Discworld Series Book 20: Hogfather
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 20
Duration 9h 47m
There are those who believe and those who don't. Through the ages, superstition has had its uses. Nowhere more so than in the Discworld where it's helped to maintain the status quo. Anything that undermines superstition has to be viewed with some caution. There may be consequences, particularly on the last night of the year when the time is turning...
View BookAuthor: Jay Anson
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Author Jay Anson
Narrator Ray Porter
Duration 6h 28m
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the propertycomplete with boathouse and swimming pooland the price were too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lu...
View BookAuthor: Meik Wiking
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Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 3h 15m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Little Book of Hygge, written and read by Meik Wiking. Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the...
View BookAuthor: John Lawton
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Author John Lawton
Narrator Lewis Hanock
Duration 11h 19m
Having shot someone in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Joe Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne- Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means he is free to go. His newest operation will take him back to Berlin, now the dividing line between the West and the Soviets. When the Russia...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 12h 30m
Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales: Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa Byrne, whose aunt comes to visit from America for six weeks every summer and turns the...
View BookAuthor: Gillian Flynn
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Author Gillian Flynn
Narrator Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne
Duration 19h 17m
'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the perso...
View BookAuthor: Flood Charles Bracelen
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Author Flood Charles Bracelen
Narrator Mel Foster
Duration 19h 56m
At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Cha...
View BookDouble Income, No Kids Yet, Series 3, Episode 5
Author: David Spicer
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Author David Spicer
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDouble Income, No Kids Yet Series 3, Book 5
Duration 27m
With a new baby on the way it's time for some home improvements.
View BookBastable Series Book 1: The Treasure Seekers
Author: Edith Nesbit
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Author Edith Nesbit
Narrator Teresa Gallagher
SeriesTreasure Seekers, Book 1
Duration 2h 15m
Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest.
View BookAuthor: Jane Austen
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Author Jane Austen
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 6h
Emma Woodhouse is clever, rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition. She's also always convinced that she's right. She learns the hard way that pride comes before a fall, but the brotherly figure of Mr Knightley takes it upon himself to help her correct the flaws in her character.
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author John Le Carre
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 56m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by John le Carr‚, starring James Fox, Harriet Walter and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Magnus Pym, Counsellor at the British Embassy, is hosting a dinner party at his home in Vienna when he receives an unexpected telephone call that will profoundly affect his life. Once the guests have gone,...
View BookBleak Expectations, Series 4; the Complete Series
Author: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Anthony Head
Duration 1h 52m
The epic Victorian comedy is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin as he battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent (Anthony Head) in six more chapters of tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin. Mark Evans, Richard Johnson, Tom Allen, Anthony Head and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent c...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 1h 28m
'The Maid' sees Mma Ramotswe visiting the house of the mechanic she has agreed to marry, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But there is a shock in store for her... Back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, there is the mystery of the erratic doctor to look into, and a 'cold case' involving an American who went missing from a communal farm. 'Tears of the Gira...
View BookBarnaby Grimes Series Book 3: Legion of the Dead
Author: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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Author Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Narrator Paul Panting
SeriesBarnaby Grimes, Book 3
Duration 3h 30m
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, delivering messages and running errands all over the city, day and night. Gangland funerals and diving expeditions are hazardous enough, but when the graveyards begin to give up their dead, this tick-tock lad is faced with his deadliest challenge yet... A blood-curdling tale of greed and betrayal. Will Barnaby be...
View BookNina Fairy Ballerina: Best Friends & Show Time
Author: Anna Wilson
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Author Anna Wilson
Narrator Jill Shilling
Duration 1h 38m
BEST FRIENDS: When a new glamorous and graceful fairy-ballerina called Bella Glove arrives at the Royal Academy of Fairy Ballet, everybody wants to be her friend. Nina and Peri can't believe their luck when they're asked to share their room with the special visitor! Better still for Nina, Bella wants to be in a pair with her. But, what about poor P...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 2: It's Ok, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!
Author: Louise Rennison
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Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 2
Duration 4h 3m
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison?s second audiobook about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? ? It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex God?? I think I have snog withdrawal. My lips keep puckering up?? I tried snogging the back of my hand...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 33: Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 33
Duration 10h 57m
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk...
View BookAuthor: Vanessa Ronan
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Author Vanessa Ronan
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 21m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Last Days of Summer by Vanessa Ronan. Read by Stuart Milligan, Barbara Barnes, Kristin Atherton and Becca Stewart. She can forgive. They can't forget. After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters....
View BookThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Author: Christopher (editor) Ricks
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Author Christopher (editor) Ricks
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 57m
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented -Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins-but not so...
View BookAuthor: Robert A Heinlein
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Author Robert A Heinlein
Narrator Patrick Lawlor
Duration 6h 48m
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach-and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancee tricked him into taking the "long sleep"-suspended animation for thirty years. But when h...
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