Author: Charles Duhigg
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Author Charles Duhigg
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 28m
Brought to you by Penguin.Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They're brilliant facilitators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?In...
View BookSkulduggery Pleasant Book 16: A Mind Full of Murder
Author: Derek Landy
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Author Derek Landy
Narrator Kevin Hely
SeriesSkulduggery Pleasant, Book 16
Duration 11h 19m
SIX YEARS AGO, THE UNIVERSE ENDED. When it restarted, blinking back into existence, it brought with it a darkness that remains hidden from the mortal population. A week ago – fuelled by unimaginable hatred and unstoppable rage – a masked sorcerer killed one of those mortals. Then he killed another. And another. With their time running o...
View BookAuthor: Polly Crosby
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Author Polly Crosby
Narrator Kristen Atherton
Duration 13h 10m
1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the menacing shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. But when she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney, the two women form a close bond, and Vita finally glimpses a chance to be free. 1997: Following the death of her mother, Eve Blakeney returns to the coast where she spent childhood summers with her belo...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Underwood
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Author Sarah Underwood
Narrator Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook, Sebastian Humphreys
Duration 13h 46m
A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope’s twelve hanged maids. In the cursed kingdom of Ithaca, each spring brings the hanging of twelve maidens, a gift to the vengeful Poseidon. But when Leto awakens from her death on the shore of a long-forgotten island, its enigmatic k...
View BookThe Murder After the Night Before
Author: Katy Brent
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Author Katy Brent
Narrator Victoria Morrison
Duration 9h 18m
Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic accident. I know she was murdered. I’ve woken up with the hangover from hell, a stranger in my bed, and I’ve gone viral for the worst reasons. There’s only one thing stopping me from dying of shame. I need to find a killer. But after...
View BookAuthor: Saara El-Arifi
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Author Saara El-Arifi
Narrator Nicole Lewis, Dominic Hoffman
SeriesThe Ending Fire, Book 2
Duration 18h 13m
Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice. Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens’ Empire. When she is accused of a murder she didn’t commit, she must solve the mystery to save her reign. Her beloved, Sylah, braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. But should she sacrifice her old life to...
View BookAuthor: Saara El-Arifi
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Author Saara El-Arifi
Narrator Nicole Lewis, Dominic Hoffman
SeriesThe Ending Fire, Book 1
Duration 19h 48m
The Aktibar—a set of trials held every ten years to find the next Ember rulers of the Empire—is about to begin. All can join but not just anyone can win; it requires great skill and ingenuity to become the future wardens of Strength, Knowledge, Truth and Duty. Sylah was destined to win the trials and be crowned Warden of Strength. Stole...
View BookAuthor: Louise Hare
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Author Louise Hare
Narrator Leonie Elliot
SeriesCanary Club Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 11h 32m
1936, September 17th, 1am… In the middle of Harlem, in the dead of night, a woman falls from a second storey window. In her hand, she holds a passport and the name written on it is Lena Aldridge… Nine days earlier… Lena arrived in Harlem less than two weeks ago, full of hope for her burgeoning romance with Will Goodman, the han...
View BookAuthor: Anna Wilson
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Author Anna Wilson
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 10h 56m
Anna grew up in a house that was loving, even if her mum was ‘a little eccentric’. They knew to keep things clean, to stay quiet, and to look the other way when things started to get ‘a bit much for your mum’. It’s only when her mother reaches her 70s, and Anna has a family of her own, that the cracks really start to a...
View BookAuthor: Carmel Harrington
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Author Carmel Harrington
Narrator Frank Grimes, Jill Crawford
Duration 10h 11m
Meet Tom. Or Dr O’Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don’t even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn’t living his best life. Burdened by grief, he’s only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his whole world. Then there’s Ruth and her son,...
View BookAuthor: Louise Hare
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Author Louise Hare
Narrator Georgina Campbell
SeriesCanary Club Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 12h 6m
London, 1936. Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starr...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 36m
This edition of our member newsletter features the latest charity updates, book recommendations and interviews with authors Susan Elia MacNeal and Philippa Gregory!
View BookAuthor: Berlie Doherty
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Author Berlie Doherty
Narrator Antonia Beamish
Duration 4h 1m
An unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes. When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly escapes, choosing a hard life on the streets of the city over the confines of the workhouse walls. Stru...
View BookSkulduggery Pleasant Book 15: Until the End
Author: Derek Landy
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Author Derek Landy
Narrator Kevin Hely
SeriesSkulduggery Pleasant, Book 15
Duration 19h 44m
The second cycle of the internationally best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready.... The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won. With the end of everything just days away – and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain – Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he's...
View BookAuthor: Bella Ellis
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Author Bella Ellis
Narrator Kristin Atherton
SeriesBrontë Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 10h 13m
The fourth adventure in the Brontë Mysteries series. Haworth 1847 - Anne and Emily Brontë have had their books accepted for publication, while Charlotte's has been rejected everywhere, creating a strained atmosphere at the parsonage. At the same time, a shocking court case has recently concluded, acquitting a workhouse master of murdering...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Duncan
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Author Sophie Duncan
Narrator Nicky Diss
Duration 11h 14m
Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. She is an enduring romantic icon. And she is a captivating, brilliant, passionate teenage girl who is read and interpreted afresh by each new generation. Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind William Shakespeare's child bride to the boy actor w...
View BookAuthor: Tara Isabella Burton
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Author Tara Isabella Burton
Narrator Patricia Santomasso
Duration 9h 48m
Today's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authenticity and artificiality. Ordinary people now follow suit: lovingly tending our 'personal brands' for economic gain and self-expression alike. Instagram culture is part of a story that goes back centuries. The vision that we not only can but should 'make...
View BookAuthor: Lindsey Davis
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Author Lindsey Davis
Narrator Jane Collingwood
SeriesFlavia Albia, Book 11
Duration 11h 51m
An unpaid bar bill leads Flavia Albia to her most bitter and complex case yet. Decades earlier Appius Tranquillus Surus wrote his will: it freed his slaves and bequeathed his businesses to them. He left an orchard to the Prisci, a family he was friendly with, on the condition that his freedmen could still take its harvest. The convoluted arrangemen...
View BookAuthor: S. A. Cosby
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Author S. A. Cosby
Narrator Adam Lazarre-White
Duration 13h 6m
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, no one knows better than Titus that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. But a year to t...
View BookAuthor: Ros Atkins
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Author Ros Atkins
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 58m
A practical and accessible guide to getting across complex information clearly, by BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos. Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos, is something of...
View BookAuthor: Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose
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Author Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 15h 31m
They need to value one thing above all else LOYALTY Dara Tailor has had to grow up fast. With a mother addicted to cocaine, Dara must look after her seven younger siblings, until social services split them up for ever. Grace Perry has led a sheltered life. Until her widowed mother is attacked and left for dead and Grace is taken into care. At Holly...
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