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Author: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Janet Hargreaves
Duration 12h
Annette runs away from finishing school to enter school life. As a result she meets a diverse group of characters, all of whom are trying to break free of their own particular obsessions.
View BookAuthor: Jean M Auel
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Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 2
Duration 21h 20m
The sequel to 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'. Life on the glacial continent of the last Ice Age, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth, is an exotic, primeval world where the beautiful Ayla leaves the safety of the clan who raised her and sets out alone on a journey of discovery. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Cormac Mccarthy
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Author Cormac Mccarthy
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 3h 57m
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
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Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Gemma Whelan
Duration 7h
A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her...
View BookThe Dust That Falls From Dreams
Author: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator David Sibley, Avita Jay
Duration 17h 30m
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of war that will engulf them on the cusp of...
View BookAuthor: Alice Walker
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Author Alice Walker
Narrator Brigitte Bennett
Duration 7h 42m
Set in the deep American South between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie, and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, si...
View BookAuthor: Gareth Stein
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Author Gareth Stein
Narrator Christopher Evan Welch
Duration 6h 56m
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realises that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would...
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 17h 29m
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find th...
View BookAuthor: Graham Norton
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Author Graham Norton
Narrator Graham Norton
Duration 7h 46m
Graham Norton's debut novel, Holding, was a Sunday Times best seller and loved everywhere. His new novel, A Keeper, is a twisted tale of secrets and ill-fated loves that once again demonstrates Norton's understanding of human nature and all its darkest flaws. The mystery of Elizabeth Keane's father is one that has never been solved by the people of...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 12h
Mor's life as a schoolmaster at a public school is disrupted by the arrival of a young and beautiful painter commissioned to paint the headmaster.
View BookAuthor: Jack Ross
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Author Jack Ross
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 7h 57m
When Deborah Jones, rookie reporter on the Miami Herald, finds that William Craig, an 82-year-old Scot on death row was a WWII hero jailed for killing a senator's son, her story provokes other victims of the politician's son to come forward. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Toby's Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die-and why? Elinor determines to uncover the trut...
View BookAuthor: Gervase Phinn
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Author Gervase Phinn
Narrator Gervase Phinn
Duration 12h 23m
Summer has arrived in Barton-in-the-Dale and as a new term begins at the little primary school, it's not just the warm weather that's getting people hot under the collar. Meetings with the teachers from Urebank School to discuss the merger are producing more than a few fireworks, a disruptive new pupil arrives, set to cause trouble, and a surprisin...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 50m
The first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's autobiographical masterpiece, 'Remembrance of Things Past', one of the major achievements of 20th-century literature. The narrator sets out to rediscover large areas of his past, and to resurrect his past life and the people and places that most affected him.
View BookAuthor: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Kevin Moore
Duration 8h
Whilst holidaying in a sleepy village on the Franco-Swiss border, middle-aged solicitor Alan Sherwood catches a glimpse of a woman on the platform of the station, who reminds him of a woman he once passionately loved - an elusive and irresistible woman called Sarah Miller, who had never returned his feelings.
View BookAuthor: Sheila O'Flanagan
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Author Sheila O'Flanagan
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Duration 13h 52m
When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she knows she must pick herself up and make a new start. But how will she adjust to small-town living and local reporting? Meanwhile, home-loving Nina Fallon's life is shattered when the exploits of her actor husband become national news. Now she's avoiding friends...
View BookAuthor: Irene Nemirovsky
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Author Irene Nemirovsky
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 5h 27m
Born into poverty on the Black Sea, Golder has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business inte...
View BookAuthor: Gregory Sherl
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Author Gregory Sherl
Narrator Tom Clark-Hill
Duration 7h 55m
What if you could know your romantic future? What if an envisionist could enter the name of your prospective mate into a computer that would show you a film of your future life together? In The Future for Curious People, a young librarian named Evelyn becomes obsessed with this new technology: she can't stop visiting Dr. Chin's office because she n...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
Continues the story of Marcel's entry into the highest circles of the French aristocracy. Having renewed his acquaintance with the enchanting Albertine, who submits to his advances, Marcel finds himself pursued by the predatory Baron de Charlus. The music is by Ciurlionis, Breton, Widor and D'Indy. Part two of the fourth volume of Proust's 'Remembr...
View BookAuthor: Dawn French
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Author Dawn French
Narrator Dawn French
Duration 9h
Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad . . . who's just, well... Dad. However, Mo is having a crisis. She's about to...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 56m
Marcel penetrates into the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchess de Guermantes. The music is by Boellmann, D'Indy, Ciurlionis and Breton. Part one of the fourth volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.
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