Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
A Certain Age Cover Play Sample

Sample may contain unsuitable content.

Open Audiobook

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

A Certain Age

AuthorLynne Truss

NarratorVarious

Duration5h 33m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories

PublisherChivers

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

In the tradition of Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads', Lynne Truss' twelve monologues are about love, romance, friendship and family. Here are six men and six women, each with a very different story to tell, ranging from the wife who feels better when her husband disappears to the pedant who undergoes a TV makeover and the Olympic swimmer who can't escape the shadow of her sister.

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

Grand Union Cover

Grand Union

Author: Zadie Smith

Grand Union

Author Zadie Smith

Narrator Zadie Smith

Duration 6h 5m

In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act...

View Book
Boil Some Water - Lots of It Cover

Boil Some Water - Lots of It

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

Boil Some Water - Lots of It

Author F Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator Kerry Shale

Duration 11m

A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.

View Book
Penguin Sleep Tales Cover

Penguin Sleep Tales

Author: Various

Penguin Sleep Tales

Author Various

Narrator Sally Scott

Duration 2h 30m

Brought to you by Penguin. How often do you think about your bedtime routine? Almost half of people in Britain say they're kept awake at night due to worry and stress - so making time to switch off in the hour before bed is more important than ever. Penguin Sleep Tales are ten specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and rel...

View Book
Katina Cover

Katina

Author: Roald Dahl

Katina

Author Roald Dahl

Narrator Murphy Cillian

Duration 55m

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...

View Book
The Adventures of Inspector Steine Cover

The Adventures of Inspector Steine

Author: Lynne Truss

The Adventures of Inspector Steine

Author Lynne Truss

Narrator Full Cast

Duration 2h 46m

Constable Twitten takes over the narrative in this third series of Lynne Truss's seaside comedy about celebrity policeman Inspector Steine. Back from an attachment at Scotland Yard, Twitten finds Brunswick more depressed than ever about villainy in Brighton. To cheer him up, Twitten persuades Brunswick's favourite writer Harry Jupiter, crime report...

View Book
The Casebook of Inspector Steine Cover

The Casebook of Inspector Steine

Author: Lynne Truss

The Casebook of Inspector Steine

Author Lynne Truss

Narrator The Cast

Duration 2h 46m

The second series of Lynne Truss's hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller. Inspector Steine - the amiable, unworldly detective who refuses to believe in Brighton's criminal underworld - returns for another six episodes. It is 1957 and, as the series opens, all crime has stopped along the South Coast. But Mrs. Groynes - the cockney charlady who...

View Book
Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass Cover

Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass

Author: G K Chesterton

Father Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass

Author G K Chesterton

Narrator Andrew Sachs

SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 1

Duration 29m

Andrew Sachs stars as the famous clerical sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, h...

View Book
Cutting A Dash (eats, Shoots & Leaves) Cover

Cutting A Dash (eats, Shoots & Leaves)

Author: Lynne Truss

Cutting A Dash (eats, Shoots & Leaves)

Author Lynne Truss

Narrator Lynne Truss

Duration 1h 10m

This is the Radio 4 series that inspired the bestselling book 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves'. Over five programmes Lynne Truss explores changing fashions in punctuation; for example, she accompanies the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society through Berwick Street Market on the hunt for the 'greengrocer's apostrophe'!

View Book
After Dark Classics Cover

After Dark Classics

Author: Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various

After Dark Classics

Author Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various

Narrator Various

Duration 6h 17m

This collection comprises the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allen Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems contained. A veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English lit...

View Book
Making the Cat Laugh Cover

Making the Cat Laugh

Author: Lynne Truss

Making the Cat Laugh

Author Lynne Truss

Narrator Lynn Fairleigh

Duration 8h

A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.

View Book