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Author: Georgette Heyer
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Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 5h 26m
Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister's hand - a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart - it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can s...
View BookAuthor: Niall Kishstainy
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Author Niall Kishstainy
Narrator Louise Levene
Duration 12h 58m
All the big ideas, simply explained - an innovative and accessible guide to economics. Bring economics to life with The Economics Book, an essential guide to more that 100 of the big ideas in economic theory and practice covering everything from ancient theories right up to cutting-edge modern developments. From Aristotle to John Maynard Keynes and...
View BookAuthor: James Patterson
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Author James Patterson
Narrator January Lavoy
SeriesWomen's Murder Club, Book 12
Duration 7h 6m
Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Burgess
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Author Anthony Burgess
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 29m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Anthony Burgess's novel which became a controversial film in the 1970s. In a nightmare world of the near future, packs of teenagers run wild, beyond the control of their families or the police. Alex is a gang-leader, addicted to drug-fuelled assault, torture and rape.
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 2, Episode 6
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
The men are left in charge of the baby while the ladies are off on a writer's retreat.
View BookAuthor: Penelope Farmer
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Author Penelope Farmer
Narrator Hannah Gordon
Duration 4h 59m
After Charlotte's first night at boarding school, the view from the window has changed and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who was there last night. She is a stranger who calls Charlotte Clare and says she's her sister. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back to 1919 and is someone else.
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 6h 40m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's gripping trilogy that concludes the Forsyte Saga, featuring a star cast including Sophie Thompson, Dorothy Tutin, John Moffatt and Miranda Foster. The End of the Chapter is an adaptation of Galsworthy's three novels chronicling the lives of the Cherrells, cousins of the Forsytes. Maid in Waiting starts i...
View BookPaultemple and the Spencer Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 55m
Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury star in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. When young drama student Mary Drei...
View BookBleak Expectations; the Complete Second Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Anthony Head Et Al
Duration 2h 48m
Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr. Gently Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher brothers. A Victorian epic of awful schools inc the aptly named St Bastards, worse prisons, nuns at St...
View BookHorrible Histories: Rowdy Revolutions
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h 25m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: which Chinese Emperor was overthrown by his mum? Why one revolution made ugly people very scared indeed? What Count Dracula was really like? Find out about the gruesome guillotine in the French Revolution, meet legendary leaders like Leon Trotsky, and discover how to plan your own rowdy revolu...
View BookAuthor: Raymond Chandler
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Author Raymond Chandler
Narrator Ed Bishop
Duration 1h 51m
Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric dramatisation of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Blonde, beautiful and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never exactly been the f...
View BookPsammead Series Book 3: The Story of the Amulet
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 2h 37m
When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! The children are whisked back in time to exciting and sometimes dangerous places, such as Ancient Babylon and Atlantis, to search out the missing half of the amulet.
View BookAuthor: Cathy Cassidy
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Author Cathy Cassidy
Narrator Paul Chequer
Duration 5h 23m
Mouse is doing his best to stay out of trouble. Cat is doing her best to land herself in it. They've both had it pretty tough so when they meet by chance they thank their lucky stars. Weird and wonderful things happen when they're together; but how long can it last? Because everyone has their secrets; and there can be only one winner in a game of c...
View BookFirebird Trilogy Series Book 2: Ten Thousand Skies Above You
Author: Claudia Gray
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Author Claudia Gray
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesFirebird Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 10h 35m
In this sequel to A Thousand Pieces of You by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray, Marguerite races through various dimensions to save the boy she loves. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross through to alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention of enemies who will do anything to force her into...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 3m
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your nat...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 24: The Fifth Elephant
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 24
Duration 10h 47m
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassador - to th...
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 7h 33m
From its opening sentences Agnes Grey introduces a heroine who is honest, perceptive and charming. Unfortunately, the Bloomfields, who engage her as a governess, are rather less appealing, and the incarnation of the suppressed cruelties and hypocrisies of the Victorian age. When Agnes moves to a marginally less alarming family, one of her charges s...
View BookDr Christian's Guide To Growing Up
Author: Dr Christian Jessen
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Author Dr Christian Jessen
Narrator Robert Welling
Duration 1h 40m
Finally TV's favourite doctor, Dr Christian, comes to the rescue of parents, boys and girls to answer all their questions about adolescence, sexuality and puberty. In his assured, no-nonsense fashion Dr Christian allays the fears, and uncertainties of growing youngsters (and helps parents find answers) about puberty, sex, personal and emotional hea...
View BookKay Scarpetta 5: The Body Farm
Author: Patricia Cornwell
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Author Patricia Cornwell
Narrator Jill Eikenberry
SeriesKay Scarpetta, Book 5
Duration 2h 30m
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial killer who has long eluded th...
View BookMichael Rosen's A To Z: The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah
Author: Michael Rosen
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Author Michael Rosen
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 2h 26m
From Agard to Zephaniah, this wonderful anthology is rich with the many cultures, voices and sounds of the most exciting children's performance poets in Britain today. Whether it's haunting or funny, musical or compassionate, the brilliant Michael Rosen, our Children's Laureate, has created a simply stunning collection of the best of children's poe...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Rendell
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Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 56m
Love and death are the principal players in these two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of chilling Ruth Rendell stories. In 'The Bridesmaid', when Philip embarks on an affair with Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, she reminds him of the stone statue he adored as a child. Yet Senta is married, and Philip's overwhelming aversion to violence leads ind...
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