Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 46m
CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
View BookAuthor: Anne Bronte
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Author Anne Bronte
Narrator David Rintoul, Carole Boyd
Duration 2h 21m
Helen Graham moves to Wildfell Hall in a shroud of mystery: where has she come from, and who exactly is she? Anne's novel is the story of the beautiful and mysterious Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall suddenly one day. No-one knows who she is or where she has come from, and Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who has fallen in love with her, s...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 5
Duration 2h 15m
Miss Marple is told that her old friend, Carrie, is in danger and she goes to stay with her at Stoneygates, a home for maladjusted adolescents. While she is there, tragedy strikes as Carrie's step-son, Christian Gulbrandsen, is shot dead. There are at least seven suspects and two more murders follow. But the man with the obvious motive has a cast-i...
View BookThe Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Geraldine Mcewan, Simon Russell Beale
Duration 1h 36m
To avoid tiresome family engagements, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, an invalid friend whose bedside he is frequently obliged to attend. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest, confusion reigns, and it t...
View BookMitchell & Webb In Daydream Believers
Author: David Mitchell, Robert Webb
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Author David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
Daydream Believers, written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, follows the parallel stories of two flatmates, Ray and Colin, and the mighty alien empire of Baron Amstrad and Info, his retro-looking android. Ray (Mitchell) writes popular science fiction stories when he doesn't get writer's block. He does, however, get many interruptions...
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 5h
When young Lucy Graham marries Sir Michael Audley, all seems well and good. Sir Michael is thoroughly devoted to his new bride and Lady Audley takes great pride in her privileged position at Audley Court. But Sir Michael's daughter, Alicia, is frustrated and uncomfortable with her new stepmother's girlish ways. Shortly afterwards, Sir Michael's nep...
View BookAuthor: Asa Avdic
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Author Asa Avdic
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 37m
'Oh, it's really quite simple. I want you to play dead.' On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death a...
View BookAuthor: Kit de Waal
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Author Kit de Waal
Narrator Fiona Shaw
Duration 9h
A heart-wrenching love story from the internationally bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Mona is a young Irish girl in the big city, with the thrill of a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding house. On her first night out in 1970s Birmingham, she meets William, a charming Irish boy with an easy smile and an open face. They embark upon...
View BookHis Dark Materials Book 4: Lyra's Oxford
Author: Philip Pullman
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Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Philip Pullman
Duration 47m
Lyra's Oxford opens two years after the conclusion of Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in the comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, sit on the sun-drenched roof looking out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange bird - a witch's daemon, on it's own - tumbles out of the sky, in...
View BookDaisy Dalrymple Book 10: The Case of the Murdered Muckracker
Author: Carola Dunn
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Author Carola Dunn
Narrator Lucy Rayner
SeriesDaisy Dalrymple, Book 10
Duration 7h 56m
In late 1923 the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business-Alec travels to Washington, DC to consult with the US government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazi...
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Gerry O'Brien
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 1
Duration 6h 46m
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced th...
View BookAuthor: S.J. Bolton
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Author S.J. Bolton
Narrator Lisa Coleman
Duration 11h 2m
Despite her fascination with Jack the Ripper, Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a big case or seen a dead body up close. Until now...As she leaves a south London estate one night, she is horrified to find a woman has been viciously stabbed, right next to Lacey's car. Thrown headlong into her first murder hunt, Lacey's quiet life chan...
View BookHarry Hole Series Book 5: The Devil's Star
Author: Jo Nesbo
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Author Jo Nesbo
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesHarry Hole, Book 5
Duration 14h 5m
A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is alr...
View BookSexton Blake: The Vampire Moon and Other Stories
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 1h 37m
'The Vampire Moon': Sexton Blake and Paula Dane are out at a London restaurant, when one of their fellow diners suddenly collapses. His dying words warn of the danger of the Vampire Moon. Featuring Marjorie Westbury (Paul Temple). 'The Fifth Dimension': Harry Monkton wins œ84,000 on the Pools. Then, one day, the phone rings and he disappears....
View BookThe Yellow Dog-series, Inspector Maigret
Author: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret: The Yellow Dog', the citizens of Concarneau are not happy when Maigret begins his murder investigation. But there is poison in the Pernod, a howling yellow dog and, it seems, a madman on the loose...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2005
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
The Best of Just a Minute is a yearly event which brings together the greatest shows of the year. Just a Minute was devised by the late Ian Messiter, who came up with the idea on the top of a number 13 bus, where he suddenly remembered the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation being meted out by one of his school...
View BookMark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better Series 2
Author: Mark Watson
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Author Mark Watson
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 47m
Continuing to make the world a better place, this is the second series for Mark to free you from sin. Mark Watson is not only a fantastic stand-up comedian, but he may also be the best chance we have to overcome sin. He's got a plan to teach us everything we need to know about the Six Deadly Sins (he knows it's usually seven, but he's doing Greed a...
View BookThe Thoroughly Modern Collection
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 8m
An exciting collection that contains contemporary works by writers such as the Japanese sensation Haruki Murakami, with other modern writers including Doris Lessing and Joanna Trollope, among others. Another very diverse collection from CSA WORD, this set brings toether stories of love, loss and adventure, with a whole lot more thrown into the mix...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
SeriesMiss Marple, Book 12
Duration 1h 26m
Gwenda Reed arrives from New Zealand, travelling ahead of her husband with the task of finding the perfect place to make their base. In the quiet village of Dilmouth, she finds a house with immediate appeal. A few renovations will convert it into her ideal home. Then things get very strange indeed. Wanting porch stairs, Gwenda hires a builder to pu...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 53m
Young Huck Finn can't get along with the Widow Douglas' attempts to `civilise' him, or the smothering discipline which she and her sister serve up at home. So when his drunken, good-for-nothing father turns up and kidnaps him, Huck takes his cue to leave - and escapes to Jackson's Island. There he meets runaway slave Jim, and the two become firm fr...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 49m
Richard Eyre directs Ken Stott as Macbeth and Phyllis Logan as Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's dramatic tale of greed and destiny. BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of makin...
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