be born as wild and unfettered as this glorious frontier. Tami Hoag. Rumor Has It 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Natalie Ross Katie Quaid could never refuse a dare. It was the quality that had once Nora Roberts. Daring to Dream made her a world-class equestrian. The beginning book of the Dream And it was the reason she’d been Trilogy . elected to introduce herself to Margo Sullivan had everything a Briarwood’s intimidatingly gorgeous young woman could ask for. But while new resident. It had taken one week growing up along the rocky cliffs of to make Nick Leone the focus of the Monterey, she couldn’t help but Virginia town’s rumour mill. So far he dream of bigger things. The daughter was a CIA agent, a male model, a of the Templeton’s stern Irish fugitive – maybe all three. housekeeper, Margo had been Whatever Nick was, Katie knew she treated like a member of the family. liked him. And that made him the greatest danger she’d faced since the Deep down, she knew that money accident that ended her riding career. In the five years since, she’d could not buy the one thing she buried herself in her business of restoring historic homes, afraid to craved most - her mother’s share her scars with any man – scars that had destroyed more than acceptance. Maybe things would be different if she could be sweet like one dream. Nick had disappointments of his own, but after meeting Laura - or had Kate’s shrewd head for business. But all Margo knew Katie, he sensed that fate had a better plan all along. And soon he how to do was be Margo, and that meant doing things her own way - would pose her with the greatest dare of all – to love again. no matter what the consequences. 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Lyssa Browne 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Sandra Burr Debbie Macomber. 16 Lighthouse Road Nora Roberts. Holding the Dream Cedar Cove #1 The second book of the Dream Olivia Lockhart, 16 Lighthouse Road, Trilogy . Cedar Cove, Washington. Margo, Kate, and Laura were Dear Listener, brought up like sisters amidst the You don’t know me yet, but in a few peerless grandeur of Templeton hours that’s going to change. You see, House. Kate’s dreams were fueled I’m inviting you to my home and my by a horrible secret... town of Cedar Cove because I want you Her childhood had been a lie. Her to meet my family, friends, and father had been a thief. Her mind neighbours. Come and hear their struggled to absorb these facts, to stories - maybe even their secrets! analyze, to accept. Kate Powell had Here’s an example: I’m a family court been orphaned at an early age, judge and she likes to drop in on my courtroom. Recently I was hearing when she had, essentially, watched a divorce petition. In Charlotte’s view, young Cecilia and Ian Randall her parents die. Her family had been taken away, but she had been hadn’t tried hard enough to make their marriage work - and I agreed. given another. The distant kinship didn’t matter to Thomas and Susan So I rendered my judgement: Divorce Denied. Templeton. They had taken her in, raised her as their own, given her a Well, you wouldn’t believe the reaction! Thanks to an article by Jack home and love. And now, twenty years later, she has learned the truth Griffin, the editor of our local paper (and a man I wouldn’t mind seeing from a colleague of her father. A man who did not realize that the more of!), everyone’s talking... Templetons had gone to great lengths to protect the child from See you soon... Olivia. knowledge that would hurt and shame her. 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Sandra Burr 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Sandra Burr

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Fern Michaels. Mr. and Miss Anonymous Nora Roberts. Finding the Dream College senior Lily Madison, The final book of the Dream desperate to pay for her last Trilogy . semester of school, makes the Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought difficult decision to donate her up like sisters amidst the Margo, eggs to a fertility clinic. Peter Kelly Kate, and Laura were brought up like is also a penniless student who sisters amidst the peerless grandeur supplements his tuition money by of Templeton House. But it was Laura visiting a sperm bank. One day, who seemed to have it all - until she Lily and Pete meet at the clinic lost almost everything and had to and talk about their secret... but begin again. go their separate ways. Laura Templeton found out the hard Nineteen years have passed and way that nothing in life is guaranteed. Lily often wonders if she has a The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, she had always known comfort, child somewhere in the world. 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Amanda Quick. The Third Circle Historical Romance Leona Hewitt, disguised in men’s Amanda Quick. The Perfect Poison formal evening clothes, has Lucinda Bromley manages to live secretly made her way into Lord on the fringes of polite society, Delbridge’s private museum to tending her beloved plants and recover a relic stolen from her occasionally consulting on a family years ago. But someone murder investigation. For the else is there in the dimly lit notorious botanist possesses a gallery, on the same errand: unique talent: she can detect Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist almost any type of poison. with powerful psychic energy. But at the murder scene of a lord, But Leona shows no trace of she picks up traces of a poison hysteria in his presence. She containing a very rare species of exerts a rather hypnotic power fern which had been stolen from over the hypnotist himself. And her conservatory just last month. she is determined to keep the crystal they recovered. To keep her name out of the investigation and to find the murderer, Thaddeus, on assignment for the secretive Arcane Society, knows the Lucinda hires a fellow Arcane Society member – Caleb Jones. A menace Leona is courting by absconding with the crystal. Lord descendant of the founder of the Society, he is very good at protecting Delbridge has already killed two men to acquire it, for it is his key to its secrets and frighteningly good getting at the truth. But as a nearly membership in the elite, shadowy group known as the Third Circle... overwhelming desire blooms between Caleb and Lucinda, they are 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik drawn into the dark heart of a deadly conspiracy. 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik Amanda Quick. Seduction The villagers called him the devil. Georgette Heyer. Cotillion For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl The three great-nephews of of Ravenwood, was a man with a cantankerous Mr Penicuik know legendary temper and a first wife better than to ignore his whose mysterious death would not summons, especially when it be forgotten. concerns the bestowal of his Now country-bred Sophy Dorring fortune. The wily old gentleman was about to become has hatched a typically freakish Ravenwood’s new bride. Drawn to plan for his adopted daughter’s the glitters of desire that burned in future and his own amusement: his emerald eyes, Sophy had her his fortune will be Kitty’s dowry own reasons for agreeing to a as long as Kitty marries one of marriage of convenience. those great-nephews. One was vengeance, and in its But while the beaux are scrambling for her hand, Kitty counters with pursuit she would entangle Julian in a dangerous masquerade. her own inventive, if daring, scheme: a sham engagement should keep The other reason was dearer to her heart but just as wild a quest: wedlock at bay... Sophy Dorring intended to teach the devil to love again. Georgette Heyer’s eye for historical detail, delightful wit and marvellous 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik characterisation make this a stand-out. 4CD $49.95 Narrated by Clare Wille Mary Balogh. First comes Marriage The Huxtables #1 Mary Balogh. At Last Comes Love The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the The Huxtables #3 irresistibly eligible Viscount Only desperation could bring Lyngate, has thrown the country Duncan Pennethorne, the village of Throckbridge into a tizzy. infamous Earl of Sheringford, Desperate to rescue her eldest back home after the scandal sister from a loveless union, that had shocked even the Vanessa Huxtable Dew offers jaded ton. Forced to wed in herself instead. In need of a wife, fifteen days or be cut off without Elliott takes the audacious widow a penny, Duncan chooses the up on her unconventional proposal one woman in London in frantic while he pursues an urgent mission need of a husband. A lie to an of his own. old flame forces Margaret But a strange thing happens on the Huxtable to accept the irresistible stranger’s offer. But once she way to the wedding night. Two strangers with absolutely nothing in discovers who he really is, it’s too late – she’s already betrothed to the common can’t keep their hands off each other. Now, as intrigue swirls wickedly sensual rakehell. Quickly she issues an ultimatum: If Duncan around a past secret – one with a stunning connection to the Huxtables wants her, he must woo her. And as passion slowly ignites, two people – Elliott and Vanessa are uncovering the glorious pleasures of the marrying for all the wrong reasons are discovering the joys of seduction marriage bed and discovering that when it comes to wedded bliss, love - and awaiting the exquisite pleasure of what comes after ... can’t be far behind. 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik

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Mary Balogh. Then Comes Seduction Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Triumph The Huxtables #2 Richard Sharpe and the Battle of In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Assaye, September 1803 Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his Since earning his sergeant’s stripes reputation as London’s most at the bloody siege of notorious lover on one woman. His Seringapatam, Richard Sharpe has challenge? To seduce the exquisite, led a peaceful existence. But his virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a easy life meets a brutal end when fortnight. But when his best-laid he is the sole survivor of a plans go awry, Jasper devises a murderous attack by a cold-blooded wager of his own. For Katherine, English officer who has defected to already wildly attracted to him, join the mercenary forces of the Jasper’s offer is irresistible: Mahratta confederation in India. to make London’s most dangerous Sharpe vows to avenge his rake fall in love with her. Then comrades, even if he must pursue the turncoat to the ends of the Jasper suddenly ups the ante. continent. His quest takes him deep into enemy territory, where the Katherine knows she should refuse. But with scandal brewing and her accepted rules of engagement have been discarded and ever-shifting reputation in jeopardy, she reluctantly agrees to become his wife. Now, loyalties create an environment of dangerous uncertainty. The paths of as passion ignites, the seduction really begins. And this time the prize treachery lead Sharpe’s company to join the army of Sir Arthur is nothing less than both their hearts. Wellesley, future Duke of Wellington, to take on the Mahratta horde. 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik Sharpe must survive the carnage to tell the tale of one of the greatest battles of the century. Gail Mallin. The Devil’s Bargain 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Delia knows she must marry well to restore the Vane family fortune now Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Rifles that Charles II has been restored to Richard Sharpe and the French his throne. Convinced she has Invasion of Galicia, January nothing to offer, she is surprised to 1809 attract the honourable attentions of It’s 1809, and the powerful French Squire Bolsover - and astounded to juggernaut is sweeping across attract the dishonourable attentions Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe of Lord Kit Malory. Kit’s charms are is newly in command of the certainly hard to withstand. And demoralized, distrustful men of the then her brother Jamie’s gambling Ninety-fifth Rifles. He must lead debts put Delia entirely into Kit’s them to safety, and the only power - Kit will excuse the debts if means of escape is a treacherous Delia becomes his mistress! Delia trek through the enemy-infested would bargain with the devil himself in order to save Jamie - but must mountains of Spain. she ruin her own reputation in the process? Blas Vivar and his band of intrepid 8CD UA $169.95 Narrated by Anne Cater Spanish soldiers may prove to be their salvation. But Vivar is transporting a mysterious chest that he claims can shift the tides of war, and the French are determined to get it, no matter what the cost. Historical Fiction 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Tiger Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Eagle In 1799, the British Army is fighting Richard Sharpe and the its way through India in an attempt Talavera Campaign, July 1809 to push the ruthless Tippoo of At Talavera in July of 1809, Mysore from his throne and drive Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, his French allies out. Posing as a professional, and ruthless, deserter, the young and illiterate prepares to lead his men against private Richard Sharpe must the armies of Napoleon in what penetrate into the Tippoo’s city and will be the bloodiest battle of the make contact with a Scottish spy war. Sharpe has earned his being held prisoner there. Success captaincy, but there are others, will mean winning his sergeant such as the foppish Lieutenant stripes; failure, being turned over to Gibbons and his uncle, Colonel the Tippoo’s brutal executioners – or his man-eating tigers. Henry Simmerson, who have Along the way, Sharpe keeps an eye out for beautiful prostitutes, any bought their commissions stray loot he can get his hands on, and the chance to learn his ABCs. despite their incompetence. After their cowardly loss of the regiment’s But when the furious British assault on the city begins, Sharpe must colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, fight with the fierceness and agility of a tiger himself to foil the Tippoo’s and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody well-set trap – and to keep from being killed by his own side. warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment. 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson

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Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Gold Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Sword Richard Sharpe and the Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, Salamanca Campaign, June August 1810 and July 1812 Only a year after its stunning Colonel Leroux is killing Britain’s victory at Talavera in July of most valuable spies, and it’s up 1809, Wellington’s Peninsular to Richard Sharpe to stop him. army – vastly outnumbered, its Thrust into the unfamiliar world coffers empty – is on the brink of of political and military intrigue, collapse. The Spanish Sharpe must tangle with La government has fallen, and the Marquesa, a beguiling, last Spanish armies have been extraordinarily beautiful woman crushed by the French. whose embrace is as calculating But Wellington has one hope as it is passionate. As she leads left: in the dangerous Portuguese hills lies a fortune in gold, enough him through a maze of secrecy, gold perhaps to turn the Peninsular War around. And he knows of one cunning, and deception, Sharpe fighting man capable of stealing it: Captain Richard Sharpe of the relentlessly pursues Leroux, determined to exact his revenge with the South Essex Regiment. cold steel of his sword. 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Battle Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Enemy Richard Sharpe and the Battle Richard Sharpe and the of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811 Defense of Portugal, In the spring of 1811, as one of Christmas 1812 the most bitter battles of the A band of renegades led by Peninsular War is about to Sharpe’s vicious mortal enemy, commence, the hopes of all of Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a Britain are turned toward Spain, group of British and French where victory will be won or lost. women hostage in a strategic A skilled leader and proven hero, mountain pass. On the other Colonel Richard Sharpe has taken side of the pass, Napoleon’s charge of a ragtag Irish battalion Grande Armée seeks to smash from the king of Spain’s through and crush the British household guard. But poorly army in Portugal. Outnumbered equipped and untrained, they are easily ambushed by an elite French and attacked from two sides, unit commanded by Sharpe’s deadly enemy, Brigadier General Guy Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt. Loup. Sharpe and Loup have tangled before, and now the fighting wolf “Frederick Davidson performs superbly. The hardness and hauteur of means to exact his revenge. But something goes terribly wrong in their his syllable-precise delivery render well the rigid hierarchies and varied bloody skirmish, and Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career and personalities of military life.”—AudioFile reputation. Stripped of all but his honour, spirit, and courage, Sharpe 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson must lead his men to glory on the bloody streets of Spain to redeem himself in the eyes of his country, or die trying. Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Honour 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Company to June 1813 Richard Sharpe and the Siege It is a perfect plot for Napoleon: of Badajoz, January to April stop Wellington’s forces in Spain and destroy Major 1812 Richard Sharpe. It is January 1812. Looming on An unfinished duel, a midnight the border of Portugal and murder, and the treachery of a Spain is the fortress of Badajoz. beautiful prostitute lead to the To lead an assault on its thick, imprisonment of Sharpe. The sheer walls and battlements is pawn in a plot conceived by his suicide, yet this is Richard archenemy, Pierre Ducos, Sharpe’s mission. Inside the Sharpe is condemned to die as walls are his wife and daughter, an assassin. Caught in a web and only he can save them. of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally Outside is the misshapen, unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive – a man hunted by both ally vengeance-crazed Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, a man determined to and enemy alike. kill Sharpe. Sharpe knows that in the heat of battle, only the cold steel “Cornwell gives the [listener] vivid settings and the sound and smell of of his battered sword and the ruthless bloodlust of a soldier at war will eighteenth-century warfare better than anyone else.” —Newport News protect him from the danger of both sides. Daily Express 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson

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Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Regiment Bernard Cornwell. Waterloo Richard Sharpe and the Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Invasion of France, June Campaign, 15 June to 18 June to November 1813 1815 A corrupt political enemy is With the emperor Napoleon at its determined to disband the head, an enormous French army is South Essex Regiment and marching toward Brussels. The to destroy Sharpe’s life. British and their allies are also Sharpe returns to England converging on Brussels in preparation for a grand society ball. to discover an illegal And it is up to Richard Sharpe to recruiting ring that sells convince the Prince of Orange, the soldiers like cattle to other inexperienced commander of divisions. The ringleaders Wellington’s Dutch troops, to act know Sharpe is on their before it is too late. But Sharpe’s warning cannot stop the tide of battle, trail, and they try to kill him and the British suffer heavy losses on the road to Waterloo. Wellington at every turn. But Sharpe is has few reserves of men and ammunition, the Prussian army has not fighting for his command, and as he moves from the dark slums of arrived, and the French advance wields tremendous firepower and London to the highest courts of political power, Sharpe will risk charges determination. Victory seems impossible... of treason and death for a final chance at revenge. 11CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Devil Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Siege Richard Sharpe and the Sharpe’s mission had Emperor, 1820–1821 seemed simple: capture a Lieutenant Colonel Richard small unguarded French Sharpe has become a peaceful coastal fort, cripple farmer following Waterloo. But he Napoleon’s supply lines, and comes out of retirement to retreat across the sea. undertake a perilous mission to But behind the lines, find his old friend Don Blas Vivar, Sharpe’s old enemy, Pierre Captain-General of the Spanish Ducos, awaits Sharpe’s colony of Chile, who vanished arrival with a battalion of without a trace half a world away. French soldiers and a vicious With intrepid Irishman Patrick commanding general who Harper at his side, Sharpe embarks on a dangerous journey that keeps the scalps of his dead carries him first to an unexpected interview with Napoleon, then on to enemies as trophies. Chile, a land seething with corruption and revolt. But when fortune Outmanoeuvred by Ducos’s treachery and abandoned by his own delivers him into the hands of Lord Cochrane, the legendary rebel navy, Richard Sharpe has only two choices: to escape with the aid of genius, the real battle erupts. On land and at sea, Sharpe faces the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary, Cornelius Killick, or impossible odds in a time when tyranny rules, injustice abounds and to die. Napoleon dreams of rekindling the world in a blaze of war. 