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ID: 320158

Title: Death of Kings

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The ultimate Rome story

The young Caesar must overcome enemies on land and at sea to become a battle-hardened leader in the spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of The Gates of Rome.

Forced to flee Rome, Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley in the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean and is rapidly gaining a fearsome reputation. But no sooner has he had a memorable victory than his ship is captured by pirates and he is held to ransom.

Abandoned on the north African coast after hard months of captivity, he begins to gather a group of recruits that he will eventually forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors and to suppress a new uprising in Greece.

Returning to Rome as a hero and as an increasingly dangerous problem for his enemies Caesar is reunited with his boyhood companion Brutus. But soon the friends are called upon to fight as they have never fought before, when a new crisis threatens to overwhelm the city in the form of a rebellious gladiator named Spartacus

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ID: 320161

Title: Gods of War

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

The ultimate Rome story

Fresh from triumph in Britain and Gaul, Caesar is marching on Rome with his legions of hardened veterans. To unseat Pompey, now dictator of the empire, he must make the terrible decision to wage war on his own people.

The glory that Julius, Brutus, Mark Antony and Octavian enjoy is short lived. There are lands to conquer and choices to make that may yet tear them apart. What cost will Caesar suffer for the path he has walked? Who will make him pay?

The final instalment in the bestselling Emperor series.

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ID: 320141

Title: Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl

Author: Donald Sturrock

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

'Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly describes a complicated life and relates it to the richness of Dahl's storytelling.'Quentin Blake

Roald Dahl is one of the greatest storytellers of all time. He pushed children's literature into uncharted territory and almost twenty years after his death his popularity continues to grow worldwide sales of his books have now topped 100 million. The man behind the stories, however, remains an enigma. Dahl was a single-minded adventurer, an eternal child, and his public persona was often controversial.

To his readers, Dahl was always a hero and his stories have had an impact on the lives and imaginations of generations of children. Since his death his reputation has been transformed. Critics now too celebrate his wild imagination, quirky humour and linguistic elegance; figures like Willy Wonka, the BFG and the Grand High Witch are immortal literary creations.

In this masterly biography, Donald Sturrock reveals many hitherto hidden aspects of Roald Dahl's life: his terrifying experiences as a fighter pilot; the mental anguish caused by the death of his seven-year-old daughter; his work for military intelligence at the end of the war and more. Written with exclusive access to his private papers and manuscripts as well as with reference to hundreds of newly-discovered letters, Dahl lives on every page of this utterly compelling book, which reveals the man as we've never seen before.

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ID: 320156

Title: Gates of Rome

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The ultimate Rome story

From the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to the intrigue of the Senate, from the foreign wars that created an empire to the betrayals that almost tore it apart, the Emperor novels tell the remarkable story of the man who would become the greatest Roman of them all: Julius Caesar.

Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, The Gates of Rome introduces an ambitious young man facing his first great test. In the city of Rome, a titanic power struggle is about to shake the Republic to its core. Citizen will fight citizen in a bloody conflict and Julius Caesar will be in the thick of the action.

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ID: 320143

Title: Tiny Wife

Author: Andrew Kaufman

Narrator: Jot Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Contemporary

Summary:

A magical short novel from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes.

A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value.

As time passes the loss of these items have a dramatic effect on the victims: one discovers God under her sofa, another is attacked by her lion tattoo when it comes to life, and the wife of our narrator starts to shrink.

It is a remarkable short novella, a modern fable that is weird, uplifting and romantic all at the same time.

Kaufmans debut novel, All My Friends are Superheroes, has become a significant word-of-mouth hit and garnered rave reviews from Marie Phillips, Toby Litt and others. It is soon to be made into a feature film.

This hardback of Tiny Wife will be a gorgeous gift edition with illustrations.

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ID: 320160

Title: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Emilia Fox, Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:23:15

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful.

There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke. It was a grey day with drizzle in the air, the great sad cranes bowing to the ship from the docks as we steamed past. That is all I remember of England

When orphaned Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. The coming years will test him to his limits, as he endures mistreatment, neglect and forced labour in the Australian outback. But Arthur is also saved, again and again, by his love of the sea. And when he meets a nurse whose father owns a boat-building business, all the pieces of his broken life come together.

Now, at the end of his life, Arthur has built a special boat for his daughter Allie, whose love of the sea is as strong and as vital as her father's. Now Allie has a boat that will take her to England solo, across the world's roughest seas, in search of her father's long-lost sister Will the threads of Arthur's life finally come together?

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ID: 320162

Title: Emperor of All Maladies

Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

A comprehensive history of cancer one of the greatest enemies of medical progress and an insight into its effects and potential cures, by a leading expert on the illness.

In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologists precision, a historians perspective, and a biographers passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with and perished from for more than five thousand years.

The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary.

From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjees own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge.

Riveting and magesterial, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers and lay people have observed and understood the human body for millennia.

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ID: 320164

Title: FOG BOGGARTS

Author: Lee Weatherly, Linda Chapman

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:24:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

The fourth action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy, adventure, and high-kicking heroines!

On her tenth birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of a magic gateway between our world and the Shadow Woods. She must keep the human world safe from mischievous goblins, sprites and elves

Each book sees Sophie having to outwit weird and terrifying creatures from the Shadow Woods, starting with the gruesome Goblins!

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ID: 320179

Title: Born to Run

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Isla Blair

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:29:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Joy and heartbreak combine in this bittersweet tale of a champion greyhounds journey through life and from owner to owner

The sack wasn't just drifting gently along like everything else, it was turning of its own accord. There was definitely something inside it, struggling against the side of the plastic bag, kicking at it, squeaking and squealing in terror. He had no idea what it might be, only that it was alive and in danger of drowning.

When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he cant bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA. He pleads with his parents: couldnt he just keep one of them? But nothing will convince them and Patrick cries himself to sleep only to be woken by a greyhound puppy licking his face!

Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and thats what he becomes. Patricks favourite thing is to watch Best Mate running at full stretch on the heath, a speeding bullet, a cheetah-dog. Until one day Best Mate is kidnapped by a greyhound trainer, and begins a new life as a champion race dog. Suzie, the greyhound trainers step-daughter, loves Best Mate on first sight and gives him a new name, Bright Eyes. But what will happen when he cant run any more?

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ID: 320175

Title: Condition Black

Author: Gerald Seymour

Narrator: Brian Cox

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-11

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

A thrilling classic from a master of the genre.

It is the last month before Iraq is to invade Kuwait, and Saddam Hussein has instructed his scientists to stop at nothing to arm his nation with nuclear warheads. As Frederick Bissett, a disaffected British weapons scientist, is on the point of seizing the Iraqi bait, the only man to stand in the way of a total collapse of the Middle Eastern military balance is a young FBI operative, Bill Erlich a man who has just seen a close friend gunned down by a terrorist, though, and is hard on the heels of the assassin. As he blunders into the lines by which the Iraqi puppet-masters control their undercover agents in England, he is faced with a last and inevitable confrontation and recognises that he has gone beyond the point of recall: he is engaged in what his FBI training has taught him to call Condition Black, lethal assault in progress.

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