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Discworld Series Book 19: Feet of Clay
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 19
Duration 9h 38m
For members of the City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by periods of torpid inactivity. Now is one such troubling time. People are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene. Is there ever a circumstance in which you can blame the weapon not the murderer? Such philosophical questi...
View BookAuthor: Mastai Elan
Format: Online
Author Mastai Elan
Narrator Mastai Elan
Duration 10h 2m
Tom lives in a perfect world: no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. . . oh, and time travel. When he loses the love of his life, going back to fix it seems like the only answer. . . what could possibly go wrong? Elan Mastai's breakthrough novel brings a whole new dimension to a classic love story So, the thing is, I come from the world we wer...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
Format: Online
Author Stephen King
Narrator James Franco
Duration 16h 16m
Awake in the dead zone and awake to a nightmare. Recoil in horror as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men's souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.
View BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J R R Tolkien
Format: Online
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 BookThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Author: J R R Tolkien
Format: Online
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 Return of the King
Author: J R R Tolkien
Format: Online
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 BookAuthor: James Smythe
Format: Online
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 BookRivers of London Book 5: Foxglove Summer
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Format: Online
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 5
Duration 10h 50m
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the L...
View BookRivers of London Book 6: The Hanging Tree
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Format: Online
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 6
Duration 10h 26m
Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and danger...
View BookRivers of London: The Furthest Station
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Format: Online
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Duration 3h 7m
A brand new novella in the PC Grant series! There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call. It's PC Peter Grant's speciality . . . Only it's more than going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to...
View BookAuthor: Paul Crillet
Format: Online
Author Paul Crillet
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 12h 21m
Cop. Drunkard. Low-grade magic user. My name is Gideon Tau, but most people just call me London. (Because that's where I'm from. Get it? Hilarious.) Three years ago, someone killed my daughter. I sacrificed everything (the human race included) to learn his name - and then had to allow that knowledge to be erased from my mind in order to save the wo...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Peter Serafinowicz
Duration 4h 19m
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4....Events have been set in motion to br...
View BookAuthor: David Mitchell
Format: Online
Author David Mitchell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 21h 27m
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies.Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
Format: Online
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Michael Sheen
Duration 12h 30m
Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far from ordinary. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is for...
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Online
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 9h 49m
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it ruled the stars. But then, as legend had it, the Invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of...
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Online
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 9h 2m
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionise the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
View BookAuthor: Jeff Vandermeer
Format: Online
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 Wilde
Format: Online
Author James Wilde
Narrator David Shaw Parker
Duration 16h 5m
Here is the beginning of a legend. Long before Camelot rose, a hundred years before the myth of King Arthur was half-formed, at the start of the Red Century, the world was slipping into a Dark Age...It is AD 367. In a frozen forest beyond Hadrian's Wall, six scouts of the Roman army are found murdered. For Lucanus, known as the Wolf and leader of e...
View BookAuthor: Arthur C. Clarke
Format: Online
Author Arthur C. Clarke
Narrator Various
SeriesArthur C Clarke's Collected Stories, Book 1
Duration 9h 48m
Arthur C Clarke is without question the world's best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer. His career, spanning more than sixty years, is one of unequalled success. Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this audiobook, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in...
View BookCan You Tell Me the Name of the Prime Minister?
Author: Martin Jameson
Format: Online
Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
A BBC Radio 4 science-fiction mystery by Martin Jameson, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 14 May 2010. A week after the election, Liz de Souza, a psychiatrist, examines a patient at a secure government research facility who's convinced that Tony Blair is still Prime Minister. Starring Amita Dhiri as Liz de Souza and Suzanna Hamilton as...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
Format: Online
Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesOperation Luna, Book 1
Duration 30m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
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