AuthorKazuo Ishiguro
NarratorMichael Maloney
Duration10h 10m
CategoriesLiterature, Adult Fiction
VersionUnabridged
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
Author: Lydia Millet
Author Lydia Millet
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 5h 34m
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven—follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and...
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Author: Yangsze Choo
Author Yangsze Choo
Narrator The Author
Duration 14h 9m
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dance-hall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest...
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Author: Gillian Mcallister
Author Gillian Mcallister
Narrator Katie Clarkson-Hill
Duration 11h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Anything You Do Say by Gillian McAllister, read by Katie Clarkson-Hill. 'A Sliding Doors thriller with a moral dilemma at its heart. Brilliant' Claire Doulas, bestselling author of Last Seen Alive It's the end of the night. You're walking home on your own. Then you hear the sound every woman dreads. Footste...
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Author: Sairish Hussain
Author Sairish Hussain
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 15h 34m
Your roots can always lead you home... Amjad cradles his baby daughter in the middle of the night. He has no time to mourn his wife's death. Saahil and Zahra, his two small children, are relying on him. Amjad vows to love and protect them always. Years later, Saahil and his best friend, Ehsan, have finished university and are celebrating with...
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Author: Emma Healey
Author Emma Healey
Narrator Laura Aikman
Duration 10h 44m
In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud's attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia. Now, in her dazzling follow-up Whistle in the Dark, we meet Jen, mother to 15-year-old Lana - who has just been found after going missing for four desperate days. Lana can't talk about...
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Author: Finlay Welsh
Author Finlay Welsh
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
An atmospheric drama set on the east coast of Scotland in 1791. A watchmaker pours all of his skill and knowledge into making a machine that will alter time and create a different universe; one in which he hopes his desperately ill daughter will be returned to him, fully recovered. Starring Cal MacAninch, Liam Brennan, Pauline Knowles and Finn de H...
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Sura Siu
Duration 10h 16m
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impecca...
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Kerry Fox
Duration 9h 30m
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life, a...
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Author: Jill McCorkle
Author Jill McCorkle
Narrator Xe Sands
Duration 9h 33m
Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have re...
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrator Dominic West
Duration 7h 7m
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside - and into his past.
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