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Harper CollinsAdult FictionGeneral fictionReader, I married him. 2016. Short stories. TB700430.A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, are inspired by Jane Eyre and shaped by its perennially fascinating themes of love, compromise and self-determination. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, this collection brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Bronte's game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.Read by Laura Kirman. 7 hours 18 minutes.Ahern, Cecelia. The time of my life. 2011. General fiction. TB700313.Lucy Silchester has received an appointment card. Actually, she's been invited along a few times to this appointment, but she keeps brushing the gold embossed envelope under the carpet. But Lucy is about to find out that this is one appointment that she can't miss. Her life is about to catch up with her in the most surreal of ways.Read by Amy Creighton. 13 hours 2 minutes.Ahern, Cecelia. One hundred names. 2012. General fiction. TB700512.Journalist Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal, and she now faces losing the woman who guided her and taught her everything she knew. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her - what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names. There is no synopsis, no explanation , nothing else to explain what the story is or who these people are. The list is simply a mystery. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it is too late. With everything to prove, Kitty is assigned the most important task of her life - to write the story her mentor never had the opportunity to.Read by Amy Creighton. 10 hours 56 minutes.Ahern, Cecelia. The marble collector. 2015. General fiction. TB700412.When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father's possessions, she discovers a truth where she never knew there was a lie. The familiar man she grew up with is suddenly a stranger to her. An unexpected break in her monotonous daily routine leaves her just one day to unlock the secrets of the man she thought she knew. A day that unearths memories, stories and people she never knew existed. A day that changes her and those around her forever.Read by Aidan Kelly and Aofie McMahon. 8 hours 7 minutes.Alcott, Kathleen. Infinite home. 2015. General fiction. TB701011.Within a charming, if dilapidated, Brooklyn brownstone live a family of sorts: beautiful agoraphobe Adeleine, who surrounds herself with the past; Thomas, an artist who has shut away his materials in the wake of a stroke; Edward, a cynical stand-up comedian mired in depression and Paulie, a young man with William’s Syndrome, a disease that grants him the irrepressible cheerfulness of a six-year-old. Brought together by ageing landlady Edith, the tenants all live safely in tune with each other, even if they do keep to themselves. But when their home is suddenly and violently threatened, they are shocked into action. Read by Laurence Bouvard. 8 hours 1 minute.Alexander, Sara. Under a Sardinian sky. 2017. General fiction.TB701882.Sometimes a family's deepest silences hide the most important secrets. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her family's Sardinian reserve. But now, it's time to learn the truth. As Mina follows the threads of Carmela's life to uncover her fate, she will discover a past still deeply alive in the present, revealing a story of hope, sacrifice, and extraordinary love.Read by Sara Alexander. 11 hours 43 minutes.Allende, Isabel. Maya's notebook. 2013. General fiction. TB701012.The narrator and protagonist of Maya's notebook is a 19 year old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile.Read by Maria Cabezas. 14 hours 36 minutes.Baddiel, David. The death of Eli Gold. 2011. General fiction. TB700322.As Eli Gold, a famous old writer lies dying in a hospital in New York, his family gather around his bed. His first wife Violet is too old to travel from London but Harvey, their son, who has never emerged from the shadow of his overpowering father, makes the journey. And there is Colette, a six-year old daughter from a second marriage, struggling to make sense of the fact her father is about to leave her. Read by Jot Davies. 14 hours 53 minutes.Baker Kline, Christina. A piece of the world. 2017. General fiction. TB700108.For decades, Christina Olson's whole world has been a rocky, windswept point on the coast of Maine. As a girl, farm life asked more of Christina than it did her family, her wasting limbs turning every task into a challenge. But the very tenacity that strengthened her may dash her chances for a life beyond her chores and extinguish her hopes for love. Years pass and Christina's solitude is broken by the arrival of Andrew Wyeth, a young artist who is fixated on the isolated farm house. In Christina he will discover more than a kindred spirit; for him, she will become a muse like no other.Read by Polly Stone. 8 hours 2 minutes.Barker, Nicola. In the approaches. 2014. General fiction. TB700816.In the Summer of 1971, a charismatic family seeks refuge in the quiet, English coastal backwater of Pett Level. Thirteen years later, a shifty individual turns up in Pett Level, apparently determined to get to the bottom of the bizarre and ultimately tragic events which unfolded in the aftermath of that arrival. But does he really want to understand, or is he just way too close to the story to make any clear sense of it?Read by Stephen Perring and Antonia Beamish. 15 hours 45 minutes.Barry, Brunonia. The map of true places. 2011. General fiction. TB700818.Zee Finch has a career as a respected psychotherapist and she's about to get married, but the shocking death of Zee's most troubled patient brings to the surface secrets in Zee's own life. Zee is finally forced to confront the truth behind her mother's death and the unfinished story she left behind.Read by Caitlin Thorburn. 11 hours 48 minutes.Bell, Juliet. The Heights. 2018. General fiction. TB702812.A modern re-telling of Wuthering Heights. A grim discovery brings DCI Lockwood to Gimmerton's Heights Estate - a bleak patch of Yorkshire he thought he'd left behind for good. There, he must do the unthinkable, and ask questions about the notorious Earnshaw family. And, against his better judgement, DCI Lockwood is soon drawn into a story. A story of an untameable boy, terrible rage, and two families ripped apart. A story of passion, obsession, and dark acts of revenge.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 55 minutesBennett, Andrea. Two cousins of Azov. 2017. General fiction. TB702030.Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window – four floors up. Is old age catching up with him. Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of him. With a keen listener by his side, and the aid of smuggled home-made sugary delights, Tolya’s boyhood memories return, revealing dark secrets.Read by Saul Reichlin. 13 hours 9 minutes.Blackwood, Scott. See how small. 2015. General fiction. TB700824.One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. “See How Small' tells the stories of the survivors, family, witnesses, and suspects, who must endure in the wake of atrocity.Read by Rengin Altay. 4 hours 26 minutes.Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Playing the game. 2010. General fiction. TB700331.Annette Remmington is a London art consultant and private dealer at the top of her game. Marius Remmington is Annette's husband. It's with great care that he hand picks Jack Chalmers, the best journalist possible, to do a profile on his beloved. Marius believes only Jack will be able to capture the true brilliance of his lovely wife, but he never intended putting his marriage in jeopardy. And how could he know that Jack would uncover a scandal that could ultimately destroy them all?Read by Catherine Harvey. 12 hours 23 minutes.Brooke, Amanda. Where I found you. 2014. General fiction. TB700620.Maggie is blind: her senses of touch, smell and hearing have built an image of the place she loves most in the world, and she's never felt held back by her unseeing eyes. And yet, newly married and expecting her first baby, Maggie has suddenly started to doubt her ability to cope. Elsie is also expecting her first child, but unmarried, alone and without the support of her family, she's terrified her baby will be taken away. When Maggie meets Elsie one day in the park she tries to comfort this distressed young woman, but all is not as it seems. Because Elsie lost her baby sixty years earlier, and now, suffering from the first stages of Alzheimer's, she can't stop re-living the most traumatic event in her life.Read by Juanita McMahon. 