Author: Joanne Kormylo
Author Joanne Kormylo
Narrator Sarah Lambie, David Blair
Duration 10h 6m
Poland, 1942. After witnessing the destruction of her hometown in Warsaw, Anna Kowalski joins the Polish Resistance. She is tasked with smuggling as many children as possible out of the Warsaw Ghetto to safety. Through her work, Anna meets Johnnie Nowak, an RAF pilot who had managed to escape from a prisoner of war camp. He's not safe in Warsaw, so...
View BookAuthor: Seána Tinley
Series: The Irish Midwives, Book 1
Author Seána Tinley
Narrator Roisin Rankin
SeriesThe Irish Midwives, Book 1
Duration 11h 42m
Can she finally put herself first, in order to find love? Peggy Cassidy is a milly, working in the Belfast linen mills to just about get by. But Peggy also has another job - a secret one. She works as a handywoman - an illegal midwife, tending to the women of her community in their time of need. When Peggy is offered the chance to leave Belfast to...
View BookAuthor: Greg Mosse
Series: A French Village Mystery, Book 1
Author Greg Mosse
Narrator Emma Wilkes
SeriesA French Village Mystery, Book 1
Duration 10h 26m
Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants, reading her beloved books, and getting to know her charming new hometown. When the body of a tourist is found inside the local church, Zoe begins to discover that som...
View BookAuthor: Maria Reva
Author Maria Reva
Narrator Max Meyers, Saskia Maarleveld
Duration 10h 49m
Ukraine, 2022. Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country's forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don't know: Yeva already dates plenty of men-not for love, but to fund her work-entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided r...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Cornwell
Series: Kay Scarpetta, Book 27
Author Patricia Cornwell
Narrator January Lavoy
SeriesKay Scarpetta, Book 27
Duration 11h 49m
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . . Chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifyin...
View BookAuthor: Wayne Barnes, Ben Dirs
Author Wayne Barnes, Ben Dirs
Narrator Wayne Barnes, Rich Keeble
Duration 6h 42m
Wayne Barnes - one of the most-experienced international referees in history and criminal barrister to boot - uniquely lifts the lid on a lifetime of trying to keep the biggest names in the sport on best behaviour. There aren't many people who can say they've been the thirty-first man on the pitch during a World Cup humdinger, Grand Slam decider or...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Colgan
Author Jenny Colgan
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 7h 20m
Jenny Colgan returns with all her signature charm in this fourth installment of her Maggie Adair series. The Little School by the Sea is a magical place of friendship, striving, excitement and plenty of mischief. Maggie Adair, the passionate, devoted English teacher at Downey House, is about to ride off into the sunset with her new love when traged...
View BookAuthor: Pablo Vierci
Author Pablo Vierci
Narrator Elliot Fitzpatrick
Duration 14h 33m
It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew...
View BookAuthor: Tom Holland
Series: Rubicon, Book 1
Author Tom Holland
Narrator The Author
SeriesRubicon, Book 1
Duration 14h 30m
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness—the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall.
View BookAuthor: Roxanne de Bastion
Author Roxanne de Bastion
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 51m
All future, freedom and success lay ahead of young pianist Stephen de Bastion in 1930s Hungary. Life whirled headily around cocktails, romance, applause and the buzz of Budapest late into the night. Then, 1939. Stephen's world disintegrates and this becomes a story of his brutal descent, of his time in labour camps, of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen an...
View BookAuthor: Jim Butcher
Series: Cinder Spires, Book 2
Author Jim Butcher
Narrator Euan Morton
SeriesCinder Spires, Book 2
Duration 20h 23m
For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defence and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that...
View BookAuthor: Hollie McNish
Author Hollie McNish
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 51m
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug This book is written out of both hate and love for the world. As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and othe...
View BookAuthor: Claire North
Series: The Songs of Penelope, Book 3
Author Claire North
Narrator Catrin Walker-Booth
SeriesThe Songs of Penelope, Book 3
Duration 13h 16m
Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . . A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suit...
View BookI Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This
Author: Clare Mackintosh
Author Clare Mackintosh
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 3m
Grief is universal, but it's also as unique to each of us as the person we've lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we least expect it and seemingly never-ending. Wherever you are with your grief and whoever you're grieving for, I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This is here to support you. To tell you, until...
View BookAuthor: Roberta Kray
Author Roberta Kray
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 12h 1m
WHO CAN YOU TRUST, WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST FAMILY? Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. C...
View BookAuthor: Katy Massey
Author Katy Massey
Narrator Cathy Tyson
Duration 11h 15m
Leeds, 1977. A chill lies over the city: sex workers are being murdered by a serial killer they are calling the 'Ripper', the streets creeping with fear. Tough, sharp, but tender, Maureen runs Rio's, a clean, discreet brothel in the city. She's a good boss who takes great care of her workers - especially her best girls, Bev and Anette. The Ripper m...
View BookAuthor: M. R. Carey
Author M. R. Carey
Narrator Joe Jameson
Duration 10h 39m
From the bestselling M. R. Carey comes an enthrallingly dark medieval tale - a story of twisted folklore, macabre magic and the strangest of found families. This is the tale of Once-Was-Willem. Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from th...
View BookAuthor: Tom Holland
Series: Rubicon, Book 2
Author Tom Holland
Narrator The Author
SeriesRubicon, Book 2
Duration 17h 46m
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One...
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Curious Curate
Author: M. C. Beaton
Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h 35m
He was a vicar to die for - and he did! Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-haired, blue-eyed Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet . . . along with every other female in the village. She is positively ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him but t...
View BookAuthor: Stephanie Garber
Author Stephanie Garber
Narrator Sutton Foster
Duration 10h 6m
YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE OF A STORY . . . It starts with a class in an old movie theatre. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor's stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always been convinced that magic is real. Her search for the truth leads her to a dazzling...
View BookVetman and his Bionic Animal Clan
Author: Noel Fitzpatrick
Author Noel Fitzpatrick
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 23m
Join Vetman, Imogen, Findlay and a whole cast of incredible bionic animals as they save animal companions everywhere from the evil plans of The Man with No Name! An amazing animal adventure for listeners aged seven to 11 from Noel Fitzpatrick, Channel 4's Supervet. Vetman lives in a cottage outside a sleepy English village, where nobody realises th...
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