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Author: Jude Morgan
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Author Jude Morgan
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 14h 16m
As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalised society by rejecting Lewis Durrant, the county's most eligible bachelor. Ten years later, Lydia has no regrets and, having concluded that matters of the heart need no longer trouble her, she is quite happy to remain unwed. But others still seek Lydia's advice on their love lives, an...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 16h 35m
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. This is a tale of life lived without restra...
View BookAuthor: Gil Mcneil
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Author Gil Mcneil
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 10h 17m
Didn't anyone tell you that divas don't knit? Knit-one. Jo Mackenzie needs a new start and jumps at the chance to take over her grandmother's wool shop in a small seaside town. Purl-one. But it's not going to be easy with two young sons to cope with, an A-list actress moving into the local mansion and a knitting group addicted to cake. CONTAINS STR...
View BookAuthor: Debbie Holt
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Author Debbie Holt
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 10h 35m
October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my landscape painting looked like a pig's trough and then making honking noises every time he saw me. April 12th, 1987: Peter Elton for 'borrowing' my cigarettes and never buying any of his...
View BookAuthor: Justin Cartwright
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Author Justin Cartwright
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 9h
On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mendel, and becomes obsessed with what they...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 9h 40m
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... This is a novel about emotional cannibal...
View BookAuthor: Meg Cabot
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Author Meg Cabot
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 9h 54m
When you peak at fifteen, where can things go but downhill? Former teen pop sensation Heather Wells has hit rock bottom: tired of singing other people's lyrics, she hasn't exactly been bombarded with recording contracts for her own songs. Worse, Dad's in jail, Mom's bolted for Buenos Aires, and Heather can't seem to stop drowning her sorrows in Kit...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 3h 49m
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT...
View BookAuthor: Gillian Greenwood
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Author Gillian Greenwood
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 10h 24m
When Amy Marsham walks into his smart Harley Street practice, therapist Patrick McIlhenny knows that this will be no ordinary session. Amy, a woman on the eve of a new life, needs answers. So she visits the only person who may be able to provide them, who may know her husband better than she does. In the calm of Patrick's office, they begin to unta...
View BookThe Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs
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Author Kate Jacobs
Narrator Regina Reagan
SeriesThe Friday Night Knitting Club, Book 1
Duration 12h 8m
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday night knitting club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered. Lucki...
View BookAuthor: Wendy Holden
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Author Wendy Holden
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 16h 50m
When Mary meets Monty, heir to a stately pile, happiness seems assured. But as the mansion crumbles, passion wanes along with the heating. Banker's wife Beth swaps Notting Hill for weekends at a bijou cottage. They only offered a smidgeon over the asking price. So why don't the locals like them? Eco-harridan Morag is the terror of the village, with...
View BookAuthor: Haruki Murakami
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Author Haruki Murakami
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Duration 4h 19m
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then, the earthquake struck. Komura's wife follows the TV reports from morning to night, without eating or sleeping. The same images appear again and again: flames, smoke, buildings turned to rubble, their inhabitants dead, cracks in the streets, derailments, crashes...
View BookAuthor: Rose Tremain
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Author Rose Tremain
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 55m
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 of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through Lev's eyes, and we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his friendships, o...
View BookAuthor: Mark Slouka
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Author Mark Slouka
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 8h 45m
This novel talks about a doomed romance full of feeling and fervour that plays itself out in the heat of the Nazi occupation of Prague and then smoulders in the embers for decades before flaring into life again, thousands of miles away, with incendiary effects
View BookAuthor: Cormac Mccarthy
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Author Cormac Mccarthy
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 5h 9m
A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This audiobook boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, 'each the other's world entire', are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the bes...
View BookFortunes of War: The Great Fortune
Author: Olivia Manning
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Author Olivia Manning
Narrator Emilia Fox
SeriesThe Balkan Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 5h
Harriet and Guy Pringle, husband and wife, are in Bucharest, where Guy works, at the outbreak of World War II. They are forced to leave the country, travelling through Greece and ending up in North Africa. They are separated and each fear the worst, but love is strong, and hope and faith are even stronger. This audiobook is a detailed account of lo...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Lesley Sharp
Duration 6h
Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights. It was a time to share secrets and fears, triumphs...
View BookAuthor: A L Kennedy
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Author A L Kennedy
Narrator Dan Stevens
Duration 6h
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film tha...
View BookAuthor: Sadie Jones
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Author Sadie Jones
Narrator Stuart Crossman
Duration 11h 8m
1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the south of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reve...
View BookAuthor: Lauren Groff
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Author Lauren Groff
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 13h 43m
Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Smarting from a broken heart, Will...
View BookAuthor: Liu Hong
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Author Liu Hong
Narrator Julie Maisey
Duration 8h 41m
Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Lao Gao - meet, marry and become inseparable just as China is shaking off the memory of war, and the brightest of its youth are pledging themselves to building a vibrant new future. Yet for all that their lives embody the ideals of the young republic, they are spared none of the suffering and hardship t...
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