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Author: Louise Douglas
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Author Louise Douglas
Narrator Jenny Funnell
Duration 12h 24m
A Richard and Judy recommendation for the 2012 Summer Book Club, this is a brilliant Gothic novel in the vein of Daphne du Maurier. A chance encounter: When Sarah meets dark, brooding Alex, she grasps his offer of a new life miles away from her own. They've both recently escaped broken relationships, and need to start again. Why not do it tog...
View BookAuthor: Yaa Gyasi
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Author Yaa Gyasi
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 8h 41m
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to unde...
View BookAuthor: Steph Cha
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Author Steph Cha
Narrator Greta Jung, Glenn Davies
Duration 9h 49m
Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both? Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city - Los Angeles - but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elde...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carol Boyd
Duration 11h 35m
The compelling new family drama from the nation's favourite storyteller. Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners. Florence doesn't care about the gossips – she's drawn...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Wilson
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Author Patricia Wilson
Narrator Mira Dovreni
Duration 12h 58m
'I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972. Can you help me?'On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak, is desperate to find a daughter she has never known. After a tragic childhood in Athens and a soaring career as a singer, the brutal...
View BookThe Secrets of Primrose Square
Author: Claudia Carroll
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Author Claudia Carroll
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 10h 22m
There are so many stories hidden behind closed doors . . .It's late at night and the rain is pouring down on the Dublin city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. She watches . . .In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Wilson
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Author Patricia Wilson
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon, Caroline Lennon
Duration 14h 51m
She'll uncover the shocking secrets of her past in paradise . . .Sent away to convent school at the age of six, Irini McGuire has never really known her celebrated archaeologist mother, Bridget, who lives on the paradise island of Santorini. So, when Irini receives news that Bridget has been injured at a dig and is in coma she knows it is time to r...
View BookAuthor: Louise Nealon
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Author Louise Nealon
Narrator Louisa Harland
Duration 7h 46m
Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies.This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life...
View BookAuthor: Ayisha Malik
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Author Ayisha Malik
Narrator Rita Sharma
Duration 10h 37m
Timely, humorous and deeply moving. This is the absolute standout new novel by acclaimed author (and 2018 Asian Woman of Achievement nominee) Ayisha MalikFor years Bilal Hasham and his wife Mariam have lived contented, quiet lives in the sleepy rural village of Babbel's End. Now all that is about to change.On her deathbed,...
View BookAuthor: Claudia Carroll
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Author Claudia Carroll
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 10h 22m
The new novel from bestselling author Claudia Carroll, perfect for fans of Emma Hannigan and Marianne Keyes.Frank Woods at number seventy-nine Primrose Square is about to turn fifty, and nobody seems to care. His friends are all busy; his wife and children have other plans. After years of being 'Mr Cellophane', he decides, finally, to do...
View BookAuthor: Christy Lefteri
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Author Christy Lefteri
Narrator Art Malik
Duration 8h 37m
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE 2020A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE 2019WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZETHE READING AGENCY'S PICK FOR NATIONAL READING GROUP DAYOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE'This is a novel of international significance. Courageous, provocative, haunting, it will open our eyes' Heather Morris, author of The...
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Sura Siu
Duration 10h 16m
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impecca...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Daisy Donovan
Duration 10h 31m
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will n...
View BookAuthor: Mel Giedroyc
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Author Mel Giedroyc
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 25m
Could the worst day of Sally Parker's life be the best thing that ever happened to her? The deliciously warm and life-affirming novel from the much-loved Mel Giedroyc. Sally Parker had a morbid fear of big social events and it was for this reason that she was crouching down low in the shoe section of her wardrobe.... Sally Parker is struggling t...
View BookHow the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Author: Cherie Jones
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Author Cherie Jones
Narrator Danielle Vitalis
Duration 8h 41m
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother, Wilma, tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result. When Lala grows up, she sees it offers hope - of life aft...
View BookAuthor: Beth O'Leary
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Author Beth O'Leary
Narrator Josh Dylan, Eleanor Tomlinson
Duration 10h 24m
The brand new novel from the Sunday Times best-selling author, Beth O'Leary. Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams into the back of theirs. The driver is none other than Add...
View BookAuthor: Margaret Forster
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Author Margaret Forster
Narrator Marie Collet
Duration 15h 32m
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child.Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. She grows up in comfort and security in Scotland, the only child of doting parents. But there are, as she discovers,...
View BookThe Cancer Ladies Running Club
Author: Josie Lloyd
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Author Josie Lloyd
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 11h 30m
When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she’s only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn’t want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is ...
View BookAuthor: Libby Page
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Author Libby Page
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 10h 51m
Welcome to the café that never sleeps. Day and night Stella's Café opens its doors for the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It is many things to many people, but most of all it is a place where life can wait at the door. A place of small kindnesses. A place where anyone can be whoever they want, where everyo...
View BookAuthor: Erica James
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Author Erica James
Narrator Jemma Redgrave
Duration 13h 41m
It's the autumn of 1962 in the idyllic Suffolk village of Melstead St Mary. Evelyn Devereux's husband Kit is planning their 20th wedding anniversary party. But as they prepare to celebrate, Evelyn receives an anonymous letter that threatens to unravel the secrets she's kept hidden for many years – secrets that reach back to the war and her da...
View BookAuthor: Christy Collins
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Author Christy Collins
Narrator Casey Withoos
Duration 7h 23m
Heico is an ornithologist fighting a losing battle to protect the birds in his beachside suburb. When a journalist asks for comment on a planned development, Heico exaggerates his reports on how many migratory birds use the site. Soon it is revealed that the proposed building is a mosque, and he finds himself embroiled in community resistance to th...
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