Pirate Latitudes
Michael Crichton
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Bestsellers - September 2010
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 Pirate LatitudesAuthor: Michael Crichton Reader: John Bedford Lloyd List price: £14.99 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Format: CD-Audio The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, will be the most exciting, anticipated publication of Christmas 2008. Following on from the bestselling 'Next', Michael Crichton's new novel will repeat the winning formula established with novels such as 'Jurassic Park': to identify future trends in science and imagine the most astonishing -- and terrifying -- possibilities that they hold for Mankind. 
 61 HoursAuthor: Lee Child Reader: Kerry Shale List price: £14.99 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Format: CD-Audio Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie.
 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' NestAuthor: Stieg Larsson Reader: Martin Wenner List price: £17.35 Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc Format: CD-Audio Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release.
 The CoronerAuthor: M.R. Hall Reader: Fenella Woolgar List price: £14.99 Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio Format: CD-Audio When lawyer, Jenny Cooper, is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence.
 ElvenquestList price: £15.99 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Format: CD-Audio Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan and Sophie Winkleman star in this fantastical BBC Radio 4 comedy by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. Sam (Stephen Mangan - "Green Wing") is a fantasy novelist who is whisked off to a Tolkien-style parallel universe by a noble elf, a sexy warrior princess (Sophie Winkleman - "Peep Show", "Red Dwarf") and a feisty dwarf called Dean.
 The Good SoldierAuthor: Ford Madox Ford Reader: Kerry Shale List price: £19.99 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Format: CD-Audio Here, for the first time as an unabridged audiobook, this enigmatic modern classic details the adulterous entanglements of two couples on seemingly normal, friendly terms. The truth of these liaisons emerges, retrospectively and in fragments, from the viewpoint of the innocent and unsuspecting John Dowell.
 The Forgotten HighlanderAuthor: Alastair Urquhart Reader: David Rintoul List price: £14.99 Publisher: Hachette Audio Format: CD-Audio Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship.
 Agatha Raisin: The Terrible TouristList price: £12.99 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Format: CD-Audio Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin in two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas. After a lifetime spent in public relations, the drinking and smoking one-woman dynamo that is Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet Cotswold village. Penelope Keith stars again as Agatha Raisin - Miss Marple with attitude - in these two full-cast dramas based on the bestselling books by M.C. Beaton.
 Business Stripped BareAuthor: Sir Richard Branson Reader: Sir Richard Branson List price: £13.99 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Format: CD-Audio From its creation as a mail-order record company to the literal launch of Virgin Galactic, today Virgin is one of the premier 'way-of-life' brands in the world, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. In "Business Stripped Bare", Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals.
 The LighthouseAuthor: P.D. James List price: £16.99 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Format: CD-Audio This is a complete and unabridged reading of P.D. James' bestselling novel. A secluded island off the Cornish coast, renowned for its history of bloody piracy, has become a retreat for under-pressure men and women in the upper echelons of society. But when one of their number is murdered in a grotesque fashion (his body found on the eponymous lighthouse), Adam Dalgliesh is requested to solve the case.
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