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Author: Nina Bawden
Format: MP3 CD
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 7h 15m
The last thing Tom Jones had expected was to run into Portia on holiday. His wife Amy knows he had an affair some four years ago, but she had never met 'the other woman'. What a curious twist of fate that she is on the same flight as them - and staying at the same hotel. Philip Mann, also staying at the Hotel Parthenon, is in Greece to make sense o...
View BookAuthor: Ann Widdecombe
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Author Ann Widdecombe
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 9h 36m
Catherine Dessin, a young French girl living in Paris during the occupation, falls for an older, married German officer. The novel examines the tensions this causes within her family of patriots and resistance workers. Meanwhile Klaus, the German officer, who is Oxford educated and a professed Anglophile, faces his own moral dilemma as he comes to...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 22m
Lucy Snowe, an English girl, goes to work as a governess in Brussels and finds solace in an unlikely suitor. Largely autobiographical fiction. Based on Charlotte's work as a governess in Brussels, Villette concerns the life of Lucy Snowe, an English girl who obtains a post at a girl's school in Belgium. With few friends and little money, Lucy conc...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 4h 22m
Johnnie was the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.
View BookAuthor: Arundhati Roy
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Author Arundhati Roy
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 11h 45m
Set in Kerala in the 1960s, this is the story of twins, Estha and Rahel, and the shocking consequences of a pivotal event in their young lives. After a visiting English cousin drowns, their life alters dramatically. In magical and poetic language, the book paints a vivid picture of life in a small rural Indian town, revealing the thoughts and feeli...
View BookMore Shakespeare - Without the Boring Bits
Author: Humphrey Carpenter
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Author Humphrey Carpenter
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h
More stories from Shakespeare, told from the perspectives of different characters. Amongst other stories witness the agony of Othello as he is goaded to murder, the farcical events of Much Ado About Nothing and the despair of Hamlet.
View BookStephen Hawking: His Life and Work
Author: Kitty Ferguson
Format: MP3 CD
Author Kitty Ferguson
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h
Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time-a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Ha...
View BookAuthor: Jilly Cooper
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Author Jilly Cooper
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 6h 15m
Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 8h 35m
The sequel to 'The Woman Who Left'. Jinnie is a child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise puts aside her own heartache and, after a long and bitter struggle, adopts Jinnie as her own. Over the years, Louise and Jinnie form...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 10h 40m
In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour, a reclusive creature who never opens the door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney, is driven by a dangerous memory that for...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 10h 5m
Silas and Cathleen have loved each other since childhood. But when a jealous woman drives them apart, each is swept to a place where it seems there is no love, no peace, and no way back. This is a dramatic tale of courage and heartbreak.
View BookAuthor: Irene Nemirovsky
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Author Irene Nemirovsky
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 13h 41m
In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a novel that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940, this audiobook falls into t...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 9h 30m
Edward Carter is a bully of a man, who inspires fear in the hearts of all who meet him.Adam Carter is 12 years old. His father's reign of terror over his family has Adam's mother Peggy too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. Then one afternoon, Phil makes a life-changing decisio...
View BookAuthor: Marie Joseph
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Author Marie Joseph
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 8h 15m
It was a small Lancashire town on the eve of the General Strike. A town where the gap between the rich and the poor was about to erupt into a bloody field of battle. Libby and Carrie were more than sisters. Mirror images, they were different sides of the same heart, impossible to separate or divide. Until they both fell in love with Tom.
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 12h 26m
Eight-year-old Casey's mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women's husbands. Casey's father is gentle and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs, he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. But then,Tom's world is cruelly shattered when he receives two bits of devastatin...
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 8h 45m
Louise and Ben Hunter's loving marriage is marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Living and working with Ben's father, Ronnie, they are quietly contented. But when Ronnie dies, their whole world changes. Ben's lazy brother, Jacob, returns, convinced he stands to inherit Ronnie's small fortune. And he means to have his brother's wife...
View BookAuthor: Kate Williams
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Author Kate Williams
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 14h 40m
In 'Becoming Queen', Kate Williams tells the astonishing story of Queen Victoria's passionate youth, her bitter struggle with her mother - and how her life was shaped by the life of her forgotten cousin, Princess Charlotte, the Queen who never was.
View BookAuthor: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h
Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's farm. But for all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has never succeeded. And now Nell, pregnant and alone, is forced to leave behind the men in her life,...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
Format: MP3 CD
Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 9h 16m
Celia - housewife, mother and wonderful cook - lives in Bedford Park, London, where the major worries are dailies, private schooling and the neighbourhood watch. But her cosy life is about to be upset by the people she loves. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Lyn Andrews
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Author Lyn Andrews
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h
As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily, there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's job...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
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Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 23m
Jane, an orphan, has her fair share of hardship before becoming a governess in the house of Mr Rochester and falling for her employer. But what are the strange noises coming from the attic, and may they thwart her romantic intentions? Jane Eyre, an orphan, has to suffer appalling conditions when she is sent away to a correctional school, then lands...
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