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ID: 713530

Title: When Haru Was Here: A Magical and Heartbreaking Queer YA Romance

Author: Dustin Thao

Narrator: David Lee Huynh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:19:57

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

From the author of the bestselling TikTok sensation You’ve Reached Sam comes When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao, a magical exploration of loneliness, complicated friendships, and what it means to let go.

'It's magical how Dustin Thao can make you fall in love with having your heart broken' - Adam Silvera, #1 bestselling author of They Both Die at the End

What does it mean to let go . . . ?

After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real, and a boy he met last summer – Haru Tanaka – walks into the coffee shop and sits down next to him. The only thing is, nobody else can see him.

Eric suddenly has someone to connect with, making him feel less alone in the world. But as they spend more time together, he begins to question what is real. Soon Eric is losing control of the very thing that is holding him together, and must confront his reality. Even if it means losing Haru forever.

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ID: 798470

Title: Madwoman

Author: Chelsea Bieker

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:14:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

An unexpected letter from her mother threatens to pull Clove back to a life she's left behind, in this thrilling book from an explosive new talent

Clove has spent the past few years meticulously crafting a family life that looks nothing like the one she grew up in. She has a reliable husband, two loving children, a stable home: so what if ignoring the stubborn tendrils of her traumatic past means racking up a little credit card debt or indulging in a light obsession with wellness? Clove is doing just fine.

Or she is until a letter arrives from a women's prison in California a letter that threatens to expose the violent past Clove has worked so hard to conceal. Soon, she becomes entangled in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the very people she thought she'd outrun.

Bold, compassionate and full of surprising twists, Madwoman is a story about violence, recovery, and Clove's refusal to be defined by her worst experiences.

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ID: 798559

Title: Kingpin and the Crooked Cop

Author: Neil Mercer

Narrator: Nathan Lang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:07:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

The life and crimes of our most corrupt policeman and most notorious gangster featuring astonishing new evidence.

Roger Rogerson captured Australia's attention as its most notorious cop in the golden age of graft and violence. But who was the real Rogerson? And who was his principal partner in crime, the underworld kingpin, heroin dealer and armed bandit Arthur 'Neddy' Smith? Now Rogerson and Smith are both dead, and the full truth can be revealed.

Roger and Neddy have fascinated the public for decades. Our most decorated yet crooked police officer and the murderous drug importer he protected and enabled led interwoven careers that were truly stranger than fiction. Their crimes were committed against a backdrop of a changing Australia, as the nation's social fabric adapted to a more global world, and money - and drugs - poured into the country. Police, judges and even the media were up for sale, and Rogerson and Smith were the princes in this glamourous but bloody kingdom.

But as Roger and Neddy grew ever richer and more powerful, their crimes became too brazen, too violent and too public, leading to their spectacular downfall, years in court and life in prison. Crime reporter Neil Mercer knew Roger and Neddy since early 1980s, when the men were at the height of their powers. He followed their careers for major news outlets, met with them and was given exclusive interviews and insider information. Rogerson even wrote to him from jail. With key witnesses finally coming forward, Mercer has uncovered astonishing new evidence that will rewrite the story of the Australian underworld.

The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop is the definitive account of Roger and Neddy, and the era that made them. As compelling as any crime novel, it is filled with colour, violence and inside stories not seen or read before.

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ID: 798479

Title: Our London Lives

Author: Christine Dwyer Hickey

Narrator: Michele Forbes, Owen Roe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:07:32

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.

Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another's sight, always on one another's mind, yet rarely together.

Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she's ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.

Dark and brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love.

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ID: 782134

Title: Daughters of Jerusalem

Author: Charlotte Mendelson

Narrator: Fleur de Wit

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:19:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life

Summary:

Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape.

Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its prestigious university, secrets are stirring within the Lux family home . . .

Jean, the constrained and guilt-ridden wife of an academic, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source.

Eve, Jean's intelligent eldest daughter, luxuriates in wounded murderous jealousy of her younger sister and is on the brink of snapping.

Raymond, the loathed rival of Jean's husband, begins to show interest in Eve.