13 hours 26 minutes.Brooke, Amanda. The Goodbye Gift. 2016. General fiction.TB700419.Lucy has been desperate for a new heart for as long as she can remember. But getting the call to say a donor has been found will be a bittersweet relief: because for her to live, someone else must die. Julia, Helen and Phoebe have been fast friends for all their lives, through Helen's unplanned pregnancy, the sudden death of Phoebe's mother, and Julia's desperation to conceive with her much younger husband. Yet a deep friendship can hide many secrets, and as their relationship reaches crisis point, what has long been buried is going to come bubbling to the surface. With one tragic accident, these four lives will converge and Lucy will get her new heart. But who has made the ultimate sacrifice?Read by Julie Maisey. 10 hours 40 minutes.Brown, Eleanor. The light of Paris. 2016. General fiction. TB700421.Chicago, 1999.Madeleine is trapped, by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. But when she finds a diary detailing her grandmother Margie's trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets a woman she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict family and spent a summer living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Shaken by the revelation of a family secret and inspired by her grandmother's bravery, Madeleine creates her own summer of joy.Read by Cassandra Campbell. 12 hours 30 minutes.Brown, Vivien. Lily Alone. 2017. General fiction. TB702273.Lily, who is almost three years old, wakes up alone at home with only her cuddly toy for company. She is afraid of the dark, can't use the phone, and has been told never to open the door to strangers. But why is Lily alone and why isn't there anyone who can help her? What about the lonely old woman in the flat below who wonders at the cries from the floor above? Or the grandmother who no longer sees Lily since her parents split up? All the while a young woman lies in a coma in hospital - and for Lily, time is running out.Read by Penelope Rawlins. 11 hours 21 minutes.Buchanan, Tracy. The atlas of us. 2014. General fiction. TB700336.Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the Boxing Day tsunami. The only trace she can find is her mother's distinctive bag. Inside it is a beautifully crafted atlas belonging to a writer named Claire Shreve. But what is the connection between Claire and Louise's missing mum, and can the atlas help Louise find her?Read by Melody Grove and Maggie Mash. 14 hours 54 minutes.Butler, Juliet. The less you know the sounder you sleep. 2017. General fiction. TB702048.Masha is feisty and fearless. Dasha is gentle, quiet and fears everything; from the Soviet scientists who study them, to the other `defective' children who bully them and the `healthies' from whom they must be locked away. For the twins have been born conjoined in a society where flaws must be hidden from sight and where their inseparability is the most terrible flaw of all. Through the seismic shifts of Stalin's communism to the beginnings of Putin's democracy, Dasha and her irrepressible sister strive to be more than just `the together twins', finding hope, and love, in the unlikeliest of places.Read by Juliet Butler. 14 hours 41 minutes.Byrne, Paula. Look to Your Wife. 2018. General fiction. TB702973.Lisa Blaize – teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife – feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a school in a country town. Isolated and far from her metropolitan upbringing, she turns to the one place where she learns she can be uninhibited. But ‘Twitter may be my undoing’, Lisa discovers as her one -time private life becomes all too public. Soon she is dealing with an online stalker and her husband’s reputation is put at risk, but will she be able to give up her addiction?Read by Penelope Freeman. 7 hours 56 minutes.Chamberlain, Mary. The dressmaker of Dachau. 2015. General fiction. TB700526.London, spring 1939. Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan, a beautiful and ambitious seamstress. A chance meeting with the enigmatic Stanislaus von Lieben catapults Ada into a world of glamour and romance. When he suggests a trip to Paris, Ada is blind to all the warnings of war on the continent. When the Nazis invade, Stanislaus abandons her and she is taken prisoner, sent to Germany as slave labour and forced to survive the only way she knows how: by being a dressmaker.Read by Julie Teal. 11 hour 39 minutes.Chekhov, Anton. Short stories by Anton Chekhov. 2008. Short stories. TB700429.Includes An Avenger, A Blunder, Boys, The Huntsman, The Lady with the Dog, Misery and Oysters.Read by Stephen Fry. 1 hour 47 minutes.Christie, Agatha, writing as Mary Westmacott. A daughter's a daughter. 2012. General fiction. TB700833.When Ann falls in love she hopes for new happiness but her only child, Sarah, wrecks any chance of her remarriage. Resentment and jealousy corrode their relationship as each seeks relief in different directions. Read by Helen Longworth. 6 hours 36 minutes.Church, Elizabeth J. All the Beautiful Girls. 2018. General fiction. TB702608.In the summer of 1968, Ruby Wilde is the toast of Las Vegas. Showgirl of the Year, in her feathers and rhinestones, five-inch heels and sky-high headdresses, she mesmerises audiences from the Tropicana to the Stardust. Ratpackers and movie stars, gamblers and astronauts vie for her attention and shower her with gifts. But not so long ago Ruby Wilde was Lily Decker from Kansas: an orphaned girl determined to dance her way out of her troubled past. When a mysterious benefactor pays for her to attend a local dance academy, Lily's talent becomes her ticket to a new life. Now, as Ruby Wilde, the ultimate Sin City success story, she discovers that the glare of the spotlight cannot banish the shadows that haunt her.Read by Katherine Fenton. 12 hours 4 minutes.Clemmons, Zinzi. What we lose. 2017. General fiction. TB702017.Thandi is American, but not as American as some of her friends. She is South African, but South Africa terrifies her. She is a black woman with light skin. Her mother is dying. It is an intimate portrait of love and loss, and a fierce meditation on race, sex, identity, and staying alive. Read by Nicole Lewis. 3 hours 47 minutes.Coelho, Paulo. Aleph. 2011. General fiction. TB700437.Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal-the woman he loved 500 years before-an encounter that will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and present, in search of himself. Read by Mark Bramhall. 8 hours 28 minutes.Constantine, Susannah. After the Snow. 2017. General fiction.TB702329.Christmas morning, 1969. All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her `good' days - and, secretly, for a velvet riding hat. But later that day Esme's mother disappears in the heavy snow. Even more mysteriously, only the Earl of Culcairn seems to know where she might have gone. Torn between protecting her mother and uncovering the secrets tumbling out of Culcairn Castle's ornate closets, Esme realises that life will never be the same again after the snow.Read by Susannah Constantine. 7 hours 12 minutes.Cunningham, Michael. By nightfall. 2011. General fiction.TB700238.Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close to twenty years. Peter might even describe himself as happy. But then Rebecca's much younger brother Mizzy shows up for a visit. Beautiful, twenty-three years old, with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his marriage, his desires, his career, and the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself.Read by Hugh Dancy. 7 hours 26 minutes.Cunningham, Michael. The Snow Queen. 2014. Literary fiction. TB700540.Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light in the sky that regards him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions, or in God, but he can't deny what he's seen. In nearby Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, is trying, and failing, to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Barrett turns unexpectedly to religion, while Tyler grows convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers.Read by Claire Danes. 6 hours 47 minutes.Cunningham, Michael. A wild swan: and other tales. 2015. Short stories. TB700648.Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed . Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away, the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder, are transformed into stories of sublime revelation.Read by Billy Hough and Lili Taylor. 2 hours 56 minutes.D'Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia. The nest. 2016. General fiction.TB700173.This is the story of a wonderfully dysfunctional New York family and the three grown-up siblings fighting to save the family money pot – the ‘nest’ – as their oldest brother threatens to lose it all. When Leo Plumb drives off drunk from a party in a sports car with a nineteen-year-old waitress in tow, to the moral and legal fallout must be added the horrible inconvenience to his brother and sisters. Brought together as never before, the Plumb siblings must grapple with old resentment and present-day truths. Read by Mia Barron. 11 hours 7 minutes. Das, Arun. New voices: The Guardian 4th Estate BAME short story prize 2017. 