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+Perfume By Patrick Suskind Read by Sean Barrett

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Soon he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill.

Duration: 8.30 hours MP3-CD Unabridged £17.99

ISBN: 97801 41806884

+Village Diary By Miss Read Read by Carole Boyd

Miss Read’s ardour lasts all year encompassing every aspect of Fairacre life. Whether embroiled unwillingly in her friend Amy’s marital hiccups, discussing the changing world with Miss Clare or the modern problems of good local education and rural impoverishment with the schools inspector and the doctor, she remains balanced, humorous and wise – and never forgets either her most important charge, the mixed bag of children in her school, or the joys of the changing season.

Duration: 5 hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 07528 76171

+A Picture of Britain By David Dimbleby Read by David Dimbleby

Accompanying a major BBC 1 series and an exhibition at Tate Britain. A Picture of Britain is a celebration of the British landscape and the art that it has inspired, from Constable to Lowry, from Turner to Nash. From the slopes of Snowdonia to the industrial Black Country, from the grandeur of the Scottish Highlands to the meadows of Suffolk, the British landscape has inspired artists and writers for generations. But it is only in the last three hundred years that people have come to admire and visit the wilder and more rugged vistas in paintings, photographs and words and this remarkable book captures our rich cultural heritage creating for the read a Picture of Britain.

Duration: 5.10 hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 07528 85650

+Whitethorn Woods By Maeve Binchy Read by Kate Binchy

Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, where the young people leave to travel the world nowadays it is a prosperous place, so busy a new bypass has been proposed. The people are divided since the bypass will go right through Whitethorn Woods and the well dedicated to St Ann and thought to have spiritual properties. The curate has no idea which faction to support and the O’Brien family should take the compensation offered but Mrs O’Brien was given a cure at the well many years ago. And there was the childless woman who came from London to the well with unexpected consequences.

Duration: 5.45 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 07528 74985

+The Farm By Richard Benson Read by Richard Benson

After two hundred years of farming in Yorkshire the Benson family were forced to sell up. Like amy other farmers they found that big business was wiping out a way of life they had known for generations. Farming had not come naturally to Richard Benson he had left for London long ago. But when he returned to help, he rekindled the memories of pigs digging up the neighbour’s lawn, love affairs amongst the haystacks, men who wrestled bulls to prove a point. He tells of the changing landscape and his family adapt to a new life after being forced to give up their birthright.

Duration: 4.15 hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 07528 76694

+Stephen King: LT’s Theory of Pets Read by the author

+Michael Palin Diaries 1969 to 1979 (The Python Years) Read by Michael Palin

The diaries tell how Python emerged enjoying cult status with tours in the USA and Canada appearing like pop stars at sold out stadium venues. With the growing fame came censorship with one line in four being cut from sketches. With the popularity Palin recalls how the Pythons went their separate ways with John Cleese going on to write and act in Fawlty Towers while the others worked to keep the group together and made films including the Holy Grail and the Life of Brian. The diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.

Duration: 4.45 hours CD Unabridged £15.99

ISBN: 07528 75612

+Hello By Leslie Phillips Read by Leslie Phillips

For more than seventy years Leslie Phillips has been a working actor. He made the word ‘Hello’ uniquely his own. Born in the smoggy depths of Tottenham he tells with an easy charm stories of friends and colleagues, theatrical knights, chaperones, being a tireless actor and yet remaining a father to a large family sometimes against all personal odds. A moving story of private disasters and triumphs.

Duration: 4 hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 07528 73865

+The Naming of the Dead By Ian Rankin Read by James Macpherson

July 2005 and the eyes of the world are on Scotland hosting the G8 conference. DI Rebus has been sidelined but all that changes when a young politician plunges from the walls of Edinburgh Castle one night. A series of clues near an ancient ‘clootie well’ on the outskirts of Edinburgh points to a serial killer who likes taking out newly released rapists. A mix of action set against a backdrop of the most devastating week in recent British history.

