Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
Octavia's triumphant new dress designs are the only thing on her mind - but is it safe to ignore the ominous dressmaker's doll which appears in her workshop? Today's cut-throat fashion industry provides this story's backdrop.
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 37m
Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack and all her good work is nearly undone.
View BookAuthor: Gwyneth Rees
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Author Gwyneth Rees
Narrator Stephen Perring
Duration 3h 57m
Daniel knows that his mum was very ill once... mentally ill. She's fine now, and she's even landed a big new job as a head teacher. The problem is, she's head of his new school. It's so embarrassing! Just as Daniel is trying to fit in and make new friends, his mum stops taking the medicine that keeps her well. Daniel's mum is ill and he is the only...
View BookIf We're Not Married By Thirty
Author: Anna Bell
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Author Anna Bell
Narrator Rebecca Courtney
Duration 12h 5m
A brilliantly funny, romantic and effervescent read, If We're Not Married by Thirty is the irresistible new novel from the bestselling author of The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart and It Started With a Tweet. Lydia's not exactly Living Her Best Life. She never imagined she'd be here at thirty - newly single, a job that's going nowhere and her f...
View BookCharlie Bass Series Book 2: The Racehorse Who Disappeared
Author: Clare Balding
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Author Clare Balding
Narrator Clare Balding
SeriesCharlie Bass, Book 2
Duration 3h 50m
Penguin presents the audio download edition of The Racehorse Who Disappeared written and read by Clare Balding. Life is slowly getting back to normal for Charlie after her reluctant racehorse, Noble Warrior, won the Derby and saved her family from financial ruin. But drama soon returns to Folly Farm when thieves break into the farmyard in the dead...
View BookAuthor: Peter James
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Author Peter James
Narrator Christopher Webster
Duration 7h 1m
Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? Who has gone to the trouble of committing suicide? The murky world of counter espionage leaves no room for errors and...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Alan Durant
Duration 14m
Alan Durant is a children's author and poet. His Creepe Hall series and YA novel Publish or Die are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
View BookThe Power of Positive Thinking
Author: Dr Norman Vincent Peale
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Author Dr Norman Vincent Peale
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 46m
Translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold, The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this insightful program, Dr. Peale offers the essence of his profound method for mastering the problems of everyday living. You will learn: How to elim...
View BookAmelia Peabody Book 1: Crocodile On the Sandbank
Author: Elizabeth Peters
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Author Elizabeth Peters
Narrator Susan O'Malley
SeriesAmelia Peabody, Book 1
Duration 8h 49m
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been "ruined" and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her rascally lover. Wi...
View BookOver the Top and Back: The Autobiography
Author: Tom Jones
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Author Tom Jones
Narrator Jonathan Pryce
Duration 8h
Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having rec...
View BookAuthor: Michael Morpurgo
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Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Abdullah Afzal
Duration 2h 57m
This is the story of Aman, a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed - people don't keep dogs as pets in his part of the world. But when Aman and his mother decide to make a bid for freedom, the dog Aman has called Shadow wi...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 6m
Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. 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 suc...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2h 33m
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is one of the classic horror stories of all time with Sir Ian Holm giving us a rare and defininitive reading.
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Rik Mayall
Duration 2h
The gloriously farcical story of Paul Pennyfeather, sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, who finds himself a position as a schoolteacher at Llanabba Castle alongside a cast of oddballs, rascals and criminals. Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a parent of staggering glamour and truly suspect mo...
View BookAuthor: Laurie Lee
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Author Laurie Lee
Narrator Laurie Lee
Duration 7h 55m
A wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers', he depicts a world that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 8
Duration 2h 14m
Hercule Poirot and his good friend Captain Hastings are enjoying a well-deserved break on the Cornish Riviera, in the idyllic village of St Loo. Wandering along the terrace of the Hotel Majestic on the first morning of their stay, Poirot literally falls at the feet of a pretty, dark-haired girl and, much to Hastings' delight, insists that she join...
View BookRoutes of English: Series 1, Programme 6
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 6
Duration 27m
Conquest, trade and immigration have woven dozens of languages into English. Melvyn Bragg visits Liverpool, home of Scouse, an Irish-based variant of northern English made famous by the Beatles and countless comedians. By the mid-nineteenth century the port of Liverpool ranked second to London and became home to immigrants from all over the world w...
View BookAuthor: Paul Gallico
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Author Paul Gallico
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
In The Snow Goose, a wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a young girl on the eve of World War II.
View BookAuthor: B R Collins
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Author B R Collins
Narrator Mark Meadows
Duration 9h 7m
Michael and Francis are best friends, drawn together by their common secret - Evgard. Evgard is a fantasy world that Michael and Francis have created together, a world both fierce and dangerous. It is also a world that has become weirdly entwined in both their lives; actions in one world are uncannily mirrored by actions in the other. Until Michael...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 46m
With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. However, she refuses - the unexplained death of her grandfather, wealthy businessman Aristide Leonides, draws her back to the suffocating environment of her family home. Charles follows, but his arrival coincides with the discovery that Aristi...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Davies
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Author Andrew Davies
Narrator Robert Llewellyn
Duration 2h 8m
Billy Webb was just an ordinary boy. But in one way Billy was exceptional - he had a passion for swapping things. He would swap anything, from tropical fish to false moustaches. Privately, he thought he might be the best swapper in the world... Until he met Alfonso Bonzo, the Italian exchange student. Alfonso's idea of swapping went far beyond anyt...
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