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Author: Berlie Doherty
Author Berlie Doherty
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 4h 1m
An unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes. When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Stru...
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Author: CJ Carey
Author CJ Carey
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 11h 4m
Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalised. George VI and his family have been murdered, and Edward VIII rules as king. Rose Ransom belongs to the elite caste of women and works at the Ministry of Culture, rewriting literature to correct the views of the past. But now she has been given a spec...
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Author: CJ Carey
Author CJ Carey
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 10h 38m
The Leader has been dead for three years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression of British citizens, particularly women. Now, more than ever, the Protectorate is a place of surveillance and isolation—a land of spies. Every evening Rose Ransom looks in the mirror and marvels that she's even...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Author: Paula Byrne
Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 17h 6m
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly th...
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Author: Paula Byrne
Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 11h 45m
A radical look at Jane Austen As you've never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long trad...
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Author: Lisa Jewell
Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 10h 30m
East Yorkshire: Single mum Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement, she invites him in to her home. Surrey: Twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is...
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Author: Sam Carrington
Author Sam Carrington
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 10h 8m
When Karen Finch's seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie arrives home after a night out, drunk and accompanied by police officers, no one is smiling the morning after. But Sophie remembers nothing about how she got into such a state.Twelve hours later, Sophie's friend Amy has still not returned home. Then the body of a young woman is found. Karen is s...
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Author: Lisa Jewell
Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Antonia Beamish, Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h 24m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell, read by Antonia Beamish and Leighton Pugh. 'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?' She smiled. 'Me, too.' July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piec...
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Author: Tessa Hadley
Author Tessa Hadley
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 11h 4m
Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past, but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Secrets are uncovered and passions erupt as a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - win...
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