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The Lion Women of Tehran
- The life-affirming BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall283
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Performance272
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A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'As heart-wrenching as it is achingly beautiful' Sadeqa Johnson, author of The House of Eve 'Heartbreaking and life affirming' Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters 'Courage, friendship, loyalty, hardship, love – this novel has everything' Mary Beth Keane...
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An Incredible Book
- By Barbara Perry on 17-07-25
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The Lion Women of Tehran
- The life-affirming BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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Surfacing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance71
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Story71
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose.
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5 hours too long
- By Mad Iphone fan on 02-10-19
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Surfacing
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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The Director
- Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026
- By: Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin - translator
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance39
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Story39
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...
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- By Mr Christopher R Hughes on 15-07-25
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The Director
- Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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The Palm House
- 'This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ The Times
- By: Gwendoline Riley
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies. 'This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ – The Times 'One of our finest novelists of constrained fury: nobody...
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The story was very basic
- By Amazon Customer on 08-04-26
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The Palm House
- 'This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels’ The Times
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-04-26
- Language: English
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The Stars' Tennis Balls
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall485
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Performance399
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Story401
For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. But timing is everything in life, and his life is about to change for ever. Things are going to get very bad indeed for innocent young Ned. A promise made to a dying teacher and a spiteful trick played by fellow pupils will rocket Ned from cricket captain to solitary confinement, from head boy to hell.
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Delightful and horrifying
- By Linda E on 13-04-11
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The Stars' Tennis Balls
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-10-10
- Language: English
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The Empty Throne
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 8
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,414
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Performance1,278
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Story1,276
The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.England is fractured, torn apart more by internal fighting than the threat of Viking invasion. The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. His wife is a formidable fighter and great leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom.
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An adequate replacement for Jonathan Keeble
- By Kindle Customer on 13-11-19
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The Empty Throne
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 8
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Series: Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), Book 8
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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Charlotte Gray
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall256
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Performance201
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Story200
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks...
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An exceptionally well told story, in every respect
- By Peter on 01-09-11
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Charlotte Gray
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-02-11
- Language: English
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The Woman I Was Before
- By: Kerry Fisher
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,288
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Performance2,966
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Story2,960
What if the perfect life you envy was rotten to the core? Three brand-new friends. Three very different families. Way too many secrets. Gisela, Sally and Kate become close when they move into the same new housing estate. But behind their shiny front doors, each has something to hide. Three lives collide in this gripping story about friendship, motherhood and marriage and the façade of perfection people present to the world.
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Beautiful - Kerry, thank you so much
- By DD on 24-05-19
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The Woman I Was Before
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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The Complete Short Stories
- By: Saki
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance20
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H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.
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Wodehouse with teeth
- By Timbo on 17-06-21
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The Complete Short Stories
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-03-21
- Language: English
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The Mars House
- A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
- By: Natasha Pulley
- Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance141
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Story141
January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. But he will live....
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Imaginative and gripping
- By Claire on 29-12-24
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The Mars House
- A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
- Narrated by: Daniel de Bourg
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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The Hand That First Held Mine
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall459
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Performance411
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Story413
When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child.
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amazing
- By happy loon on 07-07-15
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The Hand That First Held Mine
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-09-12
- Language: English
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Playground
- Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2024
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Eunice Wong, Kevin R. Free, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance92
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Story92
Brought to you by Penguin. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board...
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You need to have an interest in diving or the ocean to get into this.
- By Nicky on 11-02-25
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Playground
- Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2024
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Eunice Wong, Kevin R. Free, Krys Janae, Pun Bandhu, Robin Siegerman
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Only Love Can Hurt Like This
- An unforgettable love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- By: Paige Toon
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance129
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Story129
Brought to you by Penguin. Some love stories are worth risking everything for. Wren leaves home and heartbreak to spend the summer with her father and step-family on their farm in Indiana, Midwestern USA. More than anything she hopes this trip will provide a chance to heal and build bridges...
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Really Disappointed
- By Rhiannon Brackin on 29-04-23
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Only Love Can Hurt Like This
- An unforgettable love story from the Sunday Times bestselling author
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Jared Zeus
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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An Experiment in Love
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance61
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Story62
It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel's world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
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Remembrance of past time
- By Rachel Redford on 02-03-22
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An Experiment in Love
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-12-11
- Language: English
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Another Country
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance35
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When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.
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Epic tale, a real masterpiece.
- By S. N. Bordoli on 11-06-25
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Another Country
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,253
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Performance3,862
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Story3,859
Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh. On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?
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Rewarding if you're patient with it.
- By SteveA on 14-02-19
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18,922
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Performance17,194
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Story17,154
Over 3 million copies sold ‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes ‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Stibbe Winner of Costa First Novel Award, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and the National Book Awards Book of the Year One of the Sunday Times' 100 bestselling books of the past...
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Viva Eleanor!
- By Kaggy on 30-06-17
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-05-17
- Language: English
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The Whalebone Theatre
- The Sunday Times bestselling historical novel and beautiful coming-of-age story
- By: Joanna Quinn
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,016
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Performance952
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Brought to you Penguin. 'Maudie, why are all the best characters men?' Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss Cristabel. I can't believe that every story is the same' Cristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story, but there are no girls in...
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So glad i took a chance on this one!
- By joanna on 10-06-22
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The Whalebone Theatre
- The Sunday Times bestselling historical novel and beautiful coming-of-age story
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Anything is Possible
- From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Overall360
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Performance310
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people...
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Who can ever know?
- By Rachel Redford on 25-05-17
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Anything is Possible
- From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted author
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Series: Amgash, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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The Confession
- The Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a moving tale of secrets and self-discovery set in 1980s Hollywood and modern London
- By: Jessie Burton
- Narrated by: Hayley Atwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,910
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Performance1,728
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Story1,723
A Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick. The Confession is an absorbing tale of secrets and self-discovery and the search for truth spanning three decades, from 1980s Hollywood to present-day London. From Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist...
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Excellent naration but triggering
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-20
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The Confession
- The Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a moving tale of secrets and self-discovery set in 1980s Hollywood and modern London
- Narrated by: Hayley Atwell
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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