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The Kashmir Shawl written by Rosie Thomas performed by Nerys Hughes on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

1939: Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Travelling from lonely Ladakh, high in the Himalayas, Nerys discovers a new world in the city of Srinagar. Here, in the exquisite heart of Kashmir, the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw ever closer. Nerys is caught up in a dangerous friendship, and by the time she is reunited with her husband...

The Shawl written by Cynthia Ozick performed by Yelena Shmulenson on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781598876840
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Modern
Duration: 120 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Performer 1: Yelena Shmulenson

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At once fiercely immediate and complex in their implications, "The Shawl" and "Rosa" succeed in imagining the unimaginable: the horror of the Holocaust and the emptiness of its aftermath. They were written in 1977 but were first published in the early 1980s in The New Yorker. Both "The Shawl" and "Rosa" won...

first prize in the O. Henry Prize Stories and were chosen for Best American Short Stories.

In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears 30 years later, "a madwoman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel.

And in both stories there is a shawl-a shawl that can sustain a starving child or inadvertently destroy her, or even magically conjure her back to life.

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Dead Simple written by Peter James performed by William Gaminara on Audio CD (Abridged)£12.99

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts...