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ID: 710815

Title: My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

Author: Sarah Moss

Narrator: Morven Christie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:28:36

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape' - The Daily Telegraph

‘Devastating, funny . . . a brave and important book’ - Melissa Harrison

A memoir about thinking and reading, eating and denying your body food, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood.

In the household of Sarah Moss's childhood she learnt that the female body and mind were battlegrounds. 1970s austerity and second-wave feminism came together: she must keep herself slim but never be vain, she must be intelligent but never angry, she must be able to cook and sew and make do and mend, but know those skills were frivolous. Clever girls should be ambitious but women must restrain themselves. Women had to stay small.

Years later, her self-control had become dangerous, and Sarah found herself in A&E. The return of her teenage anorexia had become a medical emergency, forcing her to reckon with all that she had denied her hard-working body and furiously turning mind.

My Good Bright Wolf navigates contested memories of girlhood, the chorus of relentless and controlling voices that dogged Sarah’s every thought, and the writing and books in which she could run free. Beautiful, audacious, moving and very funny, this memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then finds a way out.

From Sarah Moss, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summerwater, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir like no other.

'Compulsive and compelling' - Emilie Pine

‘Confronts what it means to be a woman trying to find a way to be’ - Jan Carson

'Moss writes so compassionately about human frailty while her own work is as close to perfect as a novelist’s can be' - The Times

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ID: 800371

Title: Beauty

Author: Aliya Whiteley

Narrator: Harrie Dobby, Stewart Crank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:53:44

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In a post-apocalyptic world where all the women have died a group of men and boys survive. The story shall be told to preserve the past. History has gone back to its aural roots and the power of words is strong.

Meet Nate, the storyteller, and the new secrets he brings back from the woods. William rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? What about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the woods? And what of mushrooms like heads, on the graves of women?

Discover the Beauty.

This story is a dark slice of the New Weird, encompassing dystopian post-apocalyptic fiction, dark fairy tale and horror. Whiteley's prose is poetic and elegiac, weaving the beautiful and macabre, etching razor- sharp observations on love, loss and what women, mothers, sisters, lovers, mean.

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ID: 791634

Title: I've Got Your Number

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Narrator: Katie Lyons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:54

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella

I've lost it :(

The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy.

Stay positive!! :)

A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be . . . Finders Keepers!

Except the phone's owner, elusive businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. Can things get any more tangled?

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ID: 712456

Title: We Are Hunted

Author: Tomi Oyemakinde

Narrator: Jude Owusu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:41:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

We Are Hunted by Tomi Oyemakinde is a compulsive speculative thriller about the lengths we go to for power – and to survive.

When seventeen-year-old Femi and his brother accompany their father on a top-secret business trip to a remote and mysterious island, they are looking forward to a summer they'll never forget.

Filled with spectacular species of animals and out-of-this-world technology, the island resort welcomes them with open arms, as does its impressive curator Richard Jenkins. But beneath the sparkle and the wonder, the island is hiding a terrible secret – and it's biding its time.

When the unthinkable happens and the island is put into lockdown, Femi realizes he is somehow at the centre of an operation that seeks to expose Jenkins' resort for what it really is.

But the truth comes with a price. And when the bodies start to fall, Femi must decide who on the island he can trust with his life – and how far he will go to survive.

A horror-thriller as creepy as Annihilation with the corruption-of-the-rich themes of The White Lotus. Perfect for fans of Kathryn Foxfield and You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight.

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ID: 798476

Title: Truss at 10

Author: Anthony Seldon, Jonathan Meakin

Narrator: Mark Elstob

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:32

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the space of just 49 days, Truss witnessed the death of the longest-reigning monarch, attempted to remould the economy, triggered a collapse in the value of Sterling and was forced on a series of embarrassing U-turns that ultimately led to her resignation. The aftershocks of her time in office are still felt today. How did she blow her opportunity so spectacularly?

Based on exclusive interviews with key aides, allies and insiders, and focusing on the critical steps that led to her demise, this gripping behind-the-scenes work of contemporary history gives the definitive account of Truss's premiership.

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ID: 800355

Title: Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Author: Sacha Coward

Narrator: Will Watt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:41:21

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots.

Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.

Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows, found kinship in the in-between and created safe spaces in underworlds; but these forgotten narratives tell stories of remarkable resilience that deserve to be heard.

To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past and Queer as Folklore is a celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before.

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ID: 791637

Title: Blue Hour

Author: Tiffany Clark Harrison

Narrator: Julienne Irons

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:55:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma and an unravelling America? What it's always been - a love song.

Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an America that's coming undone. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class.

Unmoored by the grief of a recent, devastating miscarriage and Noah's fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a child, no longer wants to bring a Black body into the world. Yet her husband Asher - contributing white Jewish genes alongside her Black-Japanese ones to any potential child - is just as desperate to keep trying.

Throwing herself into a new documentary on motherhood and making secret visits to Noah in the hospital, this is when she learns she is, impossibly, pregnant. As life shifts once more, she must decide what she dares hope for the shape of her future to be.

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ID: 804729

Title: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

Author: Peter Hessler

Narrator: Peter Hessler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:31:53

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of China's 'Reform generation' - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.

In the late 1990s, almost all of Hessler's students were the first of their families to enrol in higher education, sons and daughters of subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new world. By 2019, when Hessler arrived at Sichuan University, he found a very different China and a new kind of student - an only child whose schooling was the object of intense focus from a much more ambitious and sophisticated cohort of parents. Hessler's new students have a sense of irony about the regime but mostly navigate its restrictions with equanimity, and embrace the astonishing new opportunities China's boom affords. But the pressures of this system of extreme 'meritocracy' at scale can be gruesome, even for much younger children, including his own daughters, who give him a first-hand view of raising a child in China.

In Peter Hessler's hands, China's education system is the perfect vehicle for examining what's happened to the country, where it's going, and what we can learn from it. At a time when relations between the UK and China fracture, Other Rivers is a tremendous, indeed an essential gift, a work of enormous human empathy that rejects cheap stereotypes and shows us China from the inside out and the bottom up, using as a measuring stick this most universally relatable set of experiences. As both a window onto China and a distant mirror onto our own education system, Other Rivers is a classic, a book of tremendous value and compelling human interest.

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ID: 783930

Title: Outcast: The Grey Gates - Book 1

Author: Vanessa Nelson

Narrator: Emma Gregory

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:03

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: Whole Story QUEST

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count?

Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure.

Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past. She's just trying to do her job and live her life.

Asked to help local law enforcement with a series of vicious murders, Max is willing to assist but soon realises that she might be next. Can she keep her secret while finding the killer?

Outcast is the first audiobook in a new series by Vanessa Nelson. If you like your fantasy mixed with a dose of mystery, a bit of magic, and a heroine who can hold her own, you will love this new series.

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ID: 797239

Title: Stilled Voices: DCI Murrain Book 4

Author: Alex Walters

Narrator: Greg Wagland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:33:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

When will the voices stop? The murder of professional astrologer Andrew Gorman seems a straightforward case for DCI Kenny Murrain a tragic death resulting from an interrupted burglary. But when Gareth Clayburn, assistant to stage medium Justin Bannerman, is found dead in identical circumstances, Murrain begins to suspect the murders are linked. Meanwhile, Geoff Nolan, television personality and professor of psychology, is developing a new series exploring the psychology of the paranormal. Starting with Bannerman's work as a supposed spiritualist. When Murrain receives an unexpected approach from the security services, he realises that the links between the killings lie deep in Murrain's own past and his own paranormal gifts. After days of rain and with floodwaters rising. Murrain finds himself in a race against time to prevent further deaths. In a shattering climax at Nolan's riverside home, Murrain finally comes face to face with an adversary who shares his remarkable gifts, as the book races to its dramatic and potentially tragic climax.

'A talent to be reckoned with A strong story line, muscular prose and a real sense of pacea police procedural for a new age' - DAILY MAIL

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