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Author: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Ewan Goddard, Steven Pacey
Duration 14h 55m
The gripping new psychological thriller from Joanne Harris, to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players and Blueeyedboy. Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh, BA Paris. Paula Hawkins and Tracy Chevalier. After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each clas...
View BookAuthor: Rose Tremain
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Author Rose Tremain
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 14h 51m
'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. He struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads o...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 16h 35m
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. This is a tale of life lived without restra...
View BookAuthor: Justin Cartwright
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Author Justin Cartwright
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 9h
On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mendel, and becomes obsessed with what they...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 5h 46m
'Time's Arrow' tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He dies and then feels better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Helen Fox
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Author Helen Fox
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 6h 50m
It is later this century. A global company, LifeCorp, controls the earth's depleted natural resources and makes all the important decisions. Robots do most of the everyday tasks. When the Bell family's much-loved robot Mr Grump starts to go wrong, Mr Bell brings Eager home to help him. Eager is an experiment - EGR3. He's not like other robots,...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 21h 52m
There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, sh...
View BookAuthor: Paul Jennings
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Author Paul Jennings
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 4h 48m
These stories by Paul Jennings are all entirely different and extraordinary. From the passionate ice-maiden, to a world stuck on fast-forward and the story of the see-through boy. This is a collection of 13 unpredictable tales.
View BookAuthor: Ian Rankin
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Author Ian Rankin
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 12h 28m
The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart is a dramatic news story - and also an unsolved crime. But why is the man who fired the bullet asking the all the questions?
View BookAuthor: Paul Jennings
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Author Paul Jennings
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 3h 2m
There are some things you just can't talk about - being locked in the loo, being a little squirt, burning your behind. Unmentionable stories from the one and only Paul Jennings.
View BookAuthor: Gillian Cross
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Author Gillian Cross
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 6h 57m
Robert wakes up naked and alone in a thick jungle. The last thing he remembers is being in a plane with his family, but there is no sign of a crash or survivors. Then he discovers the shocking truth-he is in the park near his house, but his familiar world has been transformed into an alien landscape. When he finds others in the same position, he en...
View BookAuthor: Kingsley Amis
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Author Kingsley Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 7h 26m
The Green Man pub is haunted by the spirit of Dr Thomas Underhill, the 17th-century scholar rumoured to have killed his wife. The local sexton had refused to dig Underhill's grave and the rector had declined to officiate at his funeral. And there are skeletons in the cupboard of the publican's own domestic affairs - just rattling to get out.
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 13h 42m
The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally...
View BookAuthor: Ben Kane
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Author Ben Kane
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 16h 41m
When a new empire rises, and old one must fall After 16 years of bloody war against Rome, Hannibal Barca is on the verge of defeat. On the plains of Zama, Felix and his brother Antonius stand in the formidable Roman legions, ready to deliver the decisive blow. Victory will establish Rome as the preeminent power in the ancient world. But in northern...
View BookAuthor: Martin Amis
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Author Martin Amis
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 17h 25m
Richard Tull, a failed novelist, contemplates with jealousy the success of his rival and friend Gwyn Barry. He looks in vain for a means of damaging Gwyn's reputation, and finally finds someone who will do this for him in exchange for cash. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Stroud
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Author Jonathan Stroud
Narrator Steven Pacey
SeriesBartimaeus, Book 1
Duration 9h 30m
A young magician's apprentice, Nathaniel, secretly summons the irritable 5,000-year-old djinni, Bartimaeus, to do his bidding. The task for Bartimaeus is not an easy one - he must steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a master magician of unrivalled ruthlessness and ambition. Before long, Bartimaeus and Nathaniel are caught up...
View BookFirst Law Trilogy Book 3: Last Argument of Kings
Author: Joe Abercrombie
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Author Joe Abercrombie
Narrator Steven Pacey
SeriesFirst Law Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 27h 3m
Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him - but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 11h 55m
Henry Chester, a Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.
View BookFirst Law Trilogy Book 2: Before They Are Hanged
Author: Joe Abercrombie
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Author Joe Abercrombie
Narrator Steven Pacey
SeriesFirst Law Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 22h 38m
Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous, and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons, the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone his elite forces. In th...
View BookFirst Law Trilogy Book 1: The Blade Itself
Author: Joe Abercrombie
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Author Joe Abercrombie
Narrator Steven Pacey
SeriesFirst Law Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 22h 15m
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating...
View BookAuthor: Alistair Maclean
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Author Alistair Maclean
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 9h 50m
The sequel to 'The Guns of Navarone' reunites the three heroes for another mission, this time to Yugoslavia. They must destroy a dam and with it two divisions of the German Army. But success depends on absolute secrecy, even from their own comrades.
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