Duration: 7.10 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 07528 76139

+The Thirteenth Tale By Diane Setterfield Read by Juliet Stevenson

Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, now old and ailing wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea to help her but she does not believe the gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family and Vida. Two stories unfold as Margaret begins her journey to the truth – hers as well as Vida’s.

Duration: 7.20 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 07528 75728

+Recoil By Andy McNab Read by Steven Pacey

Recuperating in Switzerland after a job which cost the life of one of his closet friends Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. When his private life starts to disintegrate he is forced back into action. The trail leads him the Democratic Republic of the Congo where his dark past comes knocking on his door.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18465 70085

+The Godfather’s Revenge By Mark Winegardner Read by Joe Mantegna

It is 1963 in New York outside a fortified building owned by Michael undisputed Boss of all Bosses. They have all come to pay homage ex Mafia gang members, the Mayor of New York. The Don walks the streets beloved and protected. One problem remains Michael has sworn revenge on Nick Geraci a former Corleone capo. So far he has evaded his grasp due to his powerful friends. In the midst of this the President of the USA is assassinated. Was another mob family involved or did the Corleones have a hand in the killing?

Duration: 6 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70301

+The Rainmaker By John Grisham Read by Michael Beck

Rudy Baker’s world collapses as just before his Bar exams the law firm he is going to is taken over. He is up to his neck in debt and everything hinges on two prospective clients. One an old lady who claims to have a twenty million dollar fortune and wants a new will drafted and a young man dying of leukaemia who has a case against an insurance company. This is the tip of the iceberg and soon Rudy finds hundreds of cases popping up all against the very legal firm whose takeover cost him his job. He is a young man against a battery of million dollar lawyers and his opponents will do anything to stop him.

Duration: 6 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70204

+Dear Me By Peter Ustinov Read by the Author

A beautifully crafted autobiography told with wit and insight. Born in 1921 it spans an extraordinary career as an actor, playwright, film star and director. His gift for mimicry is exploited to the full in Dear Me. Eccentric school masters, relatives, sergeant majors and Hollywood moguls are brought to life.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18465 70212

Chart Throb By Ben Elton Read by Adam Godley

Ninety five thousand hopefuls, three judges, just one winner - and that is Colin Simms the genius behind the show. He always wins because he writes the rules, but this year as he surveys the mingers, clingers and bingers in his search for a star he has no idea that the rules have changed. The real is about to be put back into reality and Colin and his fellow judges (the nation’s favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18465 70735

+The Collectors By David Baldacci Read by Steven Pacey

Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, she is planning two short cons to fund a long con then she will have a life of unashamed luxury, incognito in a foreign land. When Jonathan DeHaven is found dead Caleb Shaw is determined to track down Jonathan’s long lost wife who just happens to be Annabelle. Annabelle decides to avenge her husband’s death but the killers will stop at nothing to keep the truth of the death secret.

Duration: 5 hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 14050 93021

+Rapture By Carol Ann Duffy Read by Juliet Stevenson

A collection about love from Britain’s best loved poet. It is a collection that can and does speak for us all. These poems are outstanding intellectually and emotionally complete, popular as love poems should be and can be. Rapture is brilliant, beautiful and heart aching states Jeanette Winterson of The Times Newspaper.

Duration: 1 hour CD £10.99

ISBN: 02300 14380

+Cat O’ Nine Tales By Jeffrey Archer Read by Anton Lesser

A collection of short stories from one of the most popular novelists of our time. The twelve yarns are ingeniously plotted, include richly drawn characters and have deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know as well as some more poignant and telling characters. Many of these stories came to Archer while he was incarcerated for two years in five different prisons and so have a prison theme.

