Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer
Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesAgatha Raisin Mystery, Book 31
Duration 6h 25m
The latest Agatha Raisin mystery from best-selling author M. C. Beaton. The team of bells at St. Ethelred church is the pride and glory of the idyllic Cotswolds village of Thirk Magna, together with the most dedicated bell ringers in the whole of England: the twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin. As the village gets ready for the Bishop's visit, the twi...
View BookAuthor Shari Lapena
Narrator Kirsten Potter
Duration 8h 40m
You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back...
View BookAuthor Peter James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 12h 15m
When Red Westwood meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terro...
View BookDI Erica Martin Series Book 1: Bitter Fruits
Author Alice Clark-Platts
Narrator Tania Rodrigues
SeriesDI Erica Martin, Book 1
Duration 10h 4m
The murder of a first-year student at Durham University shocks the city. But the very last thing anyone expects is an instant confession...As Detective Inspector Erica Martin investigates Joyce College, a cradle for the country's future elite, she finds a close-knit community of secrets, jealousy and obsession. The picture of the victim, Emily Brab...
View BookAlderley Series Book 3: Boneland
Author Alan Garner
Narrator Robert Powell
SeriesAlderley Series, Book 3
Duration 4h 56m
Boneland is Alan Garner's continuation of the story thread which began in his first and enduringly popular fantasy children's novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone was published in 1960 (it has never been out of print since), and The Moon of Gomrath followed, in 1963. This took the story further with the same two children, Colin and...
View BookAuthor Csaba Szekely
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill you. This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlist...
View BookAuthor Dennis Kelly
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 38m
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right? A play that is often featured on the GCSE syllabus. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
View BookSally Lockheart Series Book 2: The Shadow In the North
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Anton Lesser
SeriesSally Lockheart, Book 2
Duration 9h 30m
The second book in the Sally Lockhart trilogy. Set in a veiled and misty Victorian underworld, the story of Sally Lockhart - expert financial advisor at Lockhart and Garland - and her allies, Jim and Fred, begins to unfold as news of the mysterious disappearance of the steamship 'Ingrid Linde' reaches the ears of the intrepid trio. An old lady has...
View BookDick Barton and the Paris Adventure
Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 8m
Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends Jock and Snowey were essential listening for an entire generation. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, in an exciting world of criminal masterminds, espionage and adventure, it ran on the BBC Light Programme b...
View BookAuthor Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 10h 11m
It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English exiles he'd hated, the New Zealanders he'd despised or the Maoris he'd insulted. Even the spies...
View BookBackgrounds To English Literature: The Romantics
Author Neil King
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 7h 30m
Designed for students at AS and A2 level, this audiobook examines the historical, economic and social framework of this period, as well as looking at the cult of the individual, the gothic and supernatural, painting and music and post-Romanticism.
View BookDirk Pitt Series Book 5: Vixen 03
Author Clive Cussler
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesDirk Pitt, Book 5
Duration 11h 43m
The brilliant fifth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler. Over 30 years ago, on an ultrasecret flight to the South Pacific, the transport plane Vixen 03 vanished. It was believed to be lost at sea. And carrying canisters of the most lethal substance known to man. Now Vixen 03 has returned to haunt the...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 21: Heirs of the Body
Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 21
Duration 11h 27m
When one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder?" In the late 1920s in England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited to help her cousin Edgar-i.e. the Lord Dalrymple. About to turn fifty, Lord Dalrymple decides it is time to find out wh...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 1: The Colour of Magic
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 1
Duration 6h 52m
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to s...
View BookAuthor Patrick Ness
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 9h 1m
One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed. The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world op...
View BookAuthor Peter James
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 13h 45m
They were marked for death. The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fianc‚e, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the block of flats where they live in Brighton. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vani...
View BookAuthor Cecelia Ahern
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 12h 15m
In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird. When Solomon stumbles...
View BookAuthor Margaret Wise Brown
Narrator
Duration 5m
Over the city, high above the sea, into a storm, and through a sky full of aeroplanes, the Noon Balloon is off on a magical journey. Read along as the boy, girl, and little dog fly away for a truly magical adventure! Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the n...
View BookThe Long Earth Series Book 4: The Long Utopia
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 4
Duration 12h
2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a norm...
View BookAuthor Roy Smiles
Narrator
Duration 43m
Roy Smiles' play about Spike Milligan's last days with the Goons and his complex and often fractious relationship with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. During the 1950s, 'The Goon Show' had England laughing week after week, greatly influencing Monty Python and the Beatles, among others - and paved the way for sketch comedy as we know it today.
View BookDick Barton and the Li-chang Adventure
Author Edward J Mason
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 3h 49m
Douglas Kelly stars in another adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of Dick Barton, Jock and Snowey originally ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951. Very few of the BBC's original recordings still survive, however, in 1949 some were re-recorded for transmission overse...
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