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Casablanca. 1999. Read by Various Narrators, 26 minutes. TB 12016.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Peter Lorre. Casablanca, perhaps the most watched film of all Hollywood movies tells the story of Rick Blaine and his former lover Ilse Lund and features the classic song "As time goes by". This Oscar winning film was specially adapted for the radio and performed in front of a live studio audience by many of the original film stars. TB 12016.
Adler, Elizabeth
Invitation to Provence. 2005. Read by Liza Ross, 9 hours 47 minutes. TB 14322.
Nothing ever changes much in the village of Marten-de-Provence - until Rafaella Marten decides she has lived alone in the Chateau des Roses Sauvages for too long. Franny Marten accepts the invitation from a relative she has never heard of at a moment when her life is at rock bottom. Jake Bronson can’t resist – he is still a tiny bit in love with the charming woman who was once his father’s glamorous lover. And two more unexpected guests arrive: Rafaella’s long lost son and a terrified little girl from Shanghai with the Marten blue eyes. Soon the sleepy village is alive with more romance and danger than Rafaella ever dreamed of. TB 14322.
Ahern, Cecelia
A place called here. 2007. Read by Caroline Lennon, 11 hours 34 minutes. TB 15498.
Ever since the day her classmate Jenny-May Butler vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something - or someone - disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother Donal who vanished into thin air a year ago. Sandy sets out on the trail but then she too disappears. TB 15498.
Allen, Honor-Mary
Sometimes they wave. 1989. Read by Elizabeth de Silva, 5 hours 20 minutes. TB 7589.
Recently widowed, Danielle Stevenson moves from the city to a small and remote country cottage. The peace and friends she makes there in her new home help to rejuvenate her, but she is troubled by visits from London friends, her health causes problems, and not least, ghostly manifestations occur. The pace of Danielle's life and of the community around her is movingly told in this heart-warming story. TB 7589.
Allen, Judy
December flower. 1982. Read by Carol Marsh, 7 hours 15 minutes. TB 4504.
Forty-five and recently widowed Etta Marsh feels the need to seek out her sole surviving relative, Aunt M. She turns out to be far from the motherly comfort Etta is looking for but proves, nonetheless, just the cure she needs. TB 4504.
Alleston, Margaret
The empty room. 1985. Read by Maggie Jones, 5 hours. TB 6013.
Verity realises just how narrow her life has become when she invites three unpredictable teenagers for Christmas and finds it much more of a struggle than she thought. To add to her problems two strangers keep intruding on her life.... TB 6013.
Andrews, Lucilla
Silent song. 1997. Read by Patricia Jones, 8 hours 12 minutes. TB 11482.
Anne Dorland had been a widow since a tragic accident on her honeymoon four years ago. She had found peace and contentment in her new re-built life - until she met Alistair Cameron and his quiet cousin, George Farler. Anne had met George four years ago, and would always be grateful for his kindness - but she had never wanted to meet him again. TB 11482.
Anthony, Evelyn
The heiress. 1994. Read by Jacqueline King, 9 hours 31 minutes. TB 10558.
In eighteenth century France, Charles Macdonald, badly in debt, has been given a choice by his parents. The Bastille, or a forced marriage to his wealthy cousin. He chooses marriage, much to the dismay of his mistress Louise, who schemes to dispose of her rival, but when his wife disappears, Charles realises that he loves her and his love is so passionate that he will risk his own life to save her from a place that no one has ever survived. TB 10558.
Armstrong, Lindsay
A careful wife. 1996. Read by Nicolette McKenzie, 5 hours 56 minutes. TB 11002.
Honor had no intention of getting involved with Ryan Bailey. He was her boss, for one thing. For another, he was the sort of man who put business before anything else, and Honor wasn't prepared to be second best. So she obviously wasn't a candidate to become the "careful wife" she thought he was looking for and she told herself that she was glad. But then it transpired that Ryan had a very different sort of woman in mind. TB 11002.
Armstrong, Tilly
A limited engagement. 1980. Read by Pauline Munro, 7 hours. TB 5887.
Six weeks in Florence, all expenses paid, posing as the fiancee of attractive businessman Marcus Findale is a tempting offer for Kate who is temporarily unemployed. All that is required of her is that she must be tender and loving towards Marcus in front of his eccentric family so that he can claim the magnificent Findale Tryst, an ancestral ring of great value. TB 5887.
Ashley, Trisha
The generous gardener. 2004. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 11 hours 20 minutes. TB 14542.
Living in an idyllic Welsh village with a handsome husband and a loving daughter, 40-something Fran March has reason to be happy with her lot. Then her daughter, the result of an unforgettable one-night stand, starts asking awkward questions about her 'real' father. Fran's peaceful rural existence is turned upside down - Pandora's Box is well and truly open... TB 14542.
Atwood, Margaret
The edible woman. 1980. Read by Pauline Munro, 10 hours 29 minutes. TB 7121.
Marian is an ordinary girl, fresh out of university and working at her first job but really only waiting to get married. Not even an uncharacteristic sexual fling with the divinely mad Duncan can lure her away from her sober fiance, Peter. But she is reckoning without her inner self that wants something, which talks to her through the food she eats and sabotages her careful plans. Marriage, she finds, is something she just cannot stomach. TB 7121.
Austen, Jane
Persuasion. 2007. Read by Juliet Stevenson, 8 hours 56 minutes. TB 14955.
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. TB 14955.
Bagshawe, Louise
A kept woman. 2000. Read by Lucy Scott, 12 hours 20 minutes. TB 12952.
Diana Foxton is the toast of New York: she is rich, British and beautiful. Newly married to the head of a publishing empire, she fills her days with lunches, interior decorating and clothes shopping. But when her new husband has an affair, her glamorous bubble is burst and she finds herself without money or qualifications, shunned by the glittering society that once embraced her. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12952.
Bail, Murray
Eucalyptus. 1998. Read by Nigel Graham, 8 hours 34 minutes. TB 12031.
On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When she turns nineteen, Holland announces that she can only marry the man who can name all his species of eucalypt. TB 12031.
Bailey, Hilary
Mrs Rochester. 1997. Read by Jacqueline King, 8 hours 10 minutes. TB
11245.
In this sequel to "Jane Eyre", the author looks beyond the ten happy years Jane and Edward have spent together, towards a future that is clouded with doubt. Edward has recreated the splendour of his ancestral home, but on returning to Thornfield, Jane feels the despair she once felt there as a young governess. The nightmares still haunt every room... TB 11245.
Barber, Noel
A woman of Cairo. 1984. Read by Robert Gladwell, 25 hours 54 minutes. TB 5558.
The love story of Mark Holt, son of the British advisor in Egypt before the Second World War, and Serena Sirry, daughter of a court advisor to the Egyptian monarchy. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 5558.
Barnes, Zoe
Wedding belles. 2006. Read by Trudy Harris, 16 hours 48 minutes. TB 14913.
Nothing is going to go wrong with Belle Craine's dream wedding, Her mum won't let it. Unfortunately nobody's told Mona Starr - an Australian girl who turns up on the Craine's doorstep without warning and announces that she is Belle's long-lost half-sister. That's bad enough, but Belle also has to face the fact that her fiancé, Kieran, is spending an awful lot of time with ex-model Mona. Is Belle being paranoid, or has she got a fight on her hands if she wants to keep her man? Contains strong language. TB 14913.
Beauman, Sally
Destiny. 1987. Read by Arthur Blake, 42 hours 37 minutes. TB 6931.
One evening in Paris, Edouard de Chavigny, a wealthy notorious womaniser, becomes obsessed: he is captivated by the mysterious young Englishwoman, Helene Craig, and knows that she is the woman he has been searching for all his life. But Helene is not what she seems. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 6931.
Beck, Pamela
Rich men, single women. 1988. Read by Helen Horton, 17 hours 4 minutes. TB 7592.
When Paige Williams, 30-year-old Broadway dancer, Susan Kendall Brown, a small-town labour lawyer and long-legged, raven-haired Tori Mitchell from the deep South meet up as bridesmaids at the wedding of a mutual friend, they make a pact over the champagne and caviar to ensure their dreams of wealthy husbands come true. TB 7592.
Beresford-Howe, Constance
The book of Eve. 1973. Read by Carol Marsh, 7 hours 16 minutes. TB 2637.
After forty years of a not very happy marriage, Eve walks out suddenly one morning. Alone and determined not to be miserable in a damp basement flat, she finds unexpected love. TB 2637.
Bhagat, Chetan
One night at the call centre. 2008. Read by Kulvinder Ghir, 7 hours 36 minutes. TB 15846.
Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India, but each one has an issue with love. Shyam works right beside the girl who's just dumped him. He's dating someone he can't stand, just to get over her. Esha is just short of becoming a model. Two inches, to be precise. Vroom wants to change the world. Radikha's trying to manage her mother-in-law, and save her job. Tonight is Thanksgiving in America, and customers are queuing up to complain about white goods going wrong. On this night of a thousand phone calls, when life couldn't look more dismal, one unique caller gets on the line. And that call is going to change everything. Contains strong language. TB 15846.
Billington, Rachel
Theo and Matilda. 1990. Read by Eva Haddon, 14 hours 22 minutes. TB 8155.
The love story of Theo and Matilda spans nearly 2000 years, playing freely with time but never with place. Abbeyfields is initially a monastery where the couple first meet, then becomes a Victorian house, a psychiatric hospital and a complex of twenty-five new homes. Their developing relationship and growing-up is charted through four windows into history. Contains strong language. TB 8155.
Binchy, Maeve
Evening class. 1996. Read by Brett O'Brien, 15 hours 4 minutes. TB 11885.
The new Italian evening class at Mountainview School in Dublin is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city - but this one has its own special quality...the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice-weekly lessons. TB 11885.
Bingham, Charlotte
In distant fields. 2007. Read by Kim Hicks, 14 hours 18 minutes. TB 15345.
When Kitty is invited to stay with her friend Partita at Bauders Castle her mother sees it as an undreamed-of opportunity for her daughter to escape from the dark presence of her notorious father; and pawns her engagement ring to go. Partita's parents are enchanted by Kitty and she soon becomes part of their privileged and glamorous lifestyle. War soon changes all this. TB 15345.
Blackmore, R D
Lorna Doone. 1869. Read by Stephen Jack, 25 hours 15 minutes. TB 348.
Set in the times of Charles II and James II, this is the story of John Ridd, an Exmoor yeoman, and his revenge for the murder of his father by the Doones. His love for Lorna complicates the issue until it is discovered that she is the daughter of a Scottish noble, so that the impediment to the marriage becomes one of social situation. This is soon overcome by her fidelity and by his services to an old kinsman of Lorna and to the king. TB 348.
Blair, Emma
Wild strawberries. 2007. Read by Steven Pacey, 13 hours 54 minutes. TB 15774.