2017. Short stories. TB702126.Collected here are the six best stories chosen by the judging panel of the Guardian 4th Estate BAME short story prize 2017. In them you'll encounter a range of characters: an Indian soldier fighting for the British in WWII ; a teenage girl fasting in a small London flat; an out-of-work dad in an urban playground; a woman cleaning the toilets in Hong Kong International airport; a wealthy Malaysian teenager in his last few days of school; and a septuagenarian arrested on New Year's Eve.Read by Arun Das, Jimi Famurewa, Kit Fan, Avani Shah, Lisa Smith and Henry Wong. 2 hours 30 minutesDave, Laura. Eight hundred grapes. 2015. General fiction. TB700649.Just a week before Georgia's wedding, a secret is revealed that changes everything. Returning to the family vineyard, Georgia just wants to throw herself into the grape harvest but the foundations of Georgia's ideas about love and happiness are shaken as she realises that her parents' long marriage is not quite the picture perfect relationship she had always assumed it was. In ways she never imagined, her whole life is unravelling, and it's up to Georgia to bring everyone through the storm.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 8 hours 3 minutes. Day, Elizabeth. The party. 2017. General fiction.TB702019.Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.Read by Greg Wagland and Stephanie Racine. 10 hours 45 minutes.Delinsky, Barbara. Not my daughter. 2010. General fiction. TB700453.When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself. Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends-and the town turns to talk of a pact. As Susan is principal of the high school, fingers start pointing, accusing her of not being not worthy of the job of shepherding impressionable students. As Susan struggles with the implications of her daughter's pregnancy, her job, financial independence, and long-fought -for dreams are all at risk.Read by Dian Perry. 11 hours 29 minutes.Doerr, Anthony. About Grace. 2017. General fiction. TB702036.Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He falls in love with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. Plagued by horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out what happened.Read by George Newburn. 12 hours 54 minutes.Doerr, Anthony. The shell collector. 2017. General fiction. TB702037.A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells , classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales. In The Shell Collector Antony Doerr illuminates both the riotous dangers of the natural world and the rocky terrain of the human heart.Read by Robert G Slade. 8 hours 15 minutes.Dave, Laura. Eight hundred grapes. 2015. General fiction. TB700649.Just a week before Georgia's wedding, a secret is revealed that changes everything. Returning to the family vineyard, Georgia just wants to throw herself into the grape harvest but the foundations of Georgia's ideas about love and happiness are shaken as she realises that her parents' long marriage is not quite the picture perfect relationship she had always assumed it was. In ways she never imagined, her whole life is unravelling, and it's up to Georgia to bring everyone through the storm.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 8 hours 3 minutes. Day, Elizabeth. The party. 2017. General fiction.TB702019.Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.Read by Greg Wagland and Stephanie Racine. 10 hours 45 minutes.Erskine, Barbara. Sleeper's castle. 2016. TB700127.Hay-On-Wye, 1400. In the walls of Sleeper’s Castle, Catrin finds herself caught in the middle of a doomed war as she is called upon to foretell Wales’s destiny. And what she sees, is blood and war coming closer. Hay, 2015. Miranda has moved to Sleeper’s Castle to escape and grieve. But every time she closes her eyes her dreams become more vivid. Is she losing herself to time?Read by Charlotte Strevens. 19 hours 57 minutes.Eugenides, Jeffrey. Fresh Complaint. 2017. TB702270.The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet Kendall, a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; and Mitchell, a lovelorn liberal arts graduate on a search for enlightenment; and Prakrti, a high school student whose wish to escape the strictures of her family leads to a drastic decision that upends the life of a middle-aged academic.Read by Ari Fliakos and Cynthia Nixon. 8 hours 3 minutes.Everett, Felicity. The people at number 9. 2017. TB700071.When Gav and Lou move into the house next door, Sara spends days plucking up courage to say hello. The neighbours are glamorous, chaotic and just a little eccentric. They make the rest of Sara's street seem dull by comparison. When the hand of friendship is extended, Sara is delighted and flattered. And the more time Sara spends with Gav and Lou, the more she longs to make changes in her own life. But those changes will come at a price. Soon Gav and Lou will be asking things they've no right to ask of their neighbours, with shattering consequences for all of them.Read by Jenny Funnell. 9 hours 2 minutes.Ewing, Rob. The last of us. 2016. TB700248.On a remote Scottish island, five children are the only ones left. Since the last died, sensible Elizabeth has been the group leader,testing for a radio signal, playing teacher and keeping an eye on Alex, the littlest, whose insulin can last only so long. For eight-year-old Rona, each day brings fresh hope that someone will come back for them. When brothers Calum Ian and Duncan attempt to thwart Elizabeth's leadership, it prompts a chain of events that will endanger Alex's life and test them all in unimaginable ways.Read by Maggie Service and Angus King. 7 hours 58 minutes.Foley, Lucy. The book of lost and found. 2015. General fiction. TB700129.Kate Darling's grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a smallportrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate's late mother. Kate's journey to find the true identity of the woman in the portrait takes her to Corsica and Paris, revealing a love story that began in the wild 1920s and was disrupted by war. Alternating between Kate's present-day hunt and voices from the past, this is a story of family secrets and love.Read by Jessica Ball. 12 hours 10 minutes.Foley, Lucy. The invitation. 2016. General fiction. TB700468.Rome, 1950s. One fateful night, Hal Jacobs meets Stella, a beautiful society darling from New York. To Hal, flailing in the post-war darkness, she's a point of light. They join the Contessa's collection of luminaries on a yacht headed for Cannes film festival. Everyone is hiding a dark history, but Stella's secrets run the deepest. Compelled by her fragile beauty, Hal is determined to bring back the girl she once was, the girl who's been confined to history.Read by Emma Gregory. 11 hours 28 minutes. Fox, Victoria. The Santiago sisters. 2016. General fiction.TB700470.Twins Calida and Teresita Santiago have never known a world without each other, until Teresita is wrenched from their Argentinian home to be adopted by world-famous actress Simone Geddes. Now, while Teresita is provided with all that money can buy, Calida must fight her way to the top, her only chance of reuniting with her twin. But no one can predict the explosive events which will finally bring the Santiago sisters into the spotlight together.Read by Yolanda Kettle. 14 hours 15 minutes.Fox, Victoria. The silent fountain. 2017. General fiction. TB700089.Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past. Tuscany, Present day: Everyone in London is searching for Lucy Whittaker and so Lucy needs to disappear. But her new home, the crumbling Castillo Barbarossa, is far from the secluded paradise it seemed.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 11 hours 56 minutes.Gaynor, Hazel. The Cottingley secret. 2017. General fiction.TB702092.1917. Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden. But when the great novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a sensation, their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war. One hundred years later, when Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather's bookshop, she becomes fascinated by the story of the two young girls who mystified the world.Read by Karen Cass and Billie Fullford-Brown. 11 hours 2 minutes.Glaister, Seni. The museum of things left behind. 2015. General fiction. TB700473.Nestling in the picturesque mountains between Italy and Austria is the beautiful but isolated country of Vallerosa, a land of stopped clocks, full employment, pungent tea, patriotism, rival cafés and a slower way of life. The world has finally started to take notice of this hidden gem, and when a letter arrives, announcing the imminent arrival of a Very Important Person, the Vallerosans hurry to make preparations for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show off their country. But the visitor is not quite what they had in mind.Read by Jot Davies. 13 hours 10 minutes. Grey, Tamsin. She's Not There. 