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The Graham Norton Book Club
- By: Graham Norton
- Podcast
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The Graham Norton Book Club
Sharing stories is one of life's greatest pleasures and that is at the heart of this book club. Our choices are varied, our opinions sometimes very different, but a passion for a tale well told unites us all.
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May 12 202146 minsFailed to add items
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May 19 202145 minsFailed to add items
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Meet Graham Norton
Having won nine BAFTAs for Best Entertainment Performance, and Best Entertainment Programme, and the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards in 2017, Graham Norton is one of the UK's most treasured comedians and presenters. He presents The Graham Norton Show on BBC1, a show on Virgin Radio every Saturday and Sunday, and is a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
Graham is the author of three novels; the most recent, Home Stretch became an instant bestseller when published in hardback in 2020 in the UK and Ireland and earned Norton dazzling reviews as well as winning the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. It spent 15 weeks at the top of the Irish Bestseller Chart. Graham’s previous two novels, Holding and A Keeper, were also instant bestsellers both in the UK and Ireland. Holding won the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction while A Keeper was shortlisted for the Specsavers Popular Fiction Award, and the Irish Book Award in the Popular Fiction category.
Meet the co-presenters
Alex Clark
Alex is a journalist and broadcaster regularly seen in the pages of The Guardian, Observer and Times Literary Supplement and heard on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Open Book. She’s also a former Man Booker and Orwell Prize judge. She says, I’ve been a voracious reader since I was a young child, haunting the local library whenever I could. I vividly remember falling in love with books by a whole range of women novelists from George Eliot to Iris Murdoch to Toni Morrison to Jilly Cooper (Octavia! Imogen! Harriet!) when I was a teenager. I’ve never really looked back and one of my main occupations is building new bookshelves. Among my favourite current writers are Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, Maggie Nelson and Rachel Cusk. And I adore thrillers.
Sara Collins
Sara is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, winner of the 2019 Costa First Novel Award. She’s also a literary critic and broadcaster for a variety of outlets. She says, Since I was a tiny bookworm desperate to return one stack to the library and check out another, I’ve loved nothing more than reading books and talking about them, so this gig really is a dream come true. I fell in love with gothic novels as a teenager, which proved useful when, decades later, I wrote my own! Anything that holds itself out as a complicated psychological thriller, or has everyone talking about its 'unlikeable protagonist', is an automatic buy for me. But I balance this out through a healthy obsession with chick lit.
Each week we meet an author...
Episode 1: Denise Mina
Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. Her prolific crime writing has earned her a place in the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame, and her latest book The Less Dead was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Novel Award. She is also the winner of the 2017 McIllvanney Prize for Scottish crime novel of the year, the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime novel, and has twice received the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Her previous novel, Conviction, was selected as Reese Witherspoon’s book club pick for December 2019.
Episode 2: Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is the author of the award-winning novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time alongside three collections of essays Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a short-story collection, Grand Union. She lives in London.
Episode 3: Andrew O’Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and he won the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Episode 4: Adrian McKinty
Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid-90s. His first novel Dead I Well May Be (loosely based on his experiences as an illegal immigrant in the US) was published in 2003. In 2012 after moving to Australia with his wife and children he began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019 after giving up writing Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain.
Adrian's books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Episode 4: Ben Aaronovitch
Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in 14 languages and has sold more than two million copies around the world.
Ben is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Aké Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as 'the capital of the world'.
Episode 5: Max Porter
Max Porter is the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, by the Daily Mail. His Sunday Times bestseller Lanny was long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize and the 2019 Wainwright Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted for both Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year 2019.
His first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers also won numerous prizes while the Complicité and Wayward’s production ,directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy, was performed in Dublin, London and New York.
Max lives in Bath with his family.
Episode 6: Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author and creator of books, graphic novels, short stories, film and television for all ages, including Norse Mythology, Neverwhere, Coraline, The Graveyard Book and the Sandman comic series. His fiction has received Newbery, Carnegie, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. He was the writer and showrunner for the mini-series adaptation of Good Omens, based on the book he co-authored with Sir Terry Pratchett. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
Episode 7: Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien is a bestselling novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. She has written more than twenty works of fiction and is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O’Connor Prize and the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.
Episode 8: Sarah Waters
Welsh author Sarah Waters' novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all attracted prizes: she won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television. Her recent book The Little Stranger was a bestselling hardback and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Episode 8: Marian Keyes
Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man and more, including her latest Number One bestseller, Grown Ups. She has also published two collections of journalism, Making it up as I Go Along and Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition.
Episode 8: Richard Osman
Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is his first novel. He is well known for TV shows including Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games. As the creative director of Endemol UK, Richard has worked as an executive producer on numerous shows including Deal Or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He is also a regular on panel and game shows such as Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and Taskmaster.
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Billy
- By: Albert French
- Narrated by: Vaughn Johseph
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a 10-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just brilliant
- By scoots on 05-10-23
Episode 9: Albert French
American author Albert French was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1943. After a six-year career in the military which included serving in Vietnam, Albert trained himself as a photographer and worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before publishing the Pittsburgh Preview for more than a decade. He later turned to writing, drawing on Black American experiences of the rural South, releasing Billy, his first novel in 1995.
Episode 10: Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
...and get to know a narrator
Episode 1: Maxine Peake
RADA trained Maxine Peake has enjoyed a prolific career on stage and screen. First coming to our attention in Dinnerladies, her YV work includes Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Shameless and Funny Cow for which she was nominated as Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards. She has starred in BBC dramas including Silk, The Hollow Crown and The Village, for which she was nominated as Best Leading Actress at the BAFTA TV Awards.
Her theatre work includes the iconic role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Sarah Frankcom, Happy Days, The Skriker and Hamlet at the Royal Exchange where Maxine is an Artist in Residence. Notably, Maxine portrayed Myra Hindley in See No Evil. Recently Maxine starred in Julia Leigh’s one-woman-play of her memoir, Avalanche: A Love Story at the Barbican. Her critically acclaimed writing includes plays Queens Of The Coal Age and Beryl.
