Audio - Crime 2002

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Ian Rankin Beggars Banqet Volume 1 Published July 2002 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75285 346 5
Read by James Macpherson
Short stories written and introduced by Ian Rankin read by James Macpherson
This is the first of three volumes on audio which will include all twenty-one stories of the Beggars Banquet book, read unabridged. Trip Trap involves Inspector Rebus and a crossword; Someone Got to Eddie introduces a sinister tone; A Deep Hole, set in London, was shortlisted for the Anthony award; Natural Selection casts suspicion all round; Facing the Music sees Rebus, true to style, operating in an irregular fashion; Principles of Accounts takes a novel approach to balancing the books and The Only True Comedian forms a wryly comic conclusion. All bear the hallmark of great crime writing. The hugely versatile James Macpherson relishes the variety of characters.
`[His] consistent level of excellence is unmatched in the field of British crime fiction: - Marcel Berlins, The Times
As well as many stage and screen roles, Macpherson has been DCI Jardine in Taggart for thirteen years.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs 30 mins Produced by Nicholas Jones
About The Author
In His Own Words…

Born in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland In 1960. Attended local comprehensive school, then went on to University of Edinburgh. MA in English Literature (specialising in US Literature). Then started studying towards a PhD in the Modern Scottish Novel, but wrote my own stuff instead. Early "successes" were with poetry and the short story. One story raged out of control and became, my first novel, The Flood.
Married in 1986 and moved to London. Worked as a secretary at the National Folktale Centre, then as a journalist (rising to acting editor) on monthly music magazine hi-fi Review. Dropped out in 1990 and moved to the French countryside. This pastoral idyll failed to stop me writing dark, dark fictions.
Was elected a Hawthornden Fellow in 1988. Won Chandler-Fullbright Award in 1992. Won CWA Short Story Dagger in 1994 (or was it '95?); same story shortlisted for 1995 Anthony award. Won the Short Story 'Dagger' again in 1996, and celebrated by moving back to Scotland.
Two sons, Jack and Kit. Er.....that's it.

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Ian Rankin Blood Hunt Published April 2002 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 239 6
Read by James Frain
Writing as Jack Harvey
In the early days of Inspector Rebus books, Ian Rankin decided to write a series of mainstream thrillers under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. Blood Hunt is the third of these.
Gordon Reeve has got a funeral to go to. His journalist brother has been found dead in a car, a presumed suicide. Not a nice reason to be flying the Atlantic.
And when he gets there it seems that nobody wants to answer his questions - why was the car in which his brother’s body was found locked from the outside? Why does the local cop act like his shadow and prevent him talking to the friend who saw Jim last? Why does he have the sinking feeling that it wasn’t a ghost he saw parked outside the crematorium?
Ex-SAS, a professional killer with an anger management problem, it’s not in Reeve’s nature to let such questions go unanswered, particularly when the murderers come knocking at his own front door.
This story contains occasional use of strong language.
James Frain is in the new movie version of The Count of Monte Cristo, released on 19 April, and previous films include Where the Heart Is with Natalie Portman, Reindeer Games, Hilary and Jackie, in which he played Daniel Barenboim, and Elizabeth (as Akaro). He was seen most recently on TV in the lead role of Lorimer Black in William Boyd's Armadillo. He played Edmund in the acclaimed Almeida King Lear.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 25 mins Abridged by Kati Nicholl Produced by Nicholas Jones
About The Author
In His Own Words…

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Candace Robb The Cross Legged Knight Published May 2002 by Soundings at Ł18.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Stephen Thorne
England, 1371. A solemn procession winds out of York Minster after the funeral of Sir Ranulf Pagnell, patriarch of a powerful Yorkshire family. William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, escorted the knight’s remains north after his death in France but he is shunned by the family. They hold him responsible for failing to negotiate Sir Ranulf’s ransom. Only a few days later, Wykeham’s townhouse is found ablaze. The bishop has been staying with John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, and is safe. But when the body of a young woman is discovered, scandal looms. Owen Archer is troubled. He begins to ask questions and, when the dead woman is identified as a midwife, there is panic. Owen has much to do if he is to discover who killed her - and why.
Stephen Thorne trained at RADA and then joined the RSC for three years. He has played seasons at the Mermaid Theatre, The Old Vic and the Bristol Old Vic. His television work includes Daniel Peggotty in David Copperfield and several appearances in Dr. Who. He broadcasts extensively and is well known as a reader of the Book at Bedtime and Morning Story.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs

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Candace Robb A Trust Betrayed Published February 2002 by ISIS at Ł16.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Lesley Mackie
First in a new series of medieval murder mysteries set in Scotland at the time of Robert the Bruce
It is the spring of 1297 and young wife Margaret Kerr is afraid. Her merchant husband Roger has been missing since Martinmas. Has he been caught up in the swelling rebellion against the English? Is he even alive?
Jack Sinclair, her husband’s cousin and factor, has pledged to find him in Edinburgh. When he is found dead, Margaret decides she must herself uncover the truth.
But Scotland is a country at war, Edinburgh an occupied city. With English soldiers patrolling the streets, it is no place for a woman alone. And when she starts to ask questions, Margaret finds a city rife with dark secrets and dangerous loyalties. Soon she discovers how little she knew about either Roger or Jack.
Born in Dundee and trained at the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow, Lesley won a Laurence Olivier Award in 1986 for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the musical play Judy. Her earliest appearances were opposite Billy Connolly in The Great Northern Welly-Boot Show and The Wicker Man, for which she recorded the title song. Lesley lives in Scotland with her two children and husband, actor Terry Wale.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers Strong Poison Published February 2002 by Penguin Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0 14 180354 1
Read by Michael Cochrane
Harriet Vane is awaiting a second trial for the murder of Philip Boyes, the man she once loved.
Despite Harriet’s admission that she had bought arsenic, later shown to be the cause of Philip’s death, the first jury could not agree on her guilt. Lord Peter Wimsey has fallen in love with the prisoner and sets out to prove her innocence. New evidence is hard to come by and Wimsey, working against the clock, must use all his skill and cunning if he is to save Harriet from the noose ...
Michael Cochrane has worked extensively in television, appearing in programmes such as A Touch of Frost, Sharpe, Micawber and Perfect World. His West End theatre credits include Noises Off, The Merchant of Venice and Over the Moon.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Neville Teller Produced by Christopher Venning
About The Author
Dorothy L. Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate of modern languages. Her popularity as a writer is based on the novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and several collections of short stories.
She also became famous during the Second World War for her religious plays, The Man Born to be King, a life of Christ presented in modern English, which at first aroused considerable controversy. She wrote several more religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's La Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957, leaving the translation of Paradiso unfinished. It was completed by her friend, Dr Barbara Reynolds.
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote much of her own life into her books. She was one of the first female graduates of Oxford University, like her character Harriet Vane; she grew up in the same Fenland that appears in The Nine Tailors, and worked in the advertising agency of Murder Must Advertise. Her books are full of the exquisite period detail that links her so firmly to the 'Golden Age' of the Twenties and Thirties, and they have, of course, some of the most brilliantly devised - and devilishly clever - plots in the history of detective fiction.

