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ID: 334202

Title: Cops and Robbers: The Story of the British Police Car

Author: Ant Anstead

Narrator: Ant Anstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyones horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.

The British Police Forces relationship with the car started by chasing after pioneer speeding motorists on bicycles. As speed restrictions eased in the early twentieth century and car ownership increased, the police embraced the car. Criminals were stealing cars to sell on or to use as getaway vehicles and the police needed to stay ahead, or at least only one step behind. The arms race for speed, which culminated in the police acquiring high-speed pursuit vehicles such as Subaru Impreza Turbos, had begun.

Since then the car has become essential to everyday life. Deep down everyone loves a police car. Countless enthusiasts collect models in different liveries and legendary police cars become part of the nations shared consciousness.

Ant Anstead spent the first six years of his working life as a cop. He was part of the armed response team, one of the forces most elite units. In this fascinating new history of the British police car, Ant looks at the classic cars, from the Mets Wolseleys to the Senator, the motorway patrol car officers loved most, via unusual and unexpected police vehicles such as the Arial Atom. Its a must-read for car enthusiasts, social historians and anyone who loves a good car chase, Cops and Robbers is a rip-roaring celebration of the police car and the men and women who drive them.

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ID: 334205

Title: Hidden Sin: When the past comes back to haunt you

Author: Julie Shaw

Narrator: Jonathan McGarrity

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

The explosive sequel to #1 Sunday Times bestseller Bad Blood.

Set 18 years later, Hidden Sin is the story of Joey, his girlfriend Paula and Rasta Mo, the man he is to discover is his dad.

Joey Parker is a young man with big dreams. Almost eighteen, hes desperate to escape the shackles of his window cleaning round, so whens offered the chance to try out as a drummer in a local Blondie tribute band he jumps at the chance. But it isnt just the music that moves him. Its also the fact that Paula Foster is the lead singer. The daughter of his mums old mate, Josie, she was once a childhood friend. Theyve not seen each other in years, and their mutual attraction is immediate.

Meanwhile, notorious local drug overlord, Rasta Mo, has recently returned to Bradford after a spell inside and years in Marbella. He is instantly enamored with the good-looking drummer he discovers is his son. He decides that his new club is in need of a house band and so begins his attempts to woo him.

This book charts a journey between two men into a future neither visualized. And, in Joeys case, into a dangerous criminal world hes never known. And, while his mother and step-father can only look on in horror as Joey potentially becomes the one thing shes always dreaded his fathers son.

Joey is oblivious to who Mo is. The truth has always been hidden from him. All he cares about is that his and Paulas dreams are all starting to come true. But will the cost of achieving them be too high to pay?

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ID: 334201

Title: One Summer in Italy

Author: Sue Moorcroft

Narrator: Helen Johns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:03:38

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Holidays, Sagas

Summary:

I love all of Sue Moorcrofts books!

Katie Fforde

When Sofia Bianchis father Aldo dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows its time for her to live her own life and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.

So theres nothing for it but to escape to Italys Umbrian mountains where, tucked away in a sleepy Italian village, lie plenty of family secrets waiting to be discovered. There, Sofia also finds Amy who is desperately trying to find her way in life after discovering her dad isnt her biological father.

Sofia sets about helping Amy through this difficult time, but its the handsome Levi who proves to be the biggest distraction for Sofia, as her new life starts to take off

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ID: 334203

Title: Darling

Author: Rachel Edwards

Narrator: Adele Oni, Jaimi Barbakoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Family Life

Summary:

A teenage girl clashes with her new stepmother in this debut thriller with an unforgettable twist

A pile-up of devastating plot twists Bernardine Evaristo, author of Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other

Dark, deep, thought-provoking. Go and read it! Adele Parks

Similar in spirit to We Need to Talk About Kevin

Sunday Times

Genuinely unputdownable Clare Fisher, author of All the Good Things

Sure to be a reading group favourite

Metro

Stunning Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request

The twists and turns left me reeling Eleanor Wasserberg, author of Foxlowe

I knew she was trouble from the moment I saw her. I felt it as she stood in the doorway that day: disaster. Not just because she was so different, that skin and that hair, as different from me as its possible to be. There was something wrong about her. Wrong for us. It was never going to work.

Now she is dead and only I am left to love him. She is dead, and its all my fault.

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ID: 334207

Title: Cliff House

Author: Amanda Jennings

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General, Coming of Age

Summary:

HER OBSESSION. YOUR HOME.

A beautiful, stirring story of loss and obsession Lisa Jewell, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

Haunting and evocative Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of I See You and Let Me Lie

Cornwall, summer of 1986.

The Davenports, with their fast cars and glamorous clothes, living the dream in a breathtaking house overlooking the sea.

