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Author: Nicola Moriarty
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Author Nicola Moriarty
Narrator Natasha Jacobs
Duration 6h 39m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty, read by Natasha Jacobs. Four friends. Five Letters. One Secret. A scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking, how well do I really know my friends? Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden. Best friends since the first day of...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator David Shaw- Parker
Duration 37h 8m
Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmo...
View BookAuthor: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 29m
Double And Quit sees the top-secret Department 7 recruit Sexton Blake as a special agent.
View BookGiant Ladies That Changed the World
Author: Patrick Barlow
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Author Patrick Barlow
Narrator Raymond Box
Duration 1h 9m
Spoof theatre company The National Theatre of Brent take on the story of the Suffragette Movement in this hilarious Radio 4 series, first heard on the Woman's Hour Drama slot The award-winning National Theatre of Brent aka Desmond Olivier Dingle and Raymond Box present the entire epic struggle of the Suffragettes or the Giant Ladies as they was als...
View BookThe Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit party for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy. As Marina is serving cocktails in the house, she is co...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Author Elizabeth Jane Howard
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 30m
On the eve of an unusual voyage, a young woman reviews her life. Her story begins with a 'beautiful visit' to friends in the country which serves as an awakening experience. What follows is an account of her struggle to retain the mood of her visit.
View BookAuthor: Xinran
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Author Xinran
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 7h 43m
The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken. Men, on the other hand, are the strong rafters that hold up...
View BookAuthor: Graham Hurley
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Author Graham Hurley
Narrator William Rycroft
Duration 1h 11m
Bird flu has arrived in the UK. Most of the population is dead or dying so fast that there's not enough time to bury them. Norman's survived-so far, and when his grandfather gets sick he knows that there can only be one outcome-but not before some secrets are revealed that will change Norman's life forever...
View BookAuthor: Charity Norman
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Author Charity Norman
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 33m
On a sharp winter's morning, a man turns his back on prison. He's lost almost everything; all he has left are his three children but he is not allowed anywhere near them. This is the story of Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe. Of their three children who witnessed the event. Of Zoe's parents, Hannah and Frederick, who are bringing up the children an...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 46m
Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster's glorious tale of love in Italy and England. Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing - the Grand Tour. But the...
View BookBrangwen Family Series Book 1: The Rainbow
Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Author D.H. Lawrence
Narrator Paul Slack
SeriesBrangwen Family, Book 1
Duration 20h 19m
D.H. Lawrence's controversial classic, The Rainbow, follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family, between 1840 and 1905. Their tempestuous relationships are played out against a backdrop of change as they witness the arrival of industrialization-the only constant being their unending attempts to grasp a higher form of exi...
View BookAuthor: Lionel Shriver
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Author Lionel Shriver
Narrator Alice Rosengard
Duration 13h 1m
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the siblings last saw each other, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. And it's not just the weight. Imposing himself on Pandora's world, Edison breaks her husband Fletcher's handc...
View BookAuthor: Edward J Mason
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Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 2m
In the first story of the second radio series, Barton is on the trail of Tony Patelli, a criminal mastermind who has stolen a lorry-load of gold bullion. Can Barton save a kidnapped girl from Patelli's clutches? Can he defeat the Vulture? Find out in this next exciting instalment of 'Dick Barton - Special Agent!'
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 43m
Nicholas Le Prevost stars as the French detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation. In 'My Friend Maigret', Maigret investigates the murder of a tramp on the French island of Porquerolles - but he is hampered by the attentions of Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard.
View BookAuthor: Margery Allingham
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Author Margery Allingham
Narrator Francis Matthews
Duration 12h 36m
Georgia Wells, magnificent on-stage, but off-stage a little larger than life. It was to meet her that Albert Campion went to the dress show in Park Lane. Only the day before he had finally located the dinner-jacketed skeleton of her barrister fiance who had disappeared three years before. And Georgia Wells wasn't allowing it to be suicide, not at a...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Sylvia Coleridge
Duration 8h
Clarissa Dalloway is civilised - without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. We spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, an...
View BookAuthor: Voltaire
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Author Voltaire
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h 30m
Voltaire and Pangloss travel the world looking for the good in life, but can they find it? Candide and his tutor Pangloss travel the globe trying to follow the philosophy 'All is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds'. However, they are stung and let down at every turn, being robbed, tortured and ridiculed, amongst other trials. On...
View BookRowan Atkinson's the Atkinson People
Author: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Rowan Atkinson
Duration 1h 56m
Rowan Atkinson stars as many different characters in four episodes from the classic comedy series, written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill), which investigates the lives of four great - but imaginary - men. We hear about the life and times of master orator, Sir Benjamin Fletcher: writer, statesman, No...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Dillon
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Author Lucy Dillon
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 15h 36m
After a lifetime of dancing and a failed marriage, Angelica's running away again. But this time, she's run right back to where it all started. In a last attempt to save their marriage, Katie and Ross join the ballroom class. He needs to learn to lead and she needs to learn to love again... Lauren's dreaming of a fairytale wedding. The only problem...
View BookAuthor: John Finnemore
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Author John Finnemore
Narrator Celia Imrie
Duration 2h 47m
Winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy and the Comedy.co.uk awards for Best Radio Sketch Show! Celia Imrie, Alison Steadman, John Bird and Rebecca Front are among the cast of these BBC Radio 4 comedy dramas from the writer and producers of Cabin Pressure. These six self-contained duologues, each one brimming with humour and charm,...
View BookThe Early Stories of Truman Capote
Author: Truman Capote
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Author Truman Capote
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 44m
Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capot...
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