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Author: Salman Rushdie
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Author Salman Rushdie
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h
Haroun's father is the greatest of all story-tellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun, determined to return the story-teller's gift to his father, flies off on the back of a hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories... This is a pos...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Rosie Jones
Duration 10h 58m
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Woman in the Wood by Lesley Pearse, read by Rosie Jones. Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother Duncan lose their mother to an asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house, Nightingales. Cold and distant, she leaves them to their...
View BookAuthor: Cecelia Ahern
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Author Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Duration 11h 7m
Tender, magical and captivating - a story of family, friends, and the unlikeliest of romances from the No. 1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern.What if love was right there in front of you - you just couldn't see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son Luke and with her own business to run,...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Buchan
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Author Elizabeth Buchan
Narrator Kate Sachs
Duration 9h 11m
What happens when the mistress gets her man? Against the odds, that's what happened to Minty. She stole her best friend Rose's husband Nathan and made him her own. But now that she's got what she wanted - marriage, kids, a family home - she's discovering a few things she didn't bargain on: the cold shoulder from Nathan's other family, her husband's...
View BookAuthor: Carson Mccullers
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Author Carson Mccullers
Narrator Cherry Jones
Duration 12h 28m
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and Harper Audio, The He...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 10h 40m
A teenage boy is attacked and abused by two others in a moment of gratuitous violence. One of the attackers, a 15-year-old brought up by his respectable working-class grandmother, is tried and found guilty - but refuses to explain or to incriminate his partner. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Charles Webb
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Author Charles Webb
Narrator William Hope
Duration 5h 54m
'For twenty-one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me.' That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson (...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Mark Mcgann
Duration 14h 18m
This story follows Joe, the son of the Richardson family in the latter half of the 1950s. Over the course of the novel, Joe moves from being a rural schoolboy to an Oxford undergraduate. Not only must Joe cope with the crossing from boyhood to manhood, he must deal with the class distinctions of society, first love, political consciousness, and lif...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
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Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 13h 50m
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly...
View BookAuthor: Wendy K. Harris
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Author Wendy K. Harris
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 11h 9m
'My advice is to gather together every shred of self-worth that you can summon, plus all your memories that make you feel good. Hold onto them like mad and fashion a new life for yourself doing what you want.' She tapped Sophie's arm again. 'Ditch the rest; it's not worth the headspace. And don't try to see too far into the future either. Do what's...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator John Edmunds
Duration 5h
A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty. Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday are former lovers of the recently-deceased Molly Lane. They make a pact following her funeral, which both tests their friendship to the limits and has consequences neither has foreseen. Winner of the Booker prize.
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Author: Robert Tressell
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Author Robert Tressell
Narrator Tony Robinson
Duration 5h
'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Frank Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men to rise up and fight for a fairer Britain. A classic novel about the English wo...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Waters
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Author Sarah Waters
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 18h 55m
New York Times best-selling author Sarah Waters received sweeping critical acclaim for her debut, Tipping the Velvet, and has been a finalist for the Orange and Booker Prizes. In The Night Watch she tells the riveting, intersecting tales of four Londoners during and after World War II. As these four people survive the devastation of war and experie...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Author Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrator Various
Duration 11h
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Michael Cochrane
Duration 5h
A sharply comic novel with shades of Waugh's own experiences, 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold - A Conversation Piece', recounts a period of mental confusion and breakdown in the life of Gilbert Penfold, an established novelist of mature years. Prone to moments of paranoia and memory-loss, he attempts to cure himself with a tropical cruise. But his a...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Samantha Womack
Duration 13h 19m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Till We Meet Again by Lesley Pearse, read by Samantha Womack. Susan walks into a busy doctor's surgery and guns down two members of staff. Then she calmly waits for the police. Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlie...
View BookAuthor: Katori Hall
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Author Katori Hall
Narrator Aja Naomi King, Larry Powell
Duration 1h 4m
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. Hours after King's final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, "I've been to the mountaintop," the celebrated Reverend forms an un...
View BookAuthor: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Rob Crossan
Duration 5h 54m
Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and retreated from the world. However, when he makes a horrifying discovery on the heath,...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 5h
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled exist...
View BookAuthor: Marcia Willett
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Author Marcia Willett
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 9h 29m
It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone, her partner tragically dead in an accident, and Julia, her dearest friend, welcomed her into her warm and chaotic family. Tiggy started to live again and await the birth of her child, but nearly thirty years later, when her son is about to beco...
View BookAuthor: Fredrik Backman
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Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 13h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly...
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