Audio Books

Take a look through a selection of our audio books listed below, or view all our titles by using our online library catalogue - Select the "Power Search" and under the heading "Type" select "Talking Books CD"

On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past.  Sofia has never spoken about it, all she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London.

 

In the spring of 1985, novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog.  He saw the puppy in the window of a pet show and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled.

 

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII of France, subsequently married the first Plantagenet, Henry II of England, and was mother of two English kings, Richard The Lionheart and John.

 

Its 1931 and eighteen-year old Greta is working in a laundry in Liverpool, where she lives with her widowed mother and thirteen-year old brother Kenny.

 

 

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970's New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year.

 

The time has come for the final confrontation.  Appointed supreme magistrate and first minister of Egypt, Pazair and his wife Neferet must join forces against the Finance Minister, Pazair's sworn enemy.

 

It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord.  Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor has disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man.

 

 

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello are out to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest.

 

The Hurlingham Club in Buenos Aires is a little piece of England.  Here the Ango-Argentinean community devour gossip as eagerly as the scones and Earl Grey tea.

 

Gurney Close isn't the sort of place where anything untoward should happen.  It's just a small, newly built cul-de-sac with 3 nice houses and a bungalow overlooking the river.  Everything goes well, and a good time is had by all, until one of them is found dead.

 

When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa.

 

Cleo Dowling comes into serious money and moves to Kilrowan in the West of Ireland to write a novel.  But what happens when writers block sets in and she becomes obsessed with her sexy neighbour?

 

They joined an RAF that was known as the best flying club inthe world - but when war pitches the young pilots of the 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are found wanting.

 

 

Somerset 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery.  Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity.

 

The Patriots' Club, a secret group of hardcore businessmen, has been in existence since it was first set up by George Washington in the days of the Revolutionary War.

 

When an al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, photographs on his computer lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning its most audacious attack so far.

 

This time the detectives are up against a series of bizarre murders that defy human understanding - and a killer no human hand may be able to stop.

 

Cheating in casinos is illegal; card counting - making a record of what cardshave so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain int he deck - is not.

 

In the aftermath of his young wife's death, Penn Cage seeks peace as he returns to Natchez, Mississippi with his only daughter. He finds something very different.