2018. General fiction. TB702990.When Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn’t there. Although Jonah is only nine, he is the big brother, and knows enough about the world to keep her absence a secret. If anyone found out she’d left them alone, it could be disastrous for him and Raff; and she'll be back, he’s nearly sure. With growing unease, he puzzles over the clues she’s left behind. Who sent her the flowers? Why are all her shoes still in the house? Why is her phone buried in a plant pot? And who, in their south London community, might know more about her than he does?Read by Michael Oku. 12 hours 57 minutes.Habash, Gabe. Stephen Florida. 2017. General fiction. TB702281.Meet Stephen Florida: college student, amateur wrestler, visionary, outsider. Entering senior year, his sights are set on the championships. Every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness, yet also a step further from reality. Profane, manic and tipping into the uncanny, this is Florida's chronicle of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark.Read by Will Damron. 11 hours 59 minutes.Hall, Araminta. Dot. 2013. General fiction. TB700478.In a higgledy-piggledy house with turrets and tunnels towering over the sleepy Welsh village of Druith, two girls play hide and seek. Squeezed under her mother's bed, pulse racing with the thrill of a new hiding place Dot sees something else: a long-forgotten photograph of a man, his hair blowing in the breeze. Dot stares so long at the photograph the image begins to disintegrate before her eyes, and as the image fades it is replaced with one thought: `I think it's definitely him.' Dot is the story of one little girl and how her one small action changes the lives of those around her for ever.Read by Claire Morgan. 8 hours 1 minute.Harbach, Chad. The art of fielding. 2012. General fiction. TB700260.In The Art of Fielding, we see young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College are all that remain of their sporting careers. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream, and theirs, vicariously alive, until a routine throw goes disastrously off course, and the fates of five people are upended.Read by Holter Graham. 15 hours 54 minutes.Harrington, Carmel. The Woman at 72 Derry Lane. 2017. General fiction. TB702345.On a leafy suburban street in Dublin, beautiful, poised Stella Greene lives with her successful husband, Matt. The perfect couple in every way, Stella appears to have it all. Next door, at number 72 however, lives Rea Brady. Gruff, bad-tempered and rarely seen besides the twitching of her net curtains, rumour has it she's lost it all. But appearances can be deceiving and when Stella and Rea's worlds collide they realise they have much in common. Both are trapped in a prison of their own making. Has help been next door without them realising it?Read by Aoife McMahon. 10 hours 51 minutes.Henderson, Eleanor. The twelve-mile straight. 2017. General fiction. TB702079.Cotton County, Georgia, 193 in a house full of secrets, two babies, one light-skinned, the other dark, are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Elma raises her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined.Read by Allyson Johnson. 17 hours 4 minutes.Hensher, Philip. The Friendly Ones. 2018. General fiction. TB702612. On a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a family barbecue. In the garden next door is a retired doctor, whose four children have long since left home. When the shadow of death passes over Nazia and Sharif's party, Doctor Spinster's actions are going to bring the two families together, for decades to come. The Friendly Ones is about two families. In it, people with very different histories can fit together, and redeem each other.Read by Chetan Pathak. 22 hours 56 minutes.Hensher, Philip. Tales of persuasion. 2016. Short stories. TB700567.Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency, from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India where a Soho hedonist starts to envisage the crump and soar of munitions.Read by Peter Joyce. 11 hours 15 minutes.Hill, Melissa. Keep you safe. 2017. General fiction. TB702083.Kate O'Hara's daughter, Rosie, is one of a small percentage of Irish children with a disorder that prevents her from being vaccinated against measles. All Kate can do is hope that herd immunity keeps the disease at bay and her little girl safe. Madeleine Harrington and her husband decline measles jabs for their daughter, Clara. The two girls have just started primary school in the same class. And when one day tell-tale red spots appear on Clara Harrington's chest, and Rosie's a few days after, both mums fear the worst. How can this be happening when all they wanted was to keep their children safe?Read by Aoife McMahon and Caroline Lennon. 11 hours 26 minutes.Honeyman, Gail. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. 2017. General fiction. TB701915.Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive, but not how to live. Eleanor leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Now one simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Read by Cathleen McCarron. 11 hours 26 minutes.Huckelbridge, Dane. Castle of water. 2017. General fiction. TB701864.Barry Bleecker wanted to trade in his dreary life for one of adventure and art. Until he finds himself washed up on a deserted beach with only four pairs of contact lenses to his name. Sophie Ducel was meant to be having the honeymoon of a lifetime. Then the plane goes down and her world becomes a speck of sand in an endless ocean. They have one task: to survive. These two very different people must find a way to reconcile their differences and make their home a castle, on an island, surrounded by water.Read by Max Winter. 7 hours 34 minutes. Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. Peculiar ground. 2017. General fiction. TB701918.In the 17th century, a wall is built around the deer park of a great house . Wychwood is a world in itself, its ornamental lakes and majestic avenues planned by Mr Norris, a master of the new art of landscaping. A world where, after decades of civil war, everyone has something to hide or something to fear, where dissidents hide in the forest and Londoners fleeing the plague are at the gate. Three centuries later, one hot weekend, there is a house party at Wychwood. Over the course of the weekend another wall goes up, dividing Berlin. Erotic entanglements blur with distant rumours of historic changes and a little girl, Nell, observes all. As Nell grows up and as the Berlin Wall falls, the world splits again. There are TV cameras in the dining room, golf-buggies in the park and a Great Storm brewing. A fatwa alerts Westerners to a new ideological faultline. A refugee from the new conflict, the one which is still tearing us apart, seeks safety in Wychwood.Read by Juanita McMahon. 17 hours 40 minutes.Jennings, Amanda. The Cliff House. 2018. General fiction. TB703034.Cornwall, summer of 1986. The Davenports, with their fast cars and glamorous clothes, living the dream in a breathtaking house overlooking the sea. If only, thinks sixteen-year-old Tamsyn, her binoculars trained on the perfect family in their perfect home. If only her life was as perfect as theirs. If only Edie Davenport would be her friend. If only she lived at The Cliff House.Read by Joan Walker. 10 hours 46 minutes.Judd, Alan, The Kaiser's Last Kiss. 2017. General fiction.TB702534.It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn. When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser's Dutch staff are replaced by SS guards. The guards are led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper. Krebbs's growing attraction and love affair with Akki, a Jewish maid in the house, undermines his belief in Nazism. As the tides of war roll around them, all three find themselves at risk.Read by Gibson Frazier. 5 hours 56 minutes.Kaur Jaswal, Balli. Erotic stories for Punjabi widows. 2017. General fiction. TB700094.When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of emancipating the women of the community she left behind as a self -important teenager, she’s shocked to discover a group of barely literate women who have no interest in her ideals. But as they begin to open up to each other about womanhood, sexuality, and the dark secrets within the community, Nikki realises that the illicit nature of the class may place them all in danger. Contains sex scenes. Read by Meera Syal. 10 minutes 35 minutes. Kelly, Cathy. Once in a lifetime. 2009. General fiction. TB700482.Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade, is the jewel in Ardagh town's crown. TV presenter Ingrid Fitzgerald has watched her husband David, Kenny's charismatic owner, pour his heart and soul into the family store, making it the epitome of boutique chic. She's juggled family life and her glittering career admirably. Now, as their children fly the nest, Ingrid discovers a secret that will shake her world to its very foundations.Read by Jacqueline Tong. 14 hours 4 minutes.Klam, Matthew. Who is Rich? 2018. General fiction. TB703012.Every summer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It's a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family's nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy O'Donnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they're back.Read by David Costabile. 