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Author: Michelle Magorian
Format: Online
Author Michelle Magorian
Narrator Christopher Saul
Duration 9h 10m
Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM is of one of the best-loved stories set during the Second World War.'Everyone's idea of a smash-hit novel: full-blown characters to love and hate, moments of grief and joy, and a marvellous story that knows just how to grab the emotions' - GuardianGoodni...
View BookThe Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Author: Sun-mi Hwang
Format: Online
Author Sun-mi Hwang
Narrator Jill Larson
Duration 2h 58m
The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch...
View BookAuthor: Gaston Leroux
Format: Online
Author Gaston Leroux
Narrator Jeremy Nicholas, Peter Yapp
Duration 2h 39m
This nineteenth-century French thriller tells of the mysterious Erik, grotesque and elusive 'phantom', who hides himself from the world in the labyrinthine bowels of the Paris Opera and entices with his angelic voice the beautiful opera singer Christine. Her abduction prompts a dramatic search not only for her, but also for the truth about her stra...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
Format: Online
Author Henry James
Narrator Terry Diab
Duration 13h 25m
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. And when both take lovers and remarry, Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
Format: Online
Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Mandy Weston
Duration 20h
Now considered by many to be Charlotte Brontë's best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalised Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr John unrequited, she slowly...
View BookFather Brown Book 2: The Wisdom of Father Brown
Author: G K Chesterton
Format: Online
Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Frederick Davidson
SeriesFather Brown, Book 2
Duration 8h 14m
G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone—except Father Brown and his rather naïve wisdom. The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father Brown from London to Cornwall, from Italy to...
View BookAnne of Green Gables Book 8: Rilla of Ingleside
Author: L. M. Jackson
Format: Online
Author L. M. Jackson
Narrator Barbara Caruso
SeriesAnne of Green Gables, Book 8
Duration 10h 52m
In 1914 Rilla Blythe, youngest daughter of Anne, is almost 15. Life with her many brothers and sisters has been delightful and Rilla dazzles everyone she meets with her charm and beauty. Her biggest worries are the upcoming dance at the Four Winds Lighthouse and whether Kenneth Ford will ask her to dance. Her special night is shattered with the ann...
View BookAnne of Green Gables Book 7: Rainbow Valley
Author: L. M. Montgomery
Format: Online
Author L. M. Montgomery
Narrator Grace Conlin
SeriesAnne of Green Gables, Book 7
Duration 8h 37m
The winsome Anne Shirley is grown, has been married to her beloved Gilbert Blythe for fifteen years, and is the mother of six spirited children. When a strange family moves into a nearby mansion,Anne and her family are drawn into a host of trials, schemes and triumphs. The Meredith family is comprised of two boys and two girls, a minister father bu...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h 10m
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim—nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts, and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London tha...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 4h 51m
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 between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble,...
View BookUkridge Book 1: Love Among the Chickens
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
SeriesUkridge Series, Book 1
Duration 5h 1m
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, i...
View BookFather Brown Book 1: The Innocence of Father Brown
Author: G K Chesterton
Format: Online
Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Frederick Davidson
SeriesFather Brown, Book 1
Duration 8h 41m
Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also "in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being," according to American crime novelist Rufus King. You will be enchan...
View BookAuthor: Fanny Burney
Format: Online
Author Fanny Burney
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 37h 28m
Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, "Camilla" follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man, but must suffer a series of frequent misunderstandings that thre...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Lively
Format: Online
Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
Maria is always getting lost in the secret world of her imagination...A ghostly mystery and winner of the Whitbread Award,republished in the Collins Modern Classics range.Maria likes to be alone with her thoughts. She talks to animals and objects, and generally prefers them to people. But whilst on holiday she begins to hear things that aren't ther...
View BookPalliser Series Book 6: The Prime Minister
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 6
Duration 25h 6m
Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet: well-connected ladies vying with each other to exert influence on his behalf. Even Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, prime minister of England, supports the exotic imposter. Palliser, respectable man of power...
View BookPalliser Series Book 4: Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 4
Duration 23h 5m
His beloved wife having died in childbirth Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a poorhouse inspector dull and unsatisfying particularly after the excitement of his former career as a Member of Parliament Back in England the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom Since Finn had once bee...
View BookPalliser Series Book 2: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 2
Duration 22h 33m
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise...
View BookPalliser Series Book 3: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 3
Duration 23h 58m
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous terms of Sir Flo...
View BookPalliser Series Book 6: The Duke's Children
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 19h 57m
The brilliant conclusion to the Palliser novels, this touching story follows the elderly Duke of Omnium, the former prime minister of England, as he struggles to overcome his grief at the loss of his beloved wife, Lady Glencora. To complicate matters, he must also deal with the willfulness of his three adult children as he tries to guide and suppor...
View BookPalliser Series Book 1: Can You Forgive Her?
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 1
Duration 27h 34m
Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
SeriesBlandings, Book 1
Duration 7h 29m
Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is...
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