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Total number of pages: 7,640

Library (146 | 112 audiobooks + 34 books )

日本語

Title: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド（上） Author: 村上春樹 Narrator: 大森南朋 Published: 1985 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・, ワンダーランド上 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 13 hours 2 minutes 高い壁に囲まれ、外界との接触がまるでない街で、そこに住む一角獣たちの頭骨から夢を読んで暮らす〈僕〉の物語、〔世界の終り〕。老科学者により意識の核に或る思考回路を組み込まれた〈私〉が、その回路に隠された秘密を巡って活躍する〔ハードボイルド・ワンダーランド〕。静寂な幻想世界と波瀾万丈の冒険活劇の二つの物語が同時進行して織りなす、村上春樹の不思議の国。 Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: 11.22.63 Author: Stephen King Narrator: Craig Wasson Published: 2011 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical Fiction, Sci-Fi, Time Travel Fiction Length: 30 hours 38 minutes What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The 50 Greatest Engineers: The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World Authors: Paul Virr, William Potter Narrator: Jack Bennett Published: 2021 Audible: 2023 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: History, Science, Technology Non-Fiction Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan, and the Wright Brothers. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey Author: Arthur C. Clarke Narrator: Dick Hill Published: 1968 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Space Opera Fiction Length: 6 hours 42 minutes From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible

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Title: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Hugh Grant Published: 1843 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fairy tale, Christmas, Novella Fiction Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Ebenezer Scrooge is not a fan of Christmas. In fact, he dislikes most things, but especially people. But one Christmas Eve he is visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, and so begins a transformational evening for the mean and miserly man. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: A Tale for the Time Being Author: Ruth Ozeki Narrator: Ruth Ozeki Published: 2013 Audible: 2013 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical Fiction Length: 14 hours 43 minutes Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an enchanting mystery. In a small cafe in Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao Yasutani is navigating the challenges thrown up by modern life. In the face of cyber-bullying, the mysteries of a 104-year-old Buddhist nun and great-grandmother, and the joy and heartbreak of family, Nao is trying to find her own place - and voice - through a diary she hopes will find a reader and friend who finally understands her. ✲ DNF ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: A Town Called Discovery Author: R. R. Haywood Narrator: Carl Prekopp Published: 2020 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Horror, Time Travel Fiction Length: 10 hours 0 minutes A man falls from the sky. He has no memory. He has no sense of self. What lies ahead are a series of tests, each more brutal than the last, and if he gets through them all, he might just reach a town called Discovery. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Abroad in Japan Author: Chris Broad Narrator: Chris Broad Published: 2023 Audible: 2023 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Travel, Memoir Non-Fiction Length: 8 hours 8 minutes When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Author: Lewis Carroll Narrator: Jodie Comer Published: 1865 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Alice in Wonderland, Book 1 Genre: Fairy tale Fiction Length: 3 hours 28 minutes On a sunny afternoon, Alice discovers a bottle that says DRINK ME. Unable to resist, she follows the label’s instructions... and immediately shrinks to tumble down a rabbit hole into an adventure where nothing is as it seems. From The Mad Hatter to the White Rabbit, the grinning Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts, Alice meets a cast of characters who are both eccentric and memorable. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Alloy of Law Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Michael Kramer Published: 2011 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Mistborn Saga, Book 4 | Wax and Wayne, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 10 hours 48 minutes In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals, someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Among Others Author: Jo Walton Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Published: 2011 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science-fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled - and her twin sister dead. Fleeing to her father, whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England - a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Amongst Our Weapons Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 9 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 39 minutes There is a world hidden underneath this great city... The London Silver Vaults—for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace—only that's what happened. The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit. Alongside their boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London's tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! And Peter must solve this case soon because back home, his partner, Beverley, is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn't know is that he's about to encounter something—and somebody—that nobody ever expects... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: And Then She Vanished Author: Nick Jones Narrator: Ray Porter Published: 2015 Re-Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Joseph Bridgeman Series, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Time Travel Fiction Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn’t felt for the longest time: hope. Joseph sets out to travel back to the night Amy went missing and save her. But after several failed attempts, he discovers the farther back he travels, the less time he gets to stay there. And the clock is ticking. With the help of Alexia, Joseph embarks on a desperate race against the past to save his sister. Can he master his new skill and solve the mystery of Amy’s disappearance before it’s too late? Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Ashes of London Author: Andrew Taylor Narrator: Leighton Pugh Published: 2016 Audible: 2016 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction Length: 12 hours 59 minutes London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is James Marwood, son of a disgraced printer and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul's, in a tomb that should have been empty. The man's body has been mutilated, and his thumbs have been tied behind his back. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer across the devastated city. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters - and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography Author: Sir Alex Ferguson Original Published Year: 2013 Binding: Hardback Genre: Autobiography, Memoir, Sport Non-Fiction Pages: 416 ISBN: 9780340919392 Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. Over the last quarter of a century there have been seismic changes at Manchester United. The only constant element has been the quality of the manager's league-winning squad and United's run of success, which included winning the Champions League for a second time in 2008. Sir Alex created a purposeful, but welcoming, and much envied culture at the club which has lasted the test of time. It was directly due to his vision, energy and ability that he was able to build teams both on and off the pitch. He was a man-manager of phenomenal skill, and increasingly he had to deal with global stars. Over the past four years, Sir Alex has been reflecting on and jotting down the highlights of his extraordinary career and in his new book he will reveal his amazing story as it unfolded, from his very early days in the tough shipyard areas of Govan. Transaction completed at Community.

Title: Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir Author: Stan Lee Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Hardback Genre: Autobiography, Memoir, Graphic Novel Non-Fiction Pages: 192 ISBN: 9781471152597 Stan Lee is the most legendary name in the history of comic books. The leading creative force behind the rise of Marvel Comics, he brought to life some of the world's best-known heroes and most infamous villains. His stories, featuring super-heroes who struggled against personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity, added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good v evil. Lee put the human in the super-human. In the process, he created a new mythology for the twentieth century. In this full-colour graphic memoir illustrated by celebrated artist Colleen Doran, Stan Lee tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comics. He moves from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, followed by military training films during World War II, through the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to his current resurgence in movies. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed at HMV.

Title: Ant-Man Vol 1: Second-Chance Man Author: Nick Spencer Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 124 ISBN: 9780785193876 Scott Lang has never exactly been the world's best superhero. Heck, most people don't even think he's been the best Ant-Man - and the last guy invented Ultron and joined the Masters of Evil, so that's saying something. But when the Superior Iron Man calls with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Scott's going to get a chance to turn it all around and be the hero he's always dreamed of being. Sure he's been to prison. Sure he's been through a messy divorce. Sure he's been, um... dead. But this time is different! This time nothing is going to stop the astonishing Ant-Man! Collecting Ant-Man #1-5 Transaction completed at Zavvi.

Title: The Astonishing Spider-Man Vol 6 #9 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2016 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 76 ISBN: 9771360517071 (09) ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: The Astonishing Spider-Man Vol 6 #20 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 100 ISBN: 9771360517071 Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: Avengers Universe Vol 1 #9 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 76 ISBN: 9772055288009 ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed at WH Smith.

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Title: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey Author: Richard Ayoade Narrator: Richard Ayoade Published: 2014 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Memoir Non-Fiction Length: 5 hours 17 minutes In this book, Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over 10 brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into this once-in-a-generation visionary. They have called their book Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey. Take the journey, and your life will never be the same again. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Baker Street Four Author: Penny Chrimes Narrators: Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Charlie Brand, Chipo Chung, Claudia Jolly, Connie Sweet, David Holt, David Robb, Finlay Paul, Harry Myers, Hazel Ellerby, Imogen Front, Joanna David, Jon Glover, Katja Quist, Luke, Michael Abayomi, Nikesh Patel, Paterson Joseph, Preeya Kalidas, Robert Glenister, Roger Watkins, Sam Dale Published: 2023 Audible: 2023 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mystery Fiction Length: 3 hours 2 minutes Billy, Charlie and Tom, are three young apprentices of Sherlock Holmes who assist the famous detective in London’s dodgy East End. With the help of their faithful cat, Watson and Sherlock’s beloved housekeeper Mrs. Hudson, this foursome takes local crimes into their own hands while Holmes is off solving mysteries abroad. Follow the Baker Street Irregulars as they pursue different cases, growing by the day as young detectives and as friends. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Blindness Author: José Saramago Narrator: Jonathan Davis Published: 1995 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Blindness, Book 1 Genre: Dystopian, Suspense Fiction Length: 12 hours 33 minutes A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of 'white blindness', which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers - among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears - out of their prison and through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Broken Homes Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2013 Audible: 2013 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 4 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 49 minutes A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil: an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man? Or just a common or garden serial killer? Before PC Peter Grant can get his head round the case, a town planner going under a tube train and a stolen grimoire are adding to his caseload. So far so London. But then Peter gets word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate. Is there a connection? And if there is, why oh why did it have to be South of the River? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Bullet in the Brain Author: Tobias Wolff Narrator: Anthony Heald Published: 1995 Audible: 2013 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Anthology, Psychological Fiction Length: 13 minutes Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Anders finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Black Panther Author: Various Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 312 ISBN: 9781846538469 The very best adventures of the King of Wakanda from the House of Ideas, including his very first appearance as he pits himself against the Fantastic Four and faces the diabolical threat of Ulysses Klaw! Collecting Fantastic Four #52-53, Avengers #87, Jungle Action #6, Black Panther Vol. 1 #1, Marvel Team-Up #100, Black Panther Vol. 3 #1, Black Panther Vol. 3 #57-58, Black Panther Vol. 4 #18, #39-41 and AVX Versus #5. Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: The Bro Code Author: Barney Stinson, Matt Kuhn Original Published Year: 2009 Binding: Paperback Genre: Humour Fiction Pages: 208 ISBN: 9781847399304 THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a 'bro' and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the 'bro'. Containing approximately 150 'unspoken' rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil's three-way (two dudes, duh.) Transaction completed on Amazon.

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Title: Clockwork Boys: Clocktaur War, Book 1 Author: T. Kingfisher Narrator: Khristine Hvam Published: 2017 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Clocktaur War, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 7 hours 40 minutes A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It's not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher's new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager's city. If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Comfort Book Author: Matt Haig Narrator: Matt Haig Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mental Health, Psychology, Memoir Non-Fiction Length: 3 hours 5 minutes Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive. It is a strange paradox that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learned while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry, and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations celebrate the ever-changing wonder of living. This is for when we need the wisdom of a friend or a reminder we can always nurture inner strength and hope, even in our busy world. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Cover Her Face Author: P. D. James Narrator: Daniel Weyman Published: 1962 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Detective Fiction Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Though the Martingale manor house has hosted the annual St Cedd's Church fête for generations, this year feels different. On top of organizing stalls and presiding over luncheon, the bishop, and the tea tent, Mrs Eleanor Maxie now also has to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to the new parlour maid, the sly and sensuous single mother Sally Jupp. Sally has quite a reputation as a ruthless social climber, and no one at Martingale seems too happy about the engagement. But the Maxie family barely has time to contend with her wily ways - on the following morning the whole village is shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp's body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Scott Brick Original Published Year: 1922 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama Fiction Length: 1 hour 4 minutes A fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age 70 who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning 'in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced'. What ramifications that creates for Benjamin's relationship with his father first and then later with his wife and his own son makes for some fantastical situations. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Captain America - Redux Author: Various Original Published Year: 2016 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 300 ISBN: 9781846537264 The very best Captain America stories from the House of Ideas, including a tale from the dark days of WWII where Cap and Bucky are on the trail of an infamous psychic double act, who appear to be able to predict cataclysmic disasters just before they occur! Plus, the shadow of World War II lingers over Cap, as he discovers that even from beyond the grave his arch-enemy, the Red Skull, can still commit acts of vengeance that threaten the entire planet. Also, Cap and the Falcon defeat the Secret Empire and clear Cap's tarnished name. However, it is a Pyrrhic victory, as Steve Rogers decides to be Captain America no more! It's not long before Steve Rogers returns to costumed adventuring as Nomad - the Man Without a Country! Once again wielding the shield, Cap finds himself being called on to become the next President of the United States! Plus, Cap finds himself leading the fight against his fellow heroes as civil war rips the superhuman community apart. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: Cinema Speculation Author: Quentin Tarantino Original Published Year: 2022 Binding: Hardback Genre: Autobiography, Memoir, Film Non-Fiction Pages: 400 ISBN: 9781474624220 A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: Civil War: X-Men Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2016 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 224 ISBN: 9780785195719 Enough is enough! The tension between the X-Men, the refugees of the 198 and the Office of National Emergency's Sentinel guard dogs has finally reached a breaking point. As the superhuman Civil War rips apart the Marvel Universe, the X-Men also find themselves crumbling from the inside out. Will they admit defeat, or will they finally start to fight back? As a very prominent member of the team breaks ranks to join the Pro-Registration movement, and a member of the 198 plots bloody vengeance from within, the original X-Men go rogue in a search for the truth. But the truth might just get them - and half of the world's very few remaining mutants - killed! Collecting CIVIL WAR: X-MEN #1-4, CABLE & DEADPOOL #30-32 and X-FACTOR (2006) #8-9. Transaction completed on Zavvi.

