Maria

Brooklyn

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Colm Toibin
• Narrated By Niamh Cusack

From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Blackwater Lightship and The Master comes a novel of devastating emotional power.

It is the early 1950s in the south-east of Ireland. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. When a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn.

The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Lemony Snicket
• Narrated By Tim Curry

I am sorry to tell you that this audiobook is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. One might say that they are magnets for misfortune. On this recording alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

A Place of Execution

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Val McDermid
• Narrated By Paddy Glynn

Winter 1963: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett, newly promoted to inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation full of dead ends. Decades later he tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but inexplicably pulls the plug just before publication. Catherine is forced to reinvestigate the past with results that turn the world upside down.

The Secret History

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Donna Tartt
• Narrated By Donna Tartt

The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hearA misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return.

A Prisoner of Birth

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Jeffrey Archer
• Narrated By Roger Allam

Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny is an East End Cockney mechanic, Spencer is a West End barrister. When they meet, their lives will never be the same again.