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ID: 320578

Title: Cecelia Ahern Short Stories: The Every Year Collection

Author: Cecelia Ahern

Narrator: Aoife McMahon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A wonderful collection of Cecelias short stories

As the smell of pinecones and cinnamon fill the air and the plump turkey roasts in the oven, the final preparations for Christmas day have begun just as they do every year.

The tree lights are twinkling and the mince pies are cooked and there is just one final tradition to carry out before the Christmas magic can begin. This year though, something is different and it's time for life-long traditions to change.

For years the family has followed the same pattern, not changing their routine through the generations; babies have grown into teens and then adults, and then eventually have had children of their own, but one thing always remained constant throughout

Time has finally caught up with the family and this year the new traditions must be formed.

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ID: 320574

Title: Thanks, Johnners: An Affectionate Tribute to a Broadcasting Legend

Author: Jonathan Agnew

Narrator: Jonathan Agnew

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other

Summary:

READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW AND FOREWORD READ BY THE MAGNIFICIENT STEPHEN FRY WITH SURPRISE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JONATHANS TEST MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES!! Perfect for cricket fans everywhere, Thanks Johnners is a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time at the helm of Test Match Special.

READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW, FOREWORD BY STEPHEN FRY AND SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES FROM TEST MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES. The Test Match Special on-air incident, in which Jonathan Agnew's comment on Ian Botham's attempt to avoid stepping on his stumps 'He just couldn't quite get his leg over' provoking prolonged fits of giggles, most notably from Brian Johnston, has been voted the greatest piece of sporting commentary ever. The friendship between 'Aggers' and 'Johnners' became immortalised through that broadcasting classic, but there was a far deeper bond between the two men, as this fascinating book reveals.

Jonathan Agnew had grown up to the sound of Johnston, Arlott, and a young Martin-Jenkins et al on TMS as he followed his father around on the family farm, ear glued to the transistor radio, but the two men met formally only when Agnew joined the BBC team at Headingley in 1991.

Thus began a great working partnership which, fuelled by a mutual passion for the noble game, bridged the generation gap and ended only with Johnston's sudden death in 1994. As this book demonstrates so convincingly, Johnners's wit, warmth and sense of fun was a feature not only of his cricket commentaries, but also in the way he lived his life. His influence on 'Aggers' is clearly recognisable in the same amiable and informal manner in which his successor presents Test Match Special today.

Thanks, Johnners is a rich blend of biography and anecdote, of antics and dramas on and off the pitch, in and out of the commentary box, its pages filled with stories about the great names of cricket including Fred Trueman, Geoffrey Boycott, Vivian Richards, Michael Holding and Ian Botham. Just as TMS is the sound of summer, so Thanks, Johnners is the fresh breeze rippling the long grass of remembered pleasures.

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ID: 320576

Title: Swimmer

Author: Roma Tearne

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Contemporary

Summary:

A gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.

Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer.

Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.

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ID: 320575

Title: Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine

Author: Carl Barat

Narrator: Carl Barat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:24:30

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.

READ BY CARL BARAT!

READ BY CARL BARAT. From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of one of Britain's most revered bands, Carl Barat has gone through the glass darkly as bands fell apart around him, friendships faltered and egos and hedonism threatened to pull his life apart.

Untitled Autobiography tells his extraordinary story, in themed chapters. Love tells of early, unrequited ardour, first heartache and the enduring feelings he has for his best friend, Pete Doherty. Work details time spent on the night shift in factory jobs; his first taste of the bright lights and big city as an usher in theatreland; of the moment when rock and roll really did become just another chore. London looks at the city that shaped him and helped nurture him as a song writer even as he slept on its streets; Icons his fascination with Sir Alec Guinness, his adoration of David Niven, the affinity he felt for the War Poets; Drugs well, you can probably guess.

Each chapter is chronologically linked by pages from Barat's journal, each recalling a pivotal moment from his life. The Libertines first NME cover in June 2002; their last ever show in Paris just before Christmas in 2004. Walking out on stage with Pete once more at the Hackney Empire in April 2007; touring broken-hearted and solo along America's West Coast in early 2009. His first night onstage at the Riverside Hammersmith, in Sam Shephard's Fool For Love in January 2010. His thoughts on the upcoming Libertines reunion in August 2010.

