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Author: 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...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Terry Donnelly
Duration 9h 27m
Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England, they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them unexpectedly together. Fiona is a young nurse, trying to make her family understand her...
View BookAuthor: Nevil Shute
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Author Nevil Shute
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 7h 19m
Jerry Chambers is a coastal patrol pilot during the Second World War; Mona Stevens is a barmaid at the Royal Clarence hotel where Jerry hangs out. They meet and fall in love. All looks fine until Jerry is accused of making a terrible mistake in combat, and only Mona may be able to rescue his career.
View BookAuthor: Nevil Shute
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Author Nevil Shute
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 9h 51m
Drunk and delirious in the flooded wilderness of the Queensland bush, an old man lies dying, but in his opium-hazed last hours a priest, himself ridden with malaria, finds the man's deserted shack. Either the old man's wanderings or the priest's memory takes the form of a fantastic prophecy.
View BookAuthor: Sara Gruen
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Author Sara Gruen
Narrator John Randolph Jones
Duration 11h 32m
Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the...
View BookThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
Author: Aimee Bender
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Author Aimee Bender
Narrator Aimee Bender
Duration 8h 52m
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magic...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Nick Rawlinson
Duration 31h 10m
Set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this novel explores the question of what makes us human. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both 16 years old when the story starts, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works in sickness and in health and whether madness...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Holly Martins arrives in post war Vienna to discover that his old friend Harry Lime has just died in a car accident. On hearing from Major Calloway of his criminal activities and racketeering, Martins vows to clear his friend's reputation and uncover the truth to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
View BookAuthor: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Richard Morant
Duration 4h 37m
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to...
View BookWelcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams
Author: Jenny Colgan
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Author Jenny Colgan
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 12h 30m
Rosie Hopkins, city girl to the end, is about to face major upheaval. Her elderly aunt Lily is ill and so, taking a leave of absence, Rosie is putting her friends, her boyfriend and her entire life on hold to move to the depths of the Peak District to help. Lilian Hopkins has run the village sweetshop all her life, observing as the village around h...
View BookAuthor: Richard Yates
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Author Richard Yates
Narrator Mark Bramhall
Duration 11h 24m
"A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic." --William Styron From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and...
View BookAuthor: Bradford Barbara Taylor
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Author Bradford Barbara Taylor
Narrator Ric Jerrom
SeriesRavenscar, Book 1
Duration 6h 26m
Barbara Taylor Bradford introduced the illustrious Harte family in her blockbuster A Woman of Substance. Now she has created an unforgettable new dynasty: the Deravenels. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes forever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her eighteen-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, un...
View BookAuthor: Bradford Barbara Taylor
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Author Bradford Barbara Taylor
Narrator Sarah Le Fevre
Duration 14h 53m
When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family's recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele. Resolving to uncover the truth, she must travel to Istanbul...
View BookAuthor: Ian Pattison
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Author Ian Pattison
Narrator Jonathan Hackett
Duration 11h 39m
A one-time aspiring author has seen his life take a tumble down the ladder of literary aspirations: after prose came verse, then drama, then the ignominious wasteland of sitcom, and then, because failure's always ready to step in with another bottom rung, a badly paid job as a reader of other people's sitcoms. Then suddenly there's new hope. Hollyw...
View BookAuthor: Anne Enright
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Author Anne Enright
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 7h 47m
The nine children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. Tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations, this is a novel about lov...
View BookAuthor: Kate Wilhelm
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Author Kate Wilhelm
Narrator Marguerite Gavin
Duration 2h 52m
Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime, often just ahead of others who had already been working the same ideas. His son John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market-or any other financial deal-and was investigated for insider trading on more than one occasion. Now Cat, a docu...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 9h 18m
Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James, a teacher, and Hugh, a TV personality, both live with attractive women twenty-five years their junior. But the age difference is a time bomb, ticking away at the heart of both relationships. Kate's hunger for a life more in keeping with her own age threatens to bring her eight years with James to an en...
View BookAuthor: Jane Gardam
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 43m
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in l...
View BookA Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Author: Anthony Marra
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Author Anthony Marra
Narrator Colette Whitaker
Duration 12h 8m
A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she fl...
View BookAuthor: Emma Blair
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Author Emma Blair
Narrator Eve Karpf
Duration 13h 7m
The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the factories and laundry houses of industrial Glasgow. Divided by class, wealth and religion, two families could not live more different lives. However, as t...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 8h 18m
Step into the magical world of Cecelia Ahern in this heartwarming bestseller. If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at once. His constant battle with the clock is a sensitive issue with his wife and family. Gabe wishes he was somewhere warm. When Lou invites Gabe, a homeless ma...
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