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Author: Marian Keyes
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Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Niamh Daly
Duration 15h
Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced. Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missi...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Susannah Tresilian
Duration 10h 30m
'Marrying the Mistress' dives into the shock waves that buffet the Stockdale family after Guy leaves Laura. Guy asks himself how his sons will cope, and what his forthright daughter-in-law Carrie and his teenage grandchildren will make of it all. Can any of them avoid taking sides? Should they? And what about the abandoned wife Laura, a woman appar...
View BookAuthor: Anne Fine
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Author Anne Fine
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 6h 34m
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. A responsible job for the council, visits to his aged mother Norah, and cooking and shopping for her. But no-one knows about his other - much more secret - life that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, and a much-adored three-year-old charmer.
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Sara Jordan
Duration 9h 30m
Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. Along with his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, Jake embarks on a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome.
View BookAuthor: Kate Mosse
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Author Kate Mosse
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Duration 7h 50m
When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. But it's not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy; there's an overwhelming sense of evil in the tomb that Alice finds hard to shake off, even in the bright French sunshine. Puzzled...
View BookSunshine At the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
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Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Rebecca Cooper
Duration 9h 43m
Come to the Comfort Food Cafe for sunshine, smiles and plenty of truly scrumptious lemon drizzle cake. For Willow, the ramshackle caf‚ overlooking the beach, together with its warmhearted community, offers friendship as a daily special and always has a hearty welcome on the menu. But when a handsome stranger blows in on a warm spring breeze,...
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
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Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Kathleen Mcinerney
SeriesBeach Town, Book 1
Duration 14h 8m
As a movie location scout, picture-perfect is the name of the game. But her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. Greer has been given one more chance, if she can find the perfect undiscovered beach hideaway for a big-budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town called Cypress Key...
View BookAuthor: Anita Shreve
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Author Anita Shreve
Narrator Blair Brown
Duration 5h 10m
In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age. This is the story of Olympia Biddeford - privileged, well educated, and mature beyond her years - and her affair with John Haskell, who not only is a physician, essayist, and champion o...
View BookAuthor: Kurt Vonnegut
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator Stanley Tucci
Duration 5h 26m
Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Lucy Briars
Duration 10h 30m
'The Waves', more than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, 'The Waves' follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. The novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the aspirations, triumphs and regrets of her characte...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Ian Mcewan
Duration 4h 30m
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This audiobook is a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
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Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Stephanie Racine, Greg Wagland
Duration 10h 46m
Martin Gilmour and Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School. They are an unlikely pair: the scholarship boy with the wrong accent and clothes, and the dazzlingly popular, wealthy young aristocrat. But Martin knows no one else can understand the bond they share - and no one else could have k...
View BookAuthor: M. L. Stedman
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Author M. L. Stedman
Narrator Noah Taylor
Duration 10h 20m
A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision. They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours.
View BookAuthor: Mary Stewart
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Author Mary Stewart
Narrator Joy Harrington
Duration 10h
After the tragic death of her father, Bryony Ashley returns to take possession of debt-ridden Ashley Court. But there is something odd about her father's sudden death, and danger awaits her in the old moated house with its curious maze and unsettling memories.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 6m
Clarissa Dalloway is civilised - without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. We spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, an...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Cannon
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Author Joanna Cannon
Narrator Paula Wilcox
Duration 10h 44m
There are three things you should know about Elsie.The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a little bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued,...
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
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Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Isabel Keating
Duration 14h 15m
The delightful New York Times bestselling author returns with a hilarious novel about one woman's quest to fix up her house . . . and her life. After a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left almost broke, unemployed, and homeless. She reluctantly accepts to refurbish Birdsong, the old family place in Guthrie, Georgia. Bu...
View BookAuthor: Michael Zadoorian
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Author Michael Zadoorian
Narrator Judith West
Duration 8h 38m
Ella and John have shared a wonderful life for more than 60 years. Now they're on the run from their doctors and middle-aged children, who just want them to go gently into that undignified night of old age. In their trusty camper van, the pair embark on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery along Route 66. Though time is catching up with them, Ella i...
View BookAuthor: Michael Cunningham
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Author Michael Cunningham
Narrator Hugh Dancy
Duration 7h 26m
Peter is 44, prosperous, childless, a player in the NY contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on 20 years. Their marriage is sound. But when Mizzy, Rebecca's brother, comes to stay, his world is turned upside down. Returning to their flat, Peter sees Rebecca's outline in the shower. But when he opens the shower doo...
View BookAuthor: Carson Mccullers
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Author Carson Mccullers
Narrator William Hope
Duration 13h 30m
Set in a small town in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.
View BookEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
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Author Gail Honeyman
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
Duration 11h 37m
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has buil...
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