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The Golem and the Djinni
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,545
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Performance1,460
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‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. ‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian One cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it...
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Quite unique...
- By mollymoon1 on 14-04-14
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The Golem and the Djinni
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-08-13
- Language: English
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Daniela Nardini
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall697
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Performance601
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Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Even Kitty, Esme's beloved sister, is beginning to lose patience. Something will have to be done.
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One of the best readings I have heard
- By Anna on 15-07-13
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Narrated by: Daniela Nardini
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-10-06
- Language: English
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The Sparsholt Affair
- from the Man Booker Prize winner, the epic literary novel spanning seven transformative decades
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: David Dawson
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall267
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Performance247
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'Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst' — Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex relationships of a remarkable family. In...
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Life among the gay arty literati .
- By holly bird on 20-10-17
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The Sparsholt Affair
- from the Man Booker Prize winner, the epic literary novel spanning seven transformative decades
- Narrated by: David Dawson
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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The Adults
- By: Alison Espach
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WEDDING PEOPLE On a bright summer evening in 1990s Connecticut, fourteen-year-old Emily Vidal stands on her parents' lawn, watching the adults arrive. Her mother is hosting a lavish birthday party for her father, even though he is about to leave...
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The Adults
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- By: Ovid, Denis Feeney - introduction, David Raeburn - translator
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance61
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney. Ovid's sensuous and witty...
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Enjoyable but marred by mistakes in the narration.
- By L. J. W. Cych on 06-06-20
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Metamorphoses
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, John Sackville, Maya Saroya, David Raeburn
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Stole My Life
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,435
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Performance2,209
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Story2,202
One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. But in this event is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar, wrenching her whole family apart. For the first time real, honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney, Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?
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Great first half...
- By Boaz Tal on 18-05-15
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The Woman Who Stole My Life
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-11-14
- Language: English
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
- The unputdownable and hilarious novel that inspired the Apple TV series
- By: Rufi Thorpe
- Narrated by: Elle Fanning
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall368
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Performance357
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Story357
'I read the first paragraph and was immediately hooked' Jacqueline Wilson 'Enormously entertaining and lovable' Nick Hornby, New York Times 'Nonjudgmental, original and very funny; the book is warm and generous too. I loved it' India Knight, Sunday Times STYLE ** Big Little Lies creator David E...
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Real
- By Bambooblinds on 07-05-25
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
- The unputdownable and hilarious novel that inspired the Apple TV series
- Narrated by: Elle Fanning
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-06-24
- Language: English
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Property
- A Collection
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver ‘Genius’ Stylist ‘Phenomenal’ Observer ‘Brilliant’ The Times In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring obsessions: property. A woman creates a deeply...
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Love Lionel but not as a narrator
- By Ms E C on 29-05-18
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Property
- A Collection
- Narrated by: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-04-18
- Language: English
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A Deadly Flame
- DS Malkie McCulloch, Book 3
- By: Doug Sinclair
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance61
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Anna Galbraith's world shatters when she hears the devastating news: her husband’s whisky distillery has burned to the ground and a body has been found inside. But her husband wasn’t the only victim – a young firefighter perished too, leaving behind a grief-stricken fiancée only weeks away from their wedding day.
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Cracking
- By TW on 06-11-24
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A Deadly Flame
- DS Malkie McCulloch, Book 3
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Series: DS Malkie McCulloch, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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Kafka on the Shore
- By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall823
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Performance717
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Story715
Brought to you by Penguin. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their...
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Not for me
- By charoup on 21-04-21
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Kafka on the Shore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- By: Jonas Jonasson
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,462
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Performance5,644
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Story5,626
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin: his one-hundredth birthday party. Escaping through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several deaths, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent but very human police.
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Fantastically Odd
- By O Day on 29-05-13
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: The Hundred-Year-Old Man, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 14-08-12
- Language: English
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Run
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
Bloomsbury presents Run by Ann Patchett, read by Peter Francis James. ‘Enthralling' Observer ‘A spectacular read' Sunday Express 'An award-winning writer at the top of her game' Telegraph A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto Tip and Teddy are...
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Superb, well crafted story.
- By Neil a. on 11-11-24
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Run
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall497
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Performance468
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Brought to you by Penguin. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny...
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Perfectly describes the day-to-day during the Civil Rights
- By Charlotte on 15-08-24
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The Help
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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Number Thirty-Two
- By: Cassie Steward
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance104
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Story104
Number Thirty-Two was once a family home. Anna was once a mother and a wife. Now, she is in arrears and alone. With little choice but to sell up, she is forced to confront the memories of the people who once inhabited the empty rooms. With the help of an unlikely ally in her next door neighbour's son, she is finally able to piece together the tragic events of forty years ago that have inextricably linked the fates of their families and ricocheted through both of their households for decades.
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Beautiful
- By Hannah Q-K on 07-01-26
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Number Thirty-Two
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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The Forty Rules of Love
- The magical tale of love and self-discovery from the bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall673
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Performance612
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The international bestseller from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World * One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person...
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Great story, not great audio
- By Anonymous on 19-01-20
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The Forty Rules of Love
- The magical tale of love and self-discovery from the bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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Three Days in June
- The funny, moving, irresistible summer read from the Sunday Times bestseller
- By: Anne Tyler
- Narrated by: J. Smith Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall202
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Performance193
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Brought to you by Penguin. The happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits...
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This was perfect storytelling.
- By Book Fiend on 18-08-25
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Three Days in June
- The funny, moving, irresistible summer read from the Sunday Times bestseller
- Narrated by: J. Smith Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
- By: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall214
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Performance178
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Story176
This is a journey of both escape and discovery for four exquisitely different women, a month of bliss and privacy for four weary souls. Their refuge on the Italian Riviera provides the perfect backdrop for a story about the search for spiritual harmony within and without.
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A trip to heaven!
- By Kitty Kat on 03-05-12
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The Enchanted April
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-07-02
- Language: English
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The Complete Charles Dickens Collection: Part Two - 1844 to 1865
- Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Pictures from Italy, Bleak House, The Uncommercial Traveller, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, & More
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Keeble, Stephen Fry, and others
- Length: 247 hrs and 24 mins
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The Complete Charles Dickens Collection: Part Two contains all of Charles Dickens' major published works from 1844 to 1865. Dickens wrote most of his most influential and beloved novels during these years - introducing us to characters such as Pip, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, Esther Summerson, and many more who have lived long in the memory for generations. Also included here are a selection of his essays, travelogues, letters, and a short biography of Dickens by his daughter, Mamie.
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The Complete Charles Dickens Collection: Part Two - 1844 to 1865
- Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Pictures from Italy, Bleak House, The Uncommercial Traveller, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, & More
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Jonathan Keeble, Stephen Fry, Paterson Joseph, Miranda Raison, Pearl Mackie, Lucy Scott, Nicholas Boulton, Julie Teal, David Rintoul, Ben Allen
- Length: 247 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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The Distant Hours
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall358
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Performance309
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Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother’s emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a 13-year-old girl, Edie’s mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family.
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Three Sisters and the rest
- By R. J. Gladden on 15-01-16
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The Distant Hours
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 23-11-10
- Language: English
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Silas Marner
- By: George Eliot
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall782
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Performance698
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Story695
For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.
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More extraordinary insight from George Eliot
- By Isolde on 04-11-13
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Silas Marner
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-01-08
- Language: English
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