Author: Francis Spufford
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Author Francis Spufford
Narrator Sarah Borges
Duration 10h 45m
New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One evening, a handsome young stranger off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a compelling proposition - he has an order for 1,000 pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? New York is a place where a young man with a...
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesAgatha Raisin Mystery, Book 5
Duration 5h 56m
Almost bigamy and absolute murder - Agatha's life is never dull . . . The morning of Agatha's longed-for marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. It's all too much for James, who...
View BookAuthor: Mark Morris
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Author Mark Morris
Narrator Alexander Armstrong
Duration 1h 14m
When the TARDIS is buffeted by 'time slippage', the Doctor experiences a terrible vision of the end of everything. Tracking the source of the disruption, he takes Rory and Amy to what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s. But the friends discover that there are some very unusual things about Darkstar Academy. For a start the prefects...
View BookAuthor: Lucy & Stephen Hawking
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Author Lucy & Stephen Hawking
Narrator James Goode
Duration 6h
One of the biggest science experiments of all time is about to take place - and George and Annie have got front-row seats! Eric, Annie's scientist dad, is heading to the Large Hadron Collider to explore the earliest moments of the Universe - the Big Bang. Armed with his trusty super-computer, Cosmos, nothing can possibly go wrong . . . until George...
View BookAuthor: Iain Mcdowall
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Author Iain Mcdowall
Narrator Ian Redford
Duration 10h 5m
Brady, Annabel, Maria, Adrian. Four bright, sexy, nice-looking twenty-somethings leading the high life at other people's expense. With an interesting sideline too: abducting and terrifying young women and calling it 'art'. Except now they're in Crowby and - unless DCI Jacobson and DS Kerr can crack the case in time - Brady and company may soon be g...
View BookComrade Bingo: Jeeves and Wooster
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Inimitable Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 21m
Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing (probably communist or socialist) leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an attempt to get close to her, Little joins the group, called the Heralds of the Red Dawn, whose aims are to "massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy". This...
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 1
Duration 6h 30m
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom; but he's taking on more than a bunch of fairies when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the Lep-Recon (lower elements police reconnaissance unit).
View BookAuthor: Margery Allingham
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Author Margery Allingham
Narrator Francis Matthews
Duration 7h 30m
The mild-mannered detective Albert Campion sets out to investigate why someone would attempt to kill an American judge. Whether by bad luck or bad marksmanship, four others have already died in place of Judge Lobbett. Now the judge is on his way to England.
View BookStone Series: The Deserved Dead and Other Episodes
Author: Danny Brocklehurst
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Author Danny Brocklehurst
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 54m
In the first episode, The Deserved Dead, DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal murder of a known sex offender. In episode 2, Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post T...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesOperation Luna, Book 4
Duration 30m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2007
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
Duration 1h 51m
Four of the very best recent editions of the comedy panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons and featuring Paul Merton, Clement Freud and a host of guest players.
View BookThat Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series 2
Author: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
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Author David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Narrator The Authors
Duration 2h 44m
David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in the complete second series of their critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, from Channel 4's 'Peep Show', 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is a mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters that provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life. Meet soporifi...
View BookThe Tree of Death: A Rosemary & Thyme Mystery
Author: Brian Eastman
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Author Brian Eastman
Narrator Maggie Ollerenshaw
Duration 9h 7m
When Laura Thyme goes to the parish of Baffington to visit her cousin's recently ordained son, she meets many of the locals... and witnesses the sudden death of one of them. A year later, Rosemary and Laura return to help with an ambitious Medieval Fayre, organised by the local celebrity and historian, Franklin Danvers. Their task is to refurbish t...
View BookHorrible Histories: The Savage Stone Age & the Frightful First World War
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator
Duration 2h
THE SAVAGE STONE AGE: This was a time when fast food meant tearing open an animal and pinching its last meal - straight from its guts! Listen to find out more about nasty Neanderthals! THE FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR: Kids as young as fourteen fought at the Front, dogs and pigeons played their part in the combat, and, most shocking of all, a bug kill...
View BookAuthor: David Almond
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Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 3h
When Kit moves to Stoneygate, a once thriving mining village haunted by a long-ago tragedy which killed 117 children, he is befriended by the wretched, sullen John Askew, a boy whose very soul has been fractured by his violent upbringing. As Kit's grieving grandfather begins to lose his grip on life, Kit is irresistibly drawn into a treacherous gam...
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