10 hours 5 minutes.Kleeman, Alexandra. You too can have a body like mine. 2017. General fiction. TB700038.A woman known only as A lives in an unnamed American city with her roommate, B, and boyfriend, C, who wants her to join him on a reality dating show called That's My Partner! A fixates on the fifteen minutes of fame a local celebrity named Michael has earned after buying up a Wally's Supermarket's entire, and increasingly ample, supply of veal. Meanwhile, B is attempting to make herself a twin of A, who in turn hungers for something to give meaning to her life, something aside from C's pornography addiction.Read by Kelly Pruner. 8 hours 40 minutes.Knight, Erin. Perfect Strangers. 2018. General fiction. TB703115.Isobel arrives in the quiet Cornish town of Fallenbay determined to find peace - and answers - after her most intimate secrets have been splashed across the internet. Cleo thinks she's happy running a small coastal caf but has no idea of the trouble her children are getting themselves mixed up in. Sarah has finally put her horrible ex behind her and found the man of her dreams. Or has she? All three women have no idea how powerful their darkest secrets can be, and how they will change the town of Fallenbay forever. Read by Karen Cass. 14 hours 47 minutes.Laird, Nick. Modern gods. 2017. General fiction. TB701971. Liz, a fiercely independent college professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for her sister, Alison's second wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion. Both sisters' lives are about to be shaken apart. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. In a rainforest on the other side of the planet, Liz finds herself becoming increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of the leader of a cult.Read by Dierdre O'Connell. 11 hours 35 minutes.Leigh, Judy. A Grand Old Time. 2018. General fiction. TB703011.Evie Gallagher is regretting her hasty move into a care home. She may be seventy-five and recently widowed, but she's absolutely not dead yet. And so, one morning, Evie walks out of Sheldon Lodge and sets off on a Great Adventure across Europe. But not everyone thinks Great Adventures are appropriate for women of Evie's age, least of all her son Brendan and his wife Maura, who follow a trail of puzzling text messages to bring her home. When they finally catch up with her, there are shocks in store… because while Brendan may have given up on life and love, Evie certainly has not.Read by Aoife McMahon. 11 hours 4 minutes. Leimbach, Marti. Age of consent. 2016. General fiction. TB700591.Radio DJ Craig Kirtz took a shine to Bobbie when she was only thirteen years old, embroiling her in a secret life of sex and drugs. He remembers their relationship as a love affair. She remembers it as abuse. Thirty years later, she returns to her hometown to testify against him. He denies the charges. And he has a witness Bobbie could not have anticipated - her own mother, who is now Craig's wife.Read by Jennifer Woodward. 11 hours 16 minutes.Levithan, David. The lover's dictionary. 2011. General fiction. TB700773.In this enchanting compendium of Love, David Leviathan charts the moving portrait of a relationship. Through these short entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.Read by Cassandra Harwood and Jot Davies. 1 hour 53 minutes.Mahood, Katy. Entanglement. 2018. General fiction. TB702641.2007 hours at the end of a momentous day, Charlie, Stella and John cross paths under the arches of Paddington Station. As Charlie locks eyes with Stella across the platform, a brief, powerful spark of recognition flashes between them. But they are strangers . aren't they? Plunging back thirty years we watch as, unknown to them all, the lives of Stella and John, and Charlie and his girlfriend Beth, are pulled ever closer, an invisible thread connecting them across the decades and through London's busy streets. For Stella, becoming a young mother in the 1970s puts an end to her bright academic career in a way John can't seem to understand. Meanwhile Charlie gambles all future happiness with Beth when his inner demons threaten to defeat him.Read by Laura Aikman. 7 hours 56 minutes.Munro, Hector Hugh. Short stories by Saki. 2009. Short stories. TB700753. These stories include Sredni Vashtar, Tobermory, the talking cat, The unrest Cure and the Open Window, which all reveal that unique blend of social comedy and wicked cruelty.Read by Stephen Fry. 1 hour 18 minutes.Newell, Brittany. Oola. 2017. General fiction. TB701890.Oola and Leif meet at a party in East London, two Americans at a loose end. The insouciant music school dropout and aimless young writer fix on one another, grab hands and fall head-first down love's rabbit hole. Leif's summer plans soon become Oola's too and the pair find themselves mansion-sitting their way across the States, drinking the liquor cabinets dry and emptying the walk-in wardrobes to play dress-up. But when they decide to play house in a Big Sur cabin, where the clapboards quiver in the heat, boredom breeds an idea that could extinguish their love and even destroy them both.Read by Michael Crouch. 10 hours 37 minutes.Oates, Joyce Carol. Mudwoman. 2012. General fiction. TB700957.Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Meredith `M.R.' Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitment to her career and moral fervor are all-consuming. When she makes a trip upstate, M.R. Neukirchen is thrust into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. Mudwoman is a psychic ghost story and also the heartbreaking portrait of an individual who breaks but finds a way to heal herself.Read by Susan Ericksen. 19 hours 29 minutes.Oates, Joyce Carol. Carthage. 2014. General fiction. TB700785.Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects - a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family.Read by Susan Ericksen and David Colacci. 18 hours 33 minutes.Oates, Joyce Carol. The man without a shadow. 2016. General fiction. TB700488.1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl's body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences.Read by Susan Hanfield. 13 hours 33 minutes.Oates, Joyce Carol. A book of American martyrs. 2017. General fiction. TB701931.Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts. The daughters of the two families' lives are tangled together forever by what has happened.Read by Tavia Gilbert and Nell Hellegers. 24 hours 43 minutes.O'Neill, Joseph. Good Trouble. 2018. Short stories. TB703086.In Good Trouble, the first story collection from Joseph O'Neil, author of Netherland, characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be. There's Rob, who swears he is a dependable member of society, but can't scrape together a character reference to prove that's the case. And Jayne, who has no choice but to investigate a strange noise downstairs while her husband lies glued to the bed with fear. A mother tries to find where she fits into her son's new life of semi-soft rind-washed cheeses, and a poet tries to fathom what makes a poet. Do you even have to write poetry?Read by Danny Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Arthur Morey, Mark Deakins, Mike Chamberlain, Allyson Ryan, John H Meyer, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall and Kimberley Farr. 5 hours 7 minutes.Pariat, Janice. The Nine-Chambered Heart. 2018. General fiction. TB703036.The kaleidoscopic story of one woman as seen through the eyes of those she has loved or been loved by. In gemlike chapters, nine characters illuminate an unknowable woman. From the school art teacher who sees a spark of talent in her, to the man whose fleeting passion with her could change his life, to the female student whose friendship turns into love. This kaleidoscopic novella builds a life with colour, with light and dark, and in turn asks the reader: How does the world see you?Read by William Hope and Lara Sawahla. 4 hours 45 minutes.Paul, Gill. The secret wife. 2016. General fiction. TB700196.Russia in 1914 is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with injured cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance and their lives in danger. In 2016 Kitty Fisher escapes to her great-grandfather's remote cabin in America, after a devastating revelation forces her to flee London. There, on the shores of Lake Akanabee, she discovers the spectacular jewelled pendant that will lead her to an extraordinary, long-buried family secret.Read by Laura Kirman and Thomas Judd. 12 hours 5 minutes.Pears, Iain. The portrait. 