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Twisted
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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A family under constant scrutiny from both the police and the press as a fifteen-year-old goes missing after a sleepover with a friend; a marriage at breaking point; a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi; and a detective feeling the pressure to deliver an arrest, are thrust together....
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Brilliant Story Line
- By Clair on 05-02-24
By: Lynda La Plante
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The Night of the Party
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 5
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Couples. Three Secrets. One Murder....
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Brilliant as always!
- By Lizzie on 04-12-22
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Breathtaking!
- By Sally M. on 14-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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The Lost Bookshop
- By: Evie Woods, Nick Biadon
- Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....
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Magical
- By Bonnie on 16-10-23
By: Evie Woods, and others
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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Turgid and interminable
- By Perry Mason on 08-06-21
By: Lucinda Riley
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The Suite Life
- By: Portia MacIntosh
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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As she gears up for her sister’s destination wedding in Hawaii, the countdown is on for Gigi to find a date. Just someone to prove to her friends and family that she's ok, and to stop the pitying looks would be great!
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Just brilliant
- By Emma Jones on 22-04-24
By: Portia MacIntosh
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Twisted
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A family under constant scrutiny from both the police and the press as a fifteen-year-old goes missing after a sleepover with a friend; a marriage at breaking point; a father who has seemingly lied about his alibi; and a detective feeling the pressure to deliver an arrest, are thrust together....
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Brilliant Story Line
- By Clair on 05-02-24
By: Lynda La Plante
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The Night of the Party
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 5
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Two Couples. Three Secrets. One Murder....
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Brilliant as always!
- By Lizzie on 04-12-22
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Breathtaking!
- By Sally M. on 14-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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The Lost Bookshop
- By: Evie Woods, Nick Biadon
- Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....
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Magical
- By Bonnie on 16-10-23
By: Evie Woods, and others
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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Turgid and interminable
- By Perry Mason on 08-06-21
By: Lucinda Riley
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The Suite Life
- By: Portia MacIntosh
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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As she gears up for her sister’s destination wedding in Hawaii, the countdown is on for Gigi to find a date. Just someone to prove to her friends and family that she's ok, and to stop the pitying looks would be great!
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Just brilliant
- By Emma Jones on 22-04-24
By: Portia MacIntosh
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.
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Life changing
- By Thomas on 14-04-15
By: Paulo Coelho
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Slayers: A Buffyverse Story
- By: Christopher Golden, Amber Benson
- Narrated by: Amber Benson, Charisma Carpenter, James Charles Leary, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them....
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Makes a mockery of BTVS.
- By Laura Hesselden on 20-10-23
By: Christopher Golden, and others
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The Pearl Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 4
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Kathryn Wilder
- Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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CeCe D’Aplièse, in her mid-twenties, has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt – so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe – she finds herself at breaking point....
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accents
- By Anonymous User on 25-01-24
By: Lucinda Riley
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
- A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure
- By: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....
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Holy Fudge
- By Adam Smith on 01-02-21
By: Matt Dinniman
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Restless Dolly Maunder
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Federay Holmes
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors.
By: Kate Grenville
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The Storm Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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The second audiobook in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally best-selling author Lucinda Riley....
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Great listening on my travels
- By Pen Name on 25-09-23
By: Lucinda Riley
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The Moon Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 5
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy D’Aplièse , trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland....
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I've been looking forward to this
- By Kittykins on 31-01-19
By: Lucinda Riley
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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
- The Seven Sisters, Book 8
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Sunday Times number-one best-selling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion....
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A few hours in
- By Mrs T Woodford on 11-05-23
By: Lucinda Riley, and others
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Men at Arms
- Discworld, Book 15
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The City Watch needs men! But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot, Lance-Constable Cuddy, Lance-Constable Detritus, Lance-Constable Angua and Corporal Nobbs....
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Utterly maddening narration - couldn't finish
- By Andy C on 26-05-23
By: Terry Pratchett
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Death at the Auction
- The Stamford Mysteries, Book 1
- By: E. C. Bateman
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman....
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The genre ‘Cosy crime’ was made for this book
- By Jess L. on 20-02-23
By: E. C. Bateman
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The Sun Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 6
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Weruche Opia
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....
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QUITE DISAPPOINTED
- By Clare on 15-04-20
By: Lucinda Riley
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The Dentist
- DS Cross, Book 1
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force....
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Enjoyable
- By S. E. Huxford on 15-09-21
By: Tim Sullivan
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A Death in the Parish
- The sequel to Murder Before Evensong
- By: Reverend Richard Coles
- Narrated by: Reverend Richard Coles
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart....
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I didn’t see that coming!
- By Little Miss Scribble on 12-06-23
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Iron Gold
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
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Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces....