The Second World War has brought its own special turmoil to the small fishing village of Coverack in west Cornwall. Maizie Blackacre is the owner of the Paris Hotel, and her husband, Sam, has joined the Merchant Navy, leaving her to cope. However, the arrival of Christian Le Gall, a French lieutenant recuperating from a war wound, initiates Maizie's own private war of emotions. She is caught between loyalty to her unfeeling husband, and her growing affection for her foreign visitor. Contains strong language. TB 15774.
Bloom, Ursula
The cheval glass. 1973. Read by Phyllis Boothroyd, 6 hours 15 minutes.
TB 2361.
The antique cheval glass, in the attic of the old country house where generations of the Carew family have lived, plays a part in this love story of a middle-aged man and woman. TB 2361.
Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Everything to gain. 1994. Read by Eva Haddon, 11 hours 51 minutes. TB 10298.
Mallory Keswick must rebuild her life when violent tragedy destroys her family. She takes refuge in Indian Meadows, the old home beloved by her and her family, but even there despair almost destroys her and she flees to a village on the Yorkshire moors where her husband grew up. Beginning anew, she starts a highly successful small business at Indian Meadows but there still remains an aching void, a grief that no one can assuage, until she meets Richard Markson, who shows her that she has everything to gain, if she has the courage to take it. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 10298.
Bradford, Sally
The arrangement. 1990. Read by Virginia Hammer, 9 hours 46 minutes. TB 8429.
Juliet Cavanaugh's job as a lawyer is too time-consuming for her to even consider marriage. However, her longing for a baby gives her the idea of advertising for a father to her child. Brady proves to be the ideal man, except that he has his own ideas. TB 8429.
Bragg, Melvyn
A time to dance. 1990. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 7 hours 36 minutes. TB 8183.
Set in Cumbria, the story tells of a retired bank manager and his love for an 18 year old secretary, describing the twists and turns of their relationship as he sees it and imagines it. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 8183.
Braine, John
One and last love. 1982. Read by Richard Earthy, 7 hours 44 minutes. TB 7076.
A chance meeting brings Tim Harnforth and Vivien Canvey together. Both are successful writers. Both are married with teenaged children. But theirs is a mature love and they share true friendship as well as passion. It is the complete merging of two opposites: she a sophisticated and urbane Londoner, he a brash and individualistic Yorkshireman. Together they develop a love and happiness that comes to fill their lives. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 7076.
Bright, Freda
Singular women. 1988. Read by Helen Horton, 14 hours 35 minutes. TB 8197.
Against a glamorous and glittering New York background, three successful women, Diane, Fleur and Bernie, in their early 30s, take up the challenge of their married friend Rosemary to find themselves husbands. Explicit and pacy, the battle between the sexes is explored fully in this contemporary novel. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 8197.
Bromige, Iris
Stay but till tomorrow. 2004. Read by Patience Tomlinson, 6 hours 45 minutes. TB 14448.
Her 21st summer was an enchanting time for Kay Grant. She luxuriated in the comforts of her family's country house, in carefree games of tennis, romantic garden strolls and casual flirtations. Most of all she loved Pat, whose endearing boyish charm stirred her inner passions. But whatever dreams he held for the future, whatever castles she constructed in the air out of his countless gestures of attention, came crashing down when she discovered that Pat's feeling for her was only "affection". He was saving his love for the one person Kay could never challenge, her sister Barbara. TB 14448.
Bronte, Anne
The tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 17 hours 15 minutes. TB 1548.
This the story of Helen Huntingdon, and her swaggering, debauched husband and of Gilbert Markham, the man who falls in love with Helen. This is an impassioned and bold treatment of the issue of women's equality, written during the 1840s when the oppression of women was at its height. TB 1548.
Brooks, Helen
The bride's secret. 1998. Read by Norma West, 6 hours 22 minutes. TB 11465.
Marianne had been thrilled when Hudson de Sance proposed. But she'd also been haunted by a secret scandal that could hurt Hudson. Marianne was determined to protect her new fiance - even if that meant disappearing from his life. But Hudson had found her, still determined to make her his bride. Marianne found her resolve weakening, but what would happen once the wedding was over? TB 11465.
Buchan, Elizabeth
Perfect love. 2008. Read by Sian Thomas, 12 hours 55 minutes. TB 15617.
Despite their twenty-year age gap, Prue and Max have enjoyed two decades of marriage. What Prue had forgotten was Violet, her rebellious and terrified step-daughter. Now, with a successful career forged in New York, a husband, and a baby, Violet is back and, once again, Prue must cope with her. Then, staggeringly, the busy, contended Prue finds herself precipitated into a passionate love affair that shakes her to the core and marks the beginning of a secret life. Contains strong language. TB 15617.
Capella, Anthony
The food of love. 2005. Read by Daniel Philpott, 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 14291.
Laura Patterson is studying art history in Rome. She's decided that from now on she'll only go out with a man who can cook. Tommaso Massi, handsome and silver tongued, tells Laura that he's a chef at one of Italy's best restaurants. In fact, he's just a humble waiter. His best friend, Bruno, who really is a chef - a brilliant one - is called upon to help. But when he also falls for Laura the sparks begin to fly. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14291.
Cartland, Barbara
Love, lords and lady-birds. 1978. Read by John Green, 4 hours 51 minutes. TB 9452.
At eighteen Petrina, an orphan heiress, runs away from school, and soon finds herself driving to London behind the most magnificent horses she has ever seen. Unfortunately, the Corinthian holding the reins turns out to be none other than the Earl of Staverton, her detested guardian. Petrina proves a sensation from the first moment she enters a ballroom, and her unusual and unexpected escapades disrupt the well-ordered life of her guardian as she seeks to defy or challenge him. TB 9452.
Challis, Sarah
Blackthorn winter. 2007. Read by Eva Haddon, 14 hours 52 minutes. TB 15342.
In April, when blackthorn blossom clothes the hedgerows like a wedding veil, there sometimes comes a frost so severe that it seems as if the summer will never come. Country people call this a blackthorn winter. For Claudia Barron, arriving in the Dorset village of Court Barton that April, blackthorn winter seems like a metaphor for everything that has happened to her. TB 15342.
Clewlow, Carol
Not married, not bothered. 2006. Read by Clare Wille, 9 hours 38 minutes. TB 14797.
This story is about women - and of a woman's right to joyfully celebrate whichever lifestyle she chooses, at whatever age she is. TB 14797.
Coffman, Virginia
The Venetian masque. 1991. Read by Carol Marsh, 11 hours 42 minutes. TB 9123.
A beautiful American heiress travels to Venice to clinch a business deal and the Lagoons work their romantic magic. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 9123.
Cole, Gerald
Gregory's girl. 1981. Read by Neil McFarlane, 3 hours 38 minutes. TB 15098.
Life was OK for Gregory. He was a forward in the school football team - not quite in Keegan's league. And he was in the back row of the classroom - nursing his secret passion for the bus conductress. But that was before Dorothy from 5a took his place in the team and stole his heart away. On the field she's magic - and Gregory's pining away on the touchline. TB 15098.
Collins, Jackie
Thrill!. 1998. Read by Francine Brody, 16 hours 13 minutes. TB 11550.
In this erotic psychological thriller, Lara Ivory is a dazzling movie star with the world at her feet. But she has yet to find a man who is capable of coexisting with her. Her ex-husband, Richard, is now married to Nikki, who is striving to produce her first movie. When Nikki persuades Lara to star in her movie, a bitter struggle begins for control of Lara's life. But then along comes Joey Lorenzo, and Lara is swept up in a passionate affair. Contains strong language. TB 11550.
Comyns, Barbara
The vet's daughter. 1981. Read by Gretel Davis, 5 hours 1 minute. TB 5781.
Alice Rowlands is the daughter of a bullying veterinary surgeon. She grows up in Edwardian South London, trapped in a life which is dreary, restrictive and lonely. It is made bearable only by the kindness of her dull suitor, Blinkers. Then she falls hopelessly and rapturously in love with Nicholas, a handsome young sailor. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 5781.
Cookson, Catherine
The round Tower. 1993. Read by Brigit Forsyth, 10 hours 43 minutes. TB 9885.
Vanessa Ratcliffe was sixteen, and for all her convent education, had a provocative manner. She lived in a big house on Brampton Hill, and her powerful and avaricious family were considered "big" folk in the town. Angus Cotton was a rough diamond from Ryder's Row, among the goods yards and dirty streets, but worth his weight in gold as an engineer at Affleck and Tate, and the manager, Vanessa's father, knew it. He had ambitious plans for his future, and though they had never included Vanessa, events drew them together. TB 9885.
Coscarelli, Kate
Fame and fortune: a novel. 1984. Read by Maxine Howe, 12 hours 48 minutes. TB 5408.
The setting is Beverly Hills where casual sex and good weather are taken for granted, driving ambition is commonplace and true love the rarest commodity of all. Four women, all friends, stand on the brink of momentous changes in their lives. TB 5408.
Cox, Josephine
Living a lie. 1995. Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw, 13 hours 54 minutes. TB 11749.
When Lucinda Marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train she leaves her twelve-year-old daughter, Kitty, alone and abandoned - save for a violent father, a selfish aunt and Harry, her childhood sweetheart. After the death of her father, Kitty is sent to an orphanage where she meets Georgie, a lively cockney girl, who becomes her loyal friend. Convinced her feelings for Harry will ruin his future, Kitty decides to turn her back on his love. She strives to find fulfilment elsewhere, but when fate throws them back together, she begins to wonder if true love can ever die... TB 11749.
Craven, Sara
Storm force. 1989. Read by Erica Grant, 5 hours 17 minutes. TB 9044.
On camera Jay Delaney had a dynamic appeal. Off-screen his blend of magnetism was even more potent. Not that Maggie was interested in him. She'd had quite enough problems in her life recently, and the last thing she wanted was an uninvited guest to disturb the peace and quiet of her solitary hideaway. TB 9044.
Crawley, Harriet
The lovers and the loved. 1990. Read by Frances Jeater, 9 hours 3 minutes. TB 8385.
Eleanor Wynn, a gifted painter, longs for a husband and children, yet chooses the unconventional path of single-parenthood, keeping the identities of the fathers of her children secret. Her well-ordered existence collapses when she enters the volatile world of international opera, and she begins experiencing passions she thought were never to be hers. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 8385.
Curtis, Susannah
Love is my reason. 1988. Read by Carol Marsh, 13 hours 47 minutes. TB 7386.
In a busy London hospital the dramas of life and death are played out each day. In this tense environment, student nurse Lissa Franklin, naive and idealistic, allows no time off for affairs of the heart, until a chance encounter with her mother's lover, the suave and sophisticated Edward, sweeps her off her feet. She discovers the truth about him. Shaken and wiser, she throws herself into her work - for a time. TB 7386.
Dailey, Janet
Masquerade. 1990. Read by Laura Brook, 11 hours 40 minutes. TB 9020.
