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ULVERSCROFT AUDIO NEW RELEASES MP3 CD, CD & LIBRARY DOWNLOAD COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED 1 Introducing Awais Khan…

Awais Khan currently lives in Pakistan. He has studied Novel Writing and Editing at the prestigious Faber Academy in London and is the founder of the Writing Institute, the largest institute for Creative Writing in Pakistan. In the Company of Strangers is his debut novel. What inspired the story behind In the Company of Strangers? In the Company of Strangers explores the secrets and lies of Pakistan’s wealthy society as they become a target in a terror plot. Over the years, I have had the chance to observe the lives of the people here and I’ve come to realise that no matter how privileged they may be, they are still subject to the toxic issues plaguing all of Pakistan, namely domestic abuse, misogyny and shaming. There are no heroes in In the Company of Strangers. My intention was to shine a light on how flawed and vicious much of Pakistani society can be, and how much still needs to be done to improve the lives of people, especially women, here. Introduce us to Mona. What’s facing her at the start of the novel? Mona is in her early forties and is married to one of the richest men in Lahore. Despite having wealth and all the luxuries that come with it at her disposal, she is unhappy. She is trapped in an abusive marriage with Bilal and she finds her friends extremely fake and judgmental…When a former friend tries to reconnect with her, offering her a chance to venture into a glittering world of secrets and covert affairs, she doesn’t think twice. Tell us about Lahore. Lahore is Pakistan’s second largest city and its fashion capital with a population of over twelve million people. Much literature exists about Lahore and all its facets: history, culture, society, inequality. As someone who’s lived here all my life, I wanted to shine a brutal light on what goes on behind closed doors. If you had a day to show us around, where would you take us? I would most definitely take you to see Old Lahore where most of the Mughal architecture still stands. We would go to the historic Badshahi Masjid which was made by Aurangzeb and the Royal Fort which is adjacent to the mosque and features an extensive network of royal trails and shish mahals. The beautiful Shalimar Gardens, also from the Mughal era, are nearby and are Pakistan’s answer to the water gardens of the West. I would also love to show you the historic gates of the Walled City, most of which still stand and have been preserved nicely. There is also the Shahi Hammam (Royal Bathhouse) and Anarkali Bazaar which is named after a famous courtesan who was buried alive for falling in love with a prince.

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Introducing Annie Robertson…

Annie Robertson trained in London as a classical musician, then worked as an assistant for an Oscar winner, an acclaimed artist, a PR mogul and a Beatle. After several years of running errands for the rich and famous, she went to medical school where, hiding novels in anatomy textbooks, she discovered her true passion for writing, and went on to complete a Creative Writing MA with distinction. Annie now lives back home in Scotland. What are the key ingredients for a romance novel? I love an idyllic setting, good friends who aren’t afraid to tell it like it is, a female lead who knows what she wants, and a man who’s full of intrigue and charm. What inspired the story behind The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay? The story is inspired by my own experience of running a guesthouse with my husband in a beautiful Scottish village, but it also draws on my love of dogs. A few months before I started drafting the book, I was listening to Radio 2 in the car and heard a segment on heroic dogs, it really gave me the impetus to put a dog at the heart of the book. I also love Not Just For Christmas by Natalie Cox which inspired me to create my own doggy tale. Introduce us to Emma. At the very start of the novel Emma witnesses a traumatic event, which pushes her to make some major changes in her life. Looking for a fresh start she decides to leave London and buys a rundown guesthouse in Scotland. Not only does she have the task of getting the house up and running for guests within a month, she also has to battle: a very large dog that the previous owner left behind, her own demons, and the irritable, if rather handsome, man next door. Tell us about Lobster Bay. Is it based on anywhere we know? Lobster Bay is like a Scottish version of the iconic Cornish fishing villages. Tiny houses cling to the cliffs, the beaches are clean, the water clear, and at its heart is a close-knit community. It’s based loosely on the cluster of villages where I grew up – I pinched a little jewel from each to form Lobster Bay. How important are libraries for an author? Libraries are hugely important to authors. They provide access to books for all, regardless of means, they enable authors to reach out to readers they might otherwise not have reached, and they enable interaction between authors and readers through local talks and events. What are you working on next? I’m currently working on the sequel to The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay, due to be released at the end of 2021. Who doesn’t love a Christmas romance?! 2 Audio . . . every words counts

Simone Buchholz Ali Carter Hotel Cartagena A Trick of the Light Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak, Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as an art April bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone tutor at a Scottish country house will prove a distraction. But Susie hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who soon realises she has bigger problems than teaching her eclectic is being targeted by a man whose life – and family – have been destroyed mix of students to draw a Highland cow. Beneath the beautiful by Hoogsmart’s actions. With the police looking on from outside – their landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the grandeur of the Auchen colleagues’ lives at stake – and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill with Laggan Tosh Estate lie hidden secrets. Can Susie work out what exactly sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation and a devastating is going on before it’s too late? And can anyone be trusted? outcome for the team...all live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge.

Read by Seán Barrett & Imogen Church Read by Joanna Bending 5 hours 10 minutes 9 hours 35 minutes THRILLER MYSTERY

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Judith Cutler Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst Legacy of Death Smoke Screen With his lordship’s mental health failing, management of his grand Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet. But the smooth running of and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured Thorncroft House is disrupted by a series of unforeseen events. Building survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of work on the estate workers’ new cottages is halted by the discovery of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home Roman remains. The family butler is brutally assaulted and left for dead. from kindergarten ten years earlier and never found. Blix and Ramm join Matters take an even more disturbing turn when Lord Croft’s long-lost forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the cousin, Julius Trescothick, arrives from Australia. But is he who he claims terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricia’s disappearance to be? If they are to preserve Thorncroft House, Matthew and Harriet is not all that it seems... must uncover the truth behind Trescothick’s identity and solve a series of interlocking mysteries.

Read by David Thorpe Read by James Lailey 8 hours 10 minutes 9 hours 15 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY THRILLER

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Katie Fforde Anne Glenconner A Wedding in the Country Murder on Mustique Lizzie has just arrived in London, determined to make the best of her new Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges April life. Her mother may be keen that she should have a nice wedding in towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island the country to a Suitable Man chosen by her. And Lizzie may be going to but a few young socialites remain. American heiress Amanda Fortini cookery school to help her become a Good Wife. But she definitely wants heads out for a morning swim and doesn’t return. Detective Sergeant to have some fun first. It is 1963 and London is beginning to swing as Solomon Nile is the island’s only fully trained police officer. He contacts Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a new dress with a fashionably short hemline, the island’s owners, and Lady Veronica catches a plane immediately. Her and moves in with two of her best friends. Soon Lizzie’s life is so exciting beloved god-daughter, Lily, is on the island and this disappearance has that she has forgotten all about her mother’s marriage plans for her. alarming echoes of what happened to Lily’s mother years ago. When Amanda’s body is found, a murder investigation begins. But the local community isn’t co-operating. And then someone else disappears...

Read by Ben Bailey-Smith, Harriet Walters Read by Laura Kirman & Jane Collingwood 10 hours 25 minutes 8 hours 25 minutes GENERAL FICTION MYSTERY

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Alex Gray Kirsten Hesketh Before the Storm Another Us Inspector Daniel Kohi of the Zimbabwean police force returns home one What if Emma isn’t the person she thought she was? Her younger son night to find his family dead. He is forced to flee the country he loves. In has just been diagnosed with autism. She’s accidentally quit her job. Glasgow, DSI William Lorimer has his hands full. Counter Terrorism have The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham. She’s got wind of a plot, here in Lorimer’s native city. They need someone with pretty sure that she is going to have an affair with a hot new dad at the local knowledge to help them root it out and who better than the head school. The only thing that stays the same is everyone else. Emma realises of the Scottish Major Incident Team. But the investigation is complicated it’s not them – it’s her. But if she’s not who she thought she was, can her by a spate of local murders, and by the rumours that someone is passing old life fit in with the new Emma? information to criminal organisations from inside the police force. Then Lorimer meets a refugee from Zimbabwe whose investigative skills are a match for his own...

Read by Joe Dunlop Read by Karen Cass 10 hours 15 minutes 9 hours 20 minutes MYSTERY GENERAL FICTION

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Awais Khan Stephen Moss In the Company of Strangers Britain’s Favourite Birds: Mona has almost everything: money, friends, social status...everything The Robin, Wren and Swallow April except for freedom. Languishing in her golden cage, she craves a sense No other bird is quite so embedded in our culture as the robin. But how of belonging. Desperate for emotional release, she turns to a friend who much do we really know about this bird? Then there’s the wren. On the introduces her to a world of glitter, glamour, covert affairs and drugs. one hand wrens are ubiquitous – they are Britain’s most common bird. There she meets Ali, a physically and emotionally wounded man, years Yet many people are not sure if they have ever seen a wren. With around younger than her. Heady with love, she begins a delicate game of deceit 700,000 breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most familiar birds that spirals out of control and threatens to shatter the deceptive facade of in Britain. Whilst we only see it for half the year, it plays a key part in conservatism erected by Lahori society, and potentially destroy everything our culture. In this captivating year-in-the-life biography, Stephen Moss that Mona has ever held dear. examines Britain’s three favourite birds.

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Read by Esh Alladi Read by the Author 8 hours 55 minutes 13 hours 5 minutes GENERAL FICTION NON-FICTION / NATURE

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Catherine Robinson Matt Wesolowski Where There’s Muck Deity Will Harker has always believed the best things in life are free: the great When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, outdoors, a good laugh, a perfectly steeped brew. He’s earning his keep his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who as an apprentice farrier at Stanley Lampitt’s workshop – although his adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed gaffer would say he makes half the money and causes double the trouble. him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and But business isn’t exactly booming. While Stanley’s trying to make ends vulnerable girls. Online journalist, Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts meet, Will is handed a wedge of family inheritance – and a problem as have become an internet sensation, investigates the accusations of sexual big as a horse to sort out...As every Yorkshireman knows, where there’s abuse and murder that were levelled at Crystal before he died. But as muck there’s brass. So just how dirty are Will’s hands going to get? Scott begins to ask questions and rake over old graves, some startling inconsistencies emerge: Was the fire at Crystal’s remote home really an accident? Are reports of a haunting really true? Why was he never officially charged?