Episode 2: Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson trained at RADA and has been nominated for many Olivier and BAFTA awards. Juliet’s stage work includes The Doctor for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award while her television work includes shows such as Riviera, Atlantis and One of Us. Her film work includes her role in Truly, Madly, Deeply as well as Red Mercury,
Episode 3: Stephen Mangan
Stephen is a Cambridge University and RADA graduate. In 2008 he played the title role in The Norman Conquests at The Old Vic and then on Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony Award while the play won Best Revival. Other theatre credits include Jeeves and Wooster (Duke of York’s Theatre), Hayfever (Savoy Theatre) and The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter Theatre).
On TV, Stephen played the lead role of Sean Lincoln in the Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated comedy series Episodes. He also has a regular role in BBC1’s drama The Split, Sky One comedy Bliss and the Channel 4 comedy Hang Ups which he also co-wrote. Stephen’s film credits include Billy Elliot, Birthday Girl and Rush.
Episode 4: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is an award-winning film, television, theatre and voice actor. His film and TV work includes Mary Poppins Returns, Dr. Strange and The Split. On stage he has played leads at the National, Royal Court, Young Vic, and Royal Exchange theatres and recently played Laertes opposite Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, at the Barbican Theatre. In the original production of Tina: The Tina Turner the Musical Kobna played Ike Turner, for which he won the Laurence Olivier award for Best Actor in a Musical. He has voiced all of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London audiobook series and many BBC and independent radio plays.
Kobna is a trustee of the Young Vic Theatre, an associate director of the National Theatre, on the Creative Council of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a Patron of Inc Arts, and on the advisory of Guildford School of acting. In 2020 he was awarded an MBE for services to drama.
Episode 5: Kerry Fox
Originally from New Zealand, award-winning Kerry can be seen in Mercedes Grower’s dark anti-rom-com Brakes and appeared with Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters in Channel 4’s National Treasure. Kerry also worked alongside Kate Winslet in Toni Collette’s The Dressmaker and starred in critically acclaimed Patrick's Day.
She is also an accomplished theatre actress having appeared on stage throughout Australia and London, most recently stepping onto the West End stage for the role of Big Moma in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof alongside Colm Meaney and Sienna Miller.
Episode 6: Adjoa Andoh
Adjoa won global acclaim as Lady Danbury in Bridgerton, a role that saw her nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress at the NAACP Image Awards. You may have seen her as Dr Isaccs in thriller Fractured, or as tough cop DI Nina Rosen in Silent Witness. Adjoa is renowned for starring roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, and the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, where in 2019 she conceived, co-directed, and played Richard II in the UK's first all-women-of-colour production. She made her Hollywood debut in 2009 starring alongside Morgan Freeman in Invictus. She has been a BBC radio actor for over 30 years and is an award-winning narrator of more than 150 audiobooks. Adjoa is an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Senior Associate Artist at The Bush Theatre and a Fairtrade Ambassador.
Episode 7: Matt Lucas
Matt Lucas is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter of The Great British Bake Of. He is perhaps best known for the multi BAFTA award-winning Little Britain. Matt’s film credits include Alice in Wonderland, Bridesmaids and Paddington and TV credits include Shooting Stars, Doctor Who, The Wind in the Willows and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His memoir, Little Me, was published in 2017. During lockdown, Matt’s Baked Potato
song became a viral sensation, raising over £1 million for FeedNHS and launching a series of bestselling children’s books including Thank you, Baked Potato and Merry Christmas Baked Potato.
Episode 9: Adam Buxton
Adam Buxton is a British comedian, podcaster, actor and director who has appeared in films such as Hot Fuzz, Stardust and Son Of Rambow as well as a variety of UK TV shows. He is the host of The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which celebrity interviews are bookended with walks in the Norfolk countryside where he lives with his wife, three children and dog. Since 2007 he has hosted BUG, a regular live show that combines music videos and original comedy and now a TV series. With lifelong friend and director Joe Cornish Adam he also is one half of TV, radio and podcast duo Adam & Joe. In 2020 Adam released his first book, Ramble Book.
Episode 10: Joanne Froggatt
Joanne Froggatt is a Golden Globe and BIFA-award winner and three times Emmy nominee. Joanne is also much-loved for her performance as lady’s maid Anna Bates in Downton Abbey and has also won acclaim for her ‘Meryl-Streep level performance’ in TV drama Liar. Joanne won a British Independent Film Award for her film debut in In Our Name. Her film credits include Crooked Somebody, Mary Shelley and One Last Thing as well as Sony Picture's adaptation of the international bestseller A Street Cat Named Bob and the adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Filth.
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The Less Dead
- By: Denise Mina
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4 out of 5 stars 138
When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt Nikki instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found. Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone.... A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great but...
- By Lyro8 on 25-08-20
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,578
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,911
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,896
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the '30s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greats.
- By Simon on 05-10-15
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Old Filth
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 197
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lovely Tale of an Interesting Life
- By mollyeyre on 10-02-18
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Edgar Allan Poe elevated the gothic story, developed the unreliable narrator, recast psychological terror, and reveled in both the horror and the supernal beauty of death. From Poe's rich, unrivaled imagination comes a collection of his most masterful works, including "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and, of course, "The Tell-Tale Heart". Each story explores morbid themes of grief, greed, fear, and guilt, and together they embody Poe's grotesque obsessions...even the dread of being buried alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic narration
- By Thomas Ross on 06-07-21
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The Talented Mr Ripley
- By: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: David Menkin
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 635
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tense and Unpredictable
- By Helen on 06-06-18
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A Lonely Man
- By: Chris Power
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 35
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 34
Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick's life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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So enjoyed this!