Remy Jardin has been attacked and is now suffering from amnesia. When Cole Buchanan collected her from hospital, he knew that they were lovers - or that they had been lovers. For Cole was obviously furious with the Jardins - and they with him - but why? Power, greed and passion underlie this story of intrigue and deception, where someone will stop at nothing to avoid exposure. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 9020.
Davis, Anna
Cheet. 2002. Read by Penelope Freeman, 9 hours 35 minutes. TB 12780.
Kathryn Cheet has five lives and five lovers - and she has them all fooled. When she's on the road in her black cab, none of her partners knows where she's heading or who she's going to pick up... Driving around London at night, Kathryn can handle anything - or so she thinks. But a chance encounter with a difficult passenger is set to change everything. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12780.
Donald, Robyn
Such dark magic. 1993. Read by Erica Grant, 7 hours 18 minutes. TB 9795.
Simple friendship wasn't possible between wealthy New Zealander Philip Angove and the woman who came into his life. His arrogant assurance and blatant sex appeal seemed to have the entire female sex at his feet, or so it seemed to Antonia, who was attracted and appalled by the phenomenon. Not that she had any intention of succumbing; she had learned her lesson about men like Philip the hard way. He had other ideas though. TB 9795.
Donnelly, Frances
Shake down the stars. 1989. Read by Jacqueline King, 24 hours 44 minutes. TB 7965.
Romantic saga which follows the fortunes of three beautiful friends as they prepare themselves for the turmoil of World War II. TB 7965.
Douglas, Drusilla
Doctors in conflict. 1999. Read by Jacqueline King, 5 hours 39 minutes. TB 12013.
Catriona MacFarlane was thrilled with her new medical registrar post; the only fly in the ointment seemed to be orthopaedic surgeon Michael Preston! He'd wanted a friend for the job, and thought Yona had got it because of her famous father. But Yona's skills spoke for her, so when she thought she'd run over Mike's foot in the car park he promptly took the opportunity to get closer to her. The attraction was definitely mutual, but when they both had such set ideas, how would they learn to compromise? TB 12013.
Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca. 2003. Read by Ginita Jiminez, 18 hours 6 minutes. TB 15809.
Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers. TB 15809.
Duncan, Sarah
Nice girls do. 2006. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 14761.
Anna can cope with gardens, especially the historic ones it's her job to research, but when it comes to love and relationships she has lost her way, especially after the collapse of her short-lived marriage. Then she meets Oliver, destined to inherit a magical eighteenth-century house and garden from his ageing grandmother, and a man who, unlike her, is more interested in the future than the past. But is Oliver's interest in Anna entirely straightforward, or does he have a secret agenda? Contains strong language. TB 14761.
Elgin, Elizabeth
A scent of Lavender. 2003. Read by Anne Dover, 13 hours 31 minutes. TB 13982.
The arrival of Land girls and the army turn life upside down in a Yorkshire town. Lorna Hatherwood, a middle-class housewife, lives sheltered from her emotions by marriage to a dull husband, ten years her senior. Then the Army arrives and Lorna's restricted life expands as she catches the roving eye of a handsome young medical officer. Ness Nightingale is on the run from a disastrous love affair. She joins the Land Army, only to find herself in the arms of another suitor. But he is a conscientious objector, and maybe not that suitable after all. TB 13982.
Ellis, Lyn
New Year's knight. 1998. Read by Louisa Graf, 4 hours 49 minutes. TB 11788.
It was New Year's Eve... at the stroke of midnight, Gina found herself in a passionate embrace with a magnificent male. Jackson Gray was a loner, but after a heated night with Gina, he was starting to reconsider. He needed to convince Gina that he'd started the year exactly how he intended to carry on - in bed with her! Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 11788.
Erskine, Barbara
Lady of Hay. 1986. Read by Patricia Hughes, 29 hours 55 minutes. TB 6859.
Jo Clifford is a successful journalist, very much in control of her life and glossy media world in which she moves. She is involved in writing a series involving regression and is herself put under hypnosis. Her life changes: she finds herself reliving the experiences of Mathilda, Lady of Hay, the wife of a baron at the time of King John. Past and present become hopelessly entwined as her current lovers try to manipulate the past. TB 6859.
Evans, Nicholas
The loop. Read by Lorelei King, 13 hours 58 minutes. TB 14979.
This is the story of Helen Ross, a twenty-nine year old biologist, sent alone into Hope to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. It is an epic tale of primal passion, exploring man's conflict with nature and the wild within himself. TB 14979.
Ewing, Barbara
A dangerous vine. 2003. Read by Barbara Ewing, 13 hours 36 minutes. TB 13983.
Margaret-Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after an English princess. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret-Rose is aware that there is something unspoken in her family. The truth is elusive in their strained English household in 1950s New Zealand. TB 13983.
Faulks, Sebastian
Charlotte Gray. 1998. Read by Jamie Glover, 16 hours 47 minutes. TB 12560.
A young woman travels to occupied France in 1942, both to carry out a mission for British Intelligence and to search for her lover, an English airman who is missing in action. Once there she witnesses the horror of French collusion with the Nazis and also the tremendous courage of the Resistance. TB 12560.
Fforde, Katie
Thyme out. 2000. Read by Joan Walker, 10 hours. TB 12395.
Perdita Dylan is horrified to discover that her husband is to become the latest celebrity chef and expects her to support him. Contains strong language. TB 12395.
Field, Sandra
The billionaire's virgin mistress. 2008. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 6 hours 17 minutes. TB 15912.
Tess Ritchie has always been led to believe she has no family, so it comes as a shock when Cade Lormimer shows up, claiming that she is heiress to a fortune. Tess reluctantly steps into his world of glitz and glamour, then willingly into his bed. But where can their jet-set affair end? For he is a hardened playboy and she is his innocent mistress. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15912.
Forrester, Helen
Yes, mama. 1988. Read by Jacqueline King, 11 hours 5 minutes. TB 7925.
Wealthy Humphrey, knowing that Alicia is not his child, rejects her from birth, as does her mother Elizabeth. Spurned, she is raised by the poor but loving widow of a dock labourer. Exploited and struggling against adversity and hypocrisy, Alicia finally finds the love and happiness for which she has been desperately seeking. TB 7925.
Fox, Natalie
Reluctant mistress. 1991. Read by Jacqueline King, 4 hours 24 minutes. TB 8980.
International playboy and publishing magnate extraordinary Robert Buchanan was now Liza's boss. Trapped in his country home as a result of local flooding, Liza wondered how long it would take this human tiger to pounce. As the water continued to rise, she felt her temperature rise with it. How long could she continue to pretend indifference to him and what would happed when her mask finally dropped ...? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 8980.
Francis, Clare
Homeland. 2005. Read by Steven Pacey, 14 hours 5 minutes. TB 15022.
It is 1946 and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages and a desperate housing crisis. Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hamley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troubled, elusive and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away again, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyshaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. TB 15022.
Fraser, Anne
Dr Campbell's secret son. 2007. Read by Carolyn Bonnyman, 5 hours 16 minutes. TB 15819.
Dr Sarah Carruthers is nervous about her first day back to work - she has worked hard to get where she is, and now, as a single mum, life is even tougher! Good-looking doctor Jamie Campbell had no idea that when he left to work abroad he had fathered a child. Babies and marriage hadn't been on his agenda back then. But now Sarah is back in his life, with their adorable son. Can Jamie convince Sarah to trust him again, and allow them to become a family? TB 15819.
Frazier, Charles
Cold mountain. 1997. Read by Hayward Morse, 17 hours 21 minutes. TB 1506.
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved. As he attempts to make his way across the mountains, through a devastated landscape, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her father left her. Neither knows if the other is still alive. Contains strong language. TB 1506.
Freeman, Cynthia
The last princess. 1988. Read by Arthur Blake, 14 hours 20 minutes. TB 7595.
The announcement of the marriage of the year for New York society meant that two of the richest families - now into the third generation and respectability - would be joined, the match of the decade. Behind the glittering facade lay years of loveless disappointment for the autumn-haired young bride-to-be so that when real love came her way she embraced it regardless of the price it was to exact. TB 7595.
Friedman, Rosemary
An eligible man. 1989. Read by Helen Copp, 7 hours 11 minutes. TB 8483.
Judge Christopher Osgood knew his wife's illness was terminal. Her swift death leaves him unprepared to face life on his own. As the months pass, he discovers that as an attractive, eligible widower he is much in demand. Women are attracted to him, and he is suddenly exposed to a variety of new experiences. With which of them will he find happiness and contentment? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 8483.
Goldsmith, Olivia
Uptown girl. 2004. Read by Barbara Barnes, 11 hours 41 minutes. TB 14589.
There's something magical about Brooklyn's Billy Nolan. It's not just that he's wickedly attractive, it's that any woman he dates and ditches (and he dates and ditches them all) immediately goes on to marry someone else. Sassy, uptown New Yorker Kate is immune to Billy's charms but perhaps the "Billy effect" will work for Kate's friend Bina, who has fallen apart because her almost-fiancé, Jack, is going away to "explore his singleness". But Kate hasn't actually considered how Billy feels about it all. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14589.
Goodman, Susan
Summer secrets. 1989. Read by Angela Down, 12 hours 21 minutes. TB 8314.
Pretty and lively Tessa, who is working hard to make a success of her small Chelsea flower shop - meets thoroughly unsuitable, worldly and cynical journalist Marcus and she falls hopelessly in love with him. A turbulent and passionate affair ensues until Tessa - emotionally and sexually awakened - finds herself facing the most difficult decision she will ever have to make. TB 8314.
Gordon, Lucy
The millionaire tycoon's English rose. 2007. Read by Emma Powell, 5 hours 33 minutes. TB 15765.
Independent and strong-willed, Celia Ryland has never let her blindness affect the way she lives her life - she thrives on feeling free! Gorgeous Italian Francesco Rinucci has never met a woman with such a zest for life - he loves everything about Celia. But he finds himself wanting to wrap her in cotton wool, to protect his precious English rose from all that's dangerous in the world. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15765.
Goudge, Eileen
Such devoted sisters. 1992. Read by Liza Ross, 20 hours. TB 10225.
Eve and Dolly are aspiring Hollywood starlets, hungry for success. When one betrays the other, a tragic chain of events is set in motion, which changes their lives, and those of Eve's children, Annie and Laurel. Forced to leave home, Annie and her sister run away to New York, where Annie determines to become a top chocolatier, while Laurel becomes an artist. They live for each other until they fall in love with the same man, and the past returns to haunt the future. TB 10225.
Gould, Judith
The Parisian affair. 2006. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 12 hours 49 minutes. TB 14592.
In Manhattan, Allegra Sheridan has made a name for herself designing unique jewellery pieces for a small but elite clientele - one of whom has offered Allegra an extraordinary opportunity. Wealthy entrepreneur Hilton Whitehead has a mistress he's eager to please and his mistress wants the legendary Princess Karima emeralds that are up for auction in Europe. Whitehead's proposition: he'll pay Allegra a small fortune to travel to Paris and bid in anonymity for him. Once there, Allegra successfully completes her mission. But ownership of the extraordinary jewels invites threats from the lethally handsome Ramtane - a man willing to murder for the secret that the Karima gems hold. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14592.
