This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorPat Barker
NarratorPeter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 3
Duration5h 50m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature
Key StageA Level
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
The third book in the 'Regneration' trilogy. Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the trilogy and here it moves to the forefront. The Booker Prize winner. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
Author: Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Robert Glenister
Duration 8h 16m
Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares: Stephen Sharkey is suffering the after-effects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and p...
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Author: 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'...
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Tony 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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Author: Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 6h 41m
The second book of the 'Regeneration ' trilogy about British soldiers traumatised by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. Here, Lieutenant Billy Prior is tormented by figuring out by which side of several coins does he live - coward or hero, crazy or sane, homosexual or heterosexual, upper cl...
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Author: Brandon Taylor
Author Brandon Taylor
Narrator Kevin R. Free
Duration 9h 25m
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even wit...
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 9: Splinter the Silence
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 9
Duration 12h 47m
When psychological profiler Tony Hill comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Tony and DCI Carol Jordan begin the hunt for the most dangerous and...
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Author: Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
Duration 10h 44m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a re-imagining of the most famous conflict in literature - the legendary Trojan War. The great city of Troy is unde...
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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...
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Author: Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die-and why? Elinor determines to uncover the trut...
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Author: Pat Barker
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 7h 35m
The first book in the 'Regeneration' trilogy. In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers whose experiences of the First World War have caused them to break down. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authorities decide to have him declared mentally ill a...
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