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Anna
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance133
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Story133
Anna Cole grew up poor, but her mother's love made her feel rich every day. Then her mother died, and Anna was sent to a care home. As a teenager, Anna vowed that one day she would have children of her own and create the happy, noisy family life she always craved. Then, one day, Anna meets Theo Montgomery in a lift. Theo has kind eyes but a sad past. His family were rich, but his childhood was full of neglect. Theo can't imagine bringing a child into this cruel world, but he does want a soul mate. Someone to love him unconditionally; someone with whom he can share his family's wealth.
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I wanted to like it but....
- By andrea mciver on 22-09-21
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Anna
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Series: One Love, Two Stories, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-12-18
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Died a Lot
- Thursday Next Book 7
- By: Jasper Fforde
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall284
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Performance244
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Story243
The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family...
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prefer the earlier books
- By Robert Parr on 18-08-17
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The Woman Who Died a Lot
- Thursday Next Book 7
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Kruger
- Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 7
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-08-12
- Language: English
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Give Me Everything You've Got
- 'Read the book of the summer' - Harpers Bazaar
- By: Imogen Crimp
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
Bloomsbury presents Give Me Everything You've Got by Imogen Crimp, read by Mei Mei Macleod ‘Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn’ STYLIST ‘A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel’ CLAIRE FULLER ‘Evocative, gripping and, at times, verging on horror’ IRISH TIMES...
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Modern Day Daphne du Maurier
- By Anonymous on 29-06-26
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Give Me Everything You've Got
- 'Read the book of the summer' - Harpers Bazaar
- Narrated by: Mei Mei MacLeod
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Burnt Shadows
- By: Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance130
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Story131
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.... August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka takes in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry. In a split second, the world turns white.
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My lord
- By *** on 14-10-18
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Burnt Shadows
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 22-10-09
- Language: English
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- By: Mark Winegardner
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall44
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Performance34
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Story34
"The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete," begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, "until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States." The Godfather: The Lost Years takes place in the years 1955-65, but it is built upon the story of that "year of delicate political manoeuvring" and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war.
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How short the story is
- By Nick on 06-05-25
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The Godfather
- The Lost Years
- Narrated by: Joe Grifasi
- Series: The Godfather Returns (abridged), Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-05
- Language: English
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Significant Others
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance52
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Story54
Narrated by Cynthia Nixon Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fifth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Tranquillity reigns in the ancient redwood forest until a women-only music festival sets up camp...
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So many characters...
- By Sophie on 22-04-21
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Significant Others
- Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon
- Series: Tales of the City, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 26-03-13
- Language: English
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The Secrets Between Us
- The gripping and unforgettable historical fiction book from the top 10 bestseller
- By: Louise Douglas
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance66
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Story66
A Richard and Judy recommendation for the 2012 Summer Book Club, this is a brilliant Gothic novel in the vein of Daphne du Maurier. A chance encounter: When Sarah meets dark, brooding Alex, she grasps his offer of a new life miles away from her own. They've both recently escaped broken...
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Gripping story
- By Cathryn Norris on 24-08-21
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The Secrets Between Us
- The gripping and unforgettable historical fiction book from the top 10 bestseller
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-11-11
- Language: English
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Letters to My Daughters
- The heartwarming new novel from the #1 bestseller
- By: Emma Hannigan
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance75
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Story76
Some books are guaranteed to break your heart - and lift you up. Letters to my Daughters is one of those wonderful books. If you loved Between Sisters by Cathy Kelly or Orange Blossom Days by Patricia Scanlan, this novel is for you. Throughout their lives, the three Brady sisters have always...
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A must read for every one
- By Valerie on 23-02-18
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Letters to My Daughters
- The heartwarming new novel from the #1 bestseller
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 15-02-18
- Language: English
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The Star
- By: H. G. Wells
- Narrated by: Peter Walters
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
"The Star" is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H.G. Wells. In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the notion that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Indeed, such object is a luminous celestial body, whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo.
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The Star
- Narrated by: Peter Walters
- Length: 35 mins
- Release date: 19-01-22
- Language: English
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The Dark Vineyard
- By: Martin Walker
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance136
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Story134
Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Captain Bruno Courrèges is roused from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. Bruno, the only policeman in the small Périgord town, follows the fire engines towards the site of a large barn, now engulfed in flames, the surrounding fields ablaze. Everything points to arson. A Californian wine maker is planning to buy up half the valley to create a huge wine-producing operation.
