Bracknell Forest Libraries hold a large variety of spoken word cassettes and cds. A wide range of authors are available at Bracknell Library. Other libraries carry a more restricted range.
If you want to try something different, why not use the Whichbook web site to find something to suit your mood?
Highlights of New Spoken Word CDs - March 08 - May 08
When Emily’s life and business is turned around by a visit from Carina Lees, Z-list celebrity, she can’t believe her luck. With just one other member of staff to help her out at her Essex salon, Emily is pushed for time as well as money, and so Carina’s patronage is more welcome than a sunbed session in December.
Michael Campion was a people’s hero, a popular governor’s son who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.
Colin Forbes's The Savage Gorge
Tweed and Paula of the SIS take over the brutal murder case of two attractive women from the plodding Chief Inspector Reebeck. A clue leads then to a remote rural country controlled by the human but dangerous “Pit Bull”.
Sue Grafton's T is for Trespass
When an elderly neighbour, Gus, has an accident, Kinsey Milhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn’t turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey’s not convinced, especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse’s tender care.
Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods
”The Stone Gods” is the latest novel by Jeanette Winterson, who won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E. M. Forster Award.
“The Deportees” is a collection of stories from the pen of well known author Roddy Doyle.
John Mortimer's The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
When one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street, Rumpole soon realises something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing the Timson boy so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him in their street?
Douglas Reeman's The Great Enemy
“HMS Terrapin” took a vital part in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now, twenty-five years later, she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. Under the stubborn leadership of her new captain she, and her crew, find a long-forgotten unity of purpose.
Barbara Trapido's Brother of the More Famous Jack
When Catherine has the chance to go to university, little does she expect to find herself in love with the son of the famous Jacob Goldman. When things go wrong she flees to Rome, and ten years later she discovers that time does heal old wounds.
Sandra Howard's Ursula's Story
Following the success of her first novel, ”Glass Houses”, comes Sandra Howard’s sparkling new novel: the story of the ex-wife, whose marriage break-up makes headline news.
James Patterson's Double Cross
“Double Cross” is the latest thriller in the “Alex Cross” series.
”The Bum’s Rush” is a devilishly funny, bat-out-of-hell paced novel featuring PI Leo Waterman.
A little girl seems to have vanished without trace. Inspector Sejer must find her before it’s too late.
Pauline McLynn's Bright Lights and Promises
Susie Vines is a hot-shot theatrical agent with a heart of gold. When she’s not devoting her time to a score of hugely successful clients, she’s being a tower of strength for her twelve year old son, Milo, who’s being bullied at school, and for her emotionally scarred mother, Valerie, whose husband has just left her.
Highlights of New Spoken Word Cassettes - March 08 - May 08
10 years ago a car crash left a girl and four friends from racing school with a dark secret. When a hit-and-run sparks off a chain of events, and a journalist starts asking questions, these men know that the terrible truth is about to come to light.
Anita Burgh's The Breached Wall
It is the First World War and the old social order is crumbling as surely as time begins to breach the walls of the ancient manor house. With their menfolk away in France, the women left at home take on the burden of running the estate, as well as their homes and households, working harder than they ever have before.
Helen Dunmore's Counting The Stars
Living at the heart of sophisticated Roman society at the time of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar, Catullus is obsessed with Clodia, the Lesbia of his most passionate poems. He is jealous of her husband, of her maid, even of her pet sparrow. And Clodia? Catullus is “her dear poet”, but possibly not her only interest.
Alexander McCall's The Miracle at Speedy Motors
A client who was adopted, asks Precious Ramotswe to trace her biological family. But will her searches bring happiness, or something rather different, something rather frightening?
David Baldacci's Simple Genius
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell both bear the scars of their previous case. Michelle is in a psychiatric hospital after making a suicide attempt while Sean, down on his luck and worried about his friend, accepts a PI job at Babbage Town – a secret establishment where, it seems, corpses turn up more quickly than new codes.
Chetan Bhagat's One Night at the Call Centre
Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles
Tina Brown documents who was really to blame for Diana’s death. She reveals the Alfred Hitchcock atmosphere in which Diana lived out her marriage with Prince Charles, she cuts through the myths about Diana’s life, those propagated by her enemies and those plotted by Diana herself, and more.
Johnathon Coe's The Rain Before It Falls
Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of a young blind girl, her cousin’s granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at a party many years ago. This is a story of generations, and of the relationships within a family.
Patrick Gale's Note From An Exhibition
When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work – but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel.
Harry Patch's The Last Fighting Tommy
“The Last Fighting Tommy” tells the extraordinary and moving story of a man whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty prime ministers.
Michael Pearce's The Fig Tree Murder
Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the New Electric Railway out from Cairo to the “City of Pleasure” being built in the suburbs? Old Egypt is pitted against New and in the middle is the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo’s Secret Police.
Stay at home mum Gwen has three engaging kids and a blissful marriage – her only worries in life are a bottom that sometimes keeps moving even after she has stopped and a toddler obsessed with reproductive organs. But then two bombshells cause her perfect world to crumble.
Victoria Wood's Victoria's Empire
Travelling throughout the old British Empire in search of the legacy of Queen Victoria, Victoria Wood visits the countries that were transformed by British ingenuity and the advances of the industrial revolution.
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