Gower, Iris
Act of love. 2008. Read by Nerys Hughes, 9 hours 29 minutes. TB 15578.
When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the place it's as if she was born for a life in the theatre. Unlike Kathleen, who wants her name in lights, Ella's heart lies backstage, running the show under the watchful eye of Anthony. Before long she realizes that she has fallen in love, and Ella begins to dream about a future that's unlike everything she has ever known. TB 15578.
Graham, Winston
Cordelia. 1949. Read by Christopher Slade, 14 hours 18 minutes. TB 4224.
The love story of a girl who had both beauty and independence of mind and whose capacity for love and gaiety was not always in harmony with the traditions of Victorian England. TB 4224.
Green, Jane
Straight talking. 2006. Read by Julia Barrie, 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 14921.
Meet Tasha - single and still searching. Neither she, nor her three friends have had a fairytale love life: Andy, a tomboy hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; and Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose. And they're surrounded by the sort of men who seem to drift: Andrew - suave, good looking and head over heels in love with himself; Simon - allergic to commitment and dangerously treacherous; and Adam - handsome, kind, humorous, but too nice to be sexy. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14921.
Grey, Alice
The doctor's visitor. 1993. Read by Fleur Chandler, 5 hours 55 minutes. TB 9911.
Health visitor, Leigh Rochester was on leave of absence from her job to look after her mother in Birmingham. She found a vacancy covering maternity leave in a general practice, but found herself working for Dr Adam Christie, the doctor who had failed to discover her mother's illness in time to prevent a severe accident. What was she to do? TB 9911.
Guo, Xiaolu
A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers. 2007. Read by Charlie Norfolk, 7 hours 34 minutes. TB 15190.
Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15190.
Hall, Sarah
The electric Michelangelo. 2004. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 14 hours 3 minutes. TB 13893.
This tells the story of Cy Parks, from his childhood spent in a seaside guest house for consumptives with his mother, to his apprenticeship as a tattoo-artist. His skills acquired and a thirst for experience burning within him, he departs for America and the riotous world of the Coney Island boardwalk, where he sets up his own business as 'The electric Michelangelo'. Here he meets Grace, a mysterious immigrant and circus performer who commissions him to cover her body entirely with tattooed eyes. Contains strong language. TB 13893
Hamilton, Ruth
Matthew and son. Read by Marlene Sidaway, 13 hours. TB 13254.
When Matthew's beloved wife Molly died, there seemed to be nothing anyone could do to console him. At the age of 16, Mark longed to earn his father's respect by assisting with the family business. Tilly Povey, watching the boy's lonely existence, resolved to help them both. TB 13254.
Haran, Maeve
The farmer wants a wife. Read by Marie McCarthy, 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 13520.
Flora Parker ends up getting drunk and on the front of a newspaper in her Wonderbra. Filled with self-loathing, she retreats to her aunt's house in the country where she finds an overbearing uncle and a farm on the brink of bankruptcy. But instead of running away, she itches to put it right - especially when the farmer next door announces a bet: he will give his farm to whichever of his handsome nephews finds a wife by Michaelmas. So Flo takes up matchmaking. Meanwhile she falls in love - with a way of life that is muddy, smelly and under threat. But is she prepared to put her head on the altar to keep it? TB 13520.
Hardy, Thomas
Two on a tower: a romance. 1999. Read by Frances Jeter, 11 hours 40 minutes. TB 13537.
Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. TB 13537.
Harper, Fiona
English lord, ordinary lady. 2007. Read by Lucy Scott, 5 hours 32 minutes. TB 15655.
Will Radcliffe is the perfect English lord. He's handsome and honourable, but a stickler for convention. And he's just inherited Elmhurst Hall. Josie has never followed the rules. Rebelling against her stuffy, controlled upbringing, she's like a breath of fresh air through the corridors of the grand stately home, but her new boss, Will thinks she's trouble! Then one moonlit night Will and Josie share a kiss which, for a moment, makes them feel not so different after all. TB 15655.
Harris, Rosie
Megan of Merseyside. 2007. Read by Nerys Hughes, 9 hours 22 minutes. TB 15377.
When Watkin Williams and his family move to Liverpool he and his eldest daughter, Megan, find work with Walker's Shipping Company. There Robert Field takes a great interest in Megan, but she falls in love with Miles Walker, and does all she can to discourage Robert. Megan's young sister Lynn, who is still at school, is badly hurt after a motorbike accident with her boyfriend, Flash. But when Robert Field tells Megan that Miles and Flash are the same person she is devastated. Contains strong language. TB 15377.
Henry, Veronica
Love on the rocks. 2007. Read by Jilly Bond, 13 hours 15 minutes. TB 15605.
Bruno Thorne is the self-crowned king of Mariscombe, a faded seaside resort. But things are on the turn because the resort has been picked as a potential holiday hot-spot. Meanwhile, George Law wants to do for Mariscombe what Rick Stein did for Padstowe and, thanks to a last minute cock-up by the estate agent, outbids Bruno for the rundown Rocks hotel. At last, he can realise his dream and, with his gorgeous ex-lingerie model girlfriend Lisa at his side, surely nothing can hold him back. But George hasn't counted on disgruntled locals, infuriating ex-wives, or Bruno Thorne's apparent interest in Lisa. Contains strong language. TB 15605.
Heyer, Georgette
Bath tangle. 1991. Read by Maggie Jones, 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 9483.
The Earl of Spenborough had always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter was one thing ... leaving his fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham, the one man that same daughter had jilted, was quite another! TB 9483.
Hoblyn, Alison
The scent of water. 2005. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 14814.
History repeats itself, so they say. Perhaps it has to because no-one listens? Ellie, an artist in her middle age, needs to live her life in a new way after the death of her husband. Feeling fearful but doing it anyway, she enrols on a garden course in Tuscany one spring. Here she begins relationships with fellow students Nerine and the much younger Max. TB 14814.
Holden, Wendy
The school for husbands. 2007. Read by Suzy Aitchison, 9 hours 2 minutes. TB 15894.
Sophie's marriage was perfect, but now it's all gone wrong. Mark works late; she's left with the baby, domestic drudgery, her own career to keep on the go and the growing feeling that Mark is having an affair. When he fails to come home one night it's the last straw. Sophie wants a divorce. But Mark doesn't. He hasn't been unfaithful, just thoughtless. Desperate not to lose his family, he signs up to the 'School for Husbands' which transforms hopeless spouses into perfect marriage partners. But will its intensive and unusual tuition be enough to get him back with Sophie? Especially now an eligible millionaire is after her! TB 15894.
Holt, Victoria
The Landower legacy. 1986. Read by Gretel Davis, 18 hours 56 minutes. TB 8462.
Caroline Tressidor was the innocent victim of her family's dark secrets. Suddenly, she was a social outcast and banished to Cornwall. Caroline learned to endure suffering, heartbreak and love. But love, it seemed, would always elude her ... TB 8462.
Howard, Audrey
Shining threads. 2008. Read by Carole Boyd, 13 hours 57 minutes. TB 15616.
When beautiful Tessa Harrison and her twin cousins take over their parents' Lancashire cotton mill, their luxurious upbringing has left them unprepared for their new responsibilities. For Tessa, there is an added but forbidden attraction at the mill. Foreman Will Broadbent could not be more different from the dashing cousins. Yet, like the twins, he is hopelessly in love with this untameable girl. Their love for Tessa, though, will be their undoing. Contains strong language. TB 15616.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane
Getting it right. Read by Eleanor Bron, 11 hours 53 minutes. TB 12176.
Getting it right was not Gavin Lamb's forte, at least where human relationships were concerned. In the hairdressing salon, he was expert with the tools of his trade. But, back home with his mother, it was quite a different matter. He didn't know how to deal with women - he was the prototype late developer. But after Joan's party he would never be the same again... TB 12176.
Huth, Angela
Of love and slaughter. 2002. Read by Raymond Sawyer, 12 hours. TB 12581.
Duff Elton has returned to his childhood farm with new wife Lily, while next door are his childhood friends, Nell and Paddy. When Paddy's animals are wiped out, he and Nell turn to Duff for help. The solution, that they should come and live in Duff's house, has life-changing consequences for all. TB 12581.
Ishiguro, Kazuo
The remains of the day. 1989. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 7 hours 53 minutes. TB 8107.
It is the summer of 1956. Stevens, an ageing butler, has embarked on a rare holiday - a six-month motoring trip to the West Country. But his travels are disturbed by the memories of a lifetime in service to the late Lord Darlington, and most of all by the increasingly painful recollection of his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. TB 8107.
James, Erica
A breath of fresh air. Read by Julia Franklin, 9 hours. TB 12836.
Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage and the constant attentions of her interfering sister Hilary. Most of all it means Alex, Ivy Cottage's drop-dead gorgeous tenant, with whom Hilary is determined Charlotte should find love anew, and whose charming exterior hides his own secret tragedy. TB 12836.
Jameson, Claudia
A love that endures. 1991. Read by Erica Grant, 5 hours 47 minutes. TB 9109.
"If you don't want to look like a dumpling, why do you gorge so much?" Stirling Robard's cruel words had cut Becky to the quick ten years ago. Now she could admit that his taunts had spurred her to transform herself into a top model. Becky had certainly grown up since they last sparred, and she knew she'd changed for the better; the question was, had Stirling? TB 9109.
Jenkins, Amy
Honeymoon. 2000. Read by Penelope Freeman, 9 hours 10 minutes. TB 12583.
This text is about a girl who has doubts about her nice suitable man, and doubts about commitment. She still carries a torch for Alex, the love of her life, someone she spent only one night with. A perfect night. A soul mate night. Seven years on, she's ambushed by Ed, a suitable young man so nice and kind there's nothing for it but to marry him. As fate would have it, Honey and Alex do meet again - on their respective honeymoons... TB 12583.
Jewell, Lisa
Thirty-nothing. 2000. Read by Becky Hindley, 11 hours 49 minutes. TB 12881.
Have you ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into her twelve years after you last saw her and realising you still fancy her rotten. This is a story about ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends and what happens when you start messing with the past. Contains strong language. TB 12881.
Jones, Catherine
Going solo. 2000. Read by Karen Cass, 14 hours 32 minutes. TB 13655.
Kate has almost resigned herself to remaining single for ever. After all, any man willing to take her on, also has to take on an instant family in the form of her adorable baby son. So this dedicated working mother is surprised to find not one but two men vying for her attention. First there's her boss, Greek hotel tycoon Andreas. Powerful, enigmatic and very rich, he makes it clear he'd like to take their relationship beyond office hours. And then there's Martin. Kate feels the first stirrings of attraction for her sexy colleague. Maybe she won't have to go through life solo after all? Contains strong language. TB13655.
