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Author: Kathryn Hughes
Author Kathryn Hughes
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 11h 55m
Some love stories can't be forgotten.... Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piec...
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Thomas Kydd Book 25: Yankee Mission
Author: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 25
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 25
Duration 11h 2m
With Bonaparte held to a stalemate in Europe, the race to empire is now resumed. Britain's ambitions turn to the Spice Islands, the Dutch East Indies, where Admiral Pellew has been sent to confront the enemy's vastly rich holdings in these tropical islands. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd joins reinforcements to snatch these for the British Crown. The two...
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Author: Michelle Penn
Author Michelle Penn
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Saul Reichlin, Nigel Pilkington
Duration 1h 4m
On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms—white suits and full-face paper masks—the soldiers seethe with rebellion. The arrival of the...
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Author: Anna Fodorova
Author Anna Fodorova
Narrator Lisa Rose
Duration 9h 13m
London 1988: Agata grew up in post-war Prague and believes that her mother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. But not everyone died. Agata's search for her ‘lost’ family, set against the background of revolutions in Eastern Europe, threatens to tear apart not only the family she already has, but her own identity...
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Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Author Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator Charlie Thurston
Duration 21h 3m
A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZETHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORBOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKWITH OVER 18,000 5* REVIEWS'Extraordinary.' OPRAH'She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone...
View BookAuthor: Madeline Miller
Author Madeline Miller
Narrator Frazer Douglas
Duration 11h 14m
**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING 'Ravishingly vivid' EMMA DONOGHUE Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and...
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Tremarnock Book 3: Tremarnock Summer
Author: Emma Burstall
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 13h 31m
Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in the suburbs of London with her parents and works at the call centre down the road. She still goes out with the boy she met at school. Bramble is dying for an adventure. So when her grandfather, Lord Penrose, dies, leaving his huge, rambling house in Cornwall to her, Bramble packs her...
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Author: Barbara Erskine
Author Barbara Erskine
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
Duration 19h 57m
Hay-On-Wye, 1400: War is brewing in the Welsh borders. For two hundred years, the Welsh people have lain under the English yoke, dreaming of independence. In the walls of Sleeper's Castle, Catrin finds herself caught in the middle of a doomed war. Hay-On-Wye, 2015: Miranda has moved to Sleeper's Castle to escape and grieve. But every time she close...
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Author: Min Jin Lee
Author Min Jin Lee
Narrator Allison Hiroto
Duration 18h 40m
Yeongdo, Korea - 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child: their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then, Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new l...
View BookAuthor: Jay Gill
Series: Henry Fleming Investigates, Book 1
Author Jay Gill
Narrator Sam Booth
SeriesHenry Fleming Investigates, Book 1
Duration 3h 29m
A quaint English fete. A village full of secrets. A shocking murder. In 1920s England, private detective Henry Fleming is visiting his friend, retired author Lily Riley, in the quintessentially English village of Fulbridge. Tragedy strikes when a resident is murdered, stabbed through the heart, in the historic local church. When an inexperienced Sc...
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Author: Betsy Reavley
Author Betsy Reavley
Narrator Rebecca Courtney
Duration 6h 56m
"A deliciously Agatha Christie-style mystery that sucks you in from the first page." Sibel Hodge... Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They've come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It's a happy gathering. What could be more harmless? Scratch the surface and look closer. O...
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The Importance of Being a Bachelor
Author: Mike Gayle
Author Mike Gayle
Narrator Paul Tyreman
Duration 8h 38m
Despite the example of their own parents' enduring marriage, the three Bachelor brothers show no signs of settling down. Adam has a string of unsuitable girlfriends; Luke bears the scars of a savage divorce; and Russell is in love with the one woman he can't have. When their father announces that he wants to try his hand at single life, everything...
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Tremarnock Book 5: The Girl Who Came Home to Cornwall
Author: Emma Burstall
Series: Tremarnock, Book 5
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 5
Duration 11h 49m
Escape to the Cornish coast with a new heartwarming Tremarnock novel, perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Philippa Ashley. In the quaint Cornish village of Tremarnock, Chabela Penhallow arrives for a holiday and to discover more about her Cornish ancestors. But, as always with newcomers to the small seaside town, rumours start to fly about this be...
View BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 17h 45m
Sweeping historical novel from Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Set in the 1600s and seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescant's story is a mirror...
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Tremarnock Book 4: A Cornish Secret
Author: Emma Burstall
Series: Tremarnock, Book 4
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 4
Duration 11h 35m
Esme Posorsky is an enigma. For as long as people can remember, she has been part of community life in the quaint Cornish fishing village of Tremarnock, but does anyone really know her? She is usually to be found working in her pottery studio or at home with her beloved cat, Rasputin. But when an old school friend turns up with a secret from the pa...
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Tremarnock Book 2: The Cornish Guest House
Author: Emma Burstall
Series: Tremarnock, Book 2
Author Emma Burstall
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesTremarnock, Book 2
Duration 12h 49m
Liz has found refuge in the small fishing village of Tremarnock with her young daughter, Rosie, after her relationship with Rosie's father came unstuck. Now happily married to village restaurant owner, Robert Hart, all seems set for a quiet autumn and merry Christmas. But strangers have bought the local guest house and seem to have big plans. Why i...
View BookAuthor: Tania Crosse
Author Tania Crosse
Narrator Emma Powell
Duration 11h 31m
1941. Bombs are falling all over Plymouth. Young Maisie O'Sullivan must make a choice that will change her life for ever. Maisie yearns for a family of her own. Raised as a charity orphan in a Catholic convent in Ireland, she believed she was all alone in the world. But when she is twelve, her world is turned upside down by a shocking revelation. S...
View BookAuthor: Sierra Godfrey
Author Sierra Godfrey
Narrator Gail Shalan
Duration 10h 20m
A propulsive contemporary women's fiction debut with dark humor and messy yet warm-hearted family dynamics, perfect for fans of Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had and Emma Straub's All Adults Here All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over fifteen years ago. Sh...
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Author: Paula Hawkins
Author Paula Hawkins
Narrator Rosamund Pike
Duration 9h 19m
Brought to you by Penguin. The scorching Sunday Times number one best seller from the author of The Girl on the Train. Penguin presents the audio edition of A Slow Fire Burning, read by Rosamund Pike. Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous.&nbs...
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The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book 4: A Trail Through Time
Author: Jodi Taylor
Series: The Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 4
Author Jodi Taylor
Narrator Zara Ramm
SeriesThe Chronicles of St Mary's, Book 4
Duration 9h 35m
The fourth book in the best-selling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Sometimes, surviving is all you have left. Max and Leon are safe at last. Or so they think. Snatched f...
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Author: Jean M Auel
Series: Earth's Children® Series, Book 6
Author Jean M Auel
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesEarth's Children® Series, Book 6
Duration 29h 58m
The Land of Painted Caves concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers. Once aga...
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