And Helena, Jean's best friend, has a confession, the revelation of which may just alter everyone's lives forever.

'Brilliant and witty . . . Mendelson's second bewitchingly erotic and darkly dramatic novel confirms her as a stylish, perceptive chronicler of the heart's hidden desires' - Daily Mail

'Superb . . . funny, exciting, lyrical, poignant, redemptive' - Guardian

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ID: 800364

Title: Overland

Author: Yasmin Cordery Khan

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:58:58

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime: the open road, London to Kathmandu, just three young people looking for adventure. No one could have predicted the way it ended, and for fifty years the truth has been buried. But now, Joyce is ready to tell her story.

London, 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job, Joyce answers an ad in the local paper: Kathmandu by van, leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate to escape life in suburbia, and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time.

Together with Anton, Freddie's best friend from boarding school, they embark on the overland trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders into Asia, Freddie can't outrun his family's history, leading to devastating consequences for everyone.

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ID: 803001

Title: Spectaculars: The Wild Song Contest

Author: Jodie Garnish

Narrator: Charlie Sanderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:40:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Secrets and sabotage plunge Harper into danger in her second year at the Wondria, a magical travelling theatre school. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The Greatest Showman.

Harper can't wait for her second year of Spectacular training, where a song can send you on a rollercoaster, a dance can lift you into the air, and you can send notes to your friends via a mechanical dragon.

This year, her school at the Wondria is hosting the Spectacular Song Contest, where theatres from across the Hidden Peaks will compete to win the Wild Song, a powerful piece of music that can cause chaos.

When the Song Contest is sabotaged, it's down to Harper and her friends to find the culprit and make sure the show can go on, before the wild magic destroys everything...

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ID: 800352

Title: Drake Hall: The Secrets of Ormdale Book 2

Author: Christina Baehr

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:

Edith's ancient home is full of secretsand dragons are the least of them.

As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns.

She doesn't expect to find herself growing closer to an inconveniently appealing suitor next door, or to stumble upon a dragon poacher lurking in the outbuildings, or to uncover a family scandal in the Abbey.

Fortunately, Edith has a mentor to help her sort things out, the spellbinding Helena Drake of Drake Hall. Or does Helena harbour secrets of her own?

For Edith, the dragons were always going to be the easy part.

DRAKE HALL, Book 2 of The Secrets of Ormdale, takes Edith deeper into the cosy gothic world of Yorkshire dragons and the mysterious families who guard them.

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ID: 798482

Title: Weatherman

Author: Royston Reeves

Narrator: Mike Paul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:49:48

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

I'm going to tell you about the worst thing that ever happened to me.'

Will's a nice guy. So when he takes a shortcut to the tube station after a few beers with his mates from work, he steps out of the way of the fellow who's staggering towards him. But he deliberately moves back into his path. They knock each other as they pass.

Moments later one man is dead and another's life is changed forever. Or is it? There are no CCTV cameras. There was no one else in the out-of-the-way alley. Maybe the world doesn't have to end for Will after all.

But there's always someone watching . . . and Will's life is about to implode.

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ID: 798483

Title: Empires of Bronze: Thunder at Kadesh: Empires of Bronze, Book 3

Author: Gordon Doherty

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:09:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

It will be the cruellest war ever waged, and the Gods will gather to watch

1275 BC: Tensions between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires erupt and the two great superpowers mobilise for all-out war. Horns blare across the Hittite northlands and the dunes of Egypt rumble with the din of drums as each gathers an army of unprecedented size. Both set their eyes upon the border between their domains, and the first and most important target: a desert city whose name will toll through history. Kadesh!

Prince Hattu has lived in torment for years, plagued by the memory of his wife's murder. Thoughts of her poisoner, Volca the Sherden for so long safe and distant by Pharaoh Ramesses' side have sullied his dreams, blackened his waking hours and driven him to commit the darkest of deeds. Now that war is here, he at last has the chance to confront his nemesis and have his vengeance.

But as the ancient world goes to war, Hattu will learn that the cold, sweet kiss of revenge comes at a terrible price.

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