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Author: 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.
View BookAuthor: Nikos Kazantzakis
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Author Nikos Kazantzakis
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 11h 47m
An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real zest for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
Based on the definitive edition and translation of the classic French novel, the second volume, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, follows the narrator's transition from childhood to adolescence and first love on the beaches of Normandy. As the novel ends, we are introduced to Albertine, whom the narrator meets in a Norman ocean-side resort named...
View BookAuthor: Fredrik Backman
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Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 9h 17m
Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He isn't as young as he used to be. He drives a Saab. He points at people he doesn't like the look of. He is described by those around his as 'the neighbour from hell'.Every morning he makes his inspection rounds of the local streets. He moves bicycles and checks the contents of recyclin...
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h
Welcome to Mummy's world. The Boy Child Peter is connected to his iPad by an umbilical cord, The Girl Child Jane is desperate to make her fortune as an Instagram lifestyle influencer, while Daddy is constantly off on exotic business trips.Mummy's marriage is feeling the strain, her kids are running wild and the house is steadily developing a forest...
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 11h 47m
Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has found one of the world's long-lost treasures. But at once the difficulties begin: the treasure he has found is in someone else's possession and to get his hands on it he needs to set up a classic sting. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 3h 45m
The young narrator succumbs to the charms of the enchanting Gilberte, but his plan to ingratiate himself with her by becoming friends with her parents backfires badly when Gilberte begins to distance himself from him. A classic account of the pangs of adolescent love. Part one of the third volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
Duration 4h
'Swann in Love' tells the story of man-about-town Charles Swann's passionate, tormented love affair with the courtesan Odette de Crecy, and of its surprising outcome. Set in the degenerate demi-monde of 19th century Paris as well as in the fashionable drawing rooms of the aristocracy, this audiobook vividly brings to life the original novel.
View BookAuthor: Nicky Pellegrino
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Author Nicky Pellegrino
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
Duration 10h 30m
Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter in the Carrozza family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At sixteen, Maria's life is limited to the confines of her mother's rural kitchen (where she bakes bread every morning, the way the Carrozza women always have), and the Caffe Angeli, a place of friendship, strong espresso and famo...
View BookAuthor: Ivo Stourton
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Author Ivo Stourton
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 9h 43m
When James Walker first arrives at Tudor College, Cambridge, he is anxious to find his place among new friends. By accident, he encounters one of the members of a club calling itself the Tudor Night Climbers, a tightly knit, wealthy, secretive and tantalizingly eccentric circle of undergraduates who at night scale the college towers and gargoyles i...
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Stephen Kemble
Duration 4h
When Howard Baker dies in a car crash, he finds himself transported to heaven, where he soon starts to become a very important person and a good friend of God.
View BookAuthor: Sulaiman Addonia
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Author Sulaiman Addonia
Narrator Christopher Simpson
Duration 8h 45m
Naser is an outsider in Saudi. It's hard to adjust to a world that puts up so many barriers between men and women: walls in the mosque, divider panels in the buses and veils on the street. A splash of colour arrives in Naser's world when, unexpectedly, a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note, from a woman whose face he has...
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
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Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Kathleen Mcinerney
SeriesWeezie and Bebe Mystery, Book 4
Duration 7h 39m
Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy. But there's trouble afoot - and it's heading toward Weezie.Seems BeBe's been holding a big secret backthat would make Santa's reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure CHRISTMAS BLISS?
View BookAuthor: Philip Roth
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Author Philip Roth
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
An idealistic American radio actor, Iron Rinn, becomes a victim of the McCarthy era during the 1950s. He marries America's reigning radio actress, yet his life is blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually fleeing. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Joseph Conrad
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Author Joseph Conrad
Narrator Brian Cox
Duration 3h 41m
Two novellas: In 'Youth', the seaman Marlow tells the story of a young man's coming of age on his first voyage to the East. 'Heart of Darkness' describes the slide into corruption of an idealistic trader - Kurtz - in the Belgian Congo. The accompanying music is by Schreker, Szymanowski and Tanneyev.
View BookAuthor: Francis Cottam
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Author Francis Cottam
Narrator Mark McGann
Duration 8h 7m
Having been wounded on the Russian Front, Martin Hamer, a heroic and principled German officer, is seconded to a labour camp in occupied Poland. Gradually, Hamer finds himself drawn to one of the inmates, Julia Smollen. As the burgeoning relationship between the German officer and the Polish prisoner causes mounting tension in the camp, Hamer's tro...
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author John Le Carre
Narrator Carre John Le
Duration 6h
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War es...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Harltey
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Author Maggie Harltey
Narrator Penny Macdonald
Duration 6h 44m
Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she had been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and...
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