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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h 10m
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim—nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts, and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London tha...
View BookUkridge Book 1: Love Among the Chickens
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
SeriesUkridge Series, Book 1
Duration 5h 1m
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious chickens, i...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 4h 51m
My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble,...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 29m
Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter. Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 25m
In nine of Wodehouse's stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finishes his round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and Chester Meredith who discovers eloquence on...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Balen
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Author Malcolm Balen
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 9h 50m
The secret history of the 'South Sea Bubble' and the first great financial scandal. The 'South Sea Bubble' was a scandal of immense proportions - a collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution that ensnared the Crown, Parliament and Bank of England in a plot of sheer devilry.
View BookThe Clicking of Cuthbert and Other Golf Stories
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 20m
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. P.G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to a round of golf stories that include: 'A Mixed Threesome', 'Sundered Hearts', 'The Salvation of George Mackintosh', 'Ordeal by Golf', 'The Long Hole', 'The Heel of Achilles', 'The Rough Stuff' and 'The Coming of Golf'.
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 15m
It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother, Mrs Waddington, insists he's not the man to marry the stepdaughter of one of New York's most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesn't seem to stand...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 6m
Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds (except those set by the wild-at-heart Hollywood starlet Lotus Blossom and her pet alligator), is on board the luxurious S.S. Atlantic. Also aboard are a movie mogul, the centre-forward for the all-England ladies hockey team and the two Tennyson brothers (one of whom has been mista...
View BookProblem At Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 5h 6m
This collection of short stories features three of Christie's top sleuths: her two favourites, Harley Quin and Mr. Parker Pyne, and of course, her most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. This audiobook includes 'The Love Detectives', featuring a murder in a library and not one but two confessed killers, 'Yellow Iris', in which a murder threatens to d...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 5h 2m
Written when he was 25, this novel launched P.G. Wodehouse's career as a novelist and introduced the world to Uckridge, one of his most extraordinary creations. Uckridge has a plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm and he's dragging his adoring wife Millie and long-suffering friend Jeremy Garnett along for the ride.
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h
This is the first 'Blandings' novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is neve...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 55m
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafal...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 44m
Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed - particularly as he's being rooked by the publisher of his sporting...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 8h 10m
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary...
View BookPearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 5h 9m
Monty Bodkin's year in Hollywood is completed and he has returned to London, leaving his secretary Sandy Miller heartbroken, her love unmentioned, unrequited. Monty's desires lie elsewhere - with the English hockey international Gertrude Butterwick, to be precise. But Butterwick is horrified at Monty's return, Ivor Llewellyn breathes a huge sigh of...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 6h 54m
When Jeeves suggests dreamy, soulful Gussie Fink-Nottle don scarlet tights and a false beard in his bid to capture the affections of soppy Madeline Bassett, Wooster decides Jeeves is losing his touch. He embarks on a little plan of his own to bring Madeline and Gussie together. But when things go disasterously wrong who else can Bertie turn to in h...
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 7h 53m
Life was always simple for Sally Nicholas - until she became rich. Being unaccustomed to a great deal of money, Sally hasn't got the hang of it yet. Which is why she agrees to back a show written by her fiance Gerald, and staged by her brother, Fillmore. It seems like a good way of making them all happy. But when Ginger Kemp, a rather hopeless, cha...
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