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ID: 682727

Title: Charles Paris: A Third BBC Radio Collection: The Cinderella Killer, Dead Room Farce, Star Trap, A Doubtful Death & A Deadly Habit

Author: Jeremy Front, Simon Brett

Narrator: Bill Nighy, Full Cast , Jon Glover, Suzanne Burden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Bill Nighy stars as the irrepressible Charles Paris in these five BBC Radio dramatisations

Actor, alcoholic and amateur sleuth Charles Paris returns in another quintet of humorous theatrical thrillers. All Charles asks for is a nice juicy part in a successful play - but wherever he appears on the bill, murder and mystery always play a starring role...

The Cinderella Killer - Panto seems the perfect way to spend the Christmas season for Charles, but when the show's star is found dead, the slapstick must make way for a murder investigation.

Dead Room Farce - Charles is appearing in a revival of a 1970s farce. But when two cast members die in suspicious circumstances, he suspects foul play is afoot.

Star Trap - When a series of accidents befalls the cast of a West End musical, Charles steps in to investigate. Who is trying to sabotage the show - and why?

A Doubtful Death - Charles has landed a role in an immersive theatre production of Hamlet. But when an actress goes missing, he must decide if it is to be or not to be a murder case... Also included with this story is an exclusive afterword with scriptwriter Jeremy Front, who adapted it from an unproduced screenplay by Simon Brett. He reveals what it's like behind the scenes of Charles Paris, and explains the mechanics of recording for radio.

A Deadly Habit - Offered a job in a verbatim theatre piece set in a monastery, Charles has reservations. Then disaster strikes the production - and he smells criminality...

Written by Jeremy Front

Based on the novels and screenplay by Simon Brett

Produced and directed by Sally Avens

Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice

Text copyright © Simon Brett 1977 (Star Trap), 1998 (Dead Room Farce), 2014 (The Cinderella Killer), 2018 (A Deadly Habit), 2020 (A Doubtful Death)

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 688243

Title: Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary

Author: Christopher Somerville

Narrator: Christopher Somerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:05:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, World, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Travel, Europe

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walking correspondent of The Times and author of Coast, The January Man and Ships of Heaven) sets out to interrogate the land beneath our feet, and how it has affected every aspect of human history from farming to house construction, the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis.

In his thousand-mile journey, Somerville follows the story of Britain's unique geology, travelling from the three billion year old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, down the map south eastwards across bogs, over peaks and past quarry pits to the furthest corner of Essex where new land is being formed by nature and man.

Demystifying the sometimes daunting technicalities of geology with humour and a characteristic lightness of touch, Somerville's book tells a story of humanity's reckless exploitation and a lemming-like surge towards self-annihilation but also shows seeds of hope as we learn how we might work with geology to avert a climate catastrophe.

It cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door.

©2023 Christopher Somerville (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 666936

Title: Normal Rules Don't Apply

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Paterson Joseph

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:37:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life

In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man whose luck changes when a horse speaks to him.

With clockwork intricacy, inventiveness and sharp social observation, Kate Atkinson conjures a feast for the imagination, a constantly changing multiverse in which nothing is quite as it seems.

What really binds these stories is their underlying theme, which has perhaps always been Atkinsons true subject: the nature of storytelling itself Times Literary Supplement

Life in all of its surreal, tragic and comic glory is perfectly captured within these pages Red

Sublime Good Housekeeping

©2023 Kate Atkinson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 682726

Title: Charles Paris: A Second BBC Radio Collection: Murder in the Title, A Reconstructed Corpse, An Amateur Corpse, Corporate Bodies & A Decent Interval

Author: Jeremy Front, Simon Brett

Narrator: Bill Nighy, Full Cast , Jon Glover, Suzanne Burden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Bill Nighy stars as the lovably louche Charles Paris in these five BBC Radio dramatisations

Charles Paris - unsuccessful actor, bad husband, and dipsomaniac - is back, and getting into trouble once more. As he tries to woo back his semi-detached wife, Frances, and land a few half-decent roles, he finds himself embroiled in murder and mayhem and forced to turn detective. Luckily, his sleuthing is much better than his acting...

Murder in the Title - The thespian sleuth gets a part in a terrible play - but someone wants to kill off the cast. First a series of nasty accidents occur, then Charles is the victim of an attempted stabbing. Can he find the killer, or will he be fired first?

A Reconstructed Corpse - Charles is playing a missing businessman in a crime reconstruction programme. But when severed body parts begin to appear, he must piece together a macabre jigsaw puzzle of murder.

