Romance 2015Talking Books

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Alliott, Catherine. My husband next door. 2013. TB20863.When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just 19 she was madly in love. Now, separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in an outhouse across the lawn from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse. When Sebastian decides to move on, Ella realised that she can no longer hide from what really destroyed her marriage and the secret she continues to keep.Read by Karina Fernandez. 15 hours 44 minutes. TB20863.

Aston, Elizabeth. The true Darcy spirit. 2008. TB19777. Darcys; book 4. Cassandra is a cousin of the children of the Darcys of 'Pride and Prejudice'. Disgraced, then disowned by her family, Cassandra is alone and penniless in London. However, a chance meeting with one of her cousins brings her a new chance. Read by Phyllida Nash. 11 hours 36 minutes. TB19777.

Aston, Elizabeth. Mr. Darcy's dream: a novel. 2009. TB20987. Darcys; book 6. When Phoebe, a young niece of Mr. Darcy, is shattered by an unhappy romance, she retreats to Pemberley and is joined by kind-hearted Louisa Bingley, unmarried after three London seasons. As preparations for a ball at Pemberley gain momentum, mischief and love triangles abound.Read by Lucy Scott. 8 hours 7 minutes. TB20987.

Bennett, Anne. To have and to hold. 2006. TB21233.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. TB21233.

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Blake, Fanny. The secrets women keep. 2014. TB21467.Rose is waiting for her friends and family to arrive at their villa in Pisa when a casual glance at her husband's phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: 'Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.' As their friends and family gather for a summer break, Rose's faith in Daniel is shaken. How well does she really know him?Read by Jane McDowell. 13 hours 25 minutes. TB21467.

Boyd, Hilary. Thursdays in the park. 2012. TB20209. Jeanie has been a loving wife for over thirty years, but every Thursday, Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park, and there she meets Ray, who performs the same weekly duty for his grandson. Ray seems to be everything George isn't - a listener, easy to talk to, open-minded and sexy. Read by Louise Jameson. 8 hours 50 minutes. TB20209.

Bradford, Barbara Taylor. Breaking the rules. 2009. TB17129.Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a dark beauty flees to New York in search of a new life. Adopting the initial M as her name, she becomes the muse and star model to France's iconic top designer Jean-Louis Tremont. She meets and marries charming and handsome actor Larry Vaughan and finally believes she has put the demons of her past to bed. But a dark figure from her past is back and determined to shatter M's world forever.Read by Zoe-Ann Phillips. 16 hours 31 minutes. TB17129.

Brookfield, Amanda. Before I knew you. 2011. TB20212. Sophie and Andrew need time away from their daily grind - if not their marriage - so when a friend puts them in touch with William and Beth, newlyweds looking to swap houses for the summer, it seems a solution of sorts. But who could have foreseen the dramatic consequences of their lives and hearts intertwining? Read by Helen Dickens. 13 hours 3 minutes. TB20212.

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Brookfield, Amanda. Relative love. 2004. TB21527.Time is catching up with Pamela and John Harrison and troubles are brewing in the lives of their children. As the Harrisons gather for Christmas at their big country house their safe, tight world of festivity and tradition is threatened. Tragedy strikes of the most unforeseeable and devastating kind and they are torn apart. Harsh truths emerge about the past as well as the present.Read by Sherry Baines. 24 hours 26 minutes. TB21527.

Brookfield, Amanda. The simple rules of love. 2006. TB21541.The Harrisons are a large, extremely close family, but with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world. Read by Emma Powell. 22 hours 23 minutes. TB21541.

Brown, Alexandra. Cupcakes at Carrington's. 2013. TB20353. Georgie Hart had it all. As a top shopper in London, she was living the dream. Now she runs the bag concession at Carrington's department store in the seaside town of Mulberry Bay, but how will she cope with Maxine, or the dishy James for that matter. Read by Anne-Marie Piazza. 9 hours 59 minutes. TB 20353.

Buchan, Elizabeth. Separate beds. 2011. TB19183. On the surface, they have everything - a lovely house, rewarding careers and three healthy grown-up children. But all is not well. They share a painful secret guilt which ensures they sleep in separate beds. Read by Sarah Le Fevre. 14 hours 10 minutes. TB19183.

