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Herzog
- By: Saul Bellow
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance83
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Story82
Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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Two Stars!?!?!?!
- By S. Wragg on 05-04-11
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Herzog
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-12-09
- Language: English
- Marriage · Classics · Contemporary Fiction
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The Second Husband
- By: Louise Candlish
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Story43
When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage of his own behind him.
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Predictable.
- By DubaiReader on 11-05-14
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The Second Husband
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-03-09
- Language: English
- Marriage · Contemporary Fiction
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Eleven Minutes
- By: Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Overall141
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Performance118
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Story118
The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. ‘Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…’ So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age that she will never find true love. A chance meeting in Rio takes her...
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Good book. Bad choice on the reader.
- By Lisiane on 16-02-11
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Eleven Minutes
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-01-09
- Language: English
- Romance · Contemporary · Genre Fiction
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Paris Stories
- By: Mavis Gallant
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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Story7
Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. They compose a secret history, both intimate and panoramic, of modern times, and offer a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
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Flawless writing, performance ok
- By Mariachi on 14-10-13
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Paris Stories
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-11-06
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction · Psychological
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And Then it Happened
- By: Linda Green
- Narrated by: Suzie Aitcheson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall294
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Performance258
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Story258
Mel Taylor was thirteen years old when she found her Mr Right. Twenty years on they remain blissfully in love. She has the man she adores, a gorgeous daughter, a great job and a dream home. But Mel's seemingly perfect life is spoilt by a dark secret and a niggling fear that her good fortune can't last for ever. Despite her husband Adam telling her to live for the present and stop worrying about the future, Mel can't shake the feeling that someone is about to call time on their happiness. And then it happens.
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And then it happened
- By Judy on 07-04-12
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And Then it Happened
- Narrated by: Suzie Aitcheson
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 20-03-12
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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Tutta la vita che resta
- By: Roberta Recchia
- Narrated by: Valentina Tarozzi
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
Uno strappo che sembrava impossibile da ricucire, una famiglia che nel corso degli anni ritrova la strada nella forza dei legami. Ci sono libri che ti entrano dentro, che ti accompagnano per mano nella vita di tutti i giorni. È ciò che succede con l'esordio magnetico di Roberta Recchia, una storia da cui non ci si stacca, con protagonisti vivi, autentici. Come Marisa e Stelvio Ansaldo, che nella Roma degli anni Cinquanta si innamorano nella bottega del sor Ettore, il padre di lei.
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Bellissima storia
- By Barbara on 18-02-25
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Tutta la vita che resta
- Narrated by: Valentina Tarozzi
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-09-24
- Language: Italian
- Contemporary Fiction
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Rebuilding Coventry
- By: Sue Townsend
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance28
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Story29
Coventry Dakin's tale begins with her accidental killing of her neighbour. Forced to flee the law, she deserts her council estate, her boring husband and two demanding children for the anonymity of London's cardboard city. Originally published in 1988, Rebuilding Coventry is a brilliantly observed satire of Eighties Britain and the hypocrisy of the middle and upper classes.
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Awful narration
- By Jane on 09-05-14
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Rebuilding Coventry
- Narrated by: Kate Lock
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-09-12
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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A Closed Eye
- By: Anita Brookner
- Narrated by: Prunella Scales
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story52
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
- Marriage · Contemporary Fiction
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Chatterton
- By: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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Story41
Poet, forger, and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged 18. His death was thought to be suicide: But what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope become obsessed with decoding the clues in an 18th-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions....
A century before, as 19th-century artist Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room, he, too, becomes fascinated by the mystery. Then Chatterton himself steps forward, with his own story....
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Wonderful!
- By Peter on 06-12-15
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Chatterton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Dodie Smith
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance50
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Story53
Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with...
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A great dramatisation of a quirky story.
- By Lucy Mars on 05-11-21
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I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-03-16
- Language: English
- Classics · Contemporary Fiction · Family Life
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The People of the Abyss
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several weeks, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. In his attempt to understand the working-class of this deprived area of London the author stayed as a lodger with a poor family. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.
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Terrible narrator, spoils it...
- By CK on 11-08-22
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The People of the Abyss
- Narrated by: David McCran
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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Ashes of Spring
- By: Mieko Kawakami, Hitomi Yoshio - translator, David Boyd - translator
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
Award-winning Japanese author and poet Mieko Kawakami brings Ashes of Spring, a collection of short stories set in everyday life in Japan just before the pandemic lockdown.
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Subtly creepy
- By Anonymous on 03-06-25
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Ashes of Spring
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-03-25
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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The Birthday Party
- A spell-binding summer read from the Number One bestselling author (Roone Book 4)
- By: Roisin Meaney
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance24
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Story25
'A wonderful storyteller' Ciara Geraghty 'Meaney is utterly credible, utterly authentic, utterly irresistible' Irish Independent 'Roisin Meaney is a skilful storyteller' Sheila O'Flanagan The new novel from No.1 bestselling author Roisin Meaney. Another summer is in full swing on the island of...
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Loved it.
- By Jelly on 30-12-22
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The Birthday Party
- A spell-binding summer read from the Number One bestselling author (Roone Book 4)
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Series: Roone, Book 4
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
- Fiction · Contemporary
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Die Vermessung der Welt
- By: Daniel Kehlmann
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
Gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts machen sich zwei junge Deutsche an die Vermessung der Welt. Der eine, Alexander von Humboldt, kämpft sich durch Urwald und Steppe, befährt den Orinoko, kostet Gifte, zählt Kopfläuse, kriecht in Erdlöcher, besteigt Vulkane und begegnet Seeungeheuern und Menschenfressern. Der andere, der Mathematiker und Astronom Carl Friedrich Gauß, der sein Leben nicht ohne Frauen verbringen kann und doch in der Hochzeitsnacht aus dem Bett springt, um eine Formel zu notieren.
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Die Vermessung der Welt
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 22-06-17
- Language: German
- Contemporary Fiction
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The Single Girl’s To-Do List
- By: Lindsey Kelk
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance125
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Story124
A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series, Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: Boyfriend – Flat - Great job. NOT on the list: Being dumped - Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list – The Single Girl’s To-Do List.
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Love Love Loved This Book
- By Claire Bullimore on 11-09-14
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The Single Girl’s To-Do List
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-06-11
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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The Beating of his Wings
- By: Paul Hoffman
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall709
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Performance657
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Story654
The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose - to destroy God's greatest mistake, mankind itself -...
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Satisfying ending...
- By Robyn on 12-01-14
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The Beating of his Wings
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: Left Hand of God, Book 3
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-08-13
- Language: English
- Action & Adventure · Contemporary Fiction
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Other People's Children
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance45
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Story45
When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year.
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disappointing
- By Mrs on 15-08-13
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Other People's Children
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-01-12
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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Leaving the Atocha Station
- By: Ben Lerner
- Narrated by: Ben Lerner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance41
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Story41
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections?
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Highly recommend
- By Kindle Customer on 22-11-22
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Leaving the Atocha Station
- Narrated by: Ben Lerner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-10-11
- Language: English
- Contemporary Fiction
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