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Author: Barbara Pym
Author Barbara Pym
Narrator Mary Sarah
Duration 7h 10m
The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life-a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen. Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter sh...
View BookAuthor: Andi Osho
Author Andi Osho
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 47m
No woman gets left behind. Three best friends are going to solve their relationship woes once and for all. Forty-something Jemima’s life is on track - well, sort of. All she has to do is muster the courage to bat her niggly ex away for good. Twenty-something Meagan is in the midst of her five-phase plan and is nearly ready for...
View BookAuthor: Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Author Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Narrator Marin Ireland, Shayna Small, Kevin R. Free, Chanté McCormick
Duration 11h 42m
Not every story is black and white. Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children, and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is black and Jen is white. And then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager and everything changes in an...
View BookAuthor: Fiona Gibson
Author Fiona Gibson
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron, Robin Laing
Duration 10h 54m
The next gloriously uplifting book from the number-one best-selling author of The Mum Who Got Her Life Back Suzy Medley is having a bad day...when a shabby terrier turns up at her door. Just like Suzy, Scout has been abandoned, although only Suzy has been left with a financial mess and a business in tatters thanks to her ex. Suzy takes Scou...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Erskine
Author Barbara Erskine
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 27h 39m
In London, journalist Jo Clifford plans to debunk the belief in past lives in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when a hypnotist forces her to relive the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, a noblewoman during the reign of King John. She learns of Matilda's unhappy marriage, her love for the handsome Richard de Clare and...
View BookAuthor: Fredrik Backman
Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 9h 17m
For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgmental or fussy or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example - forks, knives, then spoons. We're not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socia...
View BookMy Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Author: Fredrik Backman
Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 11h 2m
The hilarious, heartbreaking novel by the author of the international best seller A Man Called Ove. Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, to get her to practise Granny's secret language, and a little because Granny is just about as nutty as a granny shou...
View BookAuthor: Duncan Hamilton
Author Duncan Hamilton
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 8h 58m
As a player, Thom Callaghan was defined by the winning goal he scored in an FA Cup final. The goal wasn't the blessing he imagined it would be. His whole career was defined by that brief moment of glory. With his playing days over, Callaghan, still a local hero, is tempted back to his old club as caretaker manager. His task: to rescue it fro...
View BookAuthor: Shubhangi Swarup
Author Shubhangi Swarup
Narrator Raj Ghatak
Duration 10h 50m
The phenomenal Indian best seller. Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young Botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the East Coast of India, he is entr...
View BookAuthor: Anna North
Author Anna North
Narrator Cynthia Farrell
Duration 8h 39m
The day of her wedding, 17-year-old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up wit...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Amy McAllister
Duration 10h 2m
The brand new novel from million-copy bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. Five people.Five chances.One woman's search for happiness. Allegra Bird's arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Marks
Author Rachel Marks
Narrator Oliver Hembrough
Duration 11h
THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SATURDAYS AT NOONNoah and Kate were meant to be together forever.Married with two gorgeous sons, it looked like they'd got their happy ever after.But marriage isn't easy. And one day, Kate left, taking their two boys with her.These days, Noah is a weekend dad - and it breaks his heart. He misses t...
View BookAuthor: Claire Fuller
Author Claire Fuller
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 9h 29m
Brought to you by Penguin.What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?What would you do to get it back?Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Peter Francis James
Duration 18h 48m
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions a...
View BookAuthor: Sam Selvon
Author Sam Selvon
Narrator Don Gilet
Duration 4h 31m
Sitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of...
View BookAuthor: Eimear Ryan
Author Eimear Ryan
Narrator Clara Harte
Duration 7h 17m
Brought to you by Penguin.A young woman comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic pastWhen Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the ghost of her potential as a competitive swimmer. Free to create a fresh identity for herself, she finds herself among people who adore the poetry of her grandfather, Benjamin Crowe, who died tragica...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Crossan
Author Sarah Crossan
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 55m
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours? For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, keeping their relationship hidden from the world. So the mornin...
View BookAuthor: Mary Lawson
Author Mary Lawson
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 32m
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021Clara's sister is missing. Angry, rebellious Rose, had a row with their mother, stormed out of the house and simply disappeared. Eight-year-old Clara, isolated by her distraught parents' efforts to protect her from the truth, is grief-stricken and bewildered.Liam Kane, newly divorced, newly unemployed, newly arri...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Lockwood
Author Patricia Lockwood
Narrator Kristen Sieh
Duration 4h 43m
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet – or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: '...
View BookAuthor: Monique Roffey
Author Monique Roffey
Narrator Ben Onwukwe
Duration 7h 41m
Winner of the 2020 Cost Book Award. Winner of the 2020 Costa Novel Award. Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 Nominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize Nomnated for the Desmond Elliot Prize Features original music created for the audiobook. March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rain...
View BookAuthor: Francis Spufford
Author Francis Spufford
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 12h 37m
November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century. Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances. Light Perpetual is...
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