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ID: 320038

Title: Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table

Author: Nigel Slater

Narrator: Nigel Slater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Cooking, Non-Fiction

Summary:

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slaters multi-award-winning food memoir Toast, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are The British at Table.

The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other country. Once something that was never discussed in polite company, it is now something with which the nation is obsessed. But are we at last developing a food culture or are we just going through the motions?

Eating for England is an entertaining, detailed and somewhat tongue-in-cheek observation of the British and their food, their cooking, their eating and how they behave in restaurants, with chapters on amongst other things dinner parties, funeral teas, Indian restaurants, dieting and eating whilst under the influence.

Written in Nigel Slaters trademark readable style, Eating for England highlights our idiosyncratic attitude towards the fine art of dining.

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ID: 320041

Title: Monarchy: England and her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors

Author: David Starkey

Narrator: Jim Norton

Format: Abridged

Length: 07:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

David Starkey's Monarchy charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.

With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, that lie behind the monarchs that form the backbone of British history.

This magisterial study begins with the Tudors five monarchs who ruled over England and Ireland until the reformation of the 1530s and continues with the Stuarts who followed them. It includes Oliver Cromwell, a non monarch, who ruled as Lord Protector, a 'king in all but name', and the Georgians, a dynasty that began with the accession of George I and ended with the death of George IV. Queen Victoria, the longest reigning monarch in British history, and, finally, our present day Queen, Elizabeth II, who today reigns over sixteen independent nations make up the books latter stages.

More important than this, Monarchy encompasses the greatest and most notorious events in our history. From the War of the Roses to the infamous Gunpowder Plot, the bloody battles of the English Civil War to the madness of King George III, the Napoleonic Era to the heyday of Empire under Victoria, and finally to our present day Queen Elizabeth II,Monarchy offers a radical reappraisal of English nationhood, culture and politics, shown through the most central institution in English life. With characteristic insight and perceptiveness, Starkey gives new life to these figures, producing an entertaining picture of the building blocks upon which the England of today is built on.

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ID: 320040

Title: India with Sanjeev Bhaskar

Author: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Narrator: Sanjeev Bhaskar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Comedy, Essays & Memoirs

Summary:

Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeevs characteristic humour and unique perspective form the heart of this audiobook that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series.

Exotic and diverse, richly colourful and intriguingly complex India is one of the most exciting countries to visit in the world today. Sanjeev Bhaskar of Goodness Gracious Me and 'The Kumars at No. 42' , grew up in 70s surburban west London, so his regular family visits to India to see his relatives gave him an endless fascination for its bizarre contradictions. Now Sanjeev is going back with a BBC film crew to delve deeper into what makes this country such a compelling phenomenon.

As Sanjeev travels from Delhi to Bombay, Jaipur to Calcutta, he meets ordinary and extraordinary Indian people from every background, and brings his natural warmth and sense of humour to these encounters. Although often baffled by the eccentricities of India, our endearingly good-natured guide never fails to find humour in these situations.

Sanjeev's India is also a personal journey as Sanjeev meets old relatives who reveal their moving and often traumatic stories of India's turbulent and bloody past, and comes to understand a little more about his own roots.

During his trip Sanjeev is invited to a middle-class wedding in Delhi as well as witnessing the poverty of the slums in the Calcutta backstreets. He wryly observes the polo-playing Maharajah jet-set in Jaipur as well as the kitsch of Bombay Bollywood, and experiences the Ganges lit up by a million floating candles for the ancient ritual of Diwali and the majestic colonial architecture of the British Raj.

With such an engaging and thoughtful travelling companion, we find ourselves going beyond the clichés to reveal a country steeped in history yet at the forefront of new technology, at once confusing, astonishing and jaw-droppingly beautiful.

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ID: 320043

Title: Double Eagle

Author: James Twining

Narrator: Trevor White

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense.

Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief.

Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance.

Cassius. The criminal mastermind controlling the art underworld.

In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens memories of Depressionera politics and a seventyyearold heist.

Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case.This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before.

Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect.