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Steven Saylor Roman Blood Published November 2002 by ISIS at Ł19.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Peter Wickham
Rome, 80 B.C. and Cicero is about to conduct his first important case, the defence of well-heeled farmer Sextus Roscius against the charge of killing his hated father. Gordianus the Finder, hired by Cicero to dig up evidence, soon learns why the elder Roscius was lured to his death: a summons from Elena, a young prostitute pregnant with a possible heir. Gordianus’s investigations lead him on the track of a brutal conspiracy, uncovering some sordid truths about the Roscius family in time for Cicero to set off the expected courtroom fireworks and invoke the wrath of the dictator Sulla.
Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and directing aboard the Q.E11 took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed. In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia.
Many TV appearances started in Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short stories and serials.
12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 15 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Steven Saylor was born in Texas in 1956 and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied history and classics. He moved to San Francisco and was a newspaper editor (the San Francisco Sentinel), literary agent (most notably of Lars Eighner's memoir of homelessness Travels With Lizbeth) and autobiographical essayist (in the late John Preston's anthologies Hometowns, A Member of the Family and Friends and Lovers), before turning to writing his historical crime novels. He now lives in quiet seclusion in the college town of Berkeley, California where he can often be found doing research in the stacks of the University of California libraries unravelling 2,000 year old crimes of politics and passion.
Steven Saylor is the author of the ROMA SUB ROSA series of historical crime novels seven to date and more planned) set in Ancient Rome during the age of Julius Caesar and featuring the sleuth Gordianus the Finder.
Reviewers and readers alike have hailed Steven Saylor's gift for bringing the past to life and he has a steadily growing legion of loyal fans who devour each new book.
Why Ancient Rome for a setting? Firstly, Saylor has been fascinated by Ancient Rome since childhood but he also claims that "the final years of the Roman Republic offer a treasure trove of all the stuff that makes for a good read. There's political intrigue, courtroom drama, sexual scandal, extremes of splendour and squalor and no shortage of real life murder mysteries. Through it all, Gordianus has somehow managed not just to keep his head above water, but to raise a most unconventional family and always, eventually, to get to the truth of whatever puzzle he is investigating, no matter how great the danger or disturbing the revelation".
Each novel is impeccably researched and is epic in scope, rich in historical detail and provides a vivid depiction of political and social life in Ancient Rome. Each book takes as its starting point a story from Cicero's Orations. "The inclusion of a mystery plot at the center of each novel has posed no problem, as the historical sources offer no shortage of stabbings, poisonings, murder trails and other assorted mayhem. However I have also sought to build each book around a highly significant historical event, with an implicit theme large enough to support a full scale historical novel"
As such Roman Blood features Sulla's dictatorship and the debut of the lawyer Cicero, Arms of Nemesis features the slave revolt of Spartacus and A Murder On The Appian Way examines the murder of Clodius and the trial of Milo which precipitated the civil war between Pompey and Caesar and the ultimate demise of the Roman Republic.
Steven Saylor has also written short stories and essays for the San Francisco Review of Books, The Threepenny Review and Ellery Queen Mystery Series and many of his short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. He is also the author seven volumes of erotic fiction under the penname Aaron Travis.

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Anita Shreve The Weight of Water Published May 2002 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75285 104 7
Read by Francine Brody
In 1873, on a small bleak island off the rich fishing coast of New Hampshire, two Norwegian women are murdered in a fit of brutal passion. A third, Maren Hontvedt, escapes to witness a local man’s execution for the crime.
More than a century later, Jean, a Boston photojournalist, travels to the island on a research assignment to investigate the murder legend. She stumbles upon Maren’s translated memoirs, carefully preserved among the faded photographs, mildewed letters and yellowing guidebooks of the Isle of Shoals archives. As she immerses herself in Maren’s poignant tale of love and loss, Jean senses haunting echoes of her own fading passion and possessive behaviour ...
`Gripping ... Shreve’.s sense of place and pace is excellent’ Time Out
Francine Brody trained at RADA, where she won the Flora Robson Prize. She has performed in theatres all over the United Kingdom in plays such as The Soldier’s Tale, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Death of a Salesman, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Glass Menagerie. Film and television work includes l Dreamed of Africa, Maigret and The Hotel Majestic and Lost and Found. She has also done voiceovers and has recorded a number of audio books including the RNIB unabridged version of Bridget Jones’s Diary.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs Abridged by Katy nicholl Produced by Elspeth Santa Clara
About The Author
Anita Shreve is the author of the acclaimed novels Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When,, Resistance, The Weight of Water and the international number one bestsellers The Pilot’s Wife and Fortune’s Rocks. She teaches writing at Amherst College and divides her time between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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Cath Staincliffe Stone Cold Red Hot Published April 2002 by Soundings at Ł16.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Julia Franklyn
A Sal Kilkenny Mystery
When private eye Sal Kilkenny is asked to discover the whereabouts of Jennifer Pickering, disinherited by her family twenty years before, it seems that Jennifer does not want to be found. Her brother Roger is determined to locate her - their mother is dying and he craves an emotional reunion to settle their differences before it is too late. As events unfold, single-mother Sal becomes engrossed in the mystery - against her better judgement.
As she spends her days tracing Jennifer, Sal’s nights are taken up with an emotional and often dangerous assignment on one of Manchester’s toughest housing estates. In a highly charged atmosphere, tempers flare. The two cases collide when events, past and present, spiral out of control . . .
‘A writer with wit, energy and a point of view. Stand back and watch her go.’ Literary Review
Julia Franklyn has a real passion for talking books and has been reading them for the last fifteen years. She has combined this with a busy career in radio and television both as a presenter and also as a voice-over with thousands of commercials to her credit. For the last eight years she's been a presenter on ITV's Gardener's Diary.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Cath Staincliffe is creator of the Sal Kilkenny mysteries. These books, set in contemporary Manchester (Northern England), feature single-parent, private eye Sal Kilkenny who, like many modern women, has to juggle the demands of work with those of parenthood.
Looking For Trouble (Crocus 1994) was short-listed for the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel and was also serialised on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4.
Cath Staincliffe was raised in Bradford with a few years interlude in Torquay. After graduating with a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts from Birmingham University she moved to Manchester to start a job. She lives with her partner and their three children. Combines working on freelance community arts projects and childcare with writing. She's a keen crime reader and aspiring gardener. A member of the Crime Writers Association and Mystery Women.
Cath has always written poetry and stories (from infant school onwards..) She studied play-writing at university but her writing was sporadic and limited to poetry for several years while she worked as a community artist. Cath devoted more time to writing when on maternity leave with her first child and she attended women's writers workshops at Commonword, Manchester. Her poetry and short stories were published in anthologies and she became interested in developing longer pieces initially in science fiction. She writes in small snatches, in longhand, sitting on the sofa (no room of her own!) and never works out all the plot first - which leads to tricky times. She attends a novel writing group where she gets and gives support and encouragement.
Looking For Trouble was inspired by the crime fiction that Cath likes to read. She chose to develop the domestic life of her heroine, Sal Kilkenny, by making her a mother with all the attendant responsibilities and concerns. Sal is a character whose life reflects the experience of the many women who have to combine business and work with home and family.
The City of Manchester provides a strong background to the stories, there is great diversity of place and atmosphere and the cosmopolitan make-up of the city means Cath can find any number of characters and enterprises to write about.
Cath is a founder member of Murder Squad, a group of seven crime fiction writers who have come together to promote their work and the genre to a wider public. Murder Squad carry out readings, literary projects, residencies and workshops in a whole range of settings. For further details see their website www.murdersquad.co.uk

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Andrew Taylor Death's Own Door Published April 2002 by Soundings at Ł18.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Peter Wickham
Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical dagger
When a widower with a distinguished war record is found dead in his summerhouse with a bottle of whisky beside him, the verdict is suicide. But Inspector Richard Thornhill and his lover, reporter Jill Francis, soon realise there’s far more to it than that.
The widower’s death touches many lives. The investigation leads to a moderately famous artist and his wife. To Thornhill’s former boss, retired and loathing it. To a charwoman and an army officer. To a councillor with more pies than fingers to put in them. To a dilettante magazine proprietor and an unmarried mother. Worst of all, to Thornhill’s growing horror, the investigation leads to his wife, Edith, and to another death during a highly charged summer before the war. But a third death is yet to come.
‘There’s no denying Taylor’s talent.’ Time Out
'The most underrated crime writer in Britain today' Val McDermid
'An absorbing read' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and directing aboard the Q.E11 took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed. In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia.
Many TV appearances started in Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short stories and serials.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Andrew Taylor has been a full-time writer since 1981. He has written over twenty books, mainly crime novels and thrillers. They include the series featuring William Dougal, a detective who occasionally commits murders as well as solves them; an espionage trilogy whose chronology stretches from the 1930s to the 1980s; psychological thrillers; and books for younger readers.
CAROLINE MINUSCULE won the John Creasey Memorial Award from the Crime Writers' Association and an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America. OUR FATHERS' LIES was shortlisted for the CWA's Gold Dagger. The teenage thriller SNAPSHOT was shortlisted for the NatWest Children's Book of the Year Award.
Public Lending Right estimates put his British public library readership in the top one per cent. When CAROLINE MINUSCULE was serialised on BBC Radio 4 it reached a peak audience of up to four million. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. He has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, teacher, librarian, labourer and freelance publisher's editor. He and his wife (and plot consultant) live with their children in the Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales. He serves on the committee of the Crime Writers' Association.