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Worthy sequel to a great sci-fi series!
- By G. P. Brown on 29-01-18
By: Pierce Brown
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Jurassic Park
- A Novel
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true....
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Exciting but flawed
- By D. Micklewright on 19-05-16
By: Michael Crichton
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Fiction Land
- By: RR Haywood
- Narrated by: Gethin Anthony
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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A delivery driver finds himself inside a world occupied by characters from unfinished novels and must accept he is not real....
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ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!
- By Joanne Clarke on 18-11-23
By: RR Haywood
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....
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Visionary, violent, yet redemptive. A masterpiece.
- By Peter Kettle on 07-04-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Light Bringer
- Red Rising, Book 6
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 30 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow....
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Production Quality way down from prior books
- By Maciej Makowski on 26-07-23
By: Pierce Brown
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The Spoiled Heart
- By: Sunjeev Sahota
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenage son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn’t quite know why. He hasn’t risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son.
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An Ideal Husband
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After 30 years of marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He’d never seemed unhappy – and they’ve raised three children together. For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman – and if that wasn’t bad enough – it’s the woman who broke their youngest son’s heart. Now Kip is moving out and embarking on a new life with Zoe, and Louisa is left to pick up the pieces. Their beloved family home, Charity Cottage, is up for sale, and tensions are running high.
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The seventh audiobook in Griff Hosker's epic Lord Edward's Archer series of historical adventures.
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Open Season
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Hura and Cillian have a happy, secure marriage and are on the brink of planning a family. But when Hura's teaching career gets derailed, they decide it's time to explore a fantasy: opening up their relationship. Roses has never been monogamous. Her connection with elusive James is electric, and they're falling for each other. But both have secrets that make intimacy feel dangerous, and in a bid to reassert her independence, Roses suggests they sleep with other people. When these two couples collide, life shifts on its axis and starts to spin out of control.
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The Emperor's Sword
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- By: Christian Cameron
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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The Chivalry series follows young William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint John, further disillusion and an eventual career as a professional soldier and knight. Rich in the details of life in the High Middle Ages, the series also deals with modern issues about the role of violence in society, rules of conflict and war, and the price that people pay for using violence.
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A Frogmorton Farm short story from the million-copy bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's. Perfect for fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Kristen Ashley and Genevieve Cogman.
By: Jodi Taylor
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The Spoiled Heart
- By: Sunjeev Sahota
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. She’s come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenage son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesn’t quite know why. He hasn’t risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son.
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An Ideal Husband
- By: Erica James
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After 30 years of marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He’d never seemed unhappy – and they’ve raised three children together. For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman – and if that wasn’t bad enough – it’s the woman who broke their youngest son’s heart. Now Kip is moving out and embarking on a new life with Zoe, and Louisa is left to pick up the pieces. Their beloved family home, Charity Cottage, is up for sale, and tensions are running high.
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The Hunt
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- By: Griff Hosker
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The seventh audiobook in Griff Hosker's epic Lord Edward's Archer series of historical adventures.
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- By: Cassie Werber
- Narrated by: Cassie Werber
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Hura and Cillian have a happy, secure marriage and are on the brink of planning a family. But when Hura's teaching career gets derailed, they decide it's time to explore a fantasy: opening up their relationship. Roses has never been monogamous. Her connection with elusive James is electric, and they're falling for each other. But both have secrets that make intimacy feel dangerous, and in a bid to reassert her independence, Roses suggests they sleep with other people. When these two couples collide, life shifts on its axis and starts to spin out of control.
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The Emperor's Sword
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- By: Christian Cameron
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The Chivalry series follows young William Gold, who runs away from London to follow the Black Prince, from the killing fields of France, through life as a routier and criminal, and to redemption with the Knights of Saint John, further disillusion and an eventual career as a professional soldier and knight. Rich in the details of life in the High Middle Ages, the series also deals with modern issues about the role of violence in society, rules of conflict and war, and the price that people pay for using violence.
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Dragon Rider
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- Narrated by: Tom Babbage
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Jai is nothing more than a royal hostage and lowly servant to the empire that slew his family and now rules his people. He has been manservant to the old emperor for most of his life, and only watches on from a distance as the empire grows more powerful – a new alliance is to be formed as the young prince is betrothed to Princess Erica of the Dansk Kingdom – a people from a northern, icy realm.
By: Taran Matharu
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
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Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a collection of twelve short stories featuring characters with unique voices and stories that represent the diverse class, gender and ethnic melting pot that is Lagos. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad underscores with wit, humour, wisdom and sensitivity, the perils of trying to find lasting love and companionship in Africa's most notorious city.
