Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Author Bernardine Evaristo
Narrator Anna-Maria Nabirye
Duration 11h 6m
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** Brought to you by Penguin. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, told through many distinctive voices, this novel follows the lives of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the ye...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Murphy Cillian
Duration 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Katina by Roald Dahl, read by Cillian Murphy. In Katina, Roald Dahl tells of a young Greek girl fascinated by the British planes and airbase that have come to her village. Katina is taken from the short story collection Over to You, which includes nine other dramatic and terrifying tales of life as a wartim...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Coe
Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Nicholas Burns
Duration 12h 43m
Brought to you by Penguin. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention,...
View BookAuthor: Claire Douglas
Author Claire Douglas
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 6m
That summer, the three girls had the world at their feet. Now, one is missing. On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town. She left no trace - only heartache for her mother and her sister, Heather. And one is a murderer. Twenty-five years later, Heather walks into a stranger's house. There, the...
View BookAuthor: Terry Brooks
Author Terry Brooks
Narrator John Lee
Duration 15h 30m
The third volume of The Heritage of Shannara, which continues one of the most popular fantasy series of all time "Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a tra...
View BookAuthor: Terry Brooks
Author Terry Brooks
Narrator John Lee
Duration 17h 45m
Since the death of the Druid Allanon, the Four Lands have changed profoundly, with magic strictly forbidden in the Southland, now under totalitarian rule. Yet Par still has some power of the Wishsong. When he accidently brings a mythic horror to life, a man calling himself Cogline drives it away. Cogline brings a message from Allanon: venture to th...
View BookAuthor: Terry Brooks
Author Terry Brooks
Narrator John Lee
Duration 16h 51m
The Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands, poisoning everything with their dark magic. And their leader is determined to destroy all the Scions of Shannara. For Walker Boh, he dispatches the Four Horsemen. For Wren, he sends an untrue friend. And for Par, he devises the most terrible fate of all. With these traps cleverly laid, the charges given...
View BookAlex Cross Series Book 18: Kill Alex Cross
Author: James Patterson
Series: Alex Cross, Book 18
Author James Patterson
Narrator Zach Grenier
SeriesAlex Cross, Book 18
Duration 6h 46m
Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school-an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too cl...
View BookAuthor: Robert Goddard
Author Robert Goddard
Narrator Fiona Hampton
Duration 10h 13m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of One False Move by Robert Goddard, read by Fiona Hampton and Alistair Petrie. What value can be put on a human mind? How Joe Roberts does what he does is a mystery. He has a brain that seems able to outperform a computer. To a games company like Venstrom that promises big profits if his abilities can b...
View BookAuthor: Helen J. Rolfe
Author Helen J. Rolfe
Narrator Brigid Lohrey
Duration 9h 51m
They say trouble comes in threes... Headstrong and organised, Mia is a single mum who wants to fix the world - but the one thing she can't fix is her family. Responsible older brother Will has fled Primrose Bay, unable to forgive and forget after the ultimate betrayal. And Jasmine, no longer the wayward baby sister, is determined to prove to her br...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 17: Inferno
Author: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 17
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 17
Duration 11h 15m
1807: Though Britain's Navy remains imperious, as succession of battles has seen Napolean victorious on mainland Europe. In an attempt to prevent the French from taking control of Denmark's navy, Captain Thomas Kydd's great friend Nicholas Renzi, now Lord Farndon, is sent on a desperate diplomatic mission to persuade the Danes to give up their flee...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 18: Persephone
Author: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 18
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 18
Duration 10h 45m
1807: An old passion is reawakened when Captain Sir Thomas Kydd meets Persephone Lockwood, a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter from his past. To win her hand, he must enter the highest echelons of London society. Mixing with aristocracy and royalty brings other responsibilities. The Prince of Wales asks him to take a temporary comand of t...
View BookAuthor: Erica James
Author Erica James
Narrator Richard Trinder
Duration 13h 30m
Linston End on the Norfolk Broads has been the holiday home to three families for many years. The memories of their time there are ingrained in the hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the local swallowtail butterflies. Everyone together. But widower Alastair has been faced with a few of life...
View BookAuthor: Jilly Cooper
Author Jilly Cooper
Narrator Rebecca Courtney
Duration 8h 15m
As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelation. But the path of a jet-set virgin in that lovely wicked world was a hard one. Imogen began to wonder if virtue really was it own rew...
View BookAuthor: Jane Harper
Author Jane Harper
Narrator Steve Shanahan
Duration 11h
Three brothers, one death, a fenceline stretching to the horizon. Two rbothers meet at the border of their cast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbakc Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is bruied there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for the middle brother...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h
As a young widow left badly off, and with three children to bring up, Fiona Nelson had come to know all the problems of trying to make ends meet. So despite the inevtably disapproving comments of her own mother, she advertised for a lodger to help pay for some of the bills. The result was Bill, somewhat rough around the edges perhaps, but nobody's...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h 15m
Bill Bailey, the rugged Liverpudlian, was now a fully-fledged Tyneside building contractor, as staunchly loyal to his squad of workmen as they were to him. He had also met and married Fiona, a young widow with her own loveable family, to which she and Bill shortly added with the adoption of the orphaned Mamie. Life was good, but the economic climat...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 11h 15m
Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish e...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 9h 50m
Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. However, all was not as it appeared on the surface, and after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear this stuffy City broker. The only relief she had was from his absence on Thursday evenings, when pleayed bridge with a group of acqua...
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Chloe Massey
Duration 8h
As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend, private detective Kate Brannigan agrees to track down a missing song-writer, Moira Pollock; a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder. Juggling her other cases, including a search to incover t...
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Chloe Massey
Duration 7h 15m
Kate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing conservatories. Before long she's up to her neck in crooked land deals, mortgage scams, financial chicanery - and murder. But when a favour for a friend puts Kate's own life in danger, bizarre is not the first word she thinks of.
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