Author: Maggie Ford
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Author Maggie Ford
Narrator Kate Lee
Duration 14h 17m
Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jeweller's shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world - but it comes at a heavy price ...
View BookAuthor: John Lawton
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Author John Lawton
Narrator Lewis Hancock
Duration 12h 36m
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russ...
View BookSexton Blake: First Class Ticket To Nowhere
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 29m
In First Class Ticket to Nowhere, lost in the fog, Sexton Blake and his friends stumble across a deserted railway station. Then there's a gunshot.
View BookAuthor: Katharine Way
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Author Katharine Way
Narrator Julia Haworth, Philip Bretherton
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 drama by Katharine Way, 'Star Struck' was first broadcast on 2 May 2011 and stars Julia Haworth as Sarah, Philip Bretherton as Cal and was produced by Gary Brown. Sarah has got the job of her dreams. Working with Cal, an Astronomy Professor at a remote observatory in New Zealand. Sarah loves her work, but she would rather look at star...
View BookMiss Mackenzie & Neglected Classic
Author: Anthony Trollope
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Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
Both episodes of the BBC Radio 4 two-part dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic Miss Mackenzie, a tale of a woman, past the bloom of youth, who inherits a fortune and is then beset by suitors from which to choose. Originally broadcast on 9 and 16 January 2011 in the 'Classic Serial' slot. Miss Mackenzie by Trollope was the runner-up in Radio...
View BookAuthor: Peter Fleming
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Author Peter Fleming
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 3h
Peter Fleming, brother of the author Ian, tells the story of his journey from England via the Trans-Siberian Express to China, and his subsequent attempts to become the first Westerner to reach the anti-communist front.
View BookCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator James Bolam
Duration 3h
Mr Wonka's inventions are out of this world. He's thought up every kind of sweet imaginable in his amazing chocolate factory, but no one has ever seen inside, or met Mr Wonka! Charlie can't believe his luck when he finds a golden ticket and wins the trip of a lifetime around the famous factory.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 39m
This audiobook contains the best known and most important sections from the New Testament. It includes selections from the Gospels, using Matthew as the main text, the Epistles of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles and Revelations. The feature music is by Byrd, Tallis and Schuetz.
View BookThe Case of the Missing Servant
Author: Tarquin Hall
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Author Tarquin Hall
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 9h
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri's main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners,...
View BookThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he's having reset as a gift for his fianc‚e. However, the Prince also has a mistress; she asks to wear one particularly enchanting piece that features a huge ruby, and then promptly disappears with it. Poirot discovers a connection with a house party a...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 3h 47m
There's something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks lonely. And are the shuttered windows to keep burglars out, or to keep other people in - like a prison? To the three children, staying with grandparents they...
View BookA Dog Called Grk Series Book 2: Grk and the Pelotti Gang
Author: Joshua Doder
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Author Joshua Doder
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesA Dog Called Grk, Book 2
Duration 4h 40m
Natascha and Max Raffifi, recently orphaned and new to England, are adjusting nicely to their new life. Anything's better than being on the run. Especially being reunited with their little black-and-white dog, Grk, and living with their friend, Tim. But one afternoon, Natascha sees a familiar name in the newspaper headlines. The infamous Pelotti br...
View BookAuthor: Alan Gibbons
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Author Alan Gibbons
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 9h 22m
The Helat rebels have broken the power of the demon lord and challenged the rule of their masters, the Sol-ket. But the Darkwing is merely in retreat, biding his time, and the Sol-ket will fight to their last breath to keep control of their golden cities. The power of the slaves is mounting as they rise to fulfil once-forbidden prophecies. When the...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Angela Thorne
Duration 3h 50m
Through the gentleman's cloakroom on Platform 13 at King's Cross Station lies a beautiful secret island, where people live together with ogres, hags, mermaids, brollachans, harpies and the wonderful mistmakers. But one day things go badly wrong and the Prince of the island is kidnapped by the evil Mrs Trottle. He must be rescued before it's too lat...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Holli Dempsey
Duration 29h 40m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse, read by Holli Dempsey. One good deed takes her into another world . . . Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifeti...
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Kim Hicks
Duration 15h 18m
Lady Audley is universally adored: beautiful, kind and charming, she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George's friend Robert Audley, Lady Audley's nephew-in-law, is on the case; upper-class layabout-turned-detective, he is determined to get to the bo...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Barter
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Author Catherine Barter
Narrator Lucy-Jane Quinlan
Duration 9h 5m
"In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing but look what happened." Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick i...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 11h 15m
Bestselling children's book writer Angelica is amused and flattered at the attention of Jack, the owner of a vineyard in South Africa, whom she meets at a dinner party. With his easy charm and reputation as a ladies' man, Jack makes her feel good about herself-surely it can't do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation?
View BookAuthor: James Smythe
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Author James Smythe
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 8h 37m
Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that...
View BookAuthor: Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Author Carrie Hope Fletcher
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 6m
Evie Snow is eighty-two when she passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. But when Evie reaches her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open. Her soul is too heavy to pass through, so she must unburden herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
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Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 1
Duration 8h 53m
Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box Eva dials another number altogether. The dead man, Egil, has been missing for months, and it doesn't take long for Inspector Sejer and his team to estab...
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