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Warhorses of Letters-complete Series
Author: Robert Hudson
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Author Robert Hudson
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 54m
Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of extraordinary letters has been discovered. "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've never written a letter like this before...." Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse, to...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Myerson
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Author Jonathan Myerson
Narrator Full-Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio 4 'Saturday Play' investigating how domestic and international politics were about to combine in 1973, to change the Middle East forever. Starring Henry Goodman and Peter Marinker, Payback was originally broadcast on 22 January 2011. 6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian t...
View BookFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries: Death Cap & Devil Take the Hindmost
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 27m
David Threlfall stars as Father Paolo Baldi in two full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Death Cap sees Paolo attending a monastic retreat far out i...
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 3h
Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.
View BookAuthor: Wilkie Collins
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Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 24h 45m
Late one night on his way to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, drawing teacher Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Who is she, and what is her connection to the teacher's new pupil, a beautiful heiress?
View BookAnother Case of Milton Jones, Series 4
Author: Milton Jones
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Author Milton Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
The man they call 'Britain's Funniest Milton', Milton Jones, stars in his smash-hit Sony Award-winning BBC Radio 4's daftest comedy show, Another Case of Milton Jones, co-starring Tom Goodman-Hill ('The Office', 'Spamalot'), Lucy Montgomery (Bellamy's People) and the inimitable tones of Come Dine with Me's Dave Lamb. In each episode, Milton is a co...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 25m
Patrick Troughton plays the second Doctor in this classic six-part tale of `bodysnatching' from 1967. The TARDIS makes a hazardous return to contemporary Earth - materialising at Gatwick Airport in the path of an oncoming aeroplane! The travellers split up in order to evade airport security, but in doing so they become embroiled in a plot to steal...
View BookThe Adventures of Sexton Blake
Author: Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
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Author Jonathan Nash, Mil Millington
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 10m
BBC Radio 2's action-packed deafening romp - with 40 minutes of previously unbroadcast peril. Sexton Blake! The name that spells hurtling adventure! The name that spells doom for villainy! In a series of thrilling adventures packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake, (Simon Jones, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and his plucky assistant...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
Separated from his wife and children, gamekeeper George Barford took to drink and even attempted suicide. The woman who vowed to turn his life around was-curiously-the local barmaid Nora.
View BookAuthor: Stephenie Meyer
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Author Stephenie Meyer
Narrator Ilyana Kadushin
SeriesTwilight Saga, Book 3
Duration 16h 25m
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her ever-growing friendship with Jacob. And her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless strugg...
View BookAuthor: Khaled Hosseini
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Author Khaled Hosseini
Narrator Khaled Hosseini
Duration 6h
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, this audiobook tells the story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relat...
View BookDI Fawley Series Book 4: All the Rage
Author: Cara Hunter
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Author Cara Hunter
Narrator Lee Ingleby
SeriesDI Fawley, Book 4
Duration 11h 35m
Brought to you by Penguin. A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, a plastic bag pulled over her face, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press charges. DI Fawley investigate...
View BookTales From Schwartzgarden Book 3: The Lily-livered Prince
Author: Christopher William Hill
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Author Christopher William Hill
Narrator Simon Shepherd
SeriesTales from Schwartzgarten, Book 3
Duration 6h 11m
Meet Eugene, the most portly of princes, and Kalvitas, the most courageous of chocolate makers. Theirs is a tale of cakes and cowardice, bullies and battles, as they set out to defeat a terrifying tyrant. The characters are CURSED. The desserts are DEADLY. And people are NOT always as they appear...
View BookWhat Dementia Teaches Us About Love
Author: Nicci Gerrard
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Author Nicci Gerrard
Narrator Nicci Gerrard
Duration 8h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What Dementia Teaches Us About Love written and read by Nicci Gerrard. Dementia is an unmaking, a de-creation - an apocalypse of meaning. Since my father's slow-motion dying, and his actual death in November 2014, I have been much preoccupied with dementia: by those who have it, by those who look after them...
View BookAuthor: Claire Harman
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Author Claire Harman
Narrator Andy Secombe
Duration 7h 47m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Murder by the Book by Claire Harman, read by Andy Secombe. Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the h...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Kinsella
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Author Sophie Kinsella
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 11h 21m
Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, but in one afternoon everything begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill, but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations and mysterious phone calls, she soon realizes that she is in for the...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 5: ...and That's When It Fell Off In My Hand
Author: Louise Rennison
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Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 5
Duration 4h 37m
11.20 a.m.This is my fabulous life: the Sex God left for Whakatane last month and he has taken my heart with him.11.25 a.m. Not literally of course otherwise there would be a big hole in my nunga-nungas.11.28 a.m. And also I would be dead. Which quite frankly would be a blessing in disguise.12.00 p.m. It is soooo boring being brokenhearted... ...bu...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Turner
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Author Sarah Turner
Narrator Sarah Turner
Duration 6h 19m
THIS IS NOT A PARENTING MANUAL. THIS IS REAL LIFE. The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one size fits all' approach and how it is sometimes absolutely fine to not know what you are doing. The lessons she's learnt while grappling with two small boys - from birth...
View BookAuthor: Rachelle Burk
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Author Rachelle Burk
Narrator Katherine Kellgren, Bronson Pinchot
Duration 44m
In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education, and spent his childhood days in his father's shop where he developed the curiousity to create and draw. He experienced the world through touch, and learned to visually reproduce his surroundings, including color, shadows, and pers...
View BookTemperance Brennan Book 5: Grave Secrets
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Katherine Borowitz
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 5
Duration 9h 49m
Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in Montreal and North Carolina, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala, where her skills will be tested to the limit. It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and children. No records were kept. Families a...
View BookTurf Wars-an Incident At the Border
Author: Simon Brett
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Author Simon Brett
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Episode 2 of 4 of the BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series 'Turf Wars', Nigel Planner stars in 'An Incident at the Border', Kieran Lynn's comedy about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. Directed by Peter Kavanagh and originally broadcast 16 October 2011. Arthur (Joe Kloska) and Olivia (Leah Brotherhead), take in the sun in their local pa...
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