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Author: Mick Herron
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Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 1
Duration 9h 44m
Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days a...
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Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 3
Duration 10h 50m
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the 'slow horses'. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent's Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she's known Jackson Lamb long enough to ha...
View BookAuthor: Mick Herron
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Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 4
Duration 6h 53m
Set in the same world as Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House thrillers, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who's about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead - Liam Betta...
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Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 2
Duration 9h 58m
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Slough House’s head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was m...
View BookAuthor: Umberto Eco
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Author Umberto Eco
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 21h 5m
This hugely engaging story of murder, superstition, religious politics and drama in a medieval monastery was one of the most striking novels to appear in the 1980s. The Name of the Rose is a thrilling story enriched with period detail and laced with tongue-in-cheek allusions to fictional characters, the most striking of which is the Franciscan fria...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator David Churchill, Sean Barrett
Duration 17h
In a triumphant return to his much-loved Courtney series, Wilbur Smith introduces us to the bravest new member of the famed family, Saffron Courtney. Saffron grows up on a sprawling Kenyan estate, under the watchful eye of her father, prominent businessman and distinguished war veteran Leon Courtney. Her childhood is idyllic until a family tragedy...
View BookAuthor: Wilbur Smith
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Author Wilbur Smith
Narrator Giles Kristian, Sean Barrett
Duration 12h 33m
Worldwide best-selling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series. East African coast, 1670. In a time of brave and brutal adventure, one man will journey across land and sea to pursue his greatest enemy...
View BookAuthor: Ian Serraillier
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Author Ian Serraillier
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 4h 3m
The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe. Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope. As they travel through Europe towards Switzerland, where they believe they will be reunited with their parents, they encounter many hardshi...
View BookAuthor: J. G. Farrell
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Author J. G. Farrell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 5h
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the di...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Nadel
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Author Barbara Nadel
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 10h 2m
When Emine Aksu, the flamboyant wife of an Istanbul style guru, suddenly goes missing, Inspector Cetin Ikmen's investigation leads him deep into her strange and colourful past. Emine was a hippie when she was younger, who wholeheartedly enjoyed the liberated lifestyle that swept across the city when the western Europeans flooded into Istanbul in th...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Nadel
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Author Barbara Nadel
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 8h 52m
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul, seemingly targeting gay men. A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could he be a victim of the 'Peeper'? Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is assigned to the case, and is shocked to discover that the victim's body has been delivered to forensics entirely 'clean'. Has some...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Nugent
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Author Andrew Nugent
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h 41m
The strange and brutal murder of a young African man in Dublin reveals the dark practices of a twisted killer... Shad, a young African man, is attacked and left for dead on the Dublin Mountains. He crawls to the nearest house and raises the alarm, but he later dies in hospital. Inspector Quilligan and Molly Power, of the Irish Police Force Murder S...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Nadel
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Author Barbara Nadel
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 10h 15m
Convicted murderer and drug baron, Yusuf Kaya, has escaped from Istanbul prison. He appears to have had inside help. Ikmen is called to investigate Kaya's contacts in the city, while Inspector Suleyman heads to Kaya's home town of Mardin, a dangerous city in the south east of Turkey. As Ikmen delves deeper into Kaya's past, the body count continues...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 33h 35m
The Chuzzlewits are a family divided by money and selfishness; even young Martin, the eponymous hero, is arrogant and self-centred. He offends his grandfather by falling in love with the latter's ward, Mary, and sets out to make his own fortune in life, travelling as far as America - which produces from Dickens a savage satire on a new world tainte...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Mccarten
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Author Anthony Mccarten
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h 40m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten, read by Sean Barrett. From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded por...
View BookAuthor: Sir Walter Scott
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Author Sir Walter Scott
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 16h 30m
Rob Roy is a captivating novel of chivalry and romance set in the Scottish highlands of the 18th century. After rejecting the life his father has laid out for him, Frank Osbaldistone is sent to the North of England to live with his Uncle, where he is to repent his sins. However, when his father's wealth and reputation are threatened, he is drawn to...
View BookAuthor: Paul Hoffman
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Author Paul Hoffman
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 12h 27m
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True Faith. In one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting ma...
View BookHarry Hole Series Book 8: The Leopard
Author: Jo Nesbo
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Author Jo Nesbo
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesHarry Hole, Book 8
Duration 19h 40m
In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with inexplicable puncture wounds. The police are running out of options. Deeply traumatised by a previous investigation, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. But with his father seriously ill, Harry relu...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 8h
One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander wit...
View BookHarry Hole Series Book 1: The Bat
Author: Jo Nesbo
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Author Jo Nesbo
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesHarry Hole, Book 1
Duration 10h 50m
Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harr...
View BookHarry Hole Series Book 2: Cockroaches
Author: Jo Nesbo
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Author Jo Nesbo
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesHarry Hole, Book 2
Duration 10h 45m
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way...
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