Chamberlain, Diane. Reflection. 2014. TB21586.Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy shattered the tranquillity of the small Pennsylvania Dutch town of Reflection. The residents of the village have never forgiven the one woman they blamed for what happened - Rachel Huber. After the incident, Rachel left the town and cut off all ties there. But when she receives the news that her

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estranged grandmother, Helen, is ill and needs her care, she returns to face hostility and gossip.Read by Laurel Lefkow. 12 hours 53 minutes. TB21586.

Collins, Jackie. Chances. 2012. TB21277.Lucky Santangelo; book 1. Gino Santangelo - a boy from the New York slums - carves himself out a crime empire that takes him all the way to the top. His daughter, Lucky, proves herself to be as deadly as her father. Sensual and provocative, she is too much like him not to make a bid for his empire. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 27 hours 7 minutes. TB21277.

Collins, Jackie. Lucky. 2012. TB21278.Lucky Santangelo; book 2. With the sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino, restless, ready, eager for action. That night began a dazzling odyssey, filled with dangerous passion and sun-drenched sex, sadistic vengeance and breathless suspense as Lucky fought for her father's honour, for ruthless triumph, for the wild card of a fabulous love. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 22 hours 41 minutes. TB21278.

Collins, Jackie. Lady boss. 2012. TB21279.Lucky Santangelo; book 3. Lucky Santangelo is seeking to purchase the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate - Panther Studios, owned by the retired, irascible, old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary and go in undercover to find out what's really going on Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming, big-time betrayal, and bizarre sex. Contains passages of a sexual nature.Read by Stephanie Ellyne. 19 hours 32 minutes. TB21279.

Costello, Jane. Bridesmaids. 2008. TB19755. Four weddings, three disgruntled ex-boyfriends in the congregation, two wayward 'chicken-fillet' boob enhancers, and one gorgeous man. It's tough being a bridesmaid. Read by Suzanne Goldberg. 8 hours 34 minutes. TB 19755.

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Cox, Josephine. Miss you forever. 1998. TB20899.Rosie is out in the yard filling her coal bucket when she finds a badly beaten old lady who seems to be more than just that. In hospital the woman entrusts her diaries to Rosie and on reading them she discovers a true story of heartache and lost love. Contains passages of a sexual nature. Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw. 12 hours 30 minutes. TB 20899.

Diamond, Lucy. Me and Mr Jones. 2013. TB20707.Meet the women in love with three very different brothers: Izzy, Alicia and Emma are thrown together unexpectedly as the family B and B gets into difficulties and it seems that keeping up with the Joneses is harder than anyone thought. Read by Emma Powell. 12 hours 26 minutes. TB 20707.

Dillon, Lucy. The ballroom class. 2009. TB18266.Angelica's running away again, whilst Katie and Ross are trying to save their marriage. Meanwhile Lauren is dreaming of the firstdance at her wedding. As friendships are formed at the dance classes they attend, everyone starts to learn important lessons.Read by Jilly Bond, 15 hours 37 minutes. TB 18266.

Dillon, Lucy. The secret of happy ever after. 2012. TB19835. When story-lover Anna takes over Longhampton's bookshop, it's her dream come true. Unpacking boxes filled with childhood classics, Anna can't shake the feeling that maybe her own fairytale ending isn't all that she'd hoped for. Contains strong language. Read by Jilly Bond. 14 hours 20 minutes. TB 19835.

Duncan, Sarah. Nice girls do. 2006. TB14761.Anna can cope with gardens, especially the historic ones it's her job to research, but when it comes to love and relationships she has lost her way, especially after the collapse of her short-lived marriage. Then she meets Oliver, destined to inherit a magical eighteenth-century house and garden from his ageing grandmother, and a man who, unlike her, is more interested in the future than the past. But is Oliver's interest in Anna entirely straightforward, or does he have a secret agenda? Contains strong language.

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Read by Charlotte Strevens. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB14761.

Elgin, Elizabeth. Turn left at the daffodils. 2007. TB20011. World War Two. Nan meets Charles, a gauche, young airman at a dance. Despite his inability to dance, Nan is captivated. It is the war which seems to end any hope for them. Meanwhile, Carrie starts an affair following an encounter on a railway platform. Read by Patricia Gallimore. 17 hours 6 minutes. TB20011.

Ephron, Nora. Heartburn. 1996. TB20704.Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes.Read by Amy Finegan. 5 hours 33 minutes. TB20704.