An Amateur Corpse - What starts as a simple voiceover job leads Charles to the discovery of a dead body. Could his old friend Hugo really be a murderer? All the signs are pointing that way...

Corporate Bodies - A corporate video turns into a horror movie when a secretary is killed. As he investigates, Charles uncovers blackmail, sexual intrigue and multiple motives for murder amongst the workforce.

A Decent Interval - Cast as The Ghost and First Gravedigger in Hamlet, Charles is finding rehearsals tense as both the lead roles are being played by reality TV stars. But soon it's not just Shakespeare's lines being murdered...

Written by Jeremy Front

Based on the novels by Simon Brett

Produced and directed by Sally Avens

Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, Suzanne Burden as Frances and Jon Glover as Maurice

Text copyright © Simon Brett 1978 (An Amateur Corpse), 1983 (Murder in the Title), 1991 (Corporate Bodies), 1993 (A Reconstructed Corpse), 2013 (A Decent Interval)

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 696933

Title: Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Author: Lauren Elkin

Narrator: Lauren Elkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:37:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Literary, Social Science

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.

For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?

Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body, calling attention to a radical heritage of feminist work that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims.

Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag, Hélène Cixous and Maggie Nelson, Lauren Elkin demonstrates her power as a cultural critic, weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers - from Julia Margaret Cameron's photography to Kara Walker's silhouettes, Vanessa Bell's portraits to Eva Hesse's rope sculptures, Carolee Schneemann's body art to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece DICTEE - and shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.

'Destined to become a new classic'.

©2023 Lauren Elkin (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 651127

Title: Trade Off

Author: Sandie Jones

Narrator: Nathalie Buscombe, Sandie Jones, Sofia Engstrand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:56:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The Trade Off from Sandie Jones - the author of the Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, The Other Woman - is an addictive, page-turning psychological thriller about how far a journalist will go to get the story. Everyone has a price. What's yours?

Would you print a lie across a front page?

For Stella, Deputy Editor of The Globe, the choice has always been clear. There is no stone she will leave unturned in her pursuit of the best story. It’s what she’s built her reputation on.

For Jess, the Globe’s rookie reporter, the story stops when the truth does. But she knows that the dirty tricks of the tabloids will be hard to overturn.

And when the subject of the story Jess is working on pays the ultimate price, she suspects that the paper may have had more to do with it than they’re letting on...

What price would you pay to uncover the truth if someone is prepared to kill to bury it?

What readers are saying about The Trade Off:

'This book was insane!!! I have always loved Sandie Jones but this book right here is definitely her best yet' *****

'Another masterpiece from Jones!' *****

'I had never read a Sandie Jones novel before. I am absolutely a fan now!' *****

'Flew through it!! Once again, Sandie Jones had a clever plot and really went above and beyond' *****

'Captivating. . . It deserves a resounding 5-star rating'

Praise for Sandie Jones:

'A perfect beach read' - Kristin Hannah

'A brilliant page-turner. . . Sandie Jones is the queen of the twisty thriller' - Sarah Pearse

'Whiplash-inducing final pages' - New York Times Book Review

'One of the most twisted and entertaining plots' - Reese Witherspoon

'A twisty, deliciously fun read' - Sarah Pekkanen

'Will leave you breathless' - Liv Constanstine

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ID: 651124

Title: More Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

Author: Alexandra Potter

Narrator: Sally Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:56:35

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

More Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up: the laugh-out-loud sequel to the hilarious, WTF AM I DOING NOW?! runaway bestseller!

'The new Bridget Jones for our times' – Celia Walden, Telegraph

Readers love More Confessions of a Forty-something F##k Up:

'Full of humour, optimism, love, loss, friendship, reality and a little magic. Really lifted my spirits'

'So relatable'

'Laugh out loud moments with such thoughtful insights into real life'

'Loved this book'

'Obsessed'

'Inspiring, funny, emotional - I could not put it down'

There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sorted. Life, like us, is a sum of moving parts, and if we’re lucky, we get to keep f**king up, figuring it out and laughing in the face of it all.

Nell’s back. Her life still isn’t going to plan. And she’s still asking the big questions and getting none of the answers. Like, for example:

1. Why is falling in love so easy, but staying in love so hard?

2. What do you do when your friendships are put to the ultimate test?

3. Can we ever really live in the moment and leave the past behind?

4. When everything goes tits up, do you fall apart or jump on a plane to LA with Cricket (an eighty-something widow and your BFF)?

