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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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Author Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator Susan Ericksen
Duration 19h 28m
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories. Meredith 'M. R.' Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Bradbury
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Author Malcolm Bradbury
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 10h 30m
Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption and reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Malcolm Bradbury. Copyright Malcolm Bradbury 1975...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Kelly
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Author Cathy Kelly
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Duration 16h 6m
Three lives. Three loves. Three reasons to let go. Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind for New York. Life is good - until she breaks her own rules and falls for a married man. On the other side of the ocean, Izzie's aunt Anneliese discovers the pain of infidelity for herself. Then Lily, the wise and compassionate family matriar...
View BookAuthor: Gavin Esler
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Author Gavin Esler
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 12h 45m
Robin Burnett has spent years at the heart of power, pulling the strings. With friends in Downing Street, the White House and the CIA, he is known as the brightest politician of his generation, tipped to go all the way to the top. But when the media discover that Robin is at the heart of a shocking sex scandal, his glittering career comes to an abr...
View BookAuthor: David Guterson
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Author David Guterson
Narrator Peter Marinker
Duration 11h 49m
It is 1972 and Neil Countryman is from the public high school in north Seattle. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime. John William Barry is from a private academy for the more privileged of the city's youth. He is an earnest, fiery young man, and his family background is one of material wealth and emotional deprivati...
View BookAuthor: Gervase Phinn
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Author Gervase Phinn
Narrator Gervase Phinn
Duration 11h 52m
Elisabeth Devine causes quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners. And that's not even counting the challenges the mysterious Elisabeth herself will face: a bitter former head te...
View BookAuthor: Diane Liang Wei
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Author Diane Liang Wei
Narrator Cindy Cheung
Duration 6h 48m
Mei is a modern, independent Chinese woman; she runs her own business in Beijing, working as a private investigator, owns a car, and even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. One day, 'Uncle' Chen - no relation but a close friend of her mother's - approaches Mei and asks her to find the Eye of Jade. A Han dynasty artefact of great...
View BookAuthor: Kate Davies
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Author Kate Davies
Narrator Lucy Briggs-Owen
Duration 10h 50m
Until recently, Julia hadn't had sex in three years. But now: a one-night stand is accusing her of breaking his penis; a sexually confident lesbian is making eyes at her over confrontational modern art; and she's wondering whether trimming her pubes makes her a bad feminist. Julia's about to learn that she's been looking for love - and satisfaction...
View BookAuthor: Toni Jordan
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Author Toni Jordan
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 7h 10m
Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local caf‚ (920). The number of poppy seeds on her orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to eat it. Grace counts everything, because that way there are no unpleasant surprises. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19) thinks sh...
View BookAuthor: Gareth Crocker
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Author Gareth Crocker
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 7h 27m
After losing his wife and young daughter in a plane crash, US journalist Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam where he plans to die. However, during one of his early missions he rescues a critically wounded Labrador and helps nurse him back to health. Fletcher names the dog Jack and, as the bond deepens between them, he slowly b...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Mark McGann
Duration 21h 4m
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 7h 27m
This is the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity, he takes refuge in a woman's house who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices.
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 58m
When Stevie's social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn't sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie's behaviour so...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Coupland
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Author Douglas Coupland
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 8h 20m
Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absol...
View BookThe Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
Author: Colleen Mccullogh
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Author Colleen Mccullogh
Narrator Phyllida Nash
Duration 13h 55m
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who loved Pride and Prejudice will want to know what happened to the Bennet sisters! Twenty years on, Jane has a happy marriage and large family; Lizzy and Mr Darcy now have a formidable social reputation; Lydia has a reputation of quite another kind; Kitty is much in demand in London's parlours an...
View BookAuthor: Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin
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Author Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 10h 37m
Nan, in her early twenties, goes to work for the wealthy X family to help put herself through college, and is shocked by their antics. Between raising the X's son, Grayer, keeping on top of her studies, moving house and ensuring Mrs X's day runs smoothly, it's a wonder Nanny ever finds time to hang out with the gorgeous HH on the sixth floor. With...
View BookAuthor: Caroline Roberts
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Author Caroline Roberts
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 9h 27m
Step inside Rachel's Pudding Pantry, a place where love, laughter and scrumptious bakes bring everyone together. Primrose Farm is Rachel's very own slice of heaven. Come rain or shine there's always a pot of tea brewing by the Aga, the delicious aroma of freshly baked puddings, and a chorus of happy memories drifting through the kitchen. But the fa...
View BookAuthor: Lionel Shriver
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Author Lionel Shriver
Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
Duration 13h 16m
Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he's thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he's been sent to replace, is exactly...
View BookAuthor: R.J. Palacio
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Author R.J. Palacio
Narrator Kate Rudd, Nick Podehl
Duration 8h 5m
Wonder is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, Auggie is being sent to a real school - and...
View BookAuthor: Marcel Proust
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Author Marcel Proust
Narrator Neville Jason
SeriesRemembrance of Things Past, Book 7
Duration 3h 56m
Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus.
View BookAuthor: Raffaella Barker
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Author Raffaella Barker
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 8h 25m
Ryder James meets Grace Hart the night her exhibition of paintings opens in Copenhagen. Both of them are loners, damaged by tragedy in their lives, both sceptical about love. But they have a connection that can't be broken, which takes them from their separate lives to Norfolk, where they both end up at the same time, bound together by a family eve...
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