Read by Simon Mattacks with Sarah Barron, Karen Cass, Ben Higgins, Cathleen McCarron, David Monteath Read by Gareth Bennett-Ryan & Matt Wesolowski 8 hours 20 minutes 9 hours 20 minutes GENERAL FICTION HORROR

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J.M. Alvey Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison Justice for Athena Marauder

May It’s festival time in Athens, and Philocles is looking forward to the When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call holiday. Visitors are coming from across the Hellenic world for eight from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find. days of sporting competitions, musical contests and sacred rites to A strange and dangerous toxin has left the crew helpless, unable to move honour Athena, the city’s patron goddess. Thousands will flock to the or speak. Juan and his team must race to find an antidote – before the Pnyx to be enthralled by a three-day performance of Homer’s Iliad, an damage becomes permanent. Their search for answers leads to a Roman entertainment unique to the Great Panathenaia. Taking part is the highest soldier’s long-lost testimony, revealing ancient events that strangely honour and greatest challenge for an epic poet. Then one of the poets is parallel their own. But with time running out and a ruthless enemy brutally murdered. Is this random misfortune, an old score being settled, determined to seize power at any price, it will take all of Juan’s ingenuity or someone trying to sabotage the festival? The authorities want this and skill to piece together the millennia-old mystery and save the West cleared up quickly and quietly. Philocles finds himself on the trail of a from the point of no return... killer once more...

Read by Gavin Osborn Read by Jeff Harding 9 hours 52 minutes 10 hours 20 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY ADVENTURE SUSPENSE

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Kjell Ola Dahl Gary Donnelly The Assistant Never Ask the Dead Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany Retired PSNI cop Tom ‘Tucker’ Rodgers has a cracked ballpoint pen, one has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil second class stamp and no time left. The best he can do is try to get a war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at message to DI Owen Sheen. Sheen and DC Aoife McCusker are struggling the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his with political agendas fed to them from the chief constable and now the assistant – his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers single note from the missing Tucker is preying on Sheen’s mind. A list of – begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity. four dates and a cryptic message. Tucker says that they killed his friend, But all is not what it seems, and when Jack is accused of murder, the trail and now they’re coming for him. Sheen and McCusker search places them leads back to the 1920s, to prohibition-era Norway, to the smugglers, sex on the path of the most highly placed IRA double agent of the Troubles workers and hoodlums of his criminal past, and an extraordinary secret. as well as another man with an old score to settle...

Read by Mark Meadows Read by Stephen Armstrong 10 hours 20 minutes 10 hours 15 minutes THRILLER MYSTERY

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Christina Jones Alan Judd Summer at Sandcastle Cottage A Fine Madness

After trials, tears and a torturous break-up, Kitty Appleby has finally The Queen’s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents May found where she’s meant to be. Tumbledown Sandcastle Cottage, must maintain the highest levels of vigilance. One operative in particular in the delightful seaside village of Firefly Common, is home, and – a young literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe – is Kitty’s eccentric band of friends and neighbours are enjoying a relentless in his pursuit of intelligence. When he is killed outside an inn, glorious summer. There’s just one tiny little problem. Sandcastle his mysterious death becomes the subject of rumours. Years later, Thomas Cottage doesn’t belong to them. And Mavis Mullholland, Kitty’s Phelippes, a former colleague of Marlowe’s, finds himself imprisoned in landlord, is on her way home from her round-the-world cruise… the Tower. When he is visited by an emissary of the new king, however, Kitty can’t bear to lose the community that’s welcomed her in. it becomes clear that his long fall from favour may be reversed if he But secretly, she can’t bear to leave Sandcastle Cottage without will furnish his monarch with every detail he is able to recall about his finding out more about the mysterious and enigmatic Vinny... murdered friend. But just what is it that so fascinates King James? Why can’t she stop thinking about him, when she’s faced with losing everything?

Read by Karen Cass Read by John Telfer 8 hours 6 hours 50 minutes GENERAL FICTION HISTORICAL FICTION

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Jonathan Kellerman Peter Robinson Serpentine Not Dark Yet Ellie Barker is a self-made millionaire by the age of 40 and is obsessed The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer’s luxury with reopening the coldest of cases: the decades-old death of the mother home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks. she never knew. She hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis to There’s a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia. Then they help. Twenty-five years ago, Ellie’s mother was found with a bullet in find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house and Annie and her head in a torched Cadillac that had overturned on the infamously Gerry’s investigation pivots to the rape of a young girl that could cast the treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no murders in an entirely different light. Banks’s friend Zelda, increasingly apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the job uncertain of her future in Britain’s hostile environment, thinks she will be and failed. This is a case that calls for the insight of brilliant psychologist safer in Moldova hunting the men who abducted, raped and enslaved her. Alex Delaware. And as he and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to Her search takes her back to the orphanage where it all began. But Zelda lift. They soon discover, very real threats are lurking in the present... is putting herself in greater danger than any she’s seen before.

Read by Jeff Harding Read by Mark Meadows 9 hours 35 minutes 12 hours THRILLER MYSTERY

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Simon Scarrow Susan Spindler Blackout Surrogate

May Berlin, December 1939. Paranoia in the capital is intensified by a rigidly Ruth Furnival is a successful television executive with a seemingly perfect enforced blackout that plunges the city into oppressive darkness every life: a nice house in London, a lawyer husband and two grown-up night, as the bleak winter sun sets. When a young woman is found daughters. But at 54, she feels restless and dissatisfied. After multiple brutally murdered, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is under immense rounds of failed IVF, her eldest daughter Lauren has been told that the pressure to solve the case, swiftly. Treated with suspicion by his superiors only chance for her and her husband to have their own child is surrogacy. for his failure to join the Nazi Party, Schenke walks a perilous line. The When Ruth discovers that, with the right dose of hormones, she could discovery of a second victim confirms Schenke’s worst fears. As the carry their baby, they agree out of desperation. At first Ruth is buoyed up investigation takes him closer to the sinister heart of the regime, Schenke by her sense of purpose, but long-buried events from her past resurface. realises there is danger everywhere – and the warring factions of the What started as an act of altruism begins to seem like an atonement for Reich can be as deadly as a killer stalking the streets... which Ruth is willing to risk everything.

Read by Simon Mattacks Read by Juliet Stevenson 12 hours 25 minutes 11 hours 15 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY SUSPENSE

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Michael Stanley Eva Woods Facets of Death The Heartbreak Club Mining diamonds is a lucrative business, but it soon proves itself deadly. Caroline’s heart broke when her husband took his own life. Josh’s Shortly after Kubu joins the CID, the richest diamond mine in the world heart broke when his wife was killed in an accident. Talking to a group is robbed of 100,000 carats of diamonds in transit. The robbery is of strangers once a week doesn’t seem to be helping either of them. well-executed and brutal. Police immediately suspect an inside job, but Until Sylvia arrives. When she lost her own partner two years ago, she there is no evidence of who it could be. When the robbers are killed fell apart and had to put herself back together. Most of all she wished execution-style in South Africa and the diamonds are still missing, the for the help of someone who’d been through it already. And now she’s game changes, and suspicion focuses on a witch doctor and his son. Does here to pass her handbook on to those who need it most. The problem Kubu have the skill and the integrity to engineer an international trap and is, following Sylvia’s rules means looking to the future. And Caroline and catch those responsible, or will the biggest risk of his life end in disaster? Josh need some answers from their pasts before they can even think about that...

Read by Ben Onwukwe Reader to be confirmed 8 hours 10 minutes 9 hours 40 minutes MYSTERY GENERAL FICTION

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Katie Allen Louise Beech Everything Happens for a Reason This is How We Are Human Mum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Sebastian James Murphy is 20 years, six months and two days old. He Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a loves swimming, fried eggs and Billy Ocean. Sebastian is autistic. And June baby, trying to make sense of her loss. When a misguided well-wisher lonely. Veronica wants her son Sebastian to be happy. She wants the tells her that ‘everything happens for a reason’, she becomes obsessed world to accept him for who he is. She is also thinking about paying a with finding that reason. She remembers that on the day she discovered professional to give him what he desperately wants. Violetta is a high- her pregnancy, she’d stopped a man from jumping in front of a train, and class escort, who steps out into the night thinking only of money. Of her she’s now certain that saving his life cost her the life of her son. Desperate nursing degree. Paying for her dad’s care. Getting through the dark. When to find him, she enlists an unlikely ally in Lola, an Underground worker, these three lives collide – intertwine in unexpected ways – everything and Lola’s six-year-old daughter, Josephine, and eventually tracks him changes. For everyone. down, with completely unexpected results...

Read by Colleen Prendergast & Read by Nicky Diss James Dryden 10 hours 9 hours 5 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Sarah Hawkswood Graham Hurley River of Sins Limelight July 1144. Ricolde, ‘the finest whore in Worcester’, is found butchered on Actress Enora Andressen is catching up with her ex-neighbour, Evelyn an island a few miles up the River Severn. How did she get there, who Warlock, who’s recently retired to the comely East Devon seaside town of killed her, and why? Uncovering details of her life and her past reveal a Budleigh Salterton. The peace, the friendship of strangers and the town’s woman with hidden depths and hidden miseries which are fundamental prestigious literary festival…Evelyn loves them all. Until the September to the answers, but time has cast a thick veil over the killer’s identity. The evening when her French neighbour, Christianne Beaucarne, disappears. lord Sheriff’s men have a trail that went cold over two decades ago, and Enora has met this woman. The two of them have bonded. But what evidence that contradicts itself. In a place Catchpoll knows inside out, Enora discovers over the anguished months to come will put sleepy he finds things new even to him, and then the case becomes personal. Budleigh Salterton on the front page of every newspaper in the land...

Read by Jonathan Keeble Read by Julia Franklin 8 hours 5 minutes 10 hours 30 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY MYSTERY

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Syd Moore Gervase Phinn Strange Tricks A Class Act Secretly Rosie Strange has always thought herself a little bit more Change is afoot in the usually sleepy village of Risingdale. Gerald Gaunt, June interesting than most people – the legacy her family has bequeathed headmaster of the primary school for over 30 years, is retiring. He hopes her is definitely so, she’s long believed. But then life takes a peculiar that his replacement will work with him to secure a bright, happy future turn when the Strange legacy turns out not just to be the Essex Witch for the school. But Mr Smart has his own ideas about how things should Museum, but perhaps some otherworldly gifts that Rosie finds difficult be run. The teachers have plenty of other dramas to contend with. Tom to fathom. Meanwhile Sam Stone, Rosie’s curator, is oddly distracted as Dwyer is pining over Janette, his one-that-got-away. His colleague Joyce breadcrumb clues into what happened to his missing younger brother Tranter’s new marital bliss is shattered by the arrival of her husband’s and other abducted boys from the past are poised to lead him and Rosie scheming nephew. And elsewhere in the village, Sir Hedley’s long- deep into a dark wood where there lurks something far scarier than cherished plans for his future are jeopardised by his ex-wife’s arrival. Hansel and Gretel’s witch... Can the residents of Risingdale pull together and achieve happiness against the odds?

