Author: Kate Wilhelm
Format: Online
Author Kate Wilhelm
Narrator Marguerite Gavin
Duration 2h 52m
Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime, often just ahead of others who had already been working the same ideas. His son John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market-or any other financial deal-and was investigated for insider trading on more than one occasion. Now Cat, a docu...
View BookAuthor: Anne Enright
Format: Online
Author Anne Enright
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 7h 47m
The nine children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. Tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations, this is a novel about lov...
View BookAuthor: Gilda O'Neill
Format: Online
Author Gilda O'Neill
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes
Duration 7h 35m
Were things really better in the good old days? Only if you were healthy, wealthy and male. For most, life in London was one of grinding poverty, binge drinking, prostitution and gun crime. The 19th century was a time of growing awareness of the existence of an impoverished underclass - a terrifying demi-monde of criminals, tarts and no-hope low-li...
View BookAuthor: Guy Walters
Format: Online
Author Guy Walters
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 18h 21m
At the end of the Second World War, some of the highest ranking Nazis escaped from justice, Aided and abetted by the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines' and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. Vengeful Holocaust survivors and inept politicains attempted to bring them to justice and there were daring plots to kidnap or assass...
View BookAuthor: Ian Pattison
Format: Online
Author Ian Pattison
Narrator Jonathan Hackett
Duration 11h 39m
A one-time aspiring author has seen his life take a tumble down the ladder of literary aspirations: after prose came verse, then drama, then the ignominious wasteland of sitcom, and then, because failure's always ready to step in with another bottom rung, a badly paid job as a reader of other people's sitcoms. Then suddenly there's new hope. Hollyw...
View BookAuthor: Vanora Bennett
Format: Online
Author Vanora Bennett
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 13h 7m
St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms to take refuge with relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. But revolution is in the air and, as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head. She loves her broodin...
View BookAuthor: Epstein Jennifer Cody
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Author Epstein Jennifer Cody
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 14h 21m
In 1913 an orphan girl is delivered to The Hall of Eternal Splendour, seemingly destined to live out her life as a prostitute in its smoky backrooms. Yet one day hope appears in the unlikely form of a customs inspector, a modest man who will take Pan Yuliang as his concubine and introduce her to a glamorous new life in 1920s' Shanghai: a life of lo...
View BookAuthor: Michael Rosen
Format: Online
Author Michael Rosen
Narrator Wayne Forester
Duration 2h 25m
Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube. In addition there are grizzly bears roaming the streets of London, killer wasps and all sorts of tall tales.
View BookAuthor: David Walliams
Format: Online
Author David Walliams
Narrator David Walliams
Duration 3h 6m
A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orang...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Franzen
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Franzen
Narrator David Ledoux
Duration 24h 4m
An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life;...
View BookAuthor: Alan Titchmarsh
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Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 8h 45m
When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery, Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature. But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales wo...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 1
Duration 2h 17m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple, the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Smith
Format: Online
Author Daniel Smith
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
Duration 7h 15m
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety-America's most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like-it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one-but...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Stiefvater
Format: Online
Author Maggie Stiefvater
Narrator David Ledoux, Jenna Lamia
SeriesThe Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 1
Duration 10h 43m
Every summer Sam spends a few precious months being human, until the cold causes him to shift to a wolf once again. Discover what happens when he meets Grace in this chilling romance.
View BookAuthor: Mark Mills
Format: Online
Author Mark Mills
Narrator Peter Joyce
Duration 10h 16m
Summer, 1942. For the people of Malta, suffering daily bombing raids, the British are the last line of defence against the Nazis. And it is Max Chadwick's job as the information officer to ensure the news the islanders receive maintains morale. So when Max is given proof suggesting a British officer is murdering local women, he knows the consequenc...
View BookAuthor: Bradford Barbara Taylor
Format: Online
Author Bradford Barbara Taylor
Narrator Sarah Le Fevre
Duration 14h 53m
When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family's recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele. Resolving to uncover the truth, she must travel to Istanbul...
View BookAuthor: Bradford Barbara Taylor
Format: Online
Author Bradford Barbara Taylor
Narrator Ric Jerrom
SeriesRavenscar, Book 1
Duration 6h 26m
Barbara Taylor Bradford introduced the illustrious Harte family in her blockbuster A Woman of Substance. Now she has created an unforgettable new dynasty: the Deravenels. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes forever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her eighteen-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, un...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Erskine
Format: Online
Author Barbara Erskine
Narrator Janice Mckenzie
Duration 18h 20m
Abi, a recently-ordained priest of the Church of England, is appointed to the parish of the charismatic but fundamentalist Kier. He objects to her mysticism, her practice of healing in particular. When she sees a vision, Kier accuses her of witchcraft, but Abi soon sees more visions; an entire Roman family history, dark with betrayal and a promise...
View BookAuthor: Christie Writing As Mary Westmacott Agatha
Format: Online
Author Christie Writing As Mary Westmacott Agatha
Narrator Lewis Hanock
Duration 8h 36m
Bereft of the three people she has held most dear - her mother, her husband and her daughter - Celia is on the verge of suicide. Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is...
View BookAuthor: Joyce Grenfell
Format: Online
Author Joyce Grenfell
Narrator Maureen Lipman
Duration 2h 5m
A poignantly funny retrospective of the genteel wit of broadcaster, comedienne, poet and entertainer, Joyce Grenfell, superbly performed by Maureen Lipman and heard on BBC Radio 3. Together with the creative team that produced the stage show, ReJoyce, Maureen perfectly recreates the much-loved material of the late, great Joyce Grenfell. Featuring m...
View BookAuthor: Guy De La Bedoyere
Format: Online
Author Guy De La Bedoyere
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 55m
A guided tour of Roman Britain with historian Guy de la B‚doyŠre, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In 55 BC, Julius Caesar invaded Britain, which was then on the edge of the known world. But he was unable to conquer it. Where Caesar failed the Emperor Claudius, in AD 43, succeeded and the mighty Roman Empire came to stretch from Cairo to Carli...
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