- By Jen on 11-04-21
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Magpie Lane
- By: Lucy Atkins
- Narrated by: Susie Riddell
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 578
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really fresh and original
- By Rachel Redford on 02-05-20
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
- By: D. H. Lawrence
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4 out of 5 stars 84
The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors - which occurs right under the nose of her wheelchair-bound husband, Clifford. In exploring the class system of the early 20th century, the novel also touches upon the declining coal mining industry, its effect on the workers, and the politics which surrounded it. Yet possibly the most important theme is the individual’s need for physical as well as intellectual satisfaction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lady chatterley's lover
- By Anne on 09-06-11
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A Kestrel for a Knave
- By: Barry Hines
- Narrated by: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength, and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just as wonderful as I remember
- By Mrs. Sharon N. Humby on 26-03-20
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The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 278
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 233
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Story4 out of 5 stars 229
From the best-selling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them? Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get into it
- By Mickvix on 22-09-20
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All the Lonely People
- By: Mike Gayle
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 767
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 690
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 692
In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship and fulfilment. But Hubert Bird is lying. The truth is day after day drags by without him seeing a single soul. Until, that is, he receives some good news - good news that in one way turns out to be the worst news ever, news that will force him out again, into a world he has long since turned his back on. Now, Hubert faces a seemingly impossible task: to make his real life resemble his fake life before the truth comes out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Be more Hubert. Be more Ashleigh.
- By John Wilberforce on 04-08-20
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George's Marvellous Medicine
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 808
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 802
George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine it will be! One that will either cure her completely of her horrible grouchiness...or blow off the top of her head!
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic narration
- By RKDas on 31-10-15
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The Blue Flower
- By: Penelope Fitzgerald, Candia McWilliam - introduction
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Stephanie Racine
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
The year is 1794, and Fritz - passionate, idealistic and brilliant - is seeking his father's permission to announce his engagement to his heart's desire: 12-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking? Tracing the dramatic early years of the young German who was to become the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, The Blue Flower is a masterpiece of invention, evoking the past with a reality that we can almost feel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Nakul on 10-01-17
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Les années
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Narrated by: Marina Moncade
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Au travers de photos et de souvenirs laissés par les événements, les mots et les choses, Annie Ernaux nous fait ressentir le passage des années, de l'après-guerre à aujourd'hui. En même temps, elle inscrit l'existence dans une forme nouvelle d'autobiographie, impersonnelle et collective. Marina Moncade est la voix sensible et délicate d'Annie Ernaux qui regarde en elle-même pour retrouver le monde, la mémoire et l'imaginaire des jours passés.
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5 out of 5 stars
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J’ai adoré ce livre
- By Sandra on 04-06-24
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Rebecca
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,559
Daphne du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming Maxim de Winter and despite her youth, they marry and go to Manderley, his home in Cornwall. There, the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers and the mystery she keeps alive of his first wife Rebecca - said to have drowned at sea - threatens to overwhelm the marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic story of love and life.
- By Anthony, Bristol on 30-06-13
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The Essex Serpent
- By: Sarah Perry
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,190
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 1,188
London 1893: When Cora Seaborne and her son Francis reach Essex, rumours spread from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced that it may be a previously undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail she meets William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give me the book!
- By Rachel Redford on 17-12-16
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Fingersmith
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,517
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,383
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,377
London 1862: Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By joanna on 02-10-14
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Pride and Prejudice
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence, the story of Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and sparkling," delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointment
- By Lorna on 05-11-09
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Famous Five: Five On A Treasure Island
- Book 1
- By: Enid Blyton
- Narrated by: Jan Francis
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Story5 out of 5 stars 503
Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the holidays with their tomboy cousin George and her dog, Timothy. One day, George takes them to explore nearby Kirrin Island, with its rocky little coast and old ruined castle on the top. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discovery, which leads them deep into the dungeons of Kirrin Castle on a dangerous adventure. Who - and what - will they find there?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Timmy was a large brown mongrel! Startled it was changed to a black and white dog........
- By Sue on 23-04-17
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A Grief Observed
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 231
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments", A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An account of grief written from the heart.
- By H on 27-11-17
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Middlemarch
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 35 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,358
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,004
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,997
Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All consuming
- By Caro on 27-04-11
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The Mirror and the Light
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 38 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,512
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,147
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,129
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is fine
- By Ellen Coleman on 07-03-20
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Moving
- By: Jenny Eclair
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd, Clare Willie, Andrew Wincott
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 884
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 806
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 801
It only took one night to tear a family apart. Artist and illustrator Edwina Spinner used to have a busy family life. Now she lives alone in a house that has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it. As Edwina takes the estate agent from room to room, she finds herself transported back to her life as a young mother. Back to her twins, Rowena and Charlie, and a stepson she cannot bring herself to mention by name.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unlikeable characters
- By Corrinne on 08-02-16
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Mayflies
- By: Andrew O'Hagan
- Narrated by: Andrew O'Hagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 952
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 857
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 853
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has news.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable book
- By MR S R PETERS on 01-03-21
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Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- By: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,084
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088
The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Volume levels all over the place
- By eehoo on 04-06-18
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Bleak House
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 43 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,377
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,258
This Audible Exclusive performance features a unique introduction written and narrated by Miriam Margolyes. Recognised as one of Dickens' most accomplished titles, Bleak House has impressed critics and audiences alike since it was first published in 1852. The novel boasts one of the most intelligent and engaging plots in all of English literature and is sure to engage the listener's imagination as it transports us back in time to the seedy, grimy and hazardous streets of Victorian London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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genius
- By uk person on 13-05-18
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Up in the Old Hotel, and Other Stories
- By: Joseph Mitchell
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 28 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens - as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.
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Bad Blood
- By: Lorna Sage
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4 out of 5 stars 34
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow read
- By prinders on 13-01-15
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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
- By: Tracey Thorn
- Narrated by: Gina Murray, Taryn Ryan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career with the Marine Girls had just begun, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by activism and agitprop theatre, lesbian punk bands and rock 'n' roll love affairs. Morrison came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn, a strong female role model in a male dominated industry. They both faced a chauvinist music media wanting them to behave to type.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read!
