Othello
Author: William Shakespeare
Reader: Chiwetel Ejiofor
List price: £13.99
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Format: CD-Audio
SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO IS is one of his finest and most famous tragedies. This highly acclaimed performance, which ran between November 2007 and February 2008 at the Donmar Warehouse in London, features Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Moor Othello, Ewan McGregor as the scheming Iago, and Kelly Reilly as the gentle Desdemona. This recording features music written specifically for the stage production which enjoyed huge success – each performance was a sell-out. It also includes music written specifically for the July 2007 production at the Donmar Warehouse as well as a free DVD containing interviews with the cast.
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The Front
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Reader: Kate Reading
List price: £15.99
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: CD-Audio
THE LATEST FROM Patricia Cornwell, the leading crime writer in the world, fresh from her victory at this year's British Book Awards. She leaves Kay Scarpetta at home for this one, though, and we are introduced to Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano, who is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits.
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Devil May Care
Author: Sebastian Faulks
List price: £18.99
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
THE NEW JAMES Bond, and though not written by Ian Fleming, this is being touted as the one that will come closest to the original, not least because it is penned by an author of immense standing, Sebastian Faulks, who really didn't really need to take on the task. Published to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth and picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966 with The Living Daylights and Octopussy, Faulks has written the perfect continuation of the James Bond legacy. Devil May Care is set during the Cold War and features all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond... James Bond.
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The Prestige
Author: Christopher Priest
Reader: Jonathan Keeble
List price: £14.99
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format: CD-Audio
THE FASCINATING STORY of two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, who engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowl edgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to the extremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiable curiosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they both perform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, and the reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists the real mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than the mere workings of a trick.
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Hollywood Crows
Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Reader: Kerry Shale
List price: £15.99
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Format: CD-Audio
AT LAST, A new novel from the godfather of modern crime writing, the brilliant Joseph Wambaugh. The cops of Hollywood Station are still over-worked, under-staffed, bound by red tape, hobbled by political correctness, and constantly amazed by what the boulevards can throw at them. Scratch the surface of the 'reel' Hollywood and you'll discover the 'real' Hollywood. Here, Mickey Mouse is a crack addict, Marilyn Monroe is a man and when the moon is full, the neighbourhood gets even weirder.When the legendary Oracle is replaced by Sgt. Jason 'Chickenlips' Treakle - a politically correct, paper shuffling putz with a shiny shoe fetish - Nate 'Hollywood' Weiss leaves the mid-watch to become a Crow, or Community Relations Officer (C.R.O.).
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The Last King of Scotland
Author: Giles Foden
List price: £16.99
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: CD-Audio
WHAT WAS A bestselling book and an Oscar-winning movie has at last become an audiobook. Giles' Foden's The Last King of Scotland tells the story of a Scottish doctor on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
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Day
Author: A.L. Kennedy
Reader: Dan Stevens
List price: £16.99
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
THE AUDIOBOOK OF the 2007 Costa award-winning novel. Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, "Day" begins to recall what he would rather forget.
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The Dreaming Void
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Reader: Toby Longworth
List price: £34.99
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Format: CD-Audio
FROM THE MASTER of SF and fantasy, a new audiobook. AD 3580. The Intersolar Commonwealth has spread through the galaxy to over a thousand star systems. It is a culture of rich diversity with a place for everyone. Even death itself has been overcome. But at the centre of the Commonwealth is a massive black hole. This Void is not a natural artefact. Inside there is a strange universe where the laws of physics are very different to those we know. It is slowly consuming the other stars of the galactic core - one day it will devour the entire galaxy.
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