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The Well of Saint Nobody
- By: Neil Jordan
- Narrated by: Stephen Rea
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform. Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.' She begins to work in William's house, keeping to herself the knowledge that they have met three times before, encounters that have changed her life.
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the well of saint nobody
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-24
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The Well of Saint Nobody
- Narrated by: Stephen Rea
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-08-23
- Language: English
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Dance Dance Dance
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Combine an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, and the result is the remarkable story Dance Dance Dance: high-class call girls billed to MasterCard, a psychic 13-year-old dropout has a passion for talking heads, and meet a hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. Don’t forget the one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.
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Brilliant - a Murakami 'Masterpiece of weirdness'
- By The Viscount on 04-10-16
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Dance Dance Dance
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Series: Rat, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: English
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
- By: Monique Roffey
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukue, Vivienne Acheampong
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries. And she is entranced by this man David and his song.
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An unusual but engaging love story
- By bookylady on 05-02-21
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukue, Vivienne Acheampong
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-07-20
- Language: English
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The Amalfi Curse
- By: Sarah Penner
- Narrated by: Greg Lockett, Gulia Innocenti, Jessica Preddy
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?
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Fabulous storyline with a twist
- By Patti O'Kane on 14-12-25
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The Amalfi Curse
- Narrated by: Greg Lockett, Gulia Innocenti, Jessica Preddy
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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The Last Gift of the Master Artists
- By: Ben Okri
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes the listener into the heart of a vibrant world, a complex and intriguing civilization of warriors and kings, philosophers and artists, parents and lovers. A world and culture which is about to end, for glimpsed on the horizon, seen but unsuspected, beautiful ships with white sails are waiting.
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Ben Okri is a Master Artist - absolutely fantastic
- By Marci on 06-07-23
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The Last Gift of the Master Artists
- Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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The Axeman's Carnival
- By: Catherine Chidgey
- Narrated by: Nic Sampson
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended. “If it keeps me awake,” says Marnie's husband Rob, a farmer, “I'll have to wring its neck.” But with Tama come new possibilities for the couple's future. Tama can speak, and his fame is growing. Outside, in the pines, his father warns him of the wickedness wrought by humans. Indoors, Marnie confides in him about her violent marriage. The more Tama sees, the more the animal and the human worlds—and all the precarity, darkness and hope within them—bleed into one another.
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Amazing book with a fantastic narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 16-11-25
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The Axeman's Carnival
- Narrated by: Nic Sampson
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Third Love
- By: Hiromi Kawakami
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr. Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams. And so, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages.
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Another triumph from Hiromi Kawakami
- By Mike I London on 02-05-25
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The Third Love
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko-Hingley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Ballroom
- By: Ruth Hogan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance58
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Recently widowed Venetia Hamilton Hargreaves is left with a huge house, a bank balance to match and an uneasy feeling that she's been sleepwalking through the last fifty years. Determined to live fully again, she embraces life with an enthusiasm and purpose she'd forgotten she could muster. Buying the dilapidated Phoenix Ballroom and with it a drop-in centre and spiritualist church could be seen as reckless, but Venetia's generosity, courage and kindness provide a refuge for a touching cast of damaged and lonely people who find their chosen family.
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Nice, easy read
- By kloggsie on 15-01-25
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The Phoenix Ballroom
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Mattana
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance, Esther's family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister's death, Esther reluctantly travels from Tasmania to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands. On her journey, Esther is guided by the stories Aura left behind in her treasured journal; seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body.
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Wow!
- By kj on 05-06-25
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Mattana
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: English
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Over and Over
- By: Becky Hunter
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Lissa is at a low point in her life when she meets Ash, but she feels an instant connection to him. As their relationship develops, she begins to wonder if there's a deeper reason for that—it feels as if they have met before on some level, not just once, but many times, over many lives. Lissa eventually learns that theirs is a star-crossed romance, but that they will only finally be able to thrive together when they learn from the mistakes of the past, in this heartfelt, emotional novel with a slight speculative edge.
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Over and Over
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Cwen
- By: Alice Albinia
- Narrated by: Nicolette Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance7
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On an unnamed archipelago off the east coast of Britain, the impossible has come to pass. Women control the civic institutions. Decide how the islands’ money is spent. Run the businesses. Tend to their families. Teach the children hope for a better world. They say that this gynotopia is Eva Levi’s life’s work, and that now she has disappeared, it will be destroyed. But they don’t know about Cwen. Cwen has been here longer than the civilisation she has returned to haunt. The clouds are her children, and the waves.
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A compelling read
- By Cfc Caumartin on 19-05-22
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Cwen
- Narrated by: Nicolette Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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The Rain Heron
- By: Robbie Arnott
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry, Zoe Carides
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission. As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt - as myth merges with reality - both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love and what they fear.
