Audio Book Titles
Added to the Braille and Talking Book
Library in December 1998
Please contact the Braille and Talking Book Library for details on how to borrow these titles.
BEAUMAN, Sally BELOTTI, Andrew J BINCHY, Maeve CAFARELLA, Tony CHOY, Wayson COFFEY, B. R COOKSON, Catherine COOKSON, Catherine DAVIS, Rankin DINGO, Ernie EVERETT, Les FRANCIS, Dick GOWER, Iris HARDY, Thomas JENKINS, Mark NICHOL, John PRATCHETT, Terry ROBINSON, Patrick THEROUX, Paul THORNE, Nicola TOWNSEND, Sue YAHIA, Latif
Danger zones
Narrated by Julia Sherburn
Adventure stories
Mentally scarred by what she has witnessed in Bosnia, journalist Gini Hunter pursues a story about a missing teenager to help bring her out of her malaise. The trail
leads her across Europe and she meets two men, one a possible murderer.
15 cassettes Accession number: S5504 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description, violence and strong language.
Let your spirit run free
Narrated by Eric Carlin
Guillain-Barre Syndrome--Patients--Biography
Factual and moving account of the author's handling Guillain-Barre disease, his progress through Perth's
hospitals and specialists and how he found his way through to recovery.
4 cassettes Accession number: S5505 (WABL)
Evening class
Narrated by Kate Binchy
General fiction
Novel of linked episodes about a schoolteacher and his motley collection of students, who find new leases of life through the Italian evening classes which he sets up after everything in his life goes wrong.
12 cassettes Accession number: S5496 (CHIV)
Who gets the pearl?
Narrated by Pip Leake
Adventure stories
World War One mystery, adventure, romance, originating
from the author's experiences and knowledge of Australia's rugged north-west from Broome to Geraldton and beyond. Australian author.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5513 (WABL)
The jade peony
Narrated by Frances Dharmalingam
Canada--Fiction
Story related by three young siblings who tell of their family's move from China to Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930's and describes the formation of each child's identity.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5516 (WABL)
Blokes : stories from Australian lives
Narrated by Ted Parker
Australia--Biography
Funny and moving autobiographical stories looking at a
variety of blokes' lifes in remarkably differing circumstances.
4 cassettes Accession number: S5511 (WABL)
The desert crop
Narrated by Susan Jameson
Historical fiction
Money was tight in the farming communities of Felburn in the 1880s, so when widowed Hector Stewart announced he was to marry Moira Connelly, a wealthy relative, both were convinced the other was part of the landed gentry.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5497 (CHIV)
The solace of sin
Narrated by Barbara Reynolds
General fiction
Set in the 1970's, this is the story of a strong and
independent woman whose life is transformed by new surroundings and new acquaintances.
9 cassettes Accession number: S5502 (WABL)
Hung Jury
Narrated by John Goldsmith
Suspense
The Attorney General is kidnapped by a terrorist who demands as his ransom the acquittal of his lover for the murder of a research scientist. But one of the jury members realises it is a conspiracy to protect the
chemical power industry.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5495 (WABL)
Great journeys of the world
Narrated by Ted Parker
Travel
A collection of travel essays about some of the most
exciting parts of the world, including Ernie Dingo's sharp and witty piece on the Kimberleys.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5512 (WABL)
Gravel rash : 100 years of goldfields football
Narrated by Ray Thompson
Sports stories
A detailed and fascinating profile of players and incidents relating to Goldfields football. With touches of humour it is a good addition to the history of football in WA.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5514 (WABL)
10-lb penalty
Narrated by Tony Britton
Detective or mystery stories
Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger
ambition than to ride in steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father requests he does not jeopardize his political career, but enemies within politics can infiltrate even a horse race.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5498 (CHIV)
Firebird
Narrated by Anne Robson
Romance
At the age of 14, Llinos Savage becomes the owner of a Welsh pottery. Two men in her life complicate things and
as she fends off one and tries to cope with the other her life unfolds in a tale of love, tragedy, mysticism and romance.
12 cassettes Accession number: S5500 (WABL)
The woodlanders
Narrated by Samuel West
Historical fiction
For centuries Little Hintock has been sustained by the surrounding woodland. But the lives of the villagers are caught up in the unspoken love of Marty for Giles and his
devotion to Grace and the troubled relationship between Grace and Dr.Edred Fitzpiers
10 cassettes Accession number: S5499 (CHIV)
To Timbuktu : a journey down the Niger
Narrated by Elwyn Edwards
Adventure stories
More than just an adventure book. Story about the meaning of friendship, fear, loss and death. Jenkins examines the why of adventure.
6 cassettes Accession number: S5515 (WABL)
** Content warning: Strong language.
Vanishing point
Narrated by Bernard Doyle
Adventure stories
One of the RAF's most ambitious pilots discovers that it
was not the Iraqis who used the most virulent strains of chemical warfare during the Gulf War, in this rollercoaster ride of action, heroism and intrigue.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5503 (WABL)
Jingo
Narrated by Elwyn Edwards
Science fiction
A new Discworld novel. A small, uninhabitable island rises from the sea, and Solid Jackson thinks he's discovered it first. But so too do the Klatchain fishermen Akhan and Arif.
There's only one answer - war!!.
9 cassettes Accession number: S5506 (WABL)
Nimitz class
Narrated by John Phillips
Spy stories
In 2002 the Nimitz class carrier USS Thomas Jefferson
and her crew of 6000, disappear from radar screens.
11 cassettes Accession number: S5501 (WABL)
** Content warning: Strong language.
My other life
Narrated by Pat Stroud
Theroux, Paul--Journeys
Autobiographical novel which journeys over a career which has spanned thirty years and distils into poignant episodes.
14 cassettes Accession number: S5508 (WABL)
Haunted landscape
Narrated by Marie Almond
Suspense
Artist and widow Karen Blackwood returns to her childhood home and meets Hugh Fullerton, the reckless and handsome master of Hammersleigh Hall. In the ruins of the Abbey grounds she encounters a woman's figure which
then disappears into the mist....
5 cassettes Accession number: S5507 (WABL)
Ghost children
Narrated by Anne Gardiner
Romance
Fifteen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child.
Now the child's father, who had given up on the world, re-enters Angela's life, and the couple renew a love and passion lost all those years ago.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5509 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description, violence and strong language.
I was Saddam's son
Narrated by Michael Crouch
Iraq--Politics and government
Author who served as a double for Saddam Hussein's oldest son, Uday, was privy to the horrific excesses perpetrated on the Iraqi people. Yahia fled to Europe and his message seems to be a warning that Uday is a far
worse prospect than his father Saddam.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5510 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description, violence.
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