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Author: Frances Fyfield
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Author Frances Fyfield
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 11h 44m
Rachel Doe is a shy accountant at a low ebb in life when she meets charismatic Ivy Schneider, nee Wiseman, at her evening class and her life changes for the better. Ivy is her polar opposite: strong, six years her senior and the romantic survivor of drug addiction, homelessness and the death of her child. Ivy does menial shift work, beholden to no...
View BookAuthor: Matt Chamings
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Author Matt Chamings
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 8h 10m
In Renaissance Florence, a young painter visits the Medici palace, seemingly to paint Lorenzo de Medici's beautiful daughter... In present day Italy, Maria, a young English girl, is drawn to an unremarkable painting, but soon discovers an extraordinary picture underneath... Why is the painter secretly armed with a dagger? What dark event ties him t...
View BookAuthor: Frances Fyfield
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Author Frances Fyfield
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 10h 41m
Marianne Shearer is a successful barrister at the height of her career, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. She has successfully concluded her latest case and she's just paid one million pounds for a new flat. So why has she killed herself? Her death reveals a paucity of friends, a grasping brother and a tenacious colleague determine...
View BookDoctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Author: Graeme Curry
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Author Graeme Curry
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 4h 46m
Helen A, ruler of colony Terra Alpha, is determined that happiness will prevail. And if any killjoys insist on being miserable, the fun guns of the Happiness Patrol will remove them; or they will vanish into the Kandy Kitchen, where the Kandy Man will deal with them. When the Doctor and Ace spend a night on the dark streets of Terra Alpha they hav...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 7h 51m
Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear all feature in this collection of 22 short stories from the author of 'Chocolat'.
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Rula Lenska
SeriesChocolat Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 11h 50m
When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea,...
View BookAuthor: Claire Kramer
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Author Claire Kramer
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 13h
On 21 July 1942 the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old, Clara Kramer, was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mr Beck was a womaniser, a drunka...
View BookAuthor: Annie Hawes
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Author Annie Hawes
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 15h 25m
Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis fa...
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