Story Teller 26 - Series 2

• The Mermaid Who Couldn’t Swim read by Maureen O’Brien
• Give It to Zico! (2) read by Ian Lavender
• Mandy and the Space Race read by Maureen O’Brien
• Somewhere Safe read by Maureen O’Brien
• Noggin and the Money read by Oliver Postgate
• Harlequin and Columbine (3) read by Leonard Rossiter

Story Teller 24 - Series 2

• Harlequin and Columbine (1) read by Leonard Rossiter
• The City of Lost Submarines (3) read by David Tate
• The Kind Scarecrow read by Maureen O’Brien
• Seadna and The Devil read by Anthony Jackson
• The Birthday Candle read by Maureen O’Brien
• Superbabe read by Anthony Jackson
• Upon My Golden Backbone read by Maureen O’Brien

Exile

Following her Creasy Award-winning debut, Garnethill (1999), Mina delivers a second powerful novel with the same self-destructive characters, notably protagonist Maureen O'Donnell, and the same grim, gritty British locales. Maureen, while working at a shelter for abused women in Glasgow, gets pulled into the search for a missing shelter client, Ann Harris, the wife of her friend Leslie's feckless cousin, Jimmy.

Resolution

In this powerful, disturbing, wrenching conclusion to the Scottish author's Garnethill trilogy (Garnethill; Exile), the sense of everydayness renders the horrors Mina's Glaswegians confront even more terrible. Forced prostitution, child sexual abuse, alcoholism, dysfunctionality of every kindall are not so much spotlighted as they are integral parts of the fabric of the characters' lives. But for Maureen O'Donnell, whose continued existence is a triumph of will, there's also a strong sense of family and friendships forged in the crucible of survival.

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

Travis McGee, the self-proclaimed salvage expert who specializes in getting back money and goods taken through scams, returns after spending weeks out on his boat and finds a letter from Helena, a woman he had helped years before and had a brief romance with. Helena is dying and asks Travis to check on her daughter Maureen who has gone completely nuts. Travis learns that Helena died before he got the letter, and even though he doubts there is anything he can do, he travels to see Maureen who is being cared for by her husband and sister.