Read by Julia Barrie Read by the Author 9 hours 30 minutes 12 hours 55 minutes MYSTERY GENERAL FICTION

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Eleanor Ray J.D. Robb Everything is Beautiful Faithless in Death When Amy Ashton’s world fell apart eleven years ago, she started a It’s a beautiful Spring day in NYC when Eve Dallas gets an early morning collection. Just a few keepsakes of happier times: some honeysuckle murder call. A talented young sculptor hasn’t had such a perfect day in to remind herself of the boy she loved, a chipped china bird, an old May. Killed by her own hammer, it looks like an argument with a jealous terracotta pot...To Amy, those things represent a life that could have partner at first, but it soon becomes clear that there is much more to been. Now her house is overflowing with the objects she loves – soon this case than a lovers’ quarrel turned fatal. Eve finds herself drawn into there’ll be no room for Amy at all. But when a family move in next door, the dark and dangerous world of a secret order. A world in which white a chance discovery unearths a mystery, and Amy’s carefully curated life supremacy, misogyny and religious fanaticism are everyday activities. begins to unravel. If she can find the courage to face her past, might the Eve has dealt with some tough cases before but is it too much even for future she thought she’d lost still be hers for the taking? her to take on a wealthy, influential organisation with friends in very high places...?

Read by Eilidh Beaton Read by Susan Ericksen 9 hours 35 minutes 11 hours 10 minutes GENERAL FICTION CRIME

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Robert Scragg David Stafford End of the Line Skelton’s Guide to Suitcase Murders Detective Jake Porter’s life was ripped apart by the hit-and-run driver that A woman’s dismembered corpse is discovered in a quarry, and police killed his wife. The life he has been building up piece by piece is rocked quickly link the victim back to their chief suspect: her husband, Doctor June by the discovery of new evidence. At the same time, he has a volatile case Ibraham Aziz. His wife had been planning to leave him, so his guilt isn’t to juggle. Ross Henderson was a Vlogger with over ten million followers in doubt as far as local law enforcement is concerned. Barrister Arthur rallying against the growing tide of the far-right. As his audience tuned Skelton is asked to represent the accused, and though all believe the in to listen to Henderson tear apart more anti-immigrant vitriol, they case to be hopeless, Skelton suspects there may be more to the victim’s watched in horror as he was brutally murdered during a live broadcast. death. Aided by his loyal clerk Edgar and his roaming cousins, Alan and Struggling to prevent full-blown riots and following the trail to his wife’s Norah, Skelton soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation not only killer will take its toll upon Porter, and there’s no guarantee he will come concerning this world but the one beyond. Can he convince a jury of out the other side intact. Aziz’s innocence before the judge dons his black cap?

Read by David Thorpe Read by the Author 10 hours 10 minutes 8 hours 30 minutes MYSTERY HISTORICAL MYSTERY

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Kevin Sullivan Heidi Swain The Art of the Assassin A Taste of Home Glasgow, 1898. A man is found stabbed to death in a tenement block. Fliss Brown has grown up living with her mother on the Rossi family’s Juan Camerón, photographer-cum-sleuth, is drafted in in the hope he Italian fruit farm. But when her mother dies, Fliss finds out she has a can bring to light what the eye may overlook. Yet Juan has problems of family of her own, and heads back to England with Nonna Rossi’s recipe his own. Following the tragic death of his father in Cuba some months for cherry and almond tart and a piece of advice: connect with your family before, the man’s legacy is threatened by a plagiarism suit from a before it is too late…Fliss discovers that her estranged grandfather owns mysterious señora, and Juan’s hoped-for happiness with his fiancée, Jane, a fruit farm himself, on the outskirts of Wynbridge, and she arrives to find might be over before it’s even begun – even more so when a visiting a farm that has fallen into disrepair. Fliss rolls her sleeves up and gets professor is murdered and Jane is witnessed fleeing the scene. Juan finds stuck in. But what will she discover, and can she resurrect the farm’s glory himself torn between finding the killer and finding his fiancée – but are days and find a taste of home...? they one and the same? The truth is in the frames...

Read by David Thorpe Read by Karen Cass 8 hours 40 minutes 11 hours 15 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY GENERAL FICTION

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FAMILY SAGA 11 hours25minutes Read byEmmaPowell to facethedoubtanduncertaintyoffuture? Cissie Cresswell, hidesaterriblesecret. Canthetwoyoungwomenunite the manshehaspromisedtomarry. Meanwhilenewneighbour, dancer duty, doubtsbegintoseepintohermindabouthowlittlesheknowsof As herdaughter, Mildred, awaits thereturnofherfiancéfromoverseas an endbutBanburyStreetmatriarchEva Parke foreseestroubleahead. Summer 1945. The nationrejoicesastheSecond World War comesto The StreetofBrokenDreams Tania Crosse FAMILY SAGA 8 hours Read byKatySobey love orfamily. the family’s futureisthreatened. A difficultchoicemustbemade– own choices. Then anunexpected but familiar face arrives in town, and But asthe sisters near adulthood they are determined to make their Titus Eastwoodhavealways madedecisions for theirdaughters’ futures. sister Peggy worksasanapprenticeattheGirls’School. Jennetand in Blackburn, helpingtosupportherfamily. Meanwhile, herolder Lancashire, 1842. Sixteen-year-old Bessieworkslonghours as aweaver A FamilySecret Libby Ashworth CD CD 11 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 9 hours10minutes Read byPenelope Freeman is abouttoembarkonalifesheneverenvisaged. terms. EnlistingthehelpofJacob Jackson towatch overthehouse, Louisa to turnbutheroldway oflife. Butthistime, she’lldoitonherown found dead. Left with no means of income, Louisa knows she has nothing was brieflyhappyasahousewifeinBristol. Butthen, herhusbandis 1851. After herhusbandsavedfromalifeofprostitution, LouisaHill A Widow’s Vow Rachel Brimble FAMILY SAGA 10 hours35minutes Read byAnnieAldington to herhard-wonhappiness? Could hebeasuitablematchforoneofherdaughters?Oristhreat at theestate’s annualgardenparty, Molly’s lifeissettochangeagain... When GeorgeSmith–ayoungstranger freshoutoftheNavy–appears her husbandandthreedaughtersonthe Woodchurch Manorestate. Kent, 1814. Molly Dawson, now a respectable married woman, lives with The SecretChild Lynne Francis CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 7 hours40minutes Read byColleenPrendergast new hotel. Butwillsheeverbegoodenoughforamanlike William? catches theeyeof William Winfield, thecharmingownerofaglamorous job asabarmaid. Marythinksshe’s landedonherfeet. Moresowhenshe much ofaninterestinMaryandsheisforcedtoleavehome, landinga – andex-prostituteNell. ButwhenNelldiesherstepfathertakes too After being orphaned as a child, Mary is taken in by her mother’s friend Gin PalaceGirl Gracie Hart FAMILY SAGA 9 hours40minutes Read byLaura Kirman the resistance... tragic encounterbringsHettytoChateau deFaubourg whereshejoins to make herway backfromParis toherfamily inEngland, afatefuland romance, shemarriesonlytobecomeawar widow...Desperately trying determined todoherbitforthewar effort. Caughtupinawhirlwind a secretmissioneveryknockofthedoorfillsherwithdread…Bethis 1939. When themanGeorgie hasalways lovedissenttoFrance on Hetty’s SecretWar Rosie Clarke CD CD 9 9 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 Audio D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 12 hours20minutes Read byJanine Birkett to home... question. Butitseemsthatherheadisbeingturnedbysomeonecloser welder Dorothyhasafeelingthatherbeau Toby isplanningtopopthe the yard astheyprepareforthe Allied invasion ofNormandy. Meanwhile mother’s divorce. Rosie’s squadofweldersmust workgruellinghoursin and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their 1943. GloriaisreunitedwithhersweetheartJack. ButhersonsBobby Home Front The ShipyardGirlsonthe Nancy Revell FAMILY SAGA 10 hours25minutes Read byAnneDover their fightingspiritstanduptotherealitiesofmodern warfare? bombing raids andthedestructionof their previouslyorderlyworld, can women faceabaptismoffire: theshockofnightshiftsduringblackout, ambulance driver. Their friendPamela isalsokeen todoherbit. As the Blitz. Connie, an ARP warden, persuades her sisterLizzie to becomean May 1941. Three youngwomenjointhewar effortduringthe Yorkshire The AirRaidGirls Jenny Holmes CD CD 10 11 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga . . . every wordscounts . every D/L D/L

13 AprilDecember May 14 May

FAMILY SAGA 12 hours55minutes Dover Read byAnne find happiness? promises tosettheirlivesonanewpath. Will theHalfpennyGirlsfinally their neighbours. A chanceencounterattheBlackpool Tower Ballroom and Edithisfightingtoprotectheralcoholicmotherfromtheshameof Marg isleftreelingafteradarksecretaboutherbirthcomestolight, of thepooreststreetsinBlackpool. Alice iscopingwithaviolentfather, 1937.Alice, EdithandMargfacehardshipseveryday, growinguponone The HalfpennyGirls Maggie Mason FAMILY SAGA 12 hours45minutes Read byPenelope Freeman the wreckage? among the threats of living in the slums. Can they make a new life from officer removedfromdutyandshamedbyacruellie, Victor isakindface smog andsqualorofthecity–untilshemeets Victor Hayes. A police a newposition, shefindsherselflivingwiththievesanddrunksinthe onto thepoverty-riddenstreetsofManchester. Desperately searchingfor When herbelovedmistressdies, lady’s maidPhoebeParsons isforced The Maid’s Disgrace Emma Hornby CD CD 12 10 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 10 hours55minutes Joan WalkerRead by arrival ofadevastating letterdoes... keep thefamilyafloat. HardworkhasneverfazedBeryl, butthesudden Jerries alongsidehisbrothers, it’s uptoBerylandhersisters-in-law forget the past she decided to run from. With Tony away fighting the welcoming armsofeldestson Tony. ButBerylhasneverbeenableto Beryl was thefirstbrideof Farley clan, findingahomeinthe The BiscuitFactoryGirlsatWar Elsie Mason FAMILY SAGA 11 hours5minutes Read byJulie Maisey wonder –couldthisbeherchance? director, Matthew Harris, offers her singing lessons. And Annie starts to and RosestumbleintojobsattheLyceum Theatre. Then, themusical adventure beyondanythingtheycouldhaveimagined. InLondon, Annie a room to spare in London, she sets off with best friend Rose for an dreamt ofsingingonstage. SowhenshehearsherfriendJoycehas 1914. Growinguponafarminthecountry, Annie Cradwell hasalways The West EndGirls Elaine Roberts CD CD 11 10 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga D/L

happiness atlast? begun, everythingstartsfallingapart. CanBethandhernewfriendsfind post girlsandmeetsthehandsomeJames. Butjustasherlifehasfinally new HomeDepotinRegent’s Park. Shesoonmakes friendswithfellow he hassigneduptofight. Bethappliestojointhe Army Post Office’s FAMILY SAGA 10 hours20minutes Read byJess Nesling and celebrate her18 1915. BethHealeyhopesthatshewillbeabletoforgettheghastlywar The PostOfficeGirls Poppy Cooper FAMILY SAGA 7 hours40minutes Read byCharlieSanderson friends survivelifewithonlyeachothertorelyon? the clutchesofwicked MissReed. Can Adam, Polly andtheirbandof soon formtheirownkindoffamily–andthey’re alldeterminedtoescape orphanage does have one advantage – a merry band of children who shillings toMissReed’s orphanagebytheirbullyingfather. Butthe Adam andPolly Fitchfaceableakfutureafterbeingsoldforjustfive The FiveShillingChildren Lindsey Hutchinson CD CD 10 8 STORY SOUND MP3 MP3 MAGNA 1 1 Audio th birthday, buthertwinbrotherNedannouncesthat D/L D/L

FAMILY SAGA 12 hours15minutes Read byJess Nesling opportunity togetknowherrealfamily. Lily getsthechancetoworkforCopperfields, shecan’tpassupthe revealing thatherbirthfatherisSirFrederick Copperfield. Andwhen changes forLilywhenshereceivesaletterfromReverendMichael, parents, sheisforcedtolivewithherawfulauntDoris. Buteverything daughter, Lily, ahomewithkindcouple. When Lilylosesheradopted with herillegitimatechildinarms, ReverendMichaelRedfernfindsher Dorset, 1876. When youngBeatrice Cullenshowsupinthelocalchurch The Dressmaker’s Secret Karen Dickson FAMILY SAGA 10 hours55minutes Read byAnnieAldington London thistime? hours. ButcantheKew GardensGirlssurvivethehorrorsofwar-torn are forced to come together to support each other through their darkest is asked totake ajobgardenerinstead. When tragedy hits, thewomen wartime roleatKew Gardens, butthecommitteeisrunbymenandBeth applying tomedicalschool. Angry andfrustrated, sheappliestoanew busy. MeanwhileBethSandersonisfuriousafterherfatherstops Britain, hermotherIvysuggestsshejoinsthegardenersatKew tokeep When Daisy Turner’s newhusbandjoinstheRAFtofightBattleof The KewGardensGirlsatWar Posy Lovell CD CD 10 12 MP3 MP3 1 1 the homeoffamilysaga . . . every wordscounts . every D/L

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FAMILY SAGA 18 hours25minutes Read byJulie Maisey clouds ofwar aregatheringoncemoreonthehorizon... Mary comesbackintoherlife, herheartisfilledwithhope. Butthestorm meagre wages ishardenoughwithouttheirrows. When Cathy’s sister pair seem unable to see eye-to-eye. Surviving with four children on Greg’s Struggling tokeep thepeace, Cathyhasherworkcutoutforher, asthe Cathy isgladtohaveherhusbandbacknowtheGreat War isover. There isaSeason Elizabeth Murphy CD 17 STORY SOUND MP3 MAGNA 2 D/L And here’s StephanieCannonrecording from her homestudioforOakhill. It’s thesecondin

Detective Moralès series, andissetoffthecoastof record Quebec’s beautiful GaspéPeninsula. Naturalist, authorandbroadcaster StephenMossjoinedusinJanuary to Britain’s Favourite Birds Favourite Britain’s biographies oftherobin, thewren andtheswallow. , comprisingofthree fascinatingyear-in-a-life The Coral Bride Coral The FAMILY SAGA 9 hours55minutes Read byLesleyMackie a newbeginning? Ellen andNetta–canthesanctuaryofhillsofferthemhope doing somightputherbruisedheartatrisk...The war tooksomuchfrom to beuseful, sheofferstohelpnewshepherd Andrew Cameron. But grown up in Freiburg, farm life is new and exciting to Netta. Determined her memories...and thesecretsshedarenotsharewithanyone. Having left to be with the only man she’s ever loved. She is still haunted by the SouthernUplandsisfarmwhereEllengrewup–homeshe the journeyfromGermanybacktoScotland. Nestledinthehillsof After theSecond World War, EllenandherdaughterNetta make Home totheHills Dee Yates CD 9 MP3

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R HISTORICAL FICTION 9 hours45minutes Read byTodd Boyce her hand-stitchedweddingdress... won’t be home for another year – and the love of his life is left holding like a coffin. Andwho can resist a hero? Wally writesto Helena to sayhe open-cockpit Vickers Vimy, abiplanewithfuselagethatlooksominously the firstairmentoflyfromEngland Australia. Smithisbankingonan the world’s most audacious air race. A £10,000 prize has been offered for on charismaticfighterpilotRossSmith, andaninvitationtocompetein to return home to his fiancée, Helena Alford. But Wally never reckoned The First World War isoverandairmechanic Wally Shiershaspromised Long FlightHome Lainie Anderson MYSTERY 10 hours25minutes Read byOliviaVinall secrets ofthepastareabouttocomelight. they will goto find thetruth. In a deserted lodge highup a mountain, the realise theydon’tknowwhohasreallygatheredthemthereandhowfar and enigmaticSaskia. Butwhenanicebreaker gameturnsmenacing, they seen eachotherfor10years, sincethedisappearance ofthebeautiful Curtis, the one person she can’t seem to let go. The five friends haven’t would rather forgettheeventsofthat winter, theinvitationcomesfrom peak ofhersnowboardingcareer, shedropseverythingtogo. While she When MillaisinvitedtoareunionintheFrench Alps resortthatsawthe Shiver Allie Reynolds O CD CD 10 9 R A A MP3 MP3 U 1 1 R D/L D/L O R A Audio GENERAL FICTION 10 hours30minutes Read byKirsty Gillmore from himself? the days. Beforelong, thesedatives aren’t enough. Can Jodi save him sleeping pillsandsedativestohelphimgetthroughthenights...and to stayincontroloftheirlives, butRorystartstoself-medicatewith workload andendlesshoursondutyaretakingatoll. Botharetrying a first-yeardoctoratthesamehospital, and thenightshifts, impossible escalating panic attacks. Jodi Waterstone has recentlystarted work as horribly wrong, hehasbeenplaguedbysleeplessness, flashbacksand Anaesthetic Fellow RoryMcBrideisadrift. Sincearoutineprocedurewent The SilenceofSnow Eileen Merriman ROMANTIC SUSPENSE 10 hours5minutes Read byOliviaBeardsley the truth. anything tostopthemdiscovering Wilderness Springs, itsoonbecomesveryclearthatsomeonewilldo them both. As DeeandRyan attempttouncoverthesecretsof the propertywas lefttoher, achillingsecretfrom thepastwillshock he agreestoworkwithDee, butasshetriestomake senseofwhy one whoiskeen totake overtherunningofproperty. With reluctance, died suddenly, thelastthingRyan expectsis thearrival ofawoman, and Ryan Careyhasmanaged Wilderness Springscattlestation sincehisfather station forsixmonthswhilesheattemptstomake senseofthepast. in theNorthern Territory outback. Intrigued, Deedecidestostayonthe hinting offamilysecrets, andtheprospectofherinheritingacattlestation of northernNewSouth Wales, DeePeters receivesanenigmaticletter Happily working on herfamily’s macadamia farm intherolling hills Hidden Valley Annie Seaton CD CD 10 10 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Lighting theway.

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R MYSTERY 5 hours45minutes Read byTaryn Ryan to thebottomoftruth, orwilltheydrownintheseaofdeception? against acunningmurderer. Will Jack andFrances andtheirfriendsget decide tosecretlydiveintothecase. Nothingisplainsailing, though, costume ball and oneofFrances’s newfriendsisaccused of murder, they together with newfound allies. When a passenger is found dead after a atmosphere. Frances andJack soonfindthemselves instormyseas, is notwellbelowdeck, withjealousyandlarcenyrufflingthecheerful to entertain the passengers with magictricks and daring stunts. Butall and herUncleSal, aka ‘Salvatore theMagnificent’. They’ve beenhired England ontheEmpressofSea, togetherwithherfiancé Jack Sullivan It’s a dream come true for Frances Palmer: a voyage from Australia to Murder MakesWaves Carmen Radtke ROMANCE 8 hours40minutes Reader tobeconfirmed property whereLara’s adventuresofself-discoverybegin... the warm-hearted Aussie leases Lara a small cottage on her semi-rural haired, slightly raddled Ruby in the car park. Relieved to be still alive, On herfirstdayinthelaid-backtown, Lara almostrunsoverthered- imagine, fromherold, blinkered life. SheescapestoByronBay, Australia. she fleesherhomeinLondonandheadsforthefarthestplacecan husband of21years, hasbeencheatingonher. Devastated, desperate, At forty-four, loyal EnglishwifeLara Winters discoversthatBrock, her High Infidelity Shelley Davidow O CD CD 6 8 R A A MP3 MP3 U 1 1 R D/L D/L O R A Audio THRILLER 10 hours30minutes Reader tobeconfirmed them atall. They’ve simply vanished. to leave. Noonecantalksenseintothem. Andnow, noonecantalkto Dylan iscertainhecanhearstrange sounds. LorcanandNaiyana refuse in thedustevenwhenfamilyhasn’tdrivenanywhere. And six-year-old as straightforward astheyhope. Lightsflicker atnight. Cartracks appear decades. Itwillbepeaceful. Quiet. Secure. ButlifeinKallayeeisn’tquite of Kallayeeseemslike theperfectgetaway: noonehaslivedtherefor from thehustleandbustleofmoderncitylife. The abandonedtown Lorcan andNaiyana aredesperate tomovetheiryoungfamilyfaraway Vanished James Delargy LITERARY 9 hours5minutes Read byNicholasOsmond decision thatwillirrevocablymarkherlife, andBrianHarpur’s. their partymysteriouslydisappears. When policearrive, Annette makes a are strange tensionsandahiddendarkness within thegroup. Then oneof the first, Annettestartstofallforafellowstudent, BrianHarpur. Butthere be themakingof Annette asanarchaeologist. Onanewsite, linked to field, Aled Wray andMarilynHerr, andworkingontheirsitespromisesto excitement. The teamisledbyahusband-and-wifepair, starsintheir in itssignificance, andtheatmosphereingroupisoneofcharged were becominglessnomadic, evensedentary. The discoveryisthrilling that appears to prove that Aboriginal societies in the late Holocene on anarchaeologicaldigtheNewSouth Wales southcoast–asite It’s 1970, and young Annette Cooleyispartofasmallteamworking The BeachCaves Trevor Shearston CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L Lighting theway. A U

