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Birds of America
- Stories
- By: Lorrie Moore
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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From the opening story, "Willing" - about a second-rate movie actress in her 30s who has moved back to Chicago, where she makes a seedy motel room her home and becomes involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea of who she is as a human being - Birds of America unfolds a startlingly brilliant series of portraits of the unhinged, the lost, the unsettled of our America. Lorrie Moore explores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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Boring and batty
- By Peponi on 26-04-26
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Birds of America
- Stories
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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Bird
- By: Courtney Collins
- Narrated by: Courtney Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.' Himalayas: Unknown Year 'Ten thousand strands of trouble', says Bird's father, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her 14th year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims – not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her.
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Bird
- Narrated by: Courtney Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-12-25
- Language: English
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Blackbird House
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: John Lee, Xe Sands, Amy Rubinate, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall143
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Performance129
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In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.
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Difficult to follow as audiobook
- By Jonathan Old on 09-09-22
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Blackbird House
- Narrated by: John Lee, Xe Sands, Amy Rubinate, Richard Powers, Bernadette Dunne, Tavia Gilbert, Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-06-14
- Language: English
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall362
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Performance328
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Brought to you by Penguin. Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's...
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Favourite book of all time becomes worst thing to ever enter my ears.
- By Tuesdays Wind Up Bird on 10-01-21
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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And the Birds Rained Down
- By: Jocelyne Saucier, Rhonda Mullins - translator
- Narrated by: Ann Noble, Kathleen Gati, Kimberly Farr, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Tom and Charlie are living out what's left of their lives on their own terms in a remote forest, two pot growers their only connection to the outside world. But then two women arrive - a photographer on the trail of survivors of a decades-ago forest fire and an elderly escapee from a psychiatric institution - and everything changes. And the Birds Rained Down, the recipient of several prizes, is a haunting meditation on aging and self-determination.
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A quiet meeting of lives and histories
- By Vickivet on 31-05-25
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And the Birds Rained Down
- Narrated by: Ann Noble, Kathleen Gati, Kimberly Farr, Bo Foxworth, Robertson Dean
- Series: And the Birds Rained Down, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-10-13
- Language: English
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The Thorn Birds
- By: Colleen McCullough
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Overall132
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Performance112
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Sometimes when he didn't know he was being watched, Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain's core. And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able to serve. For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way.
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Abridged version
- By MRS V J WILSON on 11-12-16
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The Thorn Birds
- Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-08-07
- Language: English
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Songbirds
- The powerful novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Book of Fire
- By: Christy Lefteri
- Narrated by: Art Malik, George Georgiou, Indira Varma, and others
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall673
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Performance602
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'Will break your heart and open your eyes' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel.' Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. Her courage to cross oceans. Her hope for a better life. Her love...
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Not for me
- By Margaret on 11-07-21
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Songbirds
- The powerful novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Book of Fire
- Narrated by: Art Malik, George Georgiou, Indira Varma, Lolita Chakrabarti
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Dear Mrs Bird
- Cosy up with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel set in wartime London
- By: AJ Pearce
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,218
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Performance1,096
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Read by Anna Popplewell, known for her role in The Chronicles of Narnia. Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Sunday Times Bestseller Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of...
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Wartime tale of writing, bravery & soldiering on
- By K. J. Kelly on 12-04-18
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Dear Mrs Bird
- Cosy up with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel set in wartime London
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Series: The Wartime Chronicles, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
- A Novel
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Jackie Zebrowski
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance78
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Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn’t think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
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Shakespeare's County review
- By llanlis on 20-06-21
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jackie Zebrowski
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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We Are All Birds of Uganda
- By: Hafsa Zayyan
- Narrated by: Taheen Modak, Sagar Arya
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall191
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Performance169
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1960s Uganda. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes power and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built. Present-day London. Sameer, a young, high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a past he never knew.
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Book brilliant, narration brilliant, issue with so
- By Sam on 02-02-21
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We Are All Birds of Uganda
- Narrated by: Taheen Modak, Sagar Arya
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-01-21
- Language: English
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The Obscene Bird of Night
- By: José Donoso, Leonard Mades - Translator - translator, Megan McDowell - Translator - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 18 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep in a maze of hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him into the terrifying imbunche: a twisted monster with all of its orifices sewn up, buried...
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The Obscene Bird of Night
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 18 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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The Painted Bird
- By: Jerzy Kosinski
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Michael Aronov
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance93
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A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century.
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Great book / difficult content
- By Nancy Smith on 07-10-20
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The Painted Bird
- Narrated by: Fred Berman, Michael Aronov
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 30-03-10
- Language: English
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The Bird in the Bamboo Cage
- By: Hazel Gaynor
- Narrated by: Imogen Church, Rosie Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance163
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China, 1941. With Japan’s declaration of war on the Allies, Elspeth Kent’s future changes forever. When soldiers take control of the missionary school where she teaches, comfortable security is replaced by rationing, uncertainty and fear. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School. Now the enemy, separated indefinitely from anxious parents, the children must turn to their teachers - to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially - for help.
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Survival
- By Pierre Bovington on 17-04-24
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The Bird in the Bamboo Cage
- Narrated by: Imogen Church, Rosie Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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The Spectator Bird
- By: Wallace Stegner
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance38
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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "killing time before time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. But a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before.
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Well read but dated
- By Rachael E Stiles on 26-09-23
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The Spectator Bird
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-09-09
- Language: English
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The Yellow Birds
- A Novel
- By: Kevin Powers
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance39
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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012 WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAY/PEN AWARD 2012 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK: BEST BOOKS OF 2012 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR AN EVENING...
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should be compulsory listening for all politicians
- By chrissie on 27-01-13
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The Yellow Birds
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-09-12
- Language: English
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City of Night Birds
- By: Juhea Kim
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Prima ballerina Natalia Leonova was once celebrated across the world, her signature bravura in demand on stages from St. Petersburg to Paris to New York. But at the top of her career, an accident forces her into sudden retirement. Injured and alone, she turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past, still haunted by her relationships with two gifted dancers, Dmitri and Alexander.
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entrancing but flawed
- By EmCee on 05-02-26
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City of Night Birds
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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All the Little Bird-Hearts
- By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall140
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Performance133
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Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly - her clever, headstrong daughter, now on the cusp of leaving home.
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A most touching and enjoyable read
- By Purple Dragon on 23-08-23
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All the Little Bird-Hearts
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
- New Fiction by Afghan Women
- By: Various, Lucy Hannah, Lyse Doucet - introduction
- Narrated by: Sitara Attaie
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream" A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies...
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Enlightening and poignant
- By Yatti on 04-03-25
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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
- New Fiction by Afghan Women
- Narrated by: Sitara Attaie
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Birds of Prey
- A J. P. Beaumont Novel
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A survivor of childhood trauma, two marriages, twenty hard years with the Seattle P.D. and the bottle, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont has spent far too much time trolling the darker waters of human nature. In the wake of a devastating professional tragedy, he has decided, at long last, to pull the pin...
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Birds of Prey
- A J. P. Beaumont Novel
- Narrated by: Ron McLarty
- Series: J. P. Beaumont, Book 15
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-07-16
- Language: English
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The Naming of the Birds
- By: Paraic O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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'Some wrong was done long ago. It can never be righted, and it has not been forgotten. Someone remembers it.' London, 1894. Inspector Henry Cutter is in an unconvivial temper. Then the murders begin. The first to die is Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but long retired civil servant, is found...
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Genius Narration and story
- By Bett Demby on 16-07-25
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The Naming of the Birds
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Series: Inspector Henry Cutter and Sergeant Gideon Bliss, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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