Summer Listens
Lighthearted listens
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How to Kill Your Family
- By: Bella Mackie
- Narrated by: Charly Clive, Paul Panting
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister, colleague, friend, serial killer. Grace has lost everything. And now she wants revenge.
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This should come with Fatphobia Trigger Warning.
- By petronella on 29-07-21
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- The First Novel by Quentin Tarantino
- By: Quentin Tarantino
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.
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Tarantino Showing Off
- By bwanasafari on 10-07-21
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Sunset
- By: Jessie Cave
- Narrated by: Bebe Cave
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever single, aimless and wild while Hannah is radiant, organised and hard-working. Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. But a summer holiday changes everything, and Ruth finds herself entering a long period of self-imposed exile from the world.
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Raw and beautiful - I couldn’t stop listening
- By S. Bankes-jones on 01-07-21
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Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
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Excellent casual listening
- By Pyrex on 30-11-19
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Yours Cheerfully
- By: AJ Pearce
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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London, September 1941. Following the departure of the formidable editor, Henrietta Bird, from Woman’s Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend, Bunty, is still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, but bravely looking to the future. Together, the friends are determined to make a go of it.
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Lovely sequel!
- By Sue on 13-07-21
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Under a Greek Moon
- By: Carol Kirkwood
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A-list actress Shauna Jackson has the perfect life. Fame, fortune, marriage. Or so it seems. Running from a scandal, Shauna must return to the place that changed her life 20 years ago, the idyllic Greek island of Ithos. Captivated once more by her island escape, bittersweet memories resurface of one summer, one unforgettable man, and a long-hidden secret. Can Shauna take the chance to confront her past?
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Cringey
- By LKK on 16-07-21
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How to Kill Your Family
- By: Bella Mackie
- Narrated by: Charly Clive, Paul Panting
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Grace Bernard. Daughter, sister, colleague, friend, serial killer. Grace has lost everything. And now she wants revenge.
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This should come with Fatphobia Trigger Warning.
- By petronella on 29-07-21
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- The First Novel by Quentin Tarantino
- By: Quentin Tarantino
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.
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Tarantino Showing Off
- By bwanasafari on 10-07-21
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Sunset
- By: Jessie Cave
- Narrated by: Bebe Cave
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Ruth and Hannah are sisters. They build each other up and tear each other down. Even as polar opposites they make each other laugh more than anyone else in the world. Ruth is forever single, aimless and wild while Hannah is radiant, organised and hard-working. Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. But a summer holiday changes everything, and Ruth finds herself entering a long period of self-imposed exile from the world.
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Raw and beautiful - I couldn’t stop listening
- By S. Bankes-jones on 01-07-21
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Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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David Mitchell’s 2014 best seller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think - because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
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Excellent casual listening
- By Pyrex on 30-11-19
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Yours Cheerfully
- By: AJ Pearce
- Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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London, September 1941. Following the departure of the formidable editor, Henrietta Bird, from Woman’s Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend, Bunty, is still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, but bravely looking to the future. Together, the friends are determined to make a go of it.
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Lovely sequel!
- By Sue on 13-07-21
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Under a Greek Moon
- By: Carol Kirkwood
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A-list actress Shauna Jackson has the perfect life. Fame, fortune, marriage. Or so it seems. Running from a scandal, Shauna must return to the place that changed her life 20 years ago, the idyllic Greek island of Ithos. Captivated once more by her island escape, bittersweet memories resurface of one summer, one unforgettable man, and a long-hidden secret. Can Shauna take the chance to confront her past?
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Cringey
- By LKK on 16-07-21
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The Cows
- By: Dawn O'Porter
- Narrated by: Dawn O'Porter, Karen Cass, Laura Kirman
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cows is a powerful novel about three women. In all the noise of modern life, each needs to find her own voice. It's about friendship and being female. It's bold and brilliant. It's searingly perceptive. It's about never following the herd. And everyone is going to be talking about it.
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Awesome
- By Hippynat on 24-05-17
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Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me
- Bridgerton Family, Book 2
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry; he's also chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield: the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate's the woman haunting his dreams....
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Georgette Heyer this ain't
- By Caltal on 20-01-21
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Summer at the Château
- By: Jennifer Bohnet
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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When Pixie Sampson's husband tragically dies, she inherits the beautiful Château Quiltu in Brittany, Northern France. But unbeknown to her, she also inherits a mysterious lodger, Justine Martin and her four-year-old son, Ferdie. Heartbroken and with her adventurous mum, Gwen, in tow, they travel to France to put the château on the market but are soon drawn into a quest to seek the château's secrets. Who is Justine? Why is she living at the château? How did she know her husband?
