Talking Books
Adult fiction
Anderson, Kevin J. Hellhole inferno. 2014. Science fiction. TB
21512.
Hellhole series; book 3. After the events of 'Hellhole Awakening', the
people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans scramble to rally against the
threat from the still-living rogue Xayans. Back on Sonjeera, the Monarchy is
in an uproar after their surprising defeat and the breakaway of the Deep
Zone planets.
Read by Michael FitzPatrick. 17 hours 13 minutes. TB 21512.
Bennett, Anne. To have and to hold. 2006. Family stories. TB
21233.
Carmel Duffy is the eldest child of a brutal and abusive marriage, and she
cant wait to leave home. She’s equally determined to have no husband or
children of her own what she wants more than anything is to be a nurse. As
soon as she turns eighteen, she heads for Birmingham and begins her
training. But when World War Two looms those years will change
everything. Carmel will find that the future is very different to the one she
thought she wanted for so long.
Read by Penelope Freeman. 15 hours 11 minutes. TB 21233.
Brody, Frances. Dying in the wool. 2010. Crime fiction. TB
21418.
Kate Shackleton; book 1. Take one quiet Yorkshire Village, add a measure
of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal and Kate Shackleton – amateur sleuth
extraordinaire! Joshua Braithwaite went missing in dramatic circumstances,
never to be heard of again but now his daughter is getting married and
wants one last attempt at finding him. As Kate taps into the lives of the
Bridgestead dwellers, she opens cracks that some would kill to keep
closed.
Read by Sandra Hunt. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB 21418.
Cartwright, Justin. Lion heart. 2014. General fiction. TB
21375.
Richie Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. His
father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and had
found a document which was to prove this. Richie obtains a research grant
and travels to Jerusalem in his father's footsteps where he discovers that
the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small band of
Richard's knights. He embarks on a quest of his own to find the True Cross
- and to discover whether or not everything in his father's mind was a
fantasy.
Read by Robin Bowerman. 9 hours 52 minutes. TB 21375.
Cole, Martina. Revenge. 2014. Thriller. TB 21163.
Michael Flynn learns the rules of the Life from the best and when his
mentor, legendary Face, Patrick Costello, is taken out, no one questions
that Michael is his natural successor. For Michael, loyalty - and crime pays. Michael rises to heights beyond anything the criminal underworld has
seen. He owns everyone and no one would dare challenge him. Then the
unthinkable happens.
Read by Annie Aldington. 14 hours 18 minutes. TB 21163.
Daly, Paula. Just what kind of mother are you? 2013. Thriller.
TB 21464.
She's gone and it's your fault. You were supposed to be watching your best
friend's 13-year-old daughter, and now she's missing. But you know that
she's not just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the second
girl to be abducted within a fortnight. And the first was found on a busy high
street, naked and traumatised. No one expects the next to be so lucky.
You're going to have to figure this out - who did it. Because if you don't,
then Lucinda will be next. And you'll never forgive yourself.
Read by Laura Brattan. 9 hours 45 minutes. TB 21464.
Dickinson, Margaret. The clippie girls. 2013. Family stories.
TB21319.
Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the
sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their
grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester. When war is
declared in 1939 they must face the hardships together and huge changes
in their lives are inevitable.
Read by Maggie Mash. 13 hours 52 minutes. TB21319.
Donoghue, Emma. Frog music. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21463.
San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have
engulfed the city. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of
the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors,
her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider
joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and leaving one
of them dead.
Read by Khristine Hvam. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 21463.
Fforde, Katie. The perfect match. 2014. Romance. TB 21462.
Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart
over Dominic Thane, the man she fell in love with but couldn't have. Now
she's made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent.
Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil - although recently
he's been preoccupied, and she's starting to question if he is a perfect
match. Then someone from the past turns up looking for a house.
Read by Jilly Bond. 8 hours 56 minutes. TB 21462.
Galbraith, Robert. The silkworm. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21461.
Cormoran Strike; book 2. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his
wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. The novelist has just
completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost
everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives. When
Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a
race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer unlike any
he has encountered before.
Read by Robert Glenister. 17 hours 18 minutes. TB 21461.
George, Elizabeth. This body of death. 2010. Crime fiction. TB
21297.
Inspector Lynley series; book 16. While DI Thomas Lynley is still on
compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought
into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a body in a
Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle the chance to make her mark
with a high profile murder investigation. But persuading Lynley back to work
seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is fiercely loyal to
him and Isabelle needs them - and especially Barbara Havers - on side.
