New December 2008 Releases
Jessica Blair Dangerous Shores
Narrated by Anne Dover
When Abigail Mitchell is a little girl her father, John, inherits a large estate
in Cornwall, and moves his family from their comfortable living in Whitby to the
rugged Cornish coast. John soon incurs the wrath of their neighbours, the
Gainsfords, a powerful old Cornish family, but as Abigail blossoms into a young
lady she finds herself attracted to the eldest son, Luke Gainsford. She agrees
to marry him in spite of his rakish reputation and her father's objections to
the match. Abigail soon learns she should have heeded her father's warning when
she uncovers Luke's secret life...
Family Saga 9781846523205 13 CDs
Glenice Crossland Christmas Past
Narrated by Maggie Mash
When seventeen-year-old Mary O'Connor collapses in church she is taken to live
with Dr Roberts and his wife in a beautiful Yorkshire village, where she becomes
the daughter they were never able to have. With Britain at war, she works in
the local steel works but when her fiancé Tom Downing is killed, a
grief-stricken Mary is convinced it is retribution for their night of sin during
Tom's Christmas leave. Eventually Mary marries local miner Jack Holmes, and
sets up her own dressmaking business, but the business starts to dominate her
life until tragedy once more threatens to destroy all she most cherishes.
Family Saga 9781846523373 10 CDs
Stuart Pawson The Picasso Scam
Narrated by Andrew Wincott
Detective Inspector Charlie Priest believes in doing things by the book - it's
just that he sometimes turns over two pages at once. Sheep stealing and
shoplifting are everyday crimes in Heckley, but there are local villains with
bigger fish to fry. When Charlie suspects a now-respected businessman, with a
background of extortion and GBH, of involvement in international art fraud, he's
making an enemy with friends in high places, but Charlie can be persistent to
the point of recklessness. Once he's realised that there's a link to the lethal
doctored heroin that's striking down the local kids, no threat will stop him...
Mystery 9781846523762 7 CDs
Peter Sale Tom Kipper: The Wartime Years
Narrated by Richard Tate
At the tender age of fourteen, loveable rogue Tom Kipper is thrust from the
schoolroom of St Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks into the adult world of work.
Armed with advice from his God-fearing Irish mother, he soon finds himself in
the heart of Liverpool as an office boy at El Paso Corned Beef Inc. With the
Blitz at its height, life in the city is full of adventure, with air raids to
watch and money to be made. He even gets his picture in the paper - but what
will his Ma say when she sees he's been arrested as a Nazi undercover agent?
Non Fiction 9781846523960 6 CDs
Tamara McKinley Lands Beyond The Sea
Narrated by Peter Wickham
By the 1700s, the Aborigine had lived in harmony with the land in Australia for
60,000 years. But now ghost-ships are arriving, and their very existence is
threatened by a terrifying white invasion.
When Jonathan Cadwallader leaves Cornwall to sail on the Endeavour, he is forced
to abandon his sweetheart, Susan Penhalligan. But an act of brutality will
reunite them in the raw and unforgiving penal colony of New South Wales.
Billy Penhalligan has survived transportation and clings to the promise of a new
beginning. But there will be more suffering before he or his fellow convicts
can regard Australia as home...
General Fiction 9781407906614 12 CDs
Rebecca Tope Blood In The Cotswolds
Narrated by Caroline Lennon
Thea Osborne and her spaniel, Hepzie, are house-sitting in the quiet village of
Temple Guiting. Detective Superintendent Phil Hollis is looking forward to
visiting for a night or two and celebrating the couple's anniversary. A few
days into their stay, a pile of human bones are discovered at the base of an
uprooted tree. The locals all have their theories about their identity and
rumours abound. Thea and Phil discover that the village turns out to have more
than its fair share of secrets, including a strong connection to the Knights
Templar. The couple finds their relationship tested to the limits as they try
to prevent another murder investigation from threatening the quiet solitude they
hold so dear.
Mystery 9781407906980 8 CDs
Annie Murray The Bells Of Bournville Green
Narrated by Annie Aldington
It is 1962 and pretty 17-year-old Greta finds life at home hard. She has no
father and loathes her mother's latest boyfriend. She's happiest at work with
her friends in Birmingham's Cadbury factory. When her missing vixen of a
sister, Marlene, turns up, Greta decides that she has to get away, and the only
escape route is marriage. But she soon finds out that life with Trevor is not
as she'd hoped, and freedom and happiness still elude her. When the situation
worsens, she finds herself out on the streets - pregnant and homeless - until
her mother's friends Edie and Anatoli take her in, providing a safe, secure
haven...until tragedy strikes.
Family Saga 9781407906560 12 CDs
Elizabeth George Careless In Red
Narrated by Crispin Redman
Barely three months since the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley takes to the
South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt
to distract himself from his loss. On the 43rd day of this walk, he spies a
body on the beach - a young cliff-climber has suffered a fatal fall. Shortly
afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history
is a blank before her 13th year. These events propel him into a case that
brings Barbara Havers from London and thrusts both detectives into a world where
revenge is only one of the motives they must sift through to identify a killer.
Mystery 9780753139080 21 CDs
Richard Askwith The Lost Village
Narrated by Nick Rawlinson
The idea of the unspoilt and unchanging village is one of the most potent in the
English imagination. Yet the English village is plainly dying. The unaltered
rhythms of village life have all but vanished. But not without a trace…they
exist in the voices of men and women for whom the old ways were life-shaping
realities.
Richard Askwith describes a journey in search of the true country dwellers. He
captures the voices of poachers and gamekeepers, farmers and huntsmen, thatchers
and blacksmiths, and demonstrates that, while the landscape is more changed than
we thought, the past is never so simple as we imagine.
Non Fiction 9780753133941 11 CDs
Alexander McCall Smith The Unbearable Lightness Of Scones
Narrated by Hilary Neville
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth
instalment, alongside the familiar cast of favourites - Big Lou, Domenica, Angus
Lordie, Cyril and others - in their daily pursuit of a little happiness. With
customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith has again given us a
clever, witty and utterly delightful new novel.
(needs to be a bit longer at some point!)
General Fiction 9780753138908 11 CDs
Meg Gardiner The Dirty Secrets Club
Narrated by Tara Ward
Jo Beckett is a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims' lives to help solve
their deaths. On a San Francisco street, she is confronted by a scene of pure
carnage: four dead and five injured after a high speed pursuit. In the mangled
remains of a BMW lies prosecutor Callie Harding, dead with the word "dirty"
written in lipstick on her thigh. Why did Harding run from the police? Why did
she crash through a bridge railing? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?
Jo is a last resort in difficult cases. But now she's on the front line,
because Callie Harding isn't the first high flyer to go down and take others
with her...
Mystery 9780753138854 9 CDs