R MYSTERY 9 hours15minutes Read bySaulReichlin This investigationwillchangehislife, andcouldalterhiscounty’s future. between thepersonalandprofessional, betweenjusticeandrevenge. Schalk musttreadadifficultpathbetweenthenewregimeandold, opposition and in this volatile country, unrest is never far from the surface. hopes oncharismatic ANC candidateGideonRadebebutthere’s the present. Meanwhile, it’s anelectionyear. People arepinningtheir when Schalk is put on the case, hefinds the pasthas a way of infecting Lourens istryingtoforgetthepast. ButPietersewas hisoldbossand Who would target Pieterse this way, and why now? Veteran copy Schalk from theapartheidera andonegenerally confinedtocollaborators. A tyre placed round his neck, doused with petrol, set alight.An execution Retired policechiefPietPietersehasbeenmurdered, necklacedinfact. Present Tense Natalie Conyer THRILLER 8 hours15minutes Read byReginaReagan walked throughthedoor. been comingallday, butthisoneisdifferent. This oneknowsshe’s just her biggestsecret. Someonewants tokillherforit. The messageshave her purse. Shedoesn’thavetolookknowwhatitsays. Someoneknows daughter’s name as she closes the door, she hears her phone buzz inside way Stephaniehaschosentolivesince herhusbanddied. Callingouther Vashon Island. Remote andisolated with aviewoverthewater, it’s the It’s alreadydarkwhenStephanieMillerreturnstoherlakeside homeon Widows Island L.A. Larkin O CD CD 9 8 R A A MP3 MP3 U 1 1 R D/L D/L O R COVER TO BEREVEALED COVER TO BEREVEALED A Audio

HISTORICAL ROMANCE 11 hours Reader tobeconfirmed course oftheirlivesforever. and Kitarefacedwithtemptations–make choicesthatwillalterthe Henry Carleton. Amid theexcessesofRoaring Twenties, bothZeke aristocratic Englishrelatives–andintothearmsofhedonisticLord major scandal, sendingthePalace intodamagecontrolandKittoher alongside thePrinceof Wales, shefindsherselfatthecentreofa and hissister, Adele. When Kitisphotographed dancingtheCharleston society andtheLondontheatreset, fromNoëlCoward toFred Astaire Gardiner, shedancesblithelyintotheheadylifestyleofEnglishhigh in a West Endplayoppositeanotheryounghopeful, CanadianZeke become a star, arrives in the city to find the Jazz Age in full swing. Cast London, 1920s: KitLinton, aprivilegedyoung Australian aimingto The CharlestonScandal Pamela Hart FAMILY SAGA 13 hours15minutes Read byNicholasOsmond shattering consequences–fortheinnocentaswellguilty. he returnstoseekrevengeandreclaimhislife, hisactionswillhave haunted bythepast, andbyBelle, thewomanhecan’tforget. When seeming lost, Luke sailstoSouth Africa tostartafresh. Yet heremains Belle. ButwhenLuke isbetrayed, hemust fleeorbehanged. Withall Campbell, andstartingaforbiddenloveaffairwithDaniel’s daughter, Luke escapes, findingsanctuarywithalocalphilanthropist, Daniel years hardlabouronaprisonfarmin Tasmania’s remotehighlands. his sisterfromthepowerfulSirHenry Abbott. Hisreward isfifteen charm thatturnsheads. The futureappearsbright, untilhedefends Young Luke Tyler haseverythinggoingforhim: brains, looksandalarrikin Fortune’s Son Jennifer Scoullar CD CD 12 11 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Lighting theway.

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HISTORICAL FICTION 10 hours50minutes Nash Read byWillow room forerror...or dangerousresistance. opposes? With everyonewatching Annie andFred soclosely, thereisno bittersweet –howcanshelovesomeonewhostandsforeverything able toreturnhometheUK. Evenreunitingwithherchildhoodbeauis Germany tobebyherside. Shedidn’trealiseitmeantshewouldnotbe her belovedgrandmother was seriouslyill, shewasted notimerushingto enough forotherstosuspecthim...and Viola. When Annie Scholzheard must travel toGermanybringhissisterhome. Butthatjourneyis together. ButFred ishalf-Germanand, withwar fastapproaching, he 1939. Viola BaxterandFred Scholtzplannedtostarttheirnewlives Women atWar Jan Casey untangle awebofdeceptioniftheyaretosolvethecase–andsurvive. and wouldrather thecasebeforgotten. CoburgandLampsonmust king andhisretinue, therearethosewhofeardiplomaticrepercussions Sergeant Lampson. With thecrimecommittedinroomsusebyanexiled Coburg iscalledintoinvestigate, ablyassistedbyhistrustycolleague, man isdiscoveredwithhisthroatslashedopen. DetectiveChiefInspector and comfortthatmoneycanbuyduringwartime –untilananonymous famous Ritz Hotel, thecream of society continues toenjoy all theglamour concern asGermanfighterplanesplaguethecity’s skyline. Butinsidethe August 1940. OnthestreetsofLondon, localswatch withgrowing Murder attheRitz Jim Eldridge HISTORICAL MYSTERY 9 hours25minutes Read byDavidThorpe CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Audio FAMILY SAGA 9 hours40minutes Dover Read byAnne unexpected places... inhabitants ofJubileeRowarefindinglove–andhopeinthemost Ruby’s futurefarmorethanHitler’s bombs. Meanwhile, theother narrow. Butthe unexpected appearance of a face from her past threatens a hand, aswellkeeping herflightysister Pearl onthestraight and mum RubyMaguiretakes chargeasusual, bolsteringspiritsandlending there willbemoretragedies tocome. As thestreetbraces itself, capable of onetheirown, andastheBlitzonHullintensifies, itseemsasif Spring 1941. The familiesof Jubilee Rowarestillreelingfromtheloss A Sister’s Wish Donna Douglas HISTORICAL MYSTERY 9 hours35minutes Read bySimonMattacks was hecarryingaloadedrevolverinhispocket? discovers thatthevictimwas one ofaminority–pacifist. Butwhy, then, the heart. As DetectiveInspectorJohnJago beginshisinvestigation, he people disperse, butonemanremains–he’s dead, stabbedthrough air-raid shelterasthewarning sirenwails. When dawnbringstheall-clear At CustomHouse, anxiousresidentsdutifullyheadtothenearestpublic in enemyterritory. Butonceagainthenightheralds moredestruction. Britain shouldretaliateevenharderwiththeirownbombingcampaign endured theBlitzfornearlyamonth, peoplearecallingforvengeance: September 1940isfinallydrawing toaclose. WithLondonhaving The CustomHouseMurder Mike Hollow CD CD 9 9 The qualityspeaksforitself. MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L CLASSIC CRIME 7 hours30minutes Read byKrisDyer portrait ofsmalltowntensions. searing drama ofwrongfulaccusation, grippingpoliceworkandasharp research andskilfulplotting, JulianSymons’phenomenal1960novelisa smoke. Basedonarealcaseandexhibitingcharacteristically thorough writhing, violentshadows, itseemsasifthetruthmayhavegoneupin yet, was itdefinitelycleartoanybodyexactlywhattheyhadseen?Inthe a numberofwitnessestorowbetweengroup Teddy Boys. And It was definitelybythebonfireon villagegreen. There weredefinitely The murder, abrutalstabbing, definitelytookplaceonGuy Fawkes night. The ProgressofaCrime Julian Symons ROMANCE 10 hours5minutes Read byCharlotteStrevens ‘holiday’ feelsmorelike homewitheverypassingday... Foley stepsinjustwhenFlora needshelpthemost, sherealisesthather help toeasehertroubledmind. And when Aussie-Welsh lifeguardJake the friendlylocal Art Caféwherethelegendaryhotchocolateandcake coast. Far fromthelonelytripsheimagined, Flora soonfindscomfortat she stealshismotorbike andescapesforaholidaybyherselfonthe Welsh boyfriend does the unthinkable, and she responds in theonly logical way: It was meanttobetheperfectromanticholiday. ButthenFlora Bexton’s Escape totheArtCafé Sue McDonagh CD CD