Read by Terry Wale. 26 hours 24 minutes. TB 21297.
Grafton, Sue. T is for trespass. 2008. Crime fiction. TB 21425.
Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 20. When an elderly neighbour, Gus, has
an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse
for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up
anything suspicious but Kinsey's not convinced, especially when Gus
seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care.
Read by Liza Ross. 12 hours 46 minutes. TB 21425.
Grafton, Sue. U is for undertow. 2010. Crime fiction. TB
21426.
Kinsey Millhone mysteries; book 21. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a
child is kidnapped and never returned. When the case is reopened after 20
years, Michael Sutton contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help.
He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just
might provide the key to the mystery. While stepping back into the past,
Kinsey uncovers more about her own history too.
Read by Liza Ross. 13 hours 51 minutes. TB 21426.
Hickson, Joanna. The Tudor bride. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21268.
King Henry V's new French Queen, Catherine believes herself invincible as
she gives birth to an heir. Tragedy strikes when King Henry is struck down
by fever and dies. The regency council in England removes the new young
king from Catherine's care, and she retires to her dower estates, taking the
King's harper, Owen Tudor, with her as Steward.
Read by Frances Jeater. 18 hours 45 minutes. TB 21268.
Hurley, Graham. Touching distance. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21422.
Jimmy Suttle series; book 2. A sniper is turning the quiet Devon
countryside into a killing ground. Jimmy Suttle is facing a case that could
end his career. And his life. Jimmy has barely got his feet under the desk at
his new job. Having flown in the face of his superiors on his first big case
he now finds himself trying to track down a random, hugely skilled killer
before another innocent dies and before the media tear the force apart.
Read by Jonathan Keeble. 10 hours 50 minutes. TB 21422.
Iggulden, Conn. Stormbird. 2014. Historical fiction. TB 21423.
Wars of the roses series; book 1. King Henry V - the great Lion of England
- is long dead. In 1437, after years of regency, the pious and gentle Henry
VI, the Lamb, comes of age and accedes to the English throne. His poor
health and frailty of mind render him a weakling king. Yet there are those
who believe England must be led by a strong king if she is to survive. With
England's territories in France under threat, and rumours of revolt at home,
fears grow that Henry and his advisers will see the country slide into ruin.
Read by Roy McMillan. 13hours 48 minutes. TB 21423.
Koomson, Dorothy. The flavours of love. 2014. General
fiction. TB21336.
It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to
finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died.
Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him - they have no idea what
I've been hiding or what I did back then to protect my family. But now that
my 14-year-old daughter has confessed a devastating secret, and my
husband's killer, who was never caught, has started to write to me, I know
it's only a matter of time before the truth about me and what I've done will
be revealed. My name is Saffron Mackleroy and this is my story.
Read by Janine Haynes. 16 hours 30 minutes. TB21336.
Koomson, Dorothy. The ice cream girls. 2013. General fiction.
TB 21173.
Aged 18, Poppy and Serena were witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated
public debate and scrutiny, the teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by
the press and forced to go their separate ways. Now, years later, Poppy is
keen to set the record straight, while Serena wants no one in her present
life to find out about her past.
Read by Adjoa Andoh, Julie Maisey and Sean Barrett. 13 hours 27
minutes. TB 21173.
Leather, Stephen. Cold kill. 2006. Thriller. TB 21232.
Spider Shepherd; book 3. People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and
attempted murder. It's all in a day's work for undercover cop Dan
Shepherd. But what starts as a run-of -the-mill investigation quickly turns
into a matter of life and death when he uncovers a terrorist cell on a
mission of death and destruction.
Read by Martyn Read. 14 hours 42 minutes. TB 21232.
Locke, John. Follow the stone. 2011. Western. TB 21394.
Emmett Love series; book 1. Set in 1860, this is the story of a former
gunslinger and his crablike scout, who journey West with a mail order bride,
a witch, and a wagon full of prostitutes. Contains strong language and
passages of a sexual nature.
Read by Paul Birchard. 4 hours 55 minutes. TB 21394.
MacBride, Stuart. Blind eye. 2009. Crime fiction. TB 21407.
DS Logan McRae series; book 5. It's summer in the Granite City, but even
the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters.
Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial
offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites –
eyes gouged out and the sockets burned.
Read by Stuart MacBride. 12 hours 18 minutes. TB 21407.
Mansell, Jill. The unpredictable consequences of love. 2014.
Romance. TB 21485.
When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from
sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he's immediately smitten.
Sophie's pretty, she's funny, she has lots of friends but there's just one
problem: she has very firmly turned her back on love. And no one will tell
him why.
Read by Jane Collingwood. 12 hours. TB 21485.
Montanari, Richard. The stolen ones. 2013. Crime fiction. TB
21484.
Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne; book 7. Destroyed by fire years ago, the
infamous Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a warehouse for the
criminally insane. But one man never left. By night Luther walks
Philadelphia's backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt, the fallen.
By day he roams the catacombs beneath the city, killing his prey.
Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder
scene: a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head and
left sitting on a bench in a local park. But it is just the beginning of a trail of
evil that leads back to the hospital and the nightmares it still contains.
Read by William Hope. 13 hours 10 minutes. TB 21484.
Patterson, James. Private London. 2012. Thriller. TB 21436.
Private series; book 2. For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American
student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles,
when Jack Morgan, owner of Private - the world's most exclusive detective
agency - saved her from a horrific death. The terror has followed her to
London, and now it is down to Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save
her all over again. But the clock is ticking... Private may be the largest and
most advanced detection agency in the world, but the only thing they don't
have is the one thing they need - time.
Read by Paul Thornley. 7 hours 22 minutes. TB 21436.
Reilly, Matthew. The tournament. 2013. Historical crime
fiction. TB 21323.
England, 1546. The Black Death stalks the land and with it deadly
conspiracies against the young Princess Elizabeth. In the midst of this
fevered atmosphere comes an unprecedented invitation from the Sultan in
Constantinople. He seeks to assemble the finest players of chess from the
whole civilised world and pit them against each other. The prize is the
honour of Christendom. Roger Ascham, Elizabeth's teacher and mentor,
resolves to take Elizabeth with him when he accompanies the English
chess champion to the Ottoman capital – to both keep her out of harm’s
way and continue her education in the art of power and politics. But once
there, the two find more danger than they left behind.
Read by Helen Bourne.11 hours 52 minutes. TB 21323.
Sidebottom, Harry. Fire in the East. 2009. Historical fiction.
TB 21263.
Warrior of Rome series; book 1. A D 255. The Roman Imperium is
stretched to breaking point, its authority challenged along every border.
The most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the forces of the
Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. One man is sent to marshall the
defences - a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista.
Read by Stephen Thorne. 16 hours 19 minutes. TB 21263.
Slaughter, Karin. Unseen. 2013. Thriller. TB 21487.
Will Trent series; book 8. Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide.
Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton - the woman he loves – to find
out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And
he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a
young Macon patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront
the past and a woman she hoped never to see again.
Read by Penelope Rawlins. 15 hours 15 minutes. TB 21487.
Smith, Ali. How to be both. 2014. General fiction. TB 21498.
Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary
double-take, this is a fast -moving genre-bending conversation between
forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s.
There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice
twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful,
knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real – and all life's givens get given
a second chance.
Read by John Banks.8 hours 30 minutes. TB 21498.
Tartt, Donna. The goldfinch. 2014. General fiction. TB 21261.
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely
absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone
and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend.
He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the
years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely
captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.
Read by David Pittu. 32 hours 27 minutes. TB 21261.
Taylor, Marsali. Death on a longship. 2014. Crime fiction. TB
21538.
Cass Lynch series; book 1. When she wangles the job of skippering a
Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally
arrived - even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands,
which she ran away from as a teenager. Then the 'accidents' begin - and
when a dead woman turns up on the boat's deck, Cass realises that she,
her family and her past are under suspicion from the disturbingly shrewd
Detective Inspector Macrae.
Read by Patricia Mullin. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 21538.
Thomas, Rosie. The illusionists. 2014. Historical fiction. TB
21243.
London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited
means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Through her work as an artist's
model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman
whose dream is to run his own theatre company. Devil's right-hand man is
the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with an
enormous talent for all things magic and illusion.
Read by Joan Walker. 16 hours 13 minutes. TB 21243.
Wark, Kirsty. The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. 2014. General
fiction. TB 21404.
Seemingly on a whim, 95-year-old Elizabeth Pringle bequeaths Homelea,
her beloved house on Arran, to a woman she has never met. As the young
woman comes to take up Homelea she slowly unlocks the mysteries and
heartbreaking secrets of Elizabeth Pringle's true legacy, in a multi generational story of love and belonging.
