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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Duration 2h 25m
First broadcast on BBC1 in 1968, The Dominators sees the TARDIS materialising on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators and their robotic servants, the Quarks. Their intention is to turn the planet into a raidoactive mass, fuel for their space fleet. The pacifist Dulcians refuse to retaliate, until the Doctor, Jamie and...
View BookAuthor: Rivers Solomon
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Author Rivers Solomon
Narrator Cherise Boothe
Duration 11h 54m
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vess...
View BookThe Last Survivors Book 2: The Dead and Gone
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrator Robertson Dean
SeriesThe Last Survivors, Book 2
Duration 8h 51m
Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event-an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-yea...
View BookAuthor: Anita Sullivan
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Author Anita Sullivan
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 44m
When PC Andy Davidson arrests a young girl for shoplifting, he thinks it's going to be a routine case. That is, until he sees that she is carrying a gun. The girl is soaking wet, covered in mud, and the weapon is like nothing he's ever seen before. He knows that this is a case for Torchwood... The team discovers that the girl is called Freda, but c...
View BookAuthor: Jeff Vandermeer
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Author Jeff Vandermeer
Narrator Carol Mccormick
Duration 6h 3m
For thirty years, Area X has remained behind its border- an environmental disaster zone. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; all with terrible consequences. Annihilation is the story of the twelfth expedition. Their mission: to take samples and expand their understanding of Area X. But an inexplicable moaning calls in the distance,...
View BookAuthor: James Smythe
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Author James Smythe
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 8h 37m
Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that...
View BookAuthor: Mark Michalowski
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Author Mark Michalowski
Narrator Freema Agyeman
Duration 2h 22m
Freema Agyeman reads this thrilling story about a waterlogged planet, struggling colonists and dangerous creatures. When the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquillity of Sunday's swamps is deceptive, and even the TARDIS can't protec...
View BookAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor
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Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Robin Miles
SeriesBinti, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a co...
View BookAuthor: Mark Michalowski
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Author Mark Michalowski
Narrator Debbie Chazen
Duration 2h 28m
An abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner...A visit to an art gallery turns into a r...
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Julian Glover
Duration 9h 47m
The year is 2021. No child has been born for a quarter of a century. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, Warden of England, the old are despairing, the young beautiful but cruel.
View BookDoctor Who: The Way Through the Woods
Author: Una McCormack
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Author Una McCormack
Narrator Meera Syal
Duration 4h 27m
England, today. Between the housing estate and the motorway lies an ancient wood. The motorway bends to avoid it. Last week, teenager Laura Brown went missing. Tonight, Vicky Caine will miss her bus and take a shortcut through the wood. And she will disappear too. England, 1917. Between the village and the main road lies an ancient wood. The old Ro...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
Four full-cast chilling dramas from the classic 1970s radio series, presented by and starring Vincent Price. The four episodes on this CD are: Cat's Cradle (15/9/1973); Come As You Are (6/4/1974); Speciality of the House (13/4/1974); and The Ninth Removal (20/4/1974).
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 14h 32m
Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, available as a complete and unabridged audiobook. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sa...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 16h 42m
Building on the story begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the...
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 20h 1m
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into t...
View BookDoctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426
Author: David Llewellyn
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Author David Llewellyn
Narrator Christopher Ryan
Duration 5h 2m
The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans hav...
View BookAuthor: Colm Toibin
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Author Colm Toibin
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 50m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of House of Names by Colm T¢ib¡n, read by Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson and Pippa Nixon. 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her...
View BookAuthor: Sjon
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Author Sjon
Narrator Daniel Pirrie
Duration 2h 40m
The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. We're then transported to the world of the naturalist Friethrik B. Friethriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down's syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster....
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 12h 35m
This novel moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of 'The Handmaid's Tale' to an even more dystopian world, a world where language has almost entirely vanished. Snowman seems to be the last man on earth, the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Gradually the reasons behind the disaster begin to unfold as Snowman undertakes a perilous journey to the...
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: Brian Minchin
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Author Brian Minchin
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 2h 11m
Alien larvae in a baptismal font mark the beginnings of a terrifying adventure for the Torchwood team in this exclusive audio adventure, read by Gareth David-Lloyd. Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in bla...
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