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Author: Ilona Bannister
Author Ilona Bannister
Narrator Alix Dunmore
Duration 10h 28m
An emotionally powerful novel about four women and the incredible strength it takes to live a life made invisible by others. When you can't get out, let kindness in. In a nondescript building in a gentrifying corner of London, Penny is doing daily battle with her mind. She is convinced that the world beyond her door is too dangerous for her, though...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Gracie Thomas
Duration 10h 18m
Nervous flyer Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So she starts telling the man sitting next to her all her innermost secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she's read them.How she's not sure if she has a G-Spot. How she feels like a fraud at work. How she once thr...
View BookAuthor: Eamon McGrath
Author Eamon McGrath
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 32m
Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician and author of the widely acclaimed Berlin-Warszawa Express, comes a smart and gritty novel that explores the lives of touring musicians In this audiobook edition, Eamon McGrath reads the novel set to an original musical score he composed for the bo...
View BookAuthor: Adrienne Young
Author Adrienne Young
Narrator Britanny Pressley
Duration 10h 8m
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm - and the mysterious curse that has haunted them for generations. The madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance left her daughter, June, to be raised by her grandmother. Everyone in Ja...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Skye
Author Evelyn Skye
Narrator Anthony Rey Perez, Victoria Villarreal
Duration 8h 49m
Claire Walker has her life in perfect order. Yet the one thing she is missing is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Spanish artist Matías de León into her path. Matías is free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard - and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question how t...
View BookMinor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
Author: Hema Sukumar
Author Hema Sukumar
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 10h 20m
A warm-hearted debut novel set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai. Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual visits from her daughter who is studying in t...
View BookAuthor: Kaliane Bradley
Author Kaliane Bradley
Narrator George Weightman
Duration 10h 24m
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. A civil servant starts working as a 'bridge' - a liaison, helpmeet and housemate - in an experimental project that brings expatriates from the past into the twenty-first century. This is a science-fiction stor...
View BookAuthor: Tom Lamont
Author Tom Lamont
Narrator Jot Davies
Duration 11h 21m
Local boy Téo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Téo: he's got a steady job, a brand-new car and a London flat all concrete and glass, with a sliver of a river view. Except, underneath the surface, not much has changed at all. He's...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Andrews
Author Jessica Andrews
Narrator Sarah Durham
Duration 7h 53m
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world. Years later, as a young woman with unattainab...
View BookAuthor: Kyung-Sook Shin
Author Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrator Bruce Turk, Janet Song, Mark Bramhall, Samantha Quan
Duration 7h 57m
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2012. When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called...
View BookAuthor: Monica Ali
Author Monica Ali
Narrator Ayesha Dharker
Duration 15h 52m
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF BRICK LANE Shortlisted, Comedy Women in Print Prize Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine and a charming, handsome fiancé, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But now the moment she has been dreading has arrived: it...
View BookAuthor: Dur E Aziz Amna
Author Dur E Aziz Amna
Narrator Monica Sagar
Duration 8h 27m
A deeply compelling and funny coming-of-age novel about a teenaged girl's life-changing journey from Pakistan to America, and the challenges of a debilitating illness. On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama...
View BookAuthor: Kyung-Sook Shin
Author Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrator Megan Affonso
Duration 12h 1m
After losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside to look after her elderly father. There, the discovery of a chest of letters compels her to piece together the violent, vibrant story of his life. More than just a portrait of one man, I Went to See My Father asks us to look at the ones we lo...
View BookThe Lost Lives of Frances Langley
Author: Michelle Adams
Author Michelle Adams
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 11h 9m
Mirepoix, France. Summer 1981. In a small village in southern France, a wilful English girl is falling in love. Frances Langley has fallen under Benoit's romantic spell, and their summer of love finds Frances willing to do almost anything for the handsome art collector, even hiding a precious Klinkosch box for him, stolen by the Nazis decades befor...
View BookAuthor: Haleh Agar
Author Haleh Agar
Narrator Grace Andrews
Duration 9h 21m
A man hit Ava with his car, a few miles from her bungalow. He brings her flowers in hospital and offers to do her laundry. He also brings her the letter she dropped that night on the road. In New York, Ava's brother Michael receives the same letter. He thinks about it as he steps out of the shower into his curtainless bedroom. A naked woman stares...
View BookAuthor: Huma Qureshi
Author Huma Qureshi
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 9h 20m
The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: a poignant story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a mess. But Hana wants children and her husband is hesitating, and perhaps her control is slipping. Mira drea...
View BookAuthor: Charles Portis
Author Charles Portis
Narrator Donna Tartt
Duration 6h 18m
Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie — as vital as she is innocent —...
View BookAuthor: Jean McNeil
Author Jean McNeil
Narrator Mia Fothergill, Clive Walton
Duration 8h 42m
From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as “stunningly written” and a Guardian Best Book of 2018. An unflinching exploration of love and boundaries in Brexit-crazed London. Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife...
View BookAuthor: Colson Whitehead
Author Colson Whitehead
Narrator Dion Graham
Duration 10h 48m
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate nee...
View BookAuthor: Clare Chambers
Author Clare Chambers
Narrator Karen Cass
Duration 9h 59m
1957, the suburbs of south east London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle...
View BookAuthor: Hiromi Goto
Author Hiromi Goto
Narrator Stephany Seki, Brenda Kamino
Duration 8h 14m
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region) Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award Hiromi Goto's acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience. Focusing on the lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta, Goto uses their stories t...
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