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Author: Margaret Atwood
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Author Margaret Atwood
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 18h 26m
Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.
View BookThe Power of Five Book 2: Evil Star
Author: Anthony Horowitz
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Author Anthony Horowitz
Narrator Paul Panting
SeriesThe Power of Five, Book 2
Duration 9h 16m
After his experiences at Raven's Gate, fourteen-year-old Matt Freeman thinks his days of battling evil are over. But soon he is pulled into another horrifying adventure when he discovers a second gate exists. Matt and his friend Richard travel to Peru and, assisted by a secret organization known as the Nexus, follow a series of clues to the gate's...
View BookThree Tales of My Father's Dragon
Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett
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Author Ruth Stiles Gannett
Narrator Robert Serva
Duration 2h 24m
The classic fantasy trilogy of Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon has delighted children and their parents for generations. Now, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, Random House is proud to bring the three timeless tales together. A Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, My Father's Dragon is followed by Elmer and the Dragon...
View BookAuthor: Belinda Bauer
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Author Belinda Bauer
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 9h 50m
Jack's in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I won't be long. So eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters wait on the hard shoulder in their stifling, broken-down car, bickering and whining and playing I-Spy until she comes back. But their mother doesn't come back. She never comes back. And after that long hot summe...
View BookAuthor: Sue Townsend
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Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Rob Crossan
Duration 5h 54m
Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and retreated from the world. However, when he makes a horrifying discovery on the heath,...
View BookAn Interview With James Runcie
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator James Runcie
Duration 21m
James Runcie is a novelist, playwright, TV producer and documentary filmmaker. His Granchester series of books is available to borrow from our library on MP3 CD. Photo ¸ Charlotte Runcie.
View BookAuthor: Patrick Suskind
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Author Patrick Suskind
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 8h 42m
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 1: Death At Wentwater Court
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Bernadette Dunne
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 1
Duration 6h 38m
This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment-and promptly stumbles across a corpse. No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new grou...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 61: Episode 2
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 2
Duration 27m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, in which the panellists attempt to talk uninterrupted for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. This week the players are Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus and the ex-rocker Rick Wakeman.
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, Shrinking the Handset
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 4
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. In this third episode, he looks at the discovery of text messaging. The engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case, they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and maybe). In the eighties, when network covera...
View BookAuthor: Bettina Gracias
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Author Bettina Gracias
Narrator Sagar Radia
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama about a young Pakistani boy forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of four, and who became a figurehead for the Bonded Liberation Movement aged eleven. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 February 2009, and repeated on 18 January 2011. Despite the valiant efforts of many, there are stil...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
One of Rudyard Kipling's more farcical stories, this look at the strange administration of the British Raj introduces us to the eccentric inventor Mellish, and the rich and important Mellishe, both of whom desire an audience with the Viceroy of the Indian Empire. By a strange quirk of fate, the Viceroy's invitation gets sent to the inventor instead...
View BookShakespeare: His Life and Work
Author: Richard Hampton, David Weston
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Author Richard Hampton, David Weston
Narrator Judi Dench, Timothy West
Duration 2h 30m
Dame Judi Dench and Timothy West perform extracts from all of Shakespeare's plays from 'Hamlet' to 'Pericles'. This audiobook also includes commentary, music, songs and sonnets.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 11
Duration 2h 14m
Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish clifftop home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors include keen amateur detective Mr. Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death visits the house soon after Poirot's arrival, the victim an elderly...
View BookDoctor Who Demon Quest Series Book 4: Starfall
Author: Paul Magrs
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Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 4
Duration 1h 13m
Tom Baker reprises the role of the Fourth Doctor, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. Two things arrive on the same night in Central Park, New York, 1976. The first is a fireball from space, bringing with it a new identity for one Alice Trefusis. The second is the TARDIS, carrying the Doctor and his friends on the...
View BookWoman's Hour: A Celebration of Mothers
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 13m
Interviews, discussions, readings and poems celebrating motherhood in all its diversity.This compilation of extracts from the much-loved BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work/life balance and how...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 28m
A man witnesses a murderous attack on a young woman in a mirror - yet when he turns round there is nothing there. Can he prevent a premonition coming true? Basic human loyalty and jealousy are at the fore in this chilling tale.
View BookDavid Raker Series Book 7: Broken Heart
Author: Tim Weaver
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Author Tim Weaver
Narrator Joe Coen, John Chancer
SeriesDavid Raker, Book 7
Duration 14h 25m
Where did she go? What did she know? A woman drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast. CCTV watches her enter but doesn't see her leaving. In fact, Lynda Korin is never seen again. How can someone just disappear? Her sister calls missing persons investigator David Raker. For him, the mystery of where she went is only the start. The re...
View BookAuthor: Rivers Solomon
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Author Rivers Solomon
Narrator Cherise Boothe
Duration 11h 54m
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vess...
View BookAn Interview With Christopher Paolini
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Christopher Paolini
Duration 29m
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle series, which is available is borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
View BookAuthor: Hal Runkel
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Author Hal Runkel
Narrator Hal Runkel
Duration 4h 53m
You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It's about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids' behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our bigges...
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