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Author: Khaled Hosseini
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Author Khaled Hosseini
Narrator Khaled Hosseini
Duration 6h
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, this audiobook tells the story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relat...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Coe
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Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 7h 11m
This is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inherita...
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Author: Barbara Trapido
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Author Barbara Trapido
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 8h
Katherine is offered a place at university to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman. She little expects to find herself in his home and in love with his son Roger. When the affair ends badly, she flees to Rome. She returns ten years later to discover that their lives are inextricably bound. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
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Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 8h 5m
Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a hard note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out what she can. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfectio...
View BookAuthor: Rose Tremain
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Author Rose Tremain
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 14h 51m
'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. He struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads o...
View BookAuthor: Caroline Kington
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Author Caroline Kington
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 16h 15m
In the village of Summerstroke, as autumn beckons, it seems the fireworks party is not the only thing set to go with a bang. Juliet Peters, soap star, publicity junkie and all round flirt, and Isabelle Garnett, ex-artist, neglected housewife and mother of two, seem to have nothing in common. But when both women end up trying to build a new life in...
View BookAuthor: Carole Matthews
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Author Carole Matthews
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 11h 8m
Lucy Lombard can't resist it - rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate. For her there's nothing it won't cure and she's not alone. Sharing her passion are three other addicts: Autumn, Nadia and Chantal. Together they form 'The Chocolate Lovers' Club'. They meet in their sanctuary, Chocolate Heaven, as often as they can, and with a cheating boyfrie...
View BookAuthor: Julie Walters
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Author Julie Walters
Narrator Julie Walters
Duration 5h 30m
Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling. Helena is the toast of Broadway. Maggie is an extremely beautiful but troubled actress - and she's cracking up fast, in fact she's 'out of her tree'. When Cissie takes Maggie to see Helena in New York, it leads to trouble straight away: Maggie disappears into the freezing February night, no one...
View BookAuthor: Chetan Bhagat
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Author Chetan Bhagat
Narrator Kulvinder Ghir
Duration 7h 33m
Six friends are selling home appliances to the US from a call centre in India. Each one has an issue with love. Call agent Sam works right beside the girl who's just dumped him. He's dating someone he can't stand, just to get over her. Esha is just short of becoming a model. Two inches, to be precise. Vroom wants to change the world. Radikha's tryi...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 11h 25m
Before the Second World War breaks, Cheffyns, the idyllic country house where the Garlands have lived for centuries, has already been touched by events in Europe. To the horror of her family, Katherine, the eldest daughter, appears to have run off to join the Nazis. On the outbreak of war, Caro, her younger sister, her friend Robyn, and the maids,...
View BookAuthor: Frances Fyfield
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Author Frances Fyfield
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 11h 44m
Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life when she meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, nee Wiseman, at her evening class and her life changes for the better. Ivy is her polar opposite: strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no...
View BookAuthor: Carl Hiaasen
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Author Carl Hiaasen
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 10h 48m
Honey Santana - self-proclaimed queen of lost causes - has a plan. She may be a single mother living in a trailer-park with her teenage son; she may have just been sacked from her day job for whacking an over-friendly co-worker in the balls with a crab mallet; she may be an obsessive compulsive with an anger management problem. But, she's determine...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 15h 27m
On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s, her story moves on to a social worker and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of...
View BookAuthor: Sue Cook
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Author Sue Cook
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 10h
It's devastating enough when Pru's husband confesses to a long term affair on their 20th wedding anniversary. Then when her daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year project, Pru knows her comfortable family life is over for good. Just as she's picking up the pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become involved with...
View BookAuthor: Carole Matthews
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Author Carole Matthews
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 10h 41m
Fern Kendal has the voice of an angel but, as a badly paid barmaid and pub singer, her talent is wasted. All she needs is a break, but in the real world she knows that'll never happen. Evan David's exquisite tones have enthralled opera buffs throughout the world. But what Evan needs now is a break - from it all. When Fern takes a job as Evan's PA t...
View BookAuthor: Edna O'Brien
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Author Edna O'Brien
Narrator Dearbhla Molloy
Duration 9h 5m
From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s, a romantic liaison she had there, the destiny that brought her back to Ireland, and her marriage. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, an...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Duncker
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Author Patricia Duncker
Narrator Sheila Hancock
Duration 7h 57m
Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism - not that she care...
View BookAuthor: Pauline Mclynn
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Author Pauline Mclynn
Narrator William Hope
Duration 10h 20m
It's not easy being the mother of a twelve-year-old boy who's in love with his babysitter and having trouble at school. Nor are matters helped by the unexpected arrival of an elderly mother who's suddenly footloose and fancy free. At least Susie Vine feels secure at Arland and Shaw, London's leading theatrical agency, where her clients love her alm...
View BookAuthor: William Styron
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Author William Styron
Narrator William Hope
Duration 29h 50m
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Ann Widdecombe
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Author Ann Widdecombe
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 9h 36m
Catherine Dessin, a young French girl living in Paris during the occupation, falls for an older, married German officer. The novel examines the tensions this causes within her family of patriots and resistance workers. Meanwhile Klaus, the German officer, who is Oxford educated and a professed Anglophile, faces his own moral dilemma as he comes to...
View BookAuthor: Sally Vickers
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Author Sally Vickers
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 7h 58m
'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr. David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. As a young child, he witnessed the death of his six-year-old brother and it is this traumatic event which has shaped his own personality and choice of profession. One day, a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to hi...
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