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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Allen Makepeace
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Author Allen Makepeace
Narrator Tim Bruce
Duration 8h 42m
A military execution in France... a key event in this story of the conflicting demands of duty, loyalty and love. The war, with its horrifying, endless slaughter on the Western Front, is the backdrop. But it is in a north-east seaport where Dolly Weston, her husband reported missing, falls in love with a wounded army officer, who fears that he will...
View BookAuthor: Mary Stanley
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Author Mary Stanley
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Duration 13h 9m
The face Esme Waters presents to the world is not the face she sees in the mirror. Even her three daughters don't know the truth behind her careful smile. But a chance meeting with a fascinating psychiatrist opens the first crack in Esme's mind. While her own children are falling in love, learning about loyalty and rebelling against the rules, Esme...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Barry
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Author Sebastian Barry
Narrator Stephen Hogan
Duration 10h 20m
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist, Dr. Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told throu...
View BookAuthor: Aravind Adiga
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Author Aravind Adiga
Narrator Bindya Solanki
Duration 8h 10m
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopp...
View BookAuthor: Miss Read
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Author Miss Read
Narrator Gwen Watford
Duration 4h 25m
This audiobook traces the life of the village school cleaner, Maud Pringle, from childhood visits to the village from her Caxley home, through her working days before her marriage, and on to her long association with Fairacre School.
View BookAuthor: Catherine Dunne
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Author Catherine Dunne
Narrator Dearbhla Molloy
Duration 9h 18m
Four women gather to celebrate their friendship. A quarter-century of intimacies shared, betrayals survived, differences reconciled. There is Claire, with her unsuitable men; she knows that life will never give her the one thing she has always wanted. Nora, the perfect housewife, has kept something hidden from her friends for over twenty-five years...
View BookAuthor: Susan Breen
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Author Susan Breen
Narrator Bonnie Hurren
Duration 8h 20m
On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she's a writer herself, she's passionate about books, she's even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. On the other hand, she's thirty-eight, single, and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distra...
View BookAuthor: Justine Picardie
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Author Justine Picardie
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 10h 49m
It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, 'Rebecca', who now seems close at hand. Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters, and begin...
View BookThe Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Author: Maureen Lindley
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Author Maureen Lindley
Narrator Liz Sutherland
Duration 9h 51m
Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su, makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel's sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at nigh...
View BookAuthor: Masha Hamilton
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Author Masha Hamilton
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 8h 18m
Once a fortnight, the nomadic settlement of Madidima, set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is the Camel Bookmobile, a scheme set up to bring books to scattered tribes whose daily life is dominated by drought, famine and disease. Into their world comes an unexpected wealth of...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
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Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 12h 16m
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she begins to delve deeper...
View BookAuthor: Miss Read
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Author Miss Read
Narrator Gwen Watford
Duration 6h 45m
Born into a home where food and clothing were hard-earned, where oil and candles were luxuries, Miss Dolly Clare - retired village schoolmistress and devoted countrywoman - looks back on a richly rewarding life.
View BookAuthor: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 10h 45m
Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel had begun.
View BookAuthor: Robert Ryan
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Author Robert Ryan
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 11h 42m
It is 1915 and, as the First World War rages in Europe, a talented young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, consigned by his superiors to the Map Room at GHQ. Yet passionately committed to the Arab people and spurred on by personal tragedy, he is about to unlock a secret that will change the course of history.
View BookAuthor: Derek Johns
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Author Derek Johns
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 5h 15m
It is 1968 and Billy Palmer has dropped out of university and left the West Country behind. He is determined to go to Marrakesh and find himself, but his first stop must be London. When he arrives, Billy takes a cramped room in a boarding house and talks his way into a job in a bookshop, and then begins to explore the streets of Soho where the poli...
View BookAuthor: Scott Kirsty
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Author Scott Kirsty
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 11h 41m
Cate Wishart and Margie Holland left school promising to be best friends forever. But two decades later they've drifted to opposite ends of the country and communicate only through Christmas cards. Cate's married to a doctor desired by every woman that meets him and mother to three lively girls. Margie's a senior news producer who deals deftly with...
View BookQ & A (filmed As Slumdog Millionaire)
Author: Vikas Swarup
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Author Vikas Swarup
Narrator Christopher Simpson
Duration 11h 45m
When Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphaned, uneducated street kid from Mumbai, wins a billion rupees on a live TV quiz show, he finds himself beaten up and thrown in jail by the programme's producers. During his interrogation he explains, through a series of flashbacks, how he knew the answers to all the show's questions. What he describes about his lif...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 5h 46m
'Time's Arrow' tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He dies and then feels better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookJames Bond: The Authorised Biography
Author: John Pearson
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Author John Pearson
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 10h 44m
James Bond has graced our bookshelves for over fifty years. The martini-drinking, super-smooth character has become an icon and a national treasure. John Pearson assumed that James Bond was no more than a figment of Ian Fleming's imagination but soon began to have doubts, doubts which were soon reaching such a pitch that the British secret service...
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