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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 10m
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 51m
Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and br...
View BookAuthor: Cornelia Funke
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Author Cornelia Funke
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 8h 6m
Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of Venice. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, The Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat...
View BookAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 9m
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai when he was a young boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war. Banks realises it is time for him to return to th...
View BookAuthor: Ben Elton
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Author Ben Elton
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 7h 37m
It's two fifteen a.m., you're in bed alone and you're woken by the phone. Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong. Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad n...
View BookAuthor: Laurent Joffrin
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Author Laurent Joffrin
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 11h 45m
On a moonlit night in 1943 an Indian princess was parachuted in to occupied France to join the Resistance as a radio operator code-named Aurora. Daughter of a Sufi mystic, she had declined the Special Operations Executive firearms training because she did not want to kill anyone - yet she landed in Brittany knowing that she had a 50 per cent chance...
View BookAuthor: John Boyne
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Author John Boyne
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 8h 37m
September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought...
View BookAuthor: Daphne Du Maurier
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Author Daphne Du Maurier
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 45m
A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Levy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape France for Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease...
View BookThe Lost Estate (le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Henri Fournier-Alain
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Author Henri Fournier-Alain
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 35m
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. In his restless search for his 'Lost Estate' and...
View BookAuthor: Mary Shelley
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Author Mary Shelley
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 1h 53m
Frankenstein is a dark and brooding dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel, and stars Michael Maloney as the scientist who makes a creature in his own name. Denied a female counterpart, the creature turns on his creator, then murders Frankenstein's brother. In an attempt to destroy his creation, the scientist tracks him to the Arctic...
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 15h 22m
Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself....
View BookThe Boy In the Striped Pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
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Author John Boyne
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 5h
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. When he moves house he meets Shumel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Features an exclusive interview with the author.
View BookAuthor: Edmund de Waal
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Author Edmund de Waal
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 10h 39m
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined...In this stunningly original memoir, Edmund de...
View BookAuthor: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 17h 35m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephalonia. It isn't long before he is involved in a heated affair with Pelagia, a local girl - despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side but as Corel...
View BookAuthor: William Dalrymple
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Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
View BookAuthor: Richard Hughes
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Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 13m
Set in the nineteenth century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates.
View BookAuthor: Henry Williamson
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Author Henry Williamson
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 15m
The enchanting and heartbreaking story of Tarka the otter who pursues an active life, sometimes playful and sometimes dangerous, in the Devonshire countryside. The story is based on Williamson's dedicated observation of the wildlife of the rivers Taw and Torridge in North Devon.
View BookArthur and the Seeing Stone Book 1: The Seeing Stone
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Author Kevin Crossley-Holland
Narrator Michael Maloney
SeriesArthur and the Seeing Stones, Book 1
Duration 7h 53m
The first volume in the trilogy. The year is 1199, and on the borders of England and Wales young Arthur de Caldicot waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives Arthur a shining black stone, and he starts to see stories of his namesake, King Arthur. As the stories of the two Arthurs intertwine, the narr...
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