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The Austen Project: Northanger Abbey
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Jane Collingwood
Duration 8h 55m
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Seventeen-year-old Catherine `Cat' Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and excitement for which she yearns. So when Cat's wealthy neighbours, the Allens, invite her to the Edinburgh Fest...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 10m
Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes. One eternal optimist... Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back....
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Roger Allam
Duration 11h 30m
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flounder...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Sarah Robson
Duration 10h 30m
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on bleak Bodmin Moor to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, and Mary suddenly finds her life to be in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetuall...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Colgan
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Author Jenny Colgan
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 13h 11m
Escape to the Scottish Highlands, where a tiny bookshop perches on the edge of a loch. Zoe is a single mother, sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Hari, her gorgeous little boy, is perfect in every way - except for the fact that he just doesn't speak at all. When her landlord raises the rent on her flat, Zoe doesn't know...
View BookAuthor: Alan Titchmarsh
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Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator Alan Titchmarsh
Duration 3h 3m
Will Elliott is out of a job. The lighthouse he's been manning on Prince Albert Rock, off the wild Cornish coast, is about to become automated. So Will decides to fulfil his lifelong ambition - to sail round the coastline of Britain. Determined to continue his solitary existence, Will begins his preparations for his epic voyage. But before he has t...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 12h 53m
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin, the beekeeper's daughter, knows her place and her future, until her father dies. She's alone, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts. Massachusetts, 1973: Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love. But when he has to go home to England, he promises to come back, if she will wait for him. Both...
View BookAuthor: Paige Toon
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Author Paige Toon
Narrator Nicky Diss
Duration 10h 58m
If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure? Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles's glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend's biography, helps keep Meg's feet firmly on the...
View BookAuthor: Adele Parks
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Author Adele Parks
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 16h 8m
For thirty years, best friends Stephanie and Philippa have been practically inseparable. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until a few simple words change everything. 'I need you to say that I was with you.' Both women have always believed that friendship is built on mutual selflessness, compromise and trust. Are those beliefs now...
View BookAuthor: Harper Lee
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Author Harper Lee
Narrator Benedikte Faulkner
Duration 11h
Scout is a young girl whose father, Atticus, is a small-town lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white girl. The book is set in Alabama in the 1930s and although one of the major themes of the book is racism, it also tackles the issue of how children view the world and how their understanding of the society they live in changes and dev...
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