- By W Armstrong on 23-04-21
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Nicholas Barnes
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 821
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 729
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 727
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
- By Susan Random on 19-04-17
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- By: Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Jodie Comer
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,088
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,832
On a sunny afternoon, Alice discovers a bottle that says DRINK ME. Unable to resist, she follows the label’s instructions...and immediately shrinks to tumble down a rabbit hole into an adventure where nothing is as it seems. From The Mad Hatter to the White Rabbit, the grinning Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts, Alice meets a cast of characters who are both eccentric and memorable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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JODIE COMER IS AMAZING
- By Anonymous User on 19-01-21
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Beloved
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 591
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding
- By Deborah Richards on 16-07-06
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
- By: Flannery O’Connor
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Karen White, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
This collection of nine short stories by Flannery O'Connor was published posthumously in 1965. The flawed characters of each story are fully revealed in apocalyptic moments of conflict and violence that are presented with comic detachment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great stories, read well
- By David on 04-01-11
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Wild
- By: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,642
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,090
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,089
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an 1100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe and built her back up again. At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. After her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea: vague, outlandish, and full of promise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Exceptional Story
- By Colin on 30-01-15
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Darling Days
- By: iO Tillett Wright
- Narrated by: iO Tillett Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged permanent riot that was iO's corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the '80s and 90's. There iO grew up - or rather scrabbled up - under the broken wing of a fiercely protective yet wildly negligent mother. Rhonna was a showgirl, an actress, a dancer, a poet. A widow by police murder, she was also an addict. She doted and obsessed over iO yet lacked an understanding that a child needs food and sleep and safety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection!
- By E Kavanagh on 21-09-20
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The Cold, Cold Ground
- Detective Sean Duffy, Book 1
- By: Adrian McKinty
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 297
Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. It’s no easy job—especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great story - Narration not so much
- By Clady Lad on 06-06-19
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A Wizard of Earthsea
- The First Book of Earthsea
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,564
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great classic, beautifully read.
- By Dr Featherweight on 20-03-19
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Jane Eyre
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,914
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,558
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,551
Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful audiobook!!
- By Philip on 13-02-17
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Notes on a Scandal
- By: Zoe Heller
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
When Sheba Hart joins St George's as the new pottery teacher, lonely Barbara Covett senses that she has found a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba. Before long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil, and Barbara is powerless to stop Sheba from pursuing her foolhardy course of action. But when the liaison is found out and Sheba's marriage falls apart, Barbara is loyally standing by, ready to provide succour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant narrator
- By Frances Locke on 27-01-18
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Sorrow and Bliss
- By: Meg Mason
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,636
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,368
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,365
Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. So why is everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave? Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. Or maybe - as she has long believed - there is something wrong with her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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depressing and pointless
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-21
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Rivers of London
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,456
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,437
My name is Peter Grant, and until January, I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not my cup of tea (I'm not even sure that was tea)
- By Christian on 28-03-13
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Underworld
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 31 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A modern classic - read it
- By shirley on 30-04-14
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Crow
- From the Life and Songs of the Crow
- By: Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ted Hughes
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work. Crow is one of his most significant collections, focusing on the central figure of the crow - predatory, mocking and indestructible. Crow is read here by the author in its entirety and with narrative links not included in the published text.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece to Listen to and Read
- By Charlie on 19-03-17
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,933
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,097
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By madeleine davitt on 06-05-18
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Home Fire
- By: Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 973
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 878
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpectedly compelling read
- By Jill SG on 31-01-19
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Apeirogon
- By: Colum McCann
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Both men have lost their daughters. Rami’s 13-year-old girl, Smadar, was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam’s 10-year-old daughter, Abir, was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn’t had time to eat yet. The men become the best of friends.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Occupation
- By David M on 08-08-20
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Lanny
- By: Max Porter
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 639
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 568
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 568
Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clever Stuff That Took Me Out Of My Comfort Zone!
- By Simon on 08-03-19
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Dart
- By: Alice Oswald
- Narrated by: Alice Oswald
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 37
Over the course of three years, Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Immense and ending at a beginning. What a find
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-20
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 821
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 702
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 700
An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary
- By Amazon Customer on 29-01-19
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The Western Wind
- By: Samantha Harvey
- Narrated by: Nyasha Hatendi
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
Oakham, near Bruton, is a tiny village by a big river without a bridge. When a man is swept away by the river an explanation has to be found. The story is relayed by the village priest, John Reve, who, in his role as confessor, is privy to a lot of information that others are not. But will he be able to explain what happened to the victim? And what will happen if he can’t?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Much more than a medieval whodunnit
- By Rachel Redford on 30-04-18
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The Wolf Border
- By: Sarah Hall
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4 out of 5 stars 163
For almost a decade, Rachel Caine has turned her back on home, kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation. But now, summoned by the eccentric earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the grey wolf to the English countryside, she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake District. The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The voice of wolves in the wilderness
- By Kaggy on 26-04-16
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Elizabeth Costello
- By: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public.
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Curse of the Arctic Star
- Nancy Drew Diaries, Book 1
- By: Carolyn Keene
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Dear Diary...Bess, George, and I are actually in Alaska! Everywhere you look, there are massive mountains and sparkling, deep-blue waters. We're on the maiden voyage of the Arctic Star luxury cruise ship, and my old friend, Becca Wright, the assistant cruise director, needs our help. She received threatening emails before even setting sail; then a bloody body turned up in the swimming pool.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good!
- By Reginald pelle on 14-05-16
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Quiet
- The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,445
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,055
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,043
Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand: whether we're an introvert or an extrovert. This defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose and whether we blush when we're embarrassed. At least a third of us are on the introverted side. Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them, we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity and Van Gogh's sunflowers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life-changing
- By Trina on 13-04-13
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The Beauty of Living Twice
- By: Sharon Stone
- Narrated by: Sharon Stone
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, she chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and the slow road back to wholeness and health. In an industry that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up and the will to make a difference in the lives of women and children around the globe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Chose audio over print: beautifully read
- By Miss B on 17-04-21
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,834
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,830
In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Haunting and thought provoking
- By Stephibobz on 08-09-15
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Fahrenheit 451
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrated by: Tim Robbins
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,471
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,911
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,906
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story, worth getting into...