Erskine, Barbara. Whispers in the sand. 2009. TB18804.Recently divorced, Anna decides to retrace a journey her great-grandmother, Louisa, had taken. As she follows in Louisa's footsteps, Anna discovers a wonderful love story from the Victorian past, and the chilling, more distant secret of the little glass bottle. Contains strong language. Read by Sherry Baines. 18 hours 28 minutes. TB18804.

Fforde, Katie. The perfect match. 2014. TB21462.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. TB21462.

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Finnigan, Judy. Eloise. 2012. TB20346.Yesterday I almost saw her. I was standing on the sun deck, looking out to sea, revelling in the unexpected warmth of the February sun. A butterfly trembled on a nearby buddleia and suddenly I smelled her perfume. She wasn't there, of course. How could she be when I had seen her lying in her coffin just two weeks ago.Read by Anna Bentinck. 9 hours 22 minutes. TB20346. Garbera, Katherine. One more kiss. 2013. TB20434. Since her divorce, cupcake queen Alysse Dresden prefers baking to boys...until a phone order from a sexy-voiced stranger melts her insides like butter. But when she makes the delivery, Alysse realises that the only man whose voice has such an effect on her is her mysterious, gorgeous ex-husband. Contain passages of a sexual nature. Read by Kelly Burke. 6 hours 8 minutes. TB20434.

Green, Jane. The patchwork marriage. 2012. TB20180. When Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loves but also a ready-made family in his two daughters, Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a child of her own, Andi saw this as a precious gift. If only it were that simple.Read by Jane Green. 13 hours 32 minutes. TB20180.

Harris, Ali. The first last kiss. 2013. TB20557.The first time Molly kissed Ryan, she knew they'd be together forever. Six years and thousands of kisses later she's married to the man she loves. But today, when Ryan kisses her, Molly realises how many of them she wasted because the future holds something which neither of them could have ever predicted.Read by Olivia Mace. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB20557.

Haymore, Jennifer. The scoundrel's seduction. 2014. TB21621.House of Trent; book 3. Undercover agent Sam Hawkins has devoted his life to protecting king and country. So when he receives orders to assassinate a ruthless traitor, he doesn't question his mission. But Sam didn't know his deed had a witness - the beautiful and mysterious betrayer's wife. Now he has no

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choice but to take her as his prisoner - one he can neither trust nor resist. Read by Adrian Lukis. 11 hours 27 minutes. TB21621.

Henry, Veronica. A night on the Orient Express. 2013. TB20730.A journey on the Orient Express can be more than the trip of a lifetime. For one group of passengers there awaits revelations, confessions and assignations, all unfolding against the most romantic and infamous setting in the world.Read by Olivia Mace. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB20730.

Henry, Veronica. Just a family affair. 2009. TB20284. Honeycote series; book 3. In the Gloucestershire village of Honeycote, country life is anything but quiet. Maybe it's something to do with all that fresh air, but it's the kind of place where passions run high. Where old families meet new money, and old husbands meet new girlfriends, sparks are bound to fly. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Christabel Muir. 15 hours 21 minutes. TB20284.

Henry, Veronica. The long weekend. 2012. TB19877. Claire runs a boutique hotel in Cornwall with her tempestuous lover, chef and bon viveur Luca. What happens when her childhood sweetheart, the love of her life, books into the hotel for his stag night? The story also follows the other guests who check in that weekend - for illicit liaisons, anniversaries and romantic rendezvous. Read by Karina Fernandez. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB19877.

Holden, Wendy. Marrying up. 2012. TB20060. Social climber Alexa may be humbly born, but she's a class-hopping cruise missile aimed at the very top of the tree. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie means the grandest doors swing open, and soon the prince of her dreams is in sight. Read by Jilly Bond. 11 hours 2 minutes. TB20060.

Hope, Maggie. A wartime nurse. 2011. TB20327.Theda hadn't given much thought to what would happen after she became a nurse. But by the time she finished her first year and

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was studying for her exams, she was coming up to twenty-one and there was a war on. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 11 hours 19 minutes. TB20327.

Hope, Maggie. A nurse's duty. 2012.TB20364. Following a disastrous marriage to a miner, Karen has devoted herself to a nursing career. Rising to the challenge of caring for the wounded soldiers returning from the Great War, she has resigned herself to putting her vocation before romance. Read by Elizabeth Proud. 17 hours 7 minutes. TB20364.

Howard, Audrey. Rose Alley. 2007. TB 19653. Rose Alley is one of the city's worst slums. It's no place for Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. It seems Queenie's dreams of escape will come true when Gilly opens a dressmaking shop and is courted by one of the richest young men in the city. Contains strong language.Read by Carole Boyd. 14 hours 20 minutes. TB 19653.

Howard, Audrey. The flight of swallows. 2011. TB18931.Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well-bred upper-class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte's father is a cruel man, viciously beating her and her brothers for the slightest reason. He even wants to marry her off, at just sixteen years old, to a man she does not love. Lion-hearted Charlotte wants to defy him but to protect her brothers from his fury she agrees to become the wife of Brooke Armstrong. Only when tragedy strikes will she be able to admit that she loved him from the moment they met. But will it be too late?Read by Carole Boyd. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB18931.

James, Erica. Act of faith. 2011. TB19217.Bereaved after her son's death, Ali Anderson is cajoled into spending Christmas with Sarah and her awful husband Trevor. Ali takes it upon herself to play God with Sarah's marriage with consequences that even she could never have predicted.Read by Eve Matheson. 16 hours 38 minutes. TB19217.

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Johnson, Milly. Here come the girls. 2011. TB19324. Ven, Jackie, Olive and Benita have been friends since school. They day-dreamed of glorious futures, full of riches, romance and fabulous jobs. The world would be their oyster. 25 years later, can blue skies, hot sun and 16 days of luxury and indulgence distract from the tension and loneliness that await their return? Read by Collen Prendergast. 12 hours 36 minutes. TB19324.

Kearsley, Susanna. Season of storms. 2001. TB19519. In the 1920s, in a beautiful Italian villa called Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D'Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She was his muse and his mistress, his most enduring obsession and the inspiration for his most original play. But the night before she was to perform the leading role, she disappeared. Read by Charlie Norfolk. 13 hours 26 minutes. TB19519.

King, Catherine. Her mother's secret. 2014. TB21619.Lettie Hargreaves wants more than her simple, uncomplicated life with her grandmother. She longs for excitement and love and she's determined to make something of herself. There's something about Lettie's mother that Ivy has kept hidden from her granddaughter, so when Lettie suggests going into service for the ailing Lady Laughton, Ivy knows she must do something to stop it.Read by Jacqueline King. 10 hours 36 minutes. TB21619.

Kinghorn, Judith. The last summer. 2012. TB21376.It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper at Deyning Park, she is dazzled. Ambitious, clever, his sights set on a career in law, Tom is an acute observer, and a man who knows what he wants. For now, that is Clarissa. But the world - and all that they know - is rocked irrevocably by a war that changes their lives for ever. Read by Veronika Hyks. 15 hours 24 minutes. TB21376.

Kinsella, Sophie. Mini shopaholic. 2011. TB21285.Shopaholic; book 6. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true - a shopping friend for life! But it's trickier than she thought - two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to

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shopping. She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening.Read by Karina Fernandez. 13 hours 50 minutes. TB21285.

McFarlane, Mhairi. You had me at hello. 2012. TB20563.What happens when the one that got away comes back? Ten years after they said goodbye, Rachel bumps into Ben and as they talk, the years melt away. But Ben is married. Rachel is not. And slowly but surely, Rachel feels the return of the broken heart she can't do anything to mend. Read by Charlotte Worthing. 11 hours 10 minutes. TB 20563.

McKenna, Christina. The misremembered man. 2011. TB20234. Jamie McCloone is a lonely farmer suffering from depression, but his friendly neighbour, Rose, comes to the rescue and encourages him to answer a Lonely Hearts advert. A warm, humorous tale of finding love in rural Ireland but one which brings with it a darker tale, heartbreaking in its poignancy.Read by Melanie MacHugh, 10 hours 14 minutes. TB20234.

McMahon, Katharine. Season of light. 2011.TB19369.Season of Light begins in 1788, in the heady days just before the French revolution, when Paris is fizzing with new ideas about liberty and equality. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable 19-year-old daughter of a country squire, has traveled to the city with her older sister, Philippa, and Philippa's new husband. In Paris, they are introduced to the literary salon of Madame de Genlis. It is in this salon that Asa meets, and falls in love with, a dashing intellectual and idealist, Didier Paulin.Read by Karina Fernandez. 14 hours 48 minutes.TB19369.

McMillan, Terry. Waiting to exhale. 2011. TB19432. At 36 Savannah Jackson seems to have it made. She's attractive, she's got a job in TV, money in the bank and a nice home, in fact she has everything she needs except a man. In their different ways, each of her three best friends face exactly the same problem. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature.

