A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
View BookAuthor: Katie Fforde
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Author Katie Fforde
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 9h 15m
Emily is happy with her life just as it is. But she also feels it's time for a change. So when her best friend Rebecca asks whether she'd like to spend the summer cooking on a "puffer" boat just off the Scottish coast, she jumps at the chance. But she finds herself with a lot on her plate. Rebecca is heavily pregnant and is thrilled to have her fri...
View BookMallory Series Book 1: Mallory On the Move
Author: Tamara Schmitz
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Author Tamara Schmitz
Narrator Unknown
SeriesMallory, Book 1
Duration 1h 45m
When eight-and-a-half-year-old Mallory McDonald's parents tell her that they are moving, she's mad-really mad! It's not fair! How can they make her move away from Mary Ann, her best friend in the whole wide world? Who will she paint her toenails with, tell secrets to, and make scrapbooks with? When Mallory arrives at her new house on Wish Pond Road...
View BookAuthor: S. J. Watson
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Author S. J. Watson
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 30m
She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as sin. She's living two lives. She might lose both . . .
View BookFather Brown Series 1 Episode 3: The Eye of Apollo
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Innocence of Father Brown, Book 3
Duration 26m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Eye of Apollo', a villain turns detective, a new religi...
View BookAuthor: Tom Basden
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Author Tom Basden
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesParty Series 2, Book 3
Duration 27m
Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden In this third episode, 'Prison Ain't All That Bad', the student politicians use prison-based TV shows as inspiration for forming their policy on crime and punishment. Starring Tom Basden, Tim Key, Jonny Sweet, Ann Crilly and Katy Wix. Produced by Julia McKenzie.
View BookIt's Your Round, Series 1, Episode 2
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesIt's Your Round Series 1, Book 2
Duration 27m
'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations int...
View BookFry's English Delight: Word Games
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 49m
Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language? In this special programme, Stephen examines many word games, and we'll hear some familiar voices playing unfamiliar games-Sheila Dillon from The Food Programme plays Font or Ch...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 20m
The brave warrior Macbeth allows himself to be persuaded by his wife, Lady Macbeth, to slay good King Duncan and seize the throne of Scotland for himself. Macbeth achieves his ambition, but one murder proves not to be enough. Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this tragedy of guilt and retribution.
View BookAuthor: Joan Aiken
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Author Joan Aiken
Narrator Deirdre Edwards
Duration 3h
Undertake a thrilling journey to a land of goblins, dragons and brave knights in this collection of eleven European tales.
View BookAuthor: Josie Long
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Author Josie Long
Narrator Josie Long
Duration 14m
The second episode, The Enlightenment, of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, All of the Planet's Wonders, in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Originally broadcast 25 February 2009 and repeated on 29 December 2010. In the second episode,...
View BookAuthor: Jane Green
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Author Jane Green
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 12h 7m
Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE/ ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Jimmy Mulville
Duration 2h 48m
Satan's got the health inspector in and it seems that the lighting in hell isn't up to scratch but that's the least of his worries, with bad Feng-Shui, no sleep and some atrocious poetry not even Helen of Troy can perk up his day. Another hex-allent series from one of the writers of Revolting People and Trevor's World of Sport.
View BookA Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School
Author: Caroline Taggart
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Author Caroline Taggart
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 4h 56m
Is the Greek alphabet all Greek to you? Is geometry your Achilles heel and does your knowledge of Homer have more to do with The Simpsons than the Sirens? From engineering and architecture to drama and democracy, the world around us is founded on the principles and discoveries of the Ancient World, yet our understanding of it is episodic at best. S...
View BookAuthor: Richard Curtis
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Author Richard Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 50m
In Blackadder the Third, the fortunes of the family have plummeted rather with Blackadder employed as butler to the Prince Regent. With such an imbecilic Lord and master, however, there's plenty of scope for deviousness and manipulation.
View BookAuthor: Alison Prince
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Author Alison Prince
Narrator Gillian Walton
Duration 1h 25m
Set during World War II. Katie and her family don't sleep in the shelter any more. One night, she wakes to hear a noise like a motorbike, coming closer. It stops abruptly, and there are a few seconds of silence - then an explosion that rocks the house. The Doodlebugs have arrived...
View BookAuthor: Flann O'Brien
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Author Flann O'Brien
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 6h 43m
A thriller, a comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, this audiobook is comparable only to 'Alice in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd.
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 10h 4m
'Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach t...
View BookKid Normal and the Shadow Machine
Author: Chris Smith, Greg James
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Author Chris Smith, Greg James
Narrator The Authors
Duration 6h 12m
The third thrilling adventure book from best-selling, award-winning authors Greg James and Chris Smith. You don't need superpowers to be a hero...or do you? Despite having no powers, Murph Cooper is part of the best team in the Heroes' Alliance. So when supervillain Magpie declares all-out war, Kid Normal and the Super Zeroes lead the charge. But M...
View BookAuthor: Sumbul Ali Karamali
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Author Sumbul Ali Karamali
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 16m
Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California--from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception,...
View BookAuthor: Meik Wiking
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Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 4h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Key to Happiness written and read by Meik Wiking. Meik Wiking understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute, he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people to discover the key components of happiness. In The...
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