Author: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 5h
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled exist...
View BookAuthor: Simon Maddison
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Author Simon Maddison
Narrator Fergus Mcclelland
Duration 1h 10m
What does ADSL stand for? How small will mobiles get? Advances in super-miniature components are altering the way we communicate right now, but where will new telecommunications technology lead us? this audio book offers an easy introduction to the topic.
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 3h
When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to go to school in England, she appears to have everything; not just wealth, but a loving heart and a quick imagination. She is treated like a princess by Miss Minchin, but when her adoring father dies and leaves her in financial ruin, Sara goes from being the princess to the pauper.
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
Narrator The Author
SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 4, Book 5
Duration 27m
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-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookA Life on the Railway Book 1: Steam
Author: Productions Llp Pennine
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Author Productions Llp Pennine
Narrator Pete Waterman
SeriesA Life on the Railway, Book 1
Duration 2h 15m
Before cars and planes, railways and steam engines were the main form of transport. And in the early days the engine driver was the fastest man on earth, travelling at 60 mph (and much faster than a car). No wonder it was every schoolboy's dream to become the driver of a locomotive, even though it was dirty and dangerous work. Some boys went straig...
View BookAuthor: Marcia Willett
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Author Marcia Willett
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 9h 29m
It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone, her partner tragically dead in an accident, and Julia, her dearest friend, welcomed her into her warm and chaotic family. Tiggy started to live again and await the birth of her child, but nearly thirty years later, when her son is about to beco...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Tom Sellwood
Duration 14h 32m
Uhtred, Northumbrian born, raised a Viking and married to a Saxon, is a formidable warrior, and he, together with the thoughtful and pious Alfred, Alfred's family and a few of Uhtred's companions, are apparently all that remain of the Wessex leadership after a disastrous truce. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings, Alfred and his Saxon followers...
View BookAuthor: Katie Flynn
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Author Katie Flynn
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 15h
Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, Liverpool, near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can. She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues t...
View BookAuthor: Fredrik Backman
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Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 13h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly...
View BookStop Anxiety From Stopping You
Author: Helen Odessky
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Author Helen Odessky
Narrator Donna Postel
Duration 4h 17m
What are the signs of anxiety? What is a panic attack? What is social anxiety? What is anxiety disorder? How to overcome anxiety and how to stop a panic attack: It is now possible to stop anxiety from stopping us in our tracks. In her book, Dr. Odessky helps you understand the process of anxiety, and how to arm yourself with strategies that work. D...
View BookAuthor: Alice Munro
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Author Alice Munro
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 9h 21m
Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, 'Autobiographical in Feeling', set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in th...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
View BookThe Last Survivors Book 2: The Dead and Gone
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrator Robertson Dean
SeriesThe Last Survivors, Book 2
Duration 8h 51m
Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event-an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-yea...
View BookAuthor: Tania Carver
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Author Tania Carver
Narrator Martyn Waites
Duration 11h 40m
Choked is the fourth high concept thriller from Tania Carver, the international bestselling author of The Surrogate, The Creeper and Cage Of Bones. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and criminal psychologist Marina Esposito have just returned from their honeymoon and are spending the Easter weekend in Suffolk with their baby daughter Josephina and P...
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 BookJust A Minute, Series 61: The Complete Series
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons
Duration 3h 42m
Nicholas Parsons is once again in the chair for this complete series of the popular BBC Radio 4 panel game. Featured in these eight episodes are panellists Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Tony Hawks, Graham Norton, Julian Clary, Gyles Brandreth, Sheila Hancock, Josie Lawrence, Phill Jupitus, Rick Wakeman, Pam Ayres and newcomers Russell Kane, Miles...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, From Carphones To Executive Bricks
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 2
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. In this second episode, he traces the evolution of the mobil...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 30m
Moved by the plight of the Afghan refugees, actress Pippa Haywood contacted leading names in the Arts and asked them to choose a poem in response to September 11th and the ensuing Afghan crisis. Over 80 diverse poems were chosen, including: 'The Trees' by Philip Larkin; 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, 'All You Who Sleep Tonight' by Vikram S...
View BookAuthor: Ralf Perkins
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Author Ralf Perkins
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 45m
This audio book examines how the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement works to ease suffering and improve standards of health care around the world. Part of the 'World Organisations' series from Franklin Watts.
View BookAuthor: Lewis Carroll
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Author Lewis Carroll
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 2h 16m
When Alice steps through the looking glass she enters a world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters who behave very oddly. Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight and the Red Queen - everything seems to be the wrong way round.
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