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Author: Onjali Q. Raúf
Format: Online
Author Onjali Q. Raúf
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 39m
No one is too small to make a change. Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference. With the help of her favou...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Format: Online
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Chris Harper
SeriesShades of Grey, Book 2
Duration 12h 43m
Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie Russett (red, middle-level) and Jane Grey (monochromatic, lowest in society). Eddie and Jane must negotiate the delicate Chromatic politics of society to find out what the 'Something that Happened' actually...
View BookAuthor: Liza Costello
Format: Online
Author Liza Costello
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 7h 48m
Crookedwood, quiet Irish midlands town, place of secrets, past and present. Sarah left it behind years ago for life in the city, where she's now a rising star of the Dublin culinary scene. She's home to help her mother sell the family farm. One evening, while out walking in the nearby woods, Sarah is chased by a man and his vicious dog, narrowly es...
View BookAuthor: Ian Herbet
Format: Online
Author Ian Herbet
Narrator Tom Lawrence, Rhianna McGreevy
Duration 11h 26m
The remarkable inside story of how two Hollywood A-listers, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, stunned the football world by buying a non-league club in North Wales. It was one of the most extraordinary takeovers British football has known. In February 2021, Ryan Reynolds joined with Rob McElhenney to buy Wrexham AFC, a non-league team in North Wale...
View BookAuthor: Jane Bailey
Format: Online
Author Jane Bailey
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h
It was meant to be Caitlin's perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless. When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she's relieved - they seem so friendly, safe. And when they offer her a warm bed in their isolated house for the...
View BookAuthor: Helen Skelton
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Author Helen Skelton
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 2m
Helen Skelton is no stranger to doing hard things, from kayaking the entire length of the Amazon to competing in a boxing match for Sports Relief. Her ability to dig deep and find the inner strength and to carry on no matter the challenge - physical, mental, or emotional - is nothing short of remarkable. Helen grew up on a farm in Cumbria and credi...
View BookAuthor: May Cobb
Format: Online
Author May Cobb
Narrator Katherine Fenton
Duration 10h 57m
Sophie O'Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realises that life is now too quiet, and she's feeling bored and restless...
View BookAuthor: Annie Lyons
Format: Online
Author Annie Lyons
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 9h 30m
As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive... London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is prepar...
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Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11h 52m
It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart 18 years ago. Kat feels a spark, w...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 15m
When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ludlum
Format: Online
Author Robert Ludlum
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesJason Bourne, Book 3
Duration 29h 22m
It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back, and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe, Russia, and America, there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectabi...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 11h 5m
In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
View BookAuthor: Kevin Bridges
Format: Online
Author Kevin Bridges
Narrator Angus King
Duration 11h 34m
A life-affirming debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges - exploring dysfunctional friendships, family, and how to face your problems head on. Declan Dolan has always wanted to be a writer, turning the ideas that spiral in his head into stories on the page. He longs to emulate his hometown hero, renowned writer and act...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 47m
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and...
View BookJames Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media
Author: James Acaster
Format: Online
Author James Acaster
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 55m
When James quit all forms of social media in 2019, he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never-ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f--king Zuckerberg). He knew that in order to stay clean, he'd have to replace everything social media used to give hi...
View BookPsalms For the End of the World
Author: Cole Haddon
Format: Online
Author Cole Haddon
Narrator Vaughn Johseph
Duration 17h 25m
It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer. Finding herself on the run with Jones across America's...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ludlum
Format: Online
Author Robert Ludlum
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesJason Bourne, Book 2
Duration 27h 38m
Washington, London and Peking - terror sweeps the globe. The Vice-Premier of the People's Republic has been brutally murdered by a legendary assassin and everyone is asking the same fearful questions: Why has Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is next on his death list? But US officials know the shocking truth: there is no Jason Bourne. There...
View BookAuthor: Robert Ludlum
Format: Online
Author Robert Ludlum
Narrator Scott Brick
SeriesJason Bourne, Book 1
Duration 22h 20m
Now a classic film, The Bourne Identity is Robert Ludlum's first exploration into the bewildering and chilling world of Jason Bourne. Exciting, fast-paced and powerfully written, you won't escape unchanged. He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin o...
View BookAuthor: J P Delaney
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Author J P Delaney
Narrator Saskia Maarleveld, Graham Halstead, Euan Morton
Duration 10h 42m
The enthralling new psychological thriller from the best-selling author of The Girl Before. When Abbie Cullen met Tim Scott, she was a struggling artist and he was the brilliant British cofounder of one of Silicon Valley's most successful start-ups. Within six months, they were married. But when she promised him in her wedding vows that she would l...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy Koomson
Format: Online
Author Dorothy Koomson
Narrator Amanda Shodeko, Sara Novak
Duration 11h 19m
Cleo Forsum is a best-selling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series The Baking Detective is a huge success. Writing is all she's ever wanted to do, and baking and murder stories have proved a winning combination. But now she has decided to walk away from it all—including divorcing her husband, Wallace—before her past secrets catc...
View BookAuthor: Alexandra Potter
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Author Alexandra Potter
Narrator Victoria Fox
Duration 9h 40m
How far would you go for love? When new boyfriend Jack stands her up at the airport, Ruby Miller dries her tears, jumps on the Eurostar and heads to Paris. She thinks she's going there to visit an old friend and have a total break from romance. But the City of Love has other ideas. A locked apartment where time has stood still, a bundle of long-los...
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