Duration: 6 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 02300 13767

+Innocent Graves By Peter Robinson Read by Neil Pearson

Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind the school strangled with the strap of her own school satchel. Deborah was no typical sixteen year old. Her father was a high powered financier mixing with the heads of industry and the MOD. Her father dealt with secrets (classified information) and Deborah it seemed enjoyed keeping secrets of her own. When DC Susan Gay and Inspector Alan Banks move along the many suspects plenty of sordid secrets an deadly lies begin to emerge.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 14050 90944

+By The Pricking of My Thumbs By Agatha Christie Read by Samantha Bond

While visiting Tommys Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge nursing home, Tuppence encounters Mrs Lancaster who talks about ‘something behind the fireplacean’. Aunt Ada dies a few weeks later and leaves Tommy and Tuppence a painting. Tuppence is sure she has seen the house before and her quest to find it leads her into diamond smuggling, a missing tombstone and the horrible discovery of what Mrs Lancaster was talking about.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 14050 3419X

+ UGLY - THE STORY OF A LOVELESS CHILDHOOD By Constance Briscoe Read by the author

Constance’s mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that failed, she swallowed bleach ‘because it kills all known germs and my mother always told me I was a germ’. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food. But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartrending - and ultimately triumphant story.

Duration: 2 Hours Abridged CD £12.99

ISBN: 18445 6066X

+The Lord of the Rings, by J R R Tolkien read by Rob Inglis

The Lord of the Rings CD Gift Set (Parts 1, 2 and 3), including: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

JRR Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely,

epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene

and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its

detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has

proved timeless in its appeal. Digitally remastered and unabridged

Duration: 46 hours CD £149.99

ISBN: 00071 41327

+The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society By Chris Stewart Read by the author

The good life abroad just keeps getting better as Chris Stewart, one time Genesis drummer, turned sheepshearer, turned bestselling writer, returns with a new book on his life in the decidedly oddball region of Las Alpujarras, south of Granada. The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris and his family still living on their farm, El Varo - but life there never stands still. You will find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on the way to treat dung beetles, bluffs his way as an art history guide to millionaire Bostonians, collects seeds in North Africa and joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society And you'll cringe as he tries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada. Chris Stewart's optimism and zest for life is as infectious as ever.

Duration: 4.50 hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN:07528 85979

+MUSTN’T GRUMBLE By Terry Wogan Read by Terry Wogan

Sir Terry knows that veteran means clapped out! He would like you to know that people can still confuse him with George Clooney and that he can walk 18 holes unaided. There is lots in this autobiography about Children In Need, the Eurovision Song Contest, Wogan and all the other radio and TV programmes he has hosted and he still finds himself half way up the stairs without the slightest idea of what he is doing there!

Duration: 3.40 hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 07528 7568X

+White Out By Ken Follett Read by David Tennant

Jealousies, distrust and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. Stanley Oxenford a director of a pharmaceutical research company has his adult children, the head of his security team and a local television reporter at his house on Christmas Eve. The house and its group are virtually under siege during a blizzard emotional sparks develop as each member of the group has their own agenda regarding the drug Stanley’s company is developing to fight a lethal virus.

Duration: 4 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 1405 052716

+The Body In The Library By Agatha Christie Read by Ian Masters

When Dolly Bantry finds the body of a blonde in her library she immediately sends for her friend Miss Marple. The police identify the girl as Ruby Keene a dance hostess who was reported missing by elderly invalid Conway Jefferson who planned to adopt her. When the body of another girl turns up, Miss Marple with her incredible eye for spotting clues others have overlooked, is determined to find this ruthless killer.

Duration: 3hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 1405 089555

+Lord Edgware Dies By Agatha Christie Read by Michael Cochrane

Actress Jane Wilkinson approaches Poirot and pleads with him to speak with her husband Lord Edgware who is refusing to divorce her. The following morning Lord Edgware is found murdered and witnesses tell Poirot that Jane was the last person to see him alive. However Jane was at a dinner party miles away with twelve other guests who will testify to her being there. When two more murders are committed Poirot finds himself in the midst of one his most perplexing cases.

