AuthorRoddy Doyle
NarratorLaurence Kinlan
Duration3h 39m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Managed by Jimmy Rabbitte and brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan. Their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
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 BookAuthor: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Roddy Doyle
Duration 5h 5m
Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood - but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly. Just moved in to a new apartment...
View BookThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries Book 2: The Run Out Groove
Author: Andrew Cartmel
Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Finlay Robertson
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 10h 7m
When a mint copy of the final album by Valerian - England's great lost rock band of the 1960s, surfaces, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record triggers a chain of events culminating in our hero learning the true fate of the singer Valerian, who died under equivocal circumstances just after... or was it just before the abduction of her two-year...
View BookAuthor: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Tommy Tiernan
Duration 1h
The Giggler Treatment is the punishment for all sorts of injustices that grown-ups inflict on children; like sending them to bed without their supper, giving them fish and saying it's chicken and blaming rude noises on them - but what exactly does the Giggler Treatment consist of?
View BookThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Author: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Ger Ryan
Duration 3h
Paula Spencer struggles to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. She recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she had as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless.
View BookAdrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Nicholas Barnes
Duration 5h 38m
Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Fla...
View BookThe Deportees and Other Stories
Author: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Hugh Lee
Duration 7h 21m
For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for 'Metro Eireann', a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father...
View BookAuthor: Roddy Doyle
Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Brendan Mackey
Duration 4h 38m
Barrytown, Dublin, is humming with speculation. For Sharon Rabitte is pregnant after the soccer club Christmas do. Only she knows the father of her 'snapper', but she's not telling - even though her father has taken a remarkably lively interest in this sudden, but obvious, family crisis. Edexcel recommended text for GCSE. STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT...
View BookNursery Crimes Series Book 1: The Big Over Easy
Author: Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Luke Thompson
SeriesNursery Crime, Book 1
Duration 11h 6m
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jac...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Emily Gray
Duration 12h 31m
Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her previous escapades are now themselves in print. However, a pressing threat may call her back into action: first Sherlock Holmes and then Miss Marpl...
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