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ID: 320514

Title: Lord Jim

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Joss Ackland

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!

Jim is a well-bred young romantic who takes to the seas with hopes of adventure and the aspiration to prove his mettle. When the boat he sails in threatens to sink, Jim abandons ship in fear in order to save himself, leaving the other passengers to their fate. However, the ship does not sink and guilt-ridden Jim admits to the maritime court of inquiry that he deserted the boat and is consequently stripped of his sailing papers. Blighted by his own cowardice, Jims subsequent self-exile to a remote Malaysian trading post gives Conrad the opportunity to explore the question of moral identity and through his hero, he embodies the values and deterioration of the declining empire of late Victorian Britain. With its rich descriptions of an unknown, exotic world and beautifully constructed prose, Lord Jim is considered one of Conrads greatest works.

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ID: 320442

Title: Family Way

Author: Tony Parsons

Narrator: Samantha Bond

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

It should be the most natural thing in the world. But in Tony Parsons latest bestseller, three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch.

A hard-working trainee doctor, Megan Jewell finds herself accidentally pregnant. She wants a baby one day but God, not now! Can Megan really bring a baby into the world when she can hardly look after herself?

Megans happily married sister Jessica wants a baby immediately. But can the perfect couple really find happiness without the child they so desperately crave?

Cat Jewell, the oldest sister, is scarred by the memory of their mother walking out. She wants a baby maybe. But whats a girl to do when the man in her life has seen and done it all before? Will Cat be forced to choose between him and motherhood?

And what of their partners? Kirk, the Australian beach bum who fathers Megans child Paulo, the doting husband who sees the best thing in his life collapsing for want of a child And Rory, the older man who just cant face going through it all again. Tony Parsons shows us once again the dilemmas and decisions that confront men today.

Modern-day relationships are tested in this very realistic, contemporary story about procreation and new life.

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ID: 320505

Title: Lady and the Unicorn

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Narrator: Isla Blair, Jamie Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels.

The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning.

Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture.

Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.

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ID: 320498

Title: American Boy

Author: Andrew Taylor

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:58:13

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical

Summary:

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England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boys sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frants beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her familys twisted intrigues.

Then a brutal crime is committed, with consequences that threaten to destroy Thomas and all that he has come to hold dear. Despite his efforts, Shield is caught up in a deadly tangle of sex, money, murder and lies a tangle that grips him tighter even as he tries to escape from it. And what of the strange American child, at the heart of these macabre events, yet mysterious what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?

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ID: 320507

Title: Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Author: David Starkey

Narrator: Patricia Hodge

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:31:19

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, World

Summary:

What makes a man marry six times? Was Henry VIII a voracious philanderer? On the contrary, says Dr David Starkey, the King was seeking happiness as well as hoping for a son.

The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a male heir.

As Henry VIII's interest shifted from her powerful Hapsburg relations and drifted towards France, so began his obsession with the pretty Lutheran Anne Boleyn.

Jane Seymour's submissiveness was in contrast to Anne's vampish style and Henry married her on the day of Anne's execution. Jane died soon after giving birth to the longed-for son.

There followed a farcical 'beauty contest' which ended in the short marriage of the now grossly overweight Henry to 'the mare of Flanders', Anne of Cleves.

The final part of Six Wives contrasts the two Catherines Catherine Howard, the flirty child whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing King, and Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking.

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ID: 320493

Title: Victory

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Simon Callow

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:58:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A rip-roaring tropical island adventure with a dash of philosophy, now a major film starring Simon Callow, Sam Neill and Rufus Sewell.

The girl he had come across that human being so near and still so strange, gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life.

Damaged by his fathers nihilistic philosophy, Axel Heyst has withdrawn from the world to live in near-isolation on the island of Samburan. His solitude ends when he rescues an English girl from her preying patron, but their heady existence will face tragic consequences when the outside world intrudes once more.

First published in 1915, Victory is arguably the most psychologically complex of Conrads novels, in which he creates an extraordinarily compelling love story and one of great erotic power: Axel and Lena are what set this novel apart from the other works of one of English languages greatest writers.

This Collins Classics edition is published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of this remarkable novel.

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ID: 320455

Title: Heretic

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.

In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.

But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille.

Once in the south country Thomas becomes a raider, leading his archers in savage forays that will draw his enemy to his arrows. But then his fortunes change. Thomas becomes the hunted as his campaign is destroyed by the church. With only one companion, a girl condemned to burn as a heretic, Thomas goes to the valley of Astarac where he believes the grail was once hidden and might still be concealed, and there he plays a deadly game of hide and seek with an overwhelming enemy.

Then, just as Thomas succeeds in meeting his enemy face to face, fate intervenes as the deadliest plague in the history of mankind erupts into Europe. What had been a landscape of castles, monasteries, vineyards and villages, becomes death's kingdom and the need for the grail, as a sign of God's favour, is more urgent than ever.

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ID: 320466

Title: Blind Assassin

Author: Margaret Atwood

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwoods new novel. Laura Chases older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While bewailing her unreliable body and deriding those who try to help her, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life and her perilous times, but in particular on the events surrounding her sisters tragic early death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase a dollop of notoriety as well as a cult following: as Iris says, she herself lives in the long shadow cast by Laura. Sexually explicit for its time and place, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a left-leaning man on the run.

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ID: 320509

Title: Brick Lane

Author: Monica Ali

Narrator: Ayesha Dharker

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:09:46

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

This exciting and deeply moving debut novel follows the tumultuous life of Nazneen from her birth in a Bangladeshi village hut, to her arranged marriage to Chanu and the subsequent move to Londons Tower Hamlets

Nazneens inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in Londons Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters embarrassment and her husbands resentments. Chanu calls his elder daughter the little memsahib. I didnt ask to be born here, say Shahana, with regular finality.

Into that fragile peace walks Karim. He sets questions before her, of longing and belonging; he sparks in her a turmoil that reflects the communitys own; he opens her eyes and directs her gaze but what she sees, in the end, comes as a suprise to them both.

While Nazneen journeys along her path of self-realization, a way haunted by her mothers ghost, her sister Hasina, back in Bangladesh, rushes headlong at her life, first making a love marriage, then fleeing her violent husband. Woven through the novel, Hasinas letters from Dhaka recount a world of overwhelming adversity. Shaped yet ultimately not bound by their landscapes and memories, both sisters struggle to dream themselves out of the rules prescribed for them.

Beautifully rendered and, by turns, both comic and deeply moving, Brick Lane establishes Monica Ali as one of the most exciting new voices in fiction.

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ID: 320459

Title: Copperhead

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

The second book in Bernard Cornwells bestselling series on the American Civil War.

Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in Americas Civil War.

Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. He must join the shadowy war of betrayal and espionage, where nothing is certain and no one can be trusted. Starbucks journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly high command of the northern army.

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