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Author: Jackie Clune
Author Jackie Clune
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 43m
London, March 2020. Wendy's husband, Richard, is one of the early COVID casualties, and as the world hunkers down against the pandemic, Wendy and her two kids - home from university - lock down into their grief and remembrance. As lockdown drags on with its do-gooder neighbours with their cake-baking and competitive Clapping for Carers, Wendy makes...
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Author: Helen Heckety
Author Helen Heckety
Narrator Sian Reese-Williams
Duration 9h 35m
Six months ago, something happened that changed everything for Hattie. The next morning, she came up with The Plan. It was time for a whole new life. That's how Hattie ends up in a little cabin in the middle of nowhere, where the woodland stretches for miles and stars light up the night sky. Here, Hattie can be whoever she wants to be. At two years...
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Author: A. P. Firdaus
Author A. P. Firdaus
Narrator Zoha Rahman
Duration 10h 16m
A heart-soaring story about a mother's love, inter-generational trauma and one boy's journey to uncover his family's hidden history, set in India and spanning from the first days of Partition to the economic crises of the 1990s Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year...
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Author: Jodi Picoult
Author Jodi Picoult
Narrator Jennifer Finney Boylan, Carrie Coon, Key Taw
Duration 15h 13m
Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Fiction Jodi Picoult is the author of 17 number 1 UK bestsellers. Now with Mad Honey she has joined up with co-author Jennifer Finney Boylan to give us the most compelling, challenging and contemporary novel you will read this year - and which will start conversations we need to have. Olivia fled her abusive m...
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Author: Owen King
Author Owen King
Narrator Marin Ireland
Duration 14h 20m
At first glance, the world has not changed: the trams on the boulevards, the grand hotels, the cafes abuzz with conversation. The street kids still play on the two great bridges that divide the city, and the smart set still venture down to the Morgue Ship for an evening's entertainment. Yet it only takes a spark to ignite a revolution. For young Do...
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Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator Charlotte Beaumont, Ben Arogundade
Duration 7h 15m
Brought to you by Penguin. 'A phenomenal book. It is so ingenious and so novel. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Noughts and Crosses with a bit of Jonathan Swift and Lewis Carroll thrown in. This should be thought of as a feminist classic.' Women's Prize for Fiction Podcast Imagine if the transatlantic slave trade was reversed. Imagine Africans the...
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Author: Sairish Hussain
Author Sairish Hussain
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 15h 34m
Your roots can always lead you home... Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife's death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them always. Years later, Saahil and his best friend, Ehsan, have finished university and are celebrating with...
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Author: Lydia Millet
Author Lydia Millet
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 5h 34m
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and...
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 10m
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We...
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Author: Jill McCorkle
Author Jill McCorkle
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 9h 33m
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have re...
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Author: Yangsze Choo
Author Yangsze Choo
Narrator The Author
Duration 14h 9m
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dance-hall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest...
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Author: Brian Moore
Author Brian Moore
Narrator James D'Arcy
Duration 4h 56m
The Statement is the exciting and thrilling story of Pierre Brossard, a man condemned to death by French courts for crimes against humanity in WWII, but 40 years later, he is being pursued by a number of enemies, and which are the crimes that he actually committed? Sheltered by the Catholic Church for over 40 years, Pierre Brossard suddenly finds h...
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 54m
An early morning awakening leads to a discovery much more shocking than a few rifled drawers at a grand house. A suspected bungled robbery that it seems has gone horribly wrong calls our heroes Holmes and Watson to The Abbey Grange, where their super-sleuthing may be able to shed some light on the mystery.
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Author: Finlay Welsh
Author Finlay Welsh
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
An atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a machine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully recovered. Starring Cal MacAninch, Liam Brennan, Pauline Knowles and Finn de H...
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Author: Mette Ivie Harrison
Author Mette Ivie Harrison
Narrator Kirsten Potter
Duration 10h 46m
In the predominantly Mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets. Inspired by an actual crime and written by a practicing Mormon, The Bishop's Wife is both a fascinating look at the lives of modern Mormons and a grim and cunningly twisted mystery.Linda Wallheim is the mother of five grown boys and the wife of a...
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Author Aldous Huxley
Narrator Michael York
Duration 8h
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling d...
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Author: Gillian Mcallister
Author Gillian Mcallister
Narrator Katie Clarkson-Hill
Duration 11h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister, read by Katie Clarkson-Hill. 'A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant' Claire Doulas, bestselling author of Last Seen Alive It's the end of the night. You're walking home on your own. Then you hear the sound every woman dreads. Footste...
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Author: Emma Healey
Author Emma Healey
Narrator Laura Aikman
Duration 10h 44m
In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud's attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia. Now, in her dazzling follow-up Whistle in the Dark, we meet Jen, mother to 15-year-old Lana - who has just been found after going missing for four desperate days. Lana can't talk about...
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