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BEL CANTO

\pause{1500}Author: Patchett, Ann
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6212 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Contemporary Fiction
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Winner of Orange Prize 2002. A poor country is hosting an international gathering to promote international trade. This is stormed by kidnappers and a lengthy siege ensues during which two couples fall in love, turning an horrific imprisonment into an unexpected heaven on earth.

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CLOSE TO HOME

\pause{1500}Author: Macdonald, E A
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6359 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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Rising political star, Hugh Eastwood, and his wife, Roz, have an enviable lifestyle. After the birth of their beloved son Roz returns to work leaving Charley with a nanny, Alice. Their world is shattered when Charley is fatally injured and Alice is the obvious suspect, but is the truth closer to home?

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CONTINENTAL DRIFT

\pause{1500}Author: Purves, Libby
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6539 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Henry is a hip, young DJ who worries about his son. Philip is an ex-MP ruined by scandal, Diane his long-suffering wife. Marianne has replaced her husband with chocolates and gin whilst Lizzie battles serious illness. Suddenly Eva, a Polish backpacker, arrives in their lives and with bewildering speed they find their worlds changing shape.

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LITTLE FOXES

\pause{1500}Author: Morpurgo, Michael
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 16342 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 3
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 2.75
\pause{1500}Main subject: Key stage 2 - ages 8 - 11 years
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The only place Billy feel alive is by the canal watching a cygnet and a family of fox cubs. Here he can forget about the bullies at school, but when his secret place isdiscovered and the fox family decimated, Bill and the last fox cub run for their lives.

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LONG YESTERDAY, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Gladstone-Millar, Lynne
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6439 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 0
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Two children, Patrick and Rosie, have both been caught up in the events of the second world war, one in England and one in Europe. When, as adults, they find themselves sharing a house, the effects of their wartime experiences start to have an impact on their lives.

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LUCIA, LUCIA

\pause{1500}Author: Trigiani, Adriana
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6758 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Lucia Sartori is the most beautiful girl in Greenwich Village, with a glamorous job in a Fifth Avenue store. Though never short of suitors she is not prepared to swap her satisfying career for the role of wife and mother. Until, that is, a handsome stranger comes into her life!

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RAM IN THE WELL, A: A WELSH HOMECOMING

\pause{1500}Author: Knox-Mawer, June
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6320 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 7.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - General
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Travel - British Isles
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Although June Knox-Mawer and her husband were born and brought up in Wales, study and work meant they lived all over the world. Gradually a sense of homesickness led her to search for a house in Wales, initially to use for breaks but later to be a permanent home. She found this in Hafod!

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