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ID: 389805

Title: Ultra

Author: Tobias Jones

Narrator: Adam Bromley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:44:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-19

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolved into criminal gangs, involved in ticket-touting, drug-dealing and murder. A cross between the Hells Angels and hooligans, they're often the foot-soldiers of the Mafia and have been instrumental in the rise of the far-right. But the purist ultras say that they are insurgents fighting against a police state and modern football. Only amongst the ultras, they say, can you find belonging, community and a sacred concept of sport. They champion not just their teams, they say, but their forgotten suburbs and the dispossessed. Through the prism of the ultras Jones crafts a compelling investigation into Italian society and its favourite sport. He writes about not just the ultras of some of Italy's biggest clubs Juventus, Torino, Lazio, Roma and Genoa but also about its lesser-known ones from Cosenza and Catania. He examines the sinister side of football fandom, with its violence and political extremism, but also admires the passion, wit, solidarity and style of a fascinating and contradictory subculture.

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ID: 601420

Title: Nobody Move

Author: Philip Elliott

Narrator: Robert Svetlik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:30:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Best First Novel, CWC Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing

'Screams cult classic' --Booklist

Eddie Vegas made a terrible mistake. Now he has to pay the price.

After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie's ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend--someone Eddie might know something about. Meanwhile in Texas, ex-assassin Rufus, seeking vengeance for his murdered brother, takes up his beloved daggers one final time and begins the long drive to L.A. When the bodies begin to mount, Detective Alison Lockley's hunt for the killer becomes increasingly urgent.

As paths cross, confusion ensues, and no one's entirely sure who's after who. But one thing is clear: They're not all getting out of this alive.

'A promising new voice in hard-boiled crime fiction. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Jim Thompson will find much to savor.' --Kirkus Reviews

'A new spin on the genre.' --San Francisco Book Review

'Sharp, stylish and well-written. It makes reading fun again.' --US Review of Books

'Impossible to put down.' --Kevin Wilson,NYTbestselling author

'Fast-paced and chock full of interesting characters and chillingly delicious evil.' --IndieReader

'First class neo-noir.' --Murder, Mayhem & More

'Not a single dull moment.' --Online Book Club

'Like Tarantino on the page...rushes at you from page one.' --Dietrich Kalteis, author of Under an Outlaw Moon

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ID: 389852

Title: Medici: Ascendancy

Author: Matteo Strukul

Narrator: Saul Reichlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:53:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Shrewd bankers, astute politicians, godfathers of the Renaissance, glittering dukes... how history remembers Florence's most notorious family. But the Medici and their bloody path to power was built on murder, intrigue and conspiracies that stretched across three centuries.

Florence, 1429. Giovanni de Medici, the family patriarch, has been poisoned. In their quest for political power, the Medici have made bitter enemies in every corner of the republic. And now Giovanni's sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, have become the hereditary dukes of a city where loyalty can always be bought. While Lorenzo hunts for their father's killer, Cosimo petitions their remaining allies as Italy heads towards civil war. But the Medici will need more than alliances to survive, otherwise their beloved Florence and their dynasty will drown in blood...

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ID: 390089

Title: Crusaders

Author: Dan Jones

Narrator: Dan Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval periods, in which armies from European Christian states attempted to wrest the Holy Land from Islamic rule, and which have left an enduring imprint on relations between the Muslim world and the West. From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle. Dan Jones is a master of popular narrative history, with the priceless ability to write page-turning narrative history underpinned by authoritative scholarship. Never before has the era of the Crusades been depicted in such bright and striking colours, or their story told with such gusto.

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ID: 369248

Title: Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen

Author: Lenny Henry

Narrator: Full Cast , Lenny Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:17:03

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Lenny Henry presents this groundbreaking BBC radio series exploring a century of black British theatre, TV and film

In this fascinating ten-part series, Lenny Henry traces the long and painful road that black Britons have travelled on stage and screen, from the overt racial discrimination of the 19th Century, via the thinly veiled slurs that persisted through the first 70 years of the 20th, to today's more equal society.

Interviewing playwrights, actors, directors and filmmakers including Mustapha Matura, Roy Williams, Lolita Chakrabarti, Michael Buffong, Horace Ové and Steve McQueen he tells the story of black drama and the influential artists who have shaped it over the past hundred years.