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CLASSIC CRIME 7 hours50minutes John TelferRead by weaving togetherblackmail, bootleglingerieand, ofcourse, murder. Josephine Bell’s uniqueandatmosphericwritingshinesinamystery A moody classic set around London’s historic docks published in 1938, being swept into the current of a dark plot developing on the dockside. Reed andJuneHarveyarethrusttogetherbyariversideaccident, before avaricious importers, wayward captains and unscrupulous traders, Harry with the ‘mixed cargo’itcarries, islate. Unaware ofthemachinations motion. BesetbydreadfulstormsintheBayofBiscay, theship, along begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in When the The PortofLondonMurders Josephine Bell imagined. Will theyever finda way tobetogetheragain? take different paths, theirnew lives arebeyond anything they could have the gentlemanhasnouseforagirl. As theorphantwinsgrowupand Artie inandeducatehim. All Artie’s needswillbetaken careof–but the prospectofaworkhouseoranorphanage, abenefactorofferstotake beloved twin, Artie. When tragedy strikes andthetwinsarefacedwith to helpand keep hergrandmother’s illnessasecret – evenfromher a washerwoman, is seriously ill. She’s determined to do what she can London, 1910. Lilyistenyearsoldwhensherealiseshergrandmother, The OrphanTwins Lesley Eames FAMILY SAGA 9 hours50minutes Read byAnnieAldington CD CD 8 9 San Angelo San MP3 MP3 1 1 driftsintoportinthe Thames Estuary, telephones D/L D/L Audio MYSTERY 9 hours20minutes Read byColleenPrendergast The clockisticking... Edwards havejustelevendaystosolvethemysteryandsaveRuby’s life. Vampire Killer’s nextvictim. Private InvestigatorsKittHartleyandGrace a largepurple V onherfrontdoor, itbecomesclearsheistheso-called marks ontheirneck. When RubyBarnettcomeshomeoneeveningtofind association withtheoccult, arefounddrained ofbloodwithtwored the frontdoorofvictim’s house. The victims, allofwhomhavesome months. Elevendaysbeforeeachmurder, alargepurple V ispaintedon A serialkillerisloosein Yorkshire andhasclaimedthreevictimsin A WitchHuntinWhitby Helen Cox ROMANCE 7 hours50minutes Rochester Read byVivienne the sameway...Previously publishedas Marcus, andwhat’s evenworseisthatSophiemightbestartingtofeel creeping up, itbecomesincreasinglyobviousthatSophie’s subscriberslike scrub evercould. But, astheviewsandcommentsonhervideosbegin has ahabitofgettingunderherskininway thatnoexfoliatingface forces willhelpthemboth. Sophieisn’tsosure. BecauseMarcusBowman needs promotionforhisgardeningbusiness–inPolly’s mindjoining Marcus in Sophie’s make-up tutorials. She needs more views, Marcus Sophie Timney thinkswhenherfriendPolly suggestsinvolvingherbrother Absolutely nothing! At leastthat’s whatwannabe beautyinfluencer What domascara wands andgardeningshearshaveincommon? Just aBoyFriend Lucy Keeling CD CD 7 9 The qualityspeaksforitself. MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L D/L Make It Up To You To Up It Make . Audio The quality speaks for itself . . .

Edward Marston Andie Newton Tragedy on the Branch Line The Girl from Vichy

When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, France, 1942. As the war in Europe rages on, Adèle Ambeh dreams of a May finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he France that is free from the clutches of the new regime. The date of her flies into a panic. He hurries to the railway station. But he doesn’t reach marriage to a ruthless man is drawing closer, and she only has one choice. his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called With the help of her mother, Adèle flees to Lyon, seeking refuge at the upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent Sisters of Notre Dame de la Compassion. The sisters are secretly aiding that Cambridge’s hopes of success in the forthcoming Boat Race rested the French Résistance and Adèle quickly finds herself part of their efforts. on Pomeroy’s shoulders. With academic disputes, romantic interests and But her new role means she must return to Vichy. Each day is filled with a a sporting rivalry with Oxford in play, the Railway Detective will have different danger and as she begins to fall for another man, Adèle’s entire his work cut out to disentangle the threads of Pomeroy’s life in order to world could come crashing down around her. answer the truth of his death.

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Anne Perry Maisie Thomas A Darker Reality The Railway Girls in Love Spring 1934. Elena Standish, a young English photographer who works Mabel has finally put the past behind her, and her relationship with the for British Intelligence, is visiting her grandparents’ home in Washington dashing Harry is stronger than ever. That is, until an old flame shows DC when tragedy strikes. A lavish party is held to mark her grandparents’ up, leaving Mabel questioning her future. Meanwhile Joan has made 60th wedding anniversary but when the beautiful wife of a renowned amends with Bob – if only she could do the same with Gran. And there’s scientist is found murdered in the driveway, allegedly run over by Elena’s still that family mystery she wants answers to, isn’t there? As a mother grandfather’s car, Elena’s world is turned upside down. Arrested on and grandmother, Dot Green has always put her family first. Her job as suspicion of murder, Wyatt Baylor protests his innocence, claiming he has a parcels porter has brought new purpose to her life, so is it finally time enemies who are trying to frame him. But who are these enemies and to start following her heart? The railway girls realise they need each how can Elena defend a man she barely knows? Turning to secret agent other more than ever, especially when there might be wedding bells James Allenby for help, Elena must uncover the truth. on the horizon...

Read by Polly Edsell Read by Julia Franklin 10 hours 40 minutes 11 hours 30 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY FAMILY SAGA

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Cora Harrison Anna Jacobs Winter of Despair A Valley Dream November 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles 1935. At 36, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, Thomas, June Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, acting as his unpaid servant. But then a kind relative leaves her a house in its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas the village of Backshaw Moss. The house is on the edge of a slum and in a of a painting titled ’A Winter of Despair‘. Wilkie realises he recognises state of disrepair but as kind people help her find her feet, her confidence the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. grows and she meets struggling, widowed father-of-three Ryan. She The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie’s brother Charley’s begins to hope she may find the happy family she’s always dreamed of artist friends. With his own brother under suspicion of murder, what but when Thomas follows her, not only is Bella’s new found happiness secrets lie among the close-knit group of Pre-Raphaelite painters, and threatened but also her life. Can her new friends help her rid herself of her who is the killer in their midst? tormentor once and for all, and finally achieve her valley dream?

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Read by Mark Meadows Read by Julia Franklin 8 hours 55 minutes 11 hours 35 minutes HISTORICAL MYSTERY FAMILY SAGA

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Nap Lombard Priscilla Masters Murder’s a Swine Blood on the Rocks In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth DI Joanna Piercy is irritated at what she perceives to be an attempt to Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a wrap her up in cotton wool during her pregnancy when she is asked to corpse stowed in the walls of their street’s bomb shelter. As the police take on the case of Zachary Foster, a missing 96-year-old man suffering begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when from dementia. Zachary has vanished from his residential care home on Agnes’s upstairs neighbour, Mrs Sibley, is terrorised by the sight of a the edge of Leek during the night with his beloved old teddy bear. He grisly pig’s head at her fourth-floor window. With the discovery of more can’t have gone far, surely, but how did a frail, elderly man manage to sinister threats mysteriously signed ‘Pig-sticker’, Agnes and her husband abscond from a secure house at night? As Joanna investigates, it soon Andrew – unable to resist a good mystery – begin their investigation becomes clear that this apparently minor case is far more sinister than it to deduce the identity of a villain living amongst the tenants of their first appears. Could her own life, and that of her unborn child, be at risk? block of flats.

Read by Kris Dyer Read by Julia Franklin 8 hours 5 minutes 8 hours 35 minutes CLASSIC CRIME MYSTERY

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Chris Penhall Chrissie Walsh New Beginnings at The Child from the Ash Pits the Little House in the Sun In the aftermath of the General Strike, times are tough for coal miners June Alice Dorothy Matthews is on the road to paradise! She’s sold her and their families. When Cally loses her beloved mum, she hopes her house in London, got rid of her nasty ex and arranged her move to father will comfort her. But instead she soon acquires a cruel stepmother, Portugal where friendship and romance awaits. All that’s left to do is and Cally begins to fear that she is on her own. Through uncomfortable find a place to call home. But Alice’s dreams are called into question years in service, to a terrifying brush with the streets, through hard work when complications with friends, work and new relationships make her and determination, Cally finally finds a place for herself. She even trusts Portuguese paradise feel far too much like reality. Will Alice’s dream of a enough in the future to create her own family, despite being abandoned new home in the sun come true? by her own. Cally has all she ever hoped for but, with World War II looming, how long can she hold on to the people she loves?

Read by Julie Teal Read by Julie Maisey 9 hours 30 minutes 9 hours ROMANCE FAMILY SAGA

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Marcia Willett Glenda Young Starry, Starry Night The Miner’s Lass Childhood friends and cousins Leo and Alice had imagined their whole A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that 17-year-old Ruby lives playing out on their beloved Devon beach. But one night, sitting Dinsdale has known. Even with her father and younger brother working on the sand beneath the stars, Alice tells Leo a secret that must never at the coal mine, money is tight. Her mother Mary is skilled at stretching be shared, then packs her bag and flees. Leo is left to build his own life. what little they have, but the small contribution Ruby makes from her job But he is left with a sense of what – or who – is missing. So decades at the local pub makes all the difference. So when Ruby is sacked, and later, when he receives a note from Alice asking if she can come home, Mary becomes pregnant again, the family’s challenges are greater than he doesn’t hesitate to agree. But as the stars align, Leo is left to consider ever. When charming miner Gordon begins to court Ruby it seems as their separation and what so many years apart means for a relationship though happiness is on the horizon, until she uncovers a deeper betrayal solidified in youth and a secret which could affect the whole family. than she could ever have imagined. Although the Dinsdales are materially poor, they are rich in love, friendship and determination.

Read by Emma Powell Read by Janine Birkett 6 hours 30 minutes 9 hours 45 minutes GENERAL FICTION FAMILY SAGA

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Michelle Adams Poppy Alexander Little Wishes The Littlest Library It has been 50 years since Elizabeth fell in love with Tom, and just as Jess Metcalfe is perfectly happy with her quiet life. But when her beloved April many since she last saw him. She is sure he still loves her too, thanks grandmother passes away and she loses her job at the local library, her to the small blue crocus delivered to her doorstep every year in line life is turned upside-down. Packing up her grandmother’s books, she with a promise he once made. She has kept every little note bound moves to a tiny cottage in a charming country village. To her surprise, Jess to those flowers, each written as a wish for the life they could have finds herself the owner of an old red telephone box, too – and she soon shared. But when on the 50th anniversary the blue flower fails to arrive, turns it into the littlest library around! It’s not long before the books are she endeavours to find out what has happened to Tom. But Elizabeth is borrowed and begin to work their magic – somehow, they seem to be scared that her efforts risk uncovering the shameful secret she has been bringing the villagers together once more...Maybe it’s finally time for Jess keeping her whole life... to follow her heart and find a place to call home?