2007. General fiction. TB700494.At the turn of the twentieth century, island life is harsh and rustic. So why did artist Henry MacAlpine forsake London to make his home in this remote outpost? The truth begins to emerge when MacAlpine receives his first visitor. Influential art critic William Nasmyth has come to the island to sit for a portrait. Over the course of the sitting, the power balance between the two men shifts dramatically as the critic whose pen could anoint or destroy careers becomes a passive subject. And as the painter struggles to capture Nasmyth's true character on canvas, a story unfolds, one of betrayal, hypocrisy, forbidden love, suicide and ultimately murder.Read by Peter Capaldi. 6 hours 5 minutes.Prince Halverson, Sere. The house of frozen dreams. 2015. General fiction. TB700749.After a family tragedy, the old Alaskan homestead lay abandoned for two decades, until the one person who need it most came looking. What Kache found was more than a house full of old memories and buried secrets: he found Nadia, who had been hiding from the world, unseen, for ten years. Held captive by a past too painful or too dangerous to face, they must now break free from what binds them in place, and face the ghosts that have never stopped haunting them.Read by Tara Ward. 11 hours 47 minutes.Proulx, Annie. Barkskins. 2016. General fiction. TB700502.In the late 17th century two illiterate woodsmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Rene marries an Indian healer, and they have children, mixing the blood of two cultures. Duquet travels the globe and back, starting a logging company that will prosper for generations. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and descendants of these two lineages, the Sels and the Duquets.Read by Robert Petkoff. 25 hours 54 minutes.Proulx, Annie. Brokeback mountain. 2006. Gay fiction. TB700319.JackTwist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly .Read by Campbell Scott. 1 hour 4 minutes.Regan, Katy. How we met. 2013. General fiction. TB700894.Liv and her friends can't imagine a life different from now. Then, Liv dies. For those left behind, Mia, Fraser, Anna, Norm and Melody, everything stops. Their lives and dreams are frozen in time. In the years that follow, they decide to meet on Liv's birthday to raise a toast and celebrate her life, even though none of them are living their own, not really. Is it time to get on with the business of actually living?Read by Katie Scarfe. 12 hours 57 minutes.Robertson, S. D. Time to say goodbye. 2016. General fiction. TB700971.Will Curtis's six-year-old daughter, Ella, knows her father will never leave her. After all, he promised her so when her mother died. And he's going to do everything he can to keep his word. What Will doesn't know is that the promise he made to his little girl might be harder to keep than he imagined. When he's faced with an impossible decision, Will finds that the most obvious choice might not be the right one.Read by Paul Tyreman. 9 hours 25 minutes.Robertson, S. D. If ever I fall. 2017. General fiction. TB700045.Dan’s life has fallen apart at the seams. He’s lost his house, his job is on the line, and now he’s going to lose his family too. Maria is drowning in grief. She spends her days writing letters that will never be answered. Jack wakes up confused and alone. He doesn’t know who he is, how he got there, or why he finds himself on a deserted clifftop, but will piecing together the past leave him a broken man?Read by Emma Gregory and Leighton Pugh. 10 hours 35 minutes.Shipstead, Maggie. Seating arrangements. 2013. General fiction. TB700374.The Van Meters have gathered at their family retreat on the New England island of Waskeke to celebrate the marriage of daughter Daphne to an impeccably appropriate young man. The weekend is full of lobster and champagne, salt air and practiced bonhomie, but long-buried discontent and simmering lust seep through the cracks in the revelry. Winn Van Meter, father-of-the-bride, has spent his life following the rules of the east coast upper crust, but now, just shy of his sixtieth birthday, he must finally confront his failings, his desires, and his own humanity.Read by Arthur Morey. 12 hours 9 minutes.Shipstead, Maggie. Astonish me. 2014. General fiction. TB700799.Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a young American dancer who helps a Soviet ballet star, the great Arslan Rusakov, defect in 1975. A flash of fame and a passionate love affair follow, but Joan knows that, onstage and off, she is destined to remain in the shadows. After her relationship with Arslan sours, Joan quits ballet, marries a good man, and settles into the rhythm of Californian life with their son, Harry. But as the years pass, there is no mistaking that Harry is a ballet prodigy. Inevitably Joan is soon pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind and back to Arslan.Read by Rebecca Lowman. 10 hours10 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. Property: A Collection. 2018. Short stories. TB702992.First ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver explores the idea of "property" in both senses of the word: real estate, and stuff. These sharp, brilliantly imaginative pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships. In Shriver's world, we may possess people and objects and places, but in turn they possess us. Contains 'The standing chandelier' which was previously published as a novella.Read by Lionel Shriver. 14 hours10 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. So much for that. 2010. General fiction. TB700800.Shepherd Knacker is bored with his humdrum existence. He's sold his successful handy-man business for a million dollars and is now ready to embark on his 'Afterlife' - a one way ticket to a small island off the coast of Africa. He tries to convince his wife Glynis to come with him, but she laughs off the idea as preposterous.When Glynis is diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of cancer, Shepherd's dreams of an exotic adventure are firmly put on hold.Read by Dan John Miller. 17 hours 14 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. The new republic. 2012. General fiction. TB700898.Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to emulate. ‘The Daring Soldiers of Barba’ have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for Barba, a province so dismal, backward and windblown that you couldn’t give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do the terrorist incidents suddenly dry up?Read by Edoardo Ballerini. 13 hours16 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. Ordinary decent criminals. 2015. General fiction. TB700375.Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. She now finds herself in Belfast, a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence. As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, Farrell O'Phelan courts the company of destruction. Technically a Catholic, he shuns allegiance of any kind. For these two, normal life is anathema; love is a trap. What ensues is an affair between two loners who are beset with a fear of domesticity and a hunger for devastation.Read by Melanie MacHugh. 16 hours 23 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. The Mandibles: a family, 2029-2047. 2016. General fiction. TB700978.It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also, as the effects of the downturn start to hit, the challenge of sheer survival.Read by George Newbern. 13 hours 45 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. The post-birthday world. 2017. General fiction. TB700026.Irina McGovern's destiny hinges on a single kiss. Whether she gives into its temptation will determine whether she stays with her reliable partner Lawrence, or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Employing a parallel universe structure, Shriver spins Irina's competing futures with two drastically different men. An intellectual and fellow American, Lawrence is clever and supportive, but rigid and emotionally withdrawn. A British celebrity, Ramsey is passionate and spontaneous, but jealous, undereducated, and prone to pick arguments. Their contrasting characters will colour her other relationships, her career, and the texture of her daily life.Read by Helen Johns. 14 hours 58 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. Double fault. 2017. General fiction. TB700095.Tennis has been Willy's one love, until she meets the uncannily confident Eric Oberdorf. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit.They marry. But their life together soon grows poisoned by full-tilt competition over which spouse can rise to the top first. Willy discovers that her perfect partner may also prove her most devastating opponent.Read by Jennifer Woodward. 12 hours 9 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. Checker and the Derailleurs. 