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Author: Julie Cohen
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Author Julie Cohen
Narrator Gemma Whelan
Duration 10h 36m
Robbie and Emily they have been together for decades. Now, their joints are creaking and their eyesight is failing - but their love for each other is as fresh and fierce as the day they first met. They have had children and grandchildren, lived full and happy and intimate lives. But they have been keeping a secret since the day they met, when their...
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 28m
An old man returns to the scene of his ordinary suburban childhood. Stephen Wheatley is unsure of what he is seeking but, as he walks once-familiar streets he hasn't seen in 50 years, he unfolds a story of childish games colliding cruelly with adult realities. It is wartime and Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 6h
Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the novel weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of the Second World War, which provides the novel with its dark undercurrent. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her...
View BookAuthor: Stephen King
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Author Stephen King
Narrator Frances Sternhagen
Duration 9h 21m
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it is not quite what the police had expected. Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make.... She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details nor feelings. Hers or anyone else's.This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Truth that takes you to the ed...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Amy Creighton
Duration 13h 1m
Lucy Silchester has received an appointment card. Actually, she's been invited along a few times to this appointment, but she keeps brushing the gold embossed envelope under the shag pile carpet. She's taken her eye off the ball and has busied herself with work, helping out friends, fixing her car, feeding her cat, seeing her family and devoting he...
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Catriona Jarvis
Duration 4h
'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper, Kingshaw is an intruder, a boy to be subtly persecuted, and Kingshaw finds tha...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h
Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. T...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 16h 31m
This is a passionate story of five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill with which their fortunes and fate are so closely bound.
View BookAuthor: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 17h 35m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephalonia. 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 Corel...
View BookAuthor: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 8h 18m
Herz is seventy-three and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend he hasn't seen for thirty years; he could travel, he could make a trip to Paris to see a favourite painting; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do somethin...
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 6h 41m
The second book of the 'Regeneration ' trilogy about British soldiers traumatised by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them. Here, Lieutenant Billy Prior is tormented by figuring out by which side of several coins does he live - coward or hero, crazy or sane, homosexual or heterosexual, upper cl...
View BookAuthor: Lisa Genova
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Author Lisa Genova
Narrator Lisa Genova
Duration 7h 47m
In this New York Times best-selling debut novel, neuroscientist Lisa Genova "mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's" (Publishers Weekly). Alice Howard, a Harvard psychology professor and a happily married mother, is comfortable in her life. But then she misplaces her BlackBerry, gets lost aro...
View BookThe Missing Pieces of Sophie Mccarthy
Author: B.M. Carroll
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Author B.M. Carroll
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy by B. M. Carroll, read by Kirsty Gillmore, Jane Drinkwater, Natasha Jacobs, Stan Pretty, Olivia Beardsley, Adam Fitzgerald and Katrina Bowker. She's the victim. But is she so innocent? Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She'...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Walter
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Author Natasha Walter
Narrator Karen Cass
Duration 15h 41m
Eighteen-year-old Laura Leverett arrives from America for a new life in England. At the side-lines of her cousin's glamorous gatherings, Laura hungers for someone with whom she can discuss the new political ideas sweeping through London. Edward Last is the kindred spirit Laura has been waiting for. But the secret he is carrying will test Laura's id...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Kingsolver
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Author Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator Barbara Kingsolver
Duration 15h 46m
Triumphing once again, Barbara Kingsolver has written a beautiful new novel: a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyot...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
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Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Rosalyn Landor
Duration 6h 30m
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace...
View BookAuthor: Sally Rooney
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Author Sally Rooney
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 8h 45m
Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex m‚nage-…-quatre and her...
View BookAuthor: Sabine Durrant
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Author Sabine Durrant
Narrator Rory Kinnear
Duration 9h 23m
He saved your son's life. Does that mean you have to give him yours? It starts with a holiday. A three-year-old boy on a beach, and the hero who saves his life.But nothing is ever that simple. Tessa and Marcus know they owe Dave Jepsom more than they can ever repay.Yet even as he is walking from the sea with their son in his arms, there is somethin...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Boo
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Author Katherine Boo
Narrator Sunil Mahotra
Duration 8h 15m
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Ann...
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 4
Duration 9h
A new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide.
View BookAuthor: Catrin Collier
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Author Catrin Collier
Narrator Anne Cater
SeriesSwansea Girls, Book 2
Duration 17h
In the Swansea of the fifties, there is only one thing for a boy to do when he gets a girl 'into trouble' and that is to marry her - and quickly. Blighted by an unhappy childhood, passionately in love for the first time in his life, Jack can't wait to do 'the right thing'. A happy family of his own is all he ever wanted but not even in his wildest...
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