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QNS continues to provide replacement cassettes from previous orders. contact Queensland Narrating Service [email protected] PO Box 1383 www.qns.net.au Coorparoo DC 07 3324 0004 (p) 4151 Qld 07 3324 2191 (f) this catalogue This catalogue contains: Open Access and Special Access titles An order form Queensland Narrating Service is funded by Disability Services Queensland Queensland Narrating Service Catalogue of Audio Books - october 2011 to april 2012 title short list Open Access Callinan, Ian The Russian Master Carlsson, Susanne Chauvel Pitcairn Island at the Edge of Time Drake, Jack The Wild West Dutton, Kenneth That Gallant Gentleman Hoare, Merval Norfolk Island Houldsworth, Marion Another Beautiful Day Houldsworth, Marion The Morning Side of the Hill Jeffrey, Belinda Big River Little Fish Jones, David and Nunan, Peter Master Mariner Mahood, Marie Still Bleating About the Bush Mahood, Marie Icing on the Damper Maiden, Peter The Sky Racers Maiden, Peter Missionaries, Headhunters & Colonial Officers Toohey, Edwina Before the Aeroplane Dance Wallace, Lennie Bitten by the Bull Bug Queensland Narrating Service Catalogue of Audio Books - october 2011 to april 2012 title short list Special Access Castro, Fidel My Life Clifton, Jane The Address Book El Masri, Arwa Tea with Arwa Fitzsimons, Peter A Simpler Time Fitzsimons, Peter Mawson Flannery, Tim Among the Islands Ford, Andrew The Sound of Pictures Frost, Alan The First Fleet - The Real Story Gentil, Sulari A Decline in Prophets Hall, Barry Pulling No Punches Herbert, Xavier Poor Fellow My Country Johnson, Judy The Secret Fate of Mary Watson Jones, Gail Five Bells Knox, Malcolm The Captains McCullough, Colleen Life Without the Boring Bits Morton, Maris A Darker Music Parrett, Favel Past the Shallows Rendle-Short, Francesca Bite Your Tongue Tay, Siew Siang Handpicked Yusuf, Irfan Once Were Radicals Queensland Narrating Service Catalogue of Audio Books - october 2011 to april 2012 special access CALLINAN, Ian The Russian Master adult fiction general narrator: John Sharpe Art expert Davenport Jones has moved into the heady world of the international art market in London and now works as a senior executive in the old and established firm of Londy’s. The novel is a hilarious account of Davenport’s passage through his world and his pursuit of a cache of valuable avant-garde paintings by a reclusive Russian master in St Petersburg. On his journey he meets a miscellany of eccentric dealers and beautiful women, and is caught in the cross-fire of a long-standing family dispute. CD DAISY MP3 Units 8 1 1 Code 3745CD 3745DAISY 3745MP3 Price $72.80 $80.00 $50.00 CARLSSON, Susanne Pitcairn Island at the Edge of Time adult non-fiction narrator: John Sharpe Fletcher Christian and the mutineers from The Bounty sank their ship and settled on Pitcairn, the most remote island in the Pacific. This is their story over two centuries. Then came three generations of Chauvel’s (beginning with Charles Chauvel’s film, “In the Wake of the Bounty”), to provide intimate perspectives on the descendants of the mutineers on this island that has been both paradise and hell. CD DAISY MP3 Units 10 1 1 Code 3761CD 3761DAISY 3761MP3 Price $86.00 $80.00 $50.00 Queensland Narrating Service Catalogue of Audio Books - october 2011 to april 2012 CASTRO, Fidel My Life Autobiography narrator: John Sharpe For years, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet has succeeded. In a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day, discussing his parents and earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che, the Bay of Pigs, the Carter years, Cuban migration, his controversial views on everything from human rights to the freedom of the press, and he gives his opinion of other leaders he has dealt with, alive and dead. CD DAISY MP3 Units 23 1 1 Code 3756CD 3756DAISY 3756MP3 Price $181.80 $80.00 $50.00 CLIFTON, Jane The Address Book Autobiography narrator: Elizabeth Oats Performer Jane Clifton had a classic army brat upbringing, constantly on the move as the family followed the postings of her English officer father from Gibraltar to England, Germany to Malaysia and eventually to Australia. Always the new kid in town, Jane became adept at fitting in anywhere. As an adult, living in the fast-moving worlds of anti-war demos, women’s lib, experimental theatre, rock ‘n’ roll, and TV, she kept up the family tradition of changing addresses without so much as a backward glance. But her stiff-upper-lipped father and glamorous, restless mother both died tragically young, and Jane was left with many unanswered questions. Where exactly is home? Is it your family? Your memories? Or simply bricks and mortar? One day, Jane decided to go back and visit every house she’d lived in – all 32 of them – to see if she could piece together the jigsaw of her life. CD DAISY MP3 Units 12 1 1 Code 3746CD 3746DAISY 3746MP3 Price $99.20 $80.00 $50.00 Queensland Narrating Service Catalogue of Audio Books - october 2011 to april 2012 DRAKE, Jack The Wild West adult non-fiction narrator: John Sharpe The Australian Outback and the American Wild West were two of the last frontiers in the territorial conquests and expansions of the 19th century. These frontier territories were wild, lawless and extremely colourful. Although the American Wild West has been celebrated repeatedly in Hollywood films and countless books, we Australians have been much slower to celebrate the heroes and sagas of the development of our Outback. Both countries, however, were equally rich in rip-roaring, wild and woolly times. In our regulated, comfortable and conformist cities of today we find ourselves yearning for an untamed era populated with fast-riding and fast-talking heroes and villains, an era where men were freer to realise their dreams and make their mark in the pages of myth and history. CD DAISY MP3 Units 9 1 1 Code 3744CD 3744DAISY 3744MP3 Price $79.40 $80.00 $50.00 DUTTON, Kenneth That Gallant Gentleman adult non-fiction narrator: Hugh Taylor When Professor Ken Dutton was invited to inspect an old hand- written volume in the University of Newcastle Library, and if possible advise on its provenance, he little suspected that he was setting out on a journey of discovery which would completely absorb him for several years.