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Author: Carmel Harrington
Author Carmel Harrington
Narrator Frank Grimes, Jill Crawford
Duration 10h 11m
Meet Tom. Or Dr O’Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don’t even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn’t living his best life. Burdened by grief, he’s only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his whole world. Then there’s Ruth and her son,...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Underwood
Author Sarah Underwood
Narrator Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook, Sebastian Humphreys
Duration 13h 46m
A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids. In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic k...
View BookAuthor: Polly Crosby
Author Polly Crosby
Narrator Kristen Atherton
Duration 13h 10m
1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the menacing shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. But when she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney, the two women form a close bond, and Vita finally glimpses a chance to be free. 1997: Following the death of her mother, Eve Blakeney returns to the coast where she spent childhood summers with her belo...
View BookAuthor: John Connolly
Author John Connolly
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 12h 44m
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital...
View BookThe Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers
Author: Samuel Burr
Author Samuel Burr
Narrator Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey
Duration 11h 53m
Clayton Stumper is an enigma. He might be twenty-five years old, but he dresses like your grandad and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by the sharpest minds in the British Isles and finds himself amongst the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossw...
View BookAuthor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 7h 24m
In May 1980, 15-year-old Óscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts . . . His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to a cemetery and at 10 am,...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Hawkins
Author Rachel Hawkins
Narrator Julia Whelan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Shiromi Arserio
Duration 7h 58m
As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable, but their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is breath-taking, but it has a dark past: in 1974 it was rented by a notorious rockstar, who was joined by...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Siobhán McSweeney
Duration 9h 56m
Read by star of Derry Girls, Holding, and Redemption, Siobhan McSweeney. Maeve Binchy at her very best - the superb novel of one summer, and four people whose lives are irrevocably changed. Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Geard
Author Amanda Geard
Narrator Natalie Pela
Duration 17h 49m
1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel - Grace finally learns to live. But when Australian forces are called to the frontline, and Daniel with them, he leaves behind a devastating secret which will forever b...
View BookAuthor: Chikodili Emelumadu
Author Chikodili Emelumadu
Narrator Tara Tijani, Precious Mustapha
Duration 11h 23m
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back—but she has to do something for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can't be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her pe...
View BookAuthor: Annie Macmanus
Author Annie Macmanus
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h
It's the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house with her best mate and a band called Shiva. Orla wants to make music, but juggling two jobs and partying every night isn't helping. Back in Ireland her parents' marriage has crumbled, she's not speak...
View BookAuthor: Alex Hay
Author Alex Hay
Narrator Jasmine Blackborow
Duration 12h 15m
UPSTAIRS, MADAM IS PLANNING THE PARTY OF THE SEASON. DOWNSTAIRS, THE SERVANTS ARE PLOTTING THE HEIST OF THE CENTURY. When Mrs King, housekeeper to the most illustrious home in Mayfair, is suddenly dismissed after years of loyal service, she knows just who to recruit to help her take revenge. A black-market queen out to settle her scores. An actress...
View BookAuthor: David Nicholls
Author David Nicholls
Narrator Lee Ingleby, Lydia Leonard
Duration 8h 34m
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very...
View BookTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Author Gabrielle Zevin
Narrator Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Duration 13h 52m
Brought to you by Penguin.THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENONThis is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one morning he is catapulted straight back to childhood, and the hours they spent immersed in playing games.Their spark is instantly reignited and se...
View BookAuthor: Shelby Van Pelt
Author Shelby Van Pelt
Narrator Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
Duration 11h 16m
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK OVER 29,000 5 STAR REVIEWS GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOKS OF 2022 GLAMOUR BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan 'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris 'I defy you to put it down once you've s...
View BookAuthor: Sara Pascoe
Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 10m
THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN, WRITER AND ACTOR SARA PASCOE I hope since our chat he thinks I'm normal . . . I told him that I was several times. Deep in Essex and her own thoughts, Sophie had a feeling something was going to happen and then it did. Chris has entered the pub and re-entered her life. Just as she's...
View BookAuthor: Lorraine Kelly
Author Lorraine Kelly
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 16m
Escape with this feel-good and big-hearted debut novel from broadcaster Lorraine Kelly. If you love Maeve Binchy, you'll love The Island Swimmer. Once the tide turns, you can't hold it back... When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to r...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Diamond
Author Lucy Diamond
Narrator Geraldine Sharrock
Duration 12h 20m
One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Beach Cafe. Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out . . . Anna's recently been told the father she's never met is Italian. Now she's baking focaccia, whipping up tiramisu and swotting up on her vocabulary, determ...
View BookThe Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001
Author: Sue Townsend
Series: Adrian Mole, Book 7
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Daniel Coonan
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 7
Duration 6h 17m
Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing offi...
View BookAuthor: Ottessa Moshfegh
Author Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan
Duration 8h 46m
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman, trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's carer and her day job as a secretary at the prison. When the charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Imogen Stubbs
Duration 12h 47m
Have you ever felt invisible? Bernie Moon has given her life to other people: her husband, her son, her friends (who are these days, mostly online). At nineteen she was full of dreams and ambitions; now almost fifty, and going through the menopause, she's fading, fast. Heartbroken and hormonal, she often feels like she's losing her mind. But when a...
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