- By Mr on 27-02-17
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The Queen's Gambit
- By: Walter Tevis
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,250
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Computer voice.
- By Amazon Customer on 05-11-20
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The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,565
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,833
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,806
When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don’t get this
- By John P. Allum on 21-07-20
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The Complete Chronicles of Narnia
- The Classic BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Maurice Denham, Full Cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,733
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,345
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,342
C.S. Lewis’s acclaimed and universally loved novels spring to life in these spellbinding full-cast BBC dramatisations. Anyone who’s visited Narnia wants to go back again, and these radio dramas make for a hugely entertaining first-time or return journey, with a cast including Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham, Richard Griffiths, Martin Jarvis, Sylvester McCoy, John Sessions, Fiona Shaw and Timothy Spall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The reason I became a voice actor...
- By William on 18-02-15
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Lud-in-the-Mist
- By: Hope Mirrlees
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Lud-in-the-Mist - a prosperous country town situated where two rivers meet: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie, is a great trial to Lud, which had long rejected anything 'other', preferring to believe only in what is known, what is solid. Nathaniel Chanticleer is a somewhat dreamy, slightly melancholy man, not one for making waves, who is deliberately ignoring a vital part of his own past: a secret he refuses even to acknowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece
- By Dr Featherweight on 11-02-20
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Daisy Jones and the Six
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Sara Arrington, Jennifer Beals, Arthur Bishop, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,419
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,834
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,814
This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy’s moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again. Take the uppers so you can keep on believing, take the downers so you can sleep, eventually. Wonder who you are without the drugs or the music or the fans or the family that prop you up. Make decisions that will forever feel tough. Find beauty where you least expect it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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😭 Absolutely amazing!
- By Steph on 24-03-19
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Americanah
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,804
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,279
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,277
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life-changing
- By Diana John on 02-06-13
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Me Before You
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Jo Hall, Anna Bentinck, Steve Crossley, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,737
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,664
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,651
Lou Clark knows a lot of things. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop, and she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live, and now everything feels small and joyless. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic, be inspired & provoked to think...
- By Rachel on 24-01-12
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious con men. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Mma Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple's, but she's got warmth, wit, and canny intuition on her side - not to mention Mr J.L.B. Maketoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too many cuts
- By JF on 28-01-21
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
- By: Beatrix Potter
- Narrated by: Josh Verbae
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town. She was a good little girl - only she was always losing her pocket-handkerchiefs! One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying - oh, she did cry so! I’ve lost my pocket-handkin! Three handkins and a pinny! Have you seen them, Tabby Kitten?
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Famous Five: Five On A Treasure Island
- Book 1
- By: Enid Blyton
- Narrated by: Jan Francis
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Story5 out of 5 stars 503
Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the holidays with their tomboy cousin George and her dog, Timothy. One day, George takes them to explore nearby Kirrin Island, with its rocky little coast and old ruined castle on the top. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discovery, which leads them deep into the dungeons of Kirrin Castle on a dangerous adventure. Who - and what - will they find there?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Timmy was a large brown mongrel! Startled it was changed to a black and white dog........
- By Sue on 23-04-17
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The Secret Seven
- The Secret Seven, Book 1
- By: Enid Blyton
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Solve the mystery with the Secret Seven - everyone's favourite detective club! These timeless stories are perfect for young fans of mystery, adventure or detective series. It's their first adventure, and the Secret Seven super-sleuths are already on the trail of a mystery! The gang are dressed in disguise, following a lead to a spooky old house in the snow.... Solve the mystery!
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5 out of 5 stars
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My name is George
- By Liz on 20-11-18
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Little Scarlet
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965, when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere, the police turn up at Easy Rawlins' doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Anothe good story aboy Easy Rawlings
- By Mike on 07-04-13
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Beloved
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 591
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding
- By Deborah Richards on 16-07-06
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Strangers on a Train (Dramatized)
- Classic Movies on the Radio
- By: Lux Radio Theatre
- Narrated by: Ray Milland, Ruth Roman
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
This radio dramatization of the classic Hitchcock movie, which also starred Ruth Roman, originally aired on December 2, 1951.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better than the book, not as good as the film!
- By . on 10-12-09
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,492
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,227
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,228
Read by the critically acclaimed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship at a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This is not unabridged
- By Mr N J Filer on 01-08-15
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Girl
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved this book!
- By Anonymous User on 02-01-20
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Death in Venice
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us
- By Wras on 20-09-15
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- A Novel
- By: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it?
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Master and Man
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
In the story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the owner of a forest. He is impatient and wishes to get to the town more quickly to purchase the forest before other contenders can get there. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself suffering from hypothermia.