Read by Sally Armstrong. 12 hours 8 minutes. TB 21404.
Adult non-fiction
Animals and nature
O'Connor, Denis. Paw tracks at Owl Cottage. 2012. TB 21434.
When Denis O'Connor and his wife Catherine return to Owl Cottage, only
to find it in a dilapidated state, they decide to restore his former home. But
the memory of Denis's beloved cat, Toby Jug, still lingers on. On impulse,
he buys four Maine Coon kittens and names them Pablo, Carlos, Luis and
Max.
Read by Gordon Griffin. 6 hours 52 minutes. TB 21434.
Autobiography and biography
Coogan, Andy. Tomorrow you die: the astonishing survival
story of a Second World War prisoner of the Japanese. 2013.
TB 21302.
Andy Coogan was captured during the fall of Singapore and endured a
three-and-a -half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease,
imprisoned in the notorious Changi camp before being transported to
Taiwan, where he worked as a slave in a copper mine and was twice
ordered to dig his own grave.
Read by Nick McArdle. 10 hours 15 minutes. TB 21302.
Widdecombe, Ann. Strictly Ann: the autobiography. 2013. TB
21406.
Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in three
government departments and the Shadow Cabinet in the 1990s, as well as
taking us back to her wandering childhood and explaining the roots of her
deeply held views.
Read by Jilly Bond. 16 hours 18 minutes. TB 21406.
History
Edsel, Robert M. Monuments men. 2010. TB 21421.
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from 13 Allied nations
served in the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section of the Allied
armed forces. This was the most ambitious effort in history to preserve the
world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as
'Monuments Men'. This is their story.
Read by Jeff Harding. 15 hours 1 minute. TB 21421.
Mortimer, Barbara. Sisters. 2013. TB 21177.
'Sisters' features over 150 previously unpublished stories of wartime nurses
from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing. The vivid, poignant and
riveting stories capture these nurses' incredible bravery and touching
friendships.
Read by Carolyn Bonnyman. 8 hours 48 minutes. TB 21177.
Seymour-Jones, Carole. She landed by moonlight: the story
of secret agent Pearl Witherington: the real Charlotte Gray.
2014. TB 21405.
On the night of the 22nd of September 1943, Pearl Witherington, a 29-year
-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE),
was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into occupied France. Like
Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual mission: in her
case, to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love.
Read by Catherine Harvey. 13 hours 24 minutes. TB 21405.
Poetry
Egremont, Max. Some desperate glory: the First World War
the poets knew. 2014. TB 21452.
Historian and biographer Max Egremont unites the poetry and the history of
the First World War, so often treated separately, granting readers the pride,
strife, and sorrow of the individual soldiers experience coupled with a
panoramic view of the war's toll on an entire nation. It looks at the life and
work of the war poets including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert
Graves and Rupert Brooke.
Read by Bob Rollett. 8 hours 46 minutes. TB 21452.
Travel
Bewes, Diccon. Slow train to Switzerland :one tour, two trips,
150 years - and a world of change apart. 2013. TB 21115.
Thomas Cook began his first ever tour in 1863 - the round trip would take 3
weeks and was a rail journey travelling from London to Lucerne. The
success of this tour meant that Cook became a household name and gave
rise to modern mass tourism. With the aid of a diary written by a female
passenger documenting the trip day by day, Diccon Bewes follows in the
footsteps of these early tourists.
Read by John Cartwright. 10 hours 13 minutes. TB 21115.
Warfare and defence
Overy, R J. The bombing war: Europe 1939-1945. 2013. TB
21359.
The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War,
from the Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author. It is the first book to
examine seriously not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but
the significance of bombing on many other fronts – the German use of
bombers on the Eastern Front for example (as well as much newly
discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied
campaigns against Italian cities.
Read by Leighton Pugh. 15 hours 52 minutes. TB 21359.
Children and young adult fiction
Suggested interest age 0-4
Starr, Ringo. Octopus's garden. 2013. TB 21090.
Five children go on a magical journey through the Octopus's garden. The
playful Octopus takes them on a wondrous underwater adventure - riding
on the backs of turtles, playing pirates in a sunken city and sheltering from
a storm in the octopus's cave.
Read by Ringo Starr. 9 minutes. TB 21090.
Suggested reading age 9+
Briggs, Andy. The Greystoke legacy. 2014. TB 21470.
