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The Chronicles of Narnia Book 3: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Author C.S. Lewis
Narrator Alex Jennings
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3
Duration 4h 40m
Desperate to escape a harsh and narrow regime, two runaways unwittingly flee headlong into the centre of a terrible battle. This first sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe includes all the hallmarks of its famous predecessor, though this time the fate of Narnia is wound up in the lives of its own children, and a talking horse!...
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Author: John Wyndham
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Author John Wyndham
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 15m
When Bill Masen leaves hospital and goes into the centre of London, he finds that looting is rife as people are grabbing anything from the shelves of shops that they think they might find useful - mainly food. While surveying the scene he comes across an attractive young woman who also wasn't blinded in the comet shower, Josella. Together they retu...
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Author: Balzac Honore De
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Author Balzac Honore De
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 15m
Cousin Bette is one of the best loved and most admired of Honore de Balzac's novels. A tale of seductive women and philandering men, of passionate affairs and spiralling debts, Cousin Bette paints a vivid portrait of Paris in the 1830s and '40s. It's a city full of temptations, in which money is king, morals are loose and the appeals of the virtuou...
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Author: Ian Mcewan
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Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 3h 49m
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT...
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Author: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 16h 26m
Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living as a painter. The inconvenience of the house is outweighed by the fact that she and Arthur are removed from her drunken, degenerate husband. Although the...
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Author: Jules Verne
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Author Jules Verne
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 2h 24m
Captain Nemo journeys far down in the ocean...which weird and wonderful beasts will be there to greet him? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an adventure story set far down in the briney deep where Captain Nemo tracks the terrifying and mystifying monster that has already wrecked ships that have disturbed its slumber. A scary, illuminating a...
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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy Series, Book 1
Author: Alighieri Dante
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Author Alighieri Dante
Narrator Alex Jennings, Laurie Anderson, Colin Redgrave
SeriesThe Divine Comedy, Book 1
Duration 49m
This original and refreshingly different dramatisation follows Dante, 'lost in a dark wood', who is met by Virgil, who takes him on a tour of the underworld: a place he could end up if he decides to take his own life. Starring Corin Redgrave as Dante, Alex Jennings as Virgil, Laurie Anderson as Beatrice and Arthur Brown as The Gate of Hell and prod...
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A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Author: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 10h 54m
A History of the World in 10 and 1/2 Chapters tells a series of apparently unconnected stories ranging from a woodworm's-eye-view of the journey on Noah's Ark to an astronaut's quest for its final resting place. There is pastiche and learned disquisition; there is heart-stopping documentary and heart-lifting revelation. But these stories are not se...
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