Jones, Christina
Running the risk. 1999. Read by Patricia Jones, 9 hours 38 minutes. TB 11898.
Is Rory the best thing that's ever happened to Georgina, or is he bent on sabotaging her business? And dare she risk finding out which? TB 11898.
Jones, Sadie
The outcast. 2008. Read by Richard Teverson, 11 hours 3 minutes. TB 15980.
This book is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story. Contains strong language. TB 15980.
Jordan, Daisy
Wild about Harry. 2006. Read by Claire Wille, 11 hours 16 minutes. TB 14683.
The perfect life of head teacher Holly Connors has been disturbed by ten-year-old Harry Meadows, who’s been going off the rails since his mum died. Holly knows he’s hurting and she knows about loss, so before she can say the words “professional detachment”, she’s made Harry’s happiness her number one priority. Harry’s dad, Will, seems more feckless than most. He’s grieving too, if only he’d admit it. Instead, he buries himself in work, leaving Harry with a string of au pairs. Despite Will’s insistence that it’s none of her business, Holly just can’t walk away. But professional detachment turns into emotional investment and Holly begins to worry if this is really just about Harry? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14683.
Kavanagh, Linda
Love hurts. 2004. Read by Katherine Igoe, 13 hours 2 minutes. TB 14841.
It is the funeral of Ciara's beloved husband Niall and friends and family gather round to offer their support. But with the discovery of a hidden photograph, Ciara's faith in everything that she holds dear is shattered into tiny pieces. TB 14841.
Kennedy, Bernardine
Chain of deception. 2005. Read by Marie McCarthy, 9 hours 2 minutes. TB 14511.
Lucy Cooper seems to have it all - a smart, attractive PR consultant from a wealthy family, she thinks she has met her perfect match in Donovan, a fitness trainer with a body to die for. After a whirlwind romance they marry, but Lucy soon realises that her new husband is nothing more than a self-obsessed fitness freak. Worse than that, beneath his tanned veneer there lies an ugly and increasingly violent temper. Her marriage is turning Lucy into a nervous wreck, eating away at her confidence and putting her career, her health, and even her sanity in jeopardy. Hope comes in the form of Fergus Pearson, an Irish-Jamaican motorbike courier and aspiring actor. He's gentle, laid-back and kind - everything her husband isn't. They embark on an affair but a freak accident forces Lucy to make a discovery that will turn her whole world upside down. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14511.
Keyes, Marian
Lucy Sullivan is getting married. 1997. Read by Rachel Atkins, 15 hours 59 minutes. TB 12258.
Lucy Sullivan is getting married, or is she? Mrs Nolan has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking up the aisle within the year. There is the small matter of no boyfriend, but then Lucy meets Gus and starts to wonder. Could he be the future Mr Lucy Sullivan? Contains strong language. TB 12258.
Kirby, Margaret
Betrayal. 1989. Read by Carol Marsh, 21 hours 23 minutes. TB 8140.
Lisa Green's life is scattered with betrayal. From her parents, when they reveal their true plans for her, to her first violent husband and her second millionaire husband. He alone can offer her the love she longs for. But is he offering salvation, or the cruellest betrayal of all? Unsuitable for family reading. TB 8140.
Krantz, Judith
Lovers. 1994. Read by Liza Ross, 18 hours 3 minutes. TB 10289.
An intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition and passion. Gigi is working as a copywriter and her creative 'team mate' David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke, humorous Bryon Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty Victoria Frost. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful developer, attempts to capture Gigi's affections, even though he has several contenders. TB 10289.
Kundera, Milan
The unbearable lightness of being. 1984. Read by William Abney, 10 hours 16 minutes. TB 5382.
The love story of Tomas and Tereza is set against the background of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Tomas, a divorced surgeon, is a compulsive womaniser who finds the real love which Tereza gives him quite difficult to accept - a story which investigates the difference between sex and love and the ultimate mystery of being itself - and of death. The infidelities and weaknesses of the characters parallel wider national events such as the humiliation of Dubcek. TB 5382.
Lamb, Charlotte
Man's world. 1980. Read by Erica Grant, 5 hours 45 minutes. TB 9015.
Everyone thought the reason Kate avoided men was that she was a one-man woman, grieving for the husband she had lost. The truth was that the marriage had been a nightmare that left her bitter, disillusioned and never wishing to get involved again. Her low opinion of men, was confirmed when Eliot Holman got the job that should have been hers - solely, Kate told herself, because he was a man and she was only a woman. But was that the real reason for the conflict between them? TB 9015.
Lambert, Angela
Love among the single classes. 1989. Read by Diana Bishop and Andrew Cuthbert, 9 hours 35 minutes. TB 8728.
Constance Liddell answers a personal column ad - Polish gentleman, 50s, political refugee, seeks intellectual woman to marry - and with big hopes arranges to meet Iwo Zaluski. Constance, in her mid-forties, is an exile from marriage, deserted by her high-flying husband for a series of younger women. In Iwo she sees a fellow exile. But he is shackled by distorted memories of Poland. Contains strong language. TB 8728.
Larkin, Mary A
The wasted years. 1993. Read by Marie McCarthy, 11 hours 34 minutes. TB 13544.
Rosaleen Magee is the pride of Belfast in pre-war years - and the envy of her friends. For her future is already assured as the fiancee of Joe Smith, a steady young man with a thriving business of his own. Why then does Sean Devlin move her so, with his flashing blue eyes and dark good looks? The war throws everyone's lives into turmoil, as the men of Northern Ireland rally to the British cause. But for Rosaleen it heralds the return of Sean and the anguish of forbidden love... Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13544.
Lawrence, D H
Lady Chatterley's lover. 1973. Read by Richard Earthy, 14 hours 18 minutes. TB 5814.
The now-classic story of the relationship between Constance Chatterley and Mellors, her crippled husband's gamekeeper. TB 5814.
Lee, Linda Francis
Ladies who lunch. 2007. Read by Regina Reagan, 10 hours 40 minutes. TB 15851.
Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (Frede to her friends) is a member of the Junior League, an elite organisation whose members live by a set of Rules for Acceptable Behaviour. But what is one to do when one's husband betrays one, steals one's money and disappears to places unknown? There's no Rule for dealing with that! In her hour of need, there's only one person Frede can turn to for help: Howard Grout, the gold medallion wearing lawyer next door. But it will cost her. The price? To get Howard's wife accepted into the Junior League. With a penchant for white stilettos and tight lycra leggings, Nikki Grout is everything a Junior Leaguer isn't. Frede knows she hasn't a hope. But her Mission Impossible will change her life in ways she could never have imagined . TB 15851.
Leith, Prue
A lovesome thing. 2004. Read by Penelope Freeman, 11 hours 9 minutes. TB 13651.
Lotte is in unfamiliar territory. After a painful divorce and a great deal of soul-searching, she abandoned her successful architectural career for a degree in garden history, and uprooted her three children to take a job as a head gardener to millionaire Brody Keegan. Brody is as ignorant about gardens as Lotte is knowledgeable, his tastes as loud as hers are quiet. The only things they have in common are a passion for Maddon Park and a determination to get their own way. As Lotte locks horns with her boss and his spoilt young wife, she finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster. She knows what is right for the garden, but she has no idea what is right for her. Contains strong language. TB 13651.
Lennox, Marion
His miracle bride. 2007. Read by Sarah Kants, 6 hours 18 minutes. TB 15397.
An only child, Shanni Jefferson doesn't do family. But, temporarily homeless and jobless, she jumps at the offer of a live-in nannying position. How hard can it be to look after a baby? Pierce MacLachlan has been economical with the truth - instead of one child there are five. Shanni wonders if family life with gorgeous Pierce might suit her after all. TB 15397.
Lessing, Doris
If the old could. 1984. Read by Patricia Hughes, 10 hours 12 minutes. TB 5287.
It is only after the death of her husband that Janna Sommers begins to suspect how much she has missed in her marriage. She has a brief yet dazzling summer affair with Richard Curtis, a married man with a family. But does she really love Richard, or is it her husband she sees in Richard and whose presence seems to be everywhere, even in her sleep? TB 5287.
Llewellyn, Julia
The love trainer. 2004. Read by Julia Sands, 12 hours 42 minutes. TB 14324.
Katie Wallace had her heart broken once and she's not going to let it happen again. What's more, she doesn't want it to happen to anyone else if she can help it. After discovering a talent for advice, Katie becomes a unique service provider, a Love Trainer, capable of coaching men to act as women want. But can you really teach a man like you would a dog? Or is Katie about to learn that when it comes to training, the work needs to start much closer to home. Contains strong language. TB 14324.
Lloyd, Josie
Come together. 1999. Read by Rachael Atkins and David Thorpe, 9 hours 46 minutes. TB 12068.
This text follows the fortunes of Jack - struggling painter, lad about town, charmer - and Amy - disorganized, funny and looking for love. Whilst Jack outlines his tactics for a night on the town and the seduction of the gorgeous Amy, Amy plans how to hook the first decent man she's met in ages. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12068.
Lodge, David
Small world: an academic romance. 1984. Read by Christopher Scott, 15 hours 3 minutes. TB 5226.
It is the conference season and love is in the air. Academics Philip Swallow, Morris Zap and Persee McGarrigle are on the move. It is Persee who first sees the fair, if ambiguous, Angelica and sets out to woo the lady. The quest is timeless but the obstacles are aggressively modern. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 5226.
Lord, Elizabeth
The Bowmaker girls. 1999. Read by Elizabeth Proud, 15 hours 5 minutes. TB 12168.
It is 1929 and in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the four Bowmaker sisters are finding their search for love is not easy. Sensible Connie is engaged to the tug boat man and lives in dread of the sea snatching away her happiness. Pretty, cultured Annie aims high with men - but her love will bear her far away to an alien land and way of life. For Pam, love threatens to split the family, as her chosen sweetheart is George Bryant, the son of her father's mortal enemy. And Josie, the youngest, dreams of high society, so Arthur, her East End boyfriend, can't possibly measure up - or so she thinks. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 12168.
MacDonald, Sara
Another life. 2004. Read by Jilly Bond, 20 hours 31 minutes. TB 14525.
Marine historian Mark Hannah finds a hauntingly beautiful figurehead in Newfoundland. He traces her ship, The Lady Isabella, back to a small port in Cornwall where he meets Gabrielle Ellis, the woman who is going to restore her to her former glory. When the two meet the attraction is immediate, but both are happily married and neither wants to break up their families. Together they trace the jigsaw pieces of the lives of the carver Tom Welland and the real Lady Isabella. But Gabrielle soon finds herself in a maze of moral dilemmas, questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. TB 14525.
Mansell, Jill
Open house. 2006. Read by Julia Franklin, 11 hours 51 minutes. TB 14609.
