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Author: Jane Shemilt
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Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Deryn Edwards
Duration 9h 16m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Drowning Lessons by Jane Shemilt, read by Deryn Edwards. The haunting new novel from the author of 2014's stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter. The press conference, one year ago. Our home is a crime scene now. I am in yesterday's clothes. The clothes in whic...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
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Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Nikki Amuka-Bird
Duration 13h 57m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of O...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Peter Firth
Duration 15h 10m
Set in France before and during the First World War, this is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married to a wealthy textile baron. Wraysford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according t...
View BookAuthor: Katie Hickman
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Author Katie Hickman
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 23m
Elizabeth sits in the Bodleian library with trembling hands. Before her is a piece of parchment which provides the clue she has been looking for to a story that has been untold for 400 years: a tale of intrigue, forbidden love and dangerous secrets. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Lucinda Dryzek
Duration 12h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Father Unknown by Lesley Pearse, read by Lucinda Dryzek. Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence throw...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 15m
A novel which follows the fortunes of eight children who carve their names on the copper beech behind the local school and looks at the drama behind the apparently quiet life of a small Irish community.
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
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Author Pat Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 47m
London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, now all three find themselves caught i...
View BookThe Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon
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Author Mark Haddon
Narrator Ben Tibber
Duration 6h
Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets o...
View BookThe Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Author: Roddy Doyle
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Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Ger Ryan
Duration 3h
Paula Spencer struggles to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. She recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she had as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Gillian Webb
Duration 23h
Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the Irish O'Connors. It is the beginning of a bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor which will survive twenty turbulent years.
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
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Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 7h 55m
Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple: happy seclusion. She rejects the outside world and embarks on a contented existence of isolated self-indulgence. But when her nice neighbours Fred and Geraldine introduce her to the roguishly desirable actor Finbar Flynn the walls of the citadel begin to crack ...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 9h 9m
Will You Love Me? tells the true story of Cathy's adopted daughter Lucy, who was born to a single mother who couldn't cope, and was taken into permanent foster care aged 8. By the time Lucy was fostered with Cathy she was severely distressed, withdrawn, refusing to eat and three years behind at school. But Cathy and her two children bond with Lucy...
View BookOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
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Author Ken Kesey
Narrator Peter Marinker
Duration 11h 18m
The story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Nurse Ratchet and Randal Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers th...
View BookA Guide To the Birds of East Africa
Author: Nicholas Drayson
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Author Nicholas Drayson
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 35m
Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the Tuesday-morning...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 2m
Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a story to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. The staff who come and go have stories of their own, and the restaurant itself has had times when it looked fair for success and others when it seemed doomed to failure. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant that has ca...
View BookMad, Bad and Dangerous To Know Book 2: Bad
Author: Chloe Esposito
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Author Chloe Esposito
Narrator Emily Atack
SeriesMad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 7h 37m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bad by Chloe Esposito, read by Emily Atack. She stole the life she wanted. Now someone wants to steal it back . . . Alvie Knightly may be waking up in the Ritz, but her life is no bed of roses. Firstly, she has the mother of all hangovers. Secondly, her beautiful, spoiled twin sister Beth has just been foun...
View BookAuthor: Karen Joy Fowler
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Author Karen Joy Fowler
Narrator Bonnie Hurren
Duration 8h 26m
Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways and they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become su...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 20h 7m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charlie by Lesley Pearse. Her family is threatened and only she can save it . . . When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she is shocked and terrified. But after talking to the police she realises that her father's business dealings can't be so innocent. With h...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Quick
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Author Matthew Quick
Narrator Ray Porter
Duration 7h 23m
Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents but is determined to be reconciled with his estranged wife Nikki. Pat's parents just want to protect him so he can recover, but when Pat befriends the mysterious Tiff...
View BookAuthor: Charlaine Harris
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Author Charlaine Harris
Narrator Johanna Parker
Duration 7h
The award-winning author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels displayed her storytelling brilliance with this novel published nearly two decades before Sookie first appeared. After a modeling stint in New York, Nickie Callahan returns to Tennessee hoping to enjoy the sweet, easy life as a college roommate to her best friend. But then a sexual predator s...
View BookAuthor: Eve Houston
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Author Eve Houston
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 9h 28m
There is consternation among the villagers of pretty Scottish borders town, Prior's Ford, when a firm is interested in re-opening an old sandstone quarry. It'll be disruptive, noisy and dusty, despite bringing in some new jobs. Publican Glen organises a protest group - but when the local newspaper takes an interest in him and the story, he starts t...
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