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Title: Strangers and Brothers: An epic BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Author: C.P. Snow

Narrator: Anne-Marie Duff, Juliet Aubrey, David Haig, Danny Webb, Adam Godley, Stephen Moore, David Tennant, Full Cast, Bill Wallis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the twentieth century 'A vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life' Guardian 'A very considerable achievement... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope)' Anthony Burgess In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power, and the ever-present realities of war. The New York Times praised the book series, saying, 'through [them] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment'. John Betjeman claimed the books were 'as full of life as life itself'. The Strangers and Brothers series captures perfectly the ever-present battle between political and personal integrity Lewis must face, as well as all the upheaval and social change of the two world wars and the decades that followed. This adaptation stars David Haig and Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot, Bill Wallis as George Passant, Juliet Aubrey as Margaret Davidson, Stephen Moore as Herbert Getliffe, and Danny Webb as Percy Hall, with a full cast including Jeremy Swift, David Tennant, Anne-Marie Duff, Iain Glen, Claire Skinner and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January-June 2003 Full cast: Narrator/Lewis Eliot - David Haig Young Lewis Eliot - Adam Godley George Passant - Bill Wallis Marion - Laura Doddington Sheila Knight - Anastasia Hille Herbert Getliffe - Stephen Moore Percy Hall - Danny Webb Charles March - Jamie Glover Leonard March - John Standing Katherine March - Carla Simpson Ann Simon - Emma Woolliams Mrs Getliffe - Suzanna Hamilton Revd Knight - Brett Usher Young Francis Getliffe - Andy Taylor Winslow - Clive Merrison Young Brown - Philip Franks Roy Calvert - Adam Levy Young Jago - David Calder Nightingale - Jeremy Child Chrystal - Matthew Marsh Crawford - Hugh Quarshie Mrs Jago - Joanna Monroe Sir Horace Timberlake - Ian Hogg Young Hector Rose - Rupert Vansittart Houston Eggar - Peter Marinker Willy Romantovski - Kenneth Collard Gilbert Cooke - Anthony Calf Margaret Davidson/Margaret Eliot - Juliet Aubrey Rosalind - Anne-Marie Duff Betty Vane - Carla Simpson Martin Eliot - Tim McInnerny Walter Luke - Jeremy Swift Irene - Claire Skinner David Rubin - Rolf Saxon Sawbridge - Adrian Scarborough Edgar - Andrew Wincott Captain Smith - Sean Baker Sir Hector Rose - John Carlisle Sir Thomas Beville - Robert Laing Austin Davidson - David Collings Jago - Sean Barrett Dawson Hill - Peter Blythe Skeffington - David Acton Francis Getliffe - Geoffrey Whitehead Brown - Jonathan Coy Donald Howard - David Tennant Roger Quaife - Iain Glen Lord Collingwood - Ronald Pickup Caro Quaife - Julia Watson Lord Gilbey - John Woodvine Diana Skidmore - Avril Clark Phillips - Richard Firth Osbaldiston - David Leonard Brodzinski - Christopher Rozycki Ellen Smith - Emma Bown Monteith - Paul Venables Trafford - Stephen Critchlow © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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Title: Other Names for Love: ‘Exceptional’ Sunjeev Sahota

Author: Taymour Soomro

Narrator: Homer Todiwala

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family?to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro's Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a country's troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty. © Taymour Soomro 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: Berlin: The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn

Author: Bea Setton

Narrator: Daphne Kouma

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Bea Setton, and her commissioning editor, Alice Youell. A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times. In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse. Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city - acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life. A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion - starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night - and a further unravelling ensues. What is at the heart of these strange events and our troubled heroine? Who is Daphne, really, and what is she running from? © Bea Setton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: The Trio

Author: Johanna Hedman

Narrator: Maya Lindh, Sam Woolf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Release date: July 7, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy For fans of André Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically. The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back. Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close. 'An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia' Gefle Dagblad 'Mature and confident, delicate and eloquent, a study in intimacy... The Trio creates a greedy sensation within the reader of constantly wanting to pick up a book and read just a few more pages... Timeless and universal' Kult Magasin 'Johanna Hedman should definitely expect to win prizes' Upsala Nya Tidning © Johanna Hedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: [Spanish] - Cicatriz

