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Author: Emma Donaghue
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Author Emma Donaghue
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 59m
Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons. Other topics, like religion and money, are not inherently taboo, but they can cause acute discomfort because people disagree so vehemently. The...
View BookThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Author: Denis Johnson
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Author Denis Johnson
Narrator Michael Shannon
Duration 5h 17m
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son. Written in the same luminous prose, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating mortality, the ghosts of the past, and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe...
View BookAuthor: William Trevor
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Author William Trevor
Narrator Tara Fitzgerald
Duration 5h 31m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Stories by William Trevor, read by Niamh Cusack, Stephen Hogan and Tara Fitzgerald. In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when th...
View BookAuthor: Tom Hanks
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Author Tom Hanks
Narrator Peter Scolari
Duration 10h 2m
Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game - and t...
View BookAuthor: Jamaica Kincaid
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Author Jamaica Kincaid
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 2h 15m
This collection is Jamaica Kincaid's earliest published writings: her inspired, lyrical short stories.These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, na‹vely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered,...
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 33m
In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the hush-hush floor of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle,...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Murphy Cillian
Duration 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...
View BookGalloping Foxley (a Roald Dahl Story)
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 37m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Galloping Foxley by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths. In Galloping Foxley, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a commuter is disturbed by an encounter with a man he vividly remembers from school . . . Galloping Foxley is taken from the short story collection S...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
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Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Zadie Smith
Duration 6h 5m
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life, unknowingly caught in someone else's story of hate and division, resistance and revolt. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart - and other parts of the human body - considering the ways in which desire is always an act...
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
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Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 25m
Be cruel to animals at your peril - this story extols the virtues of being kind to all creatures to achieve happiness in life, a lesson that our unhappy protagonist is far from learning, whether in regards to human or animal life. A shocking story told with a dry dark humor, this tale is to be heard to be believed and is a true classic from the mas...
View BookAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor
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Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Yetide Badaki
Duration 10h 55m
Kabu kabu-unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis-generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously p...
View BookThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Author: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Jane Carr
Duration 4h 30m
In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all of Hilary Mantel's gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma'; nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain r...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie
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Author Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie
Narrator The Authors
Duration 37m
A series of three brand new short stories written and performed by leading comedians. Stairlift Us Up Where We Belong, written and read by Sarah Millican, is a poignant and funny monologue exploring the tricky turning point in a woman's life, when she goes from being thought of as useful to becoming invisible. In Spooky and the Van, written and rea...
View BookClustering Round Young Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 45m
Bingo Little, friend of butler Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club, is also a hopeless romantic. Our heroes Jeeves and Wooster often try to help him into or out of romantic entanglements but to little avail, or at least they often make matters worse! Sublime comedy from the master of humor.
View BookAuthor: Susan Calman, Shazia Mirza, Patrick Monahan
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Author Susan Calman, Shazia Mirza, Patrick Monahan
Narrator The Authors
Duration 43m
Three more short stories which capture the atmosphere of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Recorded live at The Pleasance last week, leading comedians perform their own work in front of a packed audience. The Woman Who Sniffed, written and read by Susan Calman, is a wry look at office politics. Just When You Thought It Was Safe to be Green, written an...
View BookAuthor: Jon Richardson, Janey Godley, Sarah Millican
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Author Jon Richardson, Janey Godley, Sarah Millican
Narrator The Authors
Duration 41m
Three short stories written and performed by leading new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as part of the Festival Fringe. In May Contain Nuts, by Janey Godley, a woman glimpses her own mortality when she calculates that only twenty-seven years separate her from her cantankerous father. The Hair of the Dead, by Sarah Millican, is a mo...
View BookAuthor: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrator Nicky Henson
Duration 20m
Dr Heidigger's Experiment is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a scientist who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth. He calls together his old friends and invites them to taste the waters. The tale explores the transience of youth, and the desires that many have but few acknowledge.
View BookThe Dance of Life & Other Short Stories
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
Penned by writers from four generations, this miscellany reflects the 'Dance of Life'. Performed by members of the Red 'n' Ritten Players, within any one story, each character is brought to life with a unique voice.
View BookAuthor: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Liza Goddard
Duration 6m
The master of surreal and wonderful fiction presents a story about one of his most famous characters - the perpetually grinning and ever-riddling Cheshire Cat. Alice's friend/tormentor in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat has been immortalized in art, film, cartoon, television and now on audio.
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 7m
Set in the gold and quartz-mining community, this queer and amusing little vignette explains why Dick Baker's cat, who always had such a propensity for finding the premium gold-panning plots, takes strongly against quartz mining and never is to be swayed otherwise. A sweet, funny and well-written short, that showcases Twain's wit and skill brillian...
View BookAuthor: Somerset Maugham
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Author Somerset Maugham
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 9h 14m
A collection of short stories, all born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. The stories included are: 'Footprints in the Jungle', 'Mabel', 'P & O', 'The Door of Opportunity', 'The Buried Talent', 'Before the Party', 'Mr Know-All', 'Neil MacAdam', 'The End of the Flight' and 'The Force o...
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