Sail
Author: James Patterson
Reader: Dylan Baker
List price: £9.99
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
A GREAT BESTSELLING thriller from the master of the genre. As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor.
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"Doctor Who" - Pest Control
Author: Peter Anghelides
Reader: David Tennant
List price: £9.99
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Format: CD-Audio
THE DOCTOR HIMSELF reads the latest Doctor Who audiobook, Pest Control. The TARDIS is lost in battle on a distant planet. When the Doctor sets off in pursuit, Donna is left behind, and finds herself accepting a commission in the Pioneer Corps. Something is transforming soldiers into monstrous beetles, and she could be the next victim. Featuring the Doctor and Donna, as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television, this story has been written specially for audio by Peter Anghelides, and is read by David Tennant, with additional music and sound effects.
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Devil May Care
Author: Sebastian Faulks
List price: £18.99
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
THE NEW JAMES Bond, and though not written by Ian Fleming, this is being touted as the one that will come closest to the original, not least because it is penned by an author of immense standing, Sebastian Faulks, who really didn't really need to take on the task. Published to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth and picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966 with The Living Daylights and Octopussy, Faulks has written the perfect continuation of the James Bond legacy. Devil May Care is set during the Cold War and features all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond... James Bond.
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The Last Fighting Tommy
Author: Harry Patch
Reader: Alan Howard
List price: £14.99
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: CD-Audio
HARRY PATCH CELERATED his 110th birthday recently, a story covered in all the national press. Much was made of the fact that he is The Last Fighting Tommy, and his fascinating story is told in this audiobook. He is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, and one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. After a rural childhood in Somerset, Harry left school in 1913 to become a plumber. Three years later he was fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele. He saw a great many of his comrades die, and in one dreadful moment the shell that wounded him killed his three closest friends. He vividly describes the terror and intensity of daily life in the trenches. The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front as a fire-fighter during the bombing of Bath.
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Othello
Author: William Shakespeare
Reader: Chiwetel Ejiofor
List price: £13.99
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Format: CD-Audio
SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO IS is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success – each performance was a sell-out. It also includes music written specifically for the July 2007 production at the Donmar Warehouse as well as a free DVD containing interviews with the cast.
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Sea of Poppies
Author: Amitav Ghosh
List price: £14.99
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format: CD-Audio
THE ACCLAIMED NEW novel from Amitav Ghosh is now available in audio. At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born...
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Day
Author: A.L. Kennedy
Reader: Dan Stevens
List price: £16.99
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
THE AUDIOBOOK OF the 2007 Costa award-winning novel. Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, "Day" begins to recall what he would rather forget.
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Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Author: Daljit Nagra
List price: £12.99
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: CD-Audio

THE OBSERVER PRAISES this audiobook thus: "In startlingly newly minted language, with cracking vigour and wicked humour, this collection explores the experience of a second-generation British Punjabi". The book alwsay won the 2007 Forward Prize for poetry. Daljit Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. "The Poet's reading, like his words, is energetic and as alive as quicksilver", concluded the Observer critic.
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