Nell O'Driscoll has known Marcus Kilburton for years - according to her diary, she even had a crush on him as a teenager. When he decides to open Kilburton Castle to the public, Nell takes a job as his assistant - and sparks are soon flying between them. But is Nell free to pursue Marcus when a figure from her past refuses to let go? The world fell apart for Nell's best friend, Hetty Brewster, when her husband Tony abandoned Hetty and their teenage daughter for a bitchy but successful writer. But Hetty's about to get her chance for sweet revenge - if she can stop being a nice person long enough to take it! Contains strong language. TB 14609.
Martin, Vicky
Tigers of the night. 1985. Read by Christopher Saul, 11 hours 26 minutes. TB 6375.
Alex knew that her broken leg was mending but what of her life with Jonathan? And would her sister's marriage survive teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? The real threat in all their lives was Nick and his magnetic charm - a story of two sisters and the man who disrupts their lives. TB 6375.
Mason, A E W
The four feathers. 2001. Read by Nigel Graham, 13 hours 11 minutes. TB 14184.
Just before his regiment sails off to war in the Sudan, British officer Harry Eversham quits the military. He is immediately given four white feathers symbols of cowardice - one each by his three best friends and one by his fiancée. To disprove this grave dishonour, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, where he anonymously comes to the aid of his three friends, saving each of their lives. Having proved his bravery, Harry returns to England, hoping to regain the love and respect of his fiancée. TB 14184.
Matthews, Carole
The Chocolate Lovers' Club. 2007. Read by Clare Corbett, 11 hours 11 minutes. TB 15607.
There's one thing Lucy Lombard can't live without, and that's chocolate - rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's no substitute. There's nothing it won't cure, from heartache to a headache, and she's not alone. Sharing her passion are three other addicts: Autumn, Nadia and Chantal. Together they form a select group known as The Chocolate Lovers' Club. Whenever there's a crisis, they meet in their sanctuary, a café called Chocolate Heaven. Contains strong language. TB 15607.
Mayhew, Margaret
Those in peril. 2008. Read by Kim Hicks, 9 hours 59 minutes. TB 16291.
In 1940, free-living artist Louis Duval decides to leave his studio in Brittany and, in his small motor boat, make the perilous journey to England. His aim is to offer his services in the continuing fight, and to help liberate his beloved France from the enemy. He reaches Dartmouth, where he finds lodging with a young widow, Barbara Hillyard. Lieutenant-Commander Alan Powell of the Royal Navy has been assigned the task of forming an undercover organisation to make clandestine boat trips across the channel to gather vital information. He enlists Louis Duval, who agrees to return to France to establish a Resistance network there. Alan falls deeply in love with Barbara, but she seems to have eyes for the attractive Frenchman. TB 16291.
McMahon, Barbara
The forbidden brother. 2007. Read by Laurence Bouvard, 5 hours 49 minutes. TB 15456.
Stunning gallery owner Laura Parkerson's life is literally turned upside down by the appearance of Jed Brodie. Not just because he's broodingly handsome, but because Jed is her ex-fiance's twin. Looking at him, Laura feels butterflies. He's nothing like his twin bother - but how can she be sure she's not just bewitched by the mirror image of a man she once promised herself to? Laura's falling in love with the forbidden brother. TB 15456.
Moyes, Jojo
Foreign fruit. 2004. Read by Stephanie Beattie, 15 hours 2 minutes. TB 13807.
Merham is a well-ordered 1950s seaside town, the kind of town in which everyone knows their place. Lottie Swift, an evacuee who has grown up with the respectable Holden family, loves Merham, while the Holdens' daughter Celia chafes against the constraints of the town. When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a stark Art Deco house on the seafront, the girls are drawn to its temptations as Merham's citizens are appalled by them. They set in place a chain of events which will have longstanding and tragic consequences for all concerned. Now, almost fifty years on, Arcadia is returning to life, and its inhabitants stirring up strong feelings again. And prompting more than one person to look into their own history and ask: can you ever leave your past behind? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13807.
McCullough, Colleen
The thorn birds. 1977. Read by Andrew Timothy, 23 hours 59 minutes. TB 4115.
The saga of the Cleary family covering the years from 1915, when Paddy, a poor New Zealand farm labourer moves his wife and their seven children to a vast Australian sheep station, to the time after the Second World War when Justine, only survivor of the third generation decides to leave the station and settle in Europe. Unsuitable for family reading. TB 4115.
McEwan, Ian
On chesil beach. 2007. Read by Daniel Philpott, 4 hours 12 minutes. TB 15170.
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15170.
McGregor, Elizabeth
Learning by heart. 2006. Read by Karen Cass, 8 hours 48 minutes. TB 14947.
Just when success seems set for Zeph's writer husband Nick, she discovers that he has been unfaithful. Wounded, she turns to her mother, only to discover that the past has also come back to haunt her. Zeph is forced to see her own childhood in an entirely new light: was her parents' happiness a sham, as her marriage also threatens to be? How far can you trust the person who tells you that they love you? Set in England and Sicily, Learning by Heart explores the complexities of marriage, of lasting love and human frailty. TB 14947.
Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the wind. 1974. Read by Liza Ross, 43 hours 5 minutes. TB 15050.
Set in Georgia at the time of the Civil War, this is the story of headstrong Scarlett O'Hara, her three marriages and her determination to keep her father's property of Tara, despite the vicissitudes of war and passion. Contains strong language. TB 15050
Mitford, Nancy
Love in a cold climate. 1949. Read by Rosemary Davis, 8 hours 50 minutes. TB 13379.
Love in a cold climate is memorable for Cedric, a glittering dragonfly of a young man, who emerges so unexpectedly from Novia Scotia to dazzle his Debrett relations and the regal Lady Montdore most of all. TB 13379.
Morton, Kate
The house at Riverton. 2007. Read by Elizabeth Proud, 18 hours 6 minutes. TB 15522.
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. TB 15522.
Murakami, Haruki
Norwegian wood. 2006. Read by John Chancer, 13 hours 39 minutes. TB 15838.
Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find a new meaning and a new love to survive. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15838.
Murdoch, Iris
Jackson's dilemma. 1995. Read by John Cormack, 10 hours 8 minutes. TB 10794.
Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Berran. Preparations are underway for the wedding at Penndean nearby. Family and friends gather, the night is warm and clear, the wedding guests wander in the grounds and under the stars. Then occurs a most remarkable event. TB 10794.
North, Freya
Chloe. 1997. Read by Rachel Atkins, 13 hours 8 minutes. TB 11974.
Chloe, a 25-year-old Highgate schoolteacher reinvents herself as a femme fatale and wins the heart of the gorgeous Richard. And so begins a period of self-discovery that takes her from London, to Paris and finally to Mull, where she finds all the answers. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 11974.
O'Flanagan, Sheila
Too good to be true. 2003. Read by Deirdre O'Connell, 17 hours 33 minutes. TB 13855.
Within days of arriving in New York for a shopping holiday, Carey Browne has met and married Ben Russell - but not everyone at home is convinced that this is more than a holiday romance. Carey and Ben are about to discover whether they've found the kind of love that can survive a blast of reality. Contains strong language. TB 13855.
Ouida
Under two flags: a story of the household and the desert. 1995. Read by Frances Jeater, 27 hours 45 minutes. TB 11199.
A Foreign Legion romance in which the Hon. Bertie Cecil, to protect his brother and the Lady Guenevere, enlists in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, condemning himself to danger and hardship under the Algerian sun. His salvation comes from two women who love him: the camp-follower Cigarette and the Princess Venetia. TB 11199.
Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago. 1958. Read by Garard Green, 25 hours 50 minutes. TB 1553.
Classic love story set in Russia at the time of the revolution. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him, and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. TB 1553.
Paton Walsh, Jill
Unleaving. 1976. Read by Phyllis Boothroyd, 5 hours 25 minutes. TB 2971.
Young Madge lets her Cornish house to a University reading party; the members of the party and their families seem puzzling and exhilarating. She finds herself, and love, during the days of that long summer. TB 2971.
Patterson, James
Sam's letters to Jennifer. 2004. Read by Laurel Lefkow, 4 hours 10 minutes. TB 14112.
When Jennifer returns to the resort village where she grew up, she finds a series of letters and ends up experiencing not one but two of the most amazing love stories she's ever known. The letters reveal a secret long buried: her grandmother's great love was not the man she married. Jennifer herself thinks she could never love again but, before she knows it, is caught up in the greatest flight of exhilaration she's ever known. TB 14112.
Pearse, Lesley
Remember me. 2004. Read by Elaine Claxton, 14 hours 43 minutes. TB 15496.
In 1786 a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there. Based on a true story, this is the tale of a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15496.
Pearce, Mary Emily
Polsinney Harbour. 1994. Read by Di Langford, 7 hours 34 minutes. TB 12423.
On a July evening in 1869, Maggie Care, fleeing from the memory of a tragedy arrives in the Cornish fishing village of Polsinney. Her gradual acceptance by the villagers is threatened by a revelation from her past, but to her surprise it is the belligerent Gus who stands by her. TB 12423.
Peterson, Alice
Look the world in the eye. 2006. Read by Beth Chalmers, 9 hours 28 minutes. TB 14717.
Pretty and successful, with a rich, handsome boyfriend, Katie has created her own perfect world. But now it's crunch time. In one week her sister Bells is coming to stay and Katie's boyfriend Sam doesn't even know she has a sister. It's always been too difficult to bring the topic up. Bells is different, she just doesn't fit in. Bells' arrival turns Katie's world upside down. Soon Katie's relationship with Sam is under severe strain - and problems escalate when she receives disturbing news about her mother. But, with help from Bells, Katie finally learns about real love. TB 14717.
Petty, Elizabeth
The surgeon's quest. 1989. Read by Jacqueline King, 5 hours 22 minutes. TB 8124.
Staff nurse Meryl Summers has a dream come true when Doctor Heyer tells her he loves her. This dream, however, turns to a nightmare, as jealously rears its ugly head. How could Meryl have known that jealousy had destroyed a previous romance in his life? Will she be able to gain the trust of the man she loves so much, and persuade him to forget the past? TB 8124.
Pilcher, Rosamunde
Winter solstice. 2000. Read by Hannah Gordon, 19 hours 23 minutes. TB 14986.
When Oscar Blundell suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida Phipps, his friend and neighbour, with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays, it seems to weave a magic spell for Elfrida and Oscar. TB 14986.
Pollen, Bella
Hunting unicorns. 2004. Read by Christopher Oxford, Read by Laurel Lefkow, 8 hours 53 minutes. TB 13750.
American Maggie Monroe is a journalist for New York's hard-hitting current affairs show Newsline. Independent and fearless, the more cutting-edge the story, the happier she is. But when her next assignment turns out to be an in-depth documentary on the decline of England's ruling classes, she's furious at being sent to cover a bloody tea party. This unlikely romantic comedy paints an endearing portrait of a family, which like so many others, holds itself together despite its evident frailties. Contains strong language. TB 13750.