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The Little Stranger
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 874
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Story4 out of 5 stars 558
In a dusty postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A subtle ghost story
- By Jill Child on 13-06-09
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Elizabeth Is Missing
- By: Emma Healey
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,071
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,778
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,776
Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it. Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Elizabeth is missing
- By DeeDee on 08-07-14
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Sisters
- By: Daisy Johnson
- Narrated by: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anna Koval
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
After a serious case of school bullying becomes too much to bear, sisters July and September move across the country with their mother to a long-abandoned family home. In their new and unsettling surroundings, July finds that the deep bond she has always had with September - a closeness that not even their mother is allowed to penetrate - is starting to change in ways she cannot entirely understand. Inside the house the tension among the three women builds, while outside the sisters meet a boy who tests the limits of their shared experiences.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Didn't really engage me
- By CC on 14-11-23
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Great Expectations
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Matt Lucas, Howard Jacobson
- Length: 20 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 826
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 823
In this Audible Exclusive performance by Matt Lucas of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens demonstrates that conscience, loyalty and empathy are virtues far more valuable than intellect, wealth and social standing. First published in Dickens’ own periodical, All the Year Round, the novel was divided into nine monthly instalments, from December 1860 to August 1861. Unsurprisingly, it was an instant success and managed to sell over 100,000 copies per week. Though written at a challenging time in Dickens’ life, when the impending breakdown of his marriage loomed over him, Great Expectations proves to be one of his most optimistic, comical and romantic novels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Great Narrator, Great Expectations
- By Mrs. R. E. Chandler on 07-10-18
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Little Me
- My Life from A-Z
- By: Matt Lucas
- Narrated by: Matt Lucas
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,128
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,834
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,823
Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this audiobook I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice in Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have listened to, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. Anyway, I hope you buy it at least twice. Thank you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bright & Breezy
- By Craig M. Hanson on 06-01-18
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Danny the Champion of the World
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Peter Serafinowicz
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,223
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,001
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Story5 out of 5 stars 999
Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had - but Danny's dad has a very big secret. This secret leads them both into the strangest adventure of their lives, and a daring plot that makes Danny the champion of the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for all ages.
- By Nick on 03-02-15
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Lucky
- By: Jackie Collins
- Narrated by: India Thain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16
From the decadent luxury of California, to Paris, New York and a private Greek island, Lucky fought for her father's honour, for ruthless triumph, for the wild card of a fabulous love. Her rivals: an ice-cold Hollywood wife...a much-married heiress strung out on cocaine...a jaded magnate hooked on power...a crazed hoodlum lusting for murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!!
- By Paddi on 26-11-19
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink - The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
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A Boy's Own Story
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 35
Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The audiobook's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace-and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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awful
- By alex on 17-08-15
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Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue
- The Story of an Accidental Family
- By: Lynn Knight
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Lynn Knight tells the remarkable story of the three adoptions, spanning three generations, within her remarkable family: of her great-grandfather, a fairground boy, given away when his parents left for America in 1865; of her great-aunt, rescued from an industrial school in 1909; and of her mother, adopted as a baby in 1930, and brought to Chesterfield from London.
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Allen Carr's Stop Smoking Now
- By: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 689
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 544
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Story5 out of 5 stars 525
Allen Carr's Easyway is the most successful self help stop-smoking method of all time. It has helped millions of smokers from all over the world quit instantly, easily and painlessly. Stop Smoking Now is the new, cutting-edge presentation of the method. Updated and set out in a clear, easy-listening format, this audiobook makes it simpler than ever before to get free. Allen Carr's Easyway does not rely on willpower as it removes your desire to smoke. It eliminates the fears that keep you hooked and you won't miss cigarettes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Does exactly what it says on the tin...
- By Peter on 13-02-17
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The Wild Silence
- By: Raynor Winn
- Narrated by: Raynor Winn
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,043
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 940
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 936
Raynor Winn tells us about taking on a chronically over-farmed piece of land that was given to her and Moth by a reader who was moved by their story in The Salt Path. This book is about readjusting to life after homelessness, but also about recovering trust and self-belief after a traumatic event - feelings that can translate to many episodes in the life of any of us. Through Raynor's exceptional writing, she will explore the hope she has of revitalising and of re-wilding this land - and also themes of lifelong love, nature and what it means to find a home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Wild Silence
- By janthina on 20-12-20
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The White Mountains
- Tripods Series, Book 1
- By: John Christopher
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
In the first book of John Christopher's classic series, it is the year 2100, and the world is controlled by the machines called Tripods. Life goes on largely as it had in the pre-industrial era, as all of humanity is subject to mental controls which prevent anyone from challenging the established order.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A whole new world.
- By S Owen on 13-04-13
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The Talented Mr Ripley
- By: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: David Menkin
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 635
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him the chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success, and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his newfound happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tense and Unpredictable
- By Helen on 06-06-18
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Us
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Justin Salinger
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,805
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,629
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,624
Douglas Petersen’s family is on the brink of dissolution. His marriage of twenty-one years to Connie is almost over. When autumn comes around, their son Albie will leave for college. Connie has decided to leave soon after. But before everything falls apart, there's still the summer holidays to get through - a Grand Tour of Europe's major cities - and over the course of the journey, Douglas devises a plan to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with his son.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Story but….
- By lou58 on 13-10-14
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The Vanishing Half
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,647
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Read
- By Steph on 23-06-20
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- By: Dawnie Walton
- Narrated by: Priya Ayyar, Matthew Lloyd Davies, David Sadzin, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, a Black punk artist before her time. Despite her unconventional looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her one night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- By SnapDragon on 08-02-24
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Grown Ups
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,567
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,035
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,026
They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie - who has the most money - insists on it. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much.... Everything stays under control until Ed's wife Cara, gets concussion and can't keep her thoughts to herself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story BUT pls go back to actors reading
- By Tracey Clare Dunlop on 07-02-20
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Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island
- Book 1
- By: Enid Blyton
- Narrated by: Mel Giedroyc
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
There was something else out on the sea by the rocks - something dark that seemed to lurch out of the waves...What could it be? Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the holidays with their tomboy cousin George and her dog, Timothy. One day, George takes them to explore nearby Kirrin Island, with its rocky little coast and old ruined castle on the top. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discovery, which leads them deep into the dungeons of Kirrin Castle on a dangerous adventure. Who - and what - will they find there?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Nostalgic Indulgence
- By Paul (the other one) on 19-06-19
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The Secret Countess
- By: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to England. Armed with an out-of-date book on housekeeping, Anna determines to become a housemaid and she finds work at the Earl of Westerholme's crumbling but magnificent mansion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Would have been 5 stars if unabridged
- By Tilly Barker on 17-02-21
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 493
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but there she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica, aged five; greedy, cross-patch Gillian, who refused to be ignored; and Ruby...