Duration: 3hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 1405 089547

+Dry Bones That Dream By Peter Robinson Read by Neil Pearson

It was 2.47 am when Chief Inspector Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body for the first time. Two hours earlier two masked men had walked this mild mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and blasted him with a shotgun. Banks asks himself why and what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy family. The investigation soon raises more questions than answers.

Duration: 3hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 1405 089539

+North Face Of Soho By Clive James Read by Clive James

Memoirs from one of the UK’s and Australia’s best loved personalities. North Face of Soho is intelligent, amusing and provocative - the words apply to the man as much as his memoirs. It is a book that cannot come soon enough for the legions of Clive James fans worldwide. He mixes together cleverness and clownishness and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer according to the Financial Times.

Duration: 5hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 1405 092653

+Our Iceberg Is Melting By John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber Read by Oliver Wyman

A simple fable with profound lessons for working and living in an ever changing world. The story compares how we humans perceive change through the eyes of a penguin colony in Antartica. The characters are like people - one penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem but no one listens to him. Their story is one of resistance to change, unbeatable obstacles and the most clever tactics in dealing with those obstacles. This story is occurring in different forms around us today but the penguins handle change better than most of us.

Duration: 2 hours CD Abridged £10.99

ISBN: 00230 014127

+The Secret Of Crickley Hall By James Herbert Read by Steven Pacey

Exploring the supernatural this is the story of the Caleigh family who move to the seaside village of Hollow Bay in Devon where the family can relax in peace and quiet and recover from the terrible year they have had. However, gloomy Crickley Hall at the bottom of Devil’s Cleave, does make sounds as old houses do, it is constantly cold and Chester their dog seems really spooked all the time and no matter how many times they shut the cellar door every night it is always open again in the morning.

Duration: 6hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 1405 089717

+Sovereign By C J Sansom Read by Anton Lesser

In 1541 King Henry the Eighth sets out for the north of England to quell a plot against his throne. Accompanied by his fifth wife Catherine Howerd, a thousand soldiers and the cream of the nobility he heads for York. Already in the city is Mathew Shardlake who is a lawyer and as well as his legal work his has undertaken to ensure the welfare of a dangerous conspirator being returned to London. But the murder of a local glazier leads Shardlake and his assistant Barak to uncover deeper mysteries involving the prisoner and the royal family itself. Stumbling on a terrifying secret puts Shardlake in fear of his own imprisonment in the Tower of London.

Duration: 7 hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 1405 08989X

+Stand And Deliver By Adam Ant Read by Adam Ant

One of the most successful pop stars of the 1980’s with the white stripe across his face and his frilly shirt Adam Ant reveals the full story of his dysfunctional childhood, the punk movement and the creation of a unique musical style. He tells of his life long battle as a manic depressive, his violent alcoholic father, stalkers in Los Angeles and London which lead to a mental breakdown. Sometimes funny other times tragic this is a gripping account of one of music’s most fascinating figures.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 1405 089881

+The Tinder Box By Minette Walters Read by Catherine Cusack

In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish Labourer Patrick O’Riordan is arrested for the brutal murder of two women. The village residents form a united front against the O’Riordan family with vicious threats and violence. Only their neighbour remains convinced that Patrick has fallen victim to a prejudiced investigation. However days before his trial terrible secrets are revealed and she is forced to question her loyalties. As the truth unfurls the Sowerbridge residents need to be very afraid.

Duration: 2 hours CD Abridged £10.99

ISBN: 1405 052996

+Paula Spencer By Roddy Doyle Read by Ger Ryan

We first met Paula as the Woman Who Walked Into Doors she was then thirty nine and recently widowed and an alcoholic. We catch up with her on her forty ninth birthday, she has not had a drink for four months, two of her children are still with her and she works as a cleaner and she has four grandchildren and coming to terms with her Eastern European workmates and the fact that all the check out girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. Paula is brave, tenacious and very funny.

