AuthorIain M. Banks
NarratorPeter Kenny
SeriesThe Culture, Book 2
Duration11h 27m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherLittle, Brown
VersionUnabridged
The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau Morat Gurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is The Player of Games. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthy Empire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.
Author: Claire Wade
Author Claire Wade
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 11h 55m
Imagine a world where.... Everything you ate was monitored by the government. Every step you took was counted. Your children were weighed every day at school. Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement. Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime. Imagine if that world was here.... What would you do? Toe the line or fight fo...
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Author: Iain M. Banks
Author Iain M. Banks
Narrator Toby Longworth
SeriesThe Culture, Book 8
Duration 5h 33m
The intricate structure of a Shellworld - an arti­ficial planet of spheres-within-spheres - is matched only by the machinations of its inhabitants. On the eighth sphere of Sursamen, a man witnesses the murder of his father and flees, searching for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother, this means a life lived un...
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The Witcher Book 5: Baptism of Fire
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 5
Duration 11h 58m
The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he ha...
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Author: Iain M. Banks
Author Iain M. Banks
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Culture, Book 5
Duration 15h 55m
Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the s...
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Rivers of London Book 8: False Value
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 8
Duration 11h 11m
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood and an uncertain future with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with ‚migr‚ Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand-new London start-up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must le...
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The Witcher Book 3: Blood of Elves
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 3
Duration 10h 54m
For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other. Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Ci...
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The Witcher Book 2: Sword of Destiny
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 2
Duration 12h 53m
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually...
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Author: Iain M. Banks
Author Iain M. Banks
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Culture, Book 6
Duration 11h 27m
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she realises. But then she also has more defences than even her most hardened adversaries could imagine. In another palace, far across the mountains, sits the regicidal Protector General. His chief bodyguard also has enemies to worry about, with the threat of treachery and assassi...
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Author: Iain M. Banks
Author Iain M. Banks
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Culture, Book 4
Duration 6h 21m
The State of the Art is the only collection of Iain M. Banks's short ­fiction and includes the acclaimed Culture novella of the same name. From science ­fiction to horror, dark fantasy to twisted comedy, all eight stories bear the inde­finable stamp of Banks's staggering talent.
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Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 57m
In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell....Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to...
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