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Author: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him int...
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Chloe Massey
Duration 8h
As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend, private detective Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing song-writer, Moira Pollock; a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to incover t...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 15m
Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in. Torn between two lovers, she has to make a decision that will transform her from a girl to a woman. A talented pianist with a good...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Meera Syal
Duration 5h 3m
Adela Quested travels to India with her chaperone Mrs Moore, on the premise of deciding whether to marry Mrs Moore's son Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. Finding her India very disappointingly English, Adela jumps at the chance the two women are given to travel to the distant Marabar caves with Aziz, a charismatic young Indian Doctor. When Adela...
View BookAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Narrator Lin-Manuel Miranda
Duration 7h 30m
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime....
View BookAuthor: Ali Smith
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Author Ali Smith
Narrator John Banks
Duration 8h 30m
How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twi...
View BookThe Moomins Book 7: Tales From Moomin Valley
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 21m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Well, Moomintroll thinks he knows what to do. But when he takes his new-found pet home, thi...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Susannah Harker
Duration 4h 44m
Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster which tells a story of social and familial relations in turn-of-the-century England. The main subject matter comprises the difficulties and benefits of relationships between people of divergent outlook, gender, or class; a further concern of the book is the need to accept and link multiple outlooks on the wor...
View BookThe Complete Ripley Radio Mysteries
Author: Patricia Highsmith
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Author Patricia Highsmith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 4h 43m
Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone else to do the dirty work. But if he's called on to act there is no one more cool, calculating and clever. In these dramatisations, BBC Radio 4 brings all Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels together in one thrilling series. In The Talented Mr Ripley, Tom makes a bid for...
View BookAuthor: Ali Smith
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Author Ali Smith
Narrator Julia Damassa
Duration 7h
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike 'Hotel World', set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19-year-old chambermaid who has recently died at the hotel; her bereaved sister, Clare, who visits the scene of Sara's death; Penny,...
View BookThe Lady's Guide To Petticoats and Piracy
Author: Mackenzi Lee
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Author Mackenzi Lee
Narrator Moira Quirk
Duration 11h 17m
In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor-even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee's extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Sara Jordan
Duration 9h 30m
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. Along with his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, Jake embarks on a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome.
View BookThe Moomins Book 6: Moominland Midwinter
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 2h 44m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! 'This is snow,' Moomintroll whispered to himself. Moomins always sleep through the winter - or they did until the year Moomintroll woke up and went exploring in the silent, snow-co...
View BookAuthor: V L Mcdermid
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Author V L Mcdermid
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Duration 6h 5m
White nights of passion and revenge in St Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleazy flipside of the international publishing scene. An author succumbing to the deadly lure of cybersex. This audiobook contains grit, sex, glamour, intrigue and unexpected turns. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Michael Cunningham
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Author Michael Cunningham
Narrator Hugh Dancy
Duration 7h 26m
Peter is 44, prosperous, childless, a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on 20 years. Their marriage is sound. But when Mizzy, Rebecca's brother, comes to stay, his world is turned upside down. Returning to their flat, Peter sees Rebecca's outline in the shower. But when he opens the shower doo...
View BookAuthor: Carson Mccullers
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Author Carson Mccullers
Narrator William Hope
Duration 13h 30m
Set in a small town in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 16h 31m
This is a passionate story of five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill with which their fortunes and fate are so closely bound.
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 6h 41m
The second book of the 'Regeneration ' trilogy about British soldiers traumatised by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. Here, Lieutenant Billy Prior is tormented by figuring out by which side of several coins does he live - coward or hero, crazy or sane, homosexual or heterosexual, upper cl...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Highsmith
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Author Patricia Highsmith
Narrator Peter Brooke
SeriesRipley, Book 3
Duration 9h 10m
Now married and living on an Italian estate, the art connoisseur, harpsichord aficionado, master of souffles and genius of improvisational murder, finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a local party. While others might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler and infinitely more sin...
View BookAuthor: Sally Rooney
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Author Sally Rooney
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 8h 45m
Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex m‚nage-…-quatre and her...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Janet Hargreaves
Duration 12h
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter school life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free of their own particular obsessions.
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