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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Lauren Weisberger
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Author Lauren Weisberger
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 13h 50m
A year after joining the magazine Runway, Andrea has learnt too much. Most of all she knows the editor, Miranda, is a monster who makes Cruella de Vil look like a fluffy bunny. But also that this is her big break, and it's going to be worth it in the end.
View BookAuthor: Marilynne Robinson
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Author Marilynne Robinson
Narrator Kim Jerome
Duration 8h 54m
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father - an ardent pacifist - and his grandfather who came west to Kansas to fight for abolition and 'preached men into the Civil War'. And he...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 18h 26m
Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.
View BookAuthor: Amy Tan
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Author Amy Tan
Narrator Amy Tan
Duration 2h 37m
In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past begin meeting in San Francisco to play Mah Jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and 'say' stories. Nearly forty years later of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish and the tragic way in which it has come tr...
View BookAuthor: Jane Gardam
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Kate Sachs
Duration 5h 21m
I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine. Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colors her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her-a confining world of wartime restrictions, Viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica has been told tha...
View BookAuthor: Khaled Hosseini
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Author Khaled Hosseini
Narrator Atossa Leoni
Duration 6h 28m
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years -- from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding -- that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarring...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 21h 52m
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, sh...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Nicholl
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Author Andrew Nicholl
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 13h 25m
'The Good Mayor' is a love story and a story about love. Set in the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of the Baltic, it tells the story of Tibo Krovic, the good and honest Mayor of Dot, and his love for his secretary, the beautiful, lonely, but married, Mrs Agathe Stopak.In the quiet, respectable town of Dot, there is nothing that Tibo can do...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Farrant
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Author Natasha Farrant
Narrator Charlie Norfolk
Duration 8h 45m
Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of France, where she would be joined by her exotic, hopelessly glamorous cousins and life as she knew it would begin under the benevolent eye of her grandmother Mimi. It was a heady existence of illicit drinking, stolen kisses and the bittersweet pains...
View BookAuthor: Rosnay Tatiana De
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Author Rosnay Tatiana De
Narrator Laurence Bouvard
Duration 10h
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is as...
View BookAuthor: Andrea Busfield
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Author Andrea Busfield
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 8h 15m
In his short life, eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. But despite their struggles, Fawad's love of life never fades. Then Mariya finds a position as hous...
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