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Title: Darkly Dreaming Dexter Author: Jeff Lindsay Narrator: Jeff Lindsay Published: 2004 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Dexter, Book 1 Genre: Crime, Mystery Fiction Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Dexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to your mum. At heart he's the perfect gentleman: He has a shy girlfriend and seems to lead a quiet, normal life bordering on the mundane. Despite the fact that he can't stand the sight of blood, he works as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But Dexter also has a secret hobby: He is an accomplished serial killer. So far he's killed 36 people and has never been caught because he knows exactly how to hide the evidence. And while that may lead some people to assume he's not such a nice guy, he tempers his insatiable hunger for brutality by killing only the bad guys. However, Dexter's well-organised life is suddenly disrupted when a second, much more visible serial killer appears in Miami. Intrigued that the other killer favours a style similar to his own, Dexter soon realises that the mysterious new arrival is not simply invading his turf but offering him a direct invitation to come out and play... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Author: Satoshi Yagisawa Narrator: Susan Momoko Hingley Published: 2009 Audible: 2023 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Morisaki Bookshop, Book 1 Genre: Literature Fiction Length: 4 hours 26 minutes When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop. Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru's pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop. And as summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Dead Boys Author: Gabriel Squailia Narrator: Gabriel Squailia Published: 2015 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Adventure Fiction Length: 10 hours 59 minutes A decade dead, Jacob Campbell is a preservationist, providing a kind of taxidermy to keep his clients looking lifelike for as long as the forces of entropy will allow. But in the Land of the Dead, where the currency is time itself and there is little for corpses to do but drink, thieve, and gamble eternity away, Jacob abandons his home and his fortune for an opportunity to meet the man who cheated the rules of life and death entirely. According to legend, the Living Man is the only adventurer to ever cross into the underworld without dying first. It's rumored he met his end somewhere in the labyrinth of pubs beneath Dead City's streets, disappearing without a trace. Now Jacob's vow to find the Living Man and follow him back to the land of the living sends him on a perilous journey through an underworld where the only certainty is decay. Accompanying him are the boy Remington, an innocent with mysterious powers over the bones of the dead, and the hanged man Leopold l'Eclair, a flamboyant rogue whose criminal ambitions spark the undesired attention of the shadowy ruler known as the Magnate. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Death at the Auction Author: E. C. Bateman Narrator: Ciaran Saward Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mystery Fiction Length: 11 hours 41 minutes When an accident forces Felicia Grant back to her family’s auction house in Stamford, she vows it’ll only be a flying visit. But as the gavel falls on the final lot, a hidden secret is revealed - the body of her father’s business rival, murdered during the packed sale! Soon, Felicia is swept into a mystery that has everyone in the community as a potential suspect - including her. As the body count rises and with the people she loves under threat, Felicia takes matters into her own hands. But even the most picturesque place has its secrets... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Differently Morphous Author: Yahtzee Croshaw Narrator: Yahtzee Croshaw Published: 2018 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 10 hours 23 minutes A magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret. After centuries in the shadows, the Ministry is forced to unmask, exposing the country's magical history - and magical citizens - to a brave new world of social media, government scrutiny, and public relations. On the trail of the killer are the Ministry's top agents: a junior operative with a photographic memory (and not much else), a couple of overgrown schoolboys with godlike powers, and a demonstrably insane magician. But as they struggle for results, their superiors at HQ must face the greatest threat the Ministry has ever known: the forces of political correctness... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Discordia Author: Max Barry Narrator: Andrew Call Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 7 hours 1 minute Advice: Stay indoors. Remain calm. Avoid roads. Fill bathtubs. He's a part-time gardener and car thief. She's a murderous nun on a holy mission from another dimension. Together, they can save the world from a politically charged alien invasion - but only if the world wants to be saved. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Dispatcher Author: John Scalzi Narrator: Zachary Quinto Published: 2016 Audible: 2016 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Dispatcher, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Adventure Fiction Length: 2 hours 18 minutes One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong. It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late... before not even a Dispatcher can save him. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Doing Time Author: Jodi Taylor Narrator: Zara Ramm Published: 2019 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Time Police, Book 1 Genre: Sci-Fi, Time Travel Fiction Length: 12 hours 28 minute A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity - and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history. And so, the Time Police were formed. An all-powerful, international organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs. Their success is legendary, and the Time Wars are over. But now the Time Police must fight to save a very different future - their own. This is the story of Jane, Luke and Matthew - arguably the worst recruits in Time Police history. Or, very possibly, three young people who might just change everything. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Doomsday Book Author: Connie Willis Narrator: Jenny Sterlin Published: 1992 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 26 hours 20 minutes For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure. For Dunworthy, her mentor, it is cause for intense worry about the thousands of things that could go wrong. When an accident leaves Kivrin trapped in one of the deadliest eras in human history, the two find themselves in equally gripping - and oddly connected - struggles to survive. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Deadpool Author: Various Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 296 ISBN: 9781846536991 The very best Deadpool adventures from the House of Ideas; including his first-ever appearance which pitted him against his future ally... Cable! Collecting New Mutants #98, Deadpool/Death Annual '98, Deadpool Vol. 2 #33, 37, 57-60, 64, Cable and Deadpool #31-32, and Deadpool Vol. 4 #6. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: Deadpool - Reloaded Author: Various Original Published Year: 2018 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 300 ISBN: 9781846538988 The very best adventures of the Gassin' Assassin and his on-again-off-again bromance with the time-travelling crusader Cable; including Deadpool's second-ever appearance which saw him hunted by Garrison Kane of the Weapon X programme. Collecting X-Force #2, 11 and 15, Cable and Deadpool #33-34 and 40-42 and Deadpool Vs. X-Force #1-4. Transaction completed on Amazon.

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Title: Elantris Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Jack Garrett Published: 2005 Audible: 2012 Owned: 2022 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Elantris, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Epic Fiction Length: 28 hours 42 minutes Elantris was built on magic, and it thrived. But then the magic began to fade, and Elantris began to rot. Now its shattered citizens face domination by a powerful Imperium. Can a young Princess unite the people of Elantris and lead a rebellion against the imperial zealots? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Essential X-Men Vol 4 #9 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 76 ISBN: 9771360517071 Transaction completed at WH Smith.

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Title: Fairy Tale Author: Stephen King Narrator: Seth Numrich, Stephen King Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Fiction Length: 24 hours 6 minutes Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was 10, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: False Value Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2020 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 8 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Peter Grant is facing fatherhood and an uncertain future with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand-new London start-up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son. Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological - and just as dangerous. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Feedback Author: Dennis E. Taylor Narrator: Ray Porter Published: 2020 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Audible Original Stories Genre: Time Travel Fiction Length: 32 minutes If the past is prologue - what if the prologue never happened? When a team of scientists attempts to rewrite history, the story of the present turns out to have an ending they didn’t see coming. Over and over. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Foxglove Summer Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2014 Audible: 2014 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 5 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Peter Grant gets out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and goes out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the London copper out of London you can't take the London out of the copper. Travelling west with Beverley Brook, Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods. And what's more all the shops are closed by 4pm... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Genesis: A Robert Hunter Thriller Author: Chris Carter Narrator: Thomas Judd Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Robert Hunter, Book 12 Genre: Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense Fiction Length: 16 hours 56 minutes Robert Hunter is called to the most vicious crime scene he has ever attended. It is made even more disturbing when the autopsy reveals a poem, left by the killer, inside the body of their victim. Soon, another body is found. The methods and signature of the murder differs, but the level of violence used suggests that the same person is behind both crimes. Hunter’s fears are confirmed when a second part of the poem is found. But this discovery does more than just link the two killings—it suggests that this is the work of a serial murderer. With no forensic evidence to go on, Robert Hunter must catch the most disciplined and systematic killer that he has ever encountered, someone who thrives on the victims' fear, and to whom death is a lesson that needs to be taught. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: George Orwell’s 1984: An Audible Original Adaptation Author: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation Narrators: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, Tom Hardy, Chukwudi Iwuji, Romesh Ranganathan, Natasia Demetriou, Francesca Mills, Alex Lawther, Katie Leung Published: 2024 Audible: 2024 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Abridged Genre: Classics, Dystopian Fiction Length: 3 hours 27 minutes From the age of uniformity. From the age of solitude and doublethink. From the age of Big Brother. From me, Winston Smith. Greetings. It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Gideon the Ninth Author: Tamsyn Muir Narrator: Moira Quirk Published: 2019 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Locked Tomb Trilogy, Book 1 Genre: Dark Fantasy, Adventure, Space Opera Fiction Length: 16 hours 50 minutes Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Narrator: Ron Rifkin Published: 1993 Audible: 2003 Owned: 2022 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Giver Quartet, Book 1 Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian/Utopian, Young Adult Fiction Length: 4 hours 49 minutes December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man, the man called only the Giver, he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Published: 2008 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult Fiction Length: 7 hours 43 minutes When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Great Expectations Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Robert Powell Published: 1861 Audible: 2012 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Coming of Age Fiction Length: 1 hours 2 minutes Pip is an orphan, brought up by his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. One evening, while visiting his parents' graves, he has a shocking encounter with an escaped convict who forces Pip to help him. The very next day, he is invited to go and see Miss Havisham, a rich old lady who is seeking a playmate for the beautiful Estella. These two chance events are to change Pip's life in ways he could never have imagined... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Jake Gyllenhaal Published: 1925 Audible: 2013 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Tragedy Fiction Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. There, he has a firsthand view of Gatsby’s lavish West Egg parties - and of his undying love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. After meeting and losing Daisy during the war, Gatsby has made himself fabulously wealthy. Now, he believes that his only way to true happiness is to find his way back into Daisy’s life, and he uses Nick to try to reach her. What happens when the characters’ fantasies are confronted with reality makes for a startling conclusion to this iconic masterpiece. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Godkiller Author: Hannah Kaner Original Published Year: 2023 Binding: Hardback Genre: Fantasy, Adventure Fiction Pages: 304 ISBN: 9780008521462 Kissen's family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour. Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning - something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it. Transaction completed at Waterstones.

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Title: The Hanging Tree Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2011 Audible: 2016 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 6 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and dangerous, arcane items are bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean. But this is Peter Grant we're talking about. He's been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies at the point where the world of magic and that of privilege intersect. Assuming he survives the week... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Hag's Breath: A Collection of Witchcraft and Wickedness Author: S P Oldham Narrator: Paula Hines Published: 2016 Audible: 2023 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Horror Fiction Length: 4 hours 35 minutes A collection of short stories featuring witches, Hag's Breath reinvents this entity. If you are looking for the near-comical character that is the stalwart of children's fairy tales, then go elsewhere. These witches are the stuff of nightmares. True horror characters with dark souls and sinister intentions. Powerful women, whose presence in the world is sometimes to be feared, sometimes to be sought out—but always to be respected. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Hallowe’en Party Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: Hugh Fraser Published: 1969 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries, Book 39 | Ariadne Oliver, Book 7 Genre: Crime, Thriller Fiction Length: 6 hours 27 minutes At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 1997 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 1 | Wizarding World, Book 1 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 1998 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 2 | Wizarding World, Book 2 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 1999 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 3 | Wizarding World, Book 3 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 12 hours 3 minutes When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2000 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 4 | Wizarding World, Book 4 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 20 hours 54 minutes The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons, and dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive! ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2003 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 5 | Wizarding World, Book 5 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 29 hours 1 minute Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2005 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 6 | Wizarding World, Book 6 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 20 hours 31 minutes When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2007 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Harry Potter, Book 7 | Wizarding World, Book 7 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 23 hours 59 minutes As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Holy Island: The DCI Ryan Mysteries, Book 1 Author: LJ Ross Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Published: 2015 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The DCI Ryan Mysteries, Book 1 Genre: Mystery Fiction Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered, and he is thrust back into the murky world of murder when a young woman is found dead amongst the ancient ruins of the nearby priory. When former local girl Dr. Anna Taylor arrives back on the island as a police consultant, old memories swim to the surface, making her confront her difficult past. She and Ryan struggle to work together to hunt a killer who hides in plain sight while pagan ritual and small-town politics muddy the waters of their investigation. Transaction completed on Audible.

$Title: House of Suns Author: Alastair Reynolds Narrator: John Lee Published: 2008 Audible: 2009 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Space Opera Fiction Length: 18 hours 17 minutes Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings. Not only are Campion and Purslane late for their 32nd reunion but they have also brought along an amnesiac golden robot for a guest. But the wayward shatterlings get more than the scolding they expect: they face the discovery that someone has a very serious grudge against the Gentian line, and there is a very real possibility of traitors in their midst. The surviving shatterlings have to dodge exotic weapons while they regroup to try to solve the mystery of who is persecuting them and why - before their ancient line is wiped out of existence forever. Transaction completed on Audible.$

Title: Howl's Moving Castle Author: Diana Wynne Jones Narrator: Kristin Atherton Published: 1986 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 57 minutes In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell... deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls... there Sophie meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Humans Author: Matt Haig Narrator: Mark Meadows Published: 2013 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 8 hours 30 minutes There's no place like home. Or is there? After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he's a dog. Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: The Invisible Library Author: Genevieve Cogman Narrator: Kristin Atherton Published: 2014 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical, Fantasy Fiction Length: 12 hours 2 minutes One spy. One dangerous book. One deadly mission. Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case – permanently... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book. Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested – the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own. Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Isaac Steele and the Forever Man Author: Daniel Rigby Narrator: Daniel Rigby Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Agent Isaac Steele has problems. He spends all his splibs on drink and drugs. He has some deep-seated and very much unresolved issues with his parents. And his robotic partner at Greatest Britain’s Department of Clarification, Dr Timothy Stephens, is ruled more by his heart than his hard drive. But all these issues take a back seat when Isaac stumbles upon a case involving the most sensitive information in the cosmos - a Never File, inaccessible to all except those with the highest clearance. He is expressly forbidden to involve himself. So naturally he does. So begins an investigation that will take him across the Discovered Universe, into the path of the mysterious Forever Man, and eventually to answers about his past. Along the way, he will have to contend with aliens, robots, monsters, bureaucrats and, perhaps most deadly of all, his own numerous flaws. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: In the Miso Soup Author: Ryū Murakami Original Published Year: 2006 Binding: Paperback Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction Pages: 192 ISBN: 9780747578888 It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him. Transaction completed at Waterstones.

Title: The Incredible Hulks Vol 2 #11 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 76 ISBN: 9772048128015 ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed at WH Smith.

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Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Author: Susanna Clarke Narrator: Simon Prebble Published: 2004 Audible: 2005 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical Fiction Length: 32 hours 30 minutes The year is 1806. Centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation’s past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Legacy of Man Author: David Lingard Narrator: Jason Renault Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Wheelchair-bound and genetically modified at only 12-years-old, can Charlie become a super soldier? If you like an audiobook with action, coming of age troubles, and an overarching big bad evil guy, you’re going to love this... the Council are always watching... in a universe where the very existence of a civilization can be deliberated upon by a single Council of allied alien races, it is never a good idea to be the race that is practiced at war. Our main character, Charlie, was an average 12-year-old orphan working his way through the foster system with families and institutions that didn’t want to deal with his issues. His parents had died in a car crash when he was just three, and it had left him bitter and resentful of the world around him. A health scare and a surgery to remove a particularly nasty brain tumour rendered Charlie paralyzed from the neck down, and he began to grow appreciative and even loving of the Browns, his latest foster family, who had put their own lives on hold simply to care for him. Once an opportunity arose for Charlie to undergo experimental treatments to cure his paralysis, he jumped at the chance to remove the burden of his care from the Browns, and was transported, unknowing to him, to another planet, where he would become a cadet of the brand new arm of the earth militaries: The Space Corps. A cadet in a wheelchair would be difficult for the others to accept, but by finding friendships in Laura and Mauro, Charlie battled through. As a member of the GAP (Generic Advancement Program), he began to grow into something so much more than he could’ve ever imagined. Charlie would never have imagined the advancements to his physical body that the GAP Program would provide. Leaving his wheelchair would soon show to be the least of his trials, as he battles for the very survival of himself, his friends, planet Earth, and humanity as a whole. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Legends & Lattes Author: Travis Baldree Narrator: Travis Baldree Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Slice of Life Fiction Length: 7 hours 18 minutes After decades of raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream—one that involves pulling more shots than punches. Armed with hope and a hard-earned secret, she plans to open the first coffee shop in Thune. To build something that will last, Viv needs a new crew. She enlists a gruff hob builder shunned by humans, and a shy baker whose cinnamon rolls are to die for. Then there’s Tandri, a charming succubus who’s determined not to let anyone assume anything about her. But Thune has a shady underbelly that keeps goading Viv to take up her sword once more. New enemies threaten her beloved coffee shop and rag-tag team. And Viv’s adventuring past isn’t so eager to leave her behind—or the fabled piece of loot she took with her. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Lies Sleeping Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2018 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 7 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 25 minutes A deadly history. A dangerous mystery. And a dark plan coming to light. In London, the past is never dead. It only... lies sleeping. Martin Chorley - aka the Faceless Man - wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice. But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that Chorley, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long term plan. A plan that has its roots in London's two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees. To save his beloved city Peter's going to need help from his former best friend and colleague - Lesley May - who brutally betrayed him and everything he thought she believed in. And, far worse, he might even have to come to terms with the malevolent supernatural killer and agent of chaos known as Mr Punch... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: London Author: Edward Rutherfurd Narrator: Andrew Wincott Published: 1997 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical Fiction Length: 49 hours 22 minutes London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel, Edward Rutherfurd takes the listener on a magnificent journey across 16 centuries, from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge and the dockland development of the modern day. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Lucifer's Hammer Authors: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Narrator: Marc Vietor Published: 1977 Audible: 2009 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 24 hours 32 minutes The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival - a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known... Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Loki: Where Mischief Lies Author: Mackenzi Lee Original Published Year: 2019 Binding: Paperback Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction Pages: 416 ISBN: 9781789056211 When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of mysterious murders on Earth, a younger Loki, desperate to prove himself, is sent to investigate. But as he descends upon nineteenth-century London, Loki embarks on a journey that leads him to more than just a murder suspect. He finds himself on a path to discover the source of his power – and who he’s meant to be. Transaction completed at Tesco.

