Author: Daniel Defoe
Format: MP3 CD
Author Daniel Defoe
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 3h
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he survives on the island for twenty-four years with no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals.
View BookA Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Bill Nighy
SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 1
Duration 1h 52m
Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris with Martine McCutcheon as Jodie Ricks in this BBC Radio 4 comedy detective drama. Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks and before long, Jodie is using C...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Stuart Milligan
Duration 40m
Three of Mark Twain's classic short stories, originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 from 9-11 November 2010, to accompany the Autobiography of Mark Twain (aired on Book of the Week). Read by Stuart Milligan. Twain's classic short stories, with their familiar trademarks of high farce and droll insight, bring us eccentric b...
View BookNoughts and Crosses Series Book 1: Noughts and Crosses
Author: Malorie Blackman
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Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator
SeriesNought and Crosses, Book 1
Duration 10h 39m
Sephy is a Cross, a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought, a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into C...
View BookA Guide To the Birds of East Africa
Author: Nicholas Drayson
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Author Nicholas Drayson
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 35m
Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the Tuesday-morning...
View BookAuthor: Anne Perry
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Author Anne Perry
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 4h 30m
A community learns to come to terms with a terrible event from its past. Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt is dying. Although estranged from her, Emily decides that she must journey to Susannah's home in Ireland to assist her in her final days. When she reaches Connemara though, it is evident that Susannah h...
View BookMy Mum and Other Horror Stories
Author: Meg Harper
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Author Meg Harper
Narrator Abigail Cruttenden
Duration 3h 23m
Growing up is never easy. Especially with a well-meaning and eccentric mum like Kate's. When she's not trying to keep a pig in the back garden or letting her car slide into the river, she has a knack of embarrassing Kate in front of her friends, especially Chas, the only good-looking boy in her class. After one really bad day, Kate decides to take...
View BookMusic: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Nicholas Cook
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Author Nicholas Cook
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 3h 46m
This Very Short Introduction invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. It questions all the social and institutional structures that condition our thinking about music.
View BookAuthor: Tiffany Pham
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Author Tiffany Pham
Narrator Tiffany Pham
Duration 5h 15m
Welcome to Girl Mogul! No matter who you are or where you come from, this audiobook can help you define success, envision it, and make it happen-in school, in your personal life, and at work. Get ready to awaken all the awesomeness that is already inside of you. You are fierce. You are bold. You are unique. You are driven. You are inspiring. YOU AR...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 16h 30m
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish his...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Obama
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Author Michelle Obama
Narrator Michelle Obama
Duration 19h 3m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 'A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard 'A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times 'A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall Obama's a fun...
View BookAurora Teagarden Mysteries Book 1: Real Murders
Author: Charlaine Harris
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Author Charlaine Harris
Narrator Therese Plummer
SeriesAurora Teagarden, Book 1
Duration 6h 9m
The New York Times best-selling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels launches another acclaimed series with this mystery. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden and the members of the Real Murders Club meet monthly to analyze famous cases. But when a member dies in a manner resembling a case the group was discussing, suddenly everybody is both a suspect and a po...
View BookThe Hardy Boys Series Book 4: The Missing Chums
Author: Franklin W Dixon
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Author Franklin W Dixon
Narrator Bill Irwin
SeriesHardy Boys, Book 4
Duration 3h 24m
When the Hardy Boys set out to solve the mystery of their missing chums, they discover a gang hideout on an island along the way.
View BookAuthor: Michael Lewis
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Author Michael Lewis
Narrator Dylan Baker
Duration 7h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour, Michael Lewis' brilliant tragi-comic romp across post-crash Europe. Read by the actor Dylan Baker. Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly...
View BookAuthor: Colm Toibin
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Author Colm Toibin
Narrator William Hope
Duration 13h 44m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Master by Colm Toibin, read by Geoffrey Howard.In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they ar...
View BookMaggie Hope Series Book 1: Mr Churchill's Secretary
Author: Susan Elia MacNeal
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Author Susan Elia MacNeal
Narrator Donada Peters
SeriesMaggie Hope, Book 1
Duration 9h 45m
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typis...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 52m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Returning for his fifth series, Father Baldi investigates a string of curious murders. Along with Tina, Paolo uncovers the truth behind the killings...
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Spoonful of Poison
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
Duration 6h 20m
Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that she decides to take time off for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she does, she remembers that when she does have time on her hands, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete - espe...
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 1, Episode 2
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Lucy Speed
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 1, Book 2
Duration 27m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. Tamsyn Trelawny's band of smugglers try to outwit customs officers. Stars Lucy Speed. From February 2003.
View BookJapan: Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
Author: Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
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Author Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
SeriesGiles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Series 3, Book 2
Duration 27m
Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's world traveller and proud graduate in Canadian Studies goes for broke, quite literally, as he tries his hand at being a Bond Trader in Japan. Note: This is part two of a series of six parts.
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 2m
Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a story to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. The staff who come and go have stories of their own, and the restaurant itself has had times when it looked fair for success and others when it seemed doomed to failure. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant that has ca...
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