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Author: Joroslav Hasek
Format: MP3 CD
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
Format: MP3 CD
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...
View BookA History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
View BookAuthor: Jane Green
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Author Jane Green
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 12h 7m
Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Flann O'Brien
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Author Flann O'Brien
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 6h 43m
A thriller, a comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, this audiobook is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h 7m
Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane. It is Mummy's 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says thing...
View BookThe Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies & the Unnamable
Author: Samuel Beckett
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Author Samuel Beckett
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Duration 19h 55m
MOLLOY: This novel is divided into two sections. In the first section Molloy goes in search of his mother. In the second he is pursued by a private detective. Within this simple outline, this audiobook raises the questions of being and aloneness. MALONE DIES: This is the first person monologue of Malone, an old man, lying in bed and waiting to die....
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Zainab Jah
Duration 18h 19m
Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown toget...
View BookAuthor: Stella Gibbons
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Author Stella Gibbons
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 7h 33m
Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at 20, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. When she gets there she finds nothing but chaos, and sets about restoring some kind of order to their lives - with highly amusing res...
View BookAuthor: David Nicholls
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Author David Nicholls
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 16h 41m
He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that-despite an unlikely beginning-men and women really can be just good friends?
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Sapphire Joy
Duration 14h
Fifteen year old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: p...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Trigell
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Author Jonathan Trigell
Narrator Russell Boulter
Duration 7h 50m
A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely i...
View BookAuthor: David Mitchell
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Author David Mitchell
Narrator William Rycroft
Duration 15h 15m
An apocalyptic cult member, a jazz buff in Tokyo, a woman on a holy mountain, a burnt-out lawyer, a Mongolian gangster, a redundant spy, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a New York DJ are all tenuously connected. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inesc...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 12h 33m
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will h...
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
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Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Kathleen Mcinerney
Duration 13h 47m
A Savannah florist is about to score the wedding of a lifetime-one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn't believe in love, even though she creates beautiful flower arrangements to celebrate them. But when the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride an...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
Duration 4h 42m
Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of inn...
View BookAuthor: Charity Norman
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Author Charity Norman
Narrator Nicolette Mckenzie
Duration 13h 52m
What do you do when your family's dream becomes a nightmare? In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; but his frantic mother, Martha McNa...
View BookAuthor: Nicola Moriarty
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Author Nicola Moriarty
Narrator Natasha Jacobs
Duration 6h 39m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Fifth Letter by Nicola Moriarty, read by Natasha Jacobs. Four friends. Five Letters. One Secret. A scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking, how well do I really know my friends? Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden. Best friends since the first day of...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Author Elizabeth Jane Howard
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 30m
On the eve of an unusual voyage, a young woman reviews her life. Her story begins with a 'beautiful visit' to friends in the country which serves as an awakening experience. What follows is an account of her struggle to retain the mood of her visit.
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