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Author: Lynne Truss
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Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Lynn Fairleigh
Duration 8h
A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.
View BookAuthor: Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
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Author Bob Larbey, John Esmonde
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Good Life, Book 2
Duration 1h 51m
Includes: 'The Thing in the Cellar', 'The Pagan Rite', 'Backs to the Wall', 'Just my Bill'. Four more original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.
View BookLeo Waterman Series Book 1: Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
Author: G. M. Ford
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Author G. M. Ford
Narrator Jeff Harding
SeriesLeo Waterman, Book 1
Duration 9h 20m
A soft hearted sleuth with a rebellious streak, Seattle P.I. Leo Waterman gets entangled in every oddball situation. So when he's hired to locate Caroline Nobel, an errant mob heiress and landscape-loving activist, Leo finds himself following her into the rain-soaked Washington woods. But Caroline is being dragged deeper into the murky waters of en...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 15h 6m
Every morning H†kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as H&da...
View BookAuthor: R D Wingfield
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Author R D Wingfield
Narrator Derek Martin
Duration 1h 25m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama starring Derek Martin, the precursor to the popular TV series and novels. Jack Frost is disheveled, disorganised and disrespectful. His superiors don't like him. He has a habit of doing things his way - and getting results. But when Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, Frost finds himself under pressure. A...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 19h 13m
France, 1152. A beautiful woman is escaping through France, leaving behind two young daughters and a shattered marriage. This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose is to marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empi...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 6: Wyrd Sisters
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Celia Imrie
SeriesDiscworld, Book 6
Duration 10h 11m
Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine, particularly when the blood on your ha...
View BookAuthor: Jane Shemilt
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Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Deryn Edwards
Duration 9h 16m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Drowning Lessons by Jane Shemilt, read by Deryn Edwards. The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter. The press conference, one year ago. Our home is a crime scene now. I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in whic...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Ian Ogilvy
Duration 6h 4m
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. Until, that is, he's forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn't long before Matt realises that he's caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are d...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 5
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 5
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In London, smuggler Jago is kidnapped. But can he survive in polite city society? Stars Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman. From May 2004.
View BookAuthor: Toni Morrison
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Author Toni Morrison
Narrator Toni Morrison
Duration 12h
In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family. Sethe knows that the spirit is that of her own baby daughter, 'Beloved', who has retur...
View BookAuthor: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
Peggy Ashcroft and Tony Britton star in this 1971 BBC Radio production of Noel Coward's classic comedy about a disastrous weekend house party. Judith Bliss is a famous actress who, after a string of successful roles, has retired to her country retreat. Missing the adulation of her public, she has has invited a fan over for a weekend of uninterrupte...
View BookAuthor: Robin Glendinning
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Author Robin Glendinning
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
Robin Glendinning's BBC Radio 4 full-cast black comedy telling the story of a real mystery. Originally broadcast in the "Saturday Play" slot on 11 July 2009. In 1946, the Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) and his wife (formerly Wallis Simpson) paid a visit to Britain, hoping to secure a government job for the Duke and a title for the Duchess....
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 13h 34m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Sidetracked by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Midsummer approaches, and Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a for...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
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Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Nikki Amuka-Bird
Duration 13h 57m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of O...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 8h 19m
Despair, suicide, and obsessive hatred, mixed well with humour, love, and horses, brew up into the story of a battle between one man's nerve and another man's cunning. Rob Finn was a bit of a misfit: a struggling young jockey in a family of accomplished musicians, a man in love with a beautiful woman who wouldn't have him because they were first co...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew star in this thrilling Radio 4 dramatisation of P.D. James' enduringly popular mystery. When two men are discovered with their throats cut in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, the police are faced with an intriguing challenge. For one of the victims was ex-Government minister Sir Paul Berowne, the other Harr...
View BookCadfael: The Virgin In the Ice
Author: Ellis Peters
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Author Ellis Peters
Narrator Philip Madoc
SeriesThe Brother Cadfael Chronicles, Book 6
Duration 2h 15m
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael's monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina and her broth...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Nicholas Le Prevost
Duration 43m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret's Little Joke', Maigret and his wife take a secret holiday in Paris. When a murder occurs, Maigret must get his information from the press and radio. How can he leave Janvier to solve the crime alone?
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 4
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 4
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In Charity it's Jesters' Relief Week-but must Cornish smuggler Tamsyn raise funds for Devonians? Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Peter Firth
Duration 15h 10m
Set in France before and during the First World War, this is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married to a wealthy textile baron. Wraysford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according t...
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