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A wonderful book beautifully narrated.
- By A T. on 20-02-26
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The Rain Heron
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry, Zoe Carides
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Ours
- By: Phillip B. Williams
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
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In the mid-1800s, Saint, an enigmatic and powerful conjure woman, always flanked by a silent companion, travels the South annihilating plantations and liberating the enslaved by means of purposeful violence and powerful magic. She founds a town for those she has freed–and for them alone. They name the town Ours. Surrounded by an impenetrable magical border raised by Saint's powers, Ours is invisible to the outer world and sits blissfully away from prying eyes and violent hands. Saint's mission is to kill slavery–to scourge its damage from the minds of her charges and to keep them safe forever.
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Well written
- By Anonymous on 15-05-25
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Ours
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- Language: English
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The Good Boy
- By: Stella Hayward
- Narrated by: Kymberley Cochrane
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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On the eve of Genie’s thirtieth birthday, her grandmother gives her an unexpected gift: a wish at midnight. Genie, forever the family skeptic, laughs it off and, after an evening fending off invasive questions about her nonexistent love life, returns home to her empty house and her golden retriever, Rory. She really should’ve listened to her grandmother. She's turned Rory into a human with big golden retriever energy. But he doesn’t like being a human. He doesn’t like wearing clothes or human manners, and he most definitely can’t manage a human job. It's like she suddenly has a child.
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The Good Boy
- Narrated by: Kymberley Cochrane
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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My Cat Yugoslavia
- By: Pajtim Statovci
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 9 hrs
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In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a near stranger, and the match quickly turns sour. Shortly thereafter, the country is torn apart by war and they flee to Finland, where her son Bekim grows up to become a social outcast, a foreigner, and a gay man in an unaccepting society. His only true companion is a boa constrictor that he lets roam around his apartment.
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Sad, quirky story of refugee's disconnection
- By Alcidae on 23-07-23
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My Cat Yugoslavia
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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I Dreamed of You
- By: Pim Wangtechawat
- Narrated by: Colin Ryan, May Cunningham
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Two students arrive in Edinburgh full of hopes and dreams...and secrets. Their relationship sends them down a path they never imagined. What if your dreams really could come true? Dao and Sunny both grow up in Bangkok, but that's where the similarities between the two end. Dao's family are...
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I Dreamed of You
- Narrated by: Colin Ryan, May Cunningham
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Things They Lost
- By: Okwiri Oduor
- Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Ayosa is a wandering spirit – joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in the Kenyan town she calls home are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, the sullen milkman and Sindano, the owner of a café that no one ever visits. But a curse hangs over the women in Ayosa's family, a curse which has blighted the life of her mother, Nabumbo Promise. When her new friend Mbui offers her an alternative life, one that would involve leaving Nabumbo Promise behind, Ayosa must decide how much she owes her fearsome, mercurial mama.
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Things They Lost
- Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Send Flowers
- By: Emily Buchanan
- Narrated by: Imogen Mackie Walker
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn't left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. But when Ed's favourite houseplant randomly appears on her doorstep with an anonymous note, Fiona takes this as a sign. Pouring Ed's ashes into the soil, she finds the plant has vibrantly flowered. And can... talk? There's only one logical explanation: Ed is back. This time as a houseplant. Intent on keeping Ed alive, and making up for her past mistakes, Fiona slowly ventures back out into a world on the verge of a climate crisis.
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Send Flowers
- Narrated by: Imogen Mackie Walker
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Dead as Gold
- By: Bonnie Burke-Patel
- Narrated by: Louise Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Adam Conlan has made a new life for himself in Morrow-on-Sea. After a wild youth, the goldsmith had settled down, determined to be around for his young son. But now Ophelia Richards appears at his studio door, asking if he will buy her gold. The writer entices and unsettles him; he sees she is adrift in the same cold pain and loneliness as he is. At the same time, faces begin appearing at the studio window, an unwelcome gift arrives in the post, gold goes missing.
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Another triumph!
- By harriet on 19-09-25
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Dead as Gold
- Narrated by: Louise Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-08-25
- Language: English
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The Thief on the Winged Horse
- By: Kate Mascarenhas
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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A dazzling mixture of crime, romance, magic and myth from the acclaimed author of The Psychology of Time Travel. The Kendrick family have been making world-famous dolls since the early 1800s. But their dolls aren't coveted for the craftmanship alone. Each one has a specific emotion laid on it by its creator. A magic that can make you feel bucolic bliss or consuming paranoia at a single touch. Though founded by sisters, now only men may know the secrets of the workshop.
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Magical
- By Isolde on 01-04-22
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The Thief on the Winged Horse
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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