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Chivers Audio - BBC Audio Books
New Titles
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June 2006
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Rosemary Aitken
The Silent Shore
In the sequel to Stormy Waters, a startling revelation leads Sprat Nicholls to break off with her childhood sweetheart, Denzil Vargo, and quarrel with her family. Determined to get as far away as possible from her native Cornwall, Sprat moves 300 miles away to London. On the surface everything seems perfect, but the stifling atmosphere of the city streets soon have her longing for home and for the bewildered Denzil, who has no idea why he and Sprat can never be together.
• A lovely evocation of a bygone era, with lively characters and an exciting conclusion.
'Aitken not only skillfully animates an intriguing setting, but she also fashions a cliff-hanger'- Booklist
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Michael Chabon
The Final Solution
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out? A top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts, perhaps? Or something more sinister?
• 'It takes a steady hand to appropriate the world's most famous detective, but Chabon has chutzpah to spare'- INDEPENDENT
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Ian McEwan
Black Dogs
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday. But in a gorge in the mountains of southern France they encounter a vision of evil in the shape of two black dogs - an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever.
• 'Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty . . . Ian McEwan's most human work'- TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
• 'I judge it his best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal'- OBSERVER
• 'Brilliant . . . a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love'- NEW YORKER
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