Duration: 7.30 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70360

+Inside Little Britain By Matt Lucas and David Walliams Read by the authors and Boyd Hilton

This autobiography follows a year in the lives of the Little Britain stars Matt and David. It includes the writing, the rehearsing and filming and undertaking a mammoth 100 date, seven month tour of Great Britain. It covers their childhoods, family life, their complex friendship and working relationship. It also reflects how they got from there to here where magazines are fighting for access to them and the tabloids obsess about every detail of their private lives and the insane celebrity bubble they live in.

Duration: 4.30 hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 18465 70425

+The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail By Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln Read by Simon Prebble

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of the Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story. The author’s conclusions are persuasive at the core is a secret of explosive and controversial proportions.

Duration: 9.37 hours CD Abridged £17.99

ISBN: 18465 70611

+A Spot Of Bother By Mark Haddon Read by Mark Haddon

At fifty seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed, reading, listening to jazz. Then his daughter announces she is getting remarried to her former husband whom her brother observes has ‘strangler’s hands’. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing as it is getting in the way of her late life affair with one of her husband’s former colleagues. Jamie fails to invite his gay lover to the wedding then George finds a lesion on his hip and begins to lose his mind. This is a funny portrait of a man trying to go insane politely.

Duration: 6 hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70751

+Ultimate Weapon By Chris Ryan Read by Stephen Tompkinson

Three people, three stories and a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick is an SAS veteran of the first Gulf War, his daughter has cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age and has now disappeared. Her lover Jed is an SAS agent trying to discover Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Jed and Nick must fight their way through a war ravaged Iraq to find the woman they both love.

Duration: 3 hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18568 68923

+The Water’s Lovely By Ruth Rendell Read By Claire Price

Ismay would dream she was climbing stairs with her mother into a chamber walled in marble. In the midst was a lake and the body of Ismay’s stepfather was floating in it face down. The house where they lived and where her stepfather had in fact drowned in the bathroom was now divided into two flats and the bathroom had long gone. The family including her two sisters still remained and secrets were hanging in the air like dust but with painful inevitability the truth will emerge.

Duration: 4hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18465 70603

+The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins Read by Richard Dawkins

A hugely controversial argument for atheism Richard Dawkins is one of the country’s famous scientists and outspoken critic of religion. This is a hard hitting accessible and powerfully thought out examination of religion in the modern world. The rise of religious fundamentalism in other parts of the world is dividing opinion and this controversial book will be required reading for anyone interested in this most emotional of subjects.

Duration: 7hours CD Unabridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70379

+The Gospel According To Chris Moyles - The Story Of A Man And His Mouth By Chris Moyles Read by Chris Moyles

Chris Moyles is the nation’s most popular DJ. 7.6 million people wake up to his Radio One breakfast show every morning. Part motor mouth part lovable rogue this book will take you on a journey from his idyllic childhood in Leeds through his discovery of radio and onto his new found fame as the savious of Radio One. Along the way you will meet some colourful characters some of whom you will know and some of whom you will be glad you do not.

Duration: 3hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 18465 70506

+Imperium By Robert Harris Read by Derek Jacobi

The first book in a major new trilogy set in the Ancient Roman Empire. WhenTiro opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island’s corrupt Roman governor. The senator is Cicero a brilliant young lawyer determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state.

Duration: 6hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 18465 70352

+Forgotten Voices Of The Blitz And The Battle For Britain Box Set By Joshua Levine

Joshua Levine has compiled an extraordinary account of airborne warfare using the Imperial War Museum’s extensive archive. This Box Set contains all four parts of the Forgotten Voices previously released. In June 1940 British citizens prepared for an imminent German invasion. From July to September they watched the war play out in the skies above them. Over the next nine months the Blitz killed more than 43,500 civilians. We hear from the soldiers, airmen, fire fighters, air raid wardens and civilians as they give us a unique and compelling account of Britain under seige. With first hand testomies from those involved in Dunkirk, Black Saturday 8th September 1940 when the Luftwaffe began the Blitz to its crescendo on the 10th May 1041. This is a period when Britain came closer to being overwhelmed by an enemy than at any other time in history.

