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Author: Amitav Ghosh
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Author Amitav Ghosh
Narrator Sam Dastor
Duration 10h 7m
An enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery o...
View BookAuthor: Tom Lamont
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Author Tom Lamont
Narrator Jot Davies
Duration 11h 21m
Local boy Téo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Téo: he's got a steady job, a brand-new car and a London flat all concrete and glass, with a sliver of a river view. Except, underneath the surface, not much has changed at all. He's...
View BookJaney: The Woman That Won't Shut Up
Author: Janey Godley
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Author Janey Godley
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Duration 5h 27m
Janey has been a determined fighter all her life - from her tough Glasgow childhood to becoming the much-loved comedian she is now. It was the strength she needed to survive as a sweary-mouthed woman in the male-dominated comedy clubs of the 1990s. She needed it again when she brought a case against the uncle who'd abused her as a child. A terrifyi...
View BookAuthor: Kaliane Bradley
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Author Kaliane Bradley
Narrator George Weightman
Duration 10h 24m
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. A civil servant starts working as a 'bridge' - a liaison, helpmeet and housemate - in an experimental project that brings expatriates from the past into the twenty-first century. This is a science-fiction stor...
View BookAuthor: Isabelle Broom
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Author Isabelle Broom
Narrator Gloria Sanders
Duration 12h 39m
Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Mallorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love into restoring the house and built the foundations of their marriage within its walls. First it was their private idyll, then a place to escape with their son, Luke - but now it has become a ba...
View BookAuthor: Samir Puri
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Author Samir Puri
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Duration 10h 57m
What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, former UK diplomat Dr Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future. Many of our certainties about the present, built on centuries...
View BookAuthor: Jill Santopolo
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Author Jill Santopolo
Narrator Gabrielle De Cuir
Duration 10h 8m
Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds - but the undeniable spark between them quickly burns into a deep and passionate relationship, played out against their post-war city, and Vincenzo's family's beautiful vineya...
View BookA Change of Heart at the Vintage Dress Shop
Author: Annie Darling
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Author Annie Darling
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 8h 36m
Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch, button or seam, she can transform any frock in The Vintage Dress Shop and give customers their Cinderella moment. Like her beautifully organised workroom under the eaves, Cress's life away from the shop is just as orderly and mapped out. But when her boyfriend of fifteen years d...
View BookAuthor: Lindsay Lynch
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Author Lindsay Lynch
Narrator Lisa Flanagan
Duration 8h 36m
THERE'S NOTHING STRONGER THAN A GOOD STORY. THE QUESTION IS: WHO GETS TO TELL IT? The clock is ticking on Hollywood actress Edie O'Dare's contract with FWM Studios. Her acting career is going nowhere, and she's running out of time to find a new role in the industry - other than providing salacious details of the latest party or premiere to the pres...
View BookMinor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
Author: Hema Sukumar
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Author Hema Sukumar
Narrator Shaheen Khan
Duration 10h 20m
A warm-hearted debut novel set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai. Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual visits from her daughter who is studying in t...
View BookAuthor: Kate Weston
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Author Kate Weston
Narrator Helen Reuben
Duration 10h 15m
Bridesmaids meets How to Kill Your Family in this hilarious murder mystery, with characters you'll love to hate and a string of outlandish hen party murders that end in a twist you'll never see coming. Not all hens went to the party to have a good time. Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy have been friends since nursery. They wonder if that w...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Skye
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Author Evelyn Skye
Narrator Anthony Rey Perez, Victoria Villarreal
Duration 8h 49m
Claire Walker has her life in perfect order. Yet the one thing she is missing is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Spanish artist Matías de León into her path. Matías is free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard - and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question how t...
View BookAuthor: Suzie Edge
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Author Suzie Edge
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Duration 6h 49m
The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies a...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Adeane
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Author Anthony Adeane
Narrator Barnaby Edwards
Duration 9h 18m
As seen on BBC Storyville. Every Icelander knows about the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur disappearances. 1974. In two separate incidents, two men vanished into thin air. Then, out of it came six murder confessions and six convictions. Yet in the decades that followed, these too evaporated. Anthony Adeane explores the stranger-than-fiction story that has...
View BookAuthor: Saviour Pirotta
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Author Saviour Pirotta
Narrator Dan Bottomley
Duration 12m
How can Taro and Yuko help to protect the sea turtles? This new edition of a classic, pioneering story about turtle conservation is needed today more than ever. Taro and Yuko help old Jiro San to clean up the beach, and one amazing evening they discover why their work is so important. Now the beach is safe, sea turtles come out of the ocean to lay...
View BookAuthor: Kyung-Sook Shin
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Author Kyung-Sook Shin
Narrator Bruce Turk, Janet Song, Mark Bramhall, Samantha Quan
Duration 7h 57m
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2012. When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Andrews
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Author Jessica Andrews
Narrator Sarah Durham
Duration 7h 53m
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing that she needs to make herself smaller to claim presence in the world. Years later, as a young woman with unattainab...
View BookAuthor: Aamina Ahmad
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Author Aamina Ahmad
Narrator Homer Todiwala, Nina Wadia
Duration 12h 11m
A spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic late '60s - a multi-layered tale of family, identity and the politics of power in a caste-ridden society. As riots erupt on the streets of Lahore, Inspector Faraz returns to his birthplace, the red-light district in the ancient walled city where women still pass on the profession of courtesan...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Andrews
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Author Jessica Andrews
Narrator Natalie Jamieson
Duration 7h 2m
When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in working-class Sunderland, amid legendary family stories of Irish immigrants and boarding house...
View BookZ: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Author: Therese Anne Fowler
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Author Therese Anne Fowler
Narrator Jenna Lamia
Duration 12h 37m
When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen and he is a young army lieutenant. Before long, Zelda has fallen for him, even though Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fa...
View BookAuthor: Mark Adkin
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Author Mark Adkin
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 52m
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. The most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war—told from both sides. Goose Green was the first land battle of the Falklands War. It was also the longest, the hardest-fought, the most controversial and the most important to win. W...
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