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The Yellow Dog-series, Inspector Maigret
Author: Georges Simenon
Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret: The Yellow Dog', the citizens of Concarneau are not happy when Maigret begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose...
View BookAuthor: Doris Lessing
Author Doris Lessing
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 29h 46m
In London in the 1950s, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook-the golden notebook -that finally pul...
View BookThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Author: Rachel Joyce
Author Rachel Joyce
Narrator Jim Broadbent
Duration 10h
When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE...
View BookAuthor: R.J. Palacio
Author R.J. Palacio
Narrator Kate Rudd, Nick Podehl
Duration 8h 5m
Wonder is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, Auggie is being sent to a real school - and...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. T...
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Niamh Daly
Duration 15h
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced. Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missi...
View BookAuthor: Sadie Jones
Author Sadie Jones
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 9h 5m
One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honour of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savoury survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into...
View BookAuthor: Jules Verne
Author Jules Verne
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 24m
Captain Nemo journeys far down in the ocean...which weird and wonderful beasts will be there to greet him? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an adventure story set far down in the briney deep where Captain Nemo tracks the terrifying and mystifying monster that has already wrecked ships that have disturbed its slumber. A scary, illuminating a...
View BookAuthor: James Goss
Author James Goss
Narrator Racquel Cassidy
Duration 1h 15m
Raquel Cassidy reads this exclusive audio adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory as they encounter one of the wonders of the universe. 'Don't be alarmed!' the Doctor cried through gritted teeth, 'It's simply sucking the life out of me. Nothing to worry about...' When the Doctor falls through a crack in time he finds himself in the...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 24m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In this first series, Father Paolo Baldi and his accomplice Tina investigate a string of mysterious crimes, including a murder at an Italian chip sh...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 1
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 1
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Keepers Of The Flame sees Father Baldi solving the murder of a leading University academic. He follows the trail which leads into the past of one of...
View BookAuthor: Barry Devlin
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 2
Author Barry Devlin
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 2
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. The Prodigal Son introduces Paolo Baldi, a Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer who accidentally becomes involved in solving a murder at an Ita...
View BookAuthor: Barry Devlin
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 3
Author Barry Devlin
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 3
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Miss Lonelyhearts sees Paolo and Tina investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a nurse at a retirement home. The pair unc...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 4
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 4
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In The Emerald Style, Paolo's attempt to wine and dine his spiritual director Father Troy at a leading Dublin hotel is interrupted by a murder. Davi...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 5
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 5
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Death Cap sees Father Baldi visiting a monastic retreat far out in County Cork. A sudden death among the Franciscan brothers causes Paolo to suspect...
View BookAuthor: Annie Caulfield
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 6
Author Annie Caulfield
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 1, Book 6
Duration 44m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In Devil Take The Hindmost, Paolo and Tina investigate the death of a student, following the trail to a devil-worshipping cult on campus. Is there a...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 17m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In his second series, Father Baldi investigates a string of curious murders. Along with Tina, Paolo follows a killing in a castle at a celebrity wed...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 1
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 1
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Three In One sees Father Baldi and Mrs Reid taking a trip to the races, where the pair prove to have an unexpected link with a contract killing on t...
View BookAuthor: mark holloway
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 2
Author mark holloway
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 2
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In Twilight of a God, Paolo and Tina investigate a murder at a celebrity wedding taking place between a country girl and a world-famous opera conduc...
View BookAuthor: Martin Meenan
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 3
Author Martin Meenan
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 3
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In Schecter's Knot, Father Baldi investigates the death of a talented young maths professor. Paolo and Tina look into the possibility that the crime...
View BookAuthor: Simon Brett
Series: Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 4
Author Simon Brett
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 4
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Not For Life covers the story of a girl's suspected suicide. When questions are raised as to whether her death was accidental, Paolo follows the tra...
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