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Editors' picks
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The Miniaturist
- By: Jessie Burton
- Narrated by: Jessie Burton
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,597
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,337
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,333
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I'm still waiting for something to happen.....
- By Fiona Keates on 28-02-16
The Miniaturist
This has been on my list for a while. I've heard it described as 'historical, literary thriller': a combination of genres that often translates as ‘long-winded and weighed down by its own sense of importance’. I finally got round to listening and it was an absolute joy. The characters are intricately flawed, heartfelt humans, and the prose is just gorgeous. It manages to be poetic and expansive but never self-indulgent, and always gripping. You are flung into the stinking, bustling, sometimes terrifying heart of medieval Amsterdam: sugar is a rare and expensive commodity, homosexuality is an abomination, reality and magic are blurred, bullies and oppressors operate under the cloak of piety and religion. A breathless listen that I binged through in three days.
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China Dolls
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jodi Long
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4 out of 5 stars 39
It’s 1938 in San Francisco: Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest with nothing but heartache, talent, and a pair of dancing shoes. Helen Fong lives with her extended family in Chinatown, where her traditional parents insist that she guard her reputation like a piece of jade. The stunning Ruby Tom challenges the boundaries of convention at every turn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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interesting story buy frustrating narrator
- By R on 19-01-22
China Dolls
Lisa See's China Dolls is an accessible and arresting story of three young women in San Francisco before the outbreak of WW2. As someone who would usually find less likable protagonists wearing, the fraught relationships in the book did not put me off, and instead I was drawn into their world.
I was first recommended this book when I finished university and had read non-fiction solidly for three years. It turned out to be the perfect story to race through and remind me what's great about fiction.
Award-winning Historical Fiction
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Wolf Hall
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,992
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Past imperfect.
- By Francis on 31-10-09
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Lincoln in the Bardo
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Story4 out of 5 stars 909
Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Complete gibberish as far as I can tell
- By no on 27-07-17
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- By: Marlon James
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, and others
- Length: 26 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 917
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'Brief' it was not
- By Maggie Kiely on 14-08-15
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Weary narration overcomes incident
- By Granny Vi on 14-10-14
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The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,735
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,561
It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but slower than a snail
- By Avril Lamb on 02-11-13
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Bring Up the Bodies
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,411
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,402
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. In Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- By Maddy on 02-06-12
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Wolf Hall
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,185
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,992
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Past imperfect.
- By Francis on 31-10-09
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Lincoln in the Bardo
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 911
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Story4 out of 5 stars 909
Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Complete gibberish as far as I can tell
- By no on 27-07-17
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- By: Marlon James
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, and others
- Length: 26 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 917
On 3 December 1976, just weeks before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert. Not a lot was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'Brief' it was not
- By Maggie Kiely on 14-08-15
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Weary narration overcomes incident
- By Granny Vi on 14-10-14
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The Luminaries
- By: Eleanor Catton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,735
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,563
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,561
It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but slower than a snail
- By Avril Lamb on 02-11-13
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Bring Up the Bodies
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,411
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,402
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. In Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- By Maddy on 02-06-12
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The Inheritance of Loss
- By: Kiran Desai
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4 out of 5 stars 51
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But this is far from easy with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter Sai, come to live with him and his chatty cook.
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2 out of 5 stars
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When will something happen?
- By Mr David Newton on 09-11-07
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The Blind Assassin
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 604
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Story4 out of 5 stars 509
Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- By Anthony on 15-02-11
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The God of Small Things
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 927
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 833
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 833
Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother; their beloved uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom pincher); and their avowed enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating, magical
- By Rochelle on 28-01-17
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4 out of 5 stars 66
Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Paddy Clarke - Outstanding!!!
- By Wayne on 21-05-15
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Sacred Hunger
- By: Barry Unsworth
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the cramped hold, killing men and eating into profit. Captain Thurso insists on throwing the sick overboard, to the horror of Matthew Paris, ship's surgeon, who determines to prevent such barbarity. Meanwhile, back home, Erasmus Kemp, cousin of Paris and son of the Liverpool Merchant's owner, finds his fortune hanging in the balance: dependent on the success or failure of a single voyage....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top notch historical fiction
- By Petra on 05-10-14
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The Line of Beauty
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 155
In the summer of 1983, 23-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife, Rachel, and their children, Toby and Catherine. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Obvious and lusty
- By DAVID on 09-10-18
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Possession
- A Romance
- By: A. S. Byatt
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 437
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book made greater by superb performance
- By Falluntilyoufly on 19-04-19
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,824
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside – and into his past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should I stay or should I go?
