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The Graham Norton Book Club
- By: Graham Norton
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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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Jul 14 202149 mins
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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
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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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A truly sad tale
- By Jacey on 11-07-22
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
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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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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
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'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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You have to listen to this!
- By David J Avery on 20-07-15
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Old Filth
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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A brilliant story
- By mj on 22-05-18
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The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Rebecca
- By: Daphne Du Maurier
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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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 Antagonist on 30-06-13
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The Essex Serpent
- By: Sarah Perry
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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Exceptional Final Volume of the Wolf Hall Trilogy
- By Max Mitchell on 11-03-20
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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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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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A really enjoyable story
- By mrs on 04-02-16
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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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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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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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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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Wonderful performance
- By Amazon Customer on 30-05-18
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She 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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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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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.