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Revenge Selden Edwards. The Little Book Richard Sharpe and the This is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California – Peace of 1814 exiled heir of the famous Boston It is 1814, and the defeat of banking Burdens, philosopher, Napoleon seems imminent – student of history, legend’s son, if the well-protected city of rock idol, writer, lover of women. Toulouse can be conquered. In 1988 he is 47, living in San For Richard Sharpe, the Francisco. Suddenly he – still his battle turns out to be one of modern self – is wandering in a the bloodiest of the Peninsula city and time he knows Wars, and he must draw on mysteriously well: fin de siècle his last reserves of strength Vienna. It is 1897, half a century to lead his troops to victory. before his own birth. But before Sharpe can lay Wheeler soon acquired appropriate clothes, money, lodging, a mentor down his sword, he must in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, a powerful crush on a luminous young fight a different sort of battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon’s personal woman, and an incredible and surprising insight into the war-hero treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military court and embarks on father he never knew. the battle of his life, armed only with the unflinching resolve to protect But the truth at the centre of Wheeler’s dislocation in time remains a his honour. stubborn mystery that will take a lifetime of memories to unravel... 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 12CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Jeff Woodman

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William Dietrich. The Rosetta Key Kain Massin. A God for the Killing Surviving murderous thieves, a It is 33 AD, and normally such a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the challenge issued by yet another deadly sands of Egypt with messiah-in-the-making would Napoleon’s army, American have little effect on Judith, a adventurer Ethan Gage solved a beautiful slave and deadly five-thousand-year-old riddle with assassin. After all, Judith, abused the help of a mysterious medallion. and brutalised from an early age, But the danger is only beginning... has been trained by her Roman Gage finds himself hurled into the masters to seduce and then Holy Land in dogged pursuit of an murder without conscience. But ancient Egyptian scroll imbued with there is something different about magic, even as Bonaparte launches this assignment. his 1799 invasion of Israel, which Not only is it her final kill – the one that will allow her to go and live in will climax at the epic siege of Acre. Pursuing Napoleon to France, peaceful obscurity – she knows the target; it is Joshua, her childhood where the general hopes ancient secrets will catapult him to power, the sweetheart from Nazareth and the mystical events surrounding him wily and inventive Gage faces old enemies with unlikely new friends, begin to challenge Judith’s long held scepticism Will they really make and must use wit, humor, derring-do, and an archaeological key to her, for the first time in her life, a true believer? prevent dark powers from seizing control of the world. 5CD $44.95 Narrated by Jennifer Vuletic 10CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Jeff Woodman William Dietrich. The Dakota Cipher Historical Mystery A foolish tryst with Bonaparte’s Anne Perry. Long Spoon Lane married sister and the improbable While flower sellers, schemes of a grizzled Norwegian named Magnus Bloodhammer soon costermongers, shopkeepers send Ethan Gage on a new and hansom drivers ply their treasure hunt on America’s frontier. trades, the London police watch In 1801, president Thomas over all. Or so people believe... Jefferson convinces Ethan and Early one morning, Thomas Magnus to go on a scouting Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the expedition to investigate reports of Special Branch, is summoned woolly mammoths and blue-eyed to Long Spoon Lane, where Indians. anarchists are plotting an The pair have their own motive, attack. Bombs explode, however, which they neglect to share with the president: a search for destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the the mythical hammer of the Norse god Thor, allegedly brought by culprits are captured and the leader is shot... but by whom? fugitive Norsemen to the center of North America 150 years before As Pitt delves into the case, he finds that there is more to the terrorism Columbus. Can the hammer control thunder and lightning? Is there a than the destructive gestures of misguided idealists. The police are core of truth to this myth? running a lucrative protection racket, and clues suggest that Inspector 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by William Dufris Wetron of Bow Street may be involved... 10CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Michael Page Karen Harper. Mistress Shakespeare Dark-haired and strong-willed, Anne Perry. No Graves As Yet Elizabethan beauty Anne On a sunny afternoon in late Whateley takes up her pen to June, Cambridge professor divulge the intimate details of her Joseph Reavley learns that daring life and her great love, his parents have died in an William Shakespeare. As automobile crash. Joseph’s historical records show, Anne brother, Matthew, an officer Whateley of Temple Grafton was in the Intelligence Service, betrothed to Will just days before reveals that their father had he was forced to wed the been en route to London to pregnant Anne Hathaway of turn over to him a mysterious Shottery. secret document - allegedly Their secret wedding in a country with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilised church brings together two world. Tha paper has now vanished. passionate souls whose union survives separation, betrayal, and the How had this explosive document fallen into the hands of their father, a barbs of small-town gossips. From rural Stratford-Upon-the-Avon to quiet countryman? Not even Matthew, with his Intelligence teeming London, Anne and Will struggle to forge his career and remain connections, can answer these questions. And Joseph is soon safe from Elizabeth I’s campaign to hunt down secret Catholics. burdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, gifted student, handsome Sebastian Allard, loved and admired by even executions, all come to life in Anne’s heart-rending story. everyone. Or so it appeared. 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Anne Flosnik 10CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Michael Page

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Anne Perry. Dark Assassin George MacDonald Fraser. The Reavers A superintendent in the Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich Thames River Police, William and breathtakingly beautiful, Monk is on a patrol boat near young Lady Godiva Dacre is Waterloo Bridge when he and exiled from the court of Good his men notice a young Queen Bess (who can’t abide couple standing at the bridge red-haired competition) to her railing, apparently engaged in estate in distant Cumberland, an intense discussion. The where she looks forward to woman waves her arms and bullying the peasantry and places her hands on the getting her own imperious way. man’s shoulders. He grasps Little does she guess that the hold of her. Seconds later, turbulent Scottish border is the the pair plunges to death in the icy waters. last place for an Elizabethan Mary Havilland is her name and until recently she and Toby Argyll, the heiress, beset by ruthless reivers (many of them unshaven), fair-haired man who shared her fate, had planned to marry. Her father, blackmailing ruffians, fiendish Spanish plotters intent on regime change an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, has also recently died - and turning Merrie England into a ghastly European Union province. a suicide according to the police and Mary’s sister. But friends tell And no one to rely on but her half-witted blonde school chum, a rugged Monk that Mary suspected her father had been murdered because of English superman with a knack for disaster, and a dashing his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Company’s current project... highwayman who looks like Errol Flynn with a Glaswegian accent. 10CD UA $99.95 Narrated by David Colacci 8CD UA $44.95 Narrated by Bill Wallis Anne Perry. Execution Dock Modern Literary Fiction On the bustling docks along the River Thames, the empire’s great merchant D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers ships unload the treasures of the Living on the Nottinghamshire world. And here, in dank and sinister coal fields, the Morel family is alleys, sex merchants ply their beset with conflict. As lucrative trade. Gertrude Morel pours her The dreaded kingpin of this dark violent affection and realm is Jericho Phillips. On his aspirations onto her children, floating brothel, sex slaves are forced her son Paul, seeking to to endure unspeakable acts. Now escape from his family ties, one such soul, thirteen-year-old Fig, finds himself engulfed in an is found with his throat cut, his emotional maelstrom that tortured body tossed into the river. threatens to destroy, if not Commander William Monk of the River Police swears that Phillips will himself, then those whom he hang for this abomination. But the miscreant is as wily as he is loves. monstrous, and his wealthy clients seem far beyond the reach of the This is Lawrence’s autobiographical masterpiece of life in a working- law. Monk’s attempt to bring about justice becomes the first electrifying class town, of human understanding, and of relationships – between episode in a nightmare that will test his courage and integrity. man and woman, mother and child, sons and lovers. 11CD UA $89.95 Narrated by David Colacci 13CD UA $129.95 Narrated by Paul Slack Also available abridged Action / Adventure 4CD $44.95 Narrated by Paul Slack Clive & Dirk Cussler. Arctic Drift Joseph Conrad. Nostromo A potential breakthrough Set in the fictional South discovery to reverse global American country of warming... a series of Costaguana, Nostromo unexplained sudden deaths in explores the volatile politics British Columbia... a rash of and crippling greed international incidents between surrounding the San Tomé the United States and one of its silver mine. The story of closest allies that threatens to power, love, revolutions, erupt into an actual shooting loyalty and reward is told with war... NUMA director Dirk Pitt richly evocative description and his children have reason to and brilliantly realised believe there’s a connection characters. But Nostromo is here somewhere, but they have more than an adventure story; very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. Its language is as compellingly real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago resonant as the sea itself; the characters absorbing and complex. It expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one was Conrad’s masterwork, a forerunner of Modernism, and one of the survived from that doomed mission... greatest novels of the twentieth century. 11CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Scott Brick 6CD $49.95 Narrated by Nigel Anthony

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Daniel Kehlmann. Me and Kaminski Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited Sebastian Zollner’s failure as As a student at Oxford, a journalist is matched only by Charles Ryder is captivated his personal failures: his by the decadent, aristocratic girlfriend is moving in a new Sebastian Flyte, who invites lover before Sebastian even him to spend time at his family knows he’s been dumped. home - the magnificent Searching for the break that Brideshead. He becomes will redeem him in the eyes of infatuated with its eccentric his peers, he heads off on a inhabitants, especially wild goose chase into the Sebastian’s sister, Julia, but mountains to interview the things begin to unravel when eccentric, legendary painter Charles notices cracks in the Manuel Kaminski, with the hope of writing his biography. family’s carefully tended Kaminski is going blind and is living in seclusion with his daughter. He veneer: its secrets, its could be working on his next masterpiece or easing into his final days, oppressive Catholicism, and his inconsistent career raises the question of whether he has been Sebastian’s increasing reliance on alcohol. This remarkable a fraud or a genius. His artistic reputation hinges on any number of examination of dysfunction and devotion remains one of the great factors but most prominently on a definitive biography. Enter Zollner – novels of the 20th century. who has no intention of writing a puff piece. He’s out to dig dirt and to 10CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Jeremy Irons force Kaminski to confront the legacy of his work. But the secrets he uncovers will lead them both to places they never expected to find. Irène Némirovsky. All Our Worldly Goods 4CD $49.95 Narrated by Nicolas Coster Pierre and Agnès are in love, but Pierre is engaged to Haruki Murakami. After Dark someone else approved by With his trademark humour and his snobbish mother and the psychological insight, tyrannical family patriarch, Murakami’s power of the industrialist Julien observation plays out in this Hardelot. Their love pvokes a sleek novel of encounters set in family feud which cascades Tokyo during the witching hours down the generations. Pierre between midnight and dawn. and Agnes defy his “Disarmingly intimate, almost grandfather, marry, and take tactile… The narrative flows like the consequences. a jazz ballad [in which] each The novel is partly the story of their marriage, partly that of his jilted character is unique in his or her fiancée, Simone, unattractive in many ways, yet with a strength of loneliness, yet each possesses character that compels reluctant admiration. But it is also the story of a capacity for momentary empathy that is both sweet and France, and the wars of the 20th century. Full of drama and pathos, this is Némirovsky at the height of her heartbreaking. Murakami’s genius, on both large and small canvases, powers. It opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy is to create worlds both utterly alien and disconcertingly familiar.” – Bill beach, and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation. Ott, “Booklist” 6CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Eleanor Bron 5CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Janet Song Hermann Hesse. Steppenwolf Science Fiction Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive Michael Crichton. The Lost World intellectual for whom life holds It is now six years since the no joy. He struggles to secret disaster at Jurassic Park, reconcile the wild primeval wolf six years since the extraordinary and the rational man within dream of science and himself without surrendering to imagination came to a crashing the bourgeois values he end – the dinosaurs destroyed, despises. the park dismantled, the island His life changes dramatically indefinitely closed to the public. when he meerts a woman who There are rumours that is his opposite, the carefree something has survived... and elusive Hermine. The tale Crichton’s classic sequel to his of the Steppenwolf culminates blockbuster Jurassic Park in the surreal Magic Theatre – for madmen only. opens six years after the secret With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best- disaster on the remote island, known and most autobiographical work – originally published in English where the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a in 1929 – continues to remain a classic of modern literature. crashing end. 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Peter Weller 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Scott Brick

