Hereward the Wake; Revolution; Guy Fawkes
Author: Thom Tuck
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Author Thom Tuck
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Penny Dreadfuls Collection, Book 2
Duration 2h 24m
Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls recount the story of the much-maligned Macbeth, revisit Odysseus' epic journey and reveal the truth behind Darwin's famous voyage The Penny Dreadfuls - Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - are a comedy trio who specialise in retelling historical events in their own, inimitable way. In these riotous revisionist pl...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Brookmyre
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Author Christopher Brookmyre
Narrator Sarah Barron
Duration 11h 16m
From the award-winning author of Pandaemonium. In Glasgow, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly-and incompetently-earning a crust working for her uncle Jim's private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real. Soon she stumbles into a web of corruption and decades-hidden secrets t...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Cornwell
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Author Bernard Cornwell
Narrator Thomas Judd
Duration 10h 35m
In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of the London playhouses, a world dominated by his older brother, William. But he is a penniless actor, making ends meet through a combination of a beautiful face, petty theft and a silver tongue. Increasingly estranged from his brother as William's star r...
View BookClare In the Community Series 8&9
Author: Harry Venning
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Author Harry Venning
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 7m
Sally Phillips stars as Clare in this sparkling collection of 13 comic episodes. Clare Barker, the social worker with all the politically correct jargon but none of the practical solutions, returns in these 13 episodes, which includes a special instalment recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As if the upheaval of moving offices and embra...
View BookAuthor: Jim Gaffigan
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Author Jim Gaffigan
Narrator Jim Gaffigan
Duration 7h 17m
Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover") and decrying the worst offenders ("kale is the early morning of foods"). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestsell...
View BookDI Erica Martin Series Book 2: The Taken
Author: Alice Clark-Platts
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Author Alice Clark-Platts
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
SeriesDCI Erica Martin, Book 2
Duration 10h 34m
There's the lost. There's the missing. And there's the taken. She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head. 'No secrets between us,' she said. 'No,' I answered. 'Never ever.' In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests - not even his daughter, his wife, or her sister...
View BookAn Interview With Jacqueline Wilson
Author: Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Jacqueline Wilson
Duration 22m
Jacqueline Wilson's novels often deal with many challenging themes and remain some of the most popular titles chosen in our library. The Story of Tracy Beaker is available to download or on MP3 CD, number 08662CD. Image c Jacqueline Wilson
View BookAuthor: Lauren Graham
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Author Lauren Graham
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 27m
From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead-and keep it together-in New York City. It's January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to...
View BookAuthor: Robert Winston
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Author Robert Winston
Narrator Georgina Morrell
Duration 3h 12m
Join Robert Winston for an award-winning journey exploring our minds and bodies and discover the astonishing reasons why every single one of us is different. Bringing his flair for explaining science in a fresh and fascinating way, Robert Winston introduces human biology to kids in the paperback edition of this Junior Aventis Prize Winner. Let your...
View BookThe Eight Swords and Other Stories
Author: Donald Stuart
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Author Donald Stuart
Narrator Donald Stuart
Duration 2h 2m
'The Eight Swords': When a woman is found dead at Paula's hair salon, Sexton Blake is called in to investigate. 'A Murder of Crows': Over the past six weeks, two men have been murdered. And both shared the name George Crow. 'Double and Quit': The top-secret Department 7 recruit Sexton Blake as a special agent. 'You Must Be Joking': A friend from Bl...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Wain
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Author Deborah Wain
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
The BBC Radio 4 play, 'Notes to Self' by Deborah Wain is a drama about Alzheimer's disease based on real experiences, and is interwoven with recordings of music sessions carried out in care homes and day centres in the UK. Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship with hi...
View BookAuthor: Marcy Kahan
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Author Marcy Kahan
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama written by the award-winning screen and stage dramatist Marcy Kahan, and starring Stephen Mangan as Ed, whose life is about to change forever when he accidentally puts National Treasure Penhaligon Rhinehart into a coma. First broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 14 January 2011. It's an important day for Ed Hanson. He has...
View BookSarah Millican: Keep Your Chins Up, Series 1
Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 27m
The hilarious one-off special that inspired the acclaimed series Sarah Millican's Support Group. A relationship breakdown leads Sarah Millican to consider the question of counsellors-how some are great, and others terrible-and inspires her to create Jean, a relationship counsellor who is so good that most people don't come back after one appointmen...
View BookAuthor: Laura Hillenbrand
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Author Laura Hillenbrand
Narrator Chris Oxford
Duration 12h 30m
The true story of three men; a cowboy, a car salesman and a jockey blind in one eye, and their dreams for an ungainly racehorse - Seabiscuit - that symbolised a pivotal moment in American history as the country began to emerge from the hardships of the 1930s Depression era. Winner of the William Hill Sport Book of the Year.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator William Hope
Duration 2h 38m
Jay Gatsby causes quite a stir when he buys a mansion on the east coast of America and sets about hosting the most lavish parties. Anyone who is anyone wants to be seen at his glittering parties, but Gatsby himself always seems to be watching and waiting. Who or what is he waiting for?
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 9m
Pat Hobby is an ageing film writer who used to do well, but these days is low on ideas that pay, until he stumbles across someone else's flash of inspiration.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 34m
A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead - murdered on a train on her way to the Riviera to meet her scoundrel lover: a mysterious, dark man. The suspects line up...only master slueth Hercule Poirot can unravel the myster...
View BookAuthor: Mark Evans
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Author Mark Evans
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 48m
Featuring a big name cast including, Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Richard Johnson,Tom Allen and James Bachman. Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr Gently Benevolent, and the blo...
View BookAuthor: David Hewson
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Author David Hewson
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 12h 40m
Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago. Her father's desperate search revealed nothing. One day, Laura Bakker, a trainee detective visits to tell him that the daughter of local politician, Katja Prins, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. Vos is drawn back into the life of a...
View BookAuthor: Colm Toibin
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Author Colm Toibin
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 50m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of House of Names by Colm T¢ib¡n, read by Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson and Pippa Nixon. 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her...
View BookAuthor: Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Author Robert T. Kiyosaki
Narrator Maksim Kiryaev
Duration 9h 43m
Anniversary edition of the financial bestseller of all time! Rich Dad, Poor Dad was published 20 years ago for the first time and at once achieved wide readership. By the anniversary of the financial bestseller, Robert Kiyosaki has prepared the new edition with updates for the present-day world and today's market conditions including nine additiona...
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