2017. General fiction. TB701865.He has that thing that they'd all pay for but can't buy: on stage and off, the 19-year-old rock drummer Checker Secretti is electric. When he plays with his band The Derailleurs, the natives of Astoria, Queens clamour for a piece of him. But charisma comes at a price. A Salieri to Checker's Mozart, the fiercely envious fellow drummer Eaton Striker is eager to sow discord among the Derailleurs, that he might replace the exasperatingly popular goody-goody in the close-knit neighbourhood's affections.Read by Christopher Ragland. 11 hours 18 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. A perfectly good family. 2017. General fiction. TB701905.After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstruction mansion where she grew up in North Carolina, now willed to the three grown children following the death of their parents. All three want the house. Fiscal necessity dictates that two must buy a third out. Just as she was torn as a girl, the sister must choose between her decent younger brother and the renegade eldest-the black sheep who covets his legacy in order to destroy it.Read by Jennifer Woodward. 11 hours 31 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. Game control. 2017. General fiction. TB701945.Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.Read by Laurel Lefkow. 10 hours 18 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. The standing chandelier. 2017. General fiction. TB702512.Sometimes we are given gifts we really don't want. And when that gift comes from an ex-love and is a sculpture that you and your partner are meant to live with forever, there's no giving it back.Read by Lionel Shriver. 3 hours 31 minutes.Sittenfeld, Curtis. Eligible. 2016. General fiction. TB700148.A retelling of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. For sisters Liz and Jane, coming home to suburban Cincinnati means being paraded at the Lucas family’s BBQ, where burgers are served alongside the eligible men. But it’s difficult to focus on re-booting their love lives when the family’s mock-Tudor house starts to crumble around them. Yet as their mother reminds them, it’s not every day you meet a pair of handsome single doctors.Read by Cassandra Campbell. 13 hours 22 minutes.Sullivan, Corinne. Indecent. 2018. General fiction. TB702607.When recent college graduate Imogene Abney takes a job as a teacher at pricey and exclusive The Vandenberg School, an institution populated by the most privileged boys in America, she is plunged into an unfamiliar world. Struggling to adjust, Imogene welcomes the friendship of student Adam Kipling. But when Adam starts taking things too far, she crosses a line that could result in disaster -losing her job, jail, and the total ruin of her reputation. Suddenly Imogene is facing her worst nightmare, even though Adam began their affair, which hardly seems fair to Imogene. Especially when Adam is telling a very different story and the authorities seem to be on his side. She's the innocent one.Isn't she?Read by Stephanie Cannon. 9 hours 56 minutes.Suter, Martin. Elefant. 2018. General fiction. TB703054.What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you're anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zurich and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it's time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, and go back to sleep. But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? And clearly needs someone to take care of it? And what if you discover that it's been created through genetic engineering, by a group of scientists who just want to use it to get rich and don't care about the elephant's welfare? And that they're in cahoots with a circus and will stop at nothing to get it back? What if this little elephant is about to change your life?Read by Ash Rizi. 6 hours 45 minutes.Tallent, Gabriel. My absolute darling. 2017. General fiction. TB702054.At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall; That chaos is coming and only the strong will survive it; That her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world. And he'll do whatever it takes to keep her with him. She doesn't know why she feels so different from the other girls at school; Why the line between love and pain can be so hard to see; Why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done. Contains sex scenes, swear words and violenceRead by Alex McKenna. 15 hours 47 minutes.Warner, Helen. The Story of Our Lives. 2018. General fiction. TB702576.Four friends. Twenty years. One powerful secret. There are certain dates on which you'll always remember where you were. The same is true for Sophie, Emily, Amy and Melissa who have been best friends since they met twenty years ago. As history has moved on around them, they have seen each other through everything. From Sophie's secret fear that she doesn't actually want to be a mother despite having two kids, to Amy's perfect-on-the-outside-abusive-on-the inside marriage to Melissa's spiralling alcoholism and Emily's single motherhood. But could a lie that spans just as long tear them apart?Read by Imogen Church. 11 hours 57 minutes.Weisberger, Lauren. Last night at Chateau Marmont. 2010. General fiction. TB700401.Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York - she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success - and their life changes for ever. Soon they are moving in exclusive circles, dining at the glitziest restaurants, attending the most outrageous parties in town and jetting off to the trendiest hotspots in LA. But Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down.Read by Merritt Wever. 12 hours 32 minutes.Wharton, William. Birdy. 2012. General fiction. TB700402.Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight. Birdy's passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly. A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors there treat his friend, who he finds squatting on the floor of his cell and acting like a bird.Read by Jot Davies. 9 hours 20 minutes.Wiles, Ellen. The Invisible Crowd. 2017. General fiction. TB702328.2nd March 1975. In Asmara, Eritrea, Yonas Kelati is born into a world of turmoil. At the same time, on the same day, Jude Munroe takes her first breath in London, England. Thirty Years Later. Blacklisted in his war -ravaged country, Yonas has no option but to flee his home. After a terrible journey, he arrives on a bleak English coast. By a twist of fate, Yonas' asylum case lands on Jude's desk. Opening the file, she finds a patchwork of witness statements from those who met Yonas along his journey: a lifetime the same length of hers, reduced to a few scraps of paper. Soon, Jude will stand up in court and tell Yonas' story. How she tells it will change his life forever.Read by Adjoa Andoh, Ben Onwukue and Ellen Wiles. 11 hours 46 minutes.Williams, Beatriz. The wicked city. 2017. General fiction. TB700010.Manhattan, present day. Ella Hawthorne thinks she’s going crazy when she hears strange noises coming from the walls of her new apartment late at night. When she discovers that it used to be home to a speakeasy during the Jazz Age, she’s determined to discover the building’s secrets. Manhattan, 1924. Geneva ‘Gin’ Kelly, a smart-mouthed, red-haired flapper, reluctantly agrees to help rugged Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson catch her stepfather, a notorious bootlegger. But the truth will shake Manhattan society to its foundations.Read by Julie McKay and Dara Rosenberg. 13 hours13 minutes.Williams, Beatriz. A certain age. 2016. General fiction. TB700403.New York in the Roaring Twenties - the iridescent Mrs Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue - a beautiful socialite of a certain age - has done the unthinkable: she's fallen in love with her young lover, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. When Theresa's bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the youngest daughter of a newly wealthy inventor, Theresa enlists her lover to check into the background of this little-known family. Yet even as he uncovers a shocking secret, Octavian falls under Sophie's spell. Divided loyalties and dangerous revelations lead to a shocking transgression and eventually Theresa must make a choice that will change them all forever. Read by Barbara Goodson and Mia Baron. 12 hours 52 minutes.Winter, Jessica. Break in case of emergency. 2016. General fiction. TB701007.Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss. Jen's complicity in this passive-aggressive hellscape only intensifies her feelings of inferiority compared to her two best friends and so does Jen's apparent inability to have a baby, a source of existential panic that begins to affect her marriage and her already precarious status at the office.Read by Xe Sands. 8 hours 2 minutes.Wolas, Cherise. The resurrection of Joan Ashby. 2017. General fiction. TB702073.Aged 13, Joan Ashby drew up a list of How to Become a Successful Writer. A decade later her short stories take the literary world by storm. But she finds herself living a life very different from the one she had envisioned. When her much-anticipated first novel is finally written – it's a masterpiece, she just knows it. But as she is poised to reclaim the spotlight, a betrayal of Shakespearean proportions is lurking around the corner…Read by Gabra Zackman and Michael Dickes. 