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M.J. Trow Maxwell's Reunion Published February 2002 by ISIS at Ł17.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Peter Wickham
A baffling mystery featuring teacher and amateur sleuth Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell
When Peter Maxwell attends a school reunion of the class of ‘65, all is not as it seems among his old chums. They are career men, family men - but the years have taken their toll, and the seething tensions of their school years surface in unlikely ways. At the end of the reunion weekend, a man is dead, hanging from the bell rope of the old school. When a second death occurs, Maxwell finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
What is the secret that has been lurking under Maxwell’s nose all these years - and could he be on the murderer’s list for killing No. 3?
‘The most sardonic wit in current crime fiction’ The Times
Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and directing aboard the Q.E11 took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed. In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia.
Many TV appearances started in Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short stories and serials.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs

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Jess Walter Over Tumbled Graves Published July 2002 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Laurence Bouvard
Spokane, Washington, a bustling city split by hurtling white-water falls. One afternoon the body of a young woman is found buried in a riverside park - then a second body, then a third. Before the week is out Caroline Mabry is plunged into a full-blown hunt for a serial murderer her colleagues have nicknamed the Southbank Strangler.
Caroline and her troubled mentor, Alan Dupree, bridle under an investigation overrun by headline-grabbing specialists and bean-counting statisticians. As they close in on a suspect, Caroline and Alan confront dark truths about the killer-hunting industry and about their attraction to each other. And in the end they come face to face with an evil very different - and far more alarming - than the one they thought they were chasing.
Originally from Massachusetts, Laurence Bouvard trained at LAMDA and made her professional debut in the West End. Her TV appearances include The Tomorrow People and EastEnders. Laurence has recently recorded The Dud Avocado for BBC Radio 4.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 5 mins
About The Author
Jess Walter is the author of Over Tumbled Graves and the 1995 nonfiction book Every Knee Shall Bow (re-issued in winter 2001 as Ruby Ridge) as well as co-author of In Contempt. An award-winning journalist who has written for Newsweek, the Washington Post and The Boston Globe, Jess also writes screenplays, short stories and essays. He lives in Spokane with his wife, three kids and a 1963 Lincoln Continental that gets 6 miles per gallon. On the highway.

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Laura Wilson A Little Death Published July 2002 by ISIS at Ł17.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Anna Bentinck
London, 1955. Three bodies are found in a house but when the police search for the murder weapon, vital evidence has been destroyed. One of the victims is former society beauty Georgina Gresham, prime suspect in the notorious murder of her husband, James, almost thirty years earlier. Beside her lie the bodies of her brother Edmund and housekeeper Ada.
But there is a link with the past. In the 1890s three children played together in a beautiful garden. Their lives were secure, their future certain - until the youngest child was found with fatal head injuries . . .
‘Time past evoked so strongly you can taste it. Intelligent, absorbing and highly accomplished.’ Literary Review
Anna Bentinck has made over 800 broadcasts for BBC radio. Her animation voice work includes the series 64 Zoo Lane, while on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. On film she has been seen in The Trojan Women, Alice in Wonderland and To the Devil a Daughter.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Laura Wilson was brought up in London and has degrees in English Literature from Somerville College, Oxford and UCL, London. She has worked briefly and ingloriously as a teacher, and more successfully as an editor of non-fiction books. She has written history books for children and is interested in history, particularly of the recent past, painting and sculpture, uninhabited buildings, underground structures, cemeteries and time capsules. She lives in London with a basset hound.

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