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Author: Rajasree Variyar
Author Rajasree Variyar
Narrator Vaishnavi Suryaprakash
Duration 14h 7m
Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can't produce a son - or worse, bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken away as soon as they are born - murdered before they have a chance to live. The fate of her children has never been in her hands. But Janani can't forget...
View BookA Beautifully Foolish Endeavour
Author: Hank Green
Author Hank Green
Narrator Various
Duration 15h 46m
The magnificent sequel to Hank Green's number one New York Times best-selling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing The statues disappeared in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. They also contributed to the untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into thei...
View BookAn Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Author: Hank Green
Author Hank Green
Narrator Kristen Sieh
Duration 9h 26m
In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers and SciShow. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., 23-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a 10-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor - April and her...
View BookAuthor: Bobby Palmer
Author Bobby Palmer
Narrator Johnny Flynn
Duration 7h 26m
One of the most hopeful, honest and wildly imaginative novels you will ever listen to. This is the story of Isaac and the Egg, a grieving young man and his unforgettable new friend, who meet at exactly the right time. Isaac stands alone on a bridge and screams. Something screams back. And that, like everything which follows, is unforgettable. This...
View BookAuthor: Guy Gunaratne
Author Guy Gunaratne
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 49m
Idiot, poet, jihadist, son. Who is Yahya Bas? An exuberantly imaginative novel of Britishness and unbelonging from the prizewinning author of In Our Mad and Furious City. When Yahya Bas finds himself in a UK detention centre after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. What was he doing in the desert? Why does he hate this co...
View BookAuthor: Georgi Gospodinov
Author Georgi Gospodinov
Narrator Toby Stephens
Duration 10h 45m
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shel...
View BookAuthor: Beth O'Leary
Author Beth O'Leary
Narrator Evanna Lynch, Heather Long, Kathryn Drysdale, Luke Thompson
Duration 11h 10m
Three women. Three dates. One missing man.... 8.52. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something...so where is he? 14.43. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch w...
View BookAuthor: Shirlene Obuobi
Author Shirlene Obuobi
Narrator Mela Lee
Duration 11h 28m
Ghanaian American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the 'Perfect Immigrant Daughter': enroll in an elite medical school, snag a suitable lawyer/doctor/engineer boyfriend and surround herself with a gaggle of successful and/or loyal friends.... But when her boyfriend dumps her, her best friend pulls away and she bombs the most importan...
View BookAuthor: Melanie Murphy
Author Melanie Murphy
Narrator Roisin Rankin, Jacqueline Milne
Duration 11h 23m
Jenna Walker has suddenly found herself with no job, no boyfriend, nowhere to live—and she's been wondering for a while now if, apart from her beloved cat Bertie, she has anything to live for. She really doesn't want to turn up on her sister's doorstep, but that feels like her only option.... Already stretched between her job and the demands...
View BookAuthor: Liv Little
Author Liv Little
Narrator Suhaiyla Hippolyte
Duration 9h 8m
A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been. Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman living in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighb...
View BookAuthor: Roisin Meaney
Author Roisin Meaney
Narrator Michele Moran
Duration 11h 34m
Two days, one year apart. Four lives changed for ever. It's Una Darling's 17th birthday, but nobody feels much like celebrating. It's been exactly a year since the tragic death of her father, Finn, and the people he left behind have been doing their best to get on with things. But it hasn't been easy. Daphne is tired of sadness, of mourning the lon...
View BookAuthor: Kirsty Capes
Author Kirsty Capes
Narrator Amber Gadd
Duration 9h 7m
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022! A Cosmopolitan, BBC, Stylist, Daily Mail, Good Housekeeping and Guardian Best Book Pick for 2021! Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks.... At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell he...
View BookAuthor: Caitlin Moran
Author Caitlin Moran
Narrator Louise Brealey
Duration 8h 46m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran, read by Louise Brealey.Life is always better backstage, isn't it?A funny, riotous novel about a young women making it in a world where men hold all the power from the Sunday Times bestselling author of HOW TO BUILD A GIRLI'm Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1...
View BookAuthor: Holly Smale
Author Holly Smale
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 13h 18m
Brought to you by Penguin.Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit.She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable order. Until now.She's just been dumped.She's just been fired.Her local caf&...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Escoffery
Author Jonathan Escoffery
Narrator Torian Brackett
Duration 8h 1m
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A major debut that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. 1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Thomas Judd, Penelope Rawlins
Duration 14h 28m
An addictive and unforgettable novel of a marriage in freefall, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2016. A Richard and Judy Pick 2017. A top 10 best seller, This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage. A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of I...
View BookAuthor: Rebecca F Kuang
Author Rebecca F Kuang
Narrator Helen Laser
Duration 8h 38m
The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from literary sensation R.F. Kuang *A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick* 'Propulsive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Razor-sharp' TIME 'A wild ride' STYLIST 'Darkly comic' GQ 'A riot' PANDORA SYKES 'Hard to put down, harder to forget' STEPHEN KING Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nob...
View BookAuthor: Jill Mansell
Author Jill Mansell
Narrator Katherine Press
Duration 12h 15m
One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start over. The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn't intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. I...
View BookAuthor: Jessie Gaynor
Author Jessie Gaynor
Narrator Gabra Zackman
Duration 8h 10m
Jane Dorner has two modes: PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator. Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills. Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, whom Jane discovers scrolling through...
View BookAuthor: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Author Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Narrator Rose Akroyd
Duration 9h 14m
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much ou...
View BookAuthor: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Narrator Allyson Ryan
Duration 14h 35m
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Finally free from his nightmare of a marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of Tinder dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future of few responsibilities, his life turns upside down as his ex-wife Rachel suddenly disappears. While Toby tries to find out...
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