Looking After Your Mental Health
Author: Alice James, Louie Stowell
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Author Alice James, Louie Stowell
Narrator Emmy Rose
Duration 3h
We talk about our physical health - but not so much about how we're feeling. With lots of practical advice, this lively, accesible guide explains why we have emotions, and what can influence them. Covering everything from friendships, social media and bullying to divorce, depression and eating disorders, this is an essential book for young people.
View BookAuthor: Jeff Vandermeer
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Author Jeff Vandermeer
Narrator Carol Mccormick
Duration 6h 3m
For thirty years, Area X has remained behind its border- an environmental disaster zone. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; all with terrible consequences. Annihilation is the story of the twelfth expedition. Their mission: to take samples and expand their understanding of Area X. But an inexplicable moaning calls in the distance,...
View BookDeath In Paradise Series Book 3: Death Knocks Twice
Author: Robert Thorogood
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Author Robert Thorogood
Narrator Phil Fox
SeriesDeath in Paradise, Book 3
Duration 9h 2m
Two dead bodies. A family of suspects. One grumpy detective. Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richard Poole dreams of cold winds, drizzly rain and a pint in his local pub. Just as he is feeling as fed up as can be, a mysterious vagrant is found dead in the grounds of the historic Beaumont...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 2m
A delightful collection from around the British Isles including Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, Leisure by W. H Davis and To Autumn by John Keats. Featuring classic recordings by Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
View BookPerkins & Tate Mystery 1: Cover-up Story
Author: Marian Babson
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Author Marian Babson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesPerkins & Tate Mystery, Book 1
Duration 5h 24m
Nashville's Bart and the Cousins, in England on a road trip, have a chart-topping song. Unfortunately Bart also has an indictment back in the USA over an underage groupie. Keeping that hot news out of the London papers is a job for Doug Perkins of the PR firm Perkins and Tate. Doug soon finds that you can take the boy out of the country ... but he'...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Franzen
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Author Jonathan Franzen
Narrator David Ledoux
Duration 24h 4m
An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life;...
View BookStephen Fry Does the Knowledge
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 47m
Stephen Fry presents this intriguing programme charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we know Knowledge. The Google generation thinks it doesn't need to carry much of it around in its head any more. Much has already been written about the internet changing the way we think and learn....
View BookAuthor: Ed Harris
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Author Ed Harris
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A tender and sad BBC Radio 4 comedy drama about losing your past, starring Richard Briers. The Moment You Feel It was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 18 May 2009. Alf's memories come in flashes with great blank holes, along with a running commentary from the voices of his past. So how does finding a strange coat in his kitchen remin...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 26m
Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed and, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. A piece of paper with nine names written on it is found in the dead priest's shoe. The clue leads to The Pale Horse Inn, home of three women: a psychic, a me...
View BookRoutes of English: Series 1, Programme 5
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 5
Duration 27m
The power of English-and the "English of Power", as the language extends its influence from Court to Edinburgh. Melvyn Bragg goes to Edinburgh and the house of John Knox, the great Scottish apostle of the Reformation, who preached in English. Latin was replaced by English as the language of the Church when Henry VIII broke with Rome. And the 1611 K...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator John Moffatt
SeriesHercule Poirot, Book 19
Duration 1h 27m
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: "You see, don't you,...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 13m
In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this deligh...
View BookKaren Pirie Book 2: A Darker Domain
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Eilidh Fraser
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 2
Duration 12h 56m
1984. The miners' strike is dividing the country. In a struggling coal-mining town, the miners and their families are living at the edge of their resources. On the 14th of December, five miners break ranks to travel to Nottingham and work. For those who stay behind, this is an unforgivable betrayal. Twenty-three years later, a young woman is asking...
View BookAuthor: M.G. Leonard
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Author M.G. Leonard
Narrator M.G. Leonard
Duration 7h 19m
Darkus is miserable. His dad has disappeared and now he is living next door to the most disgusting neighbours ever. A giant beetle called Baxter comes to his rescue. But can the two solve the mystery of his dad's disappearance, especially when links emerge to cruel Lucretia Cutter and her penchant for beetle jewellery? A coffee-mug mountain, home t...
View BookAuthor: Francis Musgrave
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Author Francis Musgrave
Narrator Caitlin Sulivan
Duration 2h 14m
Dealing with the everday realities facing teens with Aperger Syndrome, this book presents a toolkit of tried-and-trusted ideas to help them work through difficulties and find the solutions that work best for them. This book covers everything they need to know to thrive in their adolescent years, including how to hack your own internal alarm system...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 21h 37m
Santa Montefiore's involving and dramatic novel The Butterfly Box opens in Vina del Mar, Chile, in the sweltering Summer of 1982. Frederica Campione adores her father. When he gives her a magical box from Peru she believes he will always be there for her. Yet, when her parents' marriage falls apart, she is forced to move to Cornwall with her mother...
View BookTed Hughes: An Unauthorised Life
Author: Jonathan Bate
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Author Jonathan Bate
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 25h 43m
A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Rosenheim
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Author Andrew Rosenheim
Narrator John Chancer
SeriesJimmy Nessheim, Book 2
Duration 12h 42m
Los Angeles, September 1941. With the Nazis occupying Europe, and their armies now halfway across Russia, America hovers on the brink of war. Tensions are also rising in the Far East, and in California fears grow of a Pacific Coast invasion. There is mounting anxiety about the loyalty of the state's own Japanese population. But back in Washington D...
View BookAuthor: Aziz Ansari
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Author Aziz Ansari
Narrator Aziz Ansari
Duration 6h 14m
People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a photo of a pizza on...
View BookAuthor: Charles Frazier
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Author Charles Frazier
Narrator Charles Frazier
Duration 14h 31m
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Ford
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Author Maggie Ford
Narrator Kate Lee
Duration 14h 17m
Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jeweller's shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world - but it comes at a heavy price ...
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