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House of Cards Book 1: House of Cards
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 1
Duration 10h 37m
The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs’ best-selling career. Michael Dobbs’ entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming hero, Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, who uses fair mea...
View BookHouse of Cards Book 2: To Play the King
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 2
Duration 0m
Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King in the controversial number one best-selling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio. After scheming his way to power in House of Cards, Francis Urquhart made a triumphant return in To Play the King - a Sunday Times number one best-seller that became a...
View BookHouse of Cards Book 3: The Final Cut
Author: Michael Dobbs
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Michael Dobbs
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesHouse of Cards, Book 3
Duration 13h 43m
Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio. He schemed his way to power in House of Cards and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in To Play the King. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record book...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 1h 35m
A BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" recording of Samuel West reading from the novella The Aspern Papers by Henry James, set against the decaying grandeur of Venice. Originally broadcast 26 April - 4 May 2010. Henry James took as inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. H...
View BookAuthor: John Wyndham
Format: MP3 CD
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 8h 55m
When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered helpless by the blindness that followed the spectacular display of bright green lights that filled the night sky; a population at the mercy of the Triffids. Once, with their ability t...
View BookAuthor: William Nicholson
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Author William Nicholson
Narrator Samuel West
SeriesThe Firesong Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 9h 42m
The sequel to 'The Wind Singer'. Five years have passed. The city of Aramanth has become kinder - weaker. When the ruthless soldiers of the Mastery strike, the city is burned, and the Manth people are taken into slavery. Kestrel Hath is left behind, separated from her beloved brother Bowman, and vowing revenge. Now Kestrel must find Bowman again, a...
View BookHow Proust Can Change Your Life
Author: Botton Alain De
Format: MP3 CD
Author Botton Alain De
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 3h
Everything you've always wanted to know about Marcel Proust but were afraid to ask! The author offers tongue-in-cheek ideas on how one's life can be 'improved' via Proust's work, including advice on 'How to Love Life Today', 'How to Suffer Successfully' and 'How to be Happy in Love'.
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h
Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. A meeting with Anna, an old flame, leads him int...
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 8h 30m
George and Mary's childhood friendship turns to love, and when George's father discovers the extent of his thirteen-year-old son's feelings for his bailiff's daughter, he sacks his bailiff and takes his son to America. Years later George returns to his native Suffolk to trace his lost love at any cost.
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h 9m
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.
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