Read by Penelope Freeman Read by Karen Cass 9 hours 50 minutes 9 hours 30 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION CD MP3 CD MP3 9 1 9 1

Fanny Blake Roxanne Bouchard The Long Way Home The Coral Bride When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting When an abandoned lobster trawler is found adrift off the coast of in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, DS Joaquin Moralès begins a straightforward devastated. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her own terms, search for the boat’s missing captain, Angel Roberts – a woman in a the last thing she expects at this time of her life is such turmoil. So, to male-dominated world. But Moralès finds himself blocked at every turn – find an explanation for her mother’s rejection, she embarks on a road trip. by his police colleagues, by fisheries bureaucrats, and by his grown-up But, right at the last moment, she’s forced to take her sullen 14-year-old son, who has turned up at his door with a host of his own personal granddaughter Charlie with her. Cramped together in Isla’s car with her problems. When Angel’s body is finally discovered, it’s clear something smelly old dog, these ill-assorted travelling companions set off to uncover very sinister is afoot, and Moralès and his son are pulled into murky, some shattering and life-changing family truths at the same time as dangerous waters, where old resentments run deep... learning to love each other...

Read by Sandra Duncan & Esther Wane Read by Stephanie Cannon 10 hours 20 minutes 13 hours 45 minutes GENERAL FICTION MYSTERY

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THRILLER 9 hours35minutes Read byCharlotteStrevens must nevershare... but there is a secret about Fabian that only she knows – a secret she he isdeterminedtocomeback. Alex longstoturnothersforsupport medium herworstfearsarerealised. Fabian hasunfinishedbusinessand her mindseemstobeplayingstrange tricksonher. When sheturnstoa the funeral isover Alex trieshardtoforgetherbizarreexperience. But saw himthatmorning–atatimewhenhemusthavebeendead. When a policemanisasking Alex, hismother, tobelieve. But Alex knowsshe Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what Possession Peter James ADVENTURE SUSPENSE 13 hours40minutes Read bySimonMattacks time tofindthe Tomb ofHercules... From SwitzerlandtoShanghai, Botswana to London, it’s arace against following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. by thereappearance ofafacefromhis past...NinaandChasearesoon that otherswant tofindthetomb. Then Chase’s attentionisdiverted and EddieChase, herex-SASbodyguard, begintheirsearchit’s clear will bethemostimportanthistoricalfindevertounearthed. AsNina of legendarywarrior Herculesmayactually exist. Ifshecanlocateit, it of anancienttext have convincedher that a tomb containing the remains For archaeologistNina Wilde it’s theopportunityofalifetime. Herstudies The Tomb ofHercules Andy McDermott CD CD 12 8 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L Audio THRILLER 9 hours5minutes Read bySimonMattacks friends arepicked offandonlyDannyShawremain. someone knowsandbelievestheyshouldallpay. Onebyone, theformer Throughout hissentence, Dannyrefusestonamethoseinvolved. But charged formurder, spendsthenextquarterofacenturyinprison. Now: Shaw pushesDannyintotheriver. Dannysurvivesand, arrestedand things turndeadlyandMickiisstabbed. Appalled byhisfriend’s actions, Micki Ashton. JonShawstepsintoprotectthedefencelesswoman, but a localcrimelord, Dannycallsinadebtfromyoungfemaledrugaddict the man he tried to murder 25 years ago...Then: While drug running for Successful criminaldefencelawyer, JonShaw, comesfacetowith Six G.S. Locke GENERAL FICTION 10 hours15minutes Read byKaren Cass call home, canLittleSorreltrulybetheplaceofsecondchances? cold, andrudelocals. Butasshefallsinlovewithacottagewishesto narrow roadtothetinyvillageofLittleSorrel, sheismetwithdistant, on thefringesofSouthDevon. When Clarefindsherselfdrivingdowna coast-to-coast adventure–untilshestumblesuponanunmarked location adult children to finally do something forherself, Clareembarks on a discover she has inherited a dog and a small fortune. Convinced by her After thesuddendeathofherestranged husband, Clareisshocked to Escape toRiversideCottage Sheila Norton The freshestnameinunabridgedaudio CD CD 11 9 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L

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R.G. Adams Flynn Berry Allegation Northern Spy

May Sandbeach, South Wales. Two women have come forward to make Tessa, a BBC producer, is at work one day when the news of another raid historical sexual allegations against pillar of the local community comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Matthew Cooper. The case lands on the desk of inexperienced social Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb worker, Kit Goddard, who must remove Cooper from his home while the threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over Belfast have investigation is carried out but she is ill-prepared for such a high-profile become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public’s help case. Kit finds herself navigating a local minefield of connections and in locating those responsible for this latest raid, Tessa’s sister appears class, reputations and rumour. Unsure whether her interference is a heroic on the screen. The police believe Marian has joined the IRA, but Tessa intervention or a hurtful intrusion, she knows one thing: it will have an knows this is impossible. They were raised to oppose Republicanism. And impact. The question is whether this impact will be to expose a lie, or besides, Marian is vacationing by the sea. Tessa will be forced to choose: destroy an innocent life... between her ideals and her family, between bystanderism and action. Walking a perilous road, she fears nothing more than endangering the one person she loves more fiercely than her sister: her infant son.

Read by Catherine Rees 7 hours Read by Caroline Sheen HISTORICAL FICTION 7 hours 45 minutes CD MP3 MYSTERY 7 1

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Sheila Bugler Brenda Davies When the Dead Speak The Girl Behind the Gates When the body of Lauren Shaw is discovered laid out on the altar of 1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the St Mary the Virgin church in Eastbourne it sends a chill to the core certainty of a bright, happy future – until one night of passion has more of those who have lived in the area for a long time. They remember catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled another woman whose slain corpse was placed in the same spot 60 years a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is ago. Dee Doran is as intrigued as the rest but focused on her investigation forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty. 1981. When psychiatrist into the whereabouts of a missing person from the Polish community. Janet Humphreys comes across Nora, heavily institutionalised and still But as she starts asking questions Dee finds the answers all point to the living in the hospital more than 40 years after her incarceration, she same conclusion – someone is keeping secrets and they will do whatever knows that she must be the one to help Nora rediscover what it is to live. it takes to keep them safe. But as she works to help Nora overcome her past, Janet realises she must finally face her own.

Read by Helen Barford Read by Charlotte Strevens 9 hours 15 minutes 12 hours 10 minutes MYSTERY HISTORICAL FICTION

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MYSTERY 10 hours25minutes Bruce Read byTim Brenta del Mala unsolved jewelleryheist, andtheunwanted centreofattentionthe finds himselfdragged intothesearchformissingproceedsofan struggles tocomestermswithherfather’s troubledlegacy, Nathan about Elio’s association with arecently-deceased gang boss. As Federica the twohoneymooners, andwhispersrumoursbegintocirculate of theclose-knitislandcommunity start totake anunhealthyinterestin of aneminent Venetian lawyerisdredgedupbyafishingboat, members in acottagebelongingtoFederica’s latefather, Elio. Butwhenthebody forward toweeksofsunshineandrelaxationontheislandPellestrina, Newly-weds Nathan Sutherland and Federica Ravagnan are looking The Venetian Legacy Philip GwynneJones SUSPENSE 9 hours15minutes Emma Powell Read byLaura Kirman& even. Butjusthowfarwillshegotogetit? entirely toJo, andsuddenlynowCarolinewants whatJohas. Needsit, things havealways comesoeasyto her. Then afamilyinheritancefalls unit, playinganendlessgameoffavourites. JoenviesCaroline’s life– never beenclose–takingitinturnstofeelontheoutsideoftheirfamily Sisters JoandCarolineareusedtohidingthingsfromeachother. They’ve Look WhatYou MadeMeDo Nikki Smith CD CD 10 9 MP3 MP3 –the Venetian Mafia. 1 1

D/L Audio GENERAL FICTION 11 hours40minutes Read byAoifeMcMahon something thatshecan’ttellanyone... her son, Luke, and her support group of fierce single women. But there’s have onelovestory–andshe’s hadhers. Nowherlifecentresaround she stopcomparingherselftootherwomen?Beabelievesthatweall addiction todesignerclothes. Sheknowsshehasitall, sowhycan’t perfect home, attentivehusband, twobelovedchildren–andasecret that menandwomencanjustbefriends. Can’tthey?Marinhasthe connection withunlucky-in-loveFinn, theyarebothdeterminedtoprove Sid wears her independence like armour. So when she strikes up a rare Other Women Cathy Kelly HISTORICAL FICTION 11 hours10minutes Read byCharlotteMcCurry Can shesave Violet –andgetthroughunscathedherself? Hettie mustgatherallhercourage to protectthoseshelovesthemost. closer thanshethought. When thebombsbegintorain downonthecity, war that’s raging hundredsofmilesaway. Butthedevastation ofwar is father whohasabandonedherfamily; thesisterwhorecentlydied; the Violet atherside, Hettiecanalmostescapethegrimrealityofherlife: the three-year-old Indianelephant, andtheysoonformaspecialbond. With Belfast Zoo’s firsteverfemalezookeeper. Sheisputinchargeof Violet, a 1941. With themenaway fighting, animal-loverHettieQuin ismade The ZookeeperofBelfast S. KirkWalsh The freshestnameinunabridgedaudio CD CD 11 11 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L

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David M. Barnett Helga Flatland The Handover One Last Time Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social Anne’s life is rushing to an unexpected and untimely end. But her June History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from diagnosis of terminal cancer isn’t just a shock for her – and for teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he’d be more her daughter Sigrid and granddaughter Mia – it shines a spotlight suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. For five onto their fractured and uncomfortable relationships. On a spur-of-the minutes each day their shifts overlap at handover. He passes the torch moment trip to France the three generations of women reveal harboured over to Daisy – with a smile on his face, and she asks him for a full secrets, long-held frustrations and suppressed desires, and learn humbling report of the day, which he gives reluctantly. It’s the only interaction they and heart-warming lessons about how life should be lived when death have – until mysterious things begin to happen at the museum. They is so close. discover they have a lot more in common than they realised...and their investigations uncover more than just the truth.