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An unfortunate mismatch
- By Kl Love on 11-12-13
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The Dark Vineyard
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Series: Bruno Chief Of Police, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-02-10
- Language: English
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The Ravenscar Dynasty
- By: Kati Nicholl - abriged, Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story6
The Ravenscar Dynasty, introducing the house of DeRavenel, launches Barbara Taylor Bradford’s epic new series. Ravenscar: A house, a legacy and a dynasty. On a bitterly cold day in 1904, the Deravenel family's future changes for ever. When Cecily Deravenel tells her 18-year-old son Edward of the death of his father, brother, and cousins in a fire, a part of him dies as well. Edward is comforted by his cousin Neville Watkins, who is suspicious of the deaths.
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Ravens car dynasty
- By Paul daysh on 26-12-22
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The Ravenscar Dynasty
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-10-12
- Language: English
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Someone I Used to Know
- The gorgeous new love story with a twist, from the bestselling author
- By: Paige Toon
- Narrated by: Heather Long
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall372
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Performance347
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Story347
A beautiful story of love and second chances, with a remarkable family at its heart, from the Sunday Times bestselling author. So much can change in half a lifetime… Then At fifteen, George is the foster brother Leah never asked for. As the angry, troubled boy struggles to come to terms with...
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Enjoyed BUT...
- By alice a. on 19-11-21
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Someone I Used to Know
- The gorgeous new love story with a twist, from the bestselling author
- Narrated by: Heather Long
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Zambezi
- By: Tony Park
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
When a young American research assistant is killed by a man-eating lion, three people are devastated. Jed Banks, an American Special Forces soldier serving in Afghanistan; Professor Christine Wallis, a wildlife researcher in South Africa; and Hassan bin Zayid, a hotel magnate in Zambia. The victim, Miranda Banks-Lewis, was their daughter, protegee and lover respectively. Desperate to find out what happened to Miranda, Jed and Christine with the help of a determined Australian journalist.
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Fast paced story with lots of twists in the plot
- By Celia on 08-10-24
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Zambezi
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-07-13
- Language: English
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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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Overall49
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Performance44
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Story44
A mesmerising psychological drama about desire and betrayal from the bestselling author of Our House. Be careful who you let into your heart - and your home… When Davis Calder moves in next door to Kate Easton and her two children, no one has any idea of the devastation about to be unleashed...
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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: 01-04-09
- Language: English
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Second Honeymoon
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance25
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Story25
Ben is, at last, leaving home. At 22, he’s the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, is distraught. He husband, on the other hand, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. Ben’s brother is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister is wrestling with debts and the end of a turbulent love affair. As the children’s lives become more complicated, they retreat to the simplicities of their childhood. But can you ever go home?
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Thoroughly enjoyed it
- By Yvonne W on 21-07-20
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Second Honeymoon
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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Mike and Psmith
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Graham Seed
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance64
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Story64
It was a preference for cricket over schoolwork that united Mike and Psmith in their reluctance to attend their new school, Sedleigh. The school insists that its attendees be keen, but it is sorely unprepared for boys of such foresight and resources as Mike and Psmith who have decided to indulge in all manner of high-jinks and adventures.
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Mike and Psmith
- By julia on 05-07-13
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Mike and Psmith
- Narrated by: Graham Seed
- Series: Psmith, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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Rumpole
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Margot Boyd, Maurice Denham
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance133
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Story134
Maurice Denham stars as John Mortimer's famous comic creation Rumpole of the Bailey. Defender of the underdog, friend of South London villains and scourge of QCs, much-loved barrister Horace Rumpole was first brought to life on television, and in 1980 BBC Radio 4 introduced him to the airwaves for a 13-episode series.
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Maurice Denham is marvellous as Rumpole
- By Nigel on 23-11-17
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Rumpole
- Narrated by: Margot Boyd, Maurice Denham
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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The Time Keeper
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance181
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Story181
In this stunning new novel, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure time. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more years for themselves. At last, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is...
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Rather irksome
- By Sara on 03-04-13
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The Time Keeper
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-09-12
- Language: English
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Not That Sort of Girl
- By: Mary Wesley
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance123
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Story125
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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Diary of an Oxygen Thief
- By: uncredited
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance79
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Story78
Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel...
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Great look at a shallow paranoid guy
- By Ryan B on 12-11-24
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Diary of an Oxygen Thief
- Series: The Diaries of an Oxygen Thief, Book 1
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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