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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Micheal Butt
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Author Micheal Butt
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 black comedy by Michael Butt, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 19 October 2009. Max is set to inherit a small fortune when he turns 25, but standing between him and the money is his sister Katrin. And then there's the grandmother. It's dog-eat-dog on the mean streets of Weston-super-Mare.
View BookInvestigating Mr Thomas; A Play About Dylan Thomas
Author: Rob Gittins
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Author Rob Gittins
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged on the writer and poet Dylan Thomas. Based on a true story, Rob Gittins's play draws on archive material. When Time magazine printed a warts-and-all article about Dylan Thomas in 1953, the poet sued them for libel. Needing to gather more evidence, the magazine hired a private detective to shadow Thomas in New York...
View BookAuthor: Katie Hickman
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Author Katie Hickman
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 23m
Elizabeth sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a piece of parchment which provides the clue she has been looking for to a story that has been untold for 400 years: a tale of intrigue, forbidden love and dangerous secrets. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 4m
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Lucinda Dryzek
Duration 12h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Father Unknown by Lesley Pearse, read by Lucinda Dryzek. Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence throw...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 2: A Dedicated Man
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A well-liked, respected historian and archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder-and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
View BookJeeves and Wooster: My Man Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Simon Prebble
Duration 5h 5m
A humorist praised by humorists, P. G. Wodehouse here introduces two of his most beloved characters. My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship be...
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