Pat Barker
Life Class
Narrated by Russell Boulter (British)

A Devastating Novel about the Far- Reaching Aftereffects of World War I

In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an an studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him. Pat Barker is unrivaled in her ability to convey simple, moving human truths. Her skill in relaying the harrowing experience of modern warfare is matched by the depth of insight she brings to the experience of love and the morality of an in a time of war. Life Class is one of her genuine masterpieces.

"Calls to mind such early modems as Hemingway and Fitzgerald ... some of the most powerful anti-war literature in modern English fiction."-The Boston Globe

"Pat Barker understands the dynamics of psychic trauma and shutdown as well as any living writer."-Esquire

Benjamin Black
The Silver Swan

The Inimitable Quirke Returns in Another Spellbinding Crime Novel

Narrator to be Announced Two yeats have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him. Yet when an almost-forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's "old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden" is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt's death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.

"This is one of those rare occurrences when actor/narrator and prose suit each other so perfectly that the CD's cost seems a small price to pay for the value of the performance." - The Chicago Sun Times on Christine Falls

Frank Herbert
Children of Dune

Narrated by a Full Cast (American)

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Lero and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions-but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens....

"A portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed ... a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical vistas ... An astonishing science fiction phenomenon."- The Washington Post on Dune