Author: Claire Askew
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Author Claire Askew
Narrator Sarah Barron, Norman Bowman
SeriesDI Birch, Book 5
Duration 11h 37m
DI Helen Birch is recovering from major surgery, housebound and exceptionally bored. Her boss, DCI McLeod, has made it crystal clear: she is not to take on any work until her recuperation is over. In her absence, Amy Kato is promoted to sergeant and is given a maddening case to work on: Edinburgh is being plagued by an anonymous vigilante. He start...
View BookAuthor: Chimene Suleyman
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Author Chimene Suleyman
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 9m
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and...
View BookAuthor: Mick Herron
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Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 4
Duration 10h 22m
The 'Old Bastard' raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat. Lamb worked with Cartwright ba...
View BookAuthor: Sarra Manning
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Author Sarra Manning
Narrator Lucy Davidson
Duration 12h 50m
An unexpected romantic comedy about Esme, who after a head injury, discovers her imaginary boyfriend now exists. Is he too good to be true? Meet Theo. Handsome, sexy, funny. kind. And he can cook. He's literally the man of Esme's dreams. But Esme's sensible enough to know that you can't just manifest your perfect boyfriend then have him turn up on...
View BookThe Crossing Places: Ruth Galloway Book 1
Author: Elly Griffiths
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 1
Duration 8h 36m
Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near a prehistoric site on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older? DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him creepy...
View BookOutlander Book 8: Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Author: Diana Gabaldon
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Author Diana Gabaldon
Narrator Davina Porter
SeriesOutlander, Book 8
Duration 44h 59m
It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated. Her former husband,...
View BookAuthor: Dylan Jones
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Author Dylan Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 55m
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). Faster than a Cannonball is a cul...
View BookThe Janus Stone: Ruth Galloway Book 2
Author: Elly Griffiths
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 2
Duration 9h
Dr Ruth Galloway's forensic skills are called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? Ruth links up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate. The house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catho...
View BookAuthor: Amy Jeffs
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Author Amy Jeffs
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 7h 27m
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland tells a history of Britain and the politics of its people through medieval eyes. Grounded in research, related as fiction, it begins before the Great Flood, with a troop of African giants quarrying stones. Later, the first migrants enter the Atlantic, calling themselves the Scoti and Britons, followed by the...
View BookAuthor: Suzie Fletcher
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Author Suzie Fletcher
Narrator Sarah Durham, The Author
Duration 8h 5m
Suzie Fletcher is the warm and friendly face on TV's The Repair Shop as the resident leather expert - a craft she has honed over four decades and was born out of her love of horses. But while she tends to be the one repairing and offering a gentle kindness to others, Suzie has also been in a process of change, reflection, and healing. In her first...
View BookAuthor: John Brownlow
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Author John Brownlow
Narrator Adam Sims
Duration 11h 5m
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU WON'T FORGET MY NUMBER. Behind the events you know are the killers you don't. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don't exist, but every government in the world uses our services. We've been saving the world, and your ass, for 100 years. Seventeen people have done this job before me. I...
View BookAuthor: John Connolly
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Author John Connolly
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 12h 44m
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital...
View BookAuthor: Will Dean
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Author Will Dean
Narrator Jenny Funnell
Duration 12h 42m
My phone has no reception, something we've been told to expect from time to time out here, and my stomach feels uneasy. Maybe it's the motion of the waves or maybe it's the fact that Pete didn't leave a note or a text. He usually leaves a note with a heart. I pull on jeans and a jumper and scrunch my hair on top of my head and take my key card and...
View BookAuthor: Rich Knight
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Author Rich Knight
Narrator Lucas Keen
Duration 5h 54m
Congratulations! You've just become the leader of your own country! There are a lot of decisions to be made, and not long to make them.The good news is you've got your hands on this funny, fact-packed book, covering everything you need to know to rule effectively - no matter where in the world you are.But it's not just about political sys...
View BookAuthor: Glenda Young
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Author Glenda Young
Narrator Colleen Prendergast
SeriesHelen Dexter Cosy Crime Mystery, Book 1
Duration 8h 43m
In the charming Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, a murder is nothing to sing about.... After the death of her husband, Tom, Helen Dexter is contemplating her future as the now-sole proprietor of the Seaview Hotel. There's an offer from a hotel chain developer to consider, but also a booking from a group of 12 Elvis impersonators, a singing tr...
View BookAuthor: Onjali Q. Raúf
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Author Onjali Q. Raúf
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 1h 23m
Written with great empathy and Rauf's trademark humour, The Great (Food) Bank Heist is a moving story that gives a child's-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty. On Thursdays, Nelson, Ashley and Mum head out to the bank. But not just any old bank - the food bank. With its shining tins and packets of food stacked from floor to ceiling,...
View BookAuthor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 7h 24m
In May 1980, 15-year-old Óscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts . . . His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father German Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Óscar to a cemetery and at 10 am,...
View BookAuthor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Author Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 5h 53m
When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark plot is about to unfold involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a...
View BookAuthor: A A Milne
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Author A A Milne
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 5m
Packed full of fun and adventure with Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends in the Hundred Acre Forest. This is a wonderful dramatisation of Winnie-the-Pooh by David Benedictus with music composed, directed and played by John Gould. With a cast of carefully-chosen actors, this adaptation conveys all the magic of Milne's classic stories. The cast incl...
View BookAuthor: Cressida Cowell
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Author Cressida Cowell
Narrator David Tennant
SeriesWizards of Once, Book 4
Duration 6h 7m
WINNER of the British Book Awards 2022 Audiobook of the Year The final book in the Wizards of Once quartet. Warriors and wizards combine forces against the dreadful power of the Kingwitch, whose searing evil threatens not only the Wildwoods, but all its creatures. Xar and Wish are on the final leg of their journey—first stop: the Mines of Unh...
View BookThe Ballad of Reading Gaol & De Profundis
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 2h 11m
A stunning new reading of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. One of the most famous and successful writers of his day, Oscar Wilde was celebrated as much for his flamboyant personality and his prodigious wit as for his provocative essays, touching fairy stories and satirical plays. But in May of 1895, shortly after the premi...
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