Read by Helen Keeley & Read by Sally Armstrong & Ben Onwukwe Sarah Barron 9 hours 25 minutes 8 hours 10 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Erin Green Kate High From Shetland, With Love The Man who Vanished and When Jemima loses her beloved grandfather, keeping his allotment the Dog who Waited alive seems like an ideal way to feel close to him. Finally Melissa has Summer in the Lincolnshire Wolds and Clarice gets a phone call from her the allotment she’s been longing for to distract her while her husband friend Louise, asking whether she can look after Susie, her son’s lively works away – even if it is chest-high in weeds. But when she looks for Boxer, as Guy has gone missing from the family home. His mother thinks help in the wrong place, she finds she’s the hottest topic of gossip. For he has been suffering from depression and he had been working on a Dottie, her allotment and part-time job of ‘a little light dusting’ at Lerwick high-profile case, defending a known criminal. Clarice wonders how Susie Manor keeps a spring in her 80-year-old step – and her ears open for received a nasty cut to her back leg, and who is the mysterious Charles? secrets. Though generations apart, these three women are about to find Guy has not been seen since he was driven away in Charles’ car. Guy’s a common bond in a new found passion and that true friendship can friends all say that he was a good man, but as Clarice looks further into grow anywhere. the murky criminal world he inhabits, she questions if Guy has been pulled in out of his depth.

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Read by Sally Armstrong, Sarah Barron & Cathleen McCarron Read by Charlotte Strevens 12 hours 9 hours 45 minutes GENERAL FICTION MYSTERY

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GENERAL FICTION 11 hours20minutes Read byLaura Kirman aren’t theonesthatchangeeverything, buttheonesthatcomeafter... to savethepeoplesheloves. Butsometimesthemostsurprisingdays relive thoselife-changingmoments–Islarealisesthatshemightbeable two. Sowhenshe’s given animpossiblegift–achancetogobackand that changedeverything, whenhermother’s deathcracked herfamilyin The dayhersisterMorganran away fromhome. And, mostofall, theday aquarium, not knowing that she’d still be stuck there seven years later. of herlifeshewouldchange. The dayshestartedworkinginthelocal If IslaPembroke couldturnbacktime, sheknowsexactlywhichdays Isla Pembroke The SurprisingDaysof Tamsin Keily CRIME 12 hours20minutes Read bySeánBarrett where nothingisatitseems... Ikmen andSüleymanuncoveratragic taleofdarksecretsanddoublelives favours, SüleymanknowshemusthelpKerim solvethiscomplexcase. murdered, afterconfessingthat Wael Al Hussainhadusedherforsexual but when Detective Kerim Gürsel’s transsexual ex-lover, Pembe, is also Mehmet Süleymanisonleavewithhisson, whoisvisitingfromIreland, whose wifeisinprisonforattempting to killGencerayearago. Inspector a cheeseknife. The deadSyrianissoonidentifiedas Wael AlHussain, Beside himliesaSyrianrefugeewhosestomachhasbeensplitopenwith TV starErolGencerisfounddeadathishomeontheoutskirtsofIstanbul. Forfeit Barbara Nadel CD CD 11 12 MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L Audio most complexmoral decisionofhiscareer. sides anddemonsfromhisownpastsurfacing, Mahlerisfacedwiththe body proof the killer’s struck again? With pressure mounting from all the ‘Witchfinder’ murders. AretherunicsymbolsfoundwithFleming’s MYSTERY 9 hours15minutes Read byJimmyChisholm 16 stamping groundofLondontotheworldorganisedcrime, andfrom case becomes personal. Mahler’s investigation takes him from his old the bodyisidentifiedas AlexFleming–Mahler’s formercolleague–the Orkney andDCILukasMahlerdispatchesateamtoinvestigate. Butwhen The bloatedremainsofamanarediscoveredboundtoderelictpierin In theBlood Margaret Kirk GENERAL FICTION 7 hours20minutes Read byEilidhBeaton for Aidan? friendships. ButasshefallsinlovewithLobsterBay, isshealsofalling Aidan iscalledaway. Emmamustnavigate unforeseen dilemmasandnew work togethertogettheguesthouseready, theygrowcloser, butthen who Emma is forcedto turn to for help in a crisis. As Emma and Aidan of June. Then there’s thenext-door neighbour, Aidan, thelocallobsterman stunning seaviewsinorderbeforeherfirstguestsarriveatthebeginning trauma. Emma has one month to get the handsome, terraced house with knows itisexactlythefreshstartsheneedstorecoverfromarecent When Emmasees The GuesthouseatLobster Bayforsaleonline, she The GuesthouseatLobsterBay Annie Robertson The freshestnameinunabridgedaudio CD CD th 7 9 -century witchexecutionstoFleming’s mostnotoriousunsolvedcase: MP3 MP3 1 1 D/L

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Helen Cresswell David O’Connell Moondial The Smidgens Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a Gafferty Sprout is a Smidgen. A Smidgen looks like a human, sounds like April witch, or something very like it... a human, and loves chips with curry sauce like a human – if humans Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a were three inches tall. Generations ago there were lots of them, living stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts. On night-time jaunts from the house in a maze of tunnels beneath the human village of Dundoodle. But where she’s staying while her mother recovers from an accident, Minty then something happened and they just disappeared. Now Gafferty, her stumbles upon a moondial which takes her back in time. She finds Tom, a parents and her little brothers Gobkin and Grub are the only ones left, sickly kitchen boy, and Sarah, a girl with a birthmark who is only allowed and the tunnels are forbidden territory. And then Gafferty finds an old out at night because her family think she has the mark of the devil...Can map. A map that shows a place deep within the maze where Smidgen Minty save her friends, or will she get stuck in the past...? tribes can go to meet. Smidgen tribes! Gafferty knows that she has to try to find them but she soon discovers she’s not the only one looking for the lost tribes, and that three inches of Smidgen hold more power than she ever imagined.

Read by Charlotte Strevens Read by Charlotte Strevens 5 hours 3 hours 15 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Ruth Quayle Damaris Young Peril at the Bake Off The Creature Keeper It is the summer holiday and Joe Robinson and his cousins are staying Creepy Direspire Hall sits glowering on the moors – and if you stray with their granny in Muddlemoor village. The problem is...Muddlemoor is too close then beware the growls and scary sounds from within...When a hotspot for crime. animal lover Cora learns that Direspire’s mysterious owner is looking for When Granny’s precious cake recipe goes missing days before the Great a new Creature Keeper, she realises this might just be the chance she’s Village Bake Off, Joe, Tom and Pip are FLABBERGASTED. They KNOW that looking for to save her parents’ farm. But Direspire Hall is a spooky one of the neighbours has stolen it but the question is, WHO? place and the strange creatures who live there are nothing like Cora is expecting. As Cora settles into her new life, it soon becomes clear that Direspire has its secrets, and that somebody will do whatever it takes to keep them...

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Beverley Birch Em Norry Song Beneath the Tides Amber Undercover

Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa – I’m Amber Roberts. Just your average teenager. Life revolves around May weeks of running wild on an unspoiled, untamed coast. But on their first school and my best mate, Vi. Nothing too dramatic, and certainly nothing walk through the forest to the beach, Ally is swamped by a sense of an dangerous. Well. That’s how things used to be. But now, my life is way unseen presence close to her – of being spoken to. The feeling increases more complicated: Mum and Dad have a massive secret and Vi’s being all as a local teenager, Leli, enthusiastically sweeps her into the world of his moody. But, bigger than that, I’ve just been recruited as a secret agent! village and their offshore island (Kisiri – the place of secrets). Kisiri is a That’s right. Me. An actual spy. Exciting? It would be, if I had a clue what place of local legend, protected and feared. Ally and Leli feel drawn to I was doing... it, and land on its shores. At once Ally feels again that invisible presence, a whispered voice. But fear can change things, divide people. The bond between Ally and Leli feels unbreakable. But suddenly everything, everyone, conspires to drive a wedge between them. She is, after all, an outsider – in only weeks, she will leave for England. How can she possibly share, or help?

Read by Penelope Rawlins Read by Aimee Goodall 8 hours 15 minutes 5 hours 20 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Roderick O’Grady Steven Vinacour Bigfoot Mountain Roman Rewind Minnie is alone, high up in her favourite tree, looking out over a distant When Ted accidentally discovers (don’t ask!) that his toilet allows him to forest fire. She and her stepfather Dan are stuck with each other, living travel back in time to any point in history, his (slightly soggy) discoveries in their small cabin at the foot of the mountain after Minnie’s mother are only just beginning. Join Ted on his fully immersive adventure into died. When Minnie and her friend Billy discover four giant footprints on Roman life, as he flushes himself back to ancient times to find out all he a mountain trail, Dan puts it down to hoaxers. But Minnie knows better. can for his half-term project from the Romans themselves! Kaayii is sitting at the top a tree watching the smoke from a raging forest fire that has forced him and his clan to move to this side of the mountain. He’s not sure about the humans living down by the sea below. Gradually their parallel worlds entwine in a moving tale of grief and healing in a remote mountain landscape.

Read by Roderick O’Grady Read by Stephen Vinacour 4 hours 55 minutes 1 hours 55 minutes GENERAL FICTION GENERAL FICTION

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Harry Heape Oli Hyatt & Anna Rainbow Indiana Bones Antigua de Fortune of Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He’s got superpowers the High Seas June and can sniff out criminals and – with his young friend and owner Aisha Tiggy has always had the ocean in her blood – and lately, she’s been – solve mysteries that would flummox the world’s more expert detectives! dreaming of mermaids – but she’s a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, In their first case, they are on the trail of treasure hidden centuries ago forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. by a legendary knight known as the Lonely Avenger, an adventure which But then the Pirate King strikes, wielding deadly turquoise magic, and takes them all the way to Egypt and the Pyramids. Tiggy’s younger brother is stolen – along with every boy on the island. Tiggy knows it is time to claim her destiny, take to the high seas and rescue the boys of Fortune...

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Kita Mitchell Efua Traoré The House Of Secret Treasure Children of the Quicksands George isn’t good at anything much. In fact, he’s pretty average. That Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote village deep in doesn’t mean he doesn’t have BIG ambitions, they are just harder to the forests of Nigeria. Witch-like and tight-lipped about the past, her achieve when your big sister, Jess, is brilliant at everything! Then George grandmother hints at a tragic family secret – but won’t tell Simi the truth. inherits a mansion from dear old Mrs Smallbone. Except Hogweed Hall Simi is desperate to discover it for herself, but it’s only when she’s caught isn’t your average mansion. It’s BRILLIANT, and full of fascinating tenants in the red quicksand of a forbidden lake that her adventure truly begins. like Boris the dog, an unusual pastry chef who lives in the basement, a Along with new friends, Jay and Bubu, Simi must bring her family back mysterious scientist who works in the attic, and lots and lots of chickens! together and restore peace to the village... But Mrs Smallbone’s sisters aren’t at all happy about the situation, and invite themselves to stay. They’re after something, and don’t intend to leave without it. Can George stop them before it’s too late?

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