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5 out of 5 stars
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An absolute joy
- By Rachel on 26-12-16
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The Poisonwood Bible
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Dean Robertson
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,042
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Read this book to get the most out of it!
- By Kerry on 16-03-11
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11.22.63
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,322
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,856
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,841
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history?11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless.... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill who becomes the love of Jake's life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Return to top form
- By John on 14-12-11
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The Princess Bride
- By: William Goldman
- Narrated by: Rob Reiner
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
This adventure story has everything you could want: the good guy, some bad guys, the girl, sword fighting, revenge, romance, of course a happy ending, and rodents of unusual size. Join Westley the plucky farm boy, Buttercup the beautiful young maiden, Inigo Montoya the driven, embittered swordsman, and many other strange and unusual characters in this swashbuckling tale of good-natured silliness. It is read by Rob Reiner, who directed the motion picture based on this classic tale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A poor adaption of my favourite book
- By a burnett on 09-03-17
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14,562
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,107
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13,054
The compelling, inspiring (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, unique and full of memories.
- By Andy on 04-12-16
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Less
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 431
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Story4 out of 5 stars 387
Who says you can't run away from your problems? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable. Less is definitely moreish.
- By bookylady on 06-02-19
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Billy
- By: Albert French
- Narrated by: Vaughn Johseph
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a 10-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just brilliant
- By scoots on 05-10-23
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Black Beauty
- By: Anna Sewell
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 453
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 358
This classic tale of a handsome, spirited horse, Black Beauty has been a children's favourite for over 100 years. Sewell tells the story of Beauty's life from a young foal through to a working horse.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Black Beauty
- By Chloenolie on 10-01-16
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A Tale of Two Cities
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- By: Charles Dickens, Simon Callow - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008
Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good story, well-performed
- By Veronica Venatrix on 14-02-19
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This One Sky Day
- By: Leone Ross
- Narrated by: Leone Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: a wedding feast to conjure and cook, an infidelity to investigate, a lost soul to set free. As the sun rises, two star-crossed lovers try to find their way back to one another across this single day. When night falls, all have been given a gift and many are no longer the same. The sky is pink, and some wonder if it will ever be blue again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind-blowing... In the best ways.
- By Malc Wells on 15-12-21
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Mordew
- By: Alex Pheby
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
God lies defeated, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. On the surface, the streets of this the sea-battered city are slick with the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures it spawns - creatures that die and are swept down from the Merchant Quarter by the brooms of the workers and relentless rains, where they rot in the slums. There, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his parents, eking out a meagre existence by picking treasures from the Living Mud - until one day his mother, desperate and starving, sells him to the mysterious Master of Mordew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great reading, an amazing range of voices
- By EEL on 21-03-21
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The Dispossessed
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Roddy Doyle, Tim Treloar
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 395
Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's influence on competition and co-operation, The Dispossessed is a true classic of the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic
- By Chris on 20-11-19
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Billy
- By: Albert French
- Narrated by: Vaughn Johseph
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a 10-year-old boy convicted of the murder of a white girl in Mississippi in 1937, illuminates the monstrous face of racism in America with harrowing clarity and power. Narrated in the rich accents of the American South, Billy's story is told amid the picking fields and town streets, the heat, dust and poverty of the region in the time of the Depression.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just brilliant
- By scoots on 05-10-23
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Ramble Book
- Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture
- By: Adam Buxton
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7,050
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,273
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6,246
Ramble Book is about parenthood, boarding-school trauma, arguing with your partner, bad parties, confrontations on trains, friendship, wanting to fit in, growing up in the '80s, dead dads, teenage sexual anxiety, failed artistic endeavours, being a David Bowie fan and how everything you read, watch and listen to as a child forms a part of the adult you become. It’s also an audiobook about the joys of going off topic and letting your mind wander. And it’s about a short, hairy, frequently confused man called Adam Buxton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not have loved this more.....
- By Amazon Customer on 04-05-20
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Animal Farm
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story5 out of 5 stars 83
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a treat! Adam Buxton narrating Animal Farm!
- By Charlie on 21-01-21
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
- By: John Irving
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 27 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,442
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,434
Of all of John Irving's books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany's dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany's difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys – best friends – are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing and memorable book
- By Kirstine on 17-05-14
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I Wanna Be Yours
- By: John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 896
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Story5 out of 5 stars 890
John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator, reluctant national treasure. At 5 feet 11 inches (116lb, 32in chest, 27in waist), in trademark suit jacket, skin-tight drainpipes and dark glasses, with jet-black back-combed hair and mouth full of gold teeth, he is instantly recognisable. As a writer his voice is equally unmistakable and his inimitable dry Salford drawl shines through the prose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exit the dragon, enter Johnny Clarke
- By papapownall on 23-10-20
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 725
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 592
In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives, a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstandingly sad, funny and bitchy family life
- By Kaggy on 06-08-16
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The Road
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,042
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,618
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,619
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007.
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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why on earth did this win its accolades?
- By Tim on 17-10-07
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,289
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,280
Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This is NOT the original story
- By Conrad on 15-11-16
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Charms and Death and Explosions (Oh My!)
- The Case Files of Henri Davenforth, Book 2
- By: Honor Raconteur
- Narrated by: Donovan Hughes, Dallas Boudreaux
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Car bombings as a means for murder was unheard of, unprecedented, and as far as Henri Davenforth knows, only one person in the entire world had ever seen the like before: his partner, the Shinigami Detective. The case is transferred to them, because this one calls for Jamie’s skills. But it turns out that not everything is as it appears on the surface. What should have been a straightforward murder, might have some very murky motives behind it, and the further that the two investigate, the stranger the case becomes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All good fun
- By marvellousmarmite on 02-09-23
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
- A Chilling Tale of Prendick's Encounter with Horrifically Modified Animals on Dr. Moreau's Island.
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to get much worse. He is taken to an abandoned island occupied only by Dr. Moreau, a disgraced English scientist for his unethical treatment of live creatures. Prendick finds that the Doctor has been up to old habits, using the island's animals to create animal-human hybrids.
