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BEING DEAD

\pause{1500}Author: Crace, Jim
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6797 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Zoologists Joseph and Cecile have returned to Baritone Bay to rekindle a flame after thirty years of marriage. There a thief batters them to death, but their bodies are only discovered a week later, as if they are quietly resting.

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COMMODORE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: O'Brian, Patrick
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4989 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 11.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Adventure Stories
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914
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Book 17 in Jack Aubrey Series. Jack Aubrey now flies the pennant of a Commodore, but might the nature of the secret mission on which the squadron is sent present a conflict of loyalties?

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PASSAGE TO INDIA, A

\pause{1500}Author: Forster, E M
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 763 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 11.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: 20th Century Classics
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The classic novel of India during the British Raj.

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QUEST FOR KIM

\pause{1500}Author: Hopkirk, Peter
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4780 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.50
\pause{1500}Main subject: Travel - World
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Plays, Theatre & Dance
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The author travels across India & Pakistan to unravel the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel, Kim .

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RATTLE BAG, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Heaney, Seamus
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7806 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Poetry
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An anthology of poems, old and new, traditional form and free verse, selected by two leading poets, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

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SOLDIER'S ART, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Powell, Anthony
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5929 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 5
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 7.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: 20th Century Classics
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Book 8 in 'A Dance to the Music of Time' Series: Sequel to 'The Valley of Bones' (3361). Further episodes in the lives of the family and friends of narrator Nicholas Jenkins.

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TALES FROM OVID

\pause{1500}Author: Hughes, Ted
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5488 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.25
\pause{1500}Main subject: Poetry
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1998 Whitbread Prize Winner. A masterful translation of twenty-four stories from the Metamorphoses.

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