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ID: 547499

Title: Ellen Lives On

Author: Lynda Haddock

Narrator: Rosie Akerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

1971. When 15 year-old Ellen returns home from school in Yorkshire, her world is fragmented as she finds her mother has hanged herself. A dark mist descends, yet somehow she must find a new way to live. After her mother's funeral, Ellen is taken to live with her aunt and uncle and pressed into housework, forced to wait on the men of the household. She retreats into herself, into sullen, desperate silence to survive. In a fit of rebellion, she writes a letter to the local paper in support of the campaign for comprehensive education and the closure of her own prestigious selective school. Most of her fellow pupils shun her, and after a harsh rebuke from the headteacher, Ellen runs out of school and far away, down to London to find her grandfather.

Her situation doesn't improve, as she narrowly escapes the unwanted attentions of a stranger in King's Cross. Yet when she finds herself caught in the midst of a radical political rally led by a group of young women protesting for their rights, suddenly her world is changed. Although her grandfather is in hospital, Ellen discovers new friendships as she joins the group and learns to stand up: for women and for herself.

Written to provide support, insight and comfort for those younger readers dealing with parental suicide, Ellen Lives On also offers keen perspective on long term women's issues. An engrossing story of one girl's struggle for self and survival, Ellen Lives On will be enjoyed by anyone interested in an addictive tale of love, loss and freedom.

Lynda Haddock has opted to use suffragette colours for her cover to further support the cause for women's rights

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ID: 578073

Title: Those Who Know

Author: Alis Hawkins

Narrator: Iestyn Arwel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:33:58

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

Beset on all sides, time is running out: to solve the case, and to save his future...

Harry Probert-Lloyd has inherited the estate of Glanteifi and appointed his assistant John as under-steward. But his true vocation, to be coroner, is under threat. Against his natural instincts, Harry must campaign if he is to be voted as coroner permanently.

On the hustings, Harry and John are called to examine the body of Nicholas Rowland, a pioneering schoolteacher whose death may not be the accident it first appeared. What was Rowland's real relationship with his eccentric patron, Miss Gwatkyn? And why does Harry's rival for the post of coroner deny knowing him?

Harry's determination to uncover the truth threatens to undermine both his campaign and his career.

An unputdownable Victorian historical crime thriller, perfect for fans of D. V. Bishop, Andrew Taylor and Ambrose Parry.

Praise for Alis Hawkins

'Beautifully written, cunningly plotted, with one of the most interesting central characters' E. S. Thomson

'The most interesting crime creation of the year' Phil Rickman

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ID: 578072

Title: In Two Minds

Author: Alis Hawkins

Narrator: Iestyn Arwel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:32:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-09-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

Solve a murder, bring a killer to justice... but at what cost?

Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has begun work as the acting coroner of Teifi Valley with solicitor's clerk John Davies as his assistant.

When a faceless body is found on an isolated beach, Harry must lead the inquest. But his dogged pursuit of the truth begins to ruffle feathers. Especially when he decides to work alongside a local doctor with a dubious reputation and experimental theories considered radical and dangerous.

Refusing to accept easy answers might not only jeopardise Harry's chance to be elected coroner permanently, but could, it seems implicate his own family in a crime.

An absolutely scintillating historical crime thriller full of suspense and intrigue perfect for fans of S. J. Parris, C. J. Sansom and Abir Mukherjee.

Praise for Alis Hawkins

'Beautifully written, cunningly plotted, with one of the most interesting central characters' E.S. Thomson

'The most interesting crime creation of the year' Phil Rickman

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ID: 499467

Title: Duplex: A Micropowers Novel

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:41:56

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, General

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author

Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author

When Ryans crush, Bizzy Horvat, moves into the other half of his familys duplex, he is swept up into a world of micropotents and micropowers. It becomes Ryans job to protect Bizzy from people who want to kill her.

Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzys case, astonishing beauty.

When a bee gets caught in Bizzys hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts the attention of a group of micropotentspeople with micropowers. He soon realizes that Bizzy and her mother also have such powers. It becomes Ryans job, with the help of the other micropotents, to protect the Horvats from a group of witch hunters from their native country, who are determined to kill Bizzy, her mother, and all the other witchesmicropotentswho have gathered to protect them.

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ID: 523287

Title: Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Author: Dan Jones

Narrator: Dan Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:33:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

From the bestselling author of The Templars, Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.

Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones' trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting or stealing the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and women.

This is a book written about and for an age of profound change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here?

'A terrifically colourful and compelling narrative history... A hugely impressive achievement, bustling and sizzling with life... This is now simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages' Sunday Times

A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books of the Year

'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year

'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan

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ID: 538257

Title: Stolen Baby

Author: Diney Costeloe

Narrator: Georgia Maguire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Sagas

Summary:

A new Second World War novel from bestselling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story.

Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun to fall through the night sky when they realise their infant son, Freddie, has been forgotten in the rush, left to sleep in his crib. Terrified, Vera, his young mother races to find him and bring him to safety.

The next morning, air raid warden David Shawbrook returns from his watch to find the shelter pulverised, and his family seemingly all dead. Dirty footprints inside their home betray the looters who have rifled through the house.

Meanwhile, Maggie waits alone for her husband. Since the death of her infant son, she passes her days at home with neither joy nor aim. But not this morning. For this morning her husband has brought home a child, found abandoned in the aftermath of the terrible raid a child she is sure is the one she held in her arms so many months before.

Praise for Diney Costeloe:

'Truly captivating' Woman amp; Home

'This is a truly captivating read that brings together vibrant characters and a historical setting' Woman's Own

'A gripping saga' My Weekly

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ID: 538260

Title: Conclave 1559

Author: Mary Hollingsworth

Narrator: Julie Maisey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 the longest and bitterest of the sixteenth century.

Tasked with choosing a pontiff to replace a previous incumbent (Paul IV) whose reign was marked by repression and brutality, and faced with the growing challenge of the Protestant Reformation, the conclave faced a critically important decision for the future of the Roman Catholic Church, and was faction-ridden even by the standards of such polarised gatherings. France and Spain, both looking to extend their power in Italy and beyond, had very different ideas of who the new pope should be, as did the Italian cardinals.

Making meticulous use of the detailed accounts left by Ippolito d'Este, one of the participating cardinals (and the son of Lucrezia Borgia), Mary Hollingsworth relates the intrigue and double-dealing of the different parties trying to secure the required number of votes over the four months of this lengthiest of sixteenth-century papal elections.

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ID: 538259

Title: Hidden Child

Author: Louise Fein

Narrator: Ed Hughes, Kristin Atherton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:52:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Sagas

Summary:

From the outside, Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have the perfect life but they're harbouring a secret that threatens to fracture their entire world.

London, 1929. Eleanor Hamilton is a dutiful mother, a caring sister and an adoring wife to a celebrated war hero. Her husband, Edward, is a pioneer in the Eugenics movement. The Hamiltons are on the social rise, and it looks as though their future is bright.

When Mabel, their young daughter, begins to develop debilitating seizures, they have to face the uncomfortable truth Mabel has epilepsy: one of the 'undesirable' conditions that Edward campaigns against.

Forced to hide the truth so as not to jeopardise Edward's life's work, the couple must confront the truth of their past and the secrets that have been buried.

Will Eleanor and Edward be able to fight for their family? Or will the truth destroy them?

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ID: 538258

Title: Man on Hackpen Hill

Author: J.S. Monroe

Narrator: Fran Burgoyne, Malk Williams, Sam Stafford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before its too late?

It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth.

But this time, it's different. Not only because this particular design of dramatic spiralling hexagons has never been seen before. But because of the dead body positioned precisely in the centre of the circle. DI Silas Hart, of Swindon Police, is at a loss.

Only Jim, a scientist at secretive government laboratory Porton Down, knows the chilling truth about the man on Hackpen Hill. And he wants Bella, a trainee journalist on her first ever story, to tell the world. But Silas has other ideas and a boss intent on a cover up.

As Bella and Jim race against time, dark forces conspire against them, leading them to confront the reality of their own past and a world in which nothing is as it seems.

Reviews for J.S. Monroe:

'Full of unpredictable twists' The Times

'Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable' Clare Mackintosh

'The most ingenious thriller you will read this year' M.J. Arlidge

'Cunning, captivating and creepy' J.P. Delaney

'A tightly coiled and crafted plot' Daily Mail

'Pacy and propulsive' Daily Telegraph

'You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough' Heat

'Clever, imaginative and unusual' Daily Mail

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ID: 506652

Title: Cookie! (Book 3): Cookie and the Most Mysterious Mystery in the World

Author: Konnie Huq

Narrator: Konnie Huq

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:54:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-21

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

In her third adventure, Cookie finds mysteries everywhere - but can she solve them, and save the science show?

Hurray, Cookie's Nani is coming to stay from Bangladesh! But she doesn't speak English and Cookie is the only one in the family who doesn't speak Bengali. Luckily, science-mad Cookie realises that her coding lessons at school might help her crack the language code and help her bond with Nani.

Other mysteries are harder to solve, though - like, why is Jake's mum acting so weird? Who is the mystery gamer who keeps levelling-up in Cookie's computer game? And who is the Woodburn Hacker, who keeps posting teachers' secrets on the school website? Why does it look like it might be Cookie herself?

Can Cookie solve these mysteries, clear her name and save the science show?

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