Genre: ‘Modern Fiction’
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Abela
by Berlie Doherty narrated by Janice Acquah
ISBN: 978 1 40743 735 4 Reference: RTL1410
Duration: 6h 45m (approx.) on 6 CD(s)
CD Edition
£17.99
"Be strong, my Abela." These are the last words of Abela's mother in their HIV/Aids stricken African village, where it seems that to live or to die, to be sick or to be healthy, is just a matter of chance. It takes all Abela's strength to survive her Uncle Thomas's scheming to get to Europe, but what will be her fate as... Read More »
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie narrated by the author
ISBN: 978 1 40742 807 9 Reference: RTL1242
Duration: 5h (approx.) on 5 CD(s)
CD Edition
£18.00
Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school to attend an all-white high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a... Read More »
The Accidental Family
by Rowan Coleman narrated by Juanita McMahon
ISBN: 978 1 40744 731 5 Reference: RTL1529
Duration: 14h 45m (approx.) on 13 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the man she thinks she loves, and his two daughters who she knows she loves. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside isn't quite as easy as Sophie imagined it would be. Read More »
The Accidental Mother
by Rowan Coleman narrated by Juanita McMahon
ISBN: 978 1 40743 270 0 Reference: RTL1330
Duration: 14h (approx.) on 12 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Sophie Mills has worked her Manolo Blahniks off to reach the near-top of her profession. And she's very happy with her priorities in life - her job, her neurotic cat Artemis and her passion for shoes. After all, relationships only get in the way. And as for children? She hasn't even begun to think about them yet. Until one... Read More »
The Accidental Wife
by Rowan Coleman narrated by Jilly Bond
ISBN: 978 1 40743 267 0 Reference: RTL1469
Duration: 12h 30m (approx.) on 11 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Alison James thinks she might be living the wrong life. She loves her husband Marc and their children but somehow, in the process of building a perfect life for her family, she seems to have lost herself. And sometimes she worries that she's being punished for running away with her best friend's boyfriend. Catherine... Read More »
The Accidental
by Ali Smith narrated by Joolz Denby
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7819 7 Reference: DIR1740
Duration: 9h 30m (approx.) on 8 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
'I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multistorey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump-jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard, when thirty-eight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was... Read More »
The Act of Love
by Howard Jacobson narrated by Mike Grady
ISBN: 978 1 40744 053 8 Reference: RTL1474
Duration: 11h 45m (approx.) on 10 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man until his wife, Marisa, has an affair. Then an event occurs that changes everything. At a stroke he goes from dreading the thought of someone else touching her to thinking about nothing else, knowing no peace until she betrays him again and again. But how can it be called betrayal if it... Read More »
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Sue Townsend narrated by Paul Daintry
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7784 8 Reference: DIR1705
Duration: 12h (approx.) on 11 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Adrian Mole is thirty-four and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr Blair tells Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed in forty-five minutes and can reach Cyprus. Adrian is worried that he might not get a refund on his holiday. But that's not all that is bothering him. There's his... Read More »
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
by Sue Townsend narrated by Paul Daintry
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6539 5 Reference: DIR1270
Duration: 9h 15m (approx.) on 8 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
It's 1997. Adrian, 30, is a chef at an up-market restaurant, selling down-market food for ridiculous prices. There, the only person who seems to notice he can't cook is AA Gill. But problems abound when, in a fit of madness, he agrees to become a TV chef on the show Offally Good. Yet some things don't change. Adrian's... Read More »
Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years new
by Sue Townsend narrated by Mark Hadfield
ISBN: 978 1 40745 531 0 Reference: RTL1645
Duration: 9h (approx.) on 8 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Due to his financial situation he has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble. As his worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame ignites powerful memories and makes him wonder - is she the only one... Read More »
Affinity
by Sarah Waters narrated by Juanita McMahon
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6931 7 Reference: DIR1412
Duration: 15h (approx.) on 13 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Set in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing literary mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London's most notorious gaols... Read More »
Aim High
by Tanni Grey-Thompson narrated by Kate Lock
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2140 7 Reference: RTL1066
Duration: 1h 45m (approx.) on 2 CD(s)
CD Edition
£13.00
Aim High reveals what has motivated Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, UK's leading wheelchair athlete, through the highs and lows of her outstanding career. Her triumphs, which include winning sixteen medals, eleven of which are gold, countless European titles, six London Marathons and over thirty world records, have catapulted this... Read More »