Untitled Autobiography is a revealing and intimate self-portrait, a story of love and fighting and the creativity that came of that, and a fascinating account of the London of the last decade, with The Libertines its beating heart.

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ID: 320577

Title: Broken Silence

Author: Danielle Ramsay

Narrator: Mike Rogers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

Who killed Sophie Washington?

Early one cold November morning in the run-down seaside resort of Whitley Bay, the body of a young girl is discovered. Found abandoned five minutes walk from her home, her face has been mutilated beyond recognition.

DI Jack Brady, just back on active duty after recovering from a vicious shooting incident, is on the edge. Struggling to deal with his marriage break-up and his tortured past, his problems intensify when long-standing friend and colleague DI James Matthews confidentially reveals that he was with the victim the night of her murder.

Brady's loyal deputy, the clean-cut, Detective Sergeant Harry Conrad and the attractive and highly-respected police psychologist, Dr Amelia Jenkins are assigned with Brady to solve the victim's murder. But the investigation becomes increasingly compromised as Brady realises that Matthews is holding something back from him that could be vital to the case.

As Brady delves ever deeper into Sophie's life, he comes to realise that the three men who should have protected her during her short life are the chief suspects in her murder: her teacher, her step-father and a police detective.

Brady finds himself unravelling a metaphorical thread that eventually makes him re-evaluate not only the seemingly blameless life of the victim, but more disturbingly, Matthews's motivation and ultimately his own.

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ID: 320582

Title: Out of the Ashes

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Sophie Aldred

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

READ BY SOPHIE ALDRED

On January 1st 2001, Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March 12th, her world has changed for ever

When Becky Morley begins keeping her diary in January, foot and mouth disease is just an item on the news, something happening hundreds of miles from her family's farm in Devon. But now the nightmare is a few fields away and local flocks are being destroyed. Will the Morleys' animals be next? Will their cattle, their sows and piglets escape the cull? And what about Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb? The waiting and hoping is the most agonising experience of Becky's life

Out of the Ashes is a powerful and moving fictional account of true events by award-winning author, Michael Morpurgo.

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ID: 320579

Title: Farm Boy

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Derek Jacobi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:05:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Historical

Summary:

Read by Derek Jacobi and Michael Morpurgo

Set on a farm in rural Devon, this is a collection of Grandpas reminiscences and stories as told to his grandson. Grandpas nature and his touching relationship with the boy is evoked superbly by Michael Morpurgos writing.

This two-voice read brings the characters to life as the story of Grandpas shame (the fact that he cannot read and write) unfolds.

Derek Jacobi is sensitive and compelling in the role of Grandpa, inspiring a true sense of achievement and triumph as he finally tells his own story in his own words.

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ID: 320580

Title: Dear Olly

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Paul McGann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:12:58

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, General, Historical

Summary:

Read by Paul McGann, Dear Olly was written by Michael Morpurgo in 2000.

A stunning performance and narrative.

Ollies brother wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.

Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger.

Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.

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ID: 320581

Title: Billy the Kid

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Richard Attenborough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:25:23

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Historical

Summary:

Read by the inimitable Richard Attenborough. Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out

Billy the Kid is told through the voice of an 80 year old man, who looks back on his life as Chelseas champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life. Billy joins Chelsea as a football apprentice, rises through the reserves to become a real champion. His passion for football sees him through the war years even as a prisoner of war he organises a friendly against the Italians but, having been injured by a mine he cannot play for Chelsea on his return to England. Billy turns to vagrancy and alcohol and for years he wanders up and down the country. he re-settles in London in a derelict house and is befriended by a family who move him to a shed in their garden. He, in turn, helps their son with his football who in his turn becomes a Chelsea player. Billy becomes a Chelsea Pensioner and his 80th birthday is celebrated when Chelsea play at home. A novel for both children and adults which deals with some difficult issues. Michael Morpurgos storytelling is superb.

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ID: 320584

Title: Shadow

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Abdullah Afzal, Mike Rogers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:57:15

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A stunning and moving novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nations favourite storyteller featuring the bravest dog in all the world

This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed it is not customary for people to keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother finally decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog Aman has called Shadow will not leave their side. Soon it becomes clear: the destinies of boy and dog are linked, and always will be

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