Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Author: Kate Pankhurst
Author Kate Pankhurst
Narrator Emmy Rose
Duration 43m
Kate Pankhurst, descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst, has created this wildly wonderful and accessible book about women who really changed the world. Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world we live in. Fly through the sky with the incredible explorer Amelia Earhart, and read all about the Wonderful Adventur...
View BookAn Interview With Michelle Paver
Author: Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Author Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Narrator Michelle Paver
Duration 19m
Michelle Paver is a novelist and children's writer, a number of her books are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
View BookAuthor: Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Author Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Narrator Sarah Perry
Duration 17m
An interview with Sarah Perry, the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. Photo credit Jamie Drew.
View BookAn Interview With Robert Thorogood
Author: Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Author Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Narrator Robert Thorogood
Duration 22m
An interview with Robert Thorogood, author of the Death in Paradise television show and the spin-off series of novels.
View BookAn Interview With Kiran Millwood-hargrave
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
Duration 17m
An interview with Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, author of children's books The Girl of Ink of Stars and The Island at the End of Everything.
View BookAn Interview With Ruth Hatfield
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Ruth Hatfield
Duration 23m
An interview with Ruth Hatfield, author of children's series Book of Storms.
View BookAn Interview With David Almond
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator David Almond
Duration 12m
An interview with David Almond, author of children's books Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey. Photo credit Sarah Jane Palmer.
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 1
Author: Armando Iannucci
Author Armando Iannucci
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 59m
Armando Iannucci and his guests return with a heady mix of topical sketches, chat and lots of lies, in front of a live audience. Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad...
View BookEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Author: Gail Honeyman
Author Gail Honeyman
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
Duration 11h 37m
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has buil...
View BookAuthor: Michael Zadoorian
Author Michael Zadoorian
Narrator Judith West
Duration 8h 38m
Ella and John have shared a wonderful life for more than 60 years. Now they're on the run from their doctors and middle-aged children, who just want them to go gently into that undignified night of old age. In their trusty camper van, the pair embark on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery along Route 66. Though time is catching up with them, Ella i...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Cannon
Author Joanna Cannon
Narrator Paula Wilcox
Duration 10h 44m
There are three things you should know about Elsie.The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might take a little bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued,...
View BookAuthor: Rose Mcgowen
Author Rose Mcgowen
Narrator Rose Mcgowen
Duration 6h 44m
Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another more visible cult: Hollywood. Brave is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifesto - a no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry,...
View BookAuthor: David Walliams
Author David Walliams
Narrator David Walliams
Duration 5h 19m
Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones. There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones. There are silly ones and serious ones, loud ones and quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads and bad dads.... A high-speed cops and robbers adventure with heart and soul about a f...
View BookAuthor: A. J. Finn
Author A. J. Finn
Narrator Ann Marie Lee
Duration 13h 42m
It's been 10 long months since Anna Fox last left her home. Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost, lost in her memories, too terrified to step outside. Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantl...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Stephanie Racine, Greg Wagland
Duration 10h 46m
Martin Gilmour and Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School. They are an unlikely pair: the scholarship boy with the wrong accent and clothes, and the dazzlingly popular, wealthy young aristocrat. But Martin knows no one else can understand the bond they share - and no one else could have k...
View BookManon Bradshaw Book 1: Missing, Presumed
Author: Susie Steiner
Series: Manon Bradshaw Series, Book 1
Author Susie Steiner
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
SeriesManon Bradshaw Series, Book 1
Duration 13h 17m
Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date - the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman - door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon k...
View BookManon Bradshaw Book 2: Persons Unknown
Author: Susie Steiner
Series: Manon Bradshaw Series, Book 2
Author Susie Steiner
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
SeriesManon Bradshaw Series, Book 2
Duration 11h 58m
As dusk falls, a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls, cradled by a stranger, a woman's name on his lips in his last seconds of life. DI Manon Bradshaw can't help taking an interest - these days she handles only cold cases, but the man died just yards from the police station where she...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Author Andrew Lloyd Webber
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 16h 35m
One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita,...
View BookMa'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown
Author Craig Brown
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 12h 20m
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indig...
View BookSunshine At the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Rebecca Cooper
Duration 9h 43m
Come to the Comfort Food Cafe for sunshine, smiles and plenty of truly scrumptious lemon drizzle cake. For Willow, the ramshackle caf‚ overlooking the beach, together with its warmhearted community, offers friendship as a daily special and always has a hearty welcome on the menu. But when a handsome stranger blows in on a warm spring breeze,...
View BookAuthor: William Golding
Author William Golding
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 2m
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are tr...
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