Duration: 12 hours CD Abridged £44.99

ISBN: 18465 70255

+NO PLACE LIKE HOME By Mary Higgins Clark Read by Jan Maxwell

When she was ten Liz Barton shot her mother dead, trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. The court ruled it to be a tragic accident. Now 24 years later she is happily married with a new name and family, she also runs a successful interior design business. As a surprise her husband buys her a house, the very same house in which her mother met her death. When the estate agent is found dead she becomes the suspect but she is unaware that she and her son Jack are the targets of a ruthless killer.

Duration: 4.30 Hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 07435 01667

+TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE By Mary Higgins Clark Read by Jan Maxwell

Returning from a night out in New York Mark and Steve Frawley discover that their twin daughters aged three have been kidnapped and held to an eight million dollar ransom. They pay the ransom but find only one child at the handover point and the driver shot dead with a suicide note stating he had also killed the other twin. As they try to put their lives back together the surviving child insists her twin is still alive and with the FBI sets out to use her telepathic connection to her sister to discover where she is.

Duration: 4.30 Hours CD Abridged £14.99

ISBN: 07435 01721

+THIS IS MY LIFE By Eamonn Holmes Read by Eamonn Holmes

Growing up in the troubles in Northern Ireland Eamonn enrolled on a journalism course and learned the rules of reporting the hard way including funerals and street riots. In 1986 he moved to England and became a presenter with GMTV. For the first time he tells the story of his twelve years as a breakfast time TV host with honesty, humour and no nonsense talking.

Duration: 3.20 Hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 07528 7523X

+VILLAGE SCHOOL By Miss Read Read by Carole Boyd

There are no secrets in a village and as the head of Fairacre’s two class school Miss Read is inevitably involved in most of her neighbours’ concerns. She recounts the ups and downs of a year in the 1950s including the new infant teacher’s budding romance, Mrs Pringle’s never ending complaints, Miss Clare’s failing health and the often less wonderful behaviour of the villagers. Very little escapes Miss Read’s notice.

Duration: 5 Hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 075287 571X

+TOO MANY MOTHERS By Roberta Taylor Read by Roberta Taylor

Famous for her roles in Eastenders and The Bill Roberta Taylor tells this moving memoir of her early life in an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world. A wide spectrum is covered from petty crime to tender romance and emotional blackmail, illegitimacy, adoption and even murder.

Duration: 4.50 Hours CD Abridged £15.99

ISBN: 075287 5590

+OUR GAME By John le Carre Read by John le Carre

Tim Cranmer is a retired secret agent living in deepest Somerset with his mistress and devoting himself to his stately home. But no man can escape his past and his former double agent Larry Pettifer lives only twenty miles away and between the two stands Emma. When Larry and Emma disappear Tim sets off in pursuit through the battered landscape of post Thatcher England into the lawless wilds of Moscow and into Southern Russia.

Duration: 6 Hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 184456 1003

+HIDE AND SEEK By Ian Rankin Read by Bill Paterson

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat. Just another dead addict until John Rebus begins to chip away at the treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the façade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like murder every day.

Duration: 3.20 Hours CD Abridged £13.99

ISBN: 0752875248

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+THE GRAVE TATTOO By Val McDermid Read by Dervla Kirwan and Rupert Penry-Jones

Summer in the Lake District and torrential rain uncovers a bizarrely tattooed body. Centuries old tales involving the Pitcairn Massacre are being told again. Did Fletcher Christian on the ill fated Bounty stage the death of his men in order to return home in secret? Jane Gresham wants to know the truth and as she follows each new lead suddenly a 200 year old mystery is putting lives on the line with the ultimate prize of a bounty worth millions.

Duration: 6 Hours CD Abridged £16.99

ISBN: 0007211317

+D C CONFIDENTIAL By Christopher Meyer Read by Christopher Meyer

Close encounters with