AuthorBernardine Evaristo
NarratorCharlotte Beaumont, Ben Arogundade
Duration7h 15m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Literature, Feminist Literature
VersionUnabridged
Brought to you by Penguin. 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast Imagine if the transatlantic slave trade was reversed. Imagine Africans the masters and Europeans their slaves . . . Now meet young Doris, living in a sleepy English cottage. One day she is kidnapped and put aboard a slave ship bound for the New World. On a strange tropical island, Doris is told she is an ugly, stupid savage. Her only purpose in life is to please her mistress. Then, as personal assistant to Bwana, Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, she sees the horrors of the sugarcane fields. Slaves are worked to death under the blazing sun. But though she lives in chains, Doris dreams of escape - of returning home to England and those she loves . . .
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 54m
An early morning awakening leads to a discovery much more shocking than a few rifled drawers at a grand house. A suspected bungled robbery that it seems has gone horribly wrong calls our heroes Holmes and Watson to The Abbey Grange, where their super-sleuthing may be able to shed some light on the mystery.
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Author Aldous Huxley
Narrator Michael York
Duration 8h
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling d...
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Author: Finlay Welsh
Author Finlay Welsh
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
An atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a machine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully recovered. Starring Cal MacAninch, Liam Brennan, Pauline Knowles and Finn de H...
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Author: Jill McCorkle
Author Jill McCorkle
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 9h 33m
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have re...
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Author: Mette Ivie Harrison
Author Mette Ivie Harrison
Narrator Kirsten Potter
Duration 10h 46m
In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons and a grim and cunningly twisted mystery.Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a...
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Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator Malachi Kirby
Duration 1h 44m
Brought to you by Penguin. RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy's motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but wh...
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Author: Gillian Mcallister
Author Gillian Mcallister
Narrator Katie Clarkson-Hill
Duration 11h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister, read by Katie Clarkson-Hill. 'A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant' Claire Doulas, bestselling author of Last Seen Alive It's the end of the night. You're walking home on your own. Then you hear the sound every woman dreads. Footste...
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Author: Brian Moore
Author Brian Moore
Narrator James D'Arcy
Duration 4h 56m
The Statement is the exciting and thrilling story of Pierre Brossard, a man condemned to death by French courts for crimes against humanity in WWII, but 40 years later, he is being pursued by a number of enemies, and which are the crimes that he actually committed? Sheltered by the Catholic Church for over 40 years, Pierre Brossard suddenly finds h...
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Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator Anna-Maria Nabirye
Duration 11h 6m
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** Brought to you by Penguin. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the ye...
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Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator James Goode
Duration 9h 59m
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character, Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.When his marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington...
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Vanessa 2 Jul 2026
Important alternative history/satire that should be read in schools
Why this isn't on the syllabus in British schools for K3 is beyond me. It's an important alternative history book/satire that invites itself to be read alongside historical accounts of the slave trade and thus offering the reader a new, different perspective. Great to support conversations around slavery, culture and history.