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Title: The Marlow Murder Club Author: Robert Thorogood Narrator: Nicolette McKenzie Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Marlow Murder Club, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Fiction Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. She lives alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, sets crosswords for The Times, and there’s no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. When the local police don’t believe her story, Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for themselves. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. But soon another body turns up, and it seems they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. Now the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Narrator: Wil Wheaton Published: 2011 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain old 'human error' are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills - and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit - he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes the following extras: - Diary of an AssCan - Mark Watney, new astronaut - I Made It! - A happy letter to Mom - Car Trouble - A somewhat sad letter to Mom - The Earthling - A postscript. *Available for the first time in this recording Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Mary Poppins Author: P. L. Travers Narrator: Olivia Colman Published: 1934 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Mary Poppins, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 3 hours 51 minutes When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the Banks children, their lives go topsy-turvy and are changed forever. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Masquerades of Spring Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2024 Audible: 2024 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series Genre: Mystery, Historical Detective Fiction Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Merchant of Death Author: D. J. MacHale Narrator: William Dufris Published: 2002 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Pendragon, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal 14-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby: he is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution. If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Moon over Soho Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2011 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2019 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 2 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 1 minute I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn't the first. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. What they take is beauty. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives. And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. That's the thing about policing: most of the time you're doing it to maintain public order. Occasionally you're doing it for justice. And maybe once in a career, you're doing it for revenge. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: More Than a Gunslinger Author: J. R. Carrel Narrator: Robyn Mary Bouedo Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: More Than Human, Book 2 Genre: Dark Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 57 minutes The year is 1869, and the West is still wild. Izzy is the greatest sharpshooter on Earth. She's hell bent on tracking down a mysterious robber baron who has been gobbling up the railroads. She will find out that there is more to this robber baron and the world around her than she could ever imagine. He will find out that she is... more than a gunslinger. ✲ DNF ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Murder at the Book Club Author: Betsy Reavley Narrator: Rebecca Courtney Published: 2018 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Crime Fiction Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They’ve come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It’s a happy gathering. What could be more harmless? Scratch the surface and look closer. One is lonely, one is desperate and one of them is a killer. When the body of a woman is discovered on a Cambridge common, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer are called to investigate. But the motive behind the crime isn’t clear...and it all leads back to a book club. As the lies, volatile friendships and tension among the group rise to the surface, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer must work out the motive and track down a cold-blooded killer. But just when they think they are on the right track, a twist in the case throws them off course... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Murder in Tuscany Author: T A Williams Narrator: Simon Mattacks Published: 2022 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Armstrong and Oscar, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Detective Fiction Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this break will help him to think about the next chapter in his own life story? But only days into the course, Jonah Moore is found stabbed to death with his award-winning silver dagger! And Dan finds himself pulled out of retirement with a killer to catch. Eleven possible suspects. The other guests all seem shocked by Jonah’s death, but Dan knows that one of them must be lying. And as he and Italian Commissario Virgilio Pisano begin to investigate it quickly becomes clear that everyone at Villa Volpone has secrets to hide… But can Dan discover who the murderer is before they strike again? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Narrator: David Suchet Published: 1934 Audible: 2006 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries, Book 10 Genre: Mystery, Crime, Detective Fiction Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Murder Room Author: P. D. James Narrator: Daniel Weyman Published: 2003 Audible: 2014 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Adam Dalgliesh, Book 12 Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Detective Fiction Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Author: Nikola Tesla Narrator: Sean Runnette Published: 1919 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Autobiography Non-Fiction Length: 2 hours 44 minutes Written by Nikola Tesla at the age of 63, this autobiography is a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of a man who may have contributed more to the fields of electricity, radio, and television than any other person living or dead, a man certainly possessed of genius, and one who some consider the most important man of the 20th century. My Inventions is a firsthand account not only of the art and science behind the conception, execution, and reception of Tesla's most famous inventions but of his early life and first creative efforts as well. History buffs, science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone who has ever dared to dream big will be thrilled to hear this engaging, informative, and uniquely humorous autobiography. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: My Sister, the Serial Killer Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite Narrator: Weruche Opia Published: 2018 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Psychological, Dark Humour Fiction Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favourite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her 'missing' boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realise they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening. ✲ DNF ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Mythos Author: Stephen Fry Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2017 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Length: 15 hours 36 minutes No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. Shiver in fear when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Marvel Legends Vol 3 #8 Authors: Various Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 76 ISBN: 9771752507031 Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: The Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Original Published Year: 1915 Binding: Paperback Genre: Literary Fiction Pages: 82 ISBN: 9781578987856 The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect. Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Original Published Year: 1934 Binding: Hardback Series: Hercule Poirot Mysteries, Book 10 Genre: Mystery, Crime, Detective Fiction Pages: 240 ISBN: 9780008226664 Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. ✲ COMPLETED THE AUDIOBOOK ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on AbeBooks.

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Title: The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe Author: Arvind Ethan David Narrator: Neil Gaiman, Jewel Staite Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2022 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Sci-Fi, Short, Space exploration Fiction Length: 29 minutes A man awakens, adrift in deep space, with little memory of who he is - only to discover that he is the commander of a space mission; the rest of the crew is gone; and he is apparently a writer of some small renown named Neil Gaiman. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Neverwhere Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Published: 1996 Audible: 2012 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy Fiction Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Under the streets of London lies a world most people could never dream of. When Richard Mayhew stops to help a girl he finds bleeding in the street, his unremarkable life changes in an instant. This act of kindness leads him to a place filled with murderers and angels, pale girls in black velvet, a Beast in a labyrinth and an Earl who holds Court in a tube train. It is strangely familiar yet utterly bizarre. Here is London Below, the city of people who have fallen between the cracks. And for Richard Mayhew, it's just the beginning. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: New X-Men: E is for Extinction Authors: Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely Original Published Year: 2016 Binding: Hardback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 112 ISBN: 9772048677025 Relations between Homo superior and their human cousins are breaking down. Every day more and more mutants are being born and each will need a teacher to show them how to overcome their anger and use their strange gifts responsibly. In such troubled times, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters has never been needed more. But Professor Xavier and his X-Men are about to be tested by the re-emergence of a long-forgotten enemy who could turn his dream into a nightmare. Collecting New X-Men #114-117. Transaction completed on Zavvi.

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Title: Orson Author: David Delaney Narrator: Matt Godfrey Published: 2019 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Paragon Society Series, Book 1 Genre: Supernatural, Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Orson Reid: college freshman, gamer, and quite possibly the legendary boogeyman of the magical world. And you thought your life was weird. It all started the night Orson kissed his best friend, Elyse, and she kissed him back. Yes, the kiss was life-changing, but in ways Orson never could have imagined. It seems he contracted a 'virus' that is making him taller, faster, and stronger. But his life doesn't go completely off the rails until the night Elyse shows up at his house, strips out of her clothes, and shape-shifts into a giant cat - a panther, to be exact. Now, instead of preparing for his freshman year of college, Orson is tossed head first into a world where shape-shifters, magic, and monsters are real. A world ruled by the secretive Paragon Society, a group that enforces magical law with brutal efficiency. And if all that wasn't enough for one guy to deal with, Orson may just be the Ollphiest, the legendary monster that even monsters fear. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: The Poppy War Author: R. F. Kuang Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Published: 2018 Audible: 2018 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Historical, Fantasy Fiction Length: 18 hours 57 minutes When Rin aced the Keju – the test to find the most talented students in the Empire – it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating, to Rin’s guardians, who had hoped to get rich by marrying her off and to Rin herself, who realised she was finally free from a life of servitude. That she got into Sinegard – the most elite military school in Nikan – was even more surprising. But surprises aren’t always good. Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Fighting the prejudice of rival classmates, Rin discovers that she possesses a lethal, unearthly power – an aptitude for the nearly mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of psychoactive substances and a seemingly insane teacher, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive – and that mastering these powers could mean more than just surviving school. For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most people calmly go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Project Hail Mary Author: Andy Weir Narrator: Ray Porter Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 16 hours 10 minutes Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance. PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate this audio edition, some changes to the original text have been made with the approval of author Andy Weir. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: The Playbook: Suit Up. Score Chicks. Be Awesome Author: Barney Stinson, Matt Kuhn Original Published Year: 2010 Binding: Paperback Genre: Humour Fiction Pages: 176 ISBN: 9781849832496 It. Is. On. From the pen of the prolific (and bestselling) author Barney Stinson comes the indispensable guide for every Bro looking to score with The Ladies. Transaction completed on Amazon.

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Title: A Rare Book of Cunning Device Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2017 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 6.5 Genre: Anthologies Fiction Length: 29 minutes Somewhere amongst the shadowy stacks and the many basements of the British library, something is very much amiss - and we're not talking late returns here. Is it a ghost, or something much worse? PC Peter Grant really isn't looking forward to finding out... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

$Title: Recursion Author: Blake Crouch Narrators: Jon Lindstrom, Abby Craden Published: 2019 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Psychological, Technothrillers, Sci-Fi Fiction Length: 10 hours 47 minutes What if someone could rewrite your entire life? 'My son has been erased.' Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop. Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn’t an isolated case. All across the country, people are waking up to lives different than the ones they fell asleep to. Are they suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious, new disease that afflicts people with vivid memories of a life they never lived? Or is something far more sinister behind the fracturing of reality all around him? Miles away, neuroscientist Helena Smith is developing a technology that allows us to preserve our most intense memories and relive them. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent. Barry’s search for the truth leads him on an impossible, astonishing journey as he discovers that Helena’s work has yielded a terrifying gift - the ability not just to preserve memories but to remake them... at the risk of destroying what it means to be human. ✲ DNF ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.$

Title: Remnant Population Author: Elizabeth Moon Narrator: Suzanne Toren Published: 1996 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Space Opera Fiction Length: 12 hours 18 minutes For 40 years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her one surviving child, lovingly tended her garden, and grown placidly old. And it is here that she fully expects to finish out her days - until the shifting corporate fortunes of the Sims Bancorp Company dictates that Colony 3245.12 is to be disbanded, its residents shipped off, deep in cryo-sleep, to somewhere new and strange and not of their choosing. But while her fellow colonists grudgingly anticipate a difficult readjustment on some distant world, Ofelia savors the promise of a golden opportunity. Not starting over in the hurly-burly of a new community...but closing out her life in blissful solitude, in the place she has no intention of leaving. A population of one. With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over - for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again - in ways she could never have imagined... Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality: A Field Guide to Curiosity, Creativity, and Tomfoolery Author: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal Narrator: Link Neal, Rhett McLaughlin Published: 2017 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2019 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Biography, Comedy Non-Fiction Length: 5 hours 43 minutes 'Internetainers' Rhett & Link met in first grade, when their teacher made them miss recess for writing profanity on their desks, and they have been best friends ever since. Today, their daily YouTube talk show, Good Mythical Morning, is the most-watched daily talk show on the Internet, and nearly 12 million subscribers tune in to see the guys broadcast brainy trivia, wild experiments, and hilarious banter (not to mention the occasional cereal bath). Now, the award-winning comedians are finally bringing their 'Mythical' world to their first book. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Rivers of London Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2011 Audible: 2011 Owned: 2019 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 37 minutes My name is Peter Grant, and until January, I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in 50 years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden...and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious, vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Rivers of London Author: Ben Aaronovitch Original Published Year: 2011 Binding: Paperback Series: Rivers of London, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Pages: 432 ISBN: 9780575097582 My name is Peter Grant, and until January, I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in 50 years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden...and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious, vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying. ✲ COMPLETED THE AUDIOBOOK ✲ ✪ FAVOURITE ✪ Transaction completed at Waterstones.

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Title: Shadow of London Author: Nick Jones Narrator: Ray Porter Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Joseph Bridgeman Series, Book 2 Genre: Supernatural, Time Travel Fiction Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning and this time, the rules of the game have changed. Blackmailed into accepting a new mission, Joe is flung back to 1960s London where he comes face-to-face with a ruthless gangster and witnesses the brutal murder of an innocent woman. Joe knows better than most that death can be reversed and the final chapter is sometimes where the story actually begins. Emotionally involved, he has no choice but to act, and quickly. With the help of Vinny, his vinyl-loving sidekick, Joe once again sets out to change the course of history. Sounds simple enough... but when it comes to time travel, nothing is ever as it seems. Who is the old time traveler working for? And who decides what can and can’t be changed? In a thrilling twist, Joe discovers that the victim is critically important to the future, and what starts out as a straightforward mission soon becomes a race to unravel a mystery - one that threatens the very timeline he fought so hard to protect. Joe must dig deeper than ever, master his newfound skills, and save the woman before the past catches up with him for good. Turns out time doesn’t heal after all. It just adds salt. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Shards of Honor Author: Lois McMaster Bujold Narrator: Grover Gardner Published: 1986 Audible: 2009 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Vorkosigan Saga, Book 2 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 41 minutes It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. And Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force would be forced into a separate peace with her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry (introductions) Narrator: Stephen Fry Published: 2017 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 1-6 Genre: Mystery, Detective Fiction Length: 71 hours 57 minutes Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful, intimate and deeply personal introductions to each title. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Snow Killer Author: Ross Greenwood Narrator: David Thorpe Published: 2019 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The DI Barton Series, Book 1 Genre: Mystery, Detective Fiction Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated nine insightful, intimate and deeply personal introductions to each title. ✲ DNF ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Something More than Night Author: Kim Newman Narrator: Tim Campbell Published: 2021 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Detective, Horror Fiction Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together, Chandler and Karloff will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Steelheart Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: MacLeod Andrews Published: 2013 Audible: 2013 Owned: 2019 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Reckoners, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Young Adult Fiction Length: 12 hours 14 minutes Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying and planning - and he has something they need. Not an object but an experience. He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Robert Powell Published: 1886 Audible: 2010 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Horror Fiction Length: 2 hours 55 minutes This is the disturbing tale of the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous and philanthropic man, he is preoccupied with the problems of good and evil, and with the possibility of separating them into distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he exhausts all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him to his respectable existence as Dr. Jekyll. Gradually, however, the unmitigated evil of his darker self predominates until finally he performs an atrocious murder. His saner self determines to curtail these alternations of personality, but he discovers that he is losing control over his transformations and that he slips with increasing frequency into the world of evil. Finally, unable to procure one of the ingredients for the mixture of redemption, and on the verge of being discovered, he commits suicide. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted, evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Stranger in the Woods Author: Anni Taylor Narrator: Harriet Gordon-Anderson Published: 2017 Audible: 2022 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller Fiction Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall. Sensing the McGregors and townspeople are keeping terrible secrets, Isla plans to discover the truth. But the closer Isla comes to uncovering answers, the more the danger mounts. And with a dense cover of snow now blanketing the town, all chance of escape might already be gone. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Stranger Times Author: C. K. McDonnell Narrator: Brendan McDonald Published: 2011 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Stranger Times, Book 1 Genre: Crime, Thriller, Supernatural Fiction Length: 11 hours 8 minutes There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them. A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor... well, that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own. When tragedy strikes in her first week on the job, The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Volume One Edited By: Dustin Bilyk Authors: Dustin Bilyk, Kevin Folliard, Gustavo Bondoni, Edward Willett, Elle Andrews Patt, Peter Medeiros, E. E. King, Elyse Russell, Shawn D. Brink, Ellen Forder Condon Narrator: Kevin E Green Published: 2022 Audible: 2024 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Book 1 Genre: Anthology, Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Brought to life with the assistance of Brandon Sanderson's Dragonsteel Productions, as well as the backing of over 130 other Fantasy and Sci-fi enthusiasts! From editor Dustin Bilyk, we bring you Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: a treasure trove of speculative fiction that is sure to excite and captivate even the fussiest of goblins. Dragons, AI, gods, parasitic wyrms, hellhounds, aquatic dinosaurs, aliens, and energy monsters. These are just a few of the things you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy! Blast into this black hole of literature, and experience an exciting, lengthy escape with some of the best short stories on the market today. In this volume, we have included 23 stories from 23 very different authors. Whether you love summoned demons on New York subways, a dystopian civilization’s transformation into living, breathing plants, or the discovery of new worlds complete with lost-in-translation space battles with aliens, we have something for everyone. Included are epic, never-before-seen short stories from Gustavo Bondoni, Elle Andrews Patt, Mike Morgan, Peter Medeiros, Ellen Forder Condon, Simone Martel, Michael H. Hanson, David A. Riley, J. M. Sinclair, Elyse Russell, Michael McCormick, Elizabeth Eve King and Dustin Bilyk. PLUS reprints by Edward Willett, Robert Runte, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Andrew Rucker Jones, Gordon Linzner, Kevin Folliard, Shawn D. Brink, Robert Dawson, Noah JD Chinn, and Emily Martha Sorensen. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Spider-Man - Reloaded Author: Various Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 296 ISBN: 9781846537950 The very best Spider-Man stories from the House of Ideas, including first appearances from the Vulture, Shocker and the terrible Tinkerer! In addition, the wondrous wall-crawler teams up with Iron Fist and the Daughters of the Dragon as they battle the sinister Steel Serpent! Collecting Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #2, 46, 248, 295, 593-594, Marvel Team-Up #63-64, and Web of Spider-Man #33. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: Spider-Man - Redux Author: Various Original Published Year: 2019 Binding: Paperback Series: Marvel Platinum: The Definitive Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 296 ISBN: 9781846539718 The very best Spider-Man stories from the House of Ideas, including the first appearance of Mysterio! Collecting Amazing Spider-Man #13, 198-200, 311, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4, Web of Spider-Man #90, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #11-13 and Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 #1 [802]. Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Authors: Tara Bennett, Paul Terry, Kevin Feige (foreword), Robert Downey Jr. (afterword) Original Published Year: 2021 Binding: Hardback Genre: Film Non-Fiction Pages: 502 Volume 1: 252 Volume 2: 250 ISBN: 9781419732447 An exclusive visual history of the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring original interviews, concept art, and behind-the-scenes photos from the studio's first decade. The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the first book to give fans an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from the release of Iron Man (2008) through Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). A lavish two-volume set, the book reveals the production history of Marvel's first 23 theatrical films (Phases I, II, III, and IV) through exclusive interviews and never-before-seen on-set photography. Along the way, it tells the story of how a comic book company's film production arm came to create an interconnected universe of storytelling-and how it became one of the most beloved and successful movie studios in Hollywood in the process. Featuring archival materials, concept art, film stills, memorabilia from cast and crew, and rare promotional art, these volumes will take fans on a journey through Marvel Studios' creative challenges, breakthroughs, and successes of the past decade. These visuals are joined by exclusive interviews with key producers, studio heads, and core cast members such as Kevin Feige, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, and more. The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is will be an essential collectible and keepsake for fans-a tribute to and chronicle of how the Marvel Cinematic Universe was brought to life. Transaction completed at Amazon.

Title: Squadron Supreme Authors: Mark Gruenwald, Paul Ryan, Bob Hall Original Published Year: 2013 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780785184690 On an Earth much like our own, the world's superhumans are confronted by a society in ruins. Faced with a new dark age for mankind, they choose the only course available - and take control! Now they have one year in which to completely restructure human society. Can their plan succeed? Will a renegade member bring about their downfall? What will happen when the Earth's mightiest heroes find themselves becoming instead its all-powerful, totalitarian overlords? COLLECTING: SQUADRON SUPREME (1985) 1-12 and CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 314. Transaction completed on Amazon.

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Title: The Tell-Tale Heart Author: Edgar Allan Poe Narrator: Mr. David Ian Davies Published: 1843 Audible: 2009 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Suspense, Short Story Fiction Length: 13 minutes The first-person narrator, a murderer, rants and raves about how he killed an old man for no other reason than distaste for a pale blue eye. He works hard to conceal his deed - dismembering and concealing the corpse - but his clever measures are no match for his guilt. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger Narrators: Fred Berman, Phoebe Strole Published: 2003 Audible: 2006 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Fantasy, Time Travel Fiction Length: 17 hours 38 minutes Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. Clare and Henry's story unfolds from both points of view, depicting the effects of time travel on their marriage and their passionate love for each other. They attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals: steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Treasure Island Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: David Buck Published: 1883 Audible: 2008 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Treasure Island, Book 1 Genre: Action, Adventure Fiction Length: 6 hours 50 minutes With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Tuned Out Author: Keith A. Pearson Narrator: Mike Paul Published: 2019 Audible: 2019 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Time Travel Fiction Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Toby Grant spends his days working for a digital marketing agency and his nights stressing about how unfair life is for his generation. With a 30th birthday only months away and his finances approaching meltdown, it’s fair to say Toby isn’t a happy millennial. His parents’ generation had it so much easier... or did they? After a series of rather unfortunate events, Toby is offered an opportunity to discover exactly what life was like for his parents’ generation, courtesy of a journey back in time to 1969. However, life in pre-decimal Britain isn’t quite as simple as Toby envisaged. And neither, as it transpires, is time travel. Transaction completed on Audible.

