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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 2,581
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,323
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,319
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 4,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,990
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,986
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 1,005
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Story4 out of 5 stars 905
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 990
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 914
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 915
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 504
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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 1,730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,558
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 3,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,405
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,396
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 4,177
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,990
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,986
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 1,005
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Story4 out of 5 stars 905
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 990
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 914
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 915
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 504
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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 1,730
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,558
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 3,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,405
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,396
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 602
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Story4 out of 5 stars 507
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 916
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 826
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 826
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 133
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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 178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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 460
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 421
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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 4,230
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,805
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,792
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 381
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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 212
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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 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story5 out of 5 stars 63
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 3,262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,940
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,932
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
Best Sellers
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The House of Silk
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,195
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,393
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,388
It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well read but...
- By Ms Lixie on 05-11-11
By: Anthony Horowitz
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The English Führer
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant’
- By Yorkshire Man on 28-01-23
By: Rory Clements
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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 1,096
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
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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My Father's House
- The Rome Escape Line, Book 1
- By: Joseph O'Connor
- Narrated by: Barry Barnes, Stephen Hogan, Barnaby Edwards, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stuff
- By The Curator on 28-01-23
By: Joseph O'Connor
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The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 833
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 763
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Too much animal cruelty for me to enjoy
- By daisyrock on 13-09-22
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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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 1,850
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,687
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A gentle story of love and Florence
- By V. O'Regan on 04-06-21
By: Sarah Winman
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The House of Silk
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,195
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,393
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,388
It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well read but...
- By Ms Lixie on 05-11-11
By: Anthony Horowitz
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The English Führer
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant’
- By Yorkshire Man on 28-01-23
By: Rory Clements
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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 1,096
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,022
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,017
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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My Father's House
- The Rome Escape Line, Book 1
- By: Joseph O'Connor
- Narrated by: Barry Barnes, Stephen Hogan, Barnaby Edwards, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent stuff
- By The Curator on 28-01-23
By: Joseph O'Connor
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The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 833
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 763
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Too much animal cruelty for me to enjoy
- By daisyrock on 13-09-22
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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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 1,850
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,687
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,675
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A gentle story of love and Florence
- By V. O'Regan on 04-06-21
By: Sarah Winman
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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 1,306
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,201
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,191
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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The Hemlock Cure
- By: Joanne Burn
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
It is 1665, and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. But others have secrets too. Secrets darker than any of them could have imagined....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerising
- By Mrs F. on 25-05-22
By: Joanne Burn
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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 1,275
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,121
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,114
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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All 3 books ARE here!!
- By Shopgirl on 04-04-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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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 742
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 651
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 649
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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Dissolution
- Shardlake, Book 1
- By: C. J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,199
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,198
Dissolution: the first book in the bestselling Shardlake series....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Time Travellers Beware.....
- By Hannah on 01-12-14
By: C. J. Sansom
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Blackout
- By: Simon Scarrow
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 544
As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. When a young woman is found brutally murdered, criminal Inspector Horst Schenke is under immense pressure to solve the case....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow - Something I had never considered.
- By John L. on 25-05-21
By: Simon Scarrow
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Bring Up the Bodies
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 798
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 709
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Story5 out of 5 stars 710
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is chief minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It
- By Katie on 22-10-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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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 2,474
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,219
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,218
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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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 946
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 874
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Story5 out of 5 stars 871
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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Magpie Murders
- Magpie Murders, Book 1
- By: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,824
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,326
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,311
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the tattered manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has little idea it will change her life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who? How? Where & Why?
- By Mrs Q on 10-10-16
By: Anthony Horowitz
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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 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34
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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Very enjoyable
- By Rachel on 16-12-22
By: John Mortimer
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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 5,417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,748
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,731
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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Babel
- Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
- By: R.F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 443
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 444
Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Astounding novel; poor narration
- By B. Tovey on 12-09-22
By: R.F. Kuang
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Harlot's Ghost
- A Novel
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 48 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society - and his own past - takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and more....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent piece of work.
- By Hot lips on 07-02-22
By: Norman Mailer
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Trust
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marno, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
The legendary Wall Street tycoon whose immense wealth gives him the power to do almost anything. The second-generation Italian immigrant tasked with recording his life story. The reclusive, aristocratic wife. And the writer who observes them from afar....
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5 out of 5 stars
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spellbinding....
- By V. Liew on 22-05-22
By: Hernan Diaz
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Wolf Hall
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 944
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 838
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....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story but too many saliva sounds