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BEN, IN THE WORLD

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5648 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Gower, Nancy
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Sequel to: 'The Fifth Child' (2539). Ben Lovatt can never fit in, he is too awkward. As he comes of age he finds himself bewildered and alone and loosed on the wider world, but how does that world receive him?

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FIFTH CHILD, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2539 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
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\pause{1500}Reader: Clifton, Margaret
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Alien child disrupts family life

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GOOD TERRORIST, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2118 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 18
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\pause{1500}Reader: Laughton, Cecilia
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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W H Smith award, runner up to the Booker prize 1985; Diverting tale of a well-behaved terrorist; Bad language

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GRANDMOTHERS, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7927 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 13.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Laughton, Cecilia
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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4 delightful novellas varying in styles and subjects. From a British soldier on the African fringes of the 2nd World War, to a young, underprivileged black girl in London living in the world of a liberal white middle-class family.

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GRASS IS SINGING, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2599 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
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\pause{1500}Reader: Hall, Shirley
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Life on a Rhodesian farm

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LONDON OBSERVED: STORIES & SKETCHES

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 3598 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Evans, Nina
\pause{1500}Main subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Eighteen pen portraits of Londoners & their city;

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LOVE, AGAIN

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4737 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 19.25
\pause{1500}Reader: Hunt, Elizabeth
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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A 19th century beautiful, but wayward French girl, becomes the subject of a play in the 1980s & dramatically changes the lives of all involved.

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OLD AGE OF EL MAGNIFICO, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5800 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 1
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 1.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Scott, Marion
\pause{1500}Main subject: Animal Stories
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The tale of a lordly beast who has to suffer the great indignity of being a three-legged cat in his final years.

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SWEETEST DREAM, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5914 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 18.25
\pause{1500}Reader: Dives, Grace
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Set initially in the 1960's, two remarkable women, Frances and her ex-mother-in-law Julia, rule over a large house in London. Here the young people demand their freedom, whilst their less idealistic elders recognise the influence of war and Comrade Johnny

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UNDER MY SKIN

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5564 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 16
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 24.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Hall, Shirley
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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This, the first volume of her autobiography, tells of the author's childhood and early years in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949.

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