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Author: Lisa Jewell
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Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 12h 23m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell, read by Imogen Church. The smash-hit bestseller from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone Six people, one big house and the party that brings it all down . . . Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates. Nothing can come between them - until the gorgeous Jemima moves...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Rik Mayall
Duration 2h
The gloriously farcical story of Paul Pennyfeather, sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, who finds himself a position as a schoolteacher at Llanabba Castle alongside a cast of oddballs, rascals and criminals. Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a parent of staggering glamour and truly suspect mo...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 7: Bertie Plays the Blues
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator David Rintoul
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 7
Duration 8h 40m
Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Franzen
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Author Jonathan Franzen
Narrator David Ledoux
Duration 24h 4m
An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life;...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 14h 45m
The second Mrs de Winter can find no peace with her new husband at Manderley, where the haunting spirit of Rebecca - nurtured by the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers - lives on.
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 21h 37m
Santa Montefiore's involving and dramatic novel The Butterfly Box opens in Vina del Mar, Chile, in the sweltering Summer of 1982. Frederica Campione adores her father. When he gives her a magical box from Peru she believes he will always be there for her. Yet, when her parents' marriage falls apart, she is forced to move to Cornwall with her mother...
View BookAuthor: Charles Frazier
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Author Charles Frazier
Narrator Charles Frazier
Duration 14h 31m
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 11h 15m
Bestselling children's book writer Angelica is amused and flattered at the attention of Jack, the owner of a vineyard in South Africa, whom she meets at a dinner party. With his easy charm and reputation as a ladies' man, Jack makes her feel good about herself-surely it can't do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation?
View BookAuthor: Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Author Carrie Hope Fletcher
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 6m
Evie Snow is eighty-two when she passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. But when Evie reaches her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open. Her soul is too heavy to pass through, so she must unburden herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down...
View BookAngels Walking Series Book 3: A Brush of Wings
Author: Karen Kingsbury
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Author Karen Kingsbury
Narrator Kirby Heyborne
SeriesAngels Walking, Book 3
Duration 9h 37m
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in the unforgettable Angels Walking series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a brand new orphanage. Wha...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Gerri Halligan, Maggie Mash
Duration 16h 5m
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all-literally. She's getting married to a man she doesn't love, her job is depressing and her mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her-her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret-and a future she never knew she mi...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 1: 44 Scotland Street
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 1
Duration 12h 55m
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable is the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother and her prodig...
View BookAuthor: Yann Martel
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Author Yann Martel
Narrator Jeff Woodman
Duration 11h 41m
Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra wit...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h 2m
Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute essay, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Sh...
View BookAuthor: Esther Freud
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Author Esther Freud
Narrator Esther Freud
Duration 3h
Written through the eyes of a six-year-old girl, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of two sisters taken on the trail to Marrakesh during the late sixties by their well-meaning but impulsive hippy mother.
View BookAuthor: Anthony Mccarten
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Author Anthony Mccarten
Narrator John Lee
Duration 8h 40m
Brought to you by Penguin. On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign. Reeling from the news, the College of Cardinals rushed to Rome to congregate in the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. Their unlikely choice? Francis, the first non-European po...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 15h 6m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse. She defied her parents to marry for love . . . Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington. Though Fifi must now become acquainted with squalor, she is soon drawn into the goings on behind the shabby front doors o...
View BookAuthor: Joroslav Hasek
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Author Joroslav Hasek
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 6h 55m
This audiobook is centered around the story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army - dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in this classic novel of the Czech character and pr...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 17h 34m
Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent-only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life. Natasha is a lawyer whose job is to represent the best interests of...
View BookThe Clifton Chronicles Book 1: Only Time Will Tell
Author: Jeffrey Archer
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Author Jeffrey Archer
Narrator Roger Allam
SeriesClifton Chronicles, Book 1
Duration 10h 45m
In this introductory novel in Archer's ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles, the epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the ship...
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 50m
The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naive young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. Told in symbolic, lyrical and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to...
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