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Enjoyable escapism
- By Jenifer on 31-10-21
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A Theatre for Dreamers
- By: Polly Samson
- Narrated by: Polly Samson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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1960: The world is dancing on the edge of revolution and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled king and queen of Bohemia.
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cliché
- By Amazon Customer on 07-08-20
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.
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Classic English Comedy Sci-Fi, but...
- By No Longer Submitting Reviews on 24-08-20
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His Only Wife
- By: Peace Adzo Medie
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Afi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Afi's future doesn't seem to hold much excitement. Until, that is, she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo. She barely knows Elikem, but that seems a small price to pay for a marriage that could offer her family financial security, as well as the key to the glitzy city lifestyle she's always wanted. But when Afi arrives in Accra, she realises that her fairy-tale ending might not be all that she'd hoped for.
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Very good book
- By DRS on 13-10-21
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The Best Things
- By: Mel Giedroyc
- Narrated by: Mel Giedroyc
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Sally Parker is struggling to find the hero inside herself. All she wants to do is lie down. Her husband, Frank, has lost his business, their home and their savings in one fell swoop. Their bank cards are being declined. The children have gone feral. And now the bailiffs are at the door. What does an ordinary woman do when the bottom falls out? Sally Parker is about to surprise everybody. Most of all herself. Funny, warm, life-affirming and true, The Best Things is a big-hearted tale of failing, falling and finding a way back up.
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Disappointing, and time I will never get back
- By alpineangel on 09-04-21
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Careless
- By: Kirsty Capes
- Narrated by: Amber Gadd
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand. She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions. But this isn't a love story.
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Unmissable read
- By sarah on 04-06-21
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City of Girls
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Blair Brown
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parents. Although her quicksilver talents with a needle and commitment to mastering the perfect hair roll have been deemed insufficient for her to pass into her sophomore year of Vassar, she soon finds gainful employment as the self-appointed seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, her unconventional Aunt Peg's charmingly disreputable Manhattan revue theatre.
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One of my favourite ever audibles
- By taylors2002 on 21-06-19
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One Day in Summer
- By: Shari Low
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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After two decades of looking after others, this is the day that Agnetha McMaster is reclaiming her life. It's her turn, her time, but will she have the courage to start again? Ten years ago, Mitchell McMaster divorced Agnetha and married her best friend, Celeste. Now he suspects his second wife is having an affair. This is the day he’ll discover if karma has come back to bite him. Thanks to a DNA test, this is the day that Hope McTeer will finally meet her biological father. But will the reunion bring Hope the answers that she’s looking for?
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My first audible, best choice!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-20
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The Startup Wife
- By: Tahmima Anam
- Narrated by: Tanha Dil
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes everything. Dreaming big, together with their friend Jules they come up with a revolutionary idea: to build a social networking app that could bring meaning to millions of lives. While Asha creates an ingenious algorithm, Cyrus's charismatic appeal throws him into the spotlight.
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Book might be ok, but reader is sure!
- By GW on 10-12-21
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Life's a Beach
- By: Portia MacIntosh
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Peach is excited to hear that her sister, Di, is getting married. Of course, she would have preferred her little sister to be engaged to someone she's known longer than a week - and the fact that his name is Charles doesn't bode well - but who is she to judge? After all, her own love life is non-existent, and who doesn't love a destination wedding?
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Life's a beach
- By Chantelle on 21-07-21
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Secrets of the Mummy Concierge
- By: Tiffany Norris
- Narrated by: Tiffany Norris
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Tiffany Norris is the one and only concierge for parenthood in the UK today. Acting as a baby's personal assistant, on-call therapist and social director, Tiffany strives to be the ultimate parent protector, peacekeeper and negotiator when it comes to bringing a new tiny human into the world. Where demands go way beyond late-night food cravings and into the luxurious world of the super-rich, Tiffany is on hand to help mammas- and papas-to-be with all kinds of quirky and seemingly impossible requests.
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The Strange Adventures of H
- By: Sarah Burton
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H’s life is a happy one until her lecherous cousin robs her of her innocence and the plague takes away the city and the people she loves. H is cast out – friendless, pregnant and destitute – into the rapidly emptying streets of London under quarantine. Forced to fend for herself, she is determined to gain back the life she lost. H will face a villain out for revenge, find love in the most unexpected places and overcome a betrayal that she never could have foreseen.
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Slapstick Comedy at its best
- By Kimberly Thompson on 15-08-20
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Snowflake
- By: Louise Nealon
- Narrated by: Louisa Harland
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies. This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse.
