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ID: 769340

Title: House Guest

Author: A J Wills

Narrator: Nicky Griffiths

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:07:17

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A perfect house. The perfect couple. A perfect trap.

Marcella Middleton has always tried to live a good life, but after losing her job, her boyfriend, and her home, she's tired of playing by the rules.

But she has a plan.

She's going to trick her way into Carmel and Rufus's home, that sickeningly perfect couple with the amazing, renovated farmhouse they're always boasting about in those glamorous lifestyle magazines.

She'll tell them she only wants to stay for a few days, even though she never intends to leave.

She has no idea the house is haunted by the ghosts of the past. Or that the couple have a sinister hidden agenda of their own.

And with danger lurking behind every door, Marcella will be lucky to make it out alive

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ID: 765816

Title: Diaries of Mr Lucas

Author: Hugo Greenhalgh

Narrator: Will Watt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:44:36

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

For 60 years Mr George Leo John Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, but by night - unable to live openly as a gay man before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 - he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public lavatories. He was also an obsessive diary writer.

When Mr Lucas died in 2014 he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. This book combines Mr Lucas's deliciously indiscreet entries over the course of the 1960s with Greenhalgh's razor-sharp historical insights. Together they give a vivid, one-of-a-kind account of gay life that has been overlooked.

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ID: 765807

Title: Displeasure Island: The Dead Woke Book 2

Author: Alice Bell

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:13:52

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A detective duo with a difference...

Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the West Coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago.

But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?

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ID: 769333

Title: Harbour No Secrets: DI Winter Meadows Book 8

Author: Cheryl Rees-Price

Narrator: Andy Cresswell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:54

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

When a young woman is found in a lake, murdered, the police become intrigued by the strange dynamics within her circle of friends.

It's Alys Pugh's birthday and her mates are organising a little surprise for her. When she doesn't show up, they realize something's wrong. Later, her body is found in the cold waters of Llyn y Fan.

On searching Alys' house, detectives discover an array of seaside objects and suspect they are some sort of message left by the killer.

With everyone seemingly harbouring a secret, tempers fray and suspicion grows. And when similar trinkets are found in another of their houses, those underlying tensions bubble to the surface.

Then someone else in the group is killed.

Unless Detective Inspector Meadows can salvage the truth from the murky depths of the past, they may not be the last victim.

HARBOUR NO SECRETS is the eighth standalone mystery to feature DI Winter Meadows, set in South Wales.

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ID: 765799

Title: Blame My Virgo Moon

Author: Freja Nicole Woolf

Narrator: Safiyya Ingar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:30:02

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Hilarious follow up to Never Trust a Gemini featuring Cat Phillips, astrology aficionado and chaotic teen lesbian, as she struggles to balance romance, friendship and a star turn onstage.

Life should be Gucci gooseberry gorgeous for loved-up Cat. And it is until her über-cool and swoonsome girlfriend, Morgan Delaney, takes on Cat's friend and the most powerfully popular influencer in Lambley Common Siobhan Collingdale, for the hotly contested spot of Head Girl. With her loyalties put to the test, Cat throws herself into the gender-indifferent school production of Romeo and Juliet. (A decision she soon regrets...) As life imitates art, Cat's left wondering if she (or the school) can survive Collingdale versus Delaney.

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ID: 769369

Title: Treatment

Author: Sarah Moorhead

Narrator: Rachel Atkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:51

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking Offender Treatment Programme' has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet.

As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods:

Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physical therapy encouraged.

Tier Two: Trauma and addiction. Emotional and psychological reasons for offending are examined.

Tier Three: Aversion therapy & moral punishment.

Tier Four: Siberia, where all hope is lost.

But Grace Gunnarsson, one of Janus' most highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrists, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the system, one that is allowing people to get away with murder...

A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train' - Stuart Turton

'Compelling and complex, but still emotionally charged and devastating' - Helen Fields

'A Clockwork Orange for the modern cohort. A terrifying near future imagined perfectly' - Imran Mahmood

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ID: 769388

Title: Paper Names

Author: Susie Luo

Narrator: Austin Ku

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:05:54

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Asian American Literature

Summary:

Outside a New York apartment building, an attempted mugging alters the lives of three people.

Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life.

His daughter, Tammy, who grapples with the expectations surrounding a first-generation American as she grows into an ambitious young woman.

And Oliver, a charming white lawyer with a dark family secret, who is continuously propelled towards Tammy and Tony, whether by fate or his choices.

Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. As Tony, Tammy and Oliver each strive for their own American dream, and make sacrifices to attain it, every joyous and heart-breaking twist in their stories begs the question: was it all worth it?

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ID: 769371

Title: House at the End of the Sea

Author: Victoria M. Adams

Narrator: Jaimi Barbakoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:43:59

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Saffi doesn't want her new life, living with her dad, little brother and old-fashioned grandparents in their B&B by the sea. She is grieving for her mum and longs for things to go back to normal.

But this new home is anything but normal: the walls change colour, a face appears in the mirror, and the pantry is suddenly filled with fancy food. When a party of extraordinary visitors arrive at midnight, Saffi begins to realise that her family has a dark, magical secret. It will take all her bravery to discover the truth and find a way into another world ...

A twisty tale of fairy folklore and what it means to stand betwixt and between. - Skye McKenna

A debut with real magic in its pages. - Sinéad O'Hart

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ID: 769367

Title: Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Lesley Harcourt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:43:38

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

The unmissable new story from bestseller Val McDermid

A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three bosom companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. If the men hunting her find them, they will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth.

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as power-hungry murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history.

As the net closes in on the queen, we discover a tale of passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. At the heart of it, one strong charismatic woman who survived loss and jeopardy to finally outwit the endless plotting of a string of ruthless and ambitious men. Her struggle won her a country. But now it could cost her life.

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ID: 769381

Title: Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy

Author: Mick Conefrey

Narrator: Mark Elstob

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:45:42

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports

Summary:

On June 4,1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Next day they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.

In the years following his disappearance, Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero. Dubbed by his friends the 'Galahad' of Everest, he was lionised in the press as the greatest mountaineer of his generation who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge. Handsome, charismatic, daring, he was a skilled public speaker, an athletic and technically gifted climber, a committed Socialist and a supremely attractive figure to both men and women. His friends ranged from the gay artists and writers of the Bloomsbury group to the best mountaineers of his era. But that was only one side to him. Mallory was also a risk taker who according to his friend and biographer David Pye, could never get behind the wheel of a car without overtaking the vehicle in front, a climber who pushed himself and those around him to the limits, a chaotic technophobe who was forever losing equipment or mishandling it, the man who led his porters to their deaths in 1922 and his young partner to his uncertain end in 1924.

So who was the real Mallory and what were the forces that made him and ultimately destroyed him? Why did the man who denounced oxygen sets as 'damnable heresy' in 1922 perish on an oxygen-powered summit attempt two years later? And above all, what made him go back to Everest for the third time?

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