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Author: Michelle Penn
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Author Michelle Penn
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Saul Reichlin, Nigel Pilkington
Duration 1h 4m
On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms—white suits and full-face paper masks—the soldiers seethe with rebellion. The arrival of the...
View BookAuthor: V.S. Naipul
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Author V.S. Naipul
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 21h 29m
A House for Mr Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Findi...
View BookAuthor: Curtis Sittenfeld
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Author Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrator Jorjeana Marie
Duration 17h 16m
Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE, ELIGIBLE and YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT.Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning...
View BookAuthor: Jessica George
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Author Jessica George
Narrator Heather Agyepong
Duration 10h 10m
Meet Maddie. To her mostly absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer—even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It's time to become the woman she wants to be. The kind who wears a bright yellow suit, says yes to after-work drinks an...
View BookAuthor: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Narrator Allyson Ryan
Duration 14h 35m
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of Tinder dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future of few responsibilities, his life turns upside down as his ex-wife Rachel suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Kingsolver
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Author Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator Charlie Thurston
Duration 21h 3m
A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZETHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 18,000 5* REVIEWS'Extraordinary.' OPRAH'She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone...
View BookAuthor: Min Jin Lee
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Author Min Jin Lee
Narrator Allison Hiroto
Duration 18h 40m
Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child: their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then, Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new l...
View BookAuthor: Sierra Godfrey
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Author Sierra Godfrey
Narrator Gail Shalan
Duration 10h 20m
A propulsive contemporary women's fiction debut with dark humor and messy yet warm-hearted family dynamics, perfect for fans of Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had and Emma Straub's All Adults Here All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over fifteen years ago. Sh...
View BookAuthor: Sara Cox
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Author Sara Cox
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 27m
Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that men are trouble. Louise: a loving husband, gorgeous kids. She ought to feel more grateful. Jameela: all she's ever done is work hard and try her best. Why won't life give her the one thing she really wants? Sheila: the nest is empty, there's a lonely...
View BookAuthor: Okechukwu Nzelu
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Author Okechukwu Nzelu
Narrator Clifford Samuel
Duration 10h 24m
Achike Okoro feels like his life is coming together at last. His top-floor flat in Peckham is as close to home as he can imagine, and after years of hard work, he's about to get his break as an actor. He's even persuaded his father, Chibuike, to move in with him, grateful to offer the man who raised him as a single parent a home of his own. Between...
View BookAuthor: Emilie Pine
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Author Emilie Pine
Narrator Jody O'Neill
Duration 6h 54m
Brought to you by Penguin.The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin, 7 October 2019One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for th...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 5h 41m
Every Friday night the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus. Each of them needs to return regularly to Rathdoon: Nancy Morris, a real 'Miss Mouse', is known for her meanness and has to escape her flatmate's carping; Dee Burke is engrossed in her affair; Kev Kennedy has a side to his character hidd...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 8h 56m
A silver Wedding means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times. But for the Doyles - Deidre, Desmond and their children Anna, Helen and Brendan - it will be more difficult than most. For each of them is keeping up a front; each of them is nursing a secret wound, or smarting over a hidden betrayal. As the day draws nearer, so t...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 6h 34m
In this extraordinary collection of stories, the world-wide best-selling author of Evening Class once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart. In The Return Journey, Maeve Binchy creates powerful compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid te...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Genevieve Gaunt
Duration 13h 29m
Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is qui...
View BookThirty Things I Love About Myself
Author: Radhika Sanghani
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Author Radhika Sanghani
Narrator Taj Atwal
Duration 9h
It's time for a brand-new kind of love story. Are you ready? Because Nina Mistry isn't.... Thirty Things I Love About Myself is the exuberant, witty, irresistible, hilarious and unforgettable story of Nina Mistry, who finds herself accidentally locked in a prison cell on the night of her 30th birthday, where she discovers a tatty little self-help b...
View BookThe Girl With the Louding Voice
Author: Abi Daré
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Author Abi Daré
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 12h 7m
14-year-old Adunni has a dream: to be educated. But her father needs her bride-price, so sells his daughter to an older man, who demands she give him the fine boy-children his first two wives have failed to produce. When things go tragically wrong, Adunni flees to Lagos. It's what she has always wanted, to leave Ikati and see the world, and though...
View BookAuthor: Sara Nisha Adams
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Author Sara Nisha Adams
Narrator Paul Panting, Sagar Arya, Tara Divina
Duration 12h 47m
A new chapter is just beginning... *A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction 2021!* 'The story is an absolute joy . . . A captivating and exquisitely crafted debut'Sunday Times bestseller, HEIDI SWAIN 'A love letter to books, reading and the power of connection – absolutely gorgeous' Sunday Times bestseller, RUTH WARE When Aleish...
View BookAuthor: Jade LB
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Author Jade LB
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin. WITH EXCLUSIVE NEW CONTENT FROM THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR'Keisha the Sket accidentally decolonised literature.' Black Ballad'Our literary foremother.' Candice Carty-Williams'Reading Keisha the Sket as an adult makes me swoon at the richness of its nostalgia.' Caleb Femi_________________________Where were you when Keisha the Ske...
View BookAuthor: Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Author Caleb Azumah Nelson
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 41m
Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021WINNER OF DEBUT OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2022WINNER OF BAD FORM BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDNO.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD '5 UNDER 35' HONO...
View BookAuthor: Sally Page
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Author Sally Page
Narrator Jessica Whittaker
Duration 10h 16m
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge), she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they always had done, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she ga...
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