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Author: Justine Picardie
Format: MP3 CD
Author Justine Picardie
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 10h 49m
It is 1957. As Daphne du Maurier wanders alone through her remote mansion on the Cornish coast, she is haunted by thoughts of her failing marriage and the legendary heroine of her most famous novel, 'Rebecca', who now seems close at hand. Seeking distraction, she becomes fascinated by Branwell, the reprobate brother of the Bronte sisters, and begin...
View BookAuthor: Mavis Cheek
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Author Mavis Cheek
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 12h 16m
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she begins to delve deeper...
View BookAuthor: W W Jacobs
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Author W W Jacobs
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 22m
W. W. Jacobs was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along the London docks, were much in demand by magazine publishers, as his name on the cover assured wide sales.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 6h
Elizabeth Bennet is a spirited young woman with four sisters and a mother obsessed with getting them all married off. When she first meets Mr Darcy she thinks he's arrogant and conceited, and he is completely indifferent to her charms. Will she ever see past the prejudices of her first impressions?
View BookAuthor: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 10h 23m
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . .
View BookAuthor: E M Forster
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Author E M Forster
Narrator Joanna David
Duration 7h 24m
The theme of 'Room with a View' is the undeveloped heart of the English middle classes, who are represented here by a group of tourists and expatriates in Florence. They include the young and unaffected Lucy Honeychurch, whose heart has been captivated by both Italy and a dashing young man - and her dismal cousin Charlotte.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Edward Fox, Joanna David
Duration 2h 35m
On the theme of love a second great collection of romantic short stories from yesteryear read by another husband and wife team Edward Fox and Joanna David. LOVE is a staple theme of many short stories and in this second off-beat selection from CSA it comes in many guises. There is love tragically thwarted by duty in Thomas Hardy's The Son's Veto; t...
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