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Author: Lisa Jewell
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Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Amelia Jewell
Duration 9h 31m
You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer's night, a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark co...
View BookAuthor: Kathleen MacMahon
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Author Kathleen MacMahon
Narrator Stephen Hogan
Duration 10h 28m
Brought to you by Penguin. Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secre...
View BookAuthor: Sky Lee
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Author Sky Lee
Narrator Grace Lynn Kung
Duration 9h 35m
Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver's C...
View BookAuthor: Mhairi McFarlane
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Author Mhairi McFarlane
Narrator Cassie Bradley
Duration 14h 9m
When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls on her. Shamed online, her boss suggests an extended sabbatical – ghost-writing an autobiography for hot new acting talent, Elliot Owen. Banished back to her home town of Nottingham, Edie suffers an excruciating regression to her teenage years when...
View BookAuthor: Linda Grant
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Author Linda Grant
Narrator Tricia Kelly
Duration 11h 23m
In the early Seventies a glamorous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties. For Ade...
View BookAuthor: Caroline O'Donoghue
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Author Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrator Esther O'Moore Donohoe
Duration 9h 28m
Charlie Regan is going back to her roots. Her career as a filmmaker is on standby, she hasn't had a girlfriend in forever, her best friend is sickeningly successful (and being awkward since that night) and her dad is dying of cancer. So the invitation from Cork Film Festival comes like a sign - a chance to explore the Irish homeland she's never see...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Vaughan
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Author Sarah Vaughan
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 12h 7m
In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookery writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the new 'Mrs Eaden'. As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the c...
View BookAuthor: Walter Tevis
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Author Walter Tevis
Narrator Amy Landon
Duration 11h 51m
When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to en...
View BookAuthor: Elena Ferrante
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Author Elena Ferrante
Narrator Marisa Tomei
Duration 10h 21m
Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can s...
View BookAuthor: Tayari Jones
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Author Tayari Jones
Narrator Heather Alicia Simms
Duration 10h 11m
Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants. But unlike Chaurisse, Dana knows the truth: that the girls share the same father. A father with two families, one of which he is determined to keep secret. When the girls meet and become friends, the unsteady balance of b...
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h 4m
Number One bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she's a little bit lost. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don't know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that say...
View BookAuthor: Beth O'Leary
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Author Beth O'Leary
Narrator Alison Steadman, Daisy Edgar-Jones
Duration 10h 12m
When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena lear...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Carey Mulligan
Duration 8h 50m
Thirty-four-year-old Nora's life could be better. She's lonely, single and has just lost her job. Her cat dying feels like the last straw. What else is there to live for? Then she finds a library between life and death where she gets to try all the other lives she could have lived. The Midnight Library is a gloriously relatable novel about life, de...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 8h 28m
Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's murder when his teenage son, Reuben, is killed in a grotesque accident. His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl, and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's ma...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 7h 38m
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with w...
View BookAdrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Mark Hadfield
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 8
Duration 9h 6m
Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Due to his financial situation he has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble. As his worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame ignites powerful memories and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?
View BookAuthor: Ali Smith
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Author Ali Smith
Narrator Melody Grove
SeriesSeasonal Quartet, Book 1
Duration 5h 31m
Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of skulduggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. Autumn is a take on popular culture and a meditation in a world growing ever more bordered; what constitutes richness and worth? Autumn is the first instal...
View BookAuthor: Avni Doshi
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Author Avni Doshi
Narrator Vineeta Rishi
Duration 7h 29m
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up d...
View BookAuthor: Donald Ray Pollock
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Author Donald Ray Pollock
Narrator Mark Bramhall
Duration 9h 14m
Soon to be Netflix feature film starring Tom Holland and Chris Evans. Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log'. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, tra...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Strout
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Author Elizabeth Strout
Narrator Kimberley Farr
Duration 12h 14m
Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinary new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the...
View BookSouth of the Border, West of the Sun
Author: Haruki Murakami
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Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator Eric Loren
Duration 6h 33m
Haruki Murakami is unquestionably Japan's leading novelist with his many works - fiction and non-fiction - consistently reflecting contemporary Japanese life while, unusually, sustaining an international appeal through a deeply human perspective. South of the Border, West of the Sun is his seventh novel, written in 1992. Hajime tells the story of h...
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