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ID: 315597

Title: Authority

Author: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened

Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to put his house in order.

From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselvesand what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency hes promised to serve.

Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.

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ID: 315598

Title: Fairy Bell Sisters: Silver and the Fairy Ball

Author: Margaret McNamara

Narrator: Jane Collingwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Classics

Summary:

Do you believe in fairies? Join Tinker Bells sisters on a magical adventure, first in a brand-new series.

Inspired by Tinker Bell, from the book Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie

Before Tinker Bell flew to Never Land and met Peter Pan she lived on Sheepskerry Island with her fairy sisters Clara, Lily, Rosie, Silver and Squeak the baby. The young fairies go to fairy school and love tea parties, dressing up and exciting adventures.

Every fairy on Sheepskerry Island is excited about Queen Mabs fairy ball. Everyone, that is, except Silver. Shes too young to go its so unfair!

Like any good fairy, Silver tries to look on the bright side. But her secret plans turn into an awful mess. Worst still, none of the fairies realise that Silver isnt the only uninvited guest

Young readers will love the enchanting stories and beautiful illustrations in this charming new series.

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ID: 315604

Title: World Without Princes

Author: Soman Chainani

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:04:14

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVILis now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh,Cate Blanchett,and many more!

Its all happy ever after at the School for Good and Evil or is it? The second title in the bestselling series.

After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie and Agatha are back home again, living out their Happily Ever After. But life isn't quite the fairytale they expected

Witches and princesses reside at the School for Girls, where they've been inspired to live a life without princes, while Tedros and the boys are camping in Evil's old towers. A war is brewing between the schools, but can Agatha and Sophie restore the peace? Can Sophie stay good with Tedros on the hunt? And whose heart does Agatha's belong to her best friend or her prince?

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ID: 315600

Title: Belle: The True Story of Dido Belle

Author: Paula Byrne

Narrator: Maggie Mash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, World

Summary:

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.

In one of the most famous portraits in the world, a pretty girl walks through the grounds of Kenwood House, a vision of aristocratic refinement. But the eye is drawn to the beautiful woman on her right. Pointing at her own cheek, she playfully acknowledges her remarkable position in eighteenth-century society. For Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the notorious Zong case the drowning of 142 slaves by an unscrupulous shipping company. His ruling provided the legal underpinning to the abolition of slavery in Britain.

From the privileged yet unequal lives of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth, to the horrific treatment of African slaves, Paula Byrne the bestselling author of The Real Jane Austen vividly narrates the story of a family that defied convention, the legal trial that exposed the cruelties of slavery and the woman who challenged notions of race at the highest rank.

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ID: 315601

Title: Encyclopaedia of Myself

Author: Jonathan Meades

Narrator: Jonathan Meades

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Europe

Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014

A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness A masterpiece Financial Times

The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meadess detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury had two industries: God and the Cold War. For the child, delight is to be found everywhere in the intense observation of adult frailties, in landscapes and prepubescent sex, in calligraphy and in rivers.

This memoir is an engrossing portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.

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ID: 315599

Title: Astonish Me

Author: Maggie Shipstead

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:54

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle

Brilliantly written; the first ballet novel for grown-ups THE TIMES

A bravura display of high-performance art GUARDIAN

Brims with emotion an accomplished novel embracing both domestic drama and the competitive quest for perfection SUNDAY TIMES

Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is destined to remain in the shadows.

After her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan decides to quit ballet and make a new life for herself. But as the years pass, Joan comes to understand that ballet isnt finished with her yet

From the prize-winning author of Seating Arrangements comes an exquisitely written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the demanding world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations.

Cleverly constructed with some elegant pirouettes of its own DAILY MAIL

A gripping mix of family drama and insight into the world of ballet GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Shipstead is a gifted writer who examines families and relationships in a poignant, insightful way STYLIST

A dazzling story rooted in the competitive world of dance WOMAN & HOME

So graceful, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe Maria Semple, author of Whered You Go, Bernadette

I will be paying close attention to Shipsteads career from here on in Jeffrey Eugenides

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ID: 315602

Title: Sword Song

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:12:10

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The fourth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

A hero will be forged from this broken land.

As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London.

It is a dangerous time, and it falls to Uhtred, half Saxon, half Dane, a man feared and respected the length and breadth of Britain, to expel the Viking raiders and take control of London for Alfred. His uncertain loyalties must now decide England's future.

A gripping tale of love, rivalry and violence, Sword Song tells the story of England's making.

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ID: 315606

Title: Bees

Author: Laline Paull

Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:07

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015

Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive.

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.

But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin. While mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is removed from sanitation duty and is allowed to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. She also finds her way into the Queens inner sanctum, where she discovers secrets both sublime and ominous.

But enemies are everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses who jealously guard the Hive Mind. And when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all her instinct to serve is overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce love that will lead to the unthinkable . . .

Laline Paulls chilling yet ultimately triumphant novel creates a luminous world both alien and uncannily familiar. Thrilling and imaginative, The Bees is the story of a heroine who, in the face of an increasingly desperate struggle for survival, changes her destiny and her world.

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ID: 315605

Title: Snow Queen

Author: Michael Cunningham

Narrator: Claire Danes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Paranormal, Satire

Summary:

From the author of THE HOURS

Luminously written page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist Sunday Times

Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light in the sky that regards him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesnt believe in visions or in God but he cant deny what hes seen. In nearby Brooklyn, Tyler, Barretts older brother, is trying and failing to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers.

The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

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ID: 307259

Title: Pale Horseman

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:06:33

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The second book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

A hero will be forged from this broken land.

As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

A Saxon raised by Vikings. A pagan fighting for a Christian King. The conflict at the heart of a hero will be played out in the fight for England.

It is 877. Across the kingdoms of Britain the Danes are gaining strength. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a pagan warrior, must decide who he will align with: the Vikings who raised him or Alfred, King of the West Saxons.

As the Danes make for Wessex and threaten to destroy the kingdom, Uhtred will forge an uneasy alliance with the king, to lead the last remaining Saxon army in a battle that will be a fight for the very existence of England.

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