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Excellent
- By Rachel Winters on 03-06-21
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The Royal Secret
- James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 5
- By: Andrew Taylor
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards, a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances. His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate - but the task brings unexpected dangers. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives. Cat must design a Poultry House for the woman that the king loves most in all the world.
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Really enjoyable
- By Liz on 30-04-21
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world....
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Amazing. Touching. Complete
- By Katherine on 12-07-17
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Chasing the Sun
- By: Katy Colins
- Narrated by: Rachael Louise Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Georgia Green is on the conveyor belt to happiness. Live-in boyfriend, perfect career and great friends - it seems like Georgia is only a Tiffany box away from her happily ever after. But when she arrives in Australia for her best friend's wedding and is faced with the bridezilla from hell, she starts to realise that she might not want the cookie-cutter ending she thought. It might be time for Georgia to step off the conveyor belt to find the balance in life and see if she really can have it all....
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enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 06-03-18
Our Editors' Summer Picks
The Audible Editors share the audiobooks they can't wait to get stuck into this summer.
Pure escapism - gripping thrillers, fantasy and sci-fi
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She Who Became the Sun
- The Radiant Emperor, Book 1
- By: Shelley Parker-Chan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daughter, nothing. In 1345, China lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home, the two children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu escape what’s written in the stars, as rebellion sweeps the land?
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Mixed feelings on this audiobook
- By Sarah on 21-03-22
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Mirrorland
- By: Carole Johnstone
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Cat’s twin sister, El, has disappeared. But there’s one thing Cat is sure of: her sister isn’t dead. She would have felt it. She would have known. To find her sister, Cat must return to their dark, crumbling childhood home and confront the horrors that wait there. Because it’s all coming back to Cat now: all the things she has buried, all the secrets she’s been running from. The closer Cat comes to the truth, the closer to danger she is. Some things are better left in the past....
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twist
- By April on 05-04-21
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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Incomplete adaptation. Not the full novel.
- By O on 16-10-15
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The End of Men
- By: Christina Sweeney-Baird
- Narrated by: Rebecca Perfect, William Hope, Penelope Rawlins, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours, he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?
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Interesting Concept. Transparent, ridiculous story
- By Floaty on 03-06-21
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Relentless
- Gray Man, Book 10
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The first agent disappearance was a puzzle. The second was a mystery. The third was a conspiracy. Intelligence operatives around the world are disappearing. When a missing American agent re-appears in Venezuela, Court Gentry, the Gray Man, is dispatched to bring him in, but a team of assassins has other ideas. Court escapes with his life and a vital piece of intelligence. Meanwhile, CIA agent Zoya Zakharova is in Berlin. Her mission: to infiltrate a private intelligence firm with some alarming connections. The closer she gets to answers, the less likely she is to get out alive.
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Gripping to the last word - Normal service resumed
- By MikeP on 19-05-21
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Heatwave
- By: Victor Jestin, Sam Taylor - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonard is an outsider, a 17-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers, he chooses to spend the final night of the trip in bed. However, when he cannot sleep due to the sound of wild carousing outside his tent, he gets up and goes for a walk. As he wanders among the dunes, he sees Oscar, one of the cooler kids, drunk in a playground, hanging by his neck from the ropes of a swing. Frozen into inaction, he watches Oscar struggle.
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She Who Became the Sun
- The Radiant Emperor, Book 1
- By: Shelley Parker-Chan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daughter, nothing. In 1345, China lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home, the two children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu escape what’s written in the stars, as rebellion sweeps the land?
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Mixed feelings on this audiobook
- By Sarah on 21-03-22
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Mirrorland
- By: Carole Johnstone
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Cat’s twin sister, El, has disappeared. But there’s one thing Cat is sure of: her sister isn’t dead. She would have felt it. She would have known. To find her sister, Cat must return to their dark, crumbling childhood home and confront the horrors that wait there. Because it’s all coming back to Cat now: all the things she has buried, all the secrets she’s been running from. The closer Cat comes to the truth, the closer to danger she is. Some things are better left in the past....
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twist
- By April on 05-04-21
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Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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Incomplete adaptation. Not the full novel.
- By O on 16-10-15
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The End of Men
- By: Christina Sweeney-Baird
- Narrated by: Rebecca Perfect, William Hope, Penelope Rawlins, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours, he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins. The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm, but the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe. Threatening families. Governments. Countries. Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Will this be the story of the end of the world - or its salvation?