Author: Sara Mesa

Narrator: Marta Martín

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Release date: July 6, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Una inquietante historia de amor y una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo. Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que los separan, establece con él una particular relación marcada por la obsesión y la extrañeza. Entre la atracción y la repulsión, no puede evitar sentirse fascinada por este personaje insólito y perfeccionista, que vive fuera de toda norma social y que la corteja a través de suntuosos regalos robados. «Le gustaba ir siempre bien vestido, incluso para ir a robar una simple lata de conservas. Tan joven y hablando de escritores del XIX. Filosofando. Cuestionándolo todo. Teorizando sobre el individuo y el grupo, y la hipocresía social, y los chivos expiatorios, y Dios y el destino, la virginidad y el sexo. Solía decir que no hay placer comparable a pensar. Y no, no era petulante ni vanidoso. Era simplemente... exhaustivo.» Su necesidad de poner distancia cuando Knut se vuelve demasiado absorbente, pero también su irrefrenable curiosidad y el ansia de vivir experiencias más allá de una existencia excesivamente reglada, llevarán a Sonia a una doble vida secreta en la que quedará atrapada durante años sin posibilidad de exculparse. En esta inusitada historia, Sara Mesa recupera temas que ya aparecieron en sus primeras obras narrativas, dándoles forma a través de un estilo conciso y eléctrico en un mundo –frío, escasamente comunicativo– cuyas reglas establecen únicamente los propios personajes que lo habitan. Cicatriz no es sólo una inquietante historia de amor descompensado protagonizada por dos seres muy distintos pero a la vez complementarios, es también una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo y los robos a gran escala en grandes almacenes, la sumisión y el poder, la anulación del deseo y la carnalidad, el refugio de la infancia, la fantasía como alternativa, la culpa y la expiación, la escritura y la vocación literaria. La autora de la celebrada Cuatro por cuatro (que fue finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela) se confirma con Cicatriz como una de las voces más singulares e imprescindibles de su generación. «Desde una inquietante visión de la contemporaneidad, tanto en Cicatriz como en su anterior novela Cuatro por cuatro, Sara Mesa levanta una literatura de alto voltaje trabajada con precisión de orfebre» (Rafael Chirbes). «En una atmósfera que evoca los laberintos carcelarios de Piranessi y la asfixia del subsuelo dostoievskiano, Sara Mesa nos asoma a un mundo donde anidan la impostura, el acoso que nace del desdén y el desprecio, la provocación implacable, la turbiedad que acabará concretándose en dinero -transacciones-, la sumisión ante el poder, la culpa y su obligada expiación... un mundo que el lector reconoce de inmediato, porque es el nuestro, el de la sociedad de consumo... y del espectáculo» (Ana Rodríguez Fischer, Babelia, El País).

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Title: [French] - Le Voyage Scolaire De Megan

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Etienne Beney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Release date: July 5, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire.Megan est une adolescente de 13 ans, qui se rend compte qu'elle a des pouvoirs psychiques que les autres n'ont pas. Au début, elle a essayé d'en parler à sa mère, mais avec des conséquences désastreuses, elle a donc appris à se taire à leur sujet. Cependant, certaines personnes ont offert leur aide et un animal a montré une amitié particulière, mais ils n'étaient pas «vivants» au sens normal du terme. Ils étaient décédés. Megan a trois de ces amis: Wacinhinsha, son guide spirituel, qui avait été Sioux dans sa dernière vie sur Terre; son grand-père maternel, Gramps et un énorme tigre de Sibérie appelé Grrr. Wacinhinsha est extrêmement compétent en toutes choses spirituelles, psychiques et paranormales; son grand-père est un «mort» novice et Grrr ne peut parler que le tigre, comme on pourrait l'imaginer et la plupart de cela, bien sûr, est inintelligible pour les humains. Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: Some Maintenance Required

Author: Marie-Renée Lavoie

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Release date: July 5, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected potty-mouthed little neighbor. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where she constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies her understanding of class differences and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control.

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Title: The Family String

Author: Denise Picton

Narrator: Maddy Withington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Release date: June 30, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be ‘of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen. This is a superb coming of age story that explores a fraught mother-daughter dynamic, and the secrets adults keep from their children. It is about resilience, and the loves that sustain us when our most essential bonds are tested, and how to find the way back through hope and forgiveness.

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Title: Megan Faces Derision

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: Megan's School Trip

Author: Owen Jones

Narrator: Kim Somers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Release date: June 28, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME