Audiobooks Narrated by George Bray

Dead Straight Line

"Bloomsbury presents Dead Straight Line by Malcolm Duffy, read by George Bray. Two unlikely worlds collide as prize-winning Malcolm Duffy explores the life-changing repercussions of a single action in a game gone wrong. Sixteen-year-old Rory is a rule-breaker, a risk taker, a maverick. As a kick he comes up with a game called Dead Straight Line. The idea is simple – wherever you happen to be, you’ve got to get home in a dead straight line. Across the back gardens of stranger’s houses, locked parks, trespassing on private property – whatever it takes. One day, Rory pressures his friend Eliot into playing, resulting in a serious accident. Shunned by friends and facing pressure from his furious parents, Rory becomes even more angry and disruptive. When his school suggests helping out a care home, he’s unimpressed. But paired up with Tanker, an eighty-year-old Geordie military veteran, who fought in the Falklands War, things slowly begin to change. From seeking thrills to finding friends, choosing the right path in life is never a dead straight line. But there is always a way. P 2026 Bloomsbury C 2026 Malcolm Duffy P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"

Malcolm Duffy (Author), George Bray (Narrator)

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Rooney

"His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns as an 'M.P.'. This has nothing to do with the Houses of Parliament, but is short for 'Muck Pusher': Rooney is a dustman. A shy man, Rooney has one aim in life - a comfortable home, but with a difference - he did not want a wife. As a result, Rooney spends his time dodging women; his canniness becomes the envy of his mates and the despair of predatory widows and single women. Yet this resolute bachelor's way of thinking is changed in spite of himself, when he moves his treasured bits of furniture and meets Nellie. She seems shy too, but when she uncharacteristically 'breaks out', not only does she throw the gentle Rooney into utter confusion, she awakens in him feelings he never knew he possessed. Rooney, one of Catherine Cookson's most endearing characters, is an ordinary bloke with a dustbin on his shoulder, romance in his soul and Sir Galahad lurking just below skin level. The story of how Rooney finally pushes through to the surface is warm, amusing and thoroughly enjoyable."

Catherine Cookson (Author), George Bray (Narrator)

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