If only thinks sixteen-year-old Tamsyn, her binoculars trained on the perfect family in their perfect home.

If only her life was as perfect as theirs.

If only Edie Davenport would be her friend.

If only she lived at The Cliff House

Amanda Jennings weaves a haunting tale of obsession, loss and longing, set against the brooding North Cornish coastline, destined to stay with readers long after the final page is turned.

PRAISE FOR THE CLIFF HOUSE:

A beautiful, stirring story of loss and obsession Lisa Jewell, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

Haunting and evocative Clare Mackintosh, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of I See You and Let Me Lie

Absorbingly atmospheric beautiful and sinister The Times

A very special and utterly unforgettable tale of obsession, desire, grief and deceit read it Heat

With a page-turning plot, brilliant sense of place and beautifully drawn characters The Cliff House deserves to be one of the biggest hits of the summer Cass Green

Immensely atmospheric, with vividly drawn characters and a set-up fraught with tension Lucy Atkins

Addictive and utterly compelling a clever, thoughtful and page-turning novel Hannah Beckerman

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ID: 334208

Title: Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

Author: Dan Hancox

Narrator: Ash Hunter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018

The definitive grime biography NME

A landmark genre history Pitchfork

This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playing Hamilton in the West End production of the musical.

The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London. Making beats on stolen software, spitting lyrics on tower block rooftops and beaming out signals from pirate-radio aerials, a group of teenagers raised on UK garage, American hip-hop and Jamaican reggae stumble upon a dazzling new genre.

Against all odds, these young MCs will grow up to become some of the UKs most famous musicians, scoring number one records and dominating British pop culture for years to come. Hip-hop royalty will fawn over them, billion dollar brands will queue up to beg for their endorsements and through their determined DIY ethics theyll turn the music industry's logic on its head.

But getting there wont be easy. Successive governments will attempt to control their music, their behaviour and even their clothes. The media will demonise them and the police will shut down their clubs. National radio stations and live music venues will ban them. There will be riots, fighting in the streets, even murder. And the inner-city landscape that shaped them will be changed beyond all recognition.

Drawn from over a decade of in depth interviews and research with all the key MCs, DJs and industry players, in this extraordinary book the UKs best grime journalist Dan Hancox tells the remarkable story of how a group of outsiders went on to create a genre that has become a British institution. Here, for the first time, is the full story of grime.

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ID: 333960

Title: Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

Author: Michael Chabon

Narrator: Michael Chabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-15-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Health & Wellness, Essays & Anthologies, Parenting

Summary:

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.

You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough

What are you allowed to talk about with your children? When to step in with advice, when to let them make their own mistakes? Its more complicated than you think. Somehow you muddle through.

In this heartfelt, humorous and wise book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon attempts to weigh in on difficult conversations with his children, on everything from texting girls to death. But it is when he hangs back that he catches them transforming into their own people. What emerges is a fathers deep respect for his childrens passions and for their bravery in the face of conformity.

Whether you know the joy and struggles of being a father, or were shaped by one, you will find a home in these stunning essays.

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ID: 333959

Title: Things We Need to Say

Author: Rachel Burton

Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Holidays

Summary:

Utterly spectacular. For me, The Things we Need to Say is a real-life love story and one that will stay with me for a long time. Laurie Ellingham, author of One Endless Summer

Sometimes the things we never say are the most important.

Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her just that. Leaving behind a broken marriage, she has some very important decisions to make.

Will needs his wife, he needs her to open up to him if theyre to ever return to the way things once were. But he may have damaged any possibility he had of mending their relationship and now Fran is in Spain and Will is alone.

As both Fran and Will begin to let go of a life that could have been, fate may just find a way of bringing them back together.

Perfect for fans of Katie Marsh, Amanda Prowse and Sheila OFlanagan

From the best-selling author of The Many Colours of Us comes an emotional story of grief, relationships and ultimately hope.

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ID: 346409

Title: Honored Enemy

Author: Raymond E. Feist, William R. Forstchen

Narrator: Matt Bates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:17:21

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

The first of a major Feist acquisition, returning to his best-loved series.

FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE?

Hartrafts Marauders, a crack band of Kingdom raiders, are a special unit designed to infiltrate and fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison, after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani.

Meanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time and discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) and they are forced by circumstances to band together and fight as one to survive.

The only problem is, who do they hate the most their mutual enemy, or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle not only with the elements and their enemies, but also their conscience. For what is more important ones life or ones honour?

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ID: 333511

Title: Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrator: Deborah G. Plant, Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker.

This account illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade.

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last 'Black Cargo' ship to arrive in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nations history. Hurston was there to record Cudjos firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States.

In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjos pastmemories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War.

Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjos unique vernacular, and written from Hurstons perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.

A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life Daily Telegraph

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