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Author: Jonathan Coe
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Scott Shina
Duration 11h 35m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aid...
View BookAuthor: Nick Hornby
Format: Online
Author Nick Hornby
Narrator Russell Tovey
Duration 8h 8m
Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Levy
Format: Online
Author Deborah Levy
Narrator Romola Garai
Duration 8h 18m
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Two strangers arrive in a small Spanish fishing village. The older woman is suffering from mysterious paralysis, driven to seek a cure beyond the bounds of conventional medicine. Her daughter Sofia has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to understand her mother's illness....
View BookAuthor: Pat Barker
Format: Online
Author Pat Barker
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 47m
London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville ferry injured survivors from bomb sites to hospitals while Elinor's husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art, before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, now all three find themselves caught i...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
Format: Online
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Karen Bryson
Duration 10h 56m
North West London comes vividly to life in NW, the new novel by the author of the bestselling White Teeth and Man Booker-shortlisted On Beauty. This is the story of a city. The north-west corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all....
View BookAuthor: Willa Cather
Format: Online
Author Willa Cather
Narrator Bernadette Dunne
Duration 5h 50m
Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the 19th century, marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave. One of Cather's later works.
View BookAuthor: Donna Tartt
Format: Online
Author Donna Tartt
Narrator Donna Tartt
Duration 22h 3m
Penguin Audiobooks presents Donna Tartt's cult thriller The Secret History, unabridged, downloadable and read by the author herself. A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten t...
View BookAuthor: Paul Murray
Format: Online
Author Paul Murray
Narrator Patrick Moy
Duration 21h 2m
Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair . . .'And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweight maths-whiz Ruprecht Van Doren and his room...
View BookAuthor: Brit Bennett
Format: Online
Author Brit Bennett
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 9h 55m
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sour...
View BookAuthor: Graeme Simsion
Format: Online
Author Graeme Simsion
Narrator Dan O'Grady
Duration 9h 9m
With the Wife Project complete, Don settles happily into a new job and married life in New York. But it's not long before certain events are taken out of his control and it's time to embark on a new project . . .As Don tries to get to grips with the requirements of starting a family, his unusual research style soon gets him into trouble. To make ma...
View BookAuthor: Graeme Simsion
Format: Online
Author Graeme Simsion
Narrator Dan O'Grady
Duration 7h 30m
Meet Don. Don is a genetics professor who just might be somewhere on the autistic spectrum. He looks a little like Gregory Peck and is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. And it's definitely not Rosie. Absolutely, completely, definitely not. Rosie, m...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrator Various
Duration 11h
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
Format: Online
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 13h 50m
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly...
View BookAuthor: Mary Kay Andrews
Format: Online
Author Mary Kay Andrews
Narrator Kathleen Mcinerney
SeriesWeezie and Bebe Mystery, Book 4
Duration 7h 39m
Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy. But there's trouble afoot - and it's heading toward Weezie.Seems BeBe's been holding a big secret backthat would make Santa's reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure CHRISTMAS BLISS?
View BookAuthor: Katie Price
Format: Online
Author Katie Price
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 9h 48m
Angel Summer looks as if she has found her happy ever after. She's married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain's top glamour model. But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. When Cal is transferred to AC Milan, Angel feels isolated being so far away from her family and...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Boo
Format: Online
Author Katherine Boo
Narrator Sunil Mahotra
Duration 8h 15m
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Ann...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
Format: Online
Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Jack Davenport
Duration 3h 47m
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives for ever.
View BookAuthor: Susan Lewis
Format: Online
Author Susan Lewis
Narrator Karen Kass
Duration 13h 32m
Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment and anger, she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores, Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives and is perfect in every way. And with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big mo...
View BookAuthor: Ian Mcewan
Format: Online
Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator David Threlfall
Duration 8h 32m
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to t...
View BookAuthor: Taiye Selasi
Format: Online
Author Taiye Selasi
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 12h 18m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go, read by the actress Adjoa Andoh. This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose...
View BookAuthor: Jodi Picoult
Format: Online
Author Jodi Picoult
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 23m
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate-a life and a role that s...
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