Author: Rosamunde Pilcher
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Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Narrator Hayley Atwell
Duration 19h 34m
Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age....
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 4: Murder On the Flying Scotsman
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Mia Chiaromonte
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 4
Duration 6h 51m
It is the spring of 1923 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Bretton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the f...
View BookScars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
Author: Catherine Reilly
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Author Catherine Reilly
Narrator Sophie Ablett
Duration 3h 38m
'Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918 expressing the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows...
View BookGeek Girl Series Book 2: Model Misfit
Author: Holly Smale
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Author Holly Smale
Narrator Katy Sobey
SeriesGeek Girl, Book 2
Duration 8h 1m
MODEL MISFIT is the sequel to award-winning No. 1 UK debut GEEK GIRL. Harriet Manners knows a lot of facts. She knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day. She knows that Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings. And that the average person eats a ton of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat...
View BookAuthor: Wolfgang Korn
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Author Wolfgang Korn
Narrator Philip Scott-Wallace
Duration 3h 55m
How does a piece of clothing end up in your wardrobe? Where does it come from, and where does it go? This is not just a story about manufacturing. This is a story about people, their livelihoods and their life expectations. This is the story of globalisation. Made on Earth follows the incredible journey of a red fleece manufactured in Bangladesh. F...
View BookAuthor: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
Duration 1h 51m
The BBC's Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers. This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time. William Pitt the Younger, who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in t...
View BookAuthor: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
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Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Kenneth Horne
SeriesRound the Horne, Book 6
Duration 2h 5m
Between 1965 and 1969 the successor to Beyond Our Ken ruled the airwaves. The show was scripted by Barry Took and Marty Feldman with music from the Fraser Hayes Four. Kenneth Horne was the golden-voiced straight man of the show, with the incredible comic talents of Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee taking on the guise o...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Octavia Walters
Duration 2h
Identical twins Ruby and Garnet are inseparable. They do everything together, and go every where together. They love being twins, and since the death of their mother they have been closer than ever, safe in their little world. But when Dad finds a new girlfriend everything in the twins' lives is turned upside down--new home, new school, new everyth...
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
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Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales
Duration 1h 4m
When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley's wedding reception they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing. Both Irene and Vera are happily widowed and endowed with errant offspring. They live in a world of church fetes and amateur dramatics, but love nothing more than dipping th...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 1m
In this BBC full-cast production of The Merchant of Venice, love, bigotry, greed, and justice are entwined.Shakespeare's classic play explores the eternal themes of love and hate, mercy and justice, with parallel stories centred on the moneylender, Shylock, and the lovers, Portia and Bassanio. Shylock's angry insistence on the repayment of his...
View BookRosie Gilmour Book 8: Death Trap
Author: Anna Smith
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Author Anna Smith
Narrator Sarah Barron
SeriesRosie Gilmour, Book 8
Duration 9h 58m
A sadistic killer with a grudge against Rosie Gilmour is on the loose in Glasgow. Thomas Boag escaped from his first court appearance facing charges on a brutal murder. He's suspected in the disappearances of two other people. Now he's out for revenge. Rosie tries to distract herself with a new story: refugees trafficked into Glasgow and used as mo...
View BookAuthor: Cass Green
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Author Cass Green
Narrator Lisa Coleman
Duration 10h 13m
She saved your life. When Nina almost dies during a disastrous blind date, her life is saved by a waitress called Angel. But later that evening, Nina is surprised by a knock on the door. It's Angel - and she's pointing a gun at her. Now she'll make you pay. Minutes later, Angel's younger brother Lucas turns up, covered in blood shielding a stolen n...
View BookAuthor: Leah Fleming
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Author Leah Fleming
Narrator Elaine Claxton
Duration 13h 18m
2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past... 1930's, London. Caroline grew on a secluded Scottish esta...
View BookAuthor: Laura Carlin
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Author Laura Carlin
Narrator Sophie Ward
Duration 12h 57m
Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place and the city's vulnerable poor are disappearing from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she lea...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 13: A Mourning Wedding
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 13
Duration 10h 23m
The inimitable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher seem to get a reprieve from their sleuthing duties when they are invited to the wedding of their friend, Lucy Fotheringay. Lucy's grandfather is hosting the ceremony at his beautiful estate and so it promises to be a typical affair with hordes of gossipy...
View BookAuthor: Dorling Kindersley
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Author Dorling Kindersley
Narrator Claire Cordier
Duration 14h 22m
Is discretion the better part of valour, or does conscience make cowards of us all? Are these our salad days, or is this the winter of our discontent? Exploring the entire works of William Shakespeare, this book brings the language, themes, plots and characters of his plays and sonnets to life. Written in plain English, The Shakespeare Book is the...
View BookGeek Girl Series Book 1: Geek Girl
Author: Holly Smale
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Author Holly Smale
Narrator Kate Sobey
SeriesGeek Girl, Book 1
Duration 8h 3m
Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn't know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by...
View BookAuthor: Valerie Wood
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Author Valerie Wood
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 11h 21m
Hull, 1874. Clara had always wondered about the beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, who was adopted as a baby and turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to her origins far away from the streets of Hull. Even at her twin sister Elizabeth's wedding, Clara knows that Jewel is the belle of the ball. And as Jewel looks on at the happy,...
View BookAuthor: Melissa Marr
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Author Melissa Marr
Narrator Nick Landrum
SeriesWicked Lovely, Book 4
Duration 9h 7m
Hunger for nourishment.Hunger for touch. Hunger to belong.Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers. Those same appetites also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies, including Devlin. He was created as an assassin and is brother to the faeries' coolly logical High Queen and to her chaotic twin, the embodiment of War. Devlin wa...
View BookAuthor: Tom Avery
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Author Tom Avery
Narrator Alastair Natkiel
Duration 3h 30m
"Get out, Emmanuel!" growled my uncle. "Take your brother and go." But where can two boys go when they're on their own, on the run, with little money or food? All 12-year-old Emmanuel knows is that he has to look after Prince. They were his father's last words to him. On the train to London, Em and Prince have no idea where they will end up - but t...
View BookAuthor: David Fisher
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Author David Fisher
Narrator John Leeson
Duration 3h 47m
In search of a segment of the Key of Time, the Doctor, Romana and K9 arrive on the planet Tara, whose population has long mastered the art of android engineering. Romana is apprehended by the ambitious Count Grendel, who seeks to overthrow the king in waiting, and the Doctor is coerced into helping those loyal to the crown. With Reynart locked away...
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