Beginning with the breakthrough arrival of Kwame Kwei-Armah's celebrated tragedy Elmina's Kitchen to the West End, he goes on to examine the evolving depiction of Afro-Caribbeans on TV from Love Thy Neighbour to Desmonds; explores the complex stage history of Othello; focuses on how Caribbean migration has been reflected on stage and screen; and journeys back to the 1960s and 70s to explore the spirit of protest that welled up with the advent of the Black Power movement.

In addition, he looks at the burgeoning black theatre companies of the 1970s and 80s; charts the breakthrough of a host of powerful new voices in the 90s; scrutinizes attitudes towards homosexuality; investigates the current blossoming of new theatrical voices with roots in Africa and concludes with a look at future prospects and opportunities for black British talent.

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ID: 389593

Title: Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler

Author: Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson

Narrator: Sophie Cookson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:47:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, History & Culture

Summary:

The sensational true story behind the major TV drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler, performed by Sophie Cookson

In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal in recent British history.

Having found fame and success as a model, Christine's short affair with the minister for war, John Profumo, led to his downfall at the end of Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and was at the heart of the social and political earthquake that followed. She became the subject of scandal, intrigue and gossip and was tried for perjury and briefly jailed following the death of Stephen Ward, the socialite who had introduced her to Profumo.

Following Christine Keeler's death in December 2017, her book has been updated to include revelations that she did not wish to be published in her lifetime. The result is an audiobook containing material that has never been officially released, which really does lift the lid on just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own.

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ID: 392041

Title: Boy Who Disappeared

Author: Valerie Nettles

Narrator: Jane Whittenshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:20:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

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

Summary:

I opened my mouth and it came. It wasn't a cry, or even a sob. It came from deep in my soul... It was the sound of a mother helpless to save her child from danger. I asked the same unanswered questions over and again. Where was he? Where was my Damien?

On 2 November 1996, sixteen-year-old Damien Nettles went out for the evening in his home town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight. CCTV recorded him in a chip shop at 23:40 and on the High Street just after midnight. He has never been seen since.

His mother, Valerie, has spent over two decades desperately trying to find out what happened to her son. Arrests have been made, and suspects released without charge. Despite years of research by journalists and a private investigator, Damien's vanishing remains a mystery.

In this hugely moving and compelling account, Valerie Nettles tells the full, perplexing story of her son's disappearance.

Someone must know what happened to Damien. Will the truth ever emerge from the shadows?

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ID: 391060

Title: Inside Broadmoor: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Author: Emma French, Jonathan Levi

Narrator: Karl Jenkinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:43:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

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

Summary:

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller

'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.'

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic.

Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan.

The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside.

Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date.

Published at the dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.

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ID: 385691

Title: Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, Politics and Power

Author: Marie Le Conte

Narrator: Joanna Neary

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:54:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

'The politics book to be seen with in these febrile times' - The i Newspaper

'How facts, rumour and mischief-making become the news we all obsess over' - Tim Shipman

'A cracking read! Treat yourself...' - John Crace

Ever wondered why the indiscretions of some MPs make the front page while others don't? How close journalists really are to politicians? Or how on earth the country is run when the British political system is in such a mess?

In Haven't You Heard?, Marie Le Conte looks at the role gossip, whispers and tittle-tattle play in all areas of politics - for the MPs and their advisers, the press who cover them and the civil servants in the middle of it all. From policy rows which aren't about policy at all and boozy nights with dramatic consequences, to people spinning their way to the top and dark secrets never seeing the light of day, Marie explores in great and entertaining detail the human side of the people running the country against a backdrop of political mayhem.

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ID: 374951

Title: Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom: 4th Doctor Novelisation

Author: Philip Hinchcliffe

Narrator: Michael Kilgarriff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:51:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A thrilling novelisation of a classic TV adventure for the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. In the snowy wastes of blizzard-swept Antarctica, a strange pod-like object is unearthed, buried deep in the ice. Curiosity turns to alarm as the pod begins to grow - then horror when suddenly it cracks open and a snaking green tendril shoots out, mercilessly seeking the nearest live victim. In London, botanical experts are bewildered, and the Doctor is called in to fight this unknown horror. But will he be in time to save Earth from the rapidly spreading tentacles of the Krynoid, giant man-eating monster from an alien world?

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