Purves, Libby
Love songs and lies. 2006. Read by Diana Bishop, 12 hours 43 minutes. TB 14883.
Sally, Kate and Marienka. Three young women who meet as undergraduates in 1970's Oxford and share their romantically shabby canalside house with Max Bellinger. Sally idolises Max but it is his brother who has the most important role in her life. Although their paths divulge when they leave Oxford, Sally stays in touch with all her housemates and their lives remain interwoven throughout the momentous second half of the twentieth century. Contains strong language. TB 14883.
Pym, Barbara
No fond return of love. 1993. Read by Gretel Davis, 10 hours 26 minutes. TB 10071.
Dulcie Mainwaring accepts the arrival of her young niece as a not entirely unpleasant family duty. Preoccupied with uncomfortable feelings for a married man she met at a conference, she is content to let Laurel have all the freedom she desires. Regrettably, her heart will not allow her to extend the same privilege to the distinguished editor and troubled husband, Dr Alwyn Forbes. TB 10071.
Rayner, Claire
The private wing. 1996. Read by Nicolette McKenzie, 5 hours 11 minutes. TB 10830.
Student nurse Tricia Oxford was utterly dismayed when she was posted to the Private Wing, which seemed to her little more than a hotel. But the Registrar, Dr Adam Kidd, determined she would find out just how wrong she was. TB 10830.
Reid, Carmen
The personal shopper. 2007. Read by Anna Cordell, 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 15849.
Meet Annie Valentine: stylish, savvy, multi-tasker extraordinaire. As a personal shopper in a swanky London fashion store, Annie can re-style and re-invent her clients from head to toe. In fact, this super-skilled dresser can be relied on to solve everyone's problems, except her own. Although she's a busy single mum to stroppy teen Lana and painfully shy Owen, there's a gap in Annie's wardrobe - sorry, life - for a new man. But finding the perfect partner is turning out to be so much trickier than finding the perfect pair of shoes. Can she source a genuine classic? A life long investment? Will she end up with a mistake from the sale rail, who'll have to be returned? Or maybe, just maybe, there'll be someone new in this season who could be the one. TB 15849.
Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966. Read by George Hagan, 5 hours 5 minutes. TB 88.
The life of Rochester's first wife, the mad woman kept hidden at Thornfield Hall, who later haunted Jane Eyre. TB 88.
Riotta, Gianni
Prince of the clouds. 2002. Read by George Henare, 9 hours 47 minutes. TB 15269.
While Carlo Terzo works on his "Manual for Strategic Living", he is in love with Fiore, daughter of a rich and cruel land owner. This romance explores large and small matters of love and war, the shifting turbulence of post-war Sicily and the great battles of ancient and modern history. TB 15269.
Roberts, Alison
A change of heart. 1999. Read by Nicolette McKenzie, 5 hours 28 minutes. TB 12614.
David James was looking forward to going back to his old hospital as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon, until the reaction of cardiologist Lisa Kennedy made him wonder if he could live down his old playboy image. He'd never had any trouble charming women before, but Lisa seemed to be immune, and the more he tried to impress her, as a colleague and potential lover, the more she seemed to back away. How could he break through the barriers she erected and convince her that he would happily give up his bachelor ways for her? TB 12614.
Robertson, Denise
The anxious heart. 1993. Read by Anne Jameson, 12 hours 33 minutes. TB 9780.
Julie, a single mum with plenty to keep her occupied, is so busy solving everyone else's problems that she has no time to think about her own. Then she goes to work for handsome, suave Graham Iley, and the prospect of a whole new world opens up before her. TB 9780.
Rubens, Bernice
I sent a letter to my love. 1975. Read by Gabriel Woolf, 6 hours 15 minutes. TB 3026.
All her life, Amy Evans has struggled against that unkind gift of fate - ugliness. A squat nose stubbed like a plasticine afterthought on her face, a chin too long and eyes straining to meet each other, form a sad picture that dooms Amy to a life of solitude and lovelessness. Now in her fifties, Amy lives alone with her crippled brother, both prisoners of the hopes and aspirations of their youth. Then Amy makes a final bid for happiness, a last ditch attempt to meet someone she can love, who might love her. TB 3026.
Sagan, Francoise
The still storm. 1984. Read by Robert Gladwell, 5 hours 30 minutes. TB 5364.
From the moment that Nicholas Lomont sets eyes on Flora de Margelasse, he is doomed to a life of passionate adoration for a woman who always seems to be just beyond his reach. TB 5364.
Sanderson, Gill
Their miracle child. 2007. Read by Sherry Baines, 5 hours 45 minutes. TB 15766.
Alanna Ward had to leave. Unable to cope with the loss of her child, she fled the Lake District, her nursing job at Rosewood Cottage Hospital, and most of all her beloved husband Dr Finn Cavendish. But now she's come home and discovered she has a daughter! Nothing could have prepared her for the shock. Everything she thought she had lost is right before her. But now she must learn how to be a mother to her precious little girl and the best person to help her is her child's father, the man she once loved, the man she still loves. TB 15766.
Scheinmann, Danny
Random acts of heroic love. 2008. Read by Steve Hodson, 12 hours 48 minutes. TB 15660.
1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever. 1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the Russian Steppes separate him from his village and his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War may be over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. Contains strong language. TB 15660.
Seth, Vikram
An equal music. 1999. Read by Michael Tudor Barnes, 16 hours 48 minutes. TB 12083.
A story of obsessive love. Years after parting, Michael is still in love with Julia. After a chance meeting, he persuades Julia to join his quartet on its tour of Vienna, but Julia is now happily married and Michael must accept that she will never give herself to him. TB 12083.
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Snowleg. 2004. Read by William Gregory, 14 hours 2 minutes. TB 13607.
When a young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students, he meets an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. He wants to help, but her situation makes him nervous. He ends up in denial about his feelings for the girl until one day, with Germany now united, he sets out to find her. But he has no idea where to start - all he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave to her - Snowleg. Contains strong language. TB 13607.
Shreve, Anita
Body surfing: a novel. 2007. Read by Frances Edmond, 8 hours 46 minutes. TB 16096.
Young Sydney has already been divorced and widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she becomes a teenager's tutor. Life at the wealthy family's ocean cottage is disturbed by the arrival of their two grown sons, who bring a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. They vie for Sydney's affection, threatening to destroy her new life. TB 16096.
Shute, Nevil
Pastoral. 1974. Read by Michael McStay, 9 hours 5 minutes. TB 11671.
Set during the turmoil of World War II, this novel tells the story of a brave young fighter pilot, Peter Marshall, and a pretty WAAF officer. TB 11671.
Simons, Paullina
The bronze horseman. 2000. Read by Wendy Karstens, 30 hours 43 minutes. TB 15247.
Tatiana and Alexander series; book 1. Set in Leningrad in 1941 against Hitler's invasion of Russia, this story tells of the impossible love between a Russian girl, Tatiana, and a young officer named Alexander. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart and it carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it. TB 15247.
Sisman, Robyn
Weekend in Paris. 2004. Read by Trudy Harris, 11 hours 2 minutes. TB 14418.
It only takes a weekend to change your life. One Friday afternoon Molly Clearwater walks out of her job, smarting from her boss's taunt that she is "just a stupid secretary". Twenty-one, a country girl who has lived life mainly through the pages of books and in her own imagination, she feels that nothing exciting has ever happened to her, or will. On impulse, Molly boards the Eurostar to Paris. She emerges into a bewitching world of leafy boulevards, luscious foods, crazy traffic and smouldering Frenchmen. Within hours she's racing along the Seine on the back of a scooter, infiltrating a conference in a Cleopatra wig, caught up in a roller-blade chase, and sharing with a complete stranger her deepest, darkest secret. The weekend turns into a dizzying carousel-ride of passion, excitement and self-discovery. By Sunday night, Molly is a new person. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 14418.
Smith, Rebecca
A bit of earth. 2006. Read by Rachel Atkins, 6 hours 54 minutes. TB 14852.
Susannah Misselthwaite was gazing up at the brightness of the blue sky when the deer leapt in front of the car. She never knew what happened. This is a story about love, loss and loyalty - and how sometimes a bit of earth can mend a broken heart. TB 14852.
Spencer, Catherine
Winter roses. 1990. Read by Nina Holloway, 6 hours 12 minutes. TB 8992.
Just as Meredith's life seemed to be regaining its equilibrium, Mr High-and-Mighty Tom Whitney bounced back into town. How dare he evict his elderly tenants. She would show him that Meredith Blake was a fighter. She could see it now: "Absentee Landlord Whitney Evicts Elderly Tenants" - a fine thing that would be for the revered family name, spread all over the front page of the local newspaper. TB 8992.
Steel, Danielle
Safe harbour. 2003. Read by Kyf Brewer, 10 hours 30 minutes. TB 13896.
On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad grey world with colour and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. TB 13896.
Stewart, Mary
Stormy petrel. 1991. Read by Carmen Lynne, 5 hours 30 minutes. TB 9049.
The Hebridean island of Moila seemed to Rose Fenemore, writer and poet, the ideal place "away from it all" and the isolated cottage, advertised as an "ivory tower", a perfect retreat where she could finish her book. But it is not easy to escape the world and its turmoils. Rose, on her own in her ivory tower, has to cope with two very different men who come in from the sea on a night of summer storms. In Stormy petrel, Mary Stewart gives her readers a delightful story vividly evocative of the beauty of Scotland's Western Isles. TB 9049.
Summers, Essie
So comes tomorrow. 1995. Read by Frith Trezevant, 6 hours 43 minutes. TB 11319.
Brodie Nicol returns to New Zealand to visit her friend Una. While driving to Una's home, Brodie is caught in a snowstorm and seeks refuge at a nearby farmhouse - only to find that the farm is being looked after by her ex-fiance, Guthrie. Clearly Una had planned a little matchmaking. But what Una doesn't know is why Brodie had ended her engagement to Guthrie two years ago. TB 11319.
Summers, Jessica
Unfair advantage. 1988. Read by Andrea Ainsworth, 20 hours 1 minute. TB 7860.
Reggie Gates uses her brains and her looks to bring herself near the dizzy heights of the glittering fashion world. Then she meets Cole Weston, wealthy, dangerous and passionate. Together they taste the fruits of their desires and indulge in the hot hunger of love. But Reggie has never been betrayed in business (or in love) before, can she resist a man she dare not trust? Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 7860.
Swindells, Madge
Shadows on the snow. 1987. Read by Rosemary Davis, 21 hours 59 minutes. TB 6654.
A story full of drama and tension set in the high-powered world of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Megan Carroll is the ultimate agent, a 26-year-old whiz kid, dynamic, uncompromising and personally magnetic. Involvement is something she cannot afford but enigmatic Scottish scriptwriter, Ian Mackintosh, may create desires that are now subject to price. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 6654.
