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ACCORDING TO QUEENEY

\pause{1500}Author: Bainbridge, Beryl
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5882 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Knight-Webb, Patricia
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Having completed his life's work, the Dictionary of the English Language, Dr Johnson is prominent in 18th Century society, but his home life is chaotic. He develops a relationship with a friend's wife, which is observed by Mrs Thrale's daughter, Queeney.

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ADAM RUNAWAY

\pause{1500}Author: Prince, Peter
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7227 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Thorpe, David
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1721, and Adam Hanaway arrives in wealthy, cosmopolitan Lisbon seeking to restore his fatherãs lost fortune. But Adam is expelled from his uncleãs firm and must clear his name.

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AFTER MARY

\pause{1500}Author: McMahon, Katherine
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6074 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 17.75
\pause{1500}Reader: Hodgson, Margaret
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Her father is a favoured courtier of James 1, yet her grandmother is a devout Catholic, causing Isabel Stanhope to lead a double life. Torn between her duty to her father and her own desperate longings, Isabel leaves Jacobean London and travels to war torn Europe.

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ALCHEMIST'S DAUGHTER, THE

\pause{1500}Author: McMahon, Katherine
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7928 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Down, Nicola
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Emilie Seldon has been raised by her father who wants to turn her into a philosopher and alchemist, but he fails to teach her about the mysteries of the human heart. In 1725, two fascinating strangers arrive and her father's spell is broken. Banished to London she has much to learn about human nature and her family's complicated past.

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ALIAS GRACE

\pause{1500}Author: Atwood, Margaret
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4886 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 21.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Clegg, Nancy
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Booker short list. Based on a true story, Grace was convicted of the murder of her employer in Canada in the 1840s, but was she the murderer?

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ANGRY TIDE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Graham, Winston
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5275 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 15
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 21.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Clegg, Nancy
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7th in Poldark series: Sequel to 'The Four Swans' (5229). Ross Poldark is now the MP for Truro, but his old feud with George Warleggan still continues.

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ANNA KARENINA

\pause{1500}Author: Tolstoy, Leo
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5736 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 25
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 36.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Sanctuary, Gerald
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Tolstoy's famous novel of a young wife and a doomed love affair

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ANNA KARENINA

\pause{1500}Author: Tolstoy, Leo
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7359 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 28
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 40.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Horovitch, David
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Tolstoy's famous novel of a young wife and a doomed love affair.

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ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS

\pause{1500}Author: Bennett, Arnold
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2285 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Beauchamp, Linsey
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Anna receives an inheritance but has to contend with her miserly father

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ARABELLA

\pause{1500}Author: Heyer, Georgette
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 2255 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
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\pause{1500}Reader: Gaunt, Valerie
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Another Regency romance

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