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Dave Gorman Vs the Rest of the World
Author: Dave Gorman
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Dave Gorman
Duration 8h 40m
Remember when you were a kid, and you used to go round to a friend's house to see if they were playing? Well, as adults we're not supposed to do that. Which is a shame ... because Dave Gorman likes playing. He REALLY likes games. So he knocked on the biggest door you could ever imagine - the internet - and asked 76,000 people if they fancied a game...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett, Thora Hird
Duration 2h
Until the time of her death in 2003, actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. In this audiobook, Bennett recalls his work and friendship with Thora, and introduces three examples of their collaboration.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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 BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h 3m
Galahad's causing the usual uproar at Blandings, this time by deciding to write his memoirs - a choice not all of his high-society childhood buddies are keen on! Wodehouse's typically British farce is joyfully read by Martin Jarvis, who lends charismatic character voices to a plot which is as funny as it is ridiculous. Pig-kidnap also included!
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 54m
The debonair Uncle Fred makes a welcome return to Blandings, where plotting and confusion is rife. Blackmail, sabotage, jilted lovers and pigs under threat of kidnap all feature largely, making this hilarious instalment in the Blandings series irresistible to fans and newcomers alike. The story sees lovely debutante Myra Schoonmaker unhappily ensco...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h 15m
Galahad is writing his memoirs, but will he upset all of his high-society friends in the process? The setting is the glorious Blandings castle, where Galahad Threepwood is trying to write his memoirs, which may well upset a few of his friends, whose youthful indiscretions he plans on exposing. A host of colourful and relatively ridiculous character...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: MP3 CD
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h
This is the first 'Blandings' novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is neve...
View BookFrankie Howerd: Please Yourselves
Author: BBC Audiobooks, Frankie Howerd
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Author BBC Audiobooks, Frankie Howerd
Narrator Frankie Howerd
Duration 44m
Titter lots at Frankie Howerd's ditties, sketches, limericks and stand up, recorded in front of a specially-invited audience. The star of TV's 'Up Pompeii' and mainstay of innumerable 'Carry-On' films, Frankie Howerd causes a mayhem of mirth, where even his co-stars can't help laughing. As well as songs, stories, naughtiness and his usual audience...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Gabrielle Kruger
Duration 10h 28m
Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Th...
View BookAuthor: Joe Lycett
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Author Joe Lycett
Narrator Joe Lycett
Duration 3h 44m
Dear Reader, Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. There's such an onslaught to the senses these days it's a marvel any of us manage to get out of bed. I love bed. I, Joe Lycett, comedian, wordsmith, and professiona...
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h
Welcome to Mummy's world. The Boy Child Peter is connected to his iPad by an umbilical cord, The Girl Child Jane is desperate to make her fortune as an Instagram lifestyle influencer, while Daddy is constantly off on exotic business trips.Mummy's marriage is feeling the strain, her kids are running wild and the house is steadily developing a forest...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: MP3 CD
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 55m
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafal...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 3h
Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail, the safest place for her to be is inside the covers of a book. But changes are af...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: MP3 CD
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 44m
Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed - particularly as he's being rooked by the publisher of his sporting...
View BookAuthor: David Nobbs
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Author David Nobbs
Narrator Geoffrey Palmer Et Al
Duration 2h 44m
Rod Millet has always dreamed of working at the Maltby Collection. He used to visit as a teenager, when he lusted after Whistler's Sister, and his Mother, Rod wasn't picky back then. On becoming the Museum's Deputy Curator of Painting and Sculpture, however, it quickly becomes apparent that the chavvy son of a self-made biscuit mogul isn't going to...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: MP3 CD
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h 10m
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary...
View BookNursery Crimes Series Book 1: The Big Over Easy
Author: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Luke Thompson
SeriesNursery Crime, Book 1
Duration 11h 6m
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jac...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
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Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Gabrielle Kruger
Duration 9h 11m
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all thi...
View BookAll Quiet On the Orient Express
Author: Magnus Mills
Format: MP3 CD
Author Magnus Mills
Narrator Christoper Oxford
Duration 3h
A young man sets off on his motorbike, intending to travel to the Far East. But when he stops off at a small English village he is befriended by the sinister Tommy Parker who asks for his help. Soon he's doing homework for Parker's daughter, joining the darts team at the local pub and learning how to perform a series of menial jobs. As he begins to...
View BookAuthor: Studios Universal
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Author Studios Universal
Narrator Bob Walter
Duration 1h 51m
The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment's Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters-from T. rex to Napoleon-the Minions find themselves without someone t...
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