19 hours 19 minutes.Wolfson, Brianna. Rosie Coloured Glasses. 2018. General fiction. TB702594.Willow's mother Rosie isn't like the other mums. She wears every colour of the rainbow, has midnight feasts, and sends Willow to school covered in paint. Meanwhile, Rex is the sort of father who checks Willow's homework, has a rule for everything, and would never dream of playing in the dirt. Now Rosie and Rex live in different places, Willow knows her mum needs her even more. But Rosie's multi-coloured way of looking at the world can be overwhelming. These days, it feels like Rosie is spinning off her axis - and taking Willow with her. As if, one day, Rosie might disappear for good. And what would happen to Willow then?Read by Devin Sovari. 8 hours 54 minutes.Wood, Lucy. The Sing of the Shore. 2018. Short stories. TB703116.At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards. It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless children haunt empty holiday homes, a surfer struggles with the undertow of family life, a girl watches her childhood spin away from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, in a web of sea caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something lost. These astonishing, beguiling stories of ghosts and shifting sands, of static caravans and shipwrecked cargo, explore notions of landscape and belonging, permanence and impermanence, and the way places can take hold and never quite let go.Read by Gemma Kenny and Sarah Hannah. 4 hours 54 minutes.Young, Louisa. Devotion. 2016. General fiction. TB700160.My dear I wanted to tell you: book 3. Tom loves Nenna. Nenna loves her father. Her father loves Mussolini. Ideals and convictions are not always so clear in the murky years between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second. For Tom and Kitty Locke, children of the damaged WW1 generation, visiting their cousin Nenna in Rome is a pure joy. For their adoptive parents Nadine and Riley, though, the ground is still shifting underfoot. Nobody knew in 1919 that the children they were bearing would be just ripe for the next war in 1939; nobody knew, in 1935, the implications of an Italian Jewish family supporting Mussolini.Read by Eve Karpf. 14 hours19 minutes.Zink, Nell. The wallcreeper. 2015. General fiction. TB700161.Interlaken, Berne, 21st century. Several things happen after the car hits the rock. Tiff ceases to be pregnant. Stephen captures, like, the most wonderful bird – fleet, stealthy, and beautiful – a real “lifer”. And the wallcreeper, the wallcreeper says “twee”. The Wallcreeper is nothing more than a portrait of marriage, complete with all its requisite highs and lows: drugs, dubstep, small chores, anal sex, eco-terrorism, birding, breeding and feeding. Contains sex scenes.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 4 hours 50 minutes.Zink, Nell. Nicotine. 2016. General fiction. TB700208.Unemployed business major, Penny, has rebelled against her family her whole life by being the conventional one. Her mother was a member of a South American tribe; her father was a Jewish Shamanist with a psychedelic 'healing centre'. But everything changes when her father dies and Penny inherits his childhood home. Penny then finds his property occupied by a group of squatters, united in defence of smokers' rights. She finds herself unexpectedly besotted with them, particularly Rob, the hot bicycle-and-tobacco activist.Read by Cassandra Campbell. 10 hours 55 minutes.Zumas, Leni. Red Clocks. 2018. General fiction. TB702616.Abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.Read by Karissa Vacker and Erin Bennett. 9 hours 5 minutes.Literary fictionCannon, Joanna. The trouble with goats and sheep. 2016. Literary fiction. TB700121.England,1976. Mrs Creasy has disappeared. Her husband wanders the street, waiting for her to return. He is convinced that she will be home in time for their Wedding Anniversary. Grace and Tilly are ten-years-old and are determined that they will find Mrs Creasy. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find much more than they imagined.Read by Paula Wilcox. 22 hours 2 minutes.Coelho, Paulo. The witch of Portobello. 2009. Literary fiction. TB700227.This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs. Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure.Read by Rita Wolf. 8 hours 10 minutes.Gordon, Kat. The Hunters. 2018. Literary fiction. TB703053.Theo Miller is fourteen years old when he steps off the train into the simmering heat and uproar of 1920s Nairobi. He meets enchanting American heiress Sylvie de Cro and her charismatic, reckless companion, Freddie Hamilton. Behind their intoxicating allure lies a more powerful cocktail of lust, betrayal, deceit and violence that he cannot avoid. He must find a way back to his family before it is too late. Read by Richard Jack. 10 hours 15 minutes.Hensher, Philip. The Emperor Waltz. 2014. Literary fiction. TB700137.‘The Emperor Waltz’ is a single novel with three narrative strands. In a third-century desert settlement on the fringes of the Roman Empire, a new wife becomes fascinated by a cult that is persecuted by the Emperor Diocletian. In 1922, Christian, a young artist, travels to Weimar to begin his studies at the Bauhaus, where the avant-garde confronts conservative elements around it. And in 1970s London Duncan uses his inheritance to establish the country’s first gay bookshop in the face of opposition from the neighbours and victimisation by the police. Read by Penelope Rawlins, Hugh Ross, Anna Bentinck, Sandra Duncan and Philip Hensher. 22 hours 9 minutes.Jenoff, Pam. The orphan's tale. 2017. Literary fiction. TB700069.Sixteen-year-old Noa, a Dutch girl, has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Noa finds refuge with a German circus, but she is constantly in peril. Read by Jennifer Wydra and Kyla Garcia. 12 hours 51 minutes.Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the dreamers. 2017. Literary fiction.TB700042.New York, 2007. Clark Edwards is a senior partner at Lehman Brothers bank. In need of a discrete and reliable chauffeur, he is too preoccupied to closely check the paperwork of his latest employee, Jende Jonga, who has recently arrived from Cameroon. Then Clark’s wife Cindy offers Jende's wife, Neni, work. But when the deep fault lines running beneath the financial world are exposed, the Edwards’ secrets threaten to spill out into the Jonga’s lives.Read by Prentice Onayemi. 12 hours 13 minutes.McGregor, Jon. So many ways to begin. 2017. Literary fiction. TB700061.David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie. Read by Matt Bates. 10 hours 50 minutes.McGregor, Jon. Reservoir 13. 2017. Literary fiction. TB701860.Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked , fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must. Read by Matt Bates. 8 hours 48 minutes. McKenzie, Elizabeth. The portable Veblen. 2016. Literary fiction. TB700144.Meet Veblen. She's an experienced cheerleader (mainly of her narcissistic, hypochondriac, controlling mother), an amateur translator, and a passionate defender of the anti-consumerist views of her namesake, the economist Thorstein Veblen. She's also a firm believer in the distinct possibility that the plucky grey squirrel following her around can understand everything she says.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 11 hours 31 minutes.Norminton, Gregory. The Devil's Highway. 2018. Literary fiction. TB702564.An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his brother and his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men – one damaged by war, another by divorce - clash over their differing claims on the land, and a young girl is caught between them. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a hand-carved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken. As gripping as it is dazzling, The Devil's Highway is a bold and intimate novel that spans centuries and challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised.Read by Melody May, Gregory Norminton and Laura Kirman. 6 hours 50 minutes.Shriver, Lionel. The female of the species. 2017. Literary fiction. TB701723.Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is drawn into an unhappy love affair with him before an amazed Errol's eyes.Read by Paul Birchard. 13 hours 49 minutes.Tearne, Roma. The swimmer. 2010. Literary fiction. TB700388.Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love. Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. He is twenty years her junior but theirs is an unconventional romance, defying both boundaries and cultures and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.Read by Patience Tomlinson. 11 hours 20 minutes. ................
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