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Temperance Brennan Book 3: Deadly Decisions
Author: Kathy Reichs
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Author Kathy Reichs
Narrator Lorelei King
SeriesTemperance Brennan, Book 3
Duration 9h 29m
A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. The body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has to pick up the pieces: she knows she shouldn't let emotion get in the way, but when nin-year-old Emily's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 61: Episode 1
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 1
Duration 27m
Returning series of the ever popular Just A Minute, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Graham Norton, Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock and Tony Hawks are attempting to speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation on 'Barn Dances', 'My Personal Assistant' and other subjects.
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, the Accidentaldiscoveroftext
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 3
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: Helen Clohessy
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Author Helen Clohessy
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
An offbeat 21st Century urban love story starring Rosie Cavaliero and John Dougall, originally broadcast as BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' on 12 January 2011. It's a difficult time for Sue, her mother has just died and the kids have moved out. She has a vision of leaving their tough housing estate behind and starting a new life by the sea but husba...
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 5h
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled exist...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
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SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 4, Book 5
Duration 27m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookA Life on the Railway Book 1: Steam
Author: Productions Llp Pennine
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Author Productions Llp Pennine
Narrator Pete Waterman
SeriesA Life on the Railway, Book 1
Duration 2h 15m
Before cars and planes, railways and steam engines were the main form of transport. And in the early days the engine driver was the fastest man on earth, travelling at 60 mph (and much faster than a car). No wonder it was every schoolboy's dream to become the driver of a locomotive, even though it was dirty and dangerous work. Some boys went straig...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.
View BookAuthor: Fredrik Backman
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Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 13h 43m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly...
View BookStop Anxiety From Stopping You
Author: Helen Odessky
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Author Helen Odessky
Narrator Donna Postel
Duration 4h 17m
What are the signs of anxiety? What is a panic attack? What is social anxiety? What is anxiety disorder? How to overcome anxiety and how to stop a panic attack: It is now possible to stop anxiety from stopping us in our tracks. In her book, Dr. Odessky helps you understand the process of anxiety, and how to arm yourself with strategies that work. D...
View BookAuthor: Alice Munro
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Author Alice Munro
Narrator Liza Ross
Duration 9h 21m
Moments of change, chance encounters, twists of fate that create a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. The collection includes four powerful pieces, 'Autobiographical in Feeling', set during the time of Munro's own childhood, in th...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
View BookThe Last Survivors Book 2: The Dead and Gone
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
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Author Susan Beth Pfeffer
Narrator Robertson Dean
SeriesThe Last Survivors, Book 2
Duration 8h 51m
Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated listeners with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event-an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-yea...
View BookAuthor: Alan Titchmarsh
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Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 8h 45m
When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery, Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature. But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales wo...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 61: The Complete Series
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons
Duration 3h 42m
Nicholas Parsons is once again in the chair for this complete series of the popular BBC Radio 4 panel game. Featured in these eight episodes are panellists Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Tony Hawks, Graham Norton, Julian Clary, Gyles Brandreth, Sheila Hancock, Josie Lawrence, Phill Jupitus, Rick Wakeman, Pam Ayres and newcomers Russell Kane, Miles...
View BookStephen Fry On the Phone, From Carphones To Executive Bricks
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesStephen Fry on the Phone Series, Book 2
Duration 13m
Stephen Fry meets the brains behind the mobile phone. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. In this second episode, he traces the evolution of the mobil...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 27
Duration 2h 12m
Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desperate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen begins to fear for her life. The prospects for the Cloades improve when they discover that Rosaleen had a previous husband who perished mysteriously in Africa. T...
View BookAuthor: Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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Author Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Narrator Clive Mantle
SeriesThe Edge Chronicles, The Twig Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 6h 11m
Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, fascinating and sometimes hazardous world beyond the Deepwoods. In his travels he encounters myriad peculiar creatures, like his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers, a peace...
View BookDoctor Who Demon Quest Series Book 3: A Shard of Ice
Author: Paul Magrs
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Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Demon Quest, Book 3
Duration 1h 6m
The third exciting adventure in a brand new series of linked multi-voice adventures for the Doctor and friends, based on characters from the classic TV series.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary "Gate of Baghdad", also known as the "Gate of Death". When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr. Parker Pyne.
View BookAuthor: Anita Sullivan
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Author Anita Sullivan
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 44m
When PC Andy Davidson arrests a young girl for shoplifting, he thinks it's going to be a routine case. That is, until he sees that she is carrying a gun. The girl is soaking wet, covered in mud, and the weapon is like nothing he's ever seen before. He knows that this is a case for Torchwood... The team discovers that the girl is called Freda, but c...
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