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Author: Sarah Waters
Format: Online
Author Sarah Waters
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 18h 55m
New York Times best-selling author Sarah Waters received sweeping critical acclaim for her debut, Tipping the Velvet, and has been a finalist for the Orange and Booker Prizes. In The Night Watch she tells the riveting, intersecting tales of four Londoners during and after World War II. As these four people survive the devastation of war and experie...
View BookAuthor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrator Simon Slater
Duration 10h 11m
If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia's most import...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Joyce
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Author Rachel Joyce
Narrator Paul Rhys
Duration 11h 25m
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their golden futures. Then Byron's mother, late...
View BookAuthor: Katie Fforde
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Author Katie Fforde
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 10h 35m
Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others - but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough.So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity. Fro...
View BookAuthor: Ernest Cline
Format: Online
Author Ernest Cline
Narrator Wil Wheaton
Duration 15h 47m
It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where yo...
View BookAuthor: Mark Haddon
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Author Mark Haddon
Narrator Maxwell Caulfield
Duration 9h 42m
Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. But in the quie...
View BookAuthor: John Niven
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Author John Niven
Narrator Nick Landrum
Duration 10h 31m
God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and 'fucking Christians everywhere'....
View BookAuthor: John Updike
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Author John Updike
Narrator John Updike
Duration 2h 49m
John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds. "The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America, a...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Gibson
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Author Rachel Gibson
Narrator Kathleen Early
SeriesWriter Friends, Book 1
Duration 8h 44m
What is it about men anyway? Bad cars, bad jobs, even bad teeth-nothing convinces them that they can't snare a size-two babe with a D-cup chest. And after way too many Internet dates with men named "luvstick" and "bigdaddy182," Lucy Rothschild should know. But sitting across from her now is "hardluvnman," and he seems different-sensitive, honest, a...
View BookAuthor: Hugh Howey
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Author Hugh Howey
Narrator Peter Brooke
SeriesWool Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 18h 22m
In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will...
View BookAuthor: Irvine Welsh
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Author Irvine Welsh
Narrator Tam Dean Burn
Duration 24h 57m
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to...
View BookAuthor: Lily Baxter
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Author Lily Baxter
Narrator Penelope Freeman
Duration 11h 31m
It is 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. In London, eighteen-year-old Susan Banks longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly - to serve her country and realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her; a foundling, unwanted and unloved and dependent on strangers for her welfare. Just as she fear...
View BookThe Last Apprentice Book 1: The Spook's Apprentice
Author: Joseph Delaney
Format: Online
Author Joseph Delaney
Narrator Jamie Glover
SeriesThe Last Apprentice, Book 1
Duration 5h 10m
For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried. Some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Just one boy is left. Thomas Ward. He is the last hope. But does he stand a chance against Mother Malkin, the most dangerous witch in the...
View BookAuthor: Crossland Glenice
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Author Crossland Glenice
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 12h 5m
In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses. Alice, the eldest, lives only for her work as a secretary and chapel on Sunday. Fair and loving Lizzie is content with her j...
View BookAuthor: Jodi Picoult
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Author Jodi Picoult
Narrator Various
Duration 18h 13m
Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined-to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committ...
View BookAuthor: John Niven
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Author John Niven
Narrator John Cormack
Duration 10h 55m
Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a so...
View BookAuthor: Katie Fforde
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Author Katie Fforde
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
Duration 11h 14m
Sian Bishop has only ever experienced one moment of recklessness - a moment that resulted in her beloved son Rory. It's not that she doesn't love the outcome of that wild night, but since then she has always taken the safer route. So when dependable, devoted Richard suggests a move to the beautiful English countryside, she leaves the hustle and bus...
View BookAuthor: M. R. Carey
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Author M. R. Carey
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 13h 5m
Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.
View BookAuthor: John Le Carre
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Author Carre John Le
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 51m
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 journ...
View BookTony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
Author: Kerry Hudson
Format: Online
Author Kerry Hudson
Narrator Jane Macfarlane
Duration 8h 34m
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Green Carnation Prize 'More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh' Louise Welsh, Herald When Janie Rya...
View BookThe True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
Author: David Almond
Format: Online
Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 6h 33m
I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes. Wonce I was The An...
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