Tom, caught between his desire to finally get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle.

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ID: 320045

Title: Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Author: Bill Bryson

Narrator: Bill Bryson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

This short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the authors inimitable wit and intelligence.

Includes an exclusive Q&A session with the author.

Shakespeares life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died.

Following his international bestsellers A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson has written a short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series which seeks to pair great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.

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ID: 320042

Title: Burnt House

Author: Faye Kellerman

Narrator: Mitchell Greenberg

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

The sixteenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman

A plane crashes in unexplained circumstances and the mystery deepens when police investigate. The owners know nothing of the four bodies found in the wreckage. So who are these unidentified passengers?

But the biggest question of all comes from a husband frantic with worry. His wife was supposed to be on the plane but never boarded it. Why then is she still missing?

It's a riddle detective Peter Decker will have to answer quickly if he is to prevent further lives being lost in a case full of the trademark Kellerman twists and shocks.

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ID: 320048

Title: Whaleboat House

Author: Mark Mills

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Snow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island.

Read by Kerry Shale.

In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets.

On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis an incomer from New York is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Labarde is pursuing his own investigation.

In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

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ID: 347290

Title: Grafton Girls

Author: Annie Groves

Narrator: Elizabeth Conboy

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Life, Sagas

Summary:

The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart and Some Sunny Day is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence as well as love, passion and heartbreak for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.

When Diane Wilson leaves Cambridge for Liverpool, destined for Derby House and war work as a teleprint operator, she is intent on mending her broken heart. But will hundreds of miles ease the pain of her betrayal?

Meanwhile, mean-spirited Myra Stone awaits her new roommate in the Wavertree terrace she is billeted to. From the moment she first lays eyes on Myra, Diane senses she's bad news. But does Myra's bitterness and caustic wit belie a secret heartache?

Ruthie starts work at the munitions factory, enduring terrible conditions in order to put food on the table for herself and her widowed mother. It's tough, relentless work. But Ruthie is befriended by lively and vivacious Jess Hunt who injects colour and fun into the drab surroundings. Until, one day, a troublemaker deliberately provokes a feud between them

All four women are brought together at The Grafton, the local dance hall favoured by American GIs as well as the local girls. In this heady, uncertain time, infatuation and passion blossom. But has each girl found true love or true heartache?

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ID: 320047

Title: Savage Garden

Author: Mark Mills

Narrator: Jamie Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The No.1 bestselling novel and Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love and lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed Rubenfeld

In 1958, Adam Strickland, a young Cambridge student, travels to Villa Docci in Tuscany to study a sixteenth-century garden. Designed and laid out by a grieving husband to the memory of his dead wife, it is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills and classical inscriptions.

But tragedy has hit the Docci family more recently. The German occupation during World War Two had a devastating impact on them, and the tensions between collaborators and partisans were played out within their own tight circle.

Adam is fascinated by the Doccis and increasingly aware that there are dangerous secrets hidden within the family domain.The garden itself starts to exercise a powerful influence over his imagination, its iconography seeming to point to some deeper, darker truth than was first apparent. And what really lay behind a killing at the villa towards the end of the war?

Past and present, love and intrigue, intertwine in an evocative mystery which vividly captures the experience of an innocent abroad in the uncertain world of post-War Italy.

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ID: 320046

Title: Gold Diggers

Author: Tasmina Perry

Narrator: Eleanor David

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-07

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Glamour, intrigue and betrayal merge in the new novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Daddys Girls

New York billionaire Adam Gold is moving to London. He's sexy, single and about to come face to face with The Gold Diggers.

Karin the jet-setting swimsuit entrepreneur and London's most glamorous socialite.

Erin the naive country girl who snares the job as Adam's PA. But the bright lights and obscene money threaten to lose her everything she once held dear.

Molly, a fading eighties supermodel with an expensive drug habit.

Summer is Molly's daughter. A burgeoning beauty living in the shadows of her famous mother.

Packed with intrigue, murder and scorching betrayal, Gold Diggers will reel you in and never let you go.

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