- By Barbara on 20-03-18
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- By: Michael Chabon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 348
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, they create the Escapist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and deeply moving
- By Karen on 13-04-13
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Manhattan Beach
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Heather Lind, Norbert Leo Butz, Vincent Piazza
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 187
Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It could have been great but somehow it wasn't.
- By bookylady on 22-04-18
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Schindler's List
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story5 out of 5 stars 64
In the century's darkest time, one man became the most unlikely of heroes. German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler used his wealth and influence to save the lives of more than 1,300 Jews who would have otherwise died in the concentration camp at Plaszow. Here is the story on which Steven Spielberg based his powerful motion picture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Schindlers List
- By Maureen Horseman on 29-10-15
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All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,291
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,962
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,953
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorise it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Despite the narrator
- By JF7588 on 06-02-15
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All the Pretty Horses
- The Border Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 502
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 502
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War....
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,832
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5 out of 5 stars
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Charles Holborne has cemented his reputation as a respected murder trial lawyer who is near unbeatable in the courtroom. But he is still on the radar of the notorious Kray Twins, and before long, he finds himself drawn into one of their darker scandals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 957
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 889
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 881
Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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UNDERPAINTING
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The Remains of the Day
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,824
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5 out of 5 stars
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By: Kazuo Ishiguro
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- By: Cormac McCarthy
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still Life
- By: Sarah Winman
- Narrated by: Sarah Winman
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,021
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,832
From the author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gentle and accomplished memory-telling
- By Earnest on 24-06-21
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- Charles Holborne Legal Thrillers, Book 4
- By: Simon Michael
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Charles Holborne has cemented his reputation as a respected murder trial lawyer who is near unbeatable in the courtroom. But he is still on the radar of the notorious Kray Twins, and before long, he finds himself drawn into one of their darker scandals....
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4 out of 5 stars
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- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 957
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 889
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 881
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5 out of 5 stars
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UNDERPAINTING
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,267
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,837
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,824
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should I stay or should I go?
- By Barbara on 20-03-18
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Mirror and the Light
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 38 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,242
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,903
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,885
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional Final Volume of the Wolf Hall Trilogy
- By Max Mitchell on 11-03-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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Shrines of Gaiety
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Jason Watkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,253
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Magical Listen!
- By Paula Caven-Lewis on 11-10-22
By: Kate Atkinson
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Small Things Like These
- By: Claire Keegan
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 714
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 711
The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness....
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3 out of 5 stars
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At last!! A novel by Claire Keegan :)
- By marianna c. on 29-10-21
By: Claire Keegan
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Hamnet
- Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 - the No. 1 Bestseller
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,807
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,790
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator fights writing and wins (sadly)
- By Leaf Green on 20-07-20
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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Only Time Will Tell
- Clifton Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,706
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,108
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international best-selling author....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story-telling
- By Kirstine on 16-06-11
By: Jeffrey Archer
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The Song of Achilles
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,604
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,333
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,332
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son, Achilles....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning, beautifully written epic
- By Amy Rice on 04-08-21
By: Madeline Miller
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Murder on the Mauretania
- By: Edward Marston
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Mauretania....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not His Best
- By Stewart Webb on 02-07-22
By: Edward Marston
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Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection
- 32 BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch, Timothy West, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and others
- Length: 26 hrs and 18 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
An irresistible collection of sparkling stories featuring John Mortimer's beloved comic creation: Horace Rumpole is the most erudite, astute, and seldom defeated of barristers in the annals of the Old Bailey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stories are fine, audio quality is tehrible
- By mr J. R. Jolley on 09-12-22
By: John Mortimer
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Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jospeh Kloska, and others
- Length: 27 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,321
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,155
In Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully read and a joy to listen to
- By C Geoghegan on 11-04-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,262
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,502
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,488
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By madeleine davitt on 06-05-18
By: Madeline Miller
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Bridgerton: It's in His Kiss
- Bridgertons, Book 7
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 231
All the ton agree: there is no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. Fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken and - according to some, particularly Gareth St. Clair - probably best in small doses....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable, Engaging, Delightful
- By For Old Times' Sake on 19-07-22
By: Julia Quinn
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The Girl on the Cliff
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 967
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 869
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 868
Troubled by recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Family Saga
- By Amazon Customer on 19-07-13
By: Lucinda Riley
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The Lost Metal
- A Mistborn Novel
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 978
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Story5 out of 5 stars 975
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organisation the Set - with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders - since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Overall the Weakest of the Mistborn Series
- By Alan. Hardman on 16-11-22
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Act of Oblivion
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,435
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,306
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,295
1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging Our Views
- By Kindle Customer on 07-09-22
By: Robert Harris
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11.22.63
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 30 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,732
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,310
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,295
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Return to top form
- By John on 14-12-11
By: Stephen King
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All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,291
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,962
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars