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Laughing Gas
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall209
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Performance186
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Story185
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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The Second Worst Restaurant in France
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Timothy Ackroyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance71
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Story71
In the follow-up to My Italian Bulldozer, hapless food writer Paul Stewart once again finds himself trapped in a series of hilarious misunderstandings, this time facing off against the second worst restaurant in France. Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six months.
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The second worse restaurant in France
- By yvonne atkins on 25-06-19
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The Second Worst Restaurant in France
- Narrated by: Timothy Ackroyd
- Series: Paul Stewart, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-05-19
- Language: English
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The Rest of Our Lives
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
- By: Benjamin Markovits
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance160
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Story160
A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend . . . a profoundly moving experience' ANN PATCHETT 'Deeply human . . . a beautifully quiet and devastating book' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'Funny, wise and...
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A journey worth taking
- By PaulT Edinburgh on 30-11-25
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The Rest of Our Lives
- Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Biography of X
- By: Catherine Lacey
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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Story20
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets, betrayals and destruction.
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This Book bamboozled me
- By Ad on 19-06-23
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Biography of X
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-03-23
- Language: English
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Can't Help but Love You
- By: Tay Mo'nae
- Narrated by: Elena Campbell, Winston James
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Aisha owns her own printing company, creating custom shirts, mugs, and other things. She's guarded and has a hard time allowing men to get close to her on a serious level. One heartbreak was enough for her. She eventually learns the only one who can heal that hurt she felt years ago is the same guy who caused it. But is that possible knowing the secret she's holding onto?
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Very realistic and intense
- By diane on 27-04-25
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Can't Help but Love You
- Narrated by: Elena Campbell, Winston James
- Series: Want You
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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Über Menschen
- Roman
- By: Juli Zeh
- Narrated by: Anna Schudt
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance45
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Story45
Dora ist mit ihrer kleinen Hündin aufs Land gezogen. Sie brauchte dringend einen Tapetenwechsel, mehr Freiheit, Raum zum Atmen. Aber ganz so idyllisch wie gedacht ist Bracken, das kleine Dorf im brandenburgischen Nirgendwo, nicht. In Doras Haus gibt es noch keine Möbel, der Garten gleicht einer Wildnis, und die Busverbindung in die Kreisstadt ist ein Witz. Vor allem aber verbirgt sich hinter der hohen Gartenmauer ein Nachbar, der mit kahlrasiertem Kopf und rechten Sprüchen sämtlichen Vorurteilen zu entsprechen scheint.
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Brilliant and thoughtful
- By Gisela Hafezparast on 08-12-25
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Über Menschen
- Roman
- Narrated by: Anna Schudt
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-04-21
- Language: German
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Warm Bodies
- (The Warm Bodies Series)
- By: Isaac Marion
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Story77
‘The zombie novel with a heart', Guardian Now a major motion picture starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich, Warm Bodies is the ultimate zombie read this Halloween. 'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from...
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Alright book. Very badly chosen/cast narrator
- By VK on 12-03-13
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Warm Bodies
- (The Warm Bodies Series)
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Series: Warm Bodies, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-02-13
- Language: English
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The Innocents
- By: Francesca Segal
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many.
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Great mispronunciations!
- By bookworm on 02-08-18
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The Innocents
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp – until he finds out it’s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless...
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Fabulous one of my favourites
- By Roz on 11-10-21
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Series: Middle School, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-13
- Language: English
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A Long Way from Verona
- By: Jane Gardam
- Narrated by: Kate Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story12
'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'. Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her - a confining world of wartime restrictions, Viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica has been told that she is 'beyond all possible doubt', a born writer.
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Hated it...
- By Mr Cyril Simsa on 18-08-24
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A Long Way from Verona
- Narrated by: Kate Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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The Universe Versus Alex Woods
- By: Gavin Extence
- Narrated by: Joe Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall464
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Performance409
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Story408
A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero, and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever heard. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local bullies. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen - he's got the scars to prove it. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend.
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Grows on you!
- By F on 26-05-13
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The Universe Versus Alex Woods
- Narrated by: Joe Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 31-01-13
- Language: English
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Dangerous Davies
- By: Leslie Thomas
- Narrated by: Alexander John
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance57
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Story59
As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.
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Very funny
- By Mrs. T. L. Brown on 31-05-13
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Dangerous Davies
- Narrated by: Alexander John
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 22-06-10
- Language: English
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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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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
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
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The Gallows Pole
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall281
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Performance251
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Story250
From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners, and their business is clipping - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death.
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The gruesome tale of the Cragg Vale Coiners
- By papapownall on 08-07-19
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The Gallows Pole
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Stern Men
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men'.
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Witty and Warm
- By C on 16-03-26
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Stern Men
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-04-18
- Language: English
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- The Gripping And Pulse-Pounding Novel From International Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,008
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Performance1,773
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Story1,776
Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...
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Oh No!!!!!
- By mollyeyre on 17-03-13
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Best Kept Secret: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- The Gripping And Pulse-Pounding Novel From International Bestselling Author Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Series: Clifton Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-03-13
- Language: English
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A Distant View of Everything
- Isabel Dalhousie, Book 11
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story50
The latest novel in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - is anxious. The next issue of the Review is far from ready, her eldest, Charlie, is jealous, and their housekeeper, Grace, has an officious approach to childcare. With some relief, Isabel returns to helping out at her niece Cat's delicatessen, where surely the most taxing duty is the preparation of sandwiches.
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Gentle philosophy
- By Nicola on 24-10-23
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A Distant View of Everything
- Isabel Dalhousie, Book 11
- Narrated by: Karlyn Stephen
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 11
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-05-17
- Language: English
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With All My Love
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- By: Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Deirdre Purcell
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance74
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Story74
*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A lovely, gentle read, full of emotion and redemption' Daily Mail 'This touching story of love, family and sacrifice will have you transfixed' Closer 'Reading this book is like being enfolded in a hug from the great writer herself: warm, comforting and...
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Love and forgiveness
- By JAINA on 08-02-20
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With All My Love
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Deirdre Purcell
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 29-08-13
- Language: English
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The Harp in the South
- By: Ruth Park
- Narrated by: Kate Hood
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance8
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Story8
Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take you straight back to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.
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Loved it
- By Nikkiee on 17-11-17
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The Harp in the South
- Narrated by: Kate Hood
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-10-11
- Language: English
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The Siege
- By: Helen Dunmore
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance146
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Story145
Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, The Siege draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter.
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Harrowing and deeply moving
- By Kirstine on 08-10-16
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The Siege
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: The Siege, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-07-10
- Language: English
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