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ID: 319832

Title: Schemer

Author: Kimberley Chambers

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

The heir to Martina Coles crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.

Its 1983 and Stephanie Crouchs life is dull. She is desperate to escape the run-down, pokey council house she shares with her overbearing family, but at fourteen years old she has nowhere to go.

When Stephanie meets East End wide-boy Barry, his cockney charm and quick tongue soon have her head over heels in love. Finally Stephanie feels like her dreary life is on the up. But too young to control their fate, Stephanie and Barry are torn apart when he is whisked away to Spain by his family.

Lonely and heartbroken Stephanie turns to Barrys childhood friend Wayne for comfort, and their friendship soon blossoms into romance, leaving Barry fuming and promising revenge

Ten years later Barry returns to England. Within one month Stephanie's happy world with Wayne is turned upside down. People immediately start to point the finger of accusation at Barry, but is he the one to blame?

Or, should Stephanie look elsewhere to find the schemer who has ruined her life?

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ID: 319841

Title: Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse

Author: Maggie Fergusson

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The life of Michael Morpurgo OBE, as a biography, and autobiographical stories.

Michael Morpurgo OBE is a national treasure. With books such as Private Peaceful, Kensukes Kingdom and The Wreck of the Zanzibar he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending. His is a rare gift.

In 2007, Michaels novel War Horse was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre. Five years on, it continues to play to packed audiences of all ages and has been turned into a blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg, propelling Morpurgo to household-name status.

Michaels own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author and Childrens Laureate instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret?

In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgos life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. The portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful.

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ID: 319833

Title: I Heart London

Author: Lindsey Kelk

Narrator: Cassandra Harwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary

Summary:

Angelas back on home turf and in her biggest romantic scrape yet

Angela Clark has fallen in love with New York and its starting to love her back.

But when shes summoned home to England, shes at risk of losing her shiny new life to rain, warm beer and bad memories. Talk about stepping back in time

Theres Mark, the ex-boyfriend who she ran to New York to get away from.

Theres Louisa, her best friend, with her terrifying new baby.

And theres her mum, still talking to her as though shes fifteen.

Now theres a wedding in the offing and everyone remembers how well Angela behaved at the last one. . . Can the arrival of boyfriend Alex and best friend Jenny save her from a re-run of her old self?

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ID: 319834

Title: Catching the Sun

Author: Tony Parsons

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, General

Summary:

Just how badly do you want to find paradise?

When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand.

Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow.

But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn's family.

CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise and end up discovering themselves.

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ID: 319845

Title: Billy Connolly

Author: Pamela Stephenson

Narrator: Pamela Stephenson

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years Pamela Stephenson.

Once in a lifetime, there strides upon the stage someone who can truly be called a legend. Such a person is the inimitable, timeless genius who is Billy Connolly. His effortlessly wicked whimsy has entranced, enthralled and split the sides of thousands upon thousands of adoring audiences.

And when he isn't doing thathe's turning in award-winning performances on film and television.

He's the man who needs no introduction, and yet he is the ultimate enigma. From a troubled and desperately poor childhood in the docklands of Glasgow he is now the intimate of household names the world over.

How did this happen, who is the real Billy Connolly? Only one person can answer that question: his wife, Pamela Stephenson. Pamelas writing combines the very personal with a frank objectivity that makes for a compelling, moving and hugely entertaining biography. This is the real Billy Connolly.

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ID: 319835

Title: Clumsies Make a Mess of the Zoo

Author: Sorrel Anderson

Narrator: Joe Coen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Humor

Summary:

The Clumsies are back in their fourth hilarious and very messy adventure . . .

Everyones favourite biscuit-munching, tea-drinking, talking mice are back and this time they are making a mess of the zoo.

Quality writing and side-splitting humour combine in these brilliant stories that will be loved by children and adults alike.

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ID: 319836

Title: Clumsies Make a Mess of the School

Author: Sorrel Anderson

Narrator: Joe Coen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Humor

Summary:

The Clumsies are back in their fourth hilarious and very messy adventure . . .

More sparklingly funny adventures about the much-loved talking mice that live under Howard's desk, eat his biscuits, try and help him out, but only ever end up making a mess. With loveable characters, fabulously funny plots and dynamic design The Clumsies are destined to be classics of the future

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ID: 319840

Title: Beyond Evil

Author: Neil White

Narrator: Kate Thurlwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Theres no way back

The picturesque city of York is rocked when the hellraiser and lottery winner Billy Privett is found murdered in a town centre hotel his corpse brutally dissected, as if someone had performed a post mortem whilst he was still alive. Chillingly, the walls of the room bear words daubed in Billys blood, including Free and The Process is Coming Down.

Billys infamous reputation had been sealed a year previously when a local university student had been found dead in mysterious circumstances at one of his debauched parties and his death is little lamented, apart from by his lawyer, the young and ambitious Amelia Diaz, who remains convinced of his innocence.

But who could have killed Billy in such a way? Unbeknownst to the police, a terrifying new cult is on the rise, one that may hold the key to Billys death; The Church of the Free Mind. The cult is presided over by the charismatic and terrifying Charlie Watson, who holds absolute power over the church members. But when Amelia is drawn too close to the group whilst investigating Billys death, it seems that these fervently religious cult members would do anything to protect their leader even murder

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ID: 319842

Title: Ramble On

Author: Sinclair McKay

Narrator: Jonathan Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:

A history of walking and our relationship with the British countryside.

On the afternoon of Sunday April 24, 1932, a group of approximately five hundred men and women set out for the summit of Kinder Scout, the highest point in Derbyshire's Peak District. They were not here to take in the fresh air and breathtaking vistas: they were here to make a stand. Kinder Scout, like almost every other site of natural beauty in Britain at that time, was privately owned and fiercely guarded. This wild, open landscape was one that they had absolutely no right to visit.

Ramble On tells the story of how country walks and rambling were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the most popular recreational activity in the country.

But the story of rambling is not so much about parliamentary acts as it is about the remarkable people who campaigned for (and in some cases against) the pastime. There was a Lancastrian town council accountant called Alfred Wainwright, who in the 1950s changed his life, and the lives of many others, when he popularised walking in the Lake District with his series of guides. And any history of rambling would be incomplete without mentioning the resistant landowners from the notorious Nicholas Van Hoogstraten to celebrities such as Madonna and Jeremy Clarkson who have done their level best (and worst) to keep walkers off their land.

Above all, this tale is about the exhilaration of a gusty hill-top path; the curious unease that a labyrinthine dark forest floor can induce; the feel of different soil, peat and rock; the sight of alternating sunlight and shadow sweeping across vast valleys. Both a biography of Britain's favourite outdoor pursuit and a celebration of our wonderful countryside, Ramble On is for anyone who has ever pulled on a pair of walking boots or is partial to the taste of Kendal mintcake.

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ID: 319839

Title: Farther Away

Author: Jonathan Franzen

Narrator: Scott Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Literary, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom.

Jonathan Franzens Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzens non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator.

In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzens implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

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