Airhead
by Meg Cabot narrated by Stina Nielsen
ISBN: 978 1 40742 758 4 Reference: DIR2205
Duration: 8h 15m (approx.) on 7 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
Emerson Watts didn't even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening. But someone needed to look out for her sister Frida, whose crush, heart-throb Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs there - along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. How was Em... Read More »
Alentejo Blue
by Monica Ali narrated by Clare Wille
ISBN: 978 1 40740 476 9 Reference: RTL1006
Duration: 8h 12m (approx.) on 7 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. An old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this beautiful and seemingly tranquil setting... Read More »
All He Ever Wanted
by Anita Shreve narrated by Jeff Harding
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8163 0 Reference: DIR1988
Duration: 10h 45m (approx.) on 9 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
A man receives a bill for a white chandelier that he never ordered and has never seen. This mysterious document turns out to be the hinge of his world and his attempts to make sense of it lead him to facts about himself, his marriage and his orderly life that had previously been hidden from him. Set in New England and... Read More »
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
by Janelle Brown narrated by Barbara McCulloh
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2453 8 Reference: RTL1210
Duration: 17h 30m (approx.) on 15 CD(s)
CD Edition
£30.00
In the heat of a west coast summer three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly: Janice, a devoted mother and housewife who's approaching fifty, finds she has been abandoned by her husband; her elder daughter Margaret, a magazine editor, is driven back home by towering debts; and... Read More »
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen narrated by Rachel Botchan
ISBN: 978 1 40745 033 9 Reference: DIR2280
Duration: 12h 45m (approx.) on 11 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
It's been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents' divorce - or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live. A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their... Read More »
Alphabet Weekends
by Elizabeth Noble narrated by Phoebe James
ISBN: 978 1 40741 693 9 Reference: RTL1031
Duration: 12h 9m (approx.) on 10 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
A is for Affection - between childhood best friends; between their parents; between brothers and sisters. B is for Broken-hearted - Natalie, when the boyfriend who was meant to propose dumps her just before Christmas. Her mother, when she realises what her life has come to. And Lucy, as she thinks of ending one... Read More »
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis narrated by Nick Landrum
ISBN: 978 1 40743 560 2 Reference: RTL1380
Duration: 17h 15m (approx.) on 14 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. And he is taking us to a head-on collision with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare... Read More »
American Wife
by Curtis Sittenfeld narrated by Katherine Kellgren
ISBN: 978 1 40743 463 6 Reference: RTL1349
Duration: 21h 30m (approx.) on 18 CD(s)
CD Edition
£29.99
In 2000, the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the USA. Their time in the White House proves to be heady and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth - that is... Read More »
The Amnesia Clinic
by James Scudamore narrated by Dave John
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2125 4 Reference: RTL1054
Duration: 10h (approx.) on 9 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabian, who is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular. What's more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents. Suarez, a storyteller par... Read More »
An Angel at My Back
by Mary Stanley narrated by Mary Stanley
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2422 4 Reference: RTL1192
Duration: 1h (approx.) on 1 CD
CD Edition
£13.00
Lucy Benedict is eight years old. Her older brother Paul likes to tease her. One day he ties her to a tree and leaves her there. She faints in the heat of the sun, and then she sees an angel. The angel looks just like her, and she sings beautifully. When Lucy wakes up in hospital she knows the angel is real. She has to have... Read More »
Angels
by Marian Keyes narrated by Gerri Halligan
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6730 6 Reference: DIR1341
Duration: 13h 30m (approx.) on 12 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing - that is until the day she leaves her husband and takes refuge with her friend Emily, a screenwriter in Los Angeles - a city where even the palm trees are skinny. Soon Maggie's doing all sorts of things she's never done before, such as wearing... Read More »
Animal Instincts
by Alan Titchmarsh narrated by the author
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6718 4 Reference: DIR1330
Duration: 8h 30m (approx.) on 8 CD(s)
CD Edition
£19.99
Rupert Lavery is a well-known conservationist. When he dies, his son kit returns from ten years in Australia to inherit a nature reserve in the heart of the British countryside. Kit finds the nature reserve and the two determined women who staff it are more trouble than they are worth. Elizabeth Punch is single... Read More »
Anybody Out There?
by Marian Keyes narrated by Caroline Lennon
ISBN: 978 1 40742 739 3 Reference: RTL1231
Duration: 15h (approx.) on 13 CD(s)
CD Edition
£24.99
Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, the most fabulous job in the world and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in Anna's life is that... Read More »
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