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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
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Author Mary Ann Shaffer
Narrator Charlie Norfolk
Duration 6h 41m
January 1946 and writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from Guernsey from a man, who has found her name written inside a book. As they exchange letters, she is drawn into the eccentric world of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which boasts a charming cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Ca...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Fitzgerald
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Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Ruth Sillars
Duration 5h
The human voices of the story are those of the BBC in the first years of the Second World War when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes. The whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC as elsewhere, some had to fail and some had to die.
View BookAuthor: Valeria Luiselli
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Author Valeria Luiselli
Narrator Kivlighan De Montebello
Duration 11h 17m
A family in New York packs the car and sets out on a road trip. A mother, a father, a boy and a girl, they head south west, to the Apacheria, the regions of the US which used to be Mexico. They drive for hours through desert and mountains. They stop at diners when they're hungry and sleep in motels when it gets dark. The little girl tells surreal k...
View BookAuthor: Katie Price
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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: Andrea Levy
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Author Andrea Levy
Narrator Andrea Levy
Duration 17h 24m
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 11h 50m
'Five Quarters of the Orange' revolves around a recipe book, continuing the theme of culinary intrigue begun in 'Chocolat' and 'Blackberry Wine'. Framboise returns to the village where she grew up during wartime and, with the help of the recipes scribbled in her mother's album, opens up a small restaurant. Whilst immersing herself once again in the...
View BookAuthor: Claire Fuller
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Author Claire Fuller
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 9h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, read by Rachel Bavidge. From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending the summer in the rooms below hers while Frances write...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 45m
The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about Melody's terrible childhood, she is sure she's heard it all before. But it isn't long before she feels there is more going on than she or the social services are aware of. Although Melody is a...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 51m
When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can't he stay with his present carers for the last month? He's already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he'll only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive family. But the present carers are expecting a baby an...
View BookAuthor: Sally Vickers
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Author Sally Vickers
Narrator Melissa Berry
Duration 11h
Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connectionto his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change he...
View BookAuthor: Sheila O'Flanagan
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Author Sheila O'Flanagan
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Duration 16h 51m
What do you do when you find yourself suddenly single? Go suddenly suicidal? Suddenly sex-crazed? Or simply slump into self-pity? Alix Callaghan, who thought she was in control of her busy life, feels like doing all three when her long-term boyfriend insists on settling down to a sensible existence - complete with children, proper meals and early n...
View BookAuthor: Jean M Auel
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Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 2
Duration 21h 20m
The sequel to 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'. Life on the glacial continent of the last Ice Age, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth, is an exotic, primeval world where the beautiful Ayla leaves the safety of the clan who raised her and sets out alone on a journey of discovery. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: James Runcie
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Author James Runcie
Narrator Joe Dunlop
Duration 9h
Jack Henderson, estranged from his ex-wife and grown-up daughters, is involved in a horrific accident. His younger brother Douglas begins an affair with a woman he barely knows, risking everything. And Angus, the eldest of the Henderson boys, finds himself suddenly in freefall having unexpectedly been laid off from his job. As the three brothers he...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
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Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Gemma Whelan
Duration 7h
A laugh-out-loud romance from the bestselling author of the Shopaholic series. Meet Audrey: an ordinary teenage girl with not so ordinary problems. Aside from her completely crazy and chaotic family, she suffers from an anxiety disorder which makes talking to her brother's hot new best friend a bit of a challenge. But Audrey has a plan to help her...
View BookLetters From Lighthouse Cottage
Author: Ali Mcnamara
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Author Ali Mcnamara
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 9h 44m
Sandybridge is the perfect English seaside town: home to gift shops, tea rooms and a fabulous fish and chip shop. And it's home to Grace - although right now, she's not too happy about it. Grace grew up in Sandybridge, helping her parents sort junk from vintage treasures, but she always longed to escape to a bigger world. And she made it, travellin...
View BookThe Dust That Falls From Dreams
Author: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator David Sibley, Avita Jay
Duration 17h 30m
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII's reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of war that will engulf them on the cusp of...
View BookAuthor: Alice Walker
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Author Alice Walker
Narrator Brigitte Bennett
Duration 7h 42m
Set in the deep American South between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie, and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, si...
View BookAuthor: Gareth Stein
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Author Gareth Stein
Narrator Christopher Evan Welch
Duration 6h 56m
Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realises that racing is a metaphor: that by applying the techniques a driver would...
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 17h 29m
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find th...
View BookAuthor: Graham Norton
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Author Graham Norton
Narrator Graham Norton
Duration 7h 46m
Graham Norton's debut novel, Holding, was a Sunday Times best seller and loved everywhere. His new novel, A Keeper, is a twisted tale of secrets and ill-fated loves that once again demonstrates Norton's understanding of human nature and all its darkest flaws. The mystery of Elizabeth Keane's father is one that has never been solved by the people of...
View BookAuthor: Harper Lee
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Author Harper Lee
Narrator Reese Witherspoon
Duration 7h
Go Set a Watchman is set during the mid-1950s and features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Scout (Jean Louise Finch) has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude towa...
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