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Author: 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'.
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Egan
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Author Elizabeth Egan
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 11h 32m
In A Window Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles (which she never refers to as "wearin...
View BookAuthor: Meg Cabot
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Author Meg Cabot
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 7h 26m
Heather should be happy. She's finally got a boyfriend. On the down side, her boss, Dr Veatch, may be the most boring man... But that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. Can Heather find her boss' murderer, answer Tad's question, and get her landlord to realise that by letting her go, he's making the biggest mistake?
View BookAuthor: Haruki Murakami
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Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator John Chancer
Duration 13h 28m
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in late 60s Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - and the two women he found himself torn between,...
View BookAuthor: Jill Paton Walsh
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Author Jill Paton Walsh
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 7h 30m
When her mother dies, Marian realises she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about the identity of her own father, 'lost in the War'. Marian's search takes her to the remote and close-knit community of St. Ives, where fisherfolk and artists have coexisted for many years, and where she learns of a tragedy involving her father.
View BookAuthor: Aldous Huxley
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Author Aldous Huxley
Narrator Michael York
Duration 8h
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. Humans are no longer born but instead grown from embryos in huge research labs, their social status predetermined. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling d...
View BookAuthor: Magnus Mills
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Author Magnus Mills
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 6h
A blackly comic tale of three dour Scots labourers. After rain-sodden days bashing in fence posts, Tam, Richie and their new supervisor wolf down baked beans in their shared squalid caravan and spend their evenings and their hard-earned cash in the local pub. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize.
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Strout
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Author Elizabeth Strout
Narrator Kimberley Farr
Duration 12h 2m
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who...
View BookThe True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator James Carcaterra
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 3
Duration 4h 8m
Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the dilemmas of modern life what would an intel...
View BookAuthor: Mary Stanley
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Author Mary Stanley
Narrator Mary Stanley
Duration 12h 3m
Ireland 1944. In a violent storm a German plane heading for Britain is blown off course. The pilot, completely disorientated, plunges down an Irish hillside and shatters a young family. The children who survive that terrible night try to leave the past behind, but the past will not let them go. Rescued by their Aunt Lucy, Amelia and Mattie need to...
View BookAuthor: Kit de Waal
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Author Kit de Waal
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 9h
A heart-wrenching love story from the internationally bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house. On her first night out in 1970s Birmingham, she meets William, a charming Irish boy with an easy smile and an open face. They embark upon...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Janet Hargreaves
Duration 10h
This is the story of the rapidly-growing modern social unit, the stepfamily. It explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with both present and past relationships, as well as other people's children.
View BookThe Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Author: Anne Rice
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Author Anne Rice
Narrator Samantha Prescott, Corbin Steele
SeriesSleeping Beauty Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 9h 9m
From bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice...
View BookAuthor: Mary Beth Keane
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Author Mary Beth Keane
Narrator Molly Pope
Duration 12h 53m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ask Again, Yes written by Mary Beth Keane, read by Molly Pope. Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently moved there and soon welcome the Stanhopes as their new neighbours. Lonely Lena Gleeson wants a friend but Anne Stanhope - cold, elegant, unstab...
View BookAuthor: Adam Johnson
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Author Adam Johnson
Narrator Various
Duration 19h 19m
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang--and an influential father who runs Long Tomorro...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 11m
Woof! Woof! I am a spaniel called Flush and owned by Elizabeth Barret Browning and her husband Robert and this is my amusing but ultimately sad autiobiography. Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that m...
View BookThe Secret Life of Evie Hamilton
Author: Catherine Alliott
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Author Catherine Alliott
Narrator Suzy Aitchison
Duration 14h 5m
Wife of successful, handsome Ant and mother of high-achieving, accomplished Anna, Evie's biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit a manicure in on her way to fetch Anna from clarinet lessons. But all that is about to change. One sunny Oxford morning a letter - a ticking time-bomb - lands on Evie's doormat and up-ends her comfortable life...
View BookAuthor: Lisa Jewell
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Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Antonia Beamish, Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h 24m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell, read by Antonia Beamish and Leighton Pugh. 'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?' She smiled. 'Me, too.' July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piec...
View BookAuthor: Beryl Bainbridge
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Author Beryl Bainbridge
Narrator Timothy West
Duration 4h 5m
Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress, aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted. Things seem to be going well but then some uninvited guests arrive and Edward is going to be late home... CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Peter Marinker
Duration 14h 38m
In this, Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, loosely based on his tortured life with Zelda, we follow the wild, quarrelsome and pleasure-seeking careers of Anthony and Gloria Patch from success and wealth through to degradation and despair. She was dazzling, and the glow of her hair and cheeks made her the most living person he had ever seen; he was d...
View BookMad, Bad and Dangerous To Know Book 1: Mad
Author: Chloe Esposito
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Author Chloe Esposito
Narrator Emily Atack
SeriesMad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 10h 2m
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Mad by Chloe Esposito, read by Emily Atack. Seven days of sin. Seven days of secrets. Seven days to steal her sister's life. Beth has always been the golden girl, leaving her identical twin, Alvie, in her shadow. She has everything Alvie ever wanted - the money, the hot husband, the...
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