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Author: Wiz Wharton
Author Wiz Wharton
Narrator Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong
Duration 12h 16m
Heartfelt, beautiful, funny and real, Ghost Girl, Banana is an irresistibly compelling exploration of family, identity and what it costs to belong from a wonderful new voice in fiction, Wiz Wharton. In 1966, Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honour to her family. As she strives to fit into a world that does not unders...
View BookAuthor: Andrey Kurkov
Author Andrey Kurkov
Narrator Andrew Byron
Duration 10h 17m
Strange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air smells salty, though Lviv is a long way from the sea . . . A ragtag group gathers round a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - among them an ex-KGB officer and an ageing hippy he used to spy on. Before long, Captain Ryabtsev and Alik Oli...
View BookAuthor: Winne M Li
Author Winne M Li
Narrator Katie Leung
Duration 13h 57m
Ten years ago, Sarah left behind a career in Hollywood that she had sacrificed everything for. Now she lectures at a small college, her dreams of showbiz success long behind her. When a curious journalist raises her filmmaking past, Sarah must finally tell her own story and confront the old dreams that she left behind. But with old dreams come new...
View BookAuthor: Libby Page
Author Libby Page
Narrator Sarah Barron, Kirsty Cox
Duration 13h 8m
Lorna's world is small but safe. She loves her daughter and the two of them are all that matter. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. Alice's world is tiny but full. She loves the community on Kip and how her yoga classes draw women across t...
View BookAuthor: Elspeth Barker
Author Elspeth Barker
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 6h 47m
Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his bloodstream. At the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death, lies Janet. So end the 16 years of Janet's short life. A life spent in a draughty Scottish castl...
View BookAuthor: Thao Thai
Author Thao Thai
Narrator Catherine Ho, Cindy Kay, Elyse Dinh-McCrillis
Duration 12h 24m
When Ann Tran gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a beautiful lake house and has a charming professor boyfriend, but it all crumbles away with one positive pregnancy test. Running parallel to this is Minh's story, as she goes fro...
View BookAuthor: Anton du Beke
Author Anton du Beke
Narrator Rachel Hurd-Wood
Duration 12h 22m
The Forsyth Variety Company has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to entertain Her Majesty at 1962's Royal Variety Performance. Keen to rehearse, the company heads to the Seagate Theatre under the tutelage of the company's owner, Ed Forsyth. This is Ed's last hoorah before retiring and he's keen to leave on a high. But his son, Cal, has ab...
View BookAuthor: Susanna Moore
Author Susanna Moore
Narrator Sophie Amoss
Duration 5h 20m
Summer, 1855. Sarah Brinton sets out from Rhode Island, leaving an abusive husband and child behind to head west across the country, looking for a refuge where nobody knows her history - or cares to discover it. Sarah's journey ends at a small frontier post in Minnesota Territory, on lands claimed both by white settlers and Native Americans. There...
View BookThe Vintage Shop of Second Chances
Author: Libby Page
Author Libby Page
Narrator Helen Keeley, Katherine Fenton, Phyllida Nash
Duration 9h 16m
One dress. Three women. A lifetime of secrets. Among the cobbled streets of Frome in Somerset, Lou is about to start something new. After losing her mother, she knows it's time to take a chance and open her own vintage clothes shop. In upstate New York, Donna receives some news about her family which throws everything she thought she knew into ques...
View BookAuthor: Rachelle Atalla
Author Rachelle Atalla
Narrator Gemma Stroyan
Duration 10h 28m
The next audiobook from writer Rachelle Atalla. The world is running out of water. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with her mum at their rural farm. For now, they are safe with just enough to get by. Yet at the border, tensions are close to breaking point as more and more southerners chase the delusion...
View BookAuthor: Stephanie Butland
Author Stephanie Butland
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 12h 2m
Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running...
View BookAuthor: Graham Norton
Author Graham Norton
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 44m
Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging. The new relationship sparks local speculation: what does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned them all those years ago? But the gossip only serves...
View BookAuthor: Paul Murray
Author Paul Murray
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 26h 10m
The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's car business is going under, but instead of doing anything about it, he's out in the woods preparing for the actual end of the world. Meanwhile his wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attentions of fast-talking local wrongun Big Mike. Their teenage daughter Cass,...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Gallen
Author Michelle Gallen
Narrator Amy Molloy
Duration 10h 26m
The second novel from the Costa Prize shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town. It is the summer of 1994. In a small town on the Irish border, Maeve and her two friends have just secured summer jobs in the local shirt factory. They plan to make as much money as they can while waiting for their A Level results before getting out of town and away t...
View BookAuthor: Gervase Phinn
Author Gervase Phinn
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 49m
A summer cruise should be just the ticket for a few weeks of luxury and relaxation—but for the passengers and crew of the Empress of the Ocean, the sights of the Mediterranean are nothing compared to the excitement on board.... For bickering couple Albert and Maureen, the trip might prove a much-needed escape—or the final straw. Elegant...
View BookAuthor: Emily Habeck
Author Emily Habeck
Narrator Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Soneela Nankani
Duration 7h 48m
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He's turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human. At first, Wren resists her husband's fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis fully transforms?
View BookMrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year
Author: Joanna Nell
Author Joanna Nell
Narrator Jenny Seedsman
Duration 9h 32m
A witty and touching tale about mismatched expectations and living life in the moment, from the author of cherished ebook bestseller, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village Heather Winterbottom has worked side by side with her husband as GPs in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years. But as the time comes to hang up their stet...
View BookAuthor: Sally Hepworth
Author Sally Hepworth
Narrator Barrie Kreinik, Jessica Douglas-Henry
Duration 7h 47m
A thrilling domestic drama with jaw-dropping twists from international bestseller, Sally Hepworth. 'Gabe is alone at the cliff's edge. His arms are outstretched, palms facing the empty air.' He said she jumped. He wouldn't lie. Before the woman went over the cliff, Pippa and Gabe were happy. They have the kind of marriage that everyone envies, as w...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Barry
Author Sebastian Barry
Narrator Stephen Hogan
Duration 8h 34m
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' Sunday Times 'Stunning' LIZ NUGENT 'Extraordinary' Irish Times Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his d...
View BookAuthor: Elaine Feeney
Author Elaine Feeney
Narrator Ciaran O'Brien
Duration 8h 10m
Brought to you by Penguin.Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You WereJamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At ag...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Franzen
Author Jonathan Franzen
Narrator
Duration 21h 54m
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century' Elle 'Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent' Guardian A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three...
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