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by Anchee Min narrated by Alexandra O'Karma
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7157 0 Reference: DIR1519
Duration: 18h (approx.) on 15 CDs
It is the final days of the Chinese Empire when Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic, but impoverished family, finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the Emperor. Inside the Forbidden City jealousies and foul play abound, but Orchid is determined to survive. Little... Read More »
by Jeffery Deaver narrated by George Wilson
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7641 4 Reference: DIR1649
Duration: 16h (approx.) on 14 CDs
Although confined to a wheelchair, Detective Lincoln Rhyme's phenomenal success in solving crime has earned him a formidable reputation. Just for once, he's not on a job. Lincoln is visiting North Carolina to try out a breakthrough insurgery, which might be the first step towards a cure for his condition. However, fame is... Read More »
by Scarlett Thomas narrated by Multiple Narrators
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2289 3 Reference: RTL1127
Duration: 14h (approx.) on 12 CDs
When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of 'The End of Mr Y' in a second-hand bookshop, she can't believe her eyes. She's read about its author before, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, and this is his most notorious, and rarest, book. It is also believed to hold a curse. Anyone who's ever read it, including... Read More »
by Priscilla Masters narrated by Julia Franklin
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6911 9 Reference: DIR1391
Duration: 6h 45m (approx.) on 6 CDs
Something is amiss at a small primary school in the village of Horton. A local man, Joshua Baldwin, has been sitting in his car outside the school watching the children as they play. So DI Joanna Piercy is called out to investigate. She meets the teachers and Baldwin and eventually decides there is nothing to worry about... Read More »
by Sebastian Faulks narrated by Michael Maloney
ISBN: 978 1 40741 361 7 Reference: RTL1012
Duration: 11h 15m (approx.) on 11 CDs
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations... Read More »
by Matthew Kneale narrated by Multiple Narrators
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6403 9 Reference: DIR1218
Duration: 20h 30m (approx.) on 17 CDs
It is 1857, and Reverend Geoffrey Wilson has departed England to prove the literal truth of the Bible. The expedition heads towards Tasmania, where he is convinced he will find the real Garden of Eden. But the other passengers have their own agendas. Dr Potter is developing a sinister thesis, and the ship is crewed by... Read More »
by Linda Fairstein narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8144 9 Reference: DIR1969
Duration: 11h 15m (approx.) on 10 CDs
After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East Side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper has perfect DNA evidence. She also has a much older case to work on - a skeleton has been found entombed in the wall of an old house - which turns out to be a relatively modern murder... Read More »
by David Hewson narrated by Peter Marinker
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2397 5 Reference: RTL1172
Duration: 16h 45m (approx.) on 14 CDs
At Christmas 1975 a group of Californian students experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn kidnaps the son of an English professor. When he is released from jail twenty years later, a mysterious young English woman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask questions that will unravel the past... Read More »
by Michael White narrated by Richard Burnip
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8035 0 Reference: DIR1900
Duration: 10h (approx.) on 9 CDs
Oxford, 2006: a young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut. Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an apparently ancient gold coin. Twenty-four hours later, another woman is found. This time her brain has been removed, and a silver coin lies glittering in her skull. The police are baffled. But when... Read More »
by K P Bath narrated by Kerin McCue
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7990 3 Reference: DIR1864
Duration: 8h 45m (approx.) on 8 CDs
Pauline Esmeralda Simone-Thierry von Cant's perilous rescue from Castle Cant by her half-sister Lucy Wickwright - humble maidservant and heroic spy - was just the beginning of the madcap adventure which was launched in The Secret of Castle Cant, K P Bath's acclaimed debut novel. In this dazzling follow-up, the girls must... Read More »