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Author: Mohsin Hamid
Author Mohsin Hamid
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 5m
Brought to you by Penguin.From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences su...
View BookAuthor: Camilla Grudova
Author Camilla Grudova
Narrator Kate Rawson
Duration 4h 29m
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight-knit colleagues who seem as much a part of the buildi...
View BookAuthor: Kit de Waal
Author Kit de Waal
Narrator Sara Powell
Duration 8h 14m
Paulette's the kind of woman who likes the future all mapped out: the wedding to Denton, the Caribbean honeymoon, the gingham quilt on the baby's crib. Until one morning Garfield, Denton's friend, arrives at her door with the news that Denton won't be coming around any more, that there won't be time for her to say goodbye. Somehow Garfield finds hi...
View BookAuthor: Christina Courtenay
Series: Runes, Book 3
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 3
Duration 11h 34m
When jewellery Designer Sara Mattsson is propelled back to the ninth century, after cutting herself on a Viking knife she uncovers at an archaeological dig, she is quick to accept what has happened to her. For this is not the first Sara has heard of time travel. Although acutely aware of the danger she faces when she loses the knife - and with it h...
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Series: Runes, Book 4
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 4
Duration 11h 36m
Madison Berger is visiting Dublin with her family for a Viking re-enactment festival, when she chances upon a small knife embedded in the banks of the Liffey. Maddie recognises what the runes on the knife's handle signify: the chance to have her own adventures in the past. Maddie only intends to travel back in time briefly, but a skirmish in ninth-...
View BookAuthor: Christina Courtenay
Series: Runes, Book 2
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 2
Duration 12h 24m
Indulging her fascination for the Viking language and getting her hands dirty with an archaeological dig is just what Linnea Berger needs to take her mind off her recent trauma. Uncovering an exquisite brooch, she blacks out reading the runic inscription, only to come to surrounded by men in Viking costume who seem to take re-enactment very serious...
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Series: Runes, Book 6
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 6
Duration 12h 19m
Inscribed Viking axe head. Good condition. Probably late 9th century. This was it, his passport to the past. Storm Berger has never forgiven himself for his younger sister Madison's disappearance. Suspecting she's travelled back to the ninth century in the footsteps of other family members, Storm can only make sure she's safe by going after her. Ra...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Author Cathy Rentzenbrink
Narrator Olivia Poulet
Duration 7h 16m
'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .' Ann is a reluctant Vicar's wife. She tries her best but her husband only has eyes for God, her son is asking questions she struggles to answer, and it is all too easy to displease the congregation. It may only be a matter of time before she makes the hea...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Bramley
Author Cathy Bramley
Narrator Fiona Sheehan
Duration 2h 14m
Kind-hearted Jo Potter and fun-loving Eve Langton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Despite not seeing each other for a few years, they keep in touch every day with texts and calls. They'd love to meet up face-to-face, but life keeps getting in the way; they are both just so busy! When Eve finds herself stranded in the town where Jo...
View BookAuthor: Christina Courtenay
Series: Runes, Book 5
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 5
Duration 11h 59m
He travelled through time to capture her heart. Ivar Thoresson is desperate for adventure. As an archaeologist specialising in Viking times, he wants nothing more than to travel back to the ninth century as his loved ones have done, to learn everything he can about the era which fascinates him. And whilst his adopted family have always made him fee...
View BookAuthor: Libby Page
Author Libby Page
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 9h 15m
Everybody needs saving sometimes... For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alone. But that doesn't mean she isn't lonely. The move from London to Somerset with her husband Jay was supposed be the start of an exciting new chapter. But sometimes she can't help but wonder if she turned the pages too soon . . . Phoebe needs help. As...
View BookAuthor: Hannah Richell
Author Hannah Richell
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 17h 7m
A spellbinding tale of grief, jealousy and betrayal, from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club selected SECRETS OF THE TIDES. 1980. On a hot summer's day five friends stumble upon an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the English countryside. Isolated and run-down, it offers a retreat, somewhere they can escape from the world. But as the se...
View BookAuthor: Christina Courtenay
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 11h 26m
Present Day Finally escaping an abusive marriage, Caterina Rossi takes her three-year-old daughter and flees to Italy. There she's drawn to research scientist Connor, who needs her translation help for his work on volcanology. Together they visit the ruins of Pompeii and, standing where Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fire on the city centuries befor...
View BookAuthor: Jenn Ashworth
Author Jenn Ashworth
Narrator Helen Duff
Duration 11h 7m
A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief. One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband, Mark, vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at the local university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her tow...
View BookAuthor: Christina Courtenay
Series: Runes, Book 1
Author Christina Courtenay
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
SeriesRunes, Book 1
Duration 11h 58m
Their love was forbidden. But echoed in eternity. When Mia inherits her beloved grandmother's summer cottage, Birch Thorpe, in Sweden, she faces a dilemma. Her fiance Charles urges her to sell and buy a swanky London home, but Mia cannot let it go easily. The request to carry out an archaeological dig for more Viking artefacts like the gold ring Mi...
View BookAuthor: Andrea Abreu
Author Andrea Abreu
Narrator Adela Leiro
Duration 6h 51m
Stuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife's volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl dreams of hitching a ride to the faraway beach. Instead she hangs out with her best friend, Isora. She likes everything about Isora. From the colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes to the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. But she envies...
View BookAuthor: Ned Beauman
Author Ned Beauman
Narrator Dudley Hinton
Duration 8h 25m
Longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the for the Guardian First Book Award, Ned Beauman was chosen by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Writers in 2011. This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable charac...
View BookAuthor: Jendella Benson
Author Jendella Benson
Narrator Kelechi Okafor
Duration 11h 4m
Glory arrives back in Peckham, from her seemingly glamorous life in LA, to mourn the sudden death of her father and finds her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, has been jailed, her sister, Faith, appears to have lost her independence and ambition and their mother, Celeste, is headed towards a breakdown. G...
View BookAuthor: Alan Titchmarsh
Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 38m
An ordinary life. An extraordinary choice. Adam Gabriel has always been a child of nature. Raised on his parents' remote Yorkshire farm, where life is measured by the rhythms of the flock, the turn of the seasons and the yearly arrival of an itinerant local monk, he seems destined for a quietly contented life. As Adam grows, Luke and Bethany see fl...
View BookThe Book of Science and Antiquities
Author: Thomas Keneally
Author Thomas Keneally
Narrator Paul Haley
Duration 9h 43m
Shade lives with his second wife amid their clan on the shores of a bountiful lake. A peaceable man, he knows that when danger threatens, the Hero ancestors will call on him to kill, or sacrifice himself, to save his people. Over 40,000 years later, Shade's remains are unearthed near the now dry Lake Learned in New South Wales. The sensational disc...
View BookAuthor: Ursula le Guin
Author Ursula le Guin
Narrator Tim Treloar
Duration 12h 28m
One of the very best must-listen novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'There was a wall. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on...' Shevek is brilliant scie...
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