Man Booker Prize Winner and Nominees
The 2017 Man Booker long list nominees have been announced after much discussion and deliberation amongst the panel of five judges, including literary critic Lila Azam Zanganeh and Man Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Sarah Hall. Listen to the beautifully crafted novel by 2016 winner by Paul Beatty, a satire on race called The Sellout. Amanda Foreman, Chair of the judges, said the book managed 'to eviscerate every social taboo’ and that it was 'a novel for our times' that contained 'an absolutely savage wit'. Looking for more inspiration? Find your next great listen with our collection of previous nominees and winners."Man Booker Prize nominees
Winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
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Lincoln in the Bardo
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,068
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Performance964
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Story962
Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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Complete gibberish as far as I can tell
- By no on 27-07-17
Performed by a 166-person cast
In George Saunders' long-awaited first novel, the listener is treated to one of the most impressive audio performances which is in no small part due to the 166 narrators involved in the project. In the midst of the American Civil War, President Lincoln laid his beloved son Willie to rest. From this seed of truth Saunders has spun an unforgettable tale of familial love and loss.
2017 Longlist Nominees
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4 3 2 1
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Paul Auster
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall498
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Performance441
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Story442
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast.
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I honestly tried to get through this.
- By Andrea Heaton on 11-05-18
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Exit West
- By: Mohsin Hamid
- Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall223
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Performance195
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Story196
This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent, with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for stargazing. This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow.
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Everything about this is confused.
- By Sam N on 13-03-21
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Elmet
- A Yorkshire Gothic fable shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- By: Fiona Mozley
- Narrated by: Gareth Bennett-Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall269
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Performance241
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Story241
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a...
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A Powerful Story of Outsiders& Family Love/Loyalty
- By bookylady on 13-10-17
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Reservoir 13
- By: Jon McGregor
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall414
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Performance383
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Story381
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
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Draws you in then won't let go. Deceptively good.
- By bookylady on 17-12-17
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall278
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Performance251
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Story251
In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people who attended her funeral. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people who've known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as though they have only just met.
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Couldn't finish 😢
- By Mrs on 12-06-17
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History of Wolves
- By: Emily Fridlund
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance122
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Story123
Even a lone wolf wants to belong.... Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of Northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak' or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit.
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Good but Bloopers
- By Sharon on 12-10-17
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4 3 2 1
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Paul Auster
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall498
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Performance441
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Story442
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast.
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I honestly tried to get through this.
- By Andrea Heaton on 11-05-18
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Exit West
- By: Mohsin Hamid
- Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall223
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Performance195
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Story196
This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent, with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for stargazing. This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow.
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Everything about this is confused.
- By Sam N on 13-03-21
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Elmet
- A Yorkshire Gothic fable shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- By: Fiona Mozley
- Narrated by: Gareth Bennett-Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall269
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Performance241
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Story241
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a...
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A Powerful Story of Outsiders& Family Love/Loyalty
- By bookylady on 13-10-17
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Reservoir 13
- By: Jon McGregor
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall414
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Performance383
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Story381
Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
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Draws you in then won't let go. Deceptively good.
- By bookylady on 17-12-17
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Arundhati Roy
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall278
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Performance251
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Story251
In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people who attended her funeral. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people who've known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as though they have only just met.
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Couldn't finish 😢
- By Mrs on 12-06-17
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History of Wolves
- By: Emily Fridlund
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance122
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Story123
Even a lone wolf wants to belong.... Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of Northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak' or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit.
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Good but Bloopers
- By Sharon on 12-10-17
Other past winners
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Wolf Hall
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,339
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Performance3,142
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Story3,138
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
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Past imperfect.
- By Francis on 31-10-09
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The White Tiger
- By: Aravind Adiga
- Narrated by: Bindya Solanki
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall583
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Performance391
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Story389
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. Too poor to finish school, he has to work in a teashop until the day a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticized India, both thrilling and shocking.
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A fine Booker winner
- By FJWynne on 28-12-08
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The Inheritance of Loss
- By: Kiran Desai
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance61
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Story61
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But this is far from easy with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter Sai, come to live with him and his chatty cook.
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When will something happen?
- By Mr David Newton on 09-11-07
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The Sea
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance104
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Story103
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.
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Okay but not great
- By Richard on 02-04-12
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Wolf Hall
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,339
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Performance3,142
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Story3,138
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
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Past imperfect.
- By Francis on 31-10-09
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The White Tiger
- By: Aravind Adiga
- Narrated by: Bindya Solanki
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall583
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Performance391
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Story389
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. Too poor to finish school, he has to work in a teashop until the day a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticized India, both thrilling and shocking.
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A fine Booker winner
- By FJWynne on 28-12-08
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The Inheritance of Loss
- By: Kiran Desai
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance61
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Story61
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But this is far from easy with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter Sai, come to live with him and his chatty cook.
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When will something happen?
- By Mr David Newton on 09-11-07
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The Sea
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance104
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Story103
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.
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Okay but not great
- By Richard on 02-04-12
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Vernon God Little
- By: D.B.C. Pierre
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall202
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Performance173
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Story173
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his hole-in-the-wall town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Eulalio Ledesma is his particular nemesis, manipulating things so that Vernon becomes the fulcrum for the bizarre and vengeful impulses of the townspeople of Martirio.
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Blackly Funny
- By Sara on 15-12-11
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Amsterdam
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrated by: Carsten Warming
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
En kold dag i februar mødes de to gamle venner Clive og Vernon uden for et krematorium for at tage afsked med Molly Lane. Clive, der er Storbritanniens mest succesfulde moderne komponist, og Vernon, der er chefredaktør for en af landets største aviser, har begge været Mollys elskere. Det samme har Julian, Storbritanniens udenrigsminister og premiereminister in spe, som også er mødt op til begravelsen, der afholdes af Mollys efterladte ægtemand George.
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It's in GERMAN ffs!!!!
- By F.J.Bain on 29-02-16
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance88
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Story87
Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and...
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Paddy Clarke - Outstanding!!!
- By Wayne on 21-05-15
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Sacred Hunger
- By: Barry Unsworth
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance117
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Story117
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity. Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage....
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Top notch historical fiction
- By Petra on 05-10-14