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The Cuckoo's Calling
- Cormoran Strike, Book 1
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger...
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Entertaining and likeable
- By Dragon on 06-05-13
- The Cuckoo's Calling
- Cormoran Strike, Book 1
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Excellent performance, Thrilling story.
Reviewed: 19-10-18
Highly recommended. Robert Glenister is a master of the various English accents and the story kept me hooked until the last chapter.
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The Pillars of the Earth
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 40 hrs and 55 mins
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The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known... of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul... of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame... and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.
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The Pillars of the Earth
- By Robert on 31-10-10
- The Pillars of the Earth
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 1
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
Great book, great author.
Reviewed: 13-01-17
Love Ken Fillet and this series is one of his best. can't wait for the next in the series.
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Interesting Times
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Nigel Planer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Interesting Times, the seventeenth novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, finds the planet's oldest empire in the midst of bitter turmoil after the publication of the revolutionary treatise What I Did on My Holidays. Workers, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, are joining forces against old warlords, spreading violence throughout Discworld's ancient cities.
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Great story shame about the sound quality
- By Bethany Black on 03-04-15
- Interesting Times
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Nigel Planer
Pratchett at his best.
Reviewed: 21-04-16
one of the earlier Disneyworld and all the better for it. I got strange looks while waiting in a hospital fir my mum as I was chuckling to myself.
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Quantum of Tweed
- The Man with the Nissan Micra
- By: Conn Iggulden
- Narrated by: Conn Iggulden
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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When gentlemen's tailor Albert Rossi hits an unsuspecting pedestrian in his Nissan Micra, he is amazed to escape the seemingly inevitable knock on the door from the police. Instead he receives a mysterious phone call from a man who tells him that his money will be left in the "usual" place. At that very moment, Albert Rossi decides to change careers. Albert Rossi’s life is about to get a whole lot more interesting....
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Really Good, just wish it was longer.
- By Sara on 12-03-12
- Quantum of Tweed
- The Man with the Nissan Micra
- By: Conn Iggulden
- Narrated by: Conn Iggulden
Really Good, just wish it was longer.
Reviewed: 12-03-12
I could have listened for hours to the exploits of 'the man with the Nissa Micra' as he decides to become an assassin and blunders his way around. Brilliantly written and narrated, left me wanting more.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.
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Relished every minute
- By Sara on 22-03-10
- The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
Wonderful
Reviewed: 07-03-12
I had this in my wish list for a long time, so when this months credit came up I finally downloaded it. A brilliant story that keeps you hooked.
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Anno Dracula
- Book 1
- By: Kim Newman
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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With the versatile voice talent of William Gaminara, acclaimed novelist Kim Newman explores the darkest depths of a reinvented Victorian London. It is 1888, and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel tells the story of vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and British spy Charles Beauregard as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders.
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Jack the Ripper meets Vlad the Impaler
- By Sara on 15-02-12
- Anno Dracula
- Book 1
- By: Kim Newman
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
Very enjoyable
Reviewed: 18-01-12
I bought this after Professor Moriarty and the Hound of the Durbervilles, which was excellent.
I didnt enjoy this one just as much but it is still very good and well worth the credit.
The way the story is woven in with history and fictional characters from different stories is very skillful and I would recommend this author highly.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Neither Here nor There
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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In Neither Here nor There Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.
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Was thinking of stoppong half way through
- By David on 08-07-16
- Neither Here nor There
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
Very enjoyable.
Reviewed: 05-01-12
I have only read one of Brysons books before and found this to be in the same lighthearted, yet educational style. Had me chuckling outloud.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Kim Newman
- Narrated by: Tom Hodgkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Imagine the twisted evil twins of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Professor James Moriarty - wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, terrifyingly unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian Basher Moran - violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. When a certain Irene Adler turns up on their doorstep with a proposition, neither man is able to resist.
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Excellent
- By Sara on 05-01-12
- Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
- By: Kim Newman
- Narrated by: Tom Hodgkins
Excellent
Reviewed: 05-01-12
I listen to audiobooks while I do housework etc to make the time go a bit quicker and I found myself clearing out wardrobes simply to listen to the next chapter. I am not a huge Sherlock holmes fan but I know the basic characters and they are all woven very skillfully in this excellent tale.I would recommend to anyone.
29 of 30 people found this review helpful
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A Night of Blacker Darkness
- Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE IN AUDIONo one else has Dan Wells’ hilarious new novella - it’s not available in print, in ebook, by mobile phone text or Victorian phonograph. Audible is bringing it to you exclusively, for a limited time.The basic premise is this: it's 1817, and a man named Frederick Whithers is wallowing in jail for a crime he didn't commit, desperate to get out so he can go and commit it for real.
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A night of utter Joy
- By Tim on 14-01-12
- A Night of Blacker Darkness
- Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
I tried to like it.
Reviewed: 05-01-12
I really wanted to like this but I simply could'nt get into it. Obviously not to everyones taste.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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World Without End
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 2
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
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On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius, and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war.
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Bereaved when it ended
- By bex4ad on 15-03-11
- World Without End
- The Kingsbridge Novels, Book 2
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
'Gripping'
Reviewed: 03-08-11
Downloaded this to keep me company while I dectorated 2 bedrooms on my own. I had really enjoyed reading (and watching) 'Pillars of the Earth' and this is set 200 years later in Kingsbridge Cathedral. I thoroughly enjoyed it even to the point of listening to it when I went to bed, which is somethiing I never do. The narrator is excellent, giving every character a voice but not overdoing it.
Highly recommended.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful