Library home. Books by Adele Geras

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FACING THE LIGHT

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6595 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 15
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\pause{1500}Reader: Steadman, Pat
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Leonora is a formidable matriarch and the daughter of a celebrated Edwardian artist. On her 75th birthday her extended family gather in Wiltshire to celebrate. By the end of the party two shocking events from the past have resurfaced, and these will change the lives of Leonora and her family forever.

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HESTER'S STORY

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6850 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 13
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\pause{1500}Reader: Mash, Maggie
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Hester Fielding's bleak Yorkshire childhood was transformed by the discovery that she was a very talented dancer, who became a prima ballerina. Her life was the stuff of dram but now she has retired to her Yorkshire roots, where every year she organises a ballet to be performed on Twelfth Night.

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OTHER ECHOES

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16478 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 4
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Oliver, Dorrie
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
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Convalescing at her boarding school, Flora starts to write the story of her life in North Borneo. Gradually she writes about finding an empty house and the tragic wartime events that happened there.

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PICTURES OF THE NIGHT

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16431 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
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\pause{1500}Reader: Foster, Calley
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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When they shared the remote Tower Room at Egerton Hall School, Megan, Bella and Alice formed a deep and lasting friendship. Bella thinks that her life is now in danger. Can her stepmother really be that wicked?

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SILENT SNOW, SECRET SNOW

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16170 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 4.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Simpson, Richard
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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It was supposed to be a traditional family Christmas, but when a snowstorm cuts them off from the outside world tragic, startling, and embarrassing secrets are revealed. Nothing will ever be the same in the family again.

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SILENT SNOW, SECRET SNOW

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7849 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 4.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Simpson, Richard
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 3 - ages 12 - 14 years
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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It was supposed to be a traditional family Christmas, but when a snowstorm cuts them off from the outside world tragic, startling, and embarrassing secrets are revealed. Nothing will ever be the same in the family again.

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TROY

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16434 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
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\pause{1500}Reader: Lister, Tony
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 4 - ages 14 - 16 years
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Xanthe and Marpessa are two sisters who work in the royal palaces of the besieged city of Troy. The Goddess, Aphrodite, decides to destroy the bond between the sisters and makes them fall in love with the same warrior, but the sisters like everyone in Troy are living on borrowed time.

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