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Author: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 3h 25m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia. It isn't long before he is involved in a heated affair with Pelagia, a local girl, despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side, but as Core...
View BookAuthor: Kate Chopin
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Author Kate Chopin
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 2h 37m
The moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun, and in doing so challenges the bourgeois assumptions of her day.
View BookTowards the End of the Morning
Author: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 7h
Frayn's 1967 novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world long since gone. Stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering nature notes and crosswords, Dyson dreams of liberation and recognition. When a chance occurs to appear on TV, he eagerly prepares to embrace a celebrity lifestyle.
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
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Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Giovanna Phillips
Duration 19h 20m
A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 11h 50m
'Five Quarters of the Orange' revolves around a recipe book, continuing the theme of culinary intrigue begun in 'Chocolat' and 'Blackberry Wine'. Framboise returns to the village where she grew up during wartime and, with the help of the recipes scribbled in her mother's album, opens up a small restaurant. Whilst immersing herself once again in th...
View BookAuthor: Sally Beauman
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Author Sally Beauman
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Duration 18h 48m
A sequel to Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca' (book code 7669CD). It is twenty years since Rebecca's death and the inquest, which famously - and controversially - passed a verdict of suicide. But what really happened to Rebecca? Was she the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed? Or the tragic heroine that others had suggested? The...
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 6
Duration 12h 7m
Michael Mont is succeeding in his public life in Parliament, but holds grave doubts about his private life and his wife, Fleur. Fleur's original love, Jon Forsyte, her cousin and the son of her father's ex-wife, returns to England where a meeting is inevitable. Fleur's undying love for Jon is disclosed.
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 5
Duration 9h 55m
'The Silver Spoon' continues the tale of Soames' daughter Fleur. Married to Michael Mont, in line for a Barony, the story focuses on Michael's start in Parliament and Fleur's dissatisfaction with her marriage. The American, Frances Wilmont, enters the scene bringing news that Fleur's real love, Jon, forbidden to her as the son of her father's ex-wi...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Lindsay Duncan
Duration 10h
David and Nathalie are adopted. Born to different mothers, brought up by the same parents, they have grown up as brother and sister and are fiercely loyal to one another. However, their decision to embark on a journey to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter.
View BookAuthor: Angela Carter
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Author Angela Carter
Narrator Eileen Atkins
Duration 5h
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of showbusiness.
View BookAuthor: Iain Banks
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Author Iain Banks
Narrator Ewan Stewart
Duration 14h 15m
Young Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Relations with his father are strained, his brother is funnier and better-looking than he, and the woman of his dreams is out of his reach. His greatest preoccupation however is with Uncle Rory, professional traveller and some-time magician, whose most succ...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 11h 51m
Elisabeth, monstrous yet pitiable; Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a young woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. It is a sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love.
View BookAuthor: Beryl Bainbridge
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Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Paul Mcgann
Duration 4h 40m
Set in 1950, this audiobook chronicles the life of troubled Stella Bradshaw, an aspiring young actress making her first hesitant steps onto the professional stage. She rapidly becomes infatuated with Meridith, the company director, and, when he spurns her advances, she turns to O'Hara, another actor, in an effort to make him jealous.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 23h 18m
An account of four fateful years in the life of a small Irish town, and in particular of the family who run the local pub. The novel features interlocking stories of loves lost and won, ambitions nurtured and secrets betrayed.
View BookAuthor: Franz Kafka
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Author Franz Kafka
Narrator Geoffrey Howard
Duration 10h 30m
This audiobook tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K, and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority to enter the Castle, which seems to control the entire life of the village.
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 9m
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a young boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war. Banks realises it is time for him to return to th...
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Robert Glenister
Duration 8h 16m
Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares: Stephen Sharkey is suffering the after-effects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and p...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Coe
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Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Colin Buchanan
Duration 13h 13m
The sequel to 'The Rotter's Club'. On Millennium night, 31 December 1999, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV in the same Birmingham house in which he grew up. Watching, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them c...
View BookAuthor: Pauline Mclynn
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Author Pauline Mclynn
Narrator Pauline Mclynn
Duration 9h 34m
In this audiobook Ruth Treacy steps off a bus in the small country town of Kilbrody, drunk, and proceeds to drink herself further into unconsciousness. She wakes up a few days later with no identification and when her bag is located it contains two death certificates. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Nick Hornby
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Author Nick Hornby
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Duration 3h 30m
Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, this audiobook is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Martin and JJ. They are a low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common - save where they end up that New Year's...
View BookAuthor: J.M. Coetzee
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Author J.M. Coetzee
Narrator Jack Klaff
Duration 7h 45m
After an impulsive affair with his student sours, David Lurie retreats disgraced to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power is shifting in South Africa. He and Lucy become victims of a disturbing attack whic...
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