Taylor, Linda
Shooting at the stars. 2003. Read by Ruth Sillers, 15 hours 55 minutes. TB 13946.
Caroline Blake longs for a night under a cloud-free sky with the telescope of her dreams. Busy and happily single, her life is as ordered as the science classes she teaches. Lizzy Carter appears to have all she ever wanted - a lively young family, an adoring husband, good friends, and almost enough money. Antonia Clarke is a divorcee with a teenage daughter, an ailing car, an obstinate mother and a lodger she needs to placate. She yearns for just twenty-four uneventful hours. When the engaging Tom Grainger moves into each of the women's lives, things start to change. Three women whose paths have already crossed find their fates are about to collide. Contains strong language. TB 13946
Thomas, Rosie
Strangers. 1987. Read by Nina Holloway, 14 hours 29 minutes. TB 6915.
After ten years of marriage, Annie is content. Then one morning a bomb explodes in the store where she is doing the last of her Christmas shopping, and she is trapped under the rubble with Steve, a complete stranger. They hang on to life increasingly grimly as they wait for rescue, and each gradually unfolds to the other the stories of their lives. As the fight to remain conscious becomes harder, Annie realises that Steve is becoming more important than anything else in her life. TB 6915.
Thompson, E. V
Becky. 1988. Read by Carol Marsh, 13 hours 45 minutes. TB 7010.
When an accident brought artist Fergus Vincent's naval career to an end, he headed for the slums of Bristol intending to join his lifelong friend and mentor, Henry Gordon. Arriving in Bristol's notorious dockside slum Fergus finds he is too late, his friend has died - but he meets Becky, a ragamuffin orphan who captivates his heart and who is destined to irretrievably change his life. TB 7010.
Thorne, Nicola
The house by the sea. 2004. Read by Liz Holliss, 6 hours 30 minutes. TB 14434.
To Clare Trafford, busy working on a biography of Joan of Arc, the charming coastal town of Port St Pierre seems the perfect place to continue her research. Overlooking the bay stands the dominating Chateau des Moulins, home of the de Frigecourts, an aristocratic French family plagued by misfortune. When Clare discovers that the estate is built on the site of St. Joan's prison, an ancient curse she had long dismissed as legend looms as deadly fact. TB 14434.
Trefusis, Violet
Hunt the slipper. 1983. Read by Gretel Davis, 6 hours 15 minutes. TB 5080.
Nigel Benson is a forty-nine year old sybarite living with his sister in Bath. One day he visits his neighbour, Sir Anthony Crome, and his new wife Caroline. She is young, restless and fascinating and the two neighbours fall passionately in love. However their love is like the treasure hunt of childhood, with the longed-for object of pursuit forever just beyond their reach. TB 5080.
Trigiani, Adriana
Big Stone Gap. 2002. Read by Regina Reagan, 9 hours 54 minutes. TB 15069.
Big Stone Gap series; book 1. Big Stone Gap, Virginia, is the sort of sleepy hamlet where kids get married and start families at eighteen, and stay for ever. So thirty-five-year old Ave Maria Mulligan is something of an oddity. A self-proclaimed spinster, as the local pharmacist she's been keeping the townsfolk's secrets for years. Now Ave Maria is about to discover a scandal in her own family's past that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life. Contains strong language. TB 15069.
Trollope, Anthony
Rachel Ray. 1988. Read by Pauline Munro, 14 hours 17 minutes. TB 7437.
A love story set in and around a small town in the South Hams of Devonshire which, despite the idyllic surroundings, provides citizens as implacably factious as any of the author's social groups. The zest and intensity of their religious, political, commercial and class warfare make it a lively comedy. TB 7437.
Trollope, Joanna
A Spanish lover. 1993. Read by Lutena Meller, 10 hours 47 minutes. TB 9637.
Lizzie and Frances were twins. Lizzie had a husband, a business and four children; Frances was footloose in her thirties. Lizzie worried about Frances, and then, out of the blue, she went away on business to Spain. An intoxicating love story unfolds against the backdrop of Spain, with a sobering close up of Britain's current economic stranglehold on a family who never dreamt that money would be a problem. It is also a study of twins, of possessiveness and guilt, of motherhood, marriage and late flowering. TB 9637.
Updike, John
Brazil. 1994. Read by Nigel Graham, 9 hours 33 minutes. TB 10665.
This novel spans twenty years, in Brazil where almost everything is possible if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a 19 year old black child of the Rio slums, meets Isabel Leme, an 18 year old upper class white girl, on Copacabana Beach. Their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Privation, violence, captivity, reversals of fortune and their own faithlessness dog, yet throughout they hold to the belief that each is the other's fate for life. Contains strong language. TB 10665.
Villars, Elizabeth
The Normandie affair. 1987. Read by James Tillitt, 12 hours 29 minutes. TB 6899.
She was fast, reckless and extravagantly beautiful. Her life was brief and dazzling, her death untimely and violent. Her name was the "Normandie" and she was the most glamorous ocean liner ever built. The other woman in the story is Emily Atherton - beautiful too and sought after by many men. But what she wanted no man could give: she wanted success and although Anson realised this at once it took Max much longer to learn. TB 6899.
Von Arnim, Elizabeth
The enchanted April. 1922. Read by Gretel Davis, 9 hours 56 minutes. TB 837.
Two bored wives take an Italian villa for a holiday; to meet expenses they share with two more women, and have many amusing experiences. TB 837.
Walker, Fiona
Lots of love. 2003. Read by Marie McCarthy, 19 hours 15 minutes. TB 13225.
When Ellen breaks up with her boyfriend she agrees to house-sit for her parents in the Cotswolds before going travelling. Under the wing of local sculptor Ophelia Gently, Ellen goes to a village fundraiser and wins a mysterious lot of three wishes donated by the gorgeous Jasper Belling. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13225.
Wallner, Michael
April in Paris. 2007. Read by Tom Lawrence, 7 hours 13 minutes. TB 15593.
When people on Paris's bustling streets look at Michael Roth, they see little more than a Parisian student, a quietly spoken young man with a book under his arm, handsome but guarded. What they do not realize is that he is carrying a painful secret, one that he cannot even reveal to the woman he loves. For Michael is no ordinary Frenchman but a German. He has been sent to Paris to assist the Nazis in dealing with Resistance fighters. Desperate to escape his daily life, he steals into the world of the oppressed Parisians, and into the path of Chantal. But as Michael falls for the bookseller's beautiful daughter, he discovers that a person's past always catches up with them. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15593.
Waters, Sarah
Tipping the velvet. 1999. Read by Charlotte Strevens, 18 hours 38 minutes. TB 14976.
In the bawdy music halls of the late-19th century, Nan is captivated by Kitty Butler, a male impersonator. She manages to meet her heroine and soon after becomes her dresser. Heading for the bright lights of London they form a double act, while privately, a love affair begins. Contains strong language. TB 14976.
Welfare, Sue
Moving on up. 2001. Read by Marie McCarthy, 12 hours 51 minutes. TB 14779.
There's one sin a married woman can never recover from - and no one's going to let her forget it! Would-be artist Sarah Colebrook is caught up in the long haul of married life, raising children, working part-time and trying to remain philosophical about the approach of her fortieth birthday. When she sets off for an old friend's housewarming bash, leaving husband and boys behind, she has little idea that the next twelve hours will change her life forever. TB 14779.
Wesley, Mary
An imaginative experience. 1994. Read by Joan Walker, 7 hours 5 minutes. TB 10412.
A traveller on an Intercity train smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in mid-countryside. He sees a white faced woman leap out and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, her face full of tragedy. The image stays in his mind, a strange but familiar despair unable, despite itself, to ignore the desperation it sees in others. From this develops a story of the heart's pain and deliverance. TB 10412.
West, Annie
For the sheikh's pleasure. 2007. Read by Sarah Kants, 6 hours 28 minutes. TB 15403.
Rosalie Winters is a challenge: beautiful and aloof, she doesn't engage in the games of flirtation and seduction that Sheikh Arik Kareem Ben Hassan expects from women, and she lacks their sophistication and guile. Which makes him want her all the more. But Arik knows that to get her he has to take things slowly. Rosalie is shy, even withdrawn, as though something has changed her. However, Arik also knows that once she's at his command Rosalie will open up to receive the loving that only he can give her. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 15403.
Wibberley, Mary
Country of the vine. 1989. Read by Patricia Hughes, 5 hours 58 minutes. TB 8209.
Charlotte's meeting with Jared de Marais in Paris had been fleeting, yet wildly romantic. After only a few days he had deserted her. Two years later she still recalls her heartbreak, and meets Jared again, at a vineyard in the heart of France. She realises that he lacks any emotion for her, yet she feels drawn to him once more. TB 8209.
Williams, Mary
Tarnefell. 1985. Read by George Hagan, 7 hours 16 minutes. TB 6174.
Merynne had always known that one day Nat Herne would come riding over the hill towards Tarnefell, to sweep passion and love back into the calm, ordered existence she had carved out for herself. But not even Merynne could have foreseen the dramatic events that ensued when Nat returned. TB 6174.
Wolff, Isabel
Behaving badly. 2003. Read by Sally Burnett, 12 hours 8 minutes. TB 13973.
All men are beasts, or so Miranda Sweet believes. As an animal behaviourist, she can get inside the heads of deluded Dalmatians and introverted iguanas, but she can't work out why the men in her life behave so badly. Animals are braver, kinder and a lot more reliable, so Miranda's given up on love to open her own clinic and work her magic on neurotic pets and their grateful owners. But can she keep the whole male species at bay for ever? Her best friend, Daisy, an incurably romantic wedding-planner, doesn't think so. When a delicious photographer comes on the scene, even Miranda starts to wonder if she's been a bit hasty. Contains strong language. TB 13973.
Wood, Carol
Rogue vet. 1993. Read by Helen Bourne, 6 hours 29 minutes. TB 9893.
Melissa had a feeling that her employer's decision to sell his veterinary practice had something to do with his son, Gareth, who had returned after years of globetrotting in the Southern Hemisphere. He didn't waste any time in going through his father's finances with a fine tooth comb either. Though his skill with patients was impressive, she couldn't condone his ethics, and if he expected her to be easy pickings, he had badly miscalculated. TB 9893.
Wood, Valerie
The hungry tide. 1993. Read by Rosemary Davis, 19 hours 38 minutes. TB 10563.
Will and Maria Foster lived in the slums of Hull at the turn of the eighteenth century. Will, a whaler, was crippled for life when tragedy struck, and John Rayner - nephew of the owner of the whaling fleet - came to the rescue by offering them work and a home on the family estate. There, Will's third child was born - Sarah, a bright and beautiful girl. As John Rayner fell increasingly in love with her despite the hopeless gulf of social standing between them, their love story was played out to its final climax. TB 10563.
Zola, Emile
Therese Raquin. 2004. Read by Christopher Oxford, 9 hours 27 minutes. TB 15773.
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthly friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them for ever. TB 15773.
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