5. And when all else fails, will celebrity-scented candles, smashed avocados and Instagram filters save us?*

In this hilarious, un-put-downable follow-up to the bestselling Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up, now the basis for the major TV series called Not Dead Yet, there are laugh-out-loud lessons to be learned, truths to be told, adventures to go on and joys to discover.

But first, Nell has some more confessions . . .

*#onlyjoking #sortof #LOL

Praise for Alexandra Potter:

'The story of Nell Stevens’ struggle through her imperfect, messy life doesn’t just make brilliant fiction, it’s turning into a cultural revolution!' – Matt Cain

'Say hello to a book that will have you laughing with every page, whether you're 20, 40 or 80' – Heat

'Brilliant! Laughing out loud' – Emma Gannon

'Funny but layered, light-hearted but surprisingly deep, this is a perfect and inspiring new year read' – Red

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ID: 644998

Title: Nanny Wanted

Author: Lizzy Barber

Narrator: Sofia Engstrand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Nanny Wanted is a gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Out of Her Depth, Lizzy Barber.

'Nanny Wanted is the perfect gothic suspense novel, with complex characters and a creeping sense of dread.' - Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party

A remote Cornish mansion. The perfect couple. And the deadly secrets that bind them.

When Lily finally leaves her toxic relationship, a job as a nanny at Kewney Manor seems like the perfect solution. There, she can cut herself off from her old life, and never have to see him again.

The Rowes seem like a model family, and Lily falls instantly in love with her new home. But she can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right. Why will nobody tell her about the nanny who came before her? Where does Laurie go at night? And what does Charles really want?

As Lily becomes increasingly entangled in the Rowes’s lives, she realizes that the perfect family may not be all that they seem. And as much as she fears the past she is running from, perhaps the present is where the real danger lies . . .

Praise for Nanny Wanted:

'A masterful read-in-one-sitting thriller. Every bit as gripping as last year’s Out of Her Depth (one of my favourite novels of 2022).' - B P Walter bestselling author of The Dinner Guest

'A tense, slow-burn du Maurier style domestic noir. Loved it.' - Catherine Cooper, bestselling author of The Chalet and The Cruise

'A gorgeous setting that hides a multitude of dark secrets.' - Nikki Smith, bestselling author of Look What You Made Me Do

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ID: 646028

Title: Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction

Author: Robert Goddard

Narrator: Naoko Mori

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:48:02

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. But so it has turned out, thanks to the death of her former boss, Kazuto Kodaka, in mysterious circumstances.

Keen to avoid a similar fate, Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully. A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. But she should have known that the simplest cases are never really simple at all. Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twenty-seven-year-old investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World War.

As Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and now, it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried. And the deeper Wada digs, the more danger she finds herself in. Soon those she loves most will be sucked into the orbit of one of the most powerful men in Tokyo. And he will do whatever it takes to hold on to his power...

The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction is another tour de force from the cunning mind of master storyteller Robert Goddard. Spanning seventy years, it takes the reader on a head-spinning journey of twist and counter-twist which keep you guessing until the final pages.

©2023 Robert Goddard (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 628933

Title: Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop: Book 2 in the uplifting WWII saga series about a community-run bookshop, from the bestselling author

Author: Lesley Eames

Narrator: Polly Edsell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

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

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The village of Churchwood has never needed The Wartime Bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at the worst possible time, can Alice, Kate and Naomi pull together to keep spirits high?

Kate has always found life on Brimbles Farm difficult, but she is struggling more than ever to find time for the bookshop, for her friends - and especially for handsome pilot Leo Kinsella. Can two Land Girls help? Or will they be more trouble than they're worth?

Naomi has found new friends and purpose through the bookshop and is happier than she's been in a long time - until she finds evidence that her husband is being unfaithful. With old insecurities rearing up, she needs to uncover the truth.

Alice worries for her fiancé Daniel away fighting in the war and frets over the loss of her financial independence following an injury to her hand. With no job opportunities in Churchwood, might she find work somewhere else?

Land Girls at the Wartime Bookshop is the second novel in the uplifting Wartime Bookshop series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest.

**Real readers are LOVING The Wartime Bookshop series**

'BRILLIANT'

'Oh I loved this book... please carry on the good writing'

'Wow what a brilliant start to a new series'

'Outstandingly fabulous, warm and inviting... so glad there is going to be a follow-on'

©2023 Lesley Eames (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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