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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Author: Rebecca Miller
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Author Rebecca Miller
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 6h 45m
At 50, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The wife of an older man, the mother of twins, and an adored friend, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband decides they should move into a retirement home, Pippa finds her personality changing.
View BookAuthor: David Baddiel
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Author David Baddiel
Narrator Jot Davies
Duration 14h 53m
The new novel from David Baddiel, comedian, columnist and author of the critically-praised The Secret Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage,...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Alexander John
Duration 11h 15m
The classic story of Charles Ryder's relationship with the aristocratic Marchmain family and, in turn, their individual struggles with religion, relations and love.
View BookAuthor: Doris Lessing
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Author Doris Lessing
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 29h 46m
In London in the 1950s, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook-the golden notebook -that finally pul...
View BookAuthor: Joseph Heller
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Author Joseph Heller
Narrator Peter Whitman
Duration 19h 45m
Captain Yossarian is based on an island off the coast of Italy during the Second World War. He spends his time plotting how to survive the madness and stupidity that surrounds him. A satirical indictment of the military forces that mixes horrific scenes with hilarious characters
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Patricia Leventon
Duration 9h 25m
It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bingham
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Author Charlotte Bingham
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 14h 6m
When Kathleen finds a mare in foal, despite the fact that she and her father can barely afford to feed her, they take her in. Tragically the mare dies, leaving an orphan that they name The Enchanted. As the young horse grows up among Ireland's lush pastures, Kathleen loses her heart to him... But as Kathleen has always feared The Enchanted must be...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Cornelius Garrett
Duration 10h 37m
The war is coming to a close. Joseph Reavley's regiment has suffered huge losses but all live in hope that peace will soon be upon them, when a further, brutal tragedy strikes the front. Sarah Price, a young nurse, is savagely murdered and Joseph vows to find the person responsible. Matthew, Joseph's brother, is already at the front to meet a priso...
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 7h 24m
The theme of 'Room with a View' is the undeveloped heart of the English middle classes, who are represented here by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. They include the young and unaffected Lucy Honeychurch, whose heart has been captivated by both Italy and a dashing young man - and her dismal cousin Charlotte.
View BookA Gift From the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
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Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Charlotte Worthing
Duration 9h 51m
Christmas has never been Katie Seddon's favourite time of year. Whilst everyone else shares memories of families coming together and festive number ones, the soundtrack to Katie's childhood wasn't quite so merry. But since she moved to the village of Budbury on the gorgeous Dorset coast, Katie and her baby son have found a new family. A family who...
View BookAuthor: Christie Writing As Mary Westmacott Agatha
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Author Christie Writing As Mary Westmacott Agatha
Narrator Gillian Kerrod
Duration 7h 29m
Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-s...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 4h
Victor was 12 years old when the Captain took him away from school, claiming that the boy, now reborn as Jim Smith, had been won from his father at backgammon, or was it chess? Jim tries to piece the story together.
View BookAuthor: Tommy Orange
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Author Tommy Orange
Narrator Various
Duration 8h
Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange, read by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo and Kyla Garcia. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister Opal grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it ba...
View BookAuthor: William Faulkner
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Author William Faulkner
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 8h 54m
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory i...
View BookAuthor: H E Bates
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Author H E Bates
Narrator Philip Franks
SeriesPop Larkin, Book 1
Duration 4h 21m
Introducing the Larkins, a family with a place in popular mythology. Here they come, crashing their way through the English countryside in the wake of Pa, the quick-eyed, golden-hearted junk-dealer, and Ma, with a mouthful of crisps and a laugh like a jelly.
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 5h 50m
The third book in the 'Regneration' trilogy. Based on a mix of real and imagined characters and events, this book concentrates on Sarah, a young woman working in a munitions factory, and on Wilfred Owen. The position of women has been a sub-theme throughout the trilogy and here it moves to the forefront. The Booker Prize winner. CONTAINS STRONG LAN...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Duration 11h 8m
Ever since the day her classmate Jenny-May Butler vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something - or someone - disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother, Donal, who vanished into thin air a year ago. So when he spots an ad for Sandy's missing persons agency, he's certain t...
View BookA Horseman Riding By Trilogy Book 1: Long Summer Day
Author: R F Delderfield
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Author R F Delderfield
Narrator Jonathan Oliver
SeriesA Horseman Riding By Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 27h 38m
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Peter Firth
SeriesRegeneration Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 7h 35m
The first book in the 'Regeneration' trilogy. In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers whose experiences of the First World War have caused them to break down. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the authorities decide to have him declared mentally ill a...
View BookAuthor: Gabriel García Márquez
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Author Gabriel García Márquez
Narrator John Lee
Duration 14h 4m
One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend¡a family. Rich and brillia...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h 9m
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.
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