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Big Money
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire – but that doesn’t stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to ‘Biscuit’, Lord Biskerton, who doesn’t have very much of the stuff and so he has to escape to Valley Fields to hide from his creditors. Meanwhile, his old schoolfriend Berry Conway, who is working for Frisby, himself falls for Ann – just as Biscuit falls for her friend Kitchie Valentine.
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Classic Wodehouse and very enjoyableI
- By Maureen Bennell on 26-07-14
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Big Money
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 16-03-11
- Language: English
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Clarissa Oakes
- Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 15 (Unabridged)
- By: Patrick O'Brian
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime's experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking.
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A weak (ish) link?
- By Mr. N. W. Boothman on 26-08-20
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Clarissa Oakes
- Aubrey-Maturin Series, Book 15 (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin, Book 15
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-09-13
- Language: English
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Grantchester Grind
- By: Tom Sharpe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle and then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries: blackmail and kidnap. But will these be enough? Menaced on all sides - by the collapse of the Chapel, by the tentacles of organised crime, and by the hovering threat of the abominable Dog’s Nose Man - will Porterhouse be forced to unleash the most fearsome weapon in its armoury - the college food?
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Disjointed, unfunny, bulked out by expletives
- By twigs way on 22-02-12
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Grantchester Grind
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Porterhouse Blue, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-01-12
- Language: English
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Battles at Thrush Green
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the village school for over thirty years, is troubled by the methods of the new young teacher. Dotty Harmer takes up driving, much to the concern of others, and it isn’t long before she is involved in an accident and a threatening court case.
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I envy you
- By Linda on 24-01-13
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Battles at Thrush Green
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Series: Thrush Green, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-01-12
- Language: English
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Ancestral Vices
- By: Tom Sharpe
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world.
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Rollicking good yarn
- By Clive on 01-12-13
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Ancestral Vices
- Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-08-11
- Language: English
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Laughing Gas
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.
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Astonishingly Good
- By Ian Maclean on 25-10-20
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Laughing Gas
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Drones Club
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-07-11
- Language: English
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Love on the Rocks
- By: Veronica Henry
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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When Lisa Jones and her boyfriend George take on the run-down Rocks Hotel, they aim to do for Mariscombe what Rick Stein did for Padstow and set up a chic maritime retreat. But renovating a hotel is about more than stripped wooden floors and Egyptian cotton sheets, particularly when the locals are shifty and unhelpful. Especially Bruno Thorne, the tall, dark and surly owner of the nearby Mariscombe Hotel, where life is one long holiday; for the staff, anyway.
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Good story but let itself down in places
- By Maggie on 17-05-15
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Love on the Rocks
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-01-08
- Language: English
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Tyler's Row
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row, with charming leaded-glass windows and an arched thorn hedge over the gateway, are supposed to provide a haven of peace for their new owners, Peter and Diana Hale.
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Great book
- By Secondferret on 18-10-20
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Tyler's Row
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Series: Fairacre, Book 9
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-01-12
- Language: English
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Brother and Sister
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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We all need to know where we come from, where we belong. But for David and Nathalie, this need to know is even more urgent, since they are adopted. Brought up by the same parents but born to two different mothers, they have grown up as brother and sister, and share a fierce loyalty.Their decision, in their late thirties, to embark upon the journey to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter.
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A tender story looking at adoption from many points of view
- By CarDon on 12-06-23
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Brother and Sister
- Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-01-12
- Language: English
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Never the Bride
- By: Paul Magrs
- Narrated by: Joanna Tope
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Brenda has had a long and eventful life and she has come to Whitby to run a B&B in search of some peace and quiet. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for tea and keeping their eyes open for any of the mysterious goings on in town. But the oddest thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. With her terrible scars, her strange lack of a surname or the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes, Brenda should have known that people as, well, unique as she is, just aren’t destined for a quiet life.
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Amusing interlude.
- By Crackdown on 26-05-15
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Never the Bride
- Narrated by: Joanna Tope
- Series: Brenda & Effie, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-04-10
- Language: English
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Bilgewater
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Marigold Green calls herself ‘hideous, quaint and barmy’. Other people call her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill’s daughter. Growing up in a boys’ school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence.
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Wonderful in every way
- By Suzie on 20-03-23
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Bilgewater
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-03-10
- Language: English
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The Sea Garden
- By: Marcia Willett
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness - and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly. As this group begins reminiscing on their pasts and sharing their stories with Jess, it becomes apparent that her family history may be linked with theirs.
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The Sea Garden
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-10-12
- Language: English
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Not That Sort of Girl
- By: Mary Wesley
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son, and elegant hostess of Slepe. To Mylo, Rose was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his erratic and impassionate calls throughout 50 years of tactful duplicity. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.
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Favourite Mary Wesley!
- By Mel Chambers on 08-08-17
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Not That Sort of Girl
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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The Men and the Girls
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James, a teacher, and Hugh, a TV personality, both live with attractive women 25 years their junior. But the age difference is a time bomb, ticking away at the heart of both relationships. Kate's hunger for a life more in keeping with her own age threatens to bring her eight years with James to an end. And how is Julia to cope when her own career begins to blossom while Hugh's is withering before their eyes? The arrival of Miss Beatrice Bachelor, a razor-sharp Oxford spinster, fuels the discontent in both girls.
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I loved this book
- By Sarah on 15-03-17
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The Men and the Girls
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-06-13
- Language: English
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An Imaginative Experience
- By: Mary Wesley
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself
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Remarkable narration...
- By Restorationwoman on 24-11-22
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An Imaginative Experience
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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The Small Hand
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, ‘as if a child had taken hold of it’. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear and panic, and is visited by nightmares.
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Definitely small
- By Jo on 08-09-11
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The Small Hand
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-08-11
- Language: English
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All Over Creation
- By: Ruth Ozeki
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese-American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from 25 years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind?
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original and interesting
- By V on 02-12-13
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All Over Creation
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-09-13
- Language: English
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Holding the Man
- By: Timothy Conigrave
- Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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The mid-'70s: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and ultimately death. With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive for HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving - a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.
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Have the tissues at the ready
- By Andy Hall on 04-11-19
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Holding the Man
- Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-05-16
- Language: English
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A Closed Eye
- By: Anita Brookner
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.
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A subtle, unsettling and compelling book.
- By Lucy Frank on 13-12-17
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A Closed Eye
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-01-11
- Language: English
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