Cousins Quartet Series Book 1: The Good Fortunes Gang
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 1
Duration 1h 33m
Being a Fortune isn't just being called a Fortune,' Tracey declared. 'You get to be a Fortune by going through the TEST...' When his parents move to the small town in New Zealand where his father grew up, ten-year-old Pete can hardly wait to meet all his relatives who live there - especially the four cousins his own age. Will he like them? And, mor...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 1: The Mermaids Singing
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 13h 48m
Up until now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one's different - this one's on the loose. Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But soon Tony becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of...
View BookStarry Night: A Christmas Novel
Author: Debbie Macomber
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Author Debbie Macomber
Narrator Rebecca Lowman
Duration 5h 21m
'Tis the season for love and second chances ... Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge first: Carrie must score the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a bestselling book about s...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 6h 52m
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of Manchester life is set in the 19th century when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers. Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time.
View BookAuthor: Jenny Valentine
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Author Jenny Valentine
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
SeriesIggy and Me, Book 1
Duration 1h 26m
The first of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. IGGY AND ME is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-year-old Iggy as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo. Funny and endearing, each chapte...
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 7: Final Account
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 7
Duration 9h 55m
In this chilling and surprising classic tale, the brutal, execution-style murder of a nondescript accountant opens up a deadly Pandora's Box of lies, double lives, blood, and deception for Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
View BookAuthor: Gabriel García Márquez
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Author Gabriel García Márquez
Narrator John Lee
Duration 14h 4m
One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buend¡a family. Rich and brillia...
View BookAuthor: David Ashton
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Author David Ashton
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Inspector McLevy Mysteries Series 3, Book 1
Duration 43m
Brian Cox stars as McLevy with Siobh n Redmond as Jean Brash and Michael Perceval-Maxwell as Mulholland in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Inspired by the real-life memoirs of a Victorian Inspector in Scotland, James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice, with the assistance of Constable Mulh...
View BookAraminta Spookie Series Book 2: The Sword In the Grotto
Author: Angie Sage
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Author Angie Sage
Narrator Sarah Sherborne
SeriesAraminta Spook, Book 2
Duration 1h 43m
What do you buy someone for their 500th birthday? Araminta is desperately trying to think of the perfect gift for her favourite ghost, Sir Horace, but it's hard to buy gifts for someone with no specific hobbies, and no body. Then an inspired idea leads to trouble when all does not go as planned, and Araminta wonders whether she'll ever see Horace o...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesKing Stupid Series 1, Book 4
Duration 24m
King Stupid is a new Radio Four panel game where four panellists are funny. It's not the News, sport, adverts, other panel games or anything! King Stupid is also a show where you will not hear any of the following phrases: 1."Now into our mercifully brief second round ..." 2."This weeks winners of the keys to the executive washroom are ..." 3."Tony...
View BookThe Navy Lark: Hms Troutbridge Rides the Swell
Author: Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
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Author Laurie Wyman, Sid Colin
Narrator The Cast
SeriesThe Navy Lark, Book 3
Duration 2h 14m
Features: The Redundancy Drive, The Forbodians Hijack Troutbridge, The Put-a-Horse-out-to-Graze Fund, Impressions for Survival. The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieute...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesMurder Most Foul, Book 1
Duration 2h 25m
Horrible, gruesome, strange and fantastic, some of the best murder stories ever written. Some of the greatest crime stories ever written are brought together on a superb collection that will have listeners on the edge of their seats... wondering if they might be next!!! Who's that outside the door... or is it just the wind??
View BookAuthor: Charles Lamb
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Author Charles Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 30m
An adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy in which hapless couples are forced into cross-dressing to avoid their loan-shark woes: Charles and Mary Lamb turn the master of all playwright's works to prose to great effect.
View BookThe Very World of Milton Jones, Series 1, Part 1
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Very World of Milton Jones Series 1, Book 1
Duration 26m
"Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him". No-one knows where he's from - "As a child, I always remember my father saying to me 'Son, to pay for your education your mother and I had to make a lot of sacrifices.' Because they were both druids." No-one can predict what he gets up to -"I'm not getting on with my yoga teacher at the moment...
View BookAuthor: Greg Davies
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Author Greg Davies
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 52m
We Are Klang are three stand-up comedians. Their sell out Edinburgh show was nominated for an if.comedy award and this spoof radio series was specially commissioned for BBC7. When Britain's most ridiculous alcoholic sets his heart on becoming a war poet, little does he realise that his poetry will kill as many people as the Vietnam War itself. As f...
View BookAuthor: Lisa Jewell
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Author Lisa Jewell
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 35m
In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go? Two entangled...
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 3: A Fortune Branches Out
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 3
Duration 1h 19m
It's a new plan,' Tessa said airily. 'I'm staying up in the tree house for twenty-four hours...' The National Telethon gives ten-year-old Tessa Fortune a wonderful opportunity to practise what she is most interested in - making money. Even better, no-one can call her greedy this time because everything she makes is for charity. Helped by her cousin...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 3: The Last Temptation
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 3
Duration 17h 32m
A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile, his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire traffi...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Ware
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Author Ruth Ware
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 13h 45m
The text message is just 3 words: I need you. Isa Leigh drops everything, packs up her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten where she and her 3 best friends attended prestigious boarding school, Salten House. Only Kate still lives in the area, at the crumbling Tide Mill she inherited when her disgraced art tutor father vanished when she was j...
View BookIggy and Me Book 2: Iggy and Me and the Happy Birthday
Author: Jenny Valentine
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Author Jenny Valentine
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
SeriesIggy and Me, Book 2
Duration 1h 30m
The second of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. More funny and endearing family stories featuring the the irrepressible 5-year-old IGGY as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo, the ME of the title. Whether learning to swim, or playing at...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 14: Fall of A Philanderer
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Bernadette Dunne
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 14
Duration 8h 10m
In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday. But Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent Do...
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