Item category 1: Adult Spoken Word

A tragic accident leaves the small seaside town of Fairweather reeling but when a stranger arrives to the community and joins their book club, the locals find their lives changing in ways they never could have imagined.

This is the long-awaited autobiography of national treasure Bernard Cribbins. Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service...

Work at Price's Candle Factory in Battersea is tedious for intelligent, 17-year-old Hillie Hardwick, but she knows she is lucky to have a job at all. Her home life is no better, as she constantly battles with her exacted and bullying father in order to protect her mother and five younger siblings...

New-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to the peaceful semi-retirement in the remote fishing village of Djevulsfjord on the stunningly beautiful island of Vagar. But when two boys go missing during the first whale hunt of the season, the repercu...

Nothing can prepare writer Hillary Cox for seeing her lover of more than 20 years, mining magnate John St. George, announce his engagement to another woman on television. Seeking revenge, she begins writing a tell-all book, exposing John.

It's the 1960s and Lily Denham is about to begin her studies at Oxford University. On her first day she meets Harry Gale and Max Farley, two fellow undergraduates who are both full of mischievous charm. The three of them become firm friends and enjoy exploring everything Oxford has to offer, from...

What lengths would you go to if you thought a killer was innocent? Within the walls of the high-security psychiatric facility, Crowmont Hospital, reside many violent offenders. To nurse Leah Smith, no matter what, all offenders are patients first and foremost. When Leah is appointed as nurse to I...

Grace and Tom Penderford have a strong marriage, a comfortable home in the Hertfordshire countryside, and a healthy baby girl. They are happy - normal. But soon after Chloe turns three, tragedy strikes. A disease called Sepsis claims the life of their daughter, devastating their little family. Th...