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Author: Philip Reeve
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Author Philip Reeve
Narrator Greg Steinbruner
SeriesLarklight, Book 3
Duration 8h 19m
When the festive season arrives at Larklight, so does some unsettling news. A sinister-looking cloud is fast approaching the outskirts of the Known Universe. The closest planet, Georgium Sidus, has but two human inhabitants: the missionary Rev. Cruet and his daughter Charity. Their most recent communication read: 'Great danger—imperative that...
View BookAuthor: Johann David Wyss
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Author Johann David Wyss
Narrator Norman Dietz
Duration 12h 57m
Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. With optimism and boundless enthusiasm, the Robinson family undertakes the extrao...
View BookAuthor: Leo Tolstoy
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Author Leo Tolstoy
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 9h 38m
Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the stellar cast of this landmark BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's epic saga. 'Tolstoy's imagined world is recreated on air brilliantly by the extraordinary cast' The Spectator One of the greatest novels of all time, War and Peace explores historical, social, ethical...
View BookAuthor: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 1h 14m
Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? In this original new story, Lee Child looks back on an incident in his hero Jack Reacher's teenage years as the younger son of a tough career US Marine, on a faraway military base in the Pacific.
View BookAuthor: Jaime Lee Moyer
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Author Jaime Lee Moyer
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 10h 33m
Someone is murdering the Merry Men.... It's been a mostly quiet life since Robin Hood put aside his pregnant wife, Marian, turned his back on his Merry Men and his former life and retreated to a monastery to repent his sins...although no one knows what was so heinous he would leave behind Sherwood Forest and those he loved most. But when friends fr...
View BookAuthor: Olivia Kiernan
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Author Olivia Kiernan
Narrator Shelley Atkinson
SeriesFrankie Sheehan, Book 2
Duration 10h 2m
Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan does not wish to linger on the grisly scene before her eyes. Two mutilated corpses. In a church. In Clontarf. Her profiling background screams one fact: this is just the beginning of a sickening message. Meanwhile, a 17-year-old case is playing out on a TV documentary, the convicted professing his inno...
View BookAuthor: Olivia Kiernan
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Author Olivia Kiernan
Narrator Brona C. Titley
SeriesFrankie Sheehan, Book 1
Duration 9h 19m
Too soon to see. Polished. Professional. Perfect. Dead. Respected scientist Dr Eleanor Costello is found hanged in her immaculate home: the scene the very picture of a suicide. Too late to hide. DCS Frankie Sheehan is handed the case and almost immediately spots foul play. Sheehan, a trained profiler, is seeking a murderer with a talent for death....
View BookAuthor: Harriet F. Townsend
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Author Harriet F. Townsend
Narrator Sandra Duncan
Duration 11h 22m
1935. Dora's on the first train to London, having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage. But unluckily for her, Dora's fiance is more persistent than most and follows. As Dora alights at Paddington station, she is immediately forced to run from the loathsome Charles Silk-Butters. She ducks int...
View BookAuthor: Olivia Kiernan
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Author Olivia Kiernan
Narrator Shelley Atkinson
SeriesFrankie Sheehan, Book 3
Duration 9h 4m
DCS Frankie Sheehan is experiencing a crisis of confidence - having become wary of the instincts that have led her face-to-face with a twisted killer and brought those she loves into direct jeopardy. She is summoned to the rural Wicklow mountains, where local mother of two Debbie Nugent has been reported missing. A bloody crime scene is discovered...
View BookAuthor: Tom Lamont
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Author Tom Lamont
Narrator Jot Davies
Duration 11h 21m
Local boy Téo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Téo: he's got a steady job, a brand-new car and a London flat all concrete and glass, with a sliver of a river view. Except, underneath the surface, not much has changed at all. He's...
View BookAuthor: Kaliane Bradley
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Author Kaliane Bradley
Narrator George Weightman
Duration 10h 24m
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. A civil servant starts working as a 'bridge' - a liaison, helpmeet and housemate - in an experimental project that brings expatriates from the past into the twenty-first century. This is a science-fiction stor...
View BookAuthor: Isabelle Broom
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Author Isabelle Broom
Narrator Gloria Sanders
Duration 12h 39m
Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Mallorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love into restoring the house and built the foundations of their marriage within its walls. First it was their private idyll, then a place to escape with their son, Luke - but now it has become a ba...
View BookAuthor: Jill Santopolo
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Author Jill Santopolo
Narrator Gabrielle De Cuir
Duration 10h 8m
Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds - but the undeniable spark between them quickly burns into a deep and passionate relationship, played out against their post-war city, and Vincenzo's family's beautiful vineya...
View BookA Change of Heart at the Vintage Dress Shop
Author: Annie Darling
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Author Annie Darling
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 8h 36m
Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch, button or seam, she can transform any frock in The Vintage Dress Shop and give customers their Cinderella moment. Like her beautifully organised workroom under the eaves, Cress's life away from the shop is just as orderly and mapped out. But when her boyfriend of fifteen years d...
View BookAuthor: Lindsay Lynch
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Author Lindsay Lynch
Narrator Lisa Flanagan
Duration 8h 36m
THERE'S NOTHING STRONGER THAN A GOOD STORY. THE QUESTION IS: WHO GETS TO TELL IT? The clock is ticking on Hollywood actress Edie O'Dare's contract with FWM Studios. Her acting career is going nowhere, and she's running out of time to find a new role in the industry - other than providing salacious details of the latest party or premiere to the pres...
View BookMinor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
Author: Hema Sukumar
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Author Hema Sukumar
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 10h 20m
A warm-hearted debut novel set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai. Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual visits from her daughter who is studying in t...
View BookAuthor: Kate Weston
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Author Kate Weston
Narrator Helen Reuben
Duration 10h 15m
Bridesmaids meets How to Kill Your Family in this hilarious murder mystery, with characters you'll love to hate and a string of outlandish hen party murders that end in a twist you'll never see coming. Not all hens went to the party to have a good time. Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy have been friends since nursery. They wonder if that w...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Skye
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Author Evelyn Skye
Narrator Anthony Rey Perez, Victoria Villarreal
Duration 8h 49m
Claire Walker has her life in perfect order. Yet the one thing she is missing is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Spanish artist Matías de León into her path. Matías is free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard - and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question how t...
View BookAuthor: Suzie Edge
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Author Suzie Edge
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 49m
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies a...
View BookAuthor: Kyung-Sook Shin
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Author Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrator Bruce Turk, Janet Song, Mark Bramhall, Samantha Quan
Duration 7h 57m
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2012. When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Andrews
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Author Jessica Andrews
Narrator Sarah Durham
Duration 7h 53m
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world. Years later, as a young woman with unattainab...
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