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Chivers Audio - BBC Audio Books
New Titles
On CD
August
2009
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Phillip Pullman
The Subtle Knife
The award-winning and bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy is a breathtaking
epic adventure. Part two, The Subtle Knife, introduces Will Parry - a young
boy in search of his long-lost explorer father. Will's discovery of an extraordinary
'window in the air' near the Oxford ring road leads him out of our world and
into the strange and unsettling Cittagazze. There he meets Lyra, a girl who
is herself searching for something: the secret of the mystical substance Dust.
Moving back and forth through the portal, Will and Lyra join forces in their
quest. And as they make allies and enemies along the way, they also learn of
the subtle knife. An object which many would kill to possess, the knife has
incredible powers, and Will finds himself in a fight for its possession.
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H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry
Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry's
younger brother, who vanished while seeking King Solomon's legendary diamond
mines in the African interior. By strange chance, Quatermain has a map to the
mines, drawn in blood, and agrees to join the others on their perilous journey.
The travellers face many dangers on their quest - the baking desert heat, the
hostile lost tribe they discover and the evil 'wise woman' who holds the secret
of the diamond mines. King Solomon's Mines is a brilliant work of adventure
romance that has gripped generations.
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Jonathan Trigell
Boy A
Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, yet he's about to
be released with a new name, new job and a new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent
of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends,
he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexplained violence. To his girlfriend,
he is strangely na'lve and unreachable. To his caseworker, he's a victim of
the system and of media-driven hysteria. And, to himself, Jack is on permanent
trial: he struggles to start from scratch, forget the past, become someone
else.
• Won the John L1ewellyn Rhys Prize for best book in the commonwealth
by an author under 35, and has been made into a film.
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