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Author: Lemn Sissay
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Author Lemn Sissay
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 5h 20m
At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay reco...
View BookThe Fang Gang: My Vampire Grandad
Author: Roy Apps
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Author Roy Apps
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 1h 49m
Goolish is suffering a bit of an identity crisis. After hundreds of years of ghouls, spectres, vampires, mummies and zombies all living happily alongside one another, so-called 'ordinary' people have started to move to the town. The Fang Gang are working hard to develop their gruesome skills to foster good relations between the new residents of Goo...
View BookI Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis
Author: Frank Wynne
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Author Frank Wynne
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 8h 6m
In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: 'I am a forge...
View BookAuthor: George Macdonald Fraser
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Author George Macdonald Fraser
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 26h 36m
No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth.
View BookAuthor: Philip Sington
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Author Philip Sington
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 15h 5m
Two months before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. The only clue to her identity is a handbill advertising a lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows this will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, he finds profess...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Buckley
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Author Jonathan Buckley
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 33m
On a beach in southern England a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering south west England for the last 30 years. A local policeman and his colleague, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, uncover an extraordinary life. But as their investigat...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ryan
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Author Robert Ryan
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 14h 1m
Deep in England's green and pleasant land something evil lurks...Dr John Watson is back home, fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields. The horrors of war weigh heavy on his mind, and now his task is to help rehabilitate soldiers suffering from the crippling effects of shell-shock. But the war is not yet over and in one corner of Engl...
View BookAuthor: Dan Vyleta
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Author Dan Vyleta
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 5m
Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, 'Pavel and I' mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pa...
View BookThe Secrets of the Chess Machine
Author: Robert Lohr
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Author Robert Lohr
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 13h 22m
In Vienna 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italia...
View BookAuthor: Louise Doughty
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Author Louise Doughty
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 49m
Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up the mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now be in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic past, and begins a passionate affair. Their exile makes Harper realis...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 11h
Home for Alexander Kinloch, an artist, is a small bothy on a remote mountain in Scotland. One day, his peace is shattered when he returns home to find some strangers waiting for him. After a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and the words, 'where is it?' ringing in his ears...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Bradbury
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Author Malcolm Bradbury
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 10h 30m
Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption and reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Malcolm Bradbury. Copyright Malcolm Bradbury 1975...
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