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Author: Jonathan Coe
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 7h 11m
This is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inherita...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 2h 20m
Margaret Hale moves from the country into the inner-city and starts to learn what life is like for the workers. Elizabeth Gaskell highlights the difference between the middle and working classes in this tale set in the time of the Industrial Revolution. A largely autobiographical story, she also highlights the good that each group can do for each...
View BookAuthor: Phillipa Pearce
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Author Phillipa Pearce
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 3h 46m
For months, Ben had been thinking about dogs. He had picked the biggest and the best from the dog-books in the library. So imagine his disappointment when, for his birthday, he received a picture of a dog, not a real one. Ben's imagination soon got to work though, and that's when his strange adventures began.
View BookAuthor: David Angus
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Author David Angus
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 1h 48m
Five enchanting ballet stories interspersed with evocative music from the works themselves. The featured stories are Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Giselle.
View BookAuthor: Kate Summerscale
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Author Kate Summerscale
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 8h 5m
Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful civil engineer, Henry moved them, by then with two sons, to Edinburgh's elegant society in 1850. But Henry tra...
View BookAuthor: Diane Setterfield
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Author Diane Setterfield
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 14h 15m
Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart...Now Margaret Lea is invest...
View BookAuthor: E. Nesbit
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Author E. Nesbit
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 6h 32m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, read by Jenny Agutter. When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends...
View BookAuthor: Dodie Smith
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Author Dodie Smith
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 12h 18m
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain's journal tells of an extrordinary eight months in the lives of her eccentric and bohemian family, which include a father who is suffering from writer's block; a stepmother Topaz, an artist's model; her fiery sister Rose and younger brother Thomas. When the rich young American landlords of their cold and crumbl...
View BookAuthor: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 2h 24m
Madame Bovary is one of Europe's most famous pieces of literature causing a huge scandal when first published in 1856 as a serial in La Revue de Paris and then, after being acquitted at a trial, as a book in 1857. Ahead of its time, Madame Bovary shocked its readers when first published, with its candid themes of adultery and betrayal. Emma Bovary...
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