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Cassandra in Reverse
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Cassie has never really fit in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing. So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local café runs out of banana muffins - all in one day - it feels like the end of the world. But then Cassie discovers she has the power to go back and change things. With endless chances to get it right, can she stop it all from going wrong?
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The Sicilian Inheritance
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When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land she must first uncover the truth about what happened to her great-great grandmother, Serafina Marsala. Because Rosie didn’t think Serafina died of illness as family lore states... Rosie believed Serafina was murdered, and she wants Sara to prove it.
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Victory for the Cornish Girls
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When Alice is forced away from her spy training in London under tragic circumstances, she is distraught. That is, until she’s asked to join a local branch of codebreakers that might just be finding the key to winning the war. Young Imogen feels impotent to help her beloved Bude as war rages on. When she suspects the attractive new Vicar of betraying their country, she gets to work to uncover his deceit. Meanwhile, American entertainer to the troops Pearl pours her heart into supporting the troops to stop their moral from waning, but is jilted by her young soldier love.
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Profile K
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Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he is capable of so much worse.
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Love at First Knight
- By: Megan Clawson
- Narrated by: Ashley Tucker
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Daisy Hastings has always thought she was born in the wrong era. So when she bags a summer job at the Tower of London helping to run their Knight school, it feels like a step in the right direction. Theodore ‘Teddy’ Fairfax is a loose cannon. A disgraced distant relative of the royal family, he’s tall, dark and now (begrudgingly) helping with the Tower of London’s summer programme – and there’s nowhere he’d like to be less. When Teddy’s oath to be an obstruction almost gets Daisy fired, she declares war. But as the two cross swords, they start to discover they both need a little rescuing.
By: Megan Clawson
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The Hypocrite
- By: Jo Hamya
- Narrated by: Claire Kinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father in Sicily. There she falls in love for the first time. There she works as her father's amanuensis, typing the novel he dictates, a story about sex and gender divides. There, their relationship fractures. London, Summer 2020. Sophia's father, a 61-year-old novelist who does not feel himself to be a bad or outdated person sits in a large theatre, surrounded by strangers, watching his daughter's first play.
By: Jo Hamya
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Some Strange Music Draws Me In
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It's summer, 1984, in blue-collar Swaffham, Massachusetts. Mel is thirteen, drinking a Slush Puppie at the drugstore, when she hears a voice, ‘deep and movie-star dramatic, like Lauren Bacall': Sylvia. What follows is a story of transgender awakening. Sylvia's shameless swagger and tough-girl trans femininity is an affront to the Swaffham locals, and her presence triggers hatred and, ultimately, violence. But it is also a catalyst for Mel. Through her friendship with Sylvia, Mel comes to realize that not only is there a world beyond Swaffham, there are other ways of being.
By: Griffin Hansbury
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Dark Island
- By: Daniel Aubrey
- Narrated by: Charlie Mudie
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Reporter Freya Sinclair has always known she was different. While waiting on the outcome of an autism assessment, Freya uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland’s top broadsheets and taking a local beat in her childhood home of Orkney. But her plans for a quiet life are shattered when human remains are exhumed by a winter storm on Orkney’s wild Atlantic coast. The identity of the bones opens old wounds in the islands, and sheds light on a darker truth nobody wants to accept.
By: Daniel Aubrey
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A Wedding for the Bomber Girls
- Bomber Command Girls, Book 2
- By: Vicki Beeby
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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At RAF Fenthorpe, instrument repairer Thea is helping her sister, Pearl, plan her wedding alongside fellow WAAF and maid of honour Jenny. A misfit amongst the women on the base, though, Thea is struggling to get others onboard. When Flight Sergeant Fitz makes a point of befriending and standing by her, sparks fly between the two. And when Fitz’s crew member, Jack, faces being stripped of his rank due to cowardice, Thea throws herself into seeking justice and support for him.
By: Vicki Beeby
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The Lifeline
- By: Libby Page
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alone. But that doesn't mean she isn't lonely. The move from London to Somerset with her husband Jay was supposed be the start of an exciting new chapter. But sometimes she can't help but wonder if she turned the pages too soon. Phoebe needs help. As a mental health nurse serving her community, the wellbeing of her patients has always come before her own. Yet there's only so long she can pour from an empty cup.
By: Libby Page
Featured article: Witches in fiction: 12 historical fiction books to listen to this Halloween
Throughout history, women have been branded as witches by people scared of their power, confidence and independence. In days past, accusations of being a witch – thrown at women for everything from being talented at working with herbs to being in the vicinity of a death – could result in banishment or even death. These 12 audiobooks, perfect for the longer nights, colder weather and the Halloween season, tell the stories of women through history, from goddesses to regular women, through a mix of horror, fantasy and historical fiction.