Author: Jonathan Franzen
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Franzen
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Duration 21h 54m
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century' Elle 'Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent' Guardian A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three...
View BookAuthor: Frantz Fanon
Format: Online
Author Frantz Fanon
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 7h 38m
Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors,...
View BookAnd Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Author: Fredrik Backman
Format: Online
Author Fredrik Backman
Narrator David Morse
Duration 1h 8m
Brought to you by Penguin.The tender and moving novella from the author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious PeopleGrandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa...
View BookAuthor: Leigh-Anne Pinnock
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Author Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 42m
Leigh-Anne Pinnock's life changed overnight when she became part of the first ever girl band to win the X-Factor. The multi-platinum selling supergroup Little Mix, went on to become one of the biggest girl bands of all time. Launched into chart-topping global fame, Leigh-Anne was living her childhood dream of becoming a popstar. But behind the scen...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Spotswood
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Author Stephen Spotswood
Narrator Kirsten Potter
SeriesPentecost and Parker, Book 4
Duration 10h 12m
When Vera Bodine, an elderly recluse with an exceptional memory, goes missing, detective duo Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker are hired to track her down. But New York City in 1947 is a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who want to bury the secrets that Bodine has been keeping. As the clock is ticking to...
View BookAuthor: Theresa May
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Author Theresa May
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 6m
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case a...
View BookAuthor: Ian Ross
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Author Ian Ross
Narrator Nathaniel Priestley
Seriesde Norton Trilogy, Book 2
Duration 13h 28m
1265 England has a new master. Simon de Montfort's victory at the Battle of Lewes has made him king in all but name. He has vowed to restore the rights and liberties of the kingdom, but now even his friends grow wary of his power. As old alliances break down, new rebellions gather strength. The captive king's supporters muster, vowing to overthrow...
View BookAuthor: Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Author Ronnie O'Sullivan
Narrator Tom Fordyce, Jake Wood
Duration 8h 21m
A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain an...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Ronson
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Author Stephen Ronson
Narrator Orlando Wells
Duration 8h 53m
May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A twelve-year-o...
View BookAuthor: Audrey Golden
Format: Online
Author Audrey Golden
Narrator Jessica Joslin, Ebony Jonelle
Duration 16h 53m
Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. The untold history of Factory Records is one of women...
View BookAuthor: Rajasree Variyar
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Author Rajasree Variyar
Narrator Vaishnavi Suryaprakash
Duration 14h 7m
Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can't produce a son - or worse, bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken away as soon as they are born - murdered before they have a chance to live. The fate of her children has never been in her hands. But Janani can't forget...
View BookThe Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 14: The Good, the Bad and the History
Author: Jodi Taylor
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Author Jodi Taylor
Narrator Zara Ramm
SeriesThe Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 14
Duration 13h 50m
St Mary's is under investigation. Their director has been shot and Max is Number One Suspect. Can things get any worse? We all know the answer to that one. Max needs to get away - fast - and a Brilliant Idea soon leads her to a full-scale uprising in twentieth-century China. If she can come by a historical treasure or two in the process, even bette...
View BookAuthor: Ian Ross
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Author Ian Ross
Narrator Nathaniel Priestley
Seriesde Norton Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 13h 22m
Storm clouds are gathering as Simon de Montfort and the barons of the realm challenge the power of Henry III. The barons demand reform; the crown demands obedience. England is on the brink of civil war. Adam de Norton, a young squire devoted to the virtues of chivalry, longs only to be knighted, and to win back his father's lands. Then a bloody hun...
View BookAuthor: Philip Gwynne Jones
Format: Online
Author Philip Gwynne Jones
Narrator Tim Bruce
Duration 9h 22m
To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle for position and alliances are made and promises broken, Andrea Mazzon, a controversial writer and historian, emerges a...
View BookAuthor: Emily Tesh
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Author Emily Tesh
Narrator Sena Bryer
Duration 15h 57m
Some Desperate Glory the highly anticipated debut novel from Astounding Award and World Fantasy Award-Winner, Emily Tesh; a thrillingly told space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and the path you must forge when every choice is stripped from you. All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of plane...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Smith
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Author Victoria Smith
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 54m
In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different...
View BookStone and Oliver Book 3: The Scandal
Author: Mari Hannah
Format: Online
Author Mari Hannah
Narrator Colleen Prendergast
SeriesStone and Oliver, Book 3
Duration 12h 28m
When Chris Adams, a junior crime reporter for the Corchester Herald, uncovers the dark side of a prominent figure in the community, his life comes to an abrupt end. Senior Investigating Officer DCI David Oliver and DS Frances Stone are on the case.
View BookStone and Oliver Book 1: The Lost
Author: Mari Hannah
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Author Mari Hannah
Narrator Colleen Prendergast
SeriesStone and Oliver, Book 1
Duration 11h 47m
The gripping first novel in the exciting new Stone and Oliver series by award-winning author Mari Hannah. Alex should never have agreed to the spur-of-the-moment holiday with her sister. Seven days felt like a year without Daniel, her 10-year-old son. This was the first time they had been apart since he was born, and her husband had convinced her i...
View BookStone and Oliver Book 2: The Insider
Author: Mari Hannah
Format: Online
Author Mari Hannah
Narrator Colleen Prendergast
SeriesStone and Oliver, Book 2
Duration 12h 12m
After their success in their last investigation, DCI David Stone has been promoted and moved to the Murder Investigation Team, taking DS Frankie Oliver with him. But there's a catch: the case they are given is the latest in a series of undetected murders. It's a baptism of fire for MIT's newest recruits. In the incident room, the murder wall makes...
View BookCormoran Strike Series Book 7: The Running Grave
Author: Robert Galbraith
Format: Online
Author Robert Galbraith
Narrator Robert Glenister
SeriesCormoran Strike, Book 7
Duration 34h 14m
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister unde...
View BookStone and Oliver Book 4: Black Fell
Author: Mari Hannah
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Author Mari Hannah
Narrator Colleen Prendergast
SeriesStone and Oliver, Book 4
Duration 12h 1m
The peace of Kielder Water is shattered when tourists open a barrel they found floating in the reservoir at dawn. Detectives Stone and Oliver are called to examine the skeletal remains inside. The tourists are eliminated from the investigation, but that same day a second body is discovered - this one with skin. Have the police let the killer leave...
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