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Interesting Concept. Transparent, ridiculous story
- By Floaty on 03-06-21
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Relentless
- Gray Man, Book 10
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The first agent disappearance was a puzzle. The second was a mystery. The third was a conspiracy. Intelligence operatives around the world are disappearing. When a missing American agent re-appears in Venezuela, Court Gentry, the Gray Man, is dispatched to bring him in, but a team of assassins has other ideas. Court escapes with his life and a vital piece of intelligence. Meanwhile, CIA agent Zoya Zakharova is in Berlin. Her mission: to infiltrate a private intelligence firm with some alarming connections. The closer she gets to answers, the less likely she is to get out alive.
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Gripping to the last word - Normal service resumed
- By MikeP on 19-05-21
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Heatwave
- By: Victor Jestin, Sam Taylor - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonard is an outsider, a 17-year-old uncomfortable in his own skin who is forced to endure a family camping holiday in the South of France. Tired of awkwardly creeping out of beach parties after only a couple of beers, he chooses to spend the final night of the trip in bed. However, when he cannot sleep due to the sound of wild carousing outside his tent, he gets up and goes for a walk. As he wanders among the dunes, he sees Oscar, one of the cooler kids, drunk in a playground, hanging by his neck from the ropes of a swing. Frozen into inaction, he watches Oscar struggle.
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Call to Kill
- The first in a brand new high-octane SAS series
- By: Billy Billingham
- Narrated by: Conor Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Matt 'Mace' Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen, becoming embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the local warlord who is destined to become Mace's nemesis, General Ruak Shahlai, but hardbitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage. As well as his own team, Mace has to work, initially unwillingly, with female CIA Agent (and Islamic scholar) Redford.
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This story is crying out for a Hollywood production!
- By Mr A R on 18-06-21
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The Night Hawks
- Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 13
- By: Elly Griffiths
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
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Disappointing
- By madradiant on 10-02-21
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Six of Crows
- By: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder, Brandon Rubin, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone.
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Almost 5* if they weren't all children
- By Emelia on 19-08-19
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The Space Between Worlds
- By: Micaiah Johnson
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara. Of the 382 realities that have been unlocked, Cara is dead in all but eight. On this earth, however, she survived. Identified as an outlier and a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the wastelands and given a job and a comfortable apartment in the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Cara knows what it's like to feel hungry and scared, so she's more than happy to reap the benefits of her new position.
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A whiney excuse to use SF for social commentary.
- By Amazon Customer on 16-11-20
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Blood of Elves
- The Witcher, Book 1
- By: Andrzej Sapkowski
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans...Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting.
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Good, if you read them all.
- By Filip on 09-10-16
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The Nameless Ones
- A Charlie Parker Thriller, Book 19
- By: John Connolly
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In Amsterdam, three people are butchered in a canal house, their remains arranged around the crucified form of their patriarch, De Jaager: fixer, go-between and confidante of the assassin named Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland.
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Another great book
- By sally, easterton on 11-07-21
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The Name of the Wind
- The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 28 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the university at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me.
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Very entertaining but strangely flat
- By Amazon Customer on 27-05-17
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False Witness
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Leigh doesn’t like to talk about her sister. About the night that tore them apart. About what they did. But someone else is about to....
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Wow, Believe the Hype!!!!
- By jeremy tattershall on 28-06-21
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse, she learns to fall in love anew every single day.
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This is why words exist
- By FENARETI on 07-12-20
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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When Feyre kills a wolf, a beastlike creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a magical land Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it....
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Couldn't finish
- By Ragne on 07-04-21
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Sistersong
- By: Lucy Holland
- Narrated by: Robyn Holdaway
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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King Cador’s children inherit a land abandoned by the Romans, torn by warring tribes. Riva can cure others, but can’t heal her own scars. Keyne battles to be seen as the king’s son, although born a daughter. And Sinne dreams of love, longing for adventure. All three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold, their people’s last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. However, change comes on the day ash falls from the sky – bringing Myrdhin, meddler and magician.
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Problem With Recording Disturbs Enjoyment
- By Suzanne on 31-12-21
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Neuromancer
- Sprawl Trilogy, Book 1
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Jason Flemyng
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the cyberpunk movement.
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Of its time
- By G. B on 18-10-21
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Later
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Seth Numrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mum urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
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Better later than never
- By Kindle Customer on 03-03-21
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What Abigail Did That Summer
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the summer of 2013, and Abigail Kamara has been left to her own devices. This might, by those who know her, be considered a mistake. While her cousin, apprentice wizard and police Constable Peter Grant, is off in the sticks chasing unicorns, Abigail is chasing her own mystery. Teenagers around Hampstead Heath have been going missing, but before the police can get fully engaged, the teens return home - unharmed but vague about where they've been.
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Ruined
- By Mrs. I P. Sowden on 18-03-21