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4 out of 5 stars
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well read
- By Mr Creosote on 14-03-20
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The Idiot
- By: Elif Batuman
- Narrated by: Elif Batuman
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 56
It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian maths student in her Russian class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A rather juvenile romp
- By Sue on 03-01-18
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Beloved
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 594
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 591
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding
- By Deborah Richards on 16-07-06
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,566
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,093
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside – and into his past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should I stay or should I go?
- By Barbara on 20-03-18
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Small Island
- By: Andrea Levy
- Narrated by: Andrea Levy
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,026
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,021
Andrea Levy's acclaimed Small Island is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war, and love. It was awarded the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A breath taking saga.
- By Dolly on 01-10-15
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Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- By: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,084
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088
The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Volume levels all over the place
- By eehoo on 04-06-18
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Silent Child
- Silent Child, Book 1
- By: Sarah A. Denzil
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,009
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,270
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,261
Introducing Audible's Thriller of the Year: Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil, performed by Joanne Froggatt. In the summer of 2006, Emma Price watched helplessly as her six-year-old son's red coat was fished out of the River Ouse. It was the tragic story of the year - a little boy, Aiden, wandered away from school during a terrible flood, fell into the river, and drowned. His body was never recovered. Ten years later Emma has finally rediscovered the joy in life...until Aiden returns.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By madison on 06-09-17
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The Twits
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Richard Ayoade
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 922
Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the ghastly, evil Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer! Because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits and make their escape, once and for all....
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1 out of 5 stars
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VERY expensive for an hour
- By Tim J. on 04-10-18
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Tina Turner: My Love Story
- (Official Autobiography)
- By: Tina Turner
- Narrated by: Tina Turner, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 362
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 364
Tina Turner: My Love Story charts the full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner’s 60th year in the industry. Emphatically showcasing Tina’s signature blend of strength, energy, heart and soul, she candidly examines her personal history and reveals her happiest - and darkest - hours in a thrilling memoir as compelling and entertaining as any of her greatest hits.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a disastrous narration
- By Tina on 19-10-18
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Rebecca
- By: Daphne du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,559
Daphne du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming Maxim de Winter and despite her youth, they marry and go to Manderley, his home in Cornwall. There, the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers and the mystery she keeps alive of his first wife Rebecca - said to have drowned at sea - threatens to overwhelm the marriage.
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A classic story of love and life.
- By Anthony, Bristol on 30-06-13
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.
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Viva Eleanor!
- By Kaggy on 30-06-17
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The Party
- By: Elizabeth Day
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- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had.
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The Party of the Year...
- By Ninecatz on 04-06-18
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Rodham
- By: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Smart, diligent and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader - and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm 'no'. The rest, as they say, isn’t history. How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?
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Fanciful re-imagining is "Hillarious" fun
- By papapownall on 18-06-20
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- PackersCrackers
- 17-07-21
Very interesting
I've take enjoyed these podcasts and they have introduced me to books I might otherwise have missed. Definitely recommend!
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- Miss N. Bleakley-wadlow
- 15-05-21
A nice natter with friendls
I’m a huge fan of Graham’s and would probably listen to him recite the alphabet, but that aside it’s a great little podcast. I like the fact that we have Graham’s input but also random readers from the general public. I look forward to listen regularly and discovering some new books xx
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- miss ch munday
- 14-05-21
Gordon and Alice are brilliant!
Audible fun fun fun. So thrilled Gordon and Alice are together finally talking all things book!
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- Austen fan
- 01-07-21
Love this podcast
This is a great podcast with an interesting balance of discussion around a book of the week, combining an author interview, readers experience and interview with a narrator. Graham Norton is the perfect host. Brilliant stuff.
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- Emma
- 06-01-22
I love this book club
I really enjoy listening to this podcast, Graham Norton is just fabulous, I love the honesty of the reviews. I must admit it's costing me a few bob, as I am now busy buying all the highly recommended books.. I think it definitely helps to increase your reading genre especially if your stuck on certain types of books.. Keep going it's brilliant.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-06-21
The bookclub I always wanted to have
There could not be a better host for a bookclub than Graham Norton, his chatting skills combined with his love of books makes him perfect for the job. The format and club members are also well chosen, I always look forward to the next episode and already took some titles for my reading list. All in all, really recommend it!
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- Susan
- 07-06-21
Enjoyable talk about books
Graham Norton’s book club had just been advertised and I decided to give it a go. I had just decided to leave my current book club because I was not enjoying most of the titles selected to read. I am thoroughly enjoying the discussion about the books and the interviews with the authors, so that I tend to listen to each episode more than once. I have not started to read any of the books that are reviewed but like the mix of classic and modern, in fact discussion of books recommended that I have read is something I really like. I feel relaxed about listening but not reading after decades of enjoying books, especially after spending a lot of time trying to plough through books I am not enjoying. I particularly enjoy the interviews with the narrators and hear their views about their work and approach to it. Graham Norton’s tone is just right, serious but not boring, light but not superficial; the reviewers are also engaging and everyone has a soothing voice. Excellent all round for me.
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- ClareR
- 20-07-21
I'm so glad that there's another series!
I've really enjoyed all of the 10 episodes of this podcast. I love hearing anything about books, and this really hits the spot! I'll be listening to the next series!
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- midei lara
- 22-05-21
Really good
Really interesting and full of interesting suggestions. You can find inspiration for your next reading
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- karen
- 28-06-21
Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended.
I haven’t ever belonged to a book club always believing that in the limited time I have available to read, I would want to be in full control of my choice of literature! I have really enjoyed all of Graham Norton’s books and also read many of his book recommendations from his radio shows.
And so I downloaded and listened to these podcasts, already converted. The diverse views of those in the book club are worthwhile but for me the real joy has been listening to the choices and recommendations of the guest critics, authors and narrators, whose suggestions are fascinating, taking my reading and listening in many different directions.
I may just join a book club after all!
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