New Literary Fiction

What a coincidence. The mummies wake up once a millennium, and who should stumble into the pyramid but our hero? This is a fun little story about a British ne'er-do-well who has found possible wealth and prosperity by becoming engaged to the rather plain - and plain is a nice word for it - daughter of a new English nobleman. But wait. He wanders into the pyramid when the mummies have their 24 hours of life once a millennium, and he falls madly in love with the Pharaoh's daughter, who is some 6,000 years old.

There are lots of animals for Oscar the foal to meet at his new home - but will they all be friends? Later, there's an emergency on the farm - and Smudge the little Labrador puppy is just the pup for the job.

Love Me, Love My Sister. It's been 10 years since Beth Taylor has seen the man she secretly gave her heart and body to as a teenager, and now he's her boss. Their relationship grew from the letters that passed between them when he was fighting in Vietnam and she was a high school senior; but he believed the letters where coming from Beth's beautiful older sister Jennifer, whom he had met in a Sydney nightclub the night before he was deployed. Can Beth put her feelings behind her and work with Nic? When Jennifer comes to town with Nic in her predatory sights, will Nic forgive the woman he ...

Alles über den berühmten jungen Zauberer, seine Fans und seine magische Erfolgsgeschichte...

Jess lives with her mum and younger brother on a rough estate. She is struggling with two major issues in her life: she is bullied at school, and her dad has moved out because of a drink problem. When their landlord threatens the family with eviction, everything seems to be falling apart, until Jess's mum receives a surprise letter. A new start brings hope, and Jess makes new friends at a church youth club. But not everything goes smoothly.... An exciting listen by a new author.

The New Life by Orhan Pamuk is a spiritual journey into the arid heartland of Turkey, in the name of love, literature and freedom. 'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces in pursuit of an elusive vision.

A common man of modest means, world-weary George McLast decides to forget all his problems and take the trip he and his beloved wife had only dreamed about before she passed away three years earlier. Despite all the unnerving feelings he's been getting in his chest, his son's disapproval, and his precarious financial situation, he sets out across America following the same route John Steinbeck took in 1959 with his pet poodle Charley.

Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Bored rigid by his pedestrian life as a solicitor, Edgar decides to risk everything on trying to make it as a journalist. When he’s offered the post of foreign correspondent in Barba - a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a terrorist movement - Edgar leaps at the chance to replace a blowhard called "Barrington Saddler" who’s disappeared. But the more Edgar learns about his posting, and his larger-than-life predecessor, the more he realizes that it’s not Barban terrorism he’s covering; it’s Barrington Saddler.

The "Viy" is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground. The following story is a specimen of such folklore. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.