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Title: Talking with Psychopaths: A Journey into the Evil Mind Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Original Published Year: 2017 Binding: Paperback Genre: True Crime, Psychology Non-Fiction Pages: 288 ISBN: 9781786061225 Criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive. Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals, including notorious serial killers, he discovered that the lack of remorse they showed was in many ways more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of these conversations, the author also had the chance to interview his subjects' psychiatrists and, in doing so, uncovered a terrible truth: a monster can be hidden behind a friendly face. Some of these experts, he found, proved to have more in common with their patients than he would ever have expected. This book examines horrific crimes committed by some of the most remorseless and merciless people ever to have lived. If it reveals a mindset wholly alien to most people, it also, shockingly, demonstrates that some of the people who treat these psychopaths have their own demons. Talking with Psychopaths may shift the reader's view of psychopaths, and in doing so, reveal that horror can be much closer to us than we think. Subjects include JR Robinson, Kenneth Allen McDuff, Arthur Shawcross, Kenneth Bianchi, Michael Bruce Ross, Melanie McGuire, and more. Transaction completed at WH Smith.

Title: Ten Hag: The Biography Author: Maarten Meijer Original Published Year: 2022 Binding: Hardback Genre: Biography, Sport Non-Fiction Pages: 288 ISBN: 9781529903621 At Ajax, Ten Hag brooked no dissent and moulded his team into a smoothly operating unit of attack. His team enjoyed an astonishing run, winning three league cups in a row and reaching the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in a quarter of a century. Along the way, they produced some of the brightest and most entertaining football seen in Europe for years. Maarten Meijer's definitive biography follows Erik ten Hag, from his upbringing in the Dutch countryside to his domestic triumphs and European victories. Meijer's book is the ultimate guide to the man with the momentous task of ending a decade of disappointment at Manchester United, and beginning a new era of great and winning football. Transaction completed at Waterstones.

Title: Tokyo Ghoul Author: Sui Ishida Original Published Year: 2015 Binding: Paperback Series: Tokyo Ghoul, Vol 1 Genre: Fantasy, Manga Fiction Pages: 224 ISBN: 9781421580364 Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she's only interested in his body - eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own. Transaction completed on Amazon.

Title: A Trick of Light: Stan Lee's Alliances Authors: Stan Lee, Kat Rosenfield Original Published Year: 2019 Binding: Hardback Genre: Sci-Fi Fiction Pages: 352 ISBN: 9780358117605 Nia, a gifted but desperately lonely hacker, is living in isolation with her strict single dad. As a social-media maven, she is wildly popular and has more than a million friends. But they are all strangers who love her posts but know nothing about her that is real. Cameron is on a quest for YouTube fame as a vlogger focusing on exploring the mysteries of Lake Erie. While recording his latest video, he is knocked out by lightning in a freak storm that appears to defy the laws of physics. When Cameron awakens, he discovers an astonishing cyberkinetic talent: the ability to manipulate computers and electronics with his mind. After a chance meeting online, the two teenagers join together to right wrongs in the world. As Nia and Cameron develop their powers and deal out reckonings, they draw the attention of dangerous forces, putting the future of the planet at risk. Transaction completed on Wob (World of Books).

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Title: The Ultimates Vol 1: Super-Human Author: Mark Millar Original Published Year: 2002 Binding: Paperback Genre: Graphic Novel Fiction Pages: 164 ISBN: 9780785109600 Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, The X-Men and Magneto. Strange beings with incredible powers have risenup to challenge the old order, and ordinary citizens are scared witless. The government's solution: a small but lethal army known as the Ultimates, created to protect humanity from the newly rising threats to mankind! Among those considered for membership: Iron Man, a publicity-seeking capitallist sporting a self-made personal assault suit; Giant-Man, a Prozac-popping scientist with an inferiority complex as large as his stature, the Wasp, a petite powerhouse with a sordid secret; the Hulk, a brilliant, gentle man with an inhibition-overpowering addiction that may tear apart everything, and everyone, he loves; Captain America, a star-spangled super-soldier with John Glenn's buzz-cut cool, John McCain's politics and Mike Tyson's right cross; and Thor, a New Age guru who may either be the living son of a Norse god... or a lunatic with a big hammer! Collecting The Ultimates #1-6 Transaction completed on Zavvi.

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Title: Venus in the Blind Spot Author: Junji Ito Original Published Year: 2020 Binding: Hardback Genre: Manga Fiction Pages: 272 ISBN: 9781974715473 This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa’s classic horror story 'Human Chair' and fan favourite 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault.' With a deluxe presentation - including special colour pages, and showcasing illustrations from his acclaimed long-form manga No Longer Human - each chilling tale invites readers to revel in a world of terror. Transaction completed on Wob (World of Books).

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Title: Warbreaker Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan Published: 2009 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Adventure, Fantasy Fiction Length: 24 hours 56 minutes Two sisters who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can be collected only one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the colour in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron, the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery; and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Welcome to Night Vale Authors: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor Narrator: Cecil Baldwin Published: 2015 Audible: 2015 Owned: 2022 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Night Vale, Book 1 | Welcome to Night Vale, Book 1 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror Fiction Length: 12 hours 1 minute Night Vale is a small desert town where all the conspiracy theories you've ever heard are actually true. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked 'KING CITY' by a mysterious man in a tan jacket. She can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City before she herself unravels. Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape-shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it. Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: 'KING CITY'. It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries and their futures... if they can ever find it. Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Whispers Under Ground Author: Ben Aaronovitch Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Published: 2011 Audible: 2012 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 3 Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Detective Fiction Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And it's just as well - he's already had run-ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Progression in the Police Force is less easy. Especially when you work in a department of two. A department that doesn't even officially exist. A department that if you did describe it to most people would get you laughed at. And then there's his love life. The last person he fell for ended up seriously dead. It wasn't his fault, but still. Now something horrible is happening in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up the tube system that honeycombs the ancient foundations of London. And delays on the Northern line is the very least of it. Time to call in the Met's Economic and Specialist Crime Unit 9, aka 'The Folly'. Time to call in PC Peter Grant, Britain's Last Wizard. ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Will Save the Galaxy for Food Author: Yahtzee Croshaw Narrator: Yahtzee Croshaw Published: 2017 Audible: 2017 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Jacques McKeown, Book 1 Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Humour Fiction Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Space travel just isn't what it used to be. With the invention of quantum teleportation, space heroes aren't needed anymore. When one particularly unlucky ex-adventurer masquerades as famous pilot and hate figure Jacques McKeown, he's sucked into an ever-deepening corporate and political intrigue. Between space pirates, adorable deadly creatures, and a missing fortune in royalties, saving the universe was never this difficult! ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: The Windsor Knot Author: SJ Bennett Narrator: Samantha Bond Published: 2020 Audible: 2020 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, Book 1 Genre: Mystery Fiction Length: 8 hours 20 minutes The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, 89-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck. When the police begin to suspect her loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they are looking in the wrong place. For the queen has been living an extraordinary double life ever since her coronation. Away from the public eye, she has a brilliant knack for solving crimes. With her household's happiness on the line, her secret must not get out. Can the queen and her trusted secretary, Rozie, catch the killer without getting caught themselves? ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking Author: T. Kingfisher Narrator: Patricia Santomasso Published: 2020 Audible: 2021 Owned: 2023 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy Fiction Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter, and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries... ✲ COMPLETED ✲ Transaction completed on Audible.

Title: Written in Dead Wax: The Vinyl Detective, Book 1 Author: Andrew Cartmel Narrator: Ben Allen Published: 2016 Audible: 2016 Owned: 2024 Binding: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Series: The Vinyl Detective, Book 1 Genre: Crime Fiction Length: 13 hours 50 minutes He is a record collector and a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the Vinyl Detective, and some people take this more literally than others. For example, the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording on behalf of an extremely wealthy yet shadowy client. And so begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of them all... Transaction completed on Audible.