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Author: Noel Coward
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Author Noel Coward
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 16m
The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. PRIVATE LIVES shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.
View BookHitman Anders and the Meaning of it All
Author: Jonas Jonasson
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Author Jonas Jonasson
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 7h 50m
Hitman Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who happens to be an atheist), and a receptionist at a one star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless). Together they cook up an idea for a very unusual business that's going to make them all a fortune – but then all of a sudde...
View BookAuthor: Jessie Cave
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Author Jessie Cave
Narrator Bebe Cave
Duration 11h 10m
Sunset is bittersweet love story about putting yourself back together after the sky has fallen in. Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever single, aimless and wild while Hannah is radiant, organised and hard...
View BookAuthor: Debbie Viggiano
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Author Debbie Viggiano
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 11h 25m
Wedding vows have never been this personal... Willow has been living with marriage-shy Charlie for more years than she cares to remember and is old-fashioned enough to want a wedding band and a loads-of-sex honeymoon before stretchmarks and nipple shields. So when the once-wary Charlie surprisingly goes down on one knee, Willow doesn't question why...
View BookThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries Book 5: Low Action
Author: Andrew Cartmel
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Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Finlay Robertson
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 5
Duration 13h 27m
The Vinyl Detective goes punk in his fifth hilarious adventure. Semi-retired god of rock guitar and local poseur Erik Make Loud has got himself a new girlfriend. Helene Hilditch - formerly known as Howlin' Hellbitch - of all-girl punk outfit Blue Tits is a mean guitarist, someone is trying to kill her. With a rare pressing of their first album to f...
View BookVinyl Detective Mysteries Book 3: Victory Disc
Author: Andrew Cartmel
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Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Finlay Robertson
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 3
Duration 11h 32m
When one of his cats accidentally discovers a rare Victory Disc, the Vinyl Detective and his girlfriend Nevada are whisked into the world of big band swing music, and a mystery that began during the Second World War. Hired to track down the rest of the highly sought-after recordings of the Flare Path Orchestra, our hero will discover that the battl...
View BookThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries Book 4: Flip Back
Author: Andrew Cartmel
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Author Andrew Cartmel
Narrator Finlay Robertson
SeriesThe Vinyl Detective Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 11h 4m
The fourth book in the hilarious and enthralling Vinyl Detective mystery series. It's all Tinkler's fault. If it weren't for his obsession with the 1970s band, Black Dog, none of this would have happened. The members of Black Dog performed an infamous publicity stunt on Halig Island: they burned a million dollars on an enormous bonfire. But the stu...
View BookAuthor: Roddy Doyle
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Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Laurence Kinlan
Duration 3h 39m
The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Managed by Jimmy Rabbitte and brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan. Their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
View BookAuthor: Caroline O'Donoghue
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Author Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrator Tessa Coates
Duration 8h 1m
Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on. What starts out as a drunken mistake quickly unravels as Jane discovers that...
View BookAuthor: Gill Sims
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Author Gill Sims
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 11h 4m
Number One bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she's a little bit lost. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don't know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that say...
View BookAdrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Author: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Mark Hadfield
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 8
Duration 9h 6m
Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Due to his financial situation he has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble. As his worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame ignites powerful memories and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
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Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Emily Gray
SeriesShopaholic, Book 1
Duration 11h 42m
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her increasin...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Wood
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Author Victoria Wood
Narrator Victoria Wood
Duration 2h 30m
The queen of British comedy brings her mix of observations on life, jokes and songs to audio, taken from the award-winning Victoria Wood 'As Seen on TV'. Visit Acorn Antiques, meet Kitty, make a reservation at that Italian restaurant and sing along with Frieda my goodness, it's all jolly amusing.
View BookAuthor: Victoria Wood
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Author Victoria Wood
Narrator Victoria Wood Et Al
Duration 2h 7m
Tons of award-winning comedy (as seen on TV) from the brilliant Victoria Wood and lots of other people, some of whom are still in work. Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Dora Bryan, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Hugh Lloyd and many more join Victoria Wood in this positively bloated bumper collection oozing with songs, sketches and monologues. A revolution...
View BookAuthor: Gerard Hoffnung
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Author Gerard Hoffnung
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 43m
Artist, illustrator, tuba-player, writer, broadcaster, Quaker and clown, Hoffnung's gifts as eccentric and raconteur are celebrated here in a compilation of all the existing Hoffnung recordings, including the famous Bricklayer Story.
View BookHumphrey Lyttleton's Autobiography In Conversation: 'play As I Please'
Author: BBC Radio 4
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Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator June Knox-Mawer
Duration 1h 54m
Humphrey Lyttleton - Bandleader, cartoonist, writer, chairman of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, president of the Society for Italic Handwriting and doyen of jazz trumpeters. In conversation with June Knox-Mawer, Humphrey Lyttleton reflects on his extraordinary life; from schooldays at Eton and playing out Roll Out the Barrel outside B...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Willie Rushton
Duration 1h 52m
Career highlights from one of this country's funniest satirists and comedy men. Willie Rushton's career spanned decades, from the cutting edge satire of television's That Was The Week That Was to the razor-sharp punnery and verbal wizardry of radio's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Actor, writer, lyricist and veteran satirist, this is Rushton at his...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Spike Milligan
Duration 1h 54m
Comic icon Spike Milligan recollects highlights from his stellar career. The comic genius of Spike Milligan changed the face of radio comedy through The Goon Show. Here Milligan chooses and introduces classic clips from an astonishing career: readings from his books Puckoon and Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall, poems, songs, sketches, extrac...
View BookJeff Peters As A Personal Magnet.
Author: O. Henry
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Author O. Henry
Narrator Nigel Hawthorne
Duration 16m
This story of a quack con-man with healing ideas above his station is told in a wonderful dialectal style, which adds much to the tall tales Mr. Jeff Peters, or doctor 'Waugh-hoo' relates regarding a certain run-in with a town mayor who appears to be sickening for something. A funny story which also gives some small insight into the life of an old-...
View BookAuthor: Michael Frayn
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Author Michael Frayn
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 17m
Jarvis and Frayn are a truly inimitable pairing - frequent collaborators on-stage, screen and audiobook, they are an eternally popular duo. Michael Frayn began his career as a reporter on UK newspaper The Guardian before becoming a columnist for the same newspaper. Martin Jarvis is a renowned audiobook narrator and his many acting accolades include...
View BookAuthor: Keith Waterhouse
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Author Keith Waterhouse
Narrator John Simm
Duration 6h 12m
For William 'Billy' Fisher, an energetic imagination makes life tolerable, but well-nigh intolerable for all around him. He lies his way into and out of every situation, making any promise to get him out of trouble, thereby creating ever more tortuous entanglements to be wriggled out of in the future. Billy dreams of escaping the dull drudgery of h...
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