AuthorSally Magnusson
NarratorKaren Traynor
Duration7h 47m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Fairytale, Folklore and Mythology
PublisherJohn Murray Press
VersionUnabridged
Before she was a hideous monster, the queen of the underworld was simply Hel. But cast as a girl out of lofty Asgard, realm of the gods, by Odin the Allfather, Hel's fate as the terrible goddess of death is sealed. Half beauty, half crone, she has reigned for aeons in the starless darkness of Niflheim, grimly welcoming the most pitiful of death's travellers to her ice-locked prison. Until one day a memory shifts, and she is forced to seek out the sun in Midgard, where humans have made their home. Faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Helen Firth makes the impulsive decision to return to Orkney after forty years to make peace with her past. Under the wintering solstice sun, she reconnects with the ungainly but affable Thorfinn Coffin, who helps her address the real reason she has returned to the islands: to die.
Author: Sally Magnusson
Author Sally Magnusson
Narrator Siobhán Redmond
Duration 8h 55m
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn't recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again. A lifetime ago, growing up in a Highland glen, James...
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Author: Claire Heywood
Author Claire Heywood
Narrator Meg Hately
Duration 9h 56m
The King of Tyre is dead, his final words anointing his clever and strong-willed daughter, Elissa, as the new queen until his young son, Pygmalion, comes of age. But betrayal and danger soon haunt Elissa, and she is forced to flee the kingdom - exiled with a band of loyal followers and a broken heart. After an arduous search for a new home, Elissa...
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The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver
Author: Rafael Torrubia
Author Rafael Torrubia
Narrator Lianne Walker
Duration 29h 2m
No one remembers the calamity that killed the gods and stole the names of their people. Now Shipwright and Shroudweaver are known only by their professions. She's a master of magical shipbuilding. He's a maker of the gilded gods that fuel their sails, stitched from the souls of dead sailors. When a chance to save their world calls the veterans back...
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Author: Eowyn Ivey
Author Eowyn Ivey
Narrator Rebecca Lowman
Duration 11h 34m
Birdie's keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It's a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by. And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen...
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Author: Richard Ayoade
Author Richard Ayoade
Narrator Richard Ayoade, Lydia Fox, Wes Anderson
Duration 1h 2m
FAIRY-LAND EXCLUSIVE! Discover THE TRUTH about your favourite fairy-tale characters in Richard Ayoade's second children's book.Read about the real lives of fairy-tale characters in this exclusive collection of letters between curious kids and their fairy-tale idols.What are they doing now? Was it really Happily Ever After? Is the Big Bad Wolf actua...
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Author: Joanne M. Harris
Author Joanne M. Harris
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 12m
I am as brown as brown can be, And my eyes as black as sloe; I am as brisk as brisk can be, And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion, and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mytholo...
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Author: Finn Longman
Author Finn Longman
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 11h 5m
The wolf-sickness strikes always without warning, stealing Bisclavret's body and confusing his mind. Since boyhood, he hasn't dared leave his isolated holdings - not to beg the return of his father's lost estate, not to seek brotherhood among the court, not even to win the knighthood he yearns for. But when a new king ascends, Bisclavret must deliv...
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Author: Leslie Vedder
Author Leslie Vedder
Narrator Lindsey Dorcus
SeriesThe Bone Spindle, Book 3
Duration 11h 34m
With Prince Briar Rose's life on the line as he slowly turns into a monster at the hands of the Spindle Witch, treasure hunter Fi must escape from a tower to rescue him. Meanwhile, her axe-wielding partner Shane is on the hunt for a mysterious weapon that holds the key to the Spindle Witch's demise. But Shane must also protect her lover, the beauti...
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Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Narrator Lisa Renee Pitts
Duration 9h 15m
The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new life. Born with magical hands, Madge has the power to discern others' suffering, but she cannot heal her own damaged heart. Sadie can commune with the dead, but until she makes peace with her father, she, too, cannot fully engage her gift. Meanwhile, He...
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Author: Bea Fitzgerald
Author Bea Fitzgerald
Narrator Perdita Weeks
Duration 11h 40m
Brought to you by Penguin. The eagerly anticipated new YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen.Pandora is the first human woman – made by the gods on Olympus for one simple purpose: to love and be loved by her new husband, the titan Epimatheos.The only proble...
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