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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.

Fay Langdon and Julia Morton might have met far earlier, since Fay was once a successful singer and Julia a famous diseuse. From the outset, theirs is a precarious friendship, both out of step with their times, allied by the disappointments that age brings.

Read by Anna Popplewell, known for her role in The Chronicles of Narnia. Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Sunday Times Bestseller Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of...

Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest level by a Russian agent. 'Find the mole, George. Clean the stables. Do whatever is necessary.' Reluctantly Smiley agrees, and so embarks on a dark journey into his past a past filled with love, duplicity and betrayal.

The secrets of an aristocratic dynasty are about to be revealed.... London, 1949. The New Look is in, Princess Elizabeth's wedding has raised morale and the capital is filled with a new energy. The Earl of Mowbray's niece, Alicia Stanton, is making her mark in the glamorous film world. Alongside her, Victoria Brown, a wartime evacuee, is starting out as a fashion photographer. Life is full of opportunity. But at Cavendon Hall, the stately home where they both grew up, the Second World War has exacted a terrible price....

Sullo sfondo che prelude ai grandi cambiamenti degli anni Sessanta, Lila ed Elena si affacciano al mondo condividendo il desiderio di sfuggire al loro destino di ragazze cresciute nel rione napoletano.

This "Sharp Focus" program was designed to assist the listener in gaining self-thoughts related to energy, focus, willpower, organization and follow-through.

When Anna Durrant is reported missing her friends seem unconcerned at her disappearance. After all, her life has been one of concealment. For years Anna submitted to the protective dependence of her mother, and even after Amy Durrant’s death she simply conformed to the expectations of others. Increasingly, Anna feels herself trapped by these expectations.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

A milestone in the history of the novel, Samuel Richardson’s epistolary and elaborate Clarissa follows the life of a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue. When beautiful Clarissa Harlowe is forced to marry the rich but repulsive Mr. Solmes, she refuses, much to her family’s chagrin. She escapes their persecution with the help of Mr. Lovelace, a dashing and seductive rake, but soon finds herself in a far worse dilemma.

One of the greatest English authors of the 19th Century, George Eliot is renowned for her realistic storytelling and insight into the human psyche. This BBC Radio collection presents dramatisations of her five most famous novels, as well as an exploration of her life through her fictional...

This sleep learning program was designed to assist the listener in gaining self-thoughts related to getting in touch with personal passion, increasing meditative focus and vision, enhancing optimism, gratitude and generosity, as well as releasing fears and blocks to receiving for increased mastery in the art of manifestation.

Elis vill helst vara hemma och bygga på sitt slott. Han har många idéer och när han klipper och tejpar bubblar det i hela kroppen. En dag blir han tvungen att ta paus eftersom han blir bjuden på kalas. Han tycker inte att han passar så bra på kalas och vill helst slippa stök och...

Advokaten Johan Olsson har lämnat den stora byrån för att bygga upp sin egen verksamhet. När en klient med ett enormt arv anlitar honom ser han en möjlighet att säkra sin framtid och Johans etik sätts på prov. Vad som börjar som en chans att hjälpa någon i nöd blir snabbt ett farligt...

Idag ska Elis till simskolan. Han vet att han måste lära sig simma, men han gillar inte stöket i omklädningsrummet, eller vatten som stänker. Och det här med att doppa huvudet, varför är det egentligen så viktigt? Tänk om han inte kommer upp igen? Från kanten får Elis syn på något...

Jag var elva år och skulle gå på mitt livs första begravning. I skolan visste ingen att han var död. Det var svårt att berätta. Helst ville jag glömma att det hänt. Kanske behövde ingen få veta. För vissa saker är svåra att säga, till och med till sin bästa vän. Om nu Linn och...

En valborgsmässoafton i Kalmar stadspark förändrar sextonåriga Lauras liv för alltid. Hon blir utsatt för sexuella övergrepp och förövaren försvinner spårlöst. Så fort Laura tar studenten flyttar hon till New York för att börja om och glömma alla hemska minnen. Tio år senare har...

"After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage" is the story of two marriages undone by a dowry and the fallout from that rift on three generations of a Southern Italian family. Enlisting Calabrian folklore, epigenetics, and psychology, Monardo writes from both sides of the ocean, charting her grandfathers’ immigration to a Pittsburgh steel town; her father’s WWII as a medical student in Naples; the family’s marriages—including her own—that were tainted by an Old World curse; and an unlikely path toward international adoption.

"Du bist achtundzwanzig und arbeitest in einem Stripclub. Wieso, zum Teufel, bist du da noch Jungfrau?" "Es ist kein Stripclub. Und Sex hat mich einfach nicht interessiert." Scheich Arkim sinnt auf Rache, seit die schöne Revuetänzerin Sylvie versucht hat, ihn zu verführen und seinen Ruf zu ruinieren. Sein Plan: Weil er Sylvie trotz allem begehrt wie keine Frau zuvor, muss sie seine Geliebte sein – so lange, bis er endgültig von ihr kuriert ist!

Kan man pante sig til et bryllup? Må man skifte personlighed hver søndag? Og hvilken frekvens skal man egentlig stille ind på for at få kontakt til sin egen klitoris? I Bangkok får man svamp er en brutalt ærlig korrespondanceroman om at være kvinde i 30’erne. Anna er single på...