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Maurice G. Dantec. Babylon Babies Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth Set in the hidden breeding grounds Geologist Otto Lidenbrock, while of the first cyborg communities, perusing an ancient Icelandic Dantec’s science fiction thriller manuscript, discovers a strange mixes metaphysics with cyberpunk encrypted note. The message post-humanism in the spirit of reveals the account of a 16 th Philip K. Dick. century explorer who claims to Toorop, a hard-boiled leatherneck have found a passageway to the veteran, has been assigned to centre of the earth. escort a young woman from In his quest to penetrate the Russia to Canada. But Marie is no planet’s primordial secrets, the ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and a impetuous professor, together possible carrier of a new artificial with his quaking nephew, Axel, virus, Marie is bearing a mutant and their devoted guide, Hans, sets off immediately for Iceland. embryo created by an American cult, which dreams of producing a Descending through the belly of a volcano into the bowels of the Earth, genetically modified messiah that will end all human life as we know it. they discover an astonishing subterranean world of prehistoric Moving at breakneck speed, Toorop risks his life to save Marie as her proportions. brain, linking to the neuromatrix, surpasses all limits to become the 8CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Prebble universe itself. 16CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Joe Barrett Mike Tucker, Stephen Cole, Colin Brake. Doctor Who: Collected Stories Dan Abnett. TORCHWOOD: The Stone Rose centres on a Everyone Says Hello 2000-year-old statue of Rose and The 21st century is when an Ancient Roman mystery everything changes and involving a missing boy and a Torchwood is ready. Led by the clairvoyant girl. The Feast of the mysterious and enigmatic Captain Drowned tells the chilling tale of a Jack Harkness, Torchwood sunken naval cruiser, a ghostly delves into the unknown and crew that return to haunt their fights the impossible. Across loved ones and a dreadful secret. Cardiff, ordinary people are The Resurrection Casket is set behaving in odd ways: saying on a renegade mining planet that hello to complete strangers, and may be home to vanished pirate going out of their way to greet treasure and the legendary key to one another. eternal life. The Nightmare of Black Island finds the Doctor and Rose in a village where the residents are plagued by nightmares, monsters Torchwood discovers that an alien communications field is gathering and an ancient evil. The Art of Destruction sees the TARDIS in 22nd- strength in Cardiff, causing people to behave oddly. The team must century Africa, where the Doctor and Rose battle an alien intelligence find the device responsible and shut it off – before civil unrest engulfs in a struggle to save the world. The Price of Paradise features a the city. once-perfect planet that has now grown sick and only the Doctor and 2CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Burn Gorman Rose can find the cure. 12CD UA $110.00 Narrated by David Tennant, Anthony Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Head, Don Warrington, Shaun Dingwall Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series Original complete radio drama of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fantasy the Galaxy , plus a new full-cast Terry Pratchett. Thief of Time dramatisation of Mostly Time is a resource. Everyone Harmless . knows it has to be managed. Seconds before the Earth is And on the Discworld that is demolished to make way for a the job of the Monks of History, galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is who store it and pump it from plucked off the planet by his the places where it’s wasted friend Ford Prefect, alien (like the underwater - how reporter for The Hitchhiker’s much time does a codfish Guide to the Galaxy, stranded need?) to places like cities, on earth for the last 15 years. where there’s never enough This is the start of a bizarre time. But the construction of journey through space with a galaxy-full of fellow travellers: Zaphod the world’s first truly accurate Beeblebrox – the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to- clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a of everyone’s problems. There’s a full supporting cast of heroes, paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and a host of other villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the unforgettable characters. Apocalypse (who left before they became famous). 14CD UA $199.95 Performed by BBC cast 3CD $54.95 Narrated by Tony Robinson

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Gregory Maguire. Wicked: The Life and Times of Charles de Lint’s urban fantasy novels set in the mythical the Wicked Witch of the West North American city of Mitford are considered classics of When Dorothy triumphed over the the genre. Available in audio for the first time. Wicked Witch of the West in L. Charles de Lint. Dreams Underfoot Frank Baum’s classic tale, we Welcome to Newford: to the only heard only her side of the music clubs, the waterfront and story. But what about her arch– the alleyways where ancient nemesis, the mysterious Witch? myths and magic spill into the Where did she come from? How modern world. Gemmins live in did she become so wicked? abandoned cars and skells Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be traverse the tunnels below, while treated like first class citizens, mermaids swim in the grey Munchkinlanders seek the harbour waters and fill the cold comfort of middle-class stability, night with their song. Meet Jilly, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. Then there’s painting wonders in the rough the little green-skinned girl Elphaba, who will grow up to become the city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the misunderstoood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions poor and the lost. Dreams Underfoot is a book not only for fans of about the nature of good and evil. urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life. 16CD UA $59.95 Narrated by John McGonough “Charles de Lint shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time.”—Magazine of Jim Butcher. Furies of Calderon Fantasy & Science Fiction Book 1 of The Codex Alera 11CD UA $179.95 Narrated by Kate Reading For centuries, the ability of the people of Aliera to bond with Charles de Lint. Moonheart furies –elemental spirits of earth, When Sara and Jamie air, fire, water, and metal – has discovered the artefacts, they allowed them to defend their land sensed the pull of a dim, distant against invaders. But the current place, a world of misty forests, lord is old and lacks an heir. So ancient magics, mythical beings, Aliera’s traditional enemies plot ageless bards, and restless evil. with treacherous lords within the Now, with their friends and country to seize power. Far off in enemies alike — Blue, the biker; the mountains, young Tavi Keiran, the folk musician; the struggles with his inability to Inspector from the RCMP; and attract and bond with a fury. He the mysterious Tom Hengyr — saves the life of a young girl he believes to be a slave, but who is Sara and Jamie are drawn into actually an agent of the king, looking for traitors. Tavi is himself drawn this enchanted land through the portals of a sprawling downtown into battle and war before he can say “lost sheep”. edifice that straddles two worlds. 16CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Kate Reading From ancient Wales to the streets of Ottawa today, Moonheart entrances listeners with its tale of this world and the other one at the Charles de Lint. The Onion Girl very edge of sight. A tale of music, motorcycles, and fey folk beyond the shadows of the moon, Moonheart is pure magic. Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North 16CD UA $199.95 Narrated by Paul Michael Garcia American city to vivid life: Newford, where magic lights Charles de Lint. Memory and Dream the dark streets, myths walk Isabelle Copley, as the young clothed in modern shapes, and student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, discovered that a cast of extraordinary people she could paint images so vividly work to keep the whole world real they brought her wildest turning. At the centre of it all fantasies to life. But when the stands a young artist named forces she unleashed brought Jilly Coppercorn, with her tragedy to those she loved, she tangled hair and paint- turned her back on her talent and splattered jeans, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell her dreams. in the city’s shadows. Now, 20 years later, Isabelle must Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly’s own story for behind the painter’s fey come to terms with the shattering charm lies a dark secret that she’s laboured to forget. “I’m the onion memories she has long denied girl,” Jilly Coppercorn says. “Pull back the layers of my life, and you and unlock the slumbering power of her brush. And, in a dark won’t find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl. She’s reckoning with her old master, she must find the courage to live out her very, very good at running—but the past has come to claim her now.” dreams and bring the magic back to life. 16CD UA $169.95 Narrated by Kate Reading 16CD UA $199.95 Narrated by Kate Reading

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Mervyn Peake. Titus Groan Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. Titus Groan, heir to Lord Bones of the Dragon Sepulgrave, has just been born. A Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of Groan of the strict lineage, Titus, the Vindras, an undefeated the seventy-seventh, will inherit champion of the Torgun clan, and miles of rambling stone and mortar eventually the Chief of Chiefs of all that form Gormenghast Castle, and Vindras clans, an honour he truly its surrounding kingdom. His world feels he deserves as one who has will be predetermined by complex been blessed by Skoval, the god of ritual, the origins of which are lost war. But sometimes a blessing is a in time; it will be peopled by the curse in disguise. dark characters who inhabit the half Skoval and the other ancient gods lit corridors: Lord Sepulgrave, a figment of melancholy, and his are under siege from a new redhaired Countess; Swelter the chef and his bony enemy Flay; generation of gods who are Prunesquallor, castle physician, and his etiolated sister, Irma; and not challenging them for the powers of creation... and the only way to stop least – Steerpike, the Machiavellian youth. these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures Bones of the Vektan Dragons. haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which reigns as an It will be up to the Vindras, the dragon-goddess’s champion, to undisputed fantasy classic. Peake has created a world where all is like undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and a dream – lush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle. the Vindras’ people rests on their recovery, for this is not only a quest “[Peake’s books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare to save the world – it is also a quest for redemption. dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception 16CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki of the range of possible experience.” – C. S. Lewis 20CD UA $199.95 Narrated by Edmund Dehn Anne McCaffrey. The Dolphins of Pern When the first humans came to Mervyn Peake. Gormenghast settle the planet Pern, intelligence- Book 2, Gormenghast trilogy. enhanced dolphins also crossed Titus Groan is now seven. Heir to the stars to colonise Pern’s oceans the crumbling castle, to a while their human partners settled cobwebbed kingdom, he is also the the vast continents. But then inheritor of the evil which is now disaster struck. 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Susanna Clarke. The Ladies of Grace Adieu & William Shakespeare. From Shakespeare with Love other stories Here are assembled a group of A delicious collection of ten stories actors whose approach to the set in the same fairy-crossed world sonnets is as varied as their of 19th-century England. With ages and dialects. The direction Clarke’s characteristic historical was to think of the sonnets as detail and diction, these dark, dramatic speeches as well as enchanting tales unfold in a slightly exquisite poems. The poetic distorted version of our own world, structure is observed, but the where people are bedevilled by listener will also be aware of the emotion behind each sonnet. mischievous interventions from the Shakespeare’s emotional range fairies. These stories include in the sonnets is staggering. He appearances from beloved explores obsessive love, jealousy, mutual love, love idealised, love characters from her novel, including degraded and cheapened, the love of friends, married love, lust, Jonathan Strange and Childermass. deception, betrayal – the list is endless, proving himself, as Francis “Ravishing... superb... combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the Meres said, ‘the most passionate among us to bewail and bemoan the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre perplexities of Love’. that rivals Tolkien.” – Time 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by David Tennant, Juliet 6CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Simon Prebble, Davina Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Maxine Peake, Porter Stella Gonet & others Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently: The Long Dark The Great Poets: Oliver Wendell Holmes Tea-Time of the Soul (BBC Radio Dramatisation) Oliver Wendell Holmes Dirk Gently has fallen on hard (1809–1894) described it in times and, dressed as a gypsy his poem A Metrical Essay , woman, is using his irritatingly and he himself had it in accurate clairvoyant powers to abundance: poetic sense. He read palms. He is saved when could apply his gift to almost a frantic client turns up with a any subject – to love, nature, ludicrous story about being patriotic and religious themes, stalked by a goblin waving a to a glass of wine, a punch contract accompanied by a bowl, a cherished college hairy, green-eyed, scythe- fraternity, even to a wielding monster. stethoscope. Rhyme and When Detective metre came easily to Holmes. Superintendent Gilks decides In a preface to his poems he may have modestly disclaimed some of a headless body found in a sealed room is the result of a particularly his early work as too ‘schoolboy-like’, with ‘questionable irritating suicide, Dirk is plunged into a mystery where the extravagances’, but he was always immensely readable, humane and interconnectedness of all things is tested to the limit... sensitive, and he became one of the most popular poets of his age. 3CD UA $35.00 Performed by Harry Enfield, Peter Davison, Included in this collection are his major poems, including Old Ironsides Philip Jackson, John Fortune, Jan Ravens, and The Last Leaf . Morwenna Banks, Stephen Moore, Olivia 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Peter Marinker Colman, Jim Carter, Billy Boyd Herrick; Marlowe; Rochester; Jonson; Byron; Poetry Keats; Tennyson; Betjeman. Classic Erotic Verse The Great Poets: William McGonagall A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry This Scottish poet has the designed to celebrate the most unusual reputation as one of the sensual of human pleasures. worst poets in the English Over the ages many poets language. His ‘masterpiece’ is The Tay Bridge Disaster . have put pen to paper in McGonagall knew how to rhyme – celebration of that most raw just; but nothing else. He was a and yet most beautiful of creator of verse that undermines human instincts – erotic love. its pretensions to gravitas with This anthology includes verse striking banality; poetry whose by Herrick, Marlowe, Jonson, high ambitions are brought to Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, earth through astounding lack of Yeats, Cummings and, from rhythm or metre, or bathetic juxtapositions of high tragedy and absurd our own time, John Betjeman. All aspects of erotic love are to be found prosaism. He could take the most terrible and tragic event and turn it – in these poems – from the bawdy to the sensuous and tender. seemingly unconsciously – into a parody of the epic form, making 2CD UA $31.95 Narrated by Edward de Souza, Matthew something the audience should feel awed by, simply awful. Marsh, Stella Gonet, David Timson, 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Gregor Fisher Benjamin Soames

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The Great Poets: Robert Burns The Great Poets: Christian Rossetti and Robbie Burns is known worldwide Elizabeth Barrett Browning as Scotland’s favourite poet, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning his deft touch with rhyme and (who married the poet Robert imagery, the sensuality and Browning) and Christina humour of his poetry and the Rossetti (whose brother strength of his lines are inherent Dante was also a poet and elements of his work. painter) were both regarded Some of his most famous poems as the female poet laureates include A Red, Red Rose , A Man’s of their time, and between a Man for a’ That and the them their writings spanned ubiquitous Auld Lang Syne . almost the entire Victorian 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Forbes Masson age, from the end of Romanticism to the Ted Hughes. The Spoken Word: Poetry in the Making beginnings of Modernism. This 2CD set draws on the This selection of their shorter works contains all the major themes that broadcasts made by Ted animated them – social justice, faith, love and mortality – and some of Hughes, particularly the highly the best-loved poetry in English, including In The Deep Midwinter and praised Listening and Writing How Do I Love Thee? series, later published as 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Rachel Bavidge, Georgina Poetry in the Making . Hughes Sutton explains the origins and development of some of his Rupert Brooke. His Life and Poetry most famous animal poems, Includes over 40 of Rupert such as The Thought-Fox and Brooke’s poems with this Pike , and suggests techniques account of his brief life (he of concentration for translating thoughts into poems. The set contains died aged 27). five complete Listening and Writing talks, all illustrated with Hughes’ Classic poems like The readings of his own and others’ poetry, plus two complementary Soldier , The Fish , The programmes of readings from the collection Season Songs . Old Vicarage, Capturing Animals | Moon Creatures | Learning to Think | Writing about Landscape | Meet my Folks! Grantchester and Dining- Room Tea are combined 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Ted Hughes with rare archive recordings of his close Ted Hughes. Poems and Short Stories friends. Cathleen Nesbitt Drawn from the BBC Radio reads the poem Safety and reminisces about the times she spent with broadcasts of Ted Hughes him; Katherine Abercrombie, a member of his literary circle, remembers introducing and reading his own him in a 1956 recording, and his cousin, Winifred Kinsman, recalls him work. They include his earliest in a touching interview. surviving poetry broadcast and extensive selections from 2CD UA $44.95 Narrated by Mike Read (biog) & Remains of Elmet and Douglas Hodge (poems) Moortown Diary , plus selections from his Crow poems and two Matsuo Bashō, Kamo no Chōmei. complete short stories, The Narrow Road to the Interior & Hōjōki Harvesting and Snow . Japanese poetry is well- Most of the broadcasts are previously unpublished. known for its clarity and 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Ted Hughes concision, and Narrow Road to the Interior and Hōjōki are John Keats. Selected Poems two of the best-loved, and “I think I shall be among the most intensely Japanese, English Poets after my death’ – works of their kind; famous John Keats. for their beautiful, delicate Indeed, Keats suffered an early verse and subtle insight into tragic death of tuberculosis at the the human condition. It has age of 26 but today is recognised been said of Narrow Road as the archetypal Romantic genius that ‘it was as if the very soul who explored the limits of the of Japan had itself written it’. imagination and celebrated the It takes the form of a travel diary, and traces the poet’s journey from pleasures of the senses. Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to the northern interior. Hōjōki, a much earlier Keats was not a political poet; his work written by Chōmei, a Buddhist hermit, is essentially a meditation prime passion was for art. His muse was the goddess of beauty and on the transience of the world. Read by the famous classical Japanese truth, and his worship of her found its finest expression in his immortal actor Togo Igawa, the full beauty of its ancient cadences and rhythms odes, which stand unique in literature, unexcelled in perfection. is drawn out. 3CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Frederick Davidson 2CD UA $31.95 Narrated by Togo Igawa, Takashi Sudo

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