Tarzan; book 1. Escaping a dark secret, Robbie Canler joins an illegal
logging team in the Congo jungle. Now they're under siege from a sinister
force. When the daughter of the camp's boss, Jane Porter, goes missing
they assume bloodthirsty rebel soldiers have kidnapped her. Robbie sets
out on a rescue mission - unaware he is being watched. Are the rumours of
a feral man raised by wild apes true?
Read by Garrick Hagon. 7 hours 24 minutes. TB 21470.
Riordan, Rick. The mark of Athena. 2013. TB 21221.
Heroes of Olympus; book 3. Can Percy Jackson and the Half-blood Heroes
succeed on their quest to find The Doors of Death or will the Greek Gods of
chaos win their battle to stop them? Percy and his fellow demi-gods face
the most important quest of all - the Prophecy of Seva.
Read by Peter Brooke. 17 hours 7 minutes. TB 21221.
Suggested reading age 11+
Walden, Mark. The overlord protocol. 2011. TB 21274.
H I V E: Higher Institute of Villainous Education; book 2. Otto and Wing
have special permission to leave H.I.V.E.'s secret island location to attend
a funeral (all too common in their line of business). But before they reach
their destination they are ambushed. Who would risk assassinating Otto
Malpense, star pupil of the Higher Institute of Villainous Education and
favourite of Number One, the most powerful villain alive?
Read by Simon Bubb. 8 hours 38 minutes. TB 21274.
Suggested reading age 13+
Baker, Nick. Split second. 1989. TB8646.
Gordon was 14 when he discovered he could split himself into identical
twins. At first he was frightened, then he begins to lead a double life as he
and his twin, George, form themselves into a juggling act. However as the
act becomes more daring, so Gordon becomes worried by the attention.
Contains strong language.
Read by Nick Baker. 3 hours 54 minutes. TB8646.
Cast, P C. Burned. 2013. TB 21182.
House of Night; book 7. Zoey Redbird, vampyre High Priestess in training,
seems to have lost herself. Her awesome powers over the elements were
not enough to save someone close to her, and now her group must help
her reclaim her centre and find herself again. But evil has its own plans,
and these won't wait for Zoey to return to full power.
Read by Kelly Burke. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB 21182.
Johnson, Maureen. The boy in the smoke. 2014. TB 21287.
Shades of London series; book 1. On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to
the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him
along the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction -
leading him to London, to two new friends, and to a world of shadows and
mystery.
Read by Lucy Scott. 2 hours 8 minutes. TB 21287.
Welsh adult fiction
Gruffudd, Robat. Afallon. 2012. General fiction. TB20450.
Mae Rhys John yn dychwelyd i Abertawe ac yn edrych ymlaen at
ymddeoliad hir arl gweithio am ugain mlynedd yn Berlin. Ond un pnawn ar
draeth Langland, mae Rhys yn cwrdd ag Americanes sy'n peri iddo newid
ei gynlluniau. Dyma stori gyffrous ac afaelgar o gefndir rhyngwladol. Nofel
arobryn Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Bro
Morgannwg.
Read by Danny Grehan. 10 hours 52 minutes. TB20450.
Books narrated by volunteers
Adult fiction
Lee Burke, James. The glass rainbow. 2010. TB 405261.
Dave Robicheaux series; book 18. When Dave Robicheaux gets the call
saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting
arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved
Dave's life by carrying him down a fire escape with two bullets in his back.
But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons
are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into
Dave's life, in the most personal way possible.
Read by IVO Amy synthetic voice. 16 hours 4 minutes. TB 405261.
Adult non-fiction
Autobiography and biography
Orr, Aileen. Wojtek the bear: Polish war hero. 2010. TB
405262.
This is the inspiring true story of one of the Second World War's most
unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarette smoking, beer-drinking brown
bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek
soon took on a more practical role.
Read by synthetic voice. 7 hours 17 minutes. TB 405262.
Smith, Arthur R. William Charles Cotton MA 1813-1879:
priest, missionary and bee master. 2006. TB 405260.
The Rev William Charles Cotton, vicar of St Lawrence Church, Frodsham,
Cheshire from 1857 to 1879, had a great passion for bees and bee
keeping. In 1841 he sailed to New Zealand with Dr George Selwyn, who
had been appointed as the first Church of England Bishop of New Zealand.
Rev Cotton went on to play a full part in helping establish the Anglican
church in New Zealand. He also shared best practices in beekeeping
among settlers and Maori alike.
Read by volunteers. 8 hours 15 minutes. TB 405260.