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Author: Virginia Woolf
Format: Online
Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 7h 39m
Just before the First World War, the Ramsay family go to their holiday home in the Hebrides, bringing several guests with them. While they are there, one of the children wants to visit a lighthouse. After a ten year gap, during which the war wreaks its havoc on Europe, one of the guests returns to the house; and another trip to the lighthouse is pr...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 1h 4m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of William and Mary, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by Juliet Stevenson and Adrian Scarborough. In William and Mary, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wrong...
View BookAuthor: Julian Fellowes
Format: Online
Author Julian Fellowes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 15h 47m
On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British Society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of the handsome young men attending the ball will find themselves, the very next day, on the batt...
View BookAuthor: Louise Doughty
Format: Online
Author Louise Doughty
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 14h
Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him - a decision that will put everything sh...
View BookAuthor: Gower Imogen Hermes
Format: Online
Author Gower Imogen Hermes
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 17h 28m
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Levy
Format: Online
Author Deborah Levy
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 3h 13m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...' Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
Format: Online
Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
SeriesChocolat Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 15h 47m
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door.The wind has stopped - at least for a while.Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the l...
View BookAuthor: Jennie Rooney
Format: Online
Author Jennie Rooney
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 14h 11m
Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to overturn her comfortable world. Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and ide...
View BookAuthor: Sonia Purnell
Format: Online
Author Sonia Purnell
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 55m
The incredible true and untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell. The remarkable double life of an American-turned-British spy, Virginia Hall, a 'bolshie' woman from Maryland who, determined to...
View BookAuthor: Diane Setterfield
Format: Online
Author Diane Setterfield
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 16h 34m
A dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child. Hours later the dead girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can it be explained by...
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