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  • Play May We Be Forgiven
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    May We Be Forgiven

    • UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By A. M. Homes
    • Narrated By Nathan Osgood
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    Harold Silver, a Richard Nixon Scholar, has spent a lifetime watching his younger, taller, and more successful brother, George. But Harry knows that George has a murderous temper, and when he finally loses control the result is an act of violence which hurls the two brothers into entirely new lives. A savage and dizzyingly inventive vision that penetrates the dark heart of contemporary America to tell a darkly comic tale of 21st-century domestic life and how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.

    L Scott says: "Brilliant"
    Winner 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction
  • Play Bring Up the Bodies
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    Bring Up the Bodies

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    • By Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated By Simon Vance
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    By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. In Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

    Madeline says: "Superb"
    Winner 2012 Man Booker Prize
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    Dark Eden

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    • By Chris Beckett
    • Narrated By Oliver Hembrough, Jessica Martin
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    A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world. John Redlantern, one of the 532 degenerating descendants of two marooned space explorers, will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. He will be the first to abandon hope, the first to abandon the old ways, the first to kill another, the first to venture into the Dark, and the first to discover the truth about Eden....

    Winner 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction
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    Maggot Moon

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    • By Sally Gardner
    • Narrated By Robert Madge
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    Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, Maggot Moon is the stunning new novel from award-winning author Sally Gardner. When his best friend, Hector, is suddenly taken away, Standish Treadwell realises that it is up to him, his grandfather and a small band of rebels to confront and defeat the ever-present oppressive forces of the Motherland. Utterly original and stunning, it is impossible not to be moved by Maggot Moon's powerful story and the unforgettable heroism of Standish.

    George Lester says: "Lacking"
    Winner 2013 Carnegie Medal
  • Play Sweet Tooth
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    Sweet Tooth

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    • By Ian McEwan
    • Narrated By Juliet Stevenson
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    Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency.

    Graeme says: "McEwan Takes Us Back To The Seventies"
    Political Fiction Book of the Year, Political Book Awards 2013
  • Play Society's Child: My Autobiography
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    • by Janis Ian
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    • Length:12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release Date:07/06/2012
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    Society's Child: My Autobiography

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    • By Janis Ian
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    Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.

    Chris says: "What a life"
    Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2013
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

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    • By Charles Dickens
    • Narrated By Simon Vance
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the 18h-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects.

    Richard says: "I couldn't switch this one off!"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play A Tiny Bit Marvellous
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    A Tiny Bit Marvellous

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    • By Dawn French
    • Narrated By Dawn French
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    Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent: She doesn't understand either of her teenage kids, which as a child psychologist, is fairly embarrassing. She has become entirely grey, inside, and out. Her face has surrendered and is frightening children....

    Mark says: "Indeed a whole lot of marvellous"
    Popular Fiction Book of the Year, 2011 Galaxy British Book Awards
  • Play I Claudius
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    I Claudius

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    • By Robert Graves
    • Narrated By Nelson Runger
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    Here is one of the best historical novels ever written. Lame, stammering Claudius, once a major embarrassment to the imperial family and now emperor of Rome, writes an eyewitness account of the reign of the first four Caesars: the noble Augustus and his cunning wife, Livia; the reptilian Tiberius; the monstrous Caligula; and finally old Claudius himself. Filled with poisonings, betrayal, and shocking excesses, I Claudius is history that rivals the most exciting contemporary fiction.

    Flora says: "wonderful story - wrong narrator for my ears!"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
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    Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large

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    • By William Shatner, Chris Regan
    • Narrated By William Shatner
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    Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner. This collection of rules, illustrated with stories from Bill's illustrious life and career, will show you how Bill became WILLIAM SHATNER, larger than life and bigger than any role he ever played. Shatner Rules is your guide to becoming William Shatner. Or, more accurately, beautifully Shatneresque.

    S says: "This octogenarian rules!"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom
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    The Barefoot Executive: The Ultimate Guide to Being Your Own Boss and Achieving Financial Freedom

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    • By Carrie Wilkerson
    • Narrated By Carrie Wilkerson
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    Don't think you have what it takes to run a business? It's time to reconsider. Carrie Wilkerson offers the opportunity to live life on your terms. Want to start your workday with e-mail and coffee on the back patio? Want the flexibility of joining your fourth grader on an all-day field trip? Are you ready to take that vacation you've been planning for years? Then you have a choice to make, and The Barefoot Executive will help jump-start your transition. You'll learn: Your "why." The most important question.

    vera says: "Very positive"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
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    Atlas Shrugged

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    • By Ayn Rand
    • Narrated By Scott Brick
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    In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.

    Alan Michael Forrester says: "John Galt would have liked it"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Sense of an Ending
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    The Sense of an Ending

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    • By Julian Barnes
    • Narrated By Richard Morant
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    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.

    Carol says: "The Sense of an Ending"
    Winner 2011 Man Booker Prize
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    A Visit from the Goon Squad

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    • By Jennifer Egan
    • Narrated By Roxana Ortega
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    Jennifer Egan brings her unique gifts as a novelist and short story writer to a compulsively readable narrative that centers on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the pasionate, troubled young woman he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly 50 years.

    Cathy says: "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
    2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner
  • Play Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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    Daughter of Smoke and Bone

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    • By Laini Taylor
    • Narrated By Khristine Hvam
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    In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand, she's a 17-year-old art student in Prague; on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world, half in 'Elsewhere', she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole.

    Laura says: "ASTONISHING"
    The 2012 Audies Winner
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    Django: World's Greatest Guitarist

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    • By Bonnie Christensen
    • Narrated By George Guidall
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    From extreme poverty in a gypsy camp, through a debilitating injury, Django Reinhardt overcame tremendous obstacles to become a world-renowned, much beloved and highly acclaimed jazz guitarist. This production captures the spirit of the man, his music and his inspiring life story.

    The 2012 Audies Winner
  • Play The Tiger's Wife
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    The Tiger's Wife

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 29 mins)
    • By Tea Obreht
    • Narrated By Robin Sachs, Susan Duerden
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    A tiger escapes from a zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans. On this journey, she receives word of her beloved grandfather's death, far from their home, in circumstances shrouded in mystery.

    Christine says: "Irritating narration"
    Winner 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction
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    Osama

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    • By Lavie Tidhar
    • Narrated By Jeff Harding
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    In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante...Joe's quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction?

    Philip says: "Felt overlong"
    Winner 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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    Pure

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    • By Andrew Miller
    • Narrated By Jonathan Aris
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    Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.

    Alison says: "Slow build unease and beautiful language"
    Winner 2011 Costa Book Awards
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    The Stranger's Child

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    • By Alan Hollinghurst
    • Narrated By James Daniel Wilson
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    In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever.

    Christina says: "Murder by Narrator"
    UK Author the Year, 2011 Galaxy British Book Awards
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