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ID: 320511

Title: Alias Grace

Author: Margaret Atwood

Narrator: Diana Quick

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:05:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Sixteen years after being locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the bloody murders of her employer and his housekeeper, Grace Marks is examined by Dr Simon Jordan, an expert in amnesia.

As the days and weeks pass Simon tries to prise open the memories Grace claims to have lost and reveals a life of love and betrayal, poverty and abuse, drawing the listener in to the rooms of Graces mind.

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ID: 320492

Title: William Pitt the Younger

Author: William Hague

Narrator: William Hague

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

The Sunday Times bestselling biography of one of the towering figures in British history who became Prime Minister at the age of twenty-four, written by the youngest-ever leader of the Tory Party.

The younger William Pitt known as the schoolboy began his days as Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely beleaguered. Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain for twenty-two years, nearly nineteen of them as Prime Minister. No British politician since then has exercised such supremacy for so long.

Pitt presided over dramatic changes in the countrys finances and trade, brought about the union with Ireland, but was ultimately consumed by the years of debilitating war with France. Domestic crises included unrest in Ireland, deep division in the royal family, the madness of the King and a full-scale naval mutiny. He enjoyed huge success, yet died at the nadir of his fortunes, struggling to maintain a government beset by a thin majority at home and military disaster abroad; he worked, worried and drank himself to death. Finally his story is told with the drama, wit and authority it deserves.

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ID: 320512

Title: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:54:37

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his fathers closet.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies.

When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his fathers closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace

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ID: 320491

Title: Woodlanders

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Rufus Sewell

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics, Coming of Age

Summary:

Hardys favourite of his own novels; a powerful work with brooding sexual undertones, ahead of its time in addressing themes of divorce, social inequality and land tenure. Now a film starring Rufus Sewell.

Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband for her. There are two rivals for her hand: Giles Winterbourne, a good-hearted yeoman and her childhood sweetheart, and Edred Fitzpiers, an ambitious young doctor of good family. Fitzpiers wins her, but the mismatch brings unhappiness not just to the young couple, but to a wider circle in the woodland community.

The Woodlanders is one of Hardys most powerful works and the one he liked best. With brooding sexual undertones, it addresses themes about which the author held strong views the laws of divorce, the inequalities of society, and the uncertainty of land tenure.

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ID: 320496

Title: Nostromo

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Joss Ackland

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressures?

Nostromo is an extraordinary illustration of the impact of foreign commercial exploits on a young developing nation, and the problems of reconciling individual identity with a social role. Conrad peoples his imaginary Latin American state with a multi-national cast of fully-rounded characters to achieve striking realism and create a novel that he called my largest canvas.

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ID: 320473

Title: Battle Flag

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Third volume in the Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862.

Available for the first time as a downloadable audio file.

Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win with his ragged Company in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead and dishonoured.

Starbucks courage is tested to the limit in his desperate manoeuvres to retrieve his own and the Legions honour in this the thrid narrative of Bernard Cornwells sweeping epic of the American Civil War.

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ID: 320499

Title: Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Jamie Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Read by Jamie Glover.

The first book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

A hero will be forged from this broken land.

As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one.

Alfred Saxon, king, man of god fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners.

Uhtred and Alfreds fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history.

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ID: 320510

Title: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Author: Nigel Slater

Narrator: Nigel Slater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:02:49

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Cooking, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction

Summary:

Now a critically-acclaimed play at Londons The Other Palace Theatre.

Remarkable' Observer

'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph

My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance across her forehead. This is not an occasional occurrence. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.

Toast is Nigel Slaters award-winning biography of a childhood remembered through food. Whether recalling his mothers surprisingly good rice pudding, his fathers bold foray into spaghetti and his dreaded Boxing Day stew, or such culinary highlights as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this remarkable memoir vividly recreates daily life in 1960s suburban England.

Likes and dislikes, aversions and sweet-toothed weaknesses form a fascinating backdrop to Nigel Slaters incredibly moving and deliciously evocative portrait of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening.

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ID: 320506

Title: Last Light

Author: Andy McNab

Narrator: Colin Buchanan

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

The exciting new thriller from Andy McNab, again following Nick Stone as he prepares for his next mission.

Aborting an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament when he realizes who the target is, Secret Intelligence Service deniable operator Nick Stone is given a chilling ultimatum by his bosses: fly to Panama and complete the task, or he and Kelly, the eleven-year-old girl in his guardianship, will be killed.

In Central America, Stone prepares for his mission. But he has made powerful enemies, and as the hunter turns into the hunted, Nick gradually uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving Colombian rebels, the US government and Chinese big business. In an explosive denouement at the Panama Canal, with everyones true colours ultimately revealed, Nick Stone faces the toughest decision of his life.

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ID: 320513

Title: Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Summary:

Bernard Cornwells new novel, following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God, and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple.

One summers day, a stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. He dies in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension, both without from tribal rivalry, and within.

The three sons of Ratharryns chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest, Lengar, the warrior, harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his tribe. Camaban, the second and an outcast from the tribe, becomes a great visionary and feared wise man, and it is his vision that will force the youngest brother, Saban, to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth.

It is Saban who is the builder, the leader and the man of peace. It is his love for a sorceress whose powers rival those of Camaban and for Aurenna, the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods, that finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple, a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. And in the end, when the temple is complete, Saban must choose between the gods and his family.

Stonehenge is Britains greatest prehistoric monument, a symbol of history; a building, created 4 millenia ago, which still provokes awe and mystery. Stonehenge A novel of 2000 BC is first and foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known and admired for the realism and imagination with which he brings an earlier world to life. And here he uses all these skills to create the world of primitive Britain and to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge and why.

A circle of chalk, a ring of stone, and a house of arches to call the far gods home

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