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  Solicitor the

  Shauna Ritz

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  The Solicitor is the story of Marcello Luna, a brilliant psychopath who is an intellectual, wealthy,  
  Fulbright Scholar, and linguist. As events unfold, the narrative shifts its focus to Beatriz Luna,  
  and the hardships she endures as her husband’s reckless decisions and bigger than life personality 
  plunge them into a series of chaotic events, impacting them and those they leave behind.   
  Spanning beyond a decade commencing in 1977 between Monte Video, Uruguay and Los Angeles, California,  
  accurate geographical details, noteworthy contemporary public figure, in addition to volatile civil and social  
  issues during the time of the AIDS epidemic, authenticate this compelling story’s relevance and cautionary tale. 

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  Twisting Hercules

  Kim Malaj

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  The clear blue skies suddenly turn an eerie green and within a few seconds it begins … nature explodes with a vengeance.Like most people, Silvey Rhoades pays little attention to the details about the weather. But when disaster strikes her home town, she’s confronted with a secret once buried for sixty years. It’s discovery only possible because of a tiny crack in Silvey’s reality. She races through the dark and even darker past to find her way back home.Will she make it back or will she remain untethered to the world she once knew?

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  George Silverman's Explanation

  Charles Dickens, Dominic Gerrard

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  George Silverman’s Explanation (published in The Atlantic in 1868) is one of Charles Dickens’ rarer short stories. Here the author immerses himself entirely in his character of George Silverman: addressing the reader in a dramatic monologue in which he is reticent, perhaps even unwilling to open up to us, but at the same time compelled to unburden his heart.  
  So deeply does Dickens embody the role of Silverman that in a letter to an editor he writes that: 'I feel as if I had read something (by somebody else) which I should never get out of my head …’ 
  This tale is an indictment against poverty as powerful as you will find in any of Dickens’ larger works. It is also a biting satire against the 'daring ignorance' and little 'meannesses' found in many non-conformist movements. Above all it is a deeply affecting examination of how far a childhood of of both want and punishing religious control can impact a man’s self-worth and future happiness. 
  Narrated by Dominic Gerrard 
  Cover Art by Léna Gibert

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  Lord of the Stolen Mountains:...

  Gaurav Garg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  From the blood-soaked mountains of 18th-century Albania, a legend was forged in fire and vengeance. Ali of Tepelena, driven by his father’s murder and the indomitable will of his mother, Khamko, rises from a dispossessed kleft to a cunning warlord. His ambition knows no bounds, his ruthlessness no mercy. He outwits pashas, tames wild clans, and carves a formidable pashalik from the decaying heart of the Ottoman Empire, making Ioannina his glittering, fear-laden capital. 
  But as the Lion of Ioannina’s power swells, so too does the envy of his rivals and the alarm of Sultan Mahmud II in Constantinople. Ali plays a dangerous game with European powers, navigates treacherous Ottoman politics, and wages brutal wars against defiant foes like the heroic Souliotes. His reign becomes a court of stark contrasts: opulence and terror, patronage and purges. Can one man, however mighty, defy an empire forever? Or will his insatiable hunger for power lead to a devastating downfall, leaving behind a legacy as complex and bloodstained as the mountains he once claimed as his own?

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  The Way of All Flesh

  Samuel Butler

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  "The Way of All Flesh" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, published posthumously in 1903. The narrative critiques Victorian society, particularly its hypocrisy surrounding family, religion, and education, through the lens of the Pontifex family across four generations 
  The story begins with John Pontifex, a carpenter whose ambitions lead him to become a wealthy but morally questionable businessman. His obsession with social status sets the stage for the struggles faced by his descendants, particularly his son George and grandson Theobald. 
  The central character, Ernest Pontifex, emerges as the great-grandson of John. Raised in a repressive environment by his domineering parents, Theobald and Christina, Ernest grapples with the expectations placed upon him to follow a path in the clergy. Despite initial enthusiasm for religious life, he becomes disillusioned during his time at Cambridge and later as a curate. His attempts to reform the Church lead to personal crises, including a misguided sexual advance that results in imprisonment.

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  The Liverpool Boy

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers. 
  Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool. 
  Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up. 
  Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times. 
  Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands? 
  The Liverpool Boy was previously titled The Liverpool Basque. 
  In this top-rated historical saga, Manuel's journey from a poverty-stricken boy to a wise old man is a compelling narrative. His coming of age in the harsh streets of Liverpool is a poignant reminder of our roots and the strength of community bonds. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (The Winter Bride), Maureen Lee (The Kelly Sisters), Pam Howes (Dreams on Mersey Square), Anna Jacobs (Lavender Lane), and Rosie Goodwin (Dancing Till Midnight). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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