AuthorIris Murdoch
NarratorMiriam Margolyes
Duration12h 40m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature
Key StageA Level
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. As the new bell is installed, the old bell - legendary symbol of religion and magic - is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Meade, leader of the community, is confronted by a man with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved
Author: Curtis Sittenfield
Author Curtis Sittenfield
Narrator Carrington Macduffie
Duration 13h 58m
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to ma...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Stuart
Author Douglas Stuart
Narrator Angus King
Duration 17h 41m
This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie'...
View BookKaren Pirie Book 5: Broken Ground
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 5
Duration 12h 57m
When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not...
View BookAuthor: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Author Tsitsi Dangarembga
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 11h 32m
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself,...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him int...
View BookAuthor: Celeste Ng
Author Celeste Ng
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 10h 8m
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt, and Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to hold someone accountable. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who may b...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 12h
Mor's life as a schoolmaster at a public school is disrupted by the arrival of a young and beautiful painter commissioned to paint the headmaster.
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Sara Jordan
Duration 9h 30m
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. Along with his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, Jake embarks on a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome.
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Janet Hargreaves
Duration 12h
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter school life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free of their own particular obsessions.
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 11: How the Dead Speak
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 11
Duration 12h 16m
After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are dealing with the fallout in their own separate ways. While Tony must pay the price for his actions, Carol is conducting investigations into suspected miscarriages of justice. But when a shocking discovery is m...
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