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The Chronicles of Narnia Book 3: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Alex Jennings
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3
Duration 4h 40m
Desperate to escape a harsh and narrow regime, two runaways unwittingly flee headlong into the centre of a terrible battle. This first sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe includes all the hallmarks of its famous predecessor, though this time the fate of Narnia is wound up in the lives of its own children, and a talking horse!...
View BookAuthor: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrator Alex Jennings, Jon Cartwright
Duration 5h 18m
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881–1885; the first three parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his ‘campaign against morality’, in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the ‘death of God’. Heavily critical not only o...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 3h 49m
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT...
View BookAuthor: Nevil Shute
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Author Nevil Shute
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 7h 19m
Jerry Chambers is a coastal patrol pilot during the Second World War; Mona Stevens is a barmaid at the Royal Clarence hotel where Jerry hangs out. They meet and fall in love. All looks fine until Jerry is accused of making a terrible mistake in combat, and only Mona may be able to rescue his career.
View BookAuthor: John Wyndham
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Author John Wyndham
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 15m
When Bill Masen leaves hospital and goes into the centre of London, he finds that looting is rife as people are grabbing anything from the shelves of shops that they think they might find useful - mainly food. While surveying the scene he comes across an attractive young woman who also wasn't blinded in the comet shower, Josella. Together they retu...
View BookAuthor: Balzac Honore De
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Author Balzac Honore De
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 15m
Cousin Bette is one of the best loved and most admired of Honore de Balzac's novels. A tale of seductive women and philandering men, of passionate affairs and spiralling debts, Cousin Bette paints a vivid portrait of Paris in the 1830s and '40s. It's a city full of temptations, in which money is king, morals are loose and the appeals of the virtuou...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 37h
Grim Mr Dombey dreams of a son to run his business. Instead he has a daughter who must fight to win his love, but when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only his daughter Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude.
View BookThe Edge Chronicles: The Quint Trilogy Book 2: The Winter Knights
Author: Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
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Author Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 3h 30m
In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy - training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But when Quint breaks the rules and heads out t...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 34h 45m
After his father's death, Nicholas and his family are left penniless. As a young man with a very independent streak, Nicholas makes a number of enemies including his wicked uncle Ralph, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster Squeers and the revolting Gride. He also finds himself involved in a variety of adventures up and down the country as he faces...
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 26m
Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living as a painter. The inconvenience of the house is outweighed by the fact that she and Arthur are removed from her drunken, degenerate husband. Although the...
View BookAuthor: Jules Verne
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Author Jules Verne
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 24m
Captain Nemo journeys far down in the ocean...which weird and wonderful beasts will be there to greet him? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an adventure story set far down in the briney deep where Captain Nemo tracks the terrifying and mystifying monster that has already wrecked ships that have disturbed its slumber. A scary, illuminating a...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 7h 37m
Agatha Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence audiobook is a thrill-packed novel of international intrigue and murder with all the Christie hallmarks of suspense and ingenuity. Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme - Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are '...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 45m
A workhouse orphan, Oliver escapes by running away to London. He gets drawn into the treacherous underworld of pickpockets and thieves headed by Fagin. His companions are ultimately destined for gruesome ends. Will Oliver emerge unscathed from the darkness of the underworld?
View BookDante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Series, Book 1
Author: Alighieri Dante
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Author Alighieri Dante
Narrator Alex Jennings, Laurie Anderson, Colin Redgrave
SeriesThe Divine Comedy, Book 1
Duration 49m
This original and refreshingly different dramatisation follows Dante, 'lost in a dark wood', who is met by Virgil, who takes him on a tour of the underworld: a place he could end up if he decides to take his own life. Starring Corin Redgrave as Dante, Alex Jennings as Virgil, Laurie Anderson as Beatrice and Arthur Brown as The Gate of Hell and prod...
View BookA History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
View BookAuthor: Kate Atkinson
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Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 24m
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband an...
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