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A Better Place
- By: Mark A. Roeder
- Narrated by: Andy Babinski
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
A Better Place is the story of two boys from two completely different worlds struggling to find themselves amongst a whirlwind of confusion. Will the strength they find in each other be enough to overcome the hatred and abuse of others? The unlikely pair struggle through friendship and heartbreaks, betrayal and hardships, to find the deepest desire of their hearts.
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It was hard to listen to
- By Harry Taylor on 27-04-22
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A Better Place
- Narrated by: Andy Babinski
- Series: Verona Gay Youth Chronicles
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-02-13
- Language: English
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Bad Habit
- By: Alana S. Portero, Mara Faye Lethem
- Narrated by: Alexandra Grey
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb that has no place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene animated by charming junkies, glamorous pop divas, and fallen angels. With each step she takes forward in the city, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism she does not yet know how to counter. In this thrilling and yet often frightening place each decision can have the highest of stakes and yet she knows that only she can forge a path forward to the life she truly wants to live.
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous on 03-07-25
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Bad Habit
- Narrated by: Alexandra Grey
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Greta and Valdin
- Shortlisted for The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024
- By: Rebecca K Reilly
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton, Gary Furlong, Jackson Bliss, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance38
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Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BBC'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Generous and tender' NEW YORK TIMES Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much...
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Disappointing
- By Grace on 04-10-24
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Greta and Valdin
- Shortlisted for The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024
- Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton, Gary Furlong, Jackson Bliss, Natalie Beran, Nico Evers-Swindell
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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The South
- By: Tash Aw
- Narrated by: Windson Liong
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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Story16
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from...
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give the audiobook a skip
- By Sharon on 17-03-25
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The South
- Narrated by: Windson Liong
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The Madonna of Bolton
- By: Matt Cain
- Narrated by: Simon Vause
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance111
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Story111
Charlie Matthews’ love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called "Lucky Star"....
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Both corny and feel good
- By Justin D. Rumsby on 28-09-18
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The Madonna of Bolton
- Narrated by: Simon Vause
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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Hideous Kinky
- By: Esther Freud
- Narrated by: Esther Freud
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Bloomsbury presents Hideous Kinky, written and read by Esther Freud Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides on a whim to move herself and her two young daughters to Morocco. The ensuing adventure takes them...
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Hideous Kinky
- Narrated by: Esther Freud
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-09-25
- Language: English
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The Boyfriend Academy
- By: J S Strange
- Narrated by: S. Morys
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
‘WOW, what a book… I don’t remember the last time I stayed up until 4am because I couldn’t put a book down… Absolutely loved… I was on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ganymede’s is no ordinary boarding school. Behind its spiral towers and manicured lawns, boys are forged...
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The Boyfriend Academy
- Narrated by: S. Morys
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,227
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Performance1,096
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Story1,096
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
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Weighing up the church and personal beliefs
- By Sue on 14-08-17
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-09-15
- Language: English
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The Rachel Incident
- By: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall572
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Performance539
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Story539
When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...
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I must have read something different
- By Gabriella Frances on 06-07-23
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The Rachel Incident
- Narrated by: Clara Harte
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-06-23
- Language: English
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Nightingale
- By: Marina Kemp
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story49
Marguerite Demers is 24 when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all his previous nurses.
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Different!! Loved it!!!
- By Autumn Rose on 03-03-20
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Nightingale
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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A Sweet Obscurity
- A tender, heartfelt novel of a child having to grow up too soon
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance37
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Story36
Bittersweet and startling, A SWEET OBSCURITY is a novel of childhood, love and the consequences of how lives are lived. 'Intriguing and impressive. A memorable study of a child forced cruelly, even tragically, to grow up too soon' Sunday Times Since her mother's death, nine year old Dido has...
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A really satisfying and involving listen
- By Granny Vi on 16-02-23
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A Sweet Obscurity
- A tender, heartfelt novel of a child having to grow up too soon
- Narrated by: Patrick Gale
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-07-18
- Language: English
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Days of Light
- a transporting story of love and loss you’ll carry with you forever
- By: Megan Hunter
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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'Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf . . . lyrical and captivating' -The Observer 'Radiant, absorbing, sensual' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre 'Beautiful' - Sophie Elmhirst, author of Maurice and Maralyn From the author of The End We Start From, now a major...
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Still waiting to see the light
- By Amazon Customer on 21-05-25
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Days of Light
- a transporting story of love and loss you’ll carry with you forever
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-04-25
- Language: English
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Under the Udala Trees
- By: Chinelo Okparanta
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance89
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Story89
Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.
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The Narrator ruins the book!!
- By Frustrated on 14-05-16
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Under the Udala Trees
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-09-15
- Language: English
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Pizza Girl
- By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
- Narrated by: Jenna Yi
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance24
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Story24
Eighteen years old, pregnant and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She’s grieving the death of her father, avoiding her loving boyfriend and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighbourhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickle-covered pizzas for her son’s happiness.
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Felt like it finished at the point when it became interesting
- By DomiMac on 25-08-24
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Pizza Girl
- Narrated by: Jenna Yi
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Chosen Family
- The unforgettable new novel from the author of Green Dot
- By: Madeleine Gray
- Narrated by: Madeleine Withington
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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'MADELEINE GRAY IS A DAZZLING WRITER - A HUGE TALENT' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATING, HILARIOUS AND FULL OF LIFE' JESSICA STANLEY 'ALL KINDS OF GORGEOUSNESS' JENNIE GODFREY 'GRAY WRITES SO ACUTELY ABOUT THE MESS OF DESIRE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION' NIGELLA LAWSON Books about friendship...
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Excellent
- By Miranda on 10-02-26
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Chosen Family
- The unforgettable new novel from the author of Green Dot
- Narrated by: Madeleine Withington
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance31
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Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defying his parents’ expectations, Jim strikes out on his own, hoping to find Bob and rekindle their amorous friendship.
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Romantic tragedy
- By That Man on 26-06-20
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The City and the Pillar
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Ordinary Saints
- An unmissable, moving and funny exploration of family, grief and queer identity. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025
- By: Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
- Narrated by: Roisin Rankin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance92
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What if you had escaped your devout family in Ireland to live your best queer life - then your brother became a candidate for sainthood? An unmissable, award-winning, moving and funny exploration of family, grief and queer identity. *SELECTED AS A RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE...
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Exceptional
- By Coz E on 07-01-26
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Ordinary Saints
- An unmissable, moving and funny exploration of family, grief and queer identity. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025
- Narrated by: Roisin Rankin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Rubyfruit Jungle
- By: Rita Mae Brown
- Narrated by: Anna Paquin
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance26
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Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay true to herself in 1950s America. In her dealings with boyfriends and girlfriends, in the rocky relationship with her mother and in her determination to pursue her career, she will fight for her right to happiness. Charming, proud and inspiring, Molly is the girl who refuses to be put in a box.
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A Classic
- By CluelessKatie on 09-01-22
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Rubyfruit Jungle
- Narrated by: Anna Paquin
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-01-22
- Language: English
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Plain Bad Heroines
- By: Emily M. Danforth
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance82
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Story81
Brookhants School for Girls: infamous site of a series of tragic deaths more than a hundred years ago. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’: in the early 1900s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close.
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A reasonable enough story
- By History Deserves Better Than This on 22-11-24
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Plain Bad Heroines
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Peacock
- By: James Hynes
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sparrow comes another spellbinding historical epic set in the last days of a dying Roman empire . . . Sparrow has flown from the confines of the Roman brothel where he was raised. Now older and smarter, and having learned the arts of deception and...
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Peacock
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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