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Author: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 15h 33m
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like us, only more so - their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above. From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for ou...
View BookAuthor: Cormac Mccarthy
Author Cormac Mccarthy
Narrator Tom Stechschulte
Duration 6h 46m
New territory for McCarthy: a post apocalyptic landscape where readers meet a man who recalls a better world and a boy who doesn't. With all the trademarks of vintage McCarthy-a man and his young son, a blasted American landscape, sparse prose that is at once brutal and tender-The Road further cements McCarthy's stature as one of America's greatest...
View BookDoctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks
Author: Trevor Baxendale
Author Trevor Baxendale
Narrator Nicholas Briggs
Duration 6h 27m
The Daleks are advancing, their empire expanding into Earth's space. The Earth forces are resisting in every way they can. But the battles rage on across countless solar systems. And now the future of our galaxy hangs in the balance... The Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters....
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 15h
There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, f...
View BookAuthor: Nick Harkaway
Author Nick Harkaway
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 17h 58m
From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world. All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his...
View BookAuthor: Asa Avdic
Author Asa Avdic
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 37m
'Oh, it's really quite simple. I want you to play dead.' On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death a...
View BookThe Magician's Series Book 2: The Magician King
Author: Lev Grossman
Series: The Magicians, Book 2
Author Lev Grossman
Narrator Mark Bramhall
SeriesThe Magicians, Book 2
Duration 15h 48m
Meet Quentin Coldwater, king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory. But he is getting restless, even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt Quentin gets exactly that. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares......
View BookThe Magicians Series Book 1: The Magicians
Author: Lev Grossman
Series: The Magicians, Book 1
Author Lev Grossman
Narrator Mark Bramhall
SeriesThe Magicians, Book 1
Duration 17h 24m
Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secr...
View BookThe Magicians Series Book 3: The Magician's Land
Author: Lev Grossman
Series: The Magicians, Book 3
Author Lev Grossman
Narrator Mark Bramhall
SeriesThe Magicians, Book 3
Duration 16h 27m
Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of the secret magical land of Fillory and now, friendless and broke, he returns to where his story began: Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But Quentin's past soon catches up with him . . .Meanwhile, Fillory's magical barriers are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded....
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Gabrielle Kruger
Duration 10h 27m
Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 37: Unseen Academicals
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 37
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 37
Duration 12h 18m
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. This is not going to be a gentleman's game. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Yuri Rasovsky
Duration 7h 53m
Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, th...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Bronson Pinchot
Duration 8h 28m
The year is 1918. Alex White, a young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul, but the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits. He is warned to steer clear of the wo...
View BookAuthor: Richard Matheson
Author Richard Matheson
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 8h 32m
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries be...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 26: Thief of Time
Author: Terry Pratchett
Series: Discworld, Book 26
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 26
Duration 10h 51m
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop. On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish n...
View BookAuthor: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Sam Peter Jackson
Duration 4h 20m
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything. Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the p...
View BookThe Witch's Kiss Trilogy Book 1: The Witch's Kiss
Author: Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
Series: The Witch's Kiss, Book 1
Author Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
Narrator Katy Sobey
SeriesThe Witch's Kiss, Book 1
Duration 9h 38m
Can true love's kiss save the day...? Sixteen-year-old Meredith is fed up with her feuding family and feeling invisible at school - not to mention the witch magic that shoots out of her fingernails when she's stressed. Then sweet, sensitive Jack comes into her life, and she falls for him hard. The only problem is that he is periodically possessed b...
View BookNight Huntress Book 3: At Grave's End
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Huntress, Book 3
Author Jeaniene Frost
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesNight Huntress, Book 3
Duration 9h 26m
Some things won't stay buried ... at grave's end. It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield's life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she's successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat's worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers, her cover's finally bee...
View BookNight Huntress Book 4: Destined For An Early Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Huntress, Book 4
Author Jeaniene Frost
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesNight Huntress, Book 4
Duration 9h 34m
Since half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they've fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it's time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She's having visions of a v...
View BookNight Huntress Book 1: Halfway To the Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Huntress, Book 1
Author Jeaniene Frost
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesNight Huntress, Book 1
Duration 11h 18m
Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father-the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy...
View BookNight Huntress Book 2: One Foot In the Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Series: Night Huntress, Book 2
Author Jeaniene Frost
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesNight Huntress, Book 2
Duration 9h 46m
You can run from the grave, but you can't hide. Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her. But when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left b...
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