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ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Adair, Gilbert
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7912 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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At a Christmas house party on Dartmoor in 1935, Raymond Gentry's dead body is discovered in a locked room. Obviously not a suicide, so how was the murder committed? One of the guests, crime writer Evadne Mount, is on hand to investigate.

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BURNING BLUE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Holland, James
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6666 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: War Stories
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Joss Lambert was always a loner, but at school he becomes friendly with Guy Liddell, and through him the whole Liddell family. Their home is the only place he is happy, but with war looming this happiness can't last. Joss joins the RAF and fights for his life in the Battle of Britain and again in the heat of North Africa.

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CALL OF THE WILD

\pause{1500}Author: Grieve, Guy
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7865 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 14.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Travel - World
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Thinking his life is going nowhere, the author abandoned his wife and young children for a year, and set off for Alaska. He had to exist in one of the harshest environments in the world, miles from anyone. A gripping account of his adventures.

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DIVIDED KINGDOM

\pause{1500}Author: Thomson, Rupert
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7724 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 15.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Science Fiction
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As part of a radical social experiment, The Rearrangement, the UK population is divided into four quarters according to personality. Eight-year-old Thomas is taken from his parents and sent to the Red Quarter for the sanguine. Years later special privileges allow him to visit the Blue Quarter which sets Thomas off on a voyage of self discovery.

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GOING HOME

\pause{1500}Author: Thomson, June
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7686 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 6.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Detective & Mystery Stories
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DCI Jack Finch searches for a missing girl whose disappearance may be linked to a new arrival in the neighbourhood.

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SOCIETY OF OTHERS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Nicholson, William
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7167 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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An alienated young man decides to go hitchhiking around Europe, just to get his family off his back. His journey soon turns into an orgy of violence.

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VAGRANT KING, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Thompson, E V
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7477 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914
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As a page to the future Charles II, Ralf rapidly learns about court intrigue. He manages to foil a Catholic plot to kidnap Charles, and in 1645, just after the defeat of Naseby he follows his master into exile. Years later he yearns to return to Cornwall but his dreams are shattered.

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VISIBLE WORLD, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Slouka, Mark
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7907 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Love Stories
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A son trying to understand his mother's past, travels to Prague where he discovers a tragic love affair, and the heroic story of the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance. Growing up in New York fragments of the past were ever present but he couldn't understand the truth.

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WINTER QUARTERS

\pause{1500}Author: Duggan, Alfred
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7720 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Historical Fiction - Pre 1914
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Camul and Acco, Gauls of the Pyrenees, leave home to join the Roman army in the time of Julius Caesar. After a series of adventures en route they continue on with the doomed army into what is now Iraq, where they encounter Parthian horse-bowmen under their leader Surenas.

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