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Read by Adjoa Andoh, Lachele Carl and Regina Reagan. 13 hours 46 minutes. TB19432.

McNamara, Ali. Step back in time. TB20844.How many lifetimes would you travel to find a love that lasts for ever? When single career girl Jo-Jo steps onto a zebra crossing and gets hit by a car, she awakes to find herself in 1963. And then it happens three more times, and Jo-Jo finds herself living a completely new life in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The only people she can rely on are Harry and Ellie, two companions from 2013, and George, the owner of a second-hand record store. If she's ever to return from her travels, Jo-Jo must work out why she's jumping through time like this. And if she does make it back, will her old life ever be the same again?2013. Read by Katie Scarfe. 11 hours 23 minutes. TB20844.

McNamara, Ali. From Notting Hill with four weddings... actually. 2014. TB21618. Actually; book 3. Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of - but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. When Scarlett meets paparazzi darling Gabriella Romero, life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamorous but as she begins to experience the other side to being rich and famous, it's not only Scarlett's perfect wedding that's put in jeopardy, but her whole world.Read by Finty Williams. 10 hours 58 minutes. TB21618.

McVeigh, Jennifer. The fever tree. 2013. TB20323. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in Victorian London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men. One driven by ambition, the other by his ideals.Read by Helen Bourne, 16 hours 11 minutes. TB20323.

Macomber, Debbie. The inn at Rose Harbour. 2012. TB20190. Life has taken a sharp and unexpected turn for Jo Marie Barlow. Following the death of her fiancé in Afghanistan she buys an inn in Cedar Cove as the beginning of a new life. Read by Lorelei King. 9 hours 37 minutes. TB20190.

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Madeley, Richard. Some day I'll find you. 2013. TB20758.James Blackwood, a fighter pilot and Diana Arnold marry hastily just as war is declared. Then James is shot down over Northern France and killed. Diana is left not only a widow but pregnant with their child. Ten years later, contentedly remarried, Diana finds herself in the south of France, sitting one morning in a sunny village square. A taxi draws up and she hears the voice of a man speaking English.Read by Steve Hodson. 12 hours 13 minutes. TB20758.

Manning, Sarra. Unsticky. 2009. TB19663. Money makes the world go round. At least, that's what Grace thinks. Stuck in a grind where everyone's ahead apart from her, she's partied out and in debt to the tune of five figures. If she's dumped by one more rock-band wannabe, squashed by anyone else at her work, or chased by any more bailiffs, she knows she'll fall apart. Contains strong language.Read by Avita Jay. 19 hours 17 minutes. TB19663.

Mansell, Jill. The unpredictable consequences of love. 2014. TB21485.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. TB21485.

Mansell, Jill. To the moon and back. 2011. TB19525. Hiding from a secret in her past, Ellie is looking for a fresh start. But then an old friend tracks her down, forcing her to face what she has been trying so hard to escape. Meanwhile her boss, Zack, seems to have it all - everything, that is, except the woman he loves.Read by Karen Cass. 12 hours 9 minutes. TB19525.

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Montefiore, Santa. The house by the sea. 2011. TB19293.Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens. One day, Dante, the son of the villa's owner, invites her inside. From that moment on Floriana knows that her destiny is there, with him.Read by Jane McDowell. 14 hours 43 minutes. TB19293.

Montefiore, Santa. Secrets of the lighthouse. 2013. TB20627.Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her, to her aunt's house. Once there, she uncovers a dark secret and a future she never knew she had. Read by Maggie Cronin. 14 hours 37 minutes. TB20627.

Moyes, Jojo. Me before you. 2012. TB19527. Lou Clark knows lots of things but she doesn't know she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. Contains strong language. Read by Lucy Scott. 13 hours 1 minute. TB19527.

Nicholls, David. Us. 2014. TB21530.Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to make their last family holiday into the trip of a lifetime: one that will draw the three of them closer, and win the respect of his son. One that will make Connie fall in love with him all over again.Read by Justin Salinger. 12 hours 44 minutes. TB21530.

North, Freya. Cat. 2000. TB19121.Set against a backdrop of the French countryside, with sex, drugs,

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lashings of lycra, oily shaved limbs, large bulges & larger egos, the soap opera that is the Tour de France unfolds with Cat's life mirroring the peaks, perils & pace of the race. Contains strong language and passages of a sexual nature. Read by Karen Cass. 15 hours 33 minutes. TB19121.

O'Flanagan, Sheila. Far from over. 2010. TB18940.Gemma Garvey's marriage has been over for ages. And it was Gemma's choice to end it; her decision to go it alone with two kids rather than pretend the marriage to career-obsessed David was working. So why is she so upset when he marries that flame-haired bimbo, Orla O'Neill? Is it that Orla's nearer in age to Gemma's teenage daughter than to herself? But for Orla, being wife number two isn't all she'd imagined. And the trouble has only just begun.Read by Kate Binchy. 14 hours 20 minutes. TB18940.

Pilcher, Robin. Starburst. 2007. TB19529. A group of people are about to meet up for the first time, hoping to be in the 'must-see' show of the Edinburgh Festival. But the events of this long, hot summer will both throw them together and tear them apart. Read by Glen McCready. 14 hours 29 minutes. TB 19529.

Pilcher, Rosamunde. Sleeping tiger. 1990. TB19962. Searching for a father she has never known, Selina Bruce leaves her fiancé in London and flies to a tiny island off Spain. Here she meets the mysterious George Dyer who holds the key not only to her past, but also her heart. Read by Lucy Scott. 5 hours 22 minutes. TB 19962.

Pilcher, Rosamunde. Wild mountain thyme. 2006. TB19735. Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Years later, Oliver reappears and Victoria is foolish enough to want him back. The two leave for Scotland to rekindle their love, but will Oliver's career get in the way?Read by Sally Burnett. 10 hours 58 minutes. TB19735.

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Quinn, Julia. An offer from a gentleman. 2006. TB 21041. Bridgerton series; book 3. Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. So she never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball - or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight.Read by Karen Cass. 11 hours 29 minutes. TB 21041.

Reid, Carmen. The Jewels of Manhattan. 2012. TB19440.The three Jewel sisters, Amber, Sapphire and Em, came to New York in search of the perfect life. But do they have to steal their dream? Or can they resist the temptation?Read by Laurence Bouvard. 7 hours 57 minutes. TB19440.Riley, Lucinda. The midnight rose. 2014. TB21089Unbreakable ties of love, family and friendship, from pre-war India to the Jazz Age of post-war England spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a girl, Anahita Chavan, from 1911 to the present day.Read by Avita Jay. 25 hours 3 minutes. TB21089.

Robinson, Lucy. The greatest love story of all time: and how it was nearly ruined by an evil cat, gin and unsuitable men. 2012. TB 19891. It's Fran's 30th birthday and things are good: a great job and an outlandishly handsome boyfriend. But then things fall apart, and soon Fran is facing singledom again. She doesn't like her friends' plan but reluctantly agrees to it- how could eight dates possible make her feel better? Contains strong language. Read by Sally Burnett. 15 hours. TB 19891.

Robinson, Lucy. A passionate love affair with a total stranger. 2013. TB 20388. Charley Lambert has put considerable effort into achieving a perfect life. She has The Job. The Wardrobe. And The Flat. Her womanising, junk food-loving housemate Sam lowers the tone a bit

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but that aside, things are peachy. Then she breaks her leg in three places, watches her unrequited love propose to someone else and - worst of all - is forced to hand over her job to her nasty deputy while she recovers. Contains strong language. Read by Caroline Guthrie. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 20388.

Simsion, Graeme. The Rosie project. 2013. TB 20582.Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely, completely, definitely not.Read by James Menzies Miller. 8 hours 49 minutes. TB20582.

Sparks, Nicholas. Safe haven. 2012. TB 20394.When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard but even as she starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her. Read by Helene Wilson. 11 hours 55 minutes. TB 20394.

Sparks, Nicholas. The notebook. 2006. TB19896. Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two. Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle, he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory. And yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there fourteen years before. Read by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross. 6 hours 17 minutes. TB 19896. Steel, Danielle. One day at a time. 2010. TB20130. Coco is the black sheep of the legendary Hollywood family. Her sister Jane is a top producer living with life partner, Liz; their mother is a best-selling author, having an affair with a much younger man. When Coco agrees to house-sit for Jane she encounters an unexpected houseguest - a British actor trying to escape his psycho ex-girlfriend. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 9 hours 29 minutes. TB20130.

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Stirling, Jessica. A kiss and a promise. 2009. TB21190.Servant girl Betsy McBride has set her cap at Tom Brodie, the most dashing young man in the district. But she doesn't realise that Tom Brodie thinks the only way to save his family's fortune - or at least their farm - is to dazzle his landlord's daughter. There is heartbreak on the horizon unless Tom's much more down-to-earth brother Henry can catch Betsy's attention.Read by Caroline Guthrie. 11 hours 28 minutes. TB21190.

Stirling, Jessica. The paradise waltz. 2011. TB19342.Christine has no intention of sacrificing her independence to marryanyone, least of all Charley Noonan, the rough-tongued young farmer who has been pursuing her for years. When she meets lonely widower Alan Kelso, however, Christine finds herself falling in love.Read by Jane MacFarlane. 10 hours 44 minutes. TB19342.

Taylor, Lulu. Heiresses. 2009. TB19899. Fame, fashion and scandal, the Trevellyan heiresses are the height of success, glamour and style. The legacy of their parents, a vast and ailing perfume empire, has been left in their trust. But will they be able to turn their passion into profit? And in making a fresh start, can they face their family's past? Read by Natalie Loader. 16 hours 47 minutes. TB19899.

Tessaro, Kathleen. The debutante. 2011. TB19254. Cate, an exile from New York, is sent to help value the contents of a once-grand house on the south-west coast of England. Cataloguing its contents, she uncovers details of two of the most famous debutantes of their generation. Read by Laurel Lefkow. 9 hours 41 minutes. TB19254.

Titchmarsh, Alan. The haunting. 2011. TB19451.With a failed marriage behind him, teacher Harry Flint sets about changing his own life and researching that of his ancestors. The deeper he digs, the more he realises that the past is closer than he had ever imagined.Read by Elaine Claxton. 10 hours 4 minutes. TB19451.

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Quinn, Julia. The Duke and I. 2006. TB20243. Regency London. The irresistible Duke of Hastings has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers - he pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. But there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets the Duke's heart beating a bit faster. Read by Sally Burnett. 13 hours 20 minutes. TB20243.

Wakefield, Lou. Tuscan soup. 2003. TB20004. Before she gets on the plane, Marion Hardcastle is beginning to regret having agreed to spend a week in Tuscany. But slowly the class and culture barriers start to melt, and a delicious mixture of romantic entanglements begins to unfold. Read by Prunela Scales. 12 hours 40 minutes. TB 20004.

Walker, Fiona. The summer wedding. 2013. TB20645.The hotly anticipated wedding of Iris Devonshire, ravishing teenage daughter of celebrity couple Mia and Leo, is to be held in the gardens of their grand Palladian pile alongside the Thames. But Mia and Leo worry that she's rushing into the marriage.Read by Karen Cass. 17 hours. TB20645.

Walker, Fiona. The love letter. 2012. TB19682. When Allegra North parted from first love Francis after a decade together, she poured all her regret into a letter. He didn't reply. A year later, her job brings her back to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed and she hopes that they can start a new chapter. Contains strong language. Read by Verity Marshall. 23 hours 20 minutes. TB19682.

Webb, Katherine. A half forgotten song. 2012. TB20492.A chance phone call leads Zach Gilchrist to make a decision to write a book on artist Charles Aubrey and to travel to Blacknowle where Charles Aubrey and his family spent several summers back in the 1930s. Zach's research into Aubrey leads him to Mitzy Hatcher, an elderly eccentric woman who knew Aubrey as a young girl. As Zach begins to unravel the past, Mitzy's story is slowly revealed - her obsessive love for Charles Aubrey, a love which led

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to tragic consequences.Read by Jacqueline King. 16 hours 26 minutes. TB20492.

Williams, Dee. This time for keeps. 2010. TB18743.When Babs Scott loses her beloved parents in an air raid, she finds herself homeless and alone in Rotherhithe. The Land Army offers her an escape and, despite the backbreaking toil, Babs loves the peaceful green fields and the fresh, clean air of Sussex. But when her new RAF sweetheart Pete dies on his return to the skies, Babs is grief-stricken once more. After the war and back in her home town, a foolish mistake changes Babs' life for ever. Has she lost her one chance for happiness?Read by Kim Hicks. 8 hours 9 minutes. TB18743.

Willett, Marcia. The Christmas Angel. 2012. TB19687. As Christmas approaches, everything seems to be falling into place for Dossie. Her son Clem and his 5-year-old son have moved to Cornwall to be closer to her. She runs her own catering business. All she needs now is some romance. Read by June Barrie. 10 hours 41 minutes. TB19687.

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