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Title: A Long Way Down: the international bestseller

Author: Nick Hornby

Narrator: Pauline Mclynn, Beattie Edmondson, Christopher Ragland, Nicky Henson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Release date: February 6, 2014

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all ... But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living? Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets, now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan.

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Title: Winter

Author: Christopher Nicholson

Narrator: Multiple Narrators, Judith Boyd, Gordon Griffin, Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 16, 2014

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of The Elephant Keeper, nominated for the Costa Award for Best Novel, comes a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy's relationship with his last muse A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her.

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Title: The Other Typist

Author: Suzanne Rindell

Narrator: Gretchen Mol

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Release date: January 2, 2014

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side. Every day Rose transcribes the confessions of gangsters and murderers - and while she may disapprove of the details, she prides herself on typing up the goriest of crimes without batting an eyelid. But when the captivating Odalie begins at the precinct Rose finds herself falling under the new typist's spell. As the two girls' friendship blossoms, it is not long before Rose's fascination for her new colleague turns to obsession. But just who is the real Odalie, and how far will Rose go to find out?

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Title: Expo 58

Author: Jonathan Coe

Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Release date: September 5, 2013

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Expo 58 - Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, the lovely Flemish hostess who meets him off his plane. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: the Cold War is at its height, the mischievous Belgians have placed the American and Soviet pavilions right next to each other - and why is he being followed everywhere by two mysterious emissaries of the British Secret Service? Expo 58 may represent a glittering future, both for Europe and for Thomas himself, but he will soon be forced to decide where his public and private loyaties really lie. For fans of Jonathan Coe's classic comic bestsellers What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, this hilarious new novel, which is set in the Mad Men period of the mid 50s, will also be loved by readers of Nick Hornby, William Boyd and Ian McEwan. 'Coe has huge powers of observation and enormous literary panache' Sunday Times 'No one marries formal ingenuity with inclusiveness of tone more elegantly' Time Out 'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times' Observer 'Thank goodness for Jonathan Coe, who records what Britain has lost in the past thirty years in his elegiac fiction' Scotland on Sunday © Jonathan Coe 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2013

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Title: Ghana Must Go

Author: Taiye Selasi

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it? 'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut' Teju Cole, author of Open City © Taiye Selasi 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2013

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Title: Jo's Boys

Series: #3 of Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Release date: February 1, 2013

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Jo's Boys, written by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1886, is the third novel in the Little Women series. It follows the lives of Jo's adopted sons, who range from mischievous young boys to young adults navigating the path to adulthood. Through the characters' experiences, readers gain insight into the joys and struggles of growing up, learning to be responsible, and discovering the power of the human spirit. As the boys grow, they face difficult choices and must learn to make their own decisions. Along the way, they must confront their own flaws and learn to accept themselves as they are. Jo's Boys is a timeless story of family and friendship that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.

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Title: Pentatonic: A Story of Music

Author: Jonathan Coe

Narrator: Jonathan Coe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 33 minutes

Release date: November 28, 2012

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Pentatonic, written and read by Jonathan Coe, is a daring and original story about family and memory, originally inspired by the accompanying music from Danny Manners. When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his living room piano recital, recorded on a well-worn cassette tape. The mother remembers her own father's war tragedy. As the father searches for the physical reminder of his past and the mother longs to forget her own, they confront the breakdown of their marriage in the present. In Pentatonic, Jonathan Coe movingly explores the memories that unite us and the experiences that drive us apart. This story is also available as a Penguin ebook. Text by Jonathan Coe Music by Danny Manners Produced by Ken Brake at Regal Lane Studios

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Title: NW

Author: Zadie Smith

Narrator: Don Gilet, Karen Bryson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2012

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty - a masterful and intimate novel of modern London life 'A triumph. Every sentence sings' Guardian 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece' Daily Telegraph 'Smith's most satisfying novel. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. Funny, poignant and vividly contemporary, NW is as brimming with vitality as the city itself.

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Title: Absolution

Author: Patrick Flanery

Narrator: Patrick Doherty, Multiple Narrators, Janet Suzman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2012

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A début of extraordinary strength and power, Absolution shines a light on contemporary South Africa and the long dark shadow of Apartheid In her lush garden on the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Ambitious young writer Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? As Sam and Clare turn over the events of her life, she begins to seek reconciliation, absolution. But in the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.

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Title: A Separate Peace

Author: John Knowles

Narrator: Scott Snively

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.79 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it’s the summer of 1942, and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school’s peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between Gene and Phineas, two students attending the 1942 summer session